This article lists the Independent Labour Party's election results in UK parliamentary elections.
Summary of general election performance Year Number of candidatesF. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts, 1885–1975, p. 54 Total votes Average voters per candidate Percentage of vote Saved deposits Change (%) Number of MPs 1895 28 44,325 1,583 1.0 N/A N/A 0 1900 9 32,135 3,571 0.9 N/A -0.1 1 1906 11 81,415 7,401 1.6 N/A +0.7 7 1910 Jan 14 87,499 6,250 1.4 N/A -0.2 6 1910 Dec 12 69,884 5,824 1.4 N/A 0.0 8 1918 50 3 1922 55 673,283 12,242 4.9 31 31 1923 89 39 1924 87 30 1929 54 921,914 17,072 4.3 54 36 1931 19 239,280 12,594 1.2 -3.1 3 1935 17 136,208 8,012 0.7 9 -0.5 4 1945 5 46,769 9,354 0.2 4 -0.5 3 1950 4 4,112 1,028 0.0 0 -0.2 0 1951 3 4,057 1,352 0.0 0 0.0 0 1955 2 3,334 1,667 0.0 0 0.0 0 1959 2 923 462 0.0 0 0.0 0 1964 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 1966 1 441 441 0.0 0 N/A 0 1970 1 847 847 0.0 0 0.0 0 February 1974 1 991 991 0.0 0 0.0 0
Election results By-elections, 1893–1895 By-election Candidate Votes % Position 1894 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election 1,249 13.5 3 1894 Leicester by-election 4,402 15.7 4
1895 general election Constituency Candidate Votes % PositionThe Labour Annual (1896), pp. 40–41 Ashton-under-Lyne 415 6.4 3 Barrow-in-Furness 414 6.9 3 Bradford West 2,264 23.4 3 Bolton 2,691 9.8 4 Bristol East 1,874 31.2 2 Colne Valley 1,245 13.4 3 Dewsbury 1,080 10.5 3 Dundee 1,313 5.0 5 Fulham 191 2.0 3 Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown 448 7.1 3 Glasgow Bridgeton 609 9.4 3 Glasgow Camlachie 696 10.9 3 Glasgow St Rollox 405 4.4 3 Glasgow Tradeston 368 5.8 3 Gorton 4,261 42.1 2 Govan 430 4.9 3 Halifax 3,818 20.5 4 Huddersfield 1,594 11.2 3 Hyde 448 5.0 3 Kingston upon Hull West 1,400 17.4 2 Leeds South 622 6.4 3 Leicester 4,009 13.7 4 Manchester North East 546 6.6 3 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2,302 4.6 5 Preston 4,781 22.4 3 Rochdale 1,251 12.0 3 Southampton 867 4.0 5 West Ham South 3,975 45.6 2
By-elections, 1895–1900 By-election Candidate Votes % Position 1896 Aberdeen North by-election 2,479 46.0 2 1896 Bradford East by-election 1,953 17.1 3 1897 Halifax by-election 2,000 15.5 3 1897 Barnsley by-election 1,091 9.7 3
1900 general election Constituency Candidate Votes % Position Accrington 433 3.3 3 Ashton-under-Lyne 737 11.0 3 Blackburn 7,096 25.6 3 Bradford West 4,949 49.8 2 Halifax 3,276 16.1 4 Leicester 4,164 13.0 4 Merthyr Tydfil 5,745 31.3 2 Preston 4,834 22.1 3 Rochdale 901 8.0 3
Hardie stood for two seats. All candidates other than Hempsall stood as part of the Labour Representation Committee. Clarke ran as a joint Independent Labour Party-Social Democratic Federation candidate. The list does not include Alfred Ewen Fletcher, who was supported by the ILP but ran for the Scottish Workers' Representation Committee.
By-elections, 1900–1906 By-election Candidate Votes % Position 1902 Wakefield by-election 1,979 40.1 2 1904 Norwich by-election 2,440 13.7 3
All candidates stood as part of the Labour Representation Committee.
