Election results of women standing for the Parliament of the United Kingdom (to 1945)

This is a list of women who stood in general elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom up to and including the 1945 general election.

22 of the women standing in the 1923 general election

Summary of general election candidates
YearNumber of Candidates[1]Number of MPs
1918171
1922332
1923348
1924414
19296914
19316215
1935679
19458724
Year Conservative[1] Labour[1] Liberal[1] Independent[2] Other parties[2]
Candidates MPs Candidates MPs Candidates MPs Candidates MPs Candidates MPs
19181040405031
1922511001612000
1923731431221000
1924123221601000
19291033092511130
19311613360511140
19351963311112120
194514141212017150

Unionist candidates or MPs in Scottish constituencies were counted as Conservatives.

Election results

1918 UK general election
PartyConstituencyNameVotes%Position
Conservative || Kennington || Alice Lucas || 3,573 || 32.2 || 2
Independent || Brentford and Chiswick || Ray Strachey || 1,263 || 9.7 || 3
Independent || Chelsea || Emily Frost Phipps || 2,419 || 20.9 || 2
Independent || Glasgow Bridgeton || Eunice Murray || 991 || 5.0 || 3
Independent || Hendon || Edith How-Martyn || 2,067 || 10.5 || 3
Independent || Richmond (Surrey) || Norah Dacre Fox || 3,615 || 20.4 || 2
Labour || Battersea North || Charlotte Despard || 5,634 || 33.4 || 2
Labour || Manchester Rusholme || Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence || 2,985 || 15.6 || 3
Labour || Stourbridge || Mary Anderson || 7,587 || 32.7 || 3
Labour || University of Wales || Millicent Mackenzie || 176 || 19.2 || 2
Liberal || Enfield || Janet McEwan || 1,987 || 12.1 || 3
Liberal || Birmingham Ladywood || Margery Corbett Ashby || 1,552 || 11.5 || 3
Liberal || Mansfield || Violet Carruthers || 4,000 || 19.5 || 3
Liberal || Portsmouth South || Alison Garland || 4,283 || 18.5 || 2
Sinn Féin || Belfast Victoria || Winifred Carney || 539 || 4.1 || 3
Sinn Féin || Dublin St Patrick's || Constance Markievicz || 7,835 || 65.9 || 1
Women's Party || Smethwick || Christabel Pankhurst || 8,614 || 47.8 || 2

By-elections, 1918-1922
PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Conservative || 1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election || Nancy Astor || 14,495 || 51.9 || 1
Labour || 1920 Camberwell North West by-election || Susan Lawrence || 4,733 || 32.1 || 2
Labour || 1920 Northampton by-election || Margaret Bondfield || 13,279 || 44.4 || 2
Liberal || 1921 Louth by-election || Margaret Wintringham || 8,386 || 42.2 || 1

1922 UK general election
PartyConstituencyName[3]Votes%Position
Conservative || Camberwell North || Helen Gwynne-Vaughan || 8,066 || 49.2 || 2
Conservative || Denbigh || Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick || 9,138 || 37.9 || 2
Conservative || Ogmore || Dorothy Caroline Edmondes || 6,577 || 20.1 || 3
Conservative || Plymouth Sutton || Nancy Astor || 13,924 || 47.4 || 1
Conservative || Walsall || Alice Cooper || 14,349 || 37.8 || 2
Independent || Brentford and Chiswick || Ray Strachey || 7,804 || 43.5 || 2
Independent || Liverpool East Toxteth || Eleanor Rathbone || 9,984 || 39.7 || 2
Labour || Acton || Mary Richardson || 5,342 || 26.2 || 2
Labour || Chelmsford || Clara Rackham || 3,767 || 17.6 || 3
Labour || East Ham North || Susan Lawrence || 6,747 || 27.8 || 2
Labour || East Surrey || Marjorie Pease || 3,667 || 22.7 || 2
Labour || Islington North || Edith Picton-Turbervill || 7,993 || 27.8 || 2
Labour || Islington East || Ethel Bentham || 5,900 || 22.7 || 3
Labour || Lambeth North || Barbara Ayrton-Gould || 3,353 || 17.8 || 3
Labour || Northampton || Margaret Bondfield || 14,498 || 37.9 || 2
Labour || University of Wales || Olive Wheeler || 309 || 24.8 || 3
Labour Co-op || Birmingham King's Norton || Eleanor Barton || 7,017 || 32.8 || 2
Liberal || Bedford || Mary Camilla Lawson || 2,075 || 7.8 || 4
Liberal || Dartford || Alison Garland || 2,175 || 6.5 || 3
Liberal || Devizes || Hilda Beatrice Currie || 6,576 || 40.7 || 2
Liberal || Glasgow Maryhill || Annie Burnett Smith || 3,617 || 13.1 || 3
Liberal || High Peak || Anna Barlow || 5,802 || 20.4 || 3
Liberal || Huntingdonshire || Lina Scott Gatty || 5,123 || 25.7 || 2
Liberal || Louth, Lincolnshire || Margaret Wintringham || 11,609 || 52.0 || 1
Liberal || Oldham || Mary Emmott || 6,186 || 7.0 || 5
Liberal || Richmond (Surrey) || Margery Corbett Ashby || 5,765 || 24.1 || 3
Liberal || Waterloo || Nessie Stewart-Brown || 6,300 || 32.7 || 2
Liberal || Westminster St George's || Mary Sophia Allen || 1,303 || 6.5 || 3
Liberal || Wycombe || Vera Terrington || 11,154 || 35.8 || 2
National Liberal || Edinburgh South || Catherine Alderton || 7,408 || 33.3 || 2
National Liberal || Forest of Dean || Winifred Coombe Tennant || 3,861 || 18.7 || 3
National Liberal || Glasgow Govan || Helen Fraser || 9,336 || 37.7 || 2
National Liberal || Leeds South East || Mary Grant || 9,554 || 41.1 || 2

