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This article lists election results of independent candidates in UK elections.

Summary of general election performance

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Year Number of Candidates Total votes Average votes per candidate % UK vote Change (percentage points) Number of MPs

Election results

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1874 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Ind. Nationalist Cork City John Mitchel 511 8.0 5

1880 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Chester Frederick Lewis Malgarini 16
Independent Stoke-on-Trent Edward Kenealy 1,091

1885 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Argyll W. Mackinnon 2,856 41.6 2
Independent Marylebone West Joseph Diggle 101 1.8 4
Independent North Antrim John Pinkerton 1,915 26.2 3
Ind. Conservative Bolton Henry Marriott Richardson 1,191 5
Ind. Conservative Kilmarnock Burghs John Steven Storr 55 0.6 4
Ind. Conservative Liverpool Scotland M. N. Woodard 1,474 35.1 2
Ind. Conservative Petersfield D. Henty 179 2.6 3
Lib-Lab Chesterfield James Haslam 1,907 25.6 3
Lib-Lab Jarrow James Johnston 1,731 23.3 2
Lib-Lab Kingston-upon-Hull Central N. B. Billamy 735 8.2 3
Lib-Lab Rhondda William Abraham 3,859 56.3 1

6 independents, plus 2 ind nat and 6 ind con; many ind lib to list separately

1886 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Liberal Cricklade John Bennett 1,247 19.1 3
Ind. Liberal Unionist Camberwell North William Pirie Duff 246 4.6 3

Plus 1 more ind liberal unionists

1892 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Birmingham West J. W. Mahony 31 0.4 3
Independent Perth James Woollen 907 26.1 3
Ind. Conservative Banffshire Maltman Barry 1,424 38.3 2
Independent Labour Battersea John Burns 5,616 58.1 1
Independent Labour Bradford West Ben Tillett 2,749 30.2 3
Independent Labour Hoxton A. K. Donald 19 0.3 3
Independent Labour Middlesbrough Joseph Havelock Wilson 4,691 38.8 1
Independent Labour Peckham Ben Ellis 95 1.2 3
Independent Labour West Ham South Keir Hardie 5,268 56.6 1
Independent Liberal Birmingham East D. S. Collin 296 3.6 3
Independent Liberal Glasgow Camlachie Hugh Watt 179 2.4 4
Independent Liberal Kincardineshire Johnston Stephen 1,376 36.0 2

3 independents, plus 2 ind nat, 6 ind lib, 4 ind con and 9 ind lab

1895 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Labour Aberdeen North John Lincoln Mahon 608 2
Independent Labour Peckham Ben Ellis 95 1.2 3
Independent Liberal Camberwell North Nelson P. Palmer 32 0.4 3
Independent Liberal Kennington W. Wightman 730 10.1 3
Independent Liberal Northampton J. M. Robertson
Lib-Lab Merthyr Allen Upward 659 2.6 4
Lib-Lab Swansea District G. H. Hedley 2,018 26.1 2
Ind. Nationalist South Tyrone Thomas Shillington 3,046 48.5 2

2 independents, plus 2 ind lib-lab and 3 ind lib

1900 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Labour Gower John Hodge 3,853 47.4 2
Independent Liberal Caithness Gavin Brown Clark 673 21.3 3
Independent Liberal Caithness F. C. Auld 141 4.5 4
Independent Liberal Osgoldcross John Austin 5,609 65.0 1
Ind. Liberal Unionist Belfast North T. Harrison 1,855 2
Ind. Nationalist Cork City Jeremiah Charles Blake 2,235 14.4 3
Ind. Nationalist Cork City Maurice Healy 1,985 12.8 4
Ind. Nationalist South Louth Edward Charles Thompson 1,233 56.9 1
Ind. Nationalist South Meath John Laurence Carew 1
Ind. Nationalist South Tyrone Edward Charles Thompson 2,409 46.0 2
Ind. Unionist North Armagh James Orr 2,468 40.8 2
Ind. Unionist South Antrim Samuel Lawther 3,081 45.6 2

