This article lists the Labour Representation Committee's election results in UK parliamentary elections. The Labour Representation was the forerunner of the Labour Party. It was founded in 1900 and became the Labour Party in 1906, shortly after that year's general election.
Summary of general election performance Year Number of Candidates Total votes Average votes per candidate % UK vote Change (percentage points) Number of MPs1900 15 62,698 4,780 1.8 N/A 21906 50 321,723 6,434 4.8 +3.0 29
Election results
1900 general election Constituency Candidate Votes % PositionAlan Haworth and Dianne Hayter, Men Who Made Labour, p.245 SponsorshipFrank Bealey and Henry Pelling, Labour and Politics, 1900-1906, p.289 Ashton-under-Lyne 737 11.0 3 ILP Blackburn 7,096 25.6 3 ILP Bow and Bromley 2,558 36.7 2 SDF Bradford West 4,949 49.8 2 ILP Derby 7,640 25.7 2 Railway Servants Gower 3,853 47.4 2 Steel Smelters Halifax 3,276 16.1 4 ILP Leeds East 1,266 19.7 3 Leeds Trades Council Leicester 4,164 13.0 4 ILP Manchester South West 2,394 37.4 2 ILP Merthyr Tydfil 5,745 31.3 2 ILP Preston 4,834 22.1 3 ILP Rochdale 901 8.0 3 ILP and SDF Sunderland 8,842 23.6 4 Shipwrights West Ham South 4,439 44.2 2 Gasworkers
Hardie stood in two constituencies and was elected in Merthyr Tydfil, where he placed second in a two-seat constituency; Bell was similarly elected in Derby.
By-elections, 1900–1906 By-election Candidate Votes % Position SponsorshipFrank Bealey and Henry Pelling, Labour and Politics, 1900-1906, p.290 1902 Wakefield by-election 1,979 40.1 2 ILP 1902 Clitheroe by-election unopposed N/A 1 Clitheroe LRC 1903 Woolwich by-election 8,687 61.4 1 Woolwich Trades Council 1903 Preston by-election 6,490 42.9 2 Steel Smelters 1903 Barnard Castle by-election 3,370 35.4 1 Ironfounders 1904 Norwich by-election 2,440 13.7 3 ILP 1905 Belfast North by-election 3,966 47.2 2 Carpenters
1906 general election Constituency Candidate Votes % PositionJoel Dayton Moore, The Taff Vale Decision in British Labor History, pp.115-116 SponsorshipFrank Bealey and Henry Pelling, Labour and Politics, 1900-1906, pp.290-292 Barnard Castle 5,540 58.8 1 Ironfounders Barrow-in-Furness 5,167 48.3 1 Engineers Belfast North 4,616 48.5 2 Carpenters Birmingham Bordesley 3,976 33.9 2 ILP Birmingham East 5,343 47.4 2 Railway Servants Blackburn 10,282 26.8 2 ILP Bolton 10,416 37.1 2 Textile Workers Bradford West 4,957 39.1 1 ILP Chatham 6,692 62.5 1 Shipwrights Clitheroe 12,035 75.9 1 Textile Workers Croydon 4,007 20.2 3 Stonemasons Darlington 4,087 48.3 2 Engineers Deptford 6,236 52.2 1 London Compositors Dewsbury 2,629 21.2 3 Heavy Woollen LRC Dundee 6,833 23.3 2 Shipwrights Eccles 3,985 26.4 3 Dockers Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown 3,284 39.5 1 Engineers Glasgow Camlachie 2,568 30.0 3 ILP Glasgow Govan 4,212 29.0 3 Boilermakers Gorton 8,566 66.4 1 Steel Smelters Gravesend 873 16.2 3 Shop Assistants Great Grimsby 2,248 17.8 3 Engineers Halifax 8,937 38.3 2 ILP Huddersfield 5,813 35.2 2 Huddersfield Trades Council Ince 8,046 70.2 1 Lancashire & Cheshire Miners Jarrow 5,093 38.8 2 Gasworkers Leeds East 4,299 66.1 1 Furnishing Trades Leeds South 4,030 32.6 2 ASLEF Leicester 14,685 39.8 2 ILP Liverpool Kirkdale 3,157 45.7 2 Boilermakers Liverpool West Toxteth 2,592 43.5 2 Dock Labourers Manchester North East 5,386 64.6 1 ILP Manchester South West 4,101 58.8 1 Lithographic Printers Merthyr Tydfil 10,187 32.0 2 ILP Monmouth Boroughs 1,678 16.5 3 Newport Trades Council Newcastle-upon-Tyne 18,869 31.1 1 Railway Servants Newton 6,434 52.2 1 Shop Assistants Norwich 11,059 37.5 1 Typographers Portsmouth 8,172 17.6 3 Portsmouth LRC Preston 10,181 31.0 1 Steel Smelters St Helens 6,088 56.6 1 Lancashire & Cheshire Miners Stockport 7,299 32.4 1 Railway Servants Stockton-on-Tees 1,710 23.1 3 Engineers Sunderland 13,430 31.8 2 ILP Wakefield 2,068 36.9 2 ILP West Ham South 10,210 67.2 1 Gasworkers & West Ham Trades Council Westhoughton 9,262 60.2 1 Carpenters Wolverhampton West 6,767 50.9 1 Boot and Shoe Woolwich 9,026 56.6 1 Woolwich LRC York 4,573 19.7 4 Postmen
Burgess, Clynes, Coit, Hardie, Jowett, MacDonald, Parker, Snowden, Summerbell and Williams were sponsored by the Independent Labour Party. Gill, Hardie, MacDonald, Parker, Snowden, Summerbell and Wilkie were elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
See also Independent Labour Party election results Social Democratic Federation election results
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