By-elections, 1922-1923
PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Conservative || 1923 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election || Mabel Philipson || 12,000 || 55.0 || 1

1923 UK general election
PartyConstituencyName[4]Votes%Position
Conservative || Berwick-upon-Tweed || Mabel Philipson || 10,636 || 48.0 || 1
Conservative || Camberwell North || Helen Gwynne-Vaughan || 5,934 || 35.8 || 2
Conservative || Ince || Rachel Parsons || 6,262 || 26.5 || 2
Conservative || Plymouth Sutton || Nancy Astor || 16,114 || 54.5 || 1
Conservative || St Helens || Margaret Evelyn Pilkington || 16,109 || 44.5 || 2
Independent || Brentford and Chiswick || Ray Strachey || 4,828 || 27.3 || 2
Labour || Ashton-under-Lyne || Ellen Wilkinson || 6,208 || 28.7 || 3
Labour || Berwick-upon-Tweed || Edna Penny || 2,784 || 12.5 || 3
Labour || Bournemouth || Minnie Pallister || 5,986 || 19.5 || 3
Labour || Chatham || Mary Agnes Hamilton || 5,794 || 24.1 || 3
Labour || East Ham North || Susan Lawrence || 8,727 || 35.7 || 1
Labour || Farnham || Anne Corner || 3,520 || 16.7 || 3
Labour || Isle of Wight || Emily Palmer || 2,475 || 7.1 || 3
Labour || Islington East || Ethel Bentham || 6,941 || 26.0 || 3
Labour || Northampton || Margaret Bondfield || 15,556 || 40.5 || 1
Labour || Norwich || Dorothy Jewson || 19,304 || 20.0 || 2
Labour || Portsmouth South || Jessie Stephen || 7,388 || 24.9 || 2
Labour || Warwick and Leamington || Countess of Warwick || 4,015 || 12.8 || 3
Labour || West Dorset || Louie Simpson || 7,087 || 41.2 || 2
Labour Co-op || Birmingham King's Norton || Eleanor Barton || 6,743 || 30.7 || 2
Liberal || Birmingham King's Norton || Elizabeth Cadbury || 5,686 || 25.9 || 3
Liberal || Birmingham Moseley || Janet Clarkson || 7,904 || 28.7 || 2
Liberal || Cambridgeshire || Elsbeth Dimsdale || 6,619 || 24.6 || 3
Liberal || Consett || Ursula Williams || 14,619 || 48.0 || 2
Liberal || Gower || Leah Norah Folland || 10,219 || 40.9 || 2
Liberal || Hamilton || Helen Fraser || 8,436 || 41.6 || 2
Liberal || Hanley || Ada Rowley Moody || 4,268 || 19.8 || 3
Liberal || Hastings || Maria Gordon || 5,876 || 25.9 || 2
Liberal || Louth, Lincolnshire || Margaret Wintringham || 12,104 || 52.4 || 1
Liberal || Pontefract || Mary Pollock Grant || 4,567 || 18.6 || 3
Liberal || Richmond (Surrey) || Margery Corbett Ashby || 7,702 || 37.0 || 2
Liberal || Wycombe || Lady Terrington || 14,910 || 46.9 || 1
Unionist || Glasgow St Rollox || Violet Mary Robertson || 9,204 || 37.7 || 2
Unionist || Kinross and Western Perthshire || Duchess of Atholl || 9,235 || 50.4 || 1