3 independents, plus 3 ind lib, 7 ind con and 18 ind nat

1906 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities John Strachey 2,310 32.1 2
Independent Mid Lanarkshire A. S. Gibson 758 6.1 3
Ind. Conservative Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities W. R. Smith 1,240 3
Ind. Conservative Lambeth North Frederick William Horner 108 2.2 4
Independent Labour Accrington S. M. Holden 619 4.9 3
Independent Labour Chester-le-Street John Wilkinson Taylor 1
Independent Labour Hammersmith George Belt 885 8.4 3
Independent Labour Middlesbrough George Lansbury 1,484 8.4 3
Independent Labour Rochdale Samuel George Hobson 2,506 19.5 3
Independent Liberal Hackney South W. Riley 804 7.4 3
Independent Liberal Lambeth North Dadabhai Naoroji 733 14.9 3
Ind. Liberal Unionist Belfast West Alexander Carlisle 153 1.8 3
Ind. Nationalist East Kerry Eugene O'Sullivan 2,131 49.4 2
Ind. Unionist Belfast South Thomas Henry Sloan 4,450 1
Ind. Unionist Glasgow Tradeston A. Rosenthal 245 2.8 3
Ind. Unionist North Down A. A. Adams 2,603 2
Ind. Unionist Paddington North Henry Burdett 817 11.6 3

3 independents, plus 3 ind lib, 3 ind nat, 7 ind lab, 9 ind unionist and 9 ind con

January 1910 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Ind. Conservative Sunderland Samuel Storey
Independent Labour Ashton-under-Lyne W. Gee 413 5.0 3
Independent Labour Montrose Burghs Joseph Burgess 1,888 26.6 2
Independent Liberal Glasgow Tradeston Archibald Cameron Corbett 2,966 1
Independent Liberal Hackney South R. H. Roberts 1,946 19.0 3
Independent Liberal Liverpool Walton Harold Cox 481 3
Independent Liberal Preston Harold Cox 2,704 4.4 5
Ind. Nationalist Belfast West Patrick J. Magee 75 0.9 3
Ind. Nationalist Cork City Edward Fitzgerald 2,061 10.8 5
Ind. Nationalist East Kerry Eugene O'Sullivan 2,643 55.1 1
Ind. Nationalist Mid Tyrone George Murnaghan 1,244 21.5 3
Ind. Nationalist North Westmeath Laurence Ginnell 1
Ind. Nationalist South Monaghan John McKean 1
Ind. Unionist Belfast South Thomas Henry Sloan 3,553 2

3 ind lib, 6 ind lab, 4 ind con, 10 ind nat

December 1910 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Ind. Conservative Caithness Archibald Macleod 87 3.1 2
Ind. Conservative Canterbury Francis Bennett-Goldney 1
Independent Labour Kennington Victor Grayson 408 5.5 3
Independent Liberal Hackney South R. H. Roberts 1,946 19.0 3
Ind. Nationalist North Westmeath Laurence Ginnell 1
Ind. Nationalist South Monaghan John McKean 1
Ind. Nationalist South Tyrone John Skeffington 2,602 11.6 3
Ind. Unionist Belfast South Thomas Henry Sloan 2,722 2
Women's Suffrage Glasgow Camlachie William Julius Mirlees 35 0.4 4