1906 general election Constituency Candidate Votes % Position Blackburn 10,282 26.8 2 Bradford West 4,957 39.1 1 Glasgow Camlachie 2,568 30.0 3 Halifax 8,937 38.3 2 Huddersfield 5,813 35.2 2 Keighley 3,102 26.9 3 Leicester 14,685 39.8 2 Manchester North East 5,386 64.6 1 Merthyr Tydfil 10,187 32.0 2 Sunderland 13,430 31.8 2 Wakefield 2,068 36.9 2
All candidates other than Burgess and Newlove stood as part of the Labour Representation Committee. Only ILP members sponsored by the party are listed.
By-elections, 1906–1910 By-election Candidate Votes % Position1906 Huddersfield by-election 5,422 33.8 21907 Aberdeen South by-election 1,740 19.5 31908 Montrose Burghs by-election 1,937 29.4 21909 Croydon by-election 886 4.2 3
All candidates other than Bramley stood for the Labour Party.F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918, p. xvi Only candidates sponsored by the ILP are listed.
January 1910 general election Constituency Candidate Votes % Position"I.L.p. Candidates: the official list", Manchester Guardian, 10 December 1909 Blackburn 10,762 1 Bow and Bromley 2,955 33.5 2 Bradford West 8,880 66.6 1 Glasgow Camlachie 2,443 28.9 3 Halifax 9,093 38.9 2 Hyde 2,401 21.2 3 Leicester 14,337 38.2 2 Manchester North East 5,157 58.4 1 Manchester South West 1,218 16.6 3 Merthyr Tydfil 13,841 36.7 2 Spen Valley 2,514 23.3 3 Sunderland 11,058 23.4 4 Tewkesbury 238 2.1 3 Wakefield 2,602 45.5 2
All candidates stood as part of the Labour Party. Only ILP members sponsored by the party are listed.
December 1910 general election Constituency Candidate Votes % PositionThe New Hazell Annual and Almanack, vol.26, p. 361Blackburn 10,762 1Bow and Bromley 4,315 55.6 1Bradford West 8,880 66.6 1Chatham 1,103 8.9 3Glasgow Camlachie 1,539 18.1 3Halifax 8,511 2Leeds South 2,706 21.5 3Leicester 12,998 38.5 2Liverpool Kirkdale 2,992 41.6 2Manchester North East 4,313 1Merthyr Tydfil 11,507 39.6 2Whitehaven 1,414 53.7 1
All candidates stood as part of the Labour Party.
By-elections, 1910–1918 By-election Candidate Votes % Position1911 Kilmarnock Burghs by-election 2,761 19.3 31911 Keighley by-election 3,452 28.9 31912 East Carmarthenshire by-election 1,089 10.3 31913 Keighley by-election 3,646 29.8 31914 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election unopposed N/A 11918 Keighley by-election 2,349 32.5 21918 Manchester North East by-election unopposed N/A 1
All candidates except Williams and Bland (in 1918) stood for the Labour Party.
1918 general election Constituency Candidate Votes % PositionIndependent Labour Party, Report of the Annual Conference (1919), pp. 28–29 Aberdare 6,229 21.4 2 Accrington 6,369 21.7 3 Ayr Burghs 4,534 23.2 3 Bermondsey West 1,956 18.6 3 Birmingham Ladywood 2,572 19.0 2 Blackburn 15,274 19.7 3 Bosworth 6,344 33.6 2 Bradford Central 7,636 31.3 2 Bradford East 8,637 37.9 2 Brigg 4,789 27.3 2 Bristol East 8,135 42.8 2 Camberwell North 2,175 21.0 3 Cardiff Central 4,663 22.4 2 Chorley 6,222 32.3 2 Colne Valley 9,473 41.2 2 Coventry 10,298 32.4 2 Dewsbury 5,596 30.1 2 Dunbartonshire 7,072 30.9 2 Edinburgh Central 7,161 51.3 1 Glasgow Bridgeton 7,860 39.8 2 Glasgow Camlachie 7,192 33.1 2 Glasgow Govan 9,577 47.8 1 Glasgow Hillhead 4,186 24.6 2 Glasgow St Rollox 6,147 33.2 2 Glasgow Shettleston 9,827 49.8 2 Glasgow Springburn 7,996 39.1 2 Huddersfield 12,737 32.5 2 Ipswich 8,143 32.1 2 Keighley 6,324 27.7 3 Kingston upon Hull South West 3,121 19.3 3 Lanark 5,821 31.0 2 Leeds West 6,020 29.5 2 Leicester East 6,697 27.1 2 Leicester West 6,347 24.0 2 Linlithgowshire 8,723 40.3 2 Montrose Burghs 2,940 24.0 2 Motherwell 4,135 23.2 2 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central 4,976 34.6 2 Rochdale 4,956 16.5 3 Rutherglen 8,759 40.9 2 Sheffield Attercliffe 6,539 34.7 2 Shipley 5,690 25.4 2 Southampton 6,776 09.2 5 Stalybridge and Hyde 6,508 24.8 2 Swansea East 6,341 36.4 2 West Ham Silvertown 2,278 16.9 3 West Ham Upton 3,186 22.2 2 West Renfrewshire 7,126 38.2 2 West Stirlingshire 3,809 28.7 2
All candidates stood for the Labour Party.