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

1924 UK general election
PartyConstituencyName[5]Votes%Position
Conservative || Berwick-upon-Tweed || Mabel Philipson || 12,130 || 50.9 || 1
Conservative || Camberwell North || Helen Gwynne-Vaughan || 7,564 || 36.7 || 2
Conservative || Denbigh || Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick || 11,250 || 47.0 || 2
Conservative || Derby || Hilda Hulse || 21,700 || 20.3 || 4
Conservative || Manchester Ardwick || Mary Kingsmill Jones || 13,115 || 45.1 || 2
Conservative || Morpeth || Irene Ward || 10,828 || 32.0 || 2
Conservative || Plymouth Sutton || Nancy Astor || 18,174 || 58.1 || 1
Conservative || St Helens || Margaret Evelyn Pilkington || 16,908 || 44.2 || 2
Conservative || Wansbeck || Mary Middleton || 18,875 || 47.1 || 2
Independent Labour || Acton || Mary Richardson || 1,775 || 7.6 || 4
Labour || Blackburn || Mary Agnes Hamilton || 24,330 || 21.8 || 3
Labour || Bournemouth || Minnie Pallister || 7,735 || 27.3 || 2
Labour || Chelsea || Dora Russell || 5,661 || 26.0 || 2
Labour || Dumfriesshire || Agnes Dollan || 6,342 || 23.0 || 3
Labour || East Ham North || Susan Lawrence || 10,137 || 35.8 || 2
Labour || Edinburgh North || Eleanor Stewart || 8,192 || 27.9 || 2
Labour || Farnham || Anne Corner || 4,613 || 20.2 || 2
Labour || Hackney North || Stella Churchill || 6,097 || 24.1 || 3
Labour || Hastings || Muriel Matters Porter || 6,082 || 28.6 || 2
Labour || Hemel Hempstead || Amy Sayle || 1,553 || 6.9 || 3
Labour || Islington East || Ethel Bentham || 10,280 || 32.3 || 2
Labour || Lewisham West || Barbara Drake || 6,781 || 20.4 || 2
Labour || Liverpool Fairfield || Mary Mercer || 8,412 || 37.1 || 2
Labour || Middlesbrough East || Ellen Wilkinson || 9,574 || 38.5 || 1
Labour || Northampton || Margaret Bondfield || 15,046 || 37.2 || 2
Labour || Northwich || Barbara Ayrton-Gould || 11,630 || 34.6 || 2
Labour || Norwich || Dorothy Jewson || 22,931 || 22.0 || 4
Labour || Portsmouth South || Jessie Stephen || 8,310 || 27.0 || 2
Labour || Stroud || Edith Picton-Turbervill || 7,418 || 25.2 || 2
Labour || Totnes || Kate Spurrell || 2,240 || 6.1 || 3
Labour || West Dorset || Louie Simpson || 5,764 || 31.7 || 2
Labour Co-op || Leeds North East || Edna Penny || 8,894 || 31.6 || 2
Liberal || Ilkeston || Anna Barlow || 4,320 || 17.6 || 3
Liberal || Lanark || Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell || 2,126 || 8.1 || 3
Liberal || Louth, Lincolnshire || Margaret Wintringham || 11,330 || 47.2 || 2
Liberal || Southwark South East || Elsie Cameron Elias|| 2,388 || 11.2 || 3
Liberal || Watford || Margery Corbett Ashby || 5,205 || 18.7 || 3
Liberal || Wycombe || Lady Terrington || 12,526 || 33.0 || 2
Unionist || Aberdeen North || Laura Sandeman || 8,545 || 39.2 || 2
Unionist || Bothwell || Helen Brown Shaw || 11,314 || 43.7 || 2
Unionist || Kinross and Western Perthshire || Duchess of Atholl || 13,565 || 72.0 || 1

By-elections, 1924-1929
PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Labour || 1926 Wallsend by-election || Margaret Bondfield || 18,866 || 57.7 || 1
Labour || 1926 East Ham North by-election || Susan Lawrence || 10,798 || 40.6 || 1
Conservative || 1927 Southend by-election || Countess of Iveagh || 21,221 || 54.6 || 1
Labour || 1928 Bristol West by-election || Clare Annesley || 7,702 || 26.0 || 2
Liberal || 1928 St Ives by-election || Hilda Runciman || 10,241 || 42.6 || 1
Unionist || 1928 Linlithgowshire by-election || Margaret Kidd || 9,268 || 31.5 || 2
Labour || 1928 Epsom by-election || Helen Keynes || 3,719 || 16.8 || 3
Unionist || 1928 Aberdeen North by-election || Laura Sandeman || 4,696 || 23.1 || 2
Labour || 1928 Cheltenham by-election || Florence Widdowson || 3,962 || 18.8 || 3
Labour || 1929 Bishop Auckland by-election || Ruth Dalton || 14,797 || 57.1 || 1
Labour || 1929 North Lanarkshire by-election || Jennie Lee || 15,711 || 57.5 || 1
Liberal || 1929 North Lanarkshire by-election || Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell || 2,488 || 9.1 || 3