2 ind, plus 4 ind nat, 1 ind lib, 4 ind lab, 4 ind con

1918 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Aberdeen South J. Robertson Watson 2,868 3
Independent Bootle Edmund Cathery 7,235 37.0 2
Independent Birmingham Handsworth Norman Tiptaft 4,697 22.1 2
Independent Brentford and Chiswick Ray Strachey 1,263 3
Independent Caithness and Sutherland Francis John Robertson 4,036 37.4 2
Independent Cambridge University William Cecil Dampier Whetham 1,220 21.1 3
Independent Combined Scottish Universities William Robert Smith 850 5
Independent Glasgow Bridgeton Eunice Murray 991 3
Independent Hackney South Horatio Bottomley 11,145 79.7 1
Independent Islington East Frederick Alfred Wickhart 147 0.8 5
Independent Leeds West Joseph Henry Chapman 1,138 5.6 3
Independent London University A. A. Somerville 885 13.1 3
Independent London University Wilmot Herringham 715 10.6 4
Independent London University C. L. Nordon 3.1 5
Independent Nottingham East Joseph N. Dennis Brookes 1,083 14.9 3
Independent South Down Alexander Fisher 436 2.9 3
Independent Spelthorne A. W. Leonard 1,143 7.2 3
Independent Tynemouth Henry Gregg 2,495 14.8 4
Ind. Conservative Great Grimsby James William Eason 2,791 10.9 3
Ind. Conservative Motherwell Hugh Ferguson 1,923 10.8 4
Ind. Conservative Peckham Collingwood Hughes 4,550 28.7 2
Independent Labour Belfast Pottinger James Henry Bennett 659 5.5 4
Independent Labour Birmingham Handsworth Harry Joseph Odell 4,576 21.5 3
Independent Labour Caernarvonshire Robert Thomas Jones 8,145 2
Independent Labour Glasgow Kelvingrove Walter Graham Leachman 5,012 23.6 2
Independent Labour Paddington North Herbert Bundy 1,275 7.4 5
Independent Labour Paddington North Arthur Strauss 774 4.5 6
Independent Labour Penistone Frederick William Southern 4,556 24.4 3
Independent Labour Sheffield Central Alfred James Bailey 5,959 37.3 2
Independent Labour Tynemouth George Harold Humphrey 2,566 15.2 3
Independent Labour Windsor C. S. Edgerly 4,448 30.6 2
Independent Lab & Agric Grantham William Bilton Harris 1,927 9.4 3
Independent Liberal Caernarvonshire Ellis William Davies 4,937 3
Independent Liberal Hanley R. L. Outhwaite 2,703 13.6 3
Independent Liberal Leeds West David Thomas Barnes 619 3.0 4
Ind. Nationalist Dublin College Green Joseph Coghlan Briscoe 2,853 22.8 2
Ind. Nationalist Dublin St James's John Saturnus Kelly 1,556 19.9 2
Ind. Nationalist Dublin St Patrick's James Joseph Kelly 312 3
Ind. Nationalist South Tyrone John Skeffington 2,602 3
Ind. Nationalist University of Dublin Stephen Gwynn 257 8.7 4
Ind. Nationalist Westmeath Walter Nugent 603 3
Independent Progressive Chelsea Emily Frost Phipps 2,419 20.9 2
Independent Progressive East Fife W. P. Morgan 591 3.6 3
Ind. Unionist Belfast Ormeau William Stewart 4,833 38.3 2
Ind. Unionist Belfast St Anne's William Hugh Alexander 1,752 14.3 2
Ind. Unionist North Down John Alexander Davidson 2,153 19.0 2
Ind. Unionist University of Dublin Robert Henry Woods 793 26.8 2

42 ind, plus 1 ind lab + agric, 3 ind prog, 6 ind nat, 4 ind dem, 8 ind lib, 17 ind con, 26 ind NFDSS (to list separately), 29 ind lab, 1 coalition ind

Woods was elected by taking second place in a two seat constituency.

1922 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Birmingham Handsworth Norman Tiptaft 12,790 40.4 2
Independent Bootle J. E. Burke 425 1.8 3
Independent Brentford and Chiswick Ray Strachey 7,804 2
Independent Combined English Universities J. Strong 571 19.4 3
Independent Westminster Abbey Sydney Drury-Lowe 1,950 10.8 3
Independent Anti-Socialist Merthyr Richard Mathias 15,552 47.0 2
Independent Communist Glasgow Gorbals John Maclean 4,027 3
Ind. Conservative Combined English Universities W. B. Faraday 141 4.8 5
Ind. Conservative Combined English Universities Sidney Lawrence 90 3.1 6
Ind. Conservative Isle of Wight Arthur C. T. Veasey 7,061 21.0 2
Ind. Conservative Motherwell Hugh Ferguson 7,214 29.1 2
Independent Liberal Berwick and Haddington John Deans Hope 3,300 4
Independent Liberal Cambridge University James Ramsay Montagu Butler 3,453 39.9 2
Independent Liberal Paddington North John W. A. Jennings 6,444 37.4 2
Ind. Unionist Londonderry Edmund Loftus MacNaghten 9,861 24.3 2

Butler was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency

15 ind, plus 3 ind lib, 4 ind lab

1923 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Birmingham Duddeston A. Ford 634 3.2 3
Independent Brentford and Chiswick Ray Strachey 4,828 2
Independent Harrow Oswald Mosley 14,079 59.9 1
Independent Mossley Austin Hopkinson 15,953 58.4 1
Ind. Conservative Derby Thomas Clifford Newbold 9,772 11.4 5
Independent Labour Nottingham South Henry Mills 5,176 24.8 2
Independent Labour Paisley D. D. Cormack 3,685 12.6 4
Independent Labour Western Isles Hugh McCowan 2,011 23.5 3
Independent Labour West Fife Philip Hodge 6,459 34.6 2
Independent Liberal Camborne Leifchild Leif-Jones 11,794 59.3 1
Independent Liberal Cambridge University James Ramsay Montagu Butler 3,248 31.5 3
Independent Liberal Cardiganshire Rhys Hopkin Morris 12,469 46.9 1
Independent Liberal University of Wales John Edwards 467 29.2 3
Ind. Unionist Belfast North Tommy Henderson 15,171 47.5 2