By-elections, 1918–1922 By-election Candidate Votes % Position1919 Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central by-election 3,482 26.4 3Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1920), pp. 14–151919 Swansea East by-election 8,158 46.9 21919 Manchester Rusholme by-election 6,412 31.2 21919 Spen Valley by-election 11,962 39.4 11921 Woolwich East by-election 13,081 48.7 21921 Caerphilly by-election 13,699 54.2 11922 Leicester East by-election 14,062 52.9 1
All candidates stood for the Labour Party.
1922 general election Constituency Candidate Votes % PositionIndependent Labour Party, Annual Report (1923), pp. 39–41 Aberavon 14,138 46.6 1 Accrington 16,462 44.2 1 Bermondsey West 7,550 44.6 1 Birmingham Ladywood 10,589 44.8 2 Bishop Auckland 13,946 53.7 1 Blackburn 24,049 21.7 3 Bradford Central 14,296 42.4 1 Bradford East 13,573 45.4 1 Brigg 9,185 37.3 2 Bristol North 9,567 35.4 2 Bute and North Ayrshire 9,323 39.4 2 Caerphilly 13,759 57.2 1 Cardiff Central 8,169 29.4 2 Chelsea 4,513 25.1 2 Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire 10,312 42.0 1 Colne Valley 12,614 39.5 1 Consett 14,469 46.5 1 Dewsbury 8,856 37.3 1 Dunbartonshire 13,216 49.6 2 East Renfrewshire 9,708 42.4 1 Edinburgh Central 12,876 57.9 1 Glasgow Bridgeton 17,890 63.7 1 Glasgow Camlachie 15,181 53.2 1 Glasgow Cathcart 9,137 34.0 1 Glasgow Central 12,923 41.9 2 Glasgow Govan 15,441 62.3 1 Glasgow Maryhill 13,058 47.3 1 Glasgow Pollok 5,759 24.7 2 Glasgow St Rollox 16,114 56.6 1 Glasgow Shettleston 14,695 59.1 1 Glasgow Springburn 15,771 60.5 1 Huddersfield 15,673 33.5 2 Ipswich 14,924 46.6 2 Keighley 13,978 46.3 1 Kilmarnock 10,752 45.3 2 Kingston upon Hull South West 4,859 19.1 3 Lanark 9,812 45.0 2 Lancaster 9,043 31.6 2 Leeds North East 6,525 24.4 3 Leeds West 12,487 48.3 2 Leicester East 13,850 47.7 2 Limehouse 9,688 55.4 1 Linlithgowshire 12,625 46.4 1 Merthyr 17,516 53.0 1 Montrose Burghs 7,044 45.6 2 Newcastle-under-Lyme 14,503 60.2 1 Newcastle Central 13,709 54.2 1 Norwich 15,609 16.9 3 Rutherglen 14,029 55.1 1 Sheffield Brightside 16,692 60.4 1 Spen Valley 12,519 36.9 2 Stirling and Clackmannan West 9,919 55.0 1 Swansea East 11,333 50.9 1 Upton 7,268 32.8 1 West Renfrewshire 11,787 54.0 1
All candidates stood for the Labour Party.
By-elections, 1922–1923 By-election Candidate Votes % Position1923 Ludlow by-election 1,420 7.8 3Clare V. J. Griffiths, Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain 1918–1939, p. 1
Candidate stood for the Labour Party.
1923 UK general election