Home General Elections 5 July 1945

UK Polling History: Election of 5 July 1945

The map below is experimental, as the geographic locations and boundaries of historical constituencies are not readily available. For an alphabetical table of constituencies, click here.

Election result map

Result summary

Parties
Labour Conservative Other Liberal National
Liberal
Independent
Labour
National Communist National
independent
Common
Wealth
Movement
Independent
Conservative
Northern
Ireland
Labour
Party
Total seats 382 189 13 12 11 3 2 2 2 1
Total votes 11,515,793 8,728,124 503,793 2,181,032 688,699 46,769 116,415 101,039 60,500 101,975 3,968 65,459
Seats gained +217 -170 +7 -16 -12 +1
Votes gained +2,870,286 -1,798,685 +99,703 -679,151 -154,509 -14,156 +22,773 -5,412
Share of votes 48.1% 36.4% 2.1% 9.1% 2.9% 0.2% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.3%
Share of eligible voters 34.7% 26.3% 1.5% 6.6% 2.1% 0.1% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2%
Gain in share of votes +9.7% -10.9% +0.5% +2.2% -1.2% -0.5%
Gain in share of eligible voters +8.7% -5.8% +0.5% +1.9% -0.7% -0.3%
Total votes: 23,964,208
Electorate: 33,171,640
Turnout: 72.2%
Swing: 10.3% Labour from Conservative