6 ind, plus 4 ind lab, 3 ind lib, 1 ind con

1924 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent London University Ernest Graham-Little 3,202 37.1 1
Independent Mossley Austin Hopkinson 15,435 49.2 1
Independent Oxford University Gilbert Murray 2,643 30.4 3
Independent Liberal Cambridge University James Ramsay Montagu Butler 3,241 27.4 3
Ind. Unionist Londonderry William Galt 517 1.4 3

7 ind, plus 1 ind lab, 1 ind lib

1929 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Belfast North David Wilson 6,059 13.5 3
Independent Camborne J. C. Roberts 1,976 6.3 4
Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone 3,331 33.3 2
Independent Harrow W. J. Sholl 1,965 3.7 4
Independent Hertford Noel Pemberton Billing 10,149 29.6 2
Independent London University Ernest Graham-Little 5,869 53.5 1
Independent Mossley Austin Hopkinson 14,267 33.9 2
Independent Stretford Thomas Robinson 25,799 58.6 1
Independent Wednesbury Thomas Gee 61 0.1 4
Ind. Conservative Colchester C. C. Gray 172 0.5 4
Ind. Conservative Eastbourne P. E. Hurst 2,277 6.2 4
Ind. Conservative Exeter Robert Newman 946 3.1 3
Ind. Conservative Harwich J. Elliot 16,642 49.5 1
Ind. Conservative Kensington South Rayner Goddard 6,354 15.1 3
Ind. Conservative Portsmouth South Frank John Privett 9,505 23.2 3
Independent Labour Birmingham Moseley G. Bridgen 675 1.1 4
Independent Labour Caithness and Sutherland Charles Grant Oman 1,711 9.4 3
Independent Labour Glasgow Govan Neil Maclean 17,384 57.7 1
Independent Labour Preston S. M. Holden 2,111 1.6 5
Independent Liberal Bristol North Frederick Guest 12,932 33.8 2
Independent Liberal Gateshead John Leonard Watson 3,688 6.8 4
Independent Liberal Stockport Charles Royle 8,355 7.4 5
Independent Protestant Stirling and Falkirk A. Ratcliffe 6,902 21.3 3
Ind. Republican Belfast West Frank MacDermot 24,177 42.1 2
Ind. Unionist Belfast South Philip James Woods 14,148 37.1 2
Ind. Unionist Belfast North Tommy Henderson 10,909 24.4 2

11 ind, plus 8 ind con, 4 ind lab and 2 ind lib

Rathbone was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

1931 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Birmingham Aston John Strachey 3,236 10.0 3
Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone 5,096 37.2 1
Independent Pontypridd William Lovell 466 1.3 4
Independent Uxbridge Reginald Bridgeman 2,358 4.7 3
Independent Agricultural Isle of Ely J. A. Whitehead 6,993 21.8 2
Independent Labour Glasgow Hillhead C. A. O'Donnell 7,539 26.2 2
Independent Labour Peckham Hubert Beaumont 1,350 4.0 4
Independent Labour Pontypridd Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones 1,110 3.0 3
Independent Labour Warwick and Leamington Jim Garton 9,261 19.4 2
Independent Labour Wolverhampton West William Brown 17,090 39.5 2
Independent Liberal Halifax Frank Sykes 2,578 4.6 3
Ind. Nationalist London University Archibald Church 3,134 27.0 2
Ind. Nationalist Mossley Austin Hopkinson 17,017 36.7 1
National London University Ernest Graham-Little 8,461 73.0 1

7 ind, plus 2 ind lab

1935 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Camberwell North Thomas Frederick Rhodes Disher 451 2.5 3
Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone unopposed N/A 1
Independent Combined Scottish Universities Andrew Dewar Gibb 3,865 4
Independent Oxford University A. P. Herbert 3,390 22.2 2
Ind. Conservative Shipley James Lockwood 6,025 13.5 4
Independent Labour Wolverhampton West William Brown 14,867 41.4 2
Independent Liberal Manchester Rusholme Percy McDougall 2,525 8.0 3
Independent Progressive Aldershot Gerald Bailey 6,421 26.6 2
Ind. Republican Armagh Charles McGleenan 16,284 32.4 2
Ind. Republican Belfast West Charles Leddy 20,313 37.4 2
Ind. Republican Down Patrick O'Hagan 20,236 13.3 3
Independent Social Credit Bradford North Reginald Kenney 4,684 11.7 3
National London University Ernest Graham-Little 8,958 69.6 1
National Mossley Austin Hopkinson 24,569 52.3 1

8 ind, plus 2 ind con

Herbert was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

1945 general election

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Other candidates in Abingdon, Wallasey, West Derbyshire, Hartlepool, Spennymoor, West Ham Silvertown, West Ham Stratford, Hornchurch, Saffron Walden, Cheltenham, Forest of Dean, Hertford, Orpington, Tonbridge, Eccles, Manchester Moss Side, Waterloo, Grantham, Hammersmith N, Lewisham E, Paddington N, St Marylebone, St Pancras N, Putney & Southfields, Woolwich E, Edmonton, King's Lynn, S Norfolk, Northampton, Kettering, Ludlow, Burslem, Wednesbury, Eastbourne, Birmingham Handsworth, Nuneaton, Rugby, Westmorland, Chippenham, Batley & Morley, Galloway, Glasgow C, Paisley

Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Independent Birmingham Handsworth Norman Tiptaft 5,112 12.4 3
Independent Cambridge University Henry Wilson Harris 3,574 16.2 2
Independent Cambridge University Charles Hill 2,238 10.1 4
Independent Chichester M. H. Woodard 625 1.1 4
Independent Combined English Universities A. R. Foxall 1,105 5.3 6
Independent Combined English Universities Kenneth Martin Lindsay 1,923 9.2 2
Independent Combined English Universities Eleanor Rathbone 11,176 53.3 1
Independent Combined English Universities J. H. Richardson 1,124 5.3 5
Independent Combined Scottish Universities John Boyd Orr 10,685 32.6 2
Independent Glasgow Shettleston I. Queen 186 0.6 5
Independent Mossley Austin Hopkinson 4,671 8.1 4
Independent Oxford University Arthur Salter 6,771 44.2 1
Independent Oxford University A. P. Herbert 5,136 33.5 2
Independent Queen's University of Belfast Thomas Cusack 728 27.5 2
Independent The Hartlepools Harry Lane 390 1.0 4
Ind. Conservative Blackpool North Arthur Talbot 1,635 3.2 4
Independent Labour Belfast West Jack Beattie 30,787 53.5 1
Independent Labour Combined English Universities S. Wormald 3,212 15.3 3
Independent Anti-Socialist Merthyr S. Jennings 5,693 18.6 2
Independent Labour North Cornwall John Hazlewood Worrall 626 1.8 3
Independent Labour Nottingham East George Twells 1,072 3.6 4
Independent Liberal Louth, Lincolnshire Samuel Randolph Charlesworth 233 0.7 4
Independent Liberal New Forest and Christchurch J. W. Howlett 8,299 13.2 3
Independent Liberal Ross and Cromarty John MacLeod 10,061 62.8 1
Ind. Nationalist Camberwell North Thomas Frederick Rhodes Disher 794 8.5 3
Ind. Nationalist Wrexham John Rathbone Hayes-Jones 430 0.9 4
Independent Progressive Bridgwater Vernon Bartlett 17,937 45.8 1
Independent Progressive Hastings Sydney Muller Parkman 2,564 9.4 3
Independent Progressive Cambridge University J. B. Priestley 5,041 22.8 3
Independent Progressive London University Mary Danvers Stocks 7,469 49.5 2
Ind. Unionist Down James Brown 22,163 19.1 4
Ind. Unionist Down James Little 46,732 40.4 1
National Cambridge University E. L. Howard-Williams 1,036 4.7 5
National Combined English Universities E. C. Arden 2,433 11.6 4
National London University Ernest Graham-Little 7,618 50.5 1
National Edinburgh Central Hume Sleigh 232 1.2 4
National Ormskirk Stephen King-Hall 11,848 18.2 3
National Penrith and Cockermouth T. Mitchell 2,204 9.1 4
National Plymouth Devonport Leslie Hore-Belisha 11,382 45.9 2

38 ind, plus 4 ind nat, 3 ind lib, 7 ind prog, 6 ind con, 7 ind lab and 13 ind national

Harris, Herbert and Lindsay were elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency, and Orr by taking second in a three-seat constituency.

1950 general election

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Description Constituency Candidate Votes % Position
Ind. Conservative Southampton Itchen William Craven-Ellis 1,380 2.5 3
Independent Labour Hexham Alexander Hancock 4,154 14.4 2
National Edinburgh Central Hume Sleigh 283 0.8 5
Scottish Home Rule Argyllshire M. S. McP. Holt 490 1.7 3