1929 UK general election
PartyConstituencyName[6]Votes%Position
Communist || Bothwell || Helen Crawfurd || 1,677 || 5.5 || 3
Communist || Mansfield || Rose Smith || 533 || 1.1 || 4
Communist || Motherwell || Isabel Brown || 984 || 3.4 || 4
Conservative || Farnworth || Mary Pickford || 10,643 || 25.4 || 2
Conservative || Liverpool Everton || Margaret Beavan || 12,667 || 47.1 || 2
Conservative || Manchester Ardwick || Mary Kingsmill Jones || 13,177 || 39.7 || 2
Conservative || Morpeth || Irene Ward || 9,206 || 22.1 || 2
Conservative || Plymouth Sutton ||Nancy Astor || 16,625 || 43.2 || 1
Conservative || Pontypridd || May Gordon Williams || 3,967 || 10.1 || 3
Conservative || Southend-on-Sea || Countess of Iveagh || 27,605 || 55.8 || 1
Independent || Combined English Universities || Eleanor Rathbone || 3,331 || 33.3 || 2
Labour || Ayr Burghs || Clarice Shaw || 13,429 || 36.5 || 2
Labour || Blackburn || Mary Agnes Hamilton || 37,256 || 26.1 || 1
Labour || Brentford and Chiswick || Stella Churchill || 10,918 || 37.8 || 2
Labour || Bristol West || Clare Annesley || 11,961 || 25.3 || 2
Labour || East Ham North || Susan Lawrence || 13,969 || 42.1 || 1
Labour || Edinburgh North || Eleanor Stewart || 11,340 || 32.2 || 2
Labour || Honiton || Rose Davies || 915 || 2.6 || 3
Labour || Horsham and Worthing || Helen Keynes || 7,611 || 16.4 || 3
Labour || Hythe || Grace Colman || 2,597 || 11.5 || 3
Labour || Islington East || Ethel Bentham || 15,199 || 38.0 || 1
Labour || Lewisham West || Catherine Mary Wadham || 10,598 || 25.9 || 2
Labour || Luton || Florence Harrison Bell || 7,351 || 16.5 || 3
Labour || Middlesbrough East ||Ellen Wilkinson || 12,215 || 41.3 || 1
Labour || North Lanarkshire || Jennie Lee || 19,884 || 55.9 || 1
Labour || Northwich || Barbara Ayrton-Gould || 15,473 || 34.3 || 2
Labour || Norwich || Dorothy Jewson || 31,040 || 24.0 || 3
Labour || Nottingham Central || Eleanor Barton || 11,573 || 33.2 || 2
Labour || Perth || Helen Gault || 8,291 || 23.5 || 3
Labour || Petersfield || Gertrude Massingham || 3,418 || 12.1 || 3
Labour || Portsmouth South || Jessie Stephen || 10,127 || 24.8 || 2
Labour || Rushcliffe || Florence Widdowson || 16,069 || 35.0 || 2
Labour || St Albans || Monica Whately || 11,699 || 27.6 || 2
Labour || Stoke-on-Trent || Cynthia Mosley || 26,548 || 58.7 || 1
Labour || Sunderland || Marion Phillips || 31,794 || 19.5 || 1
Labour || The Wrekin || Edith Picton-Turbervill || 14,569 || 44.4 || 1
Labour || Totnes || Kate Spurrell || 5,828 || 12.9 || 3
Labour || Wallsend || Margaret Bondfield || 20,057 || 49.5 || 1
Labour || Wells || Ruby Docie Quarrell Davies || 4,472 || 15.0 || 3
Labour || Weston-super-Mare || Constance Borrett || 4,766 || 11.1 || 3
Labour || Wycombe || Rochelle Townsend || 8,899 || 18.1 || 3
Liberal || Anglesey || Megan Lloyd George || 13,181 || 49.4 || 1
Liberal || Birmingham Deritend || Beta Hornabrook || 2,268 || 6.8 || 3
Liberal || Caerphilly || Alice Grace Roberts || 8,190 || 22.4 || 2
Liberal || East Grinstead || Barbara Bliss || 9,718 || 25.6 || 2
Liberal || Hackney South || Muriel Morgan Gibbon || 6,302 || 20.7 || 3
Liberal || Hendon || Margery Corbett Ashby || 13,449 || 22.2 || 3
Liberal || Hitchin || Enid Lapthorn || 9,325 || 28.3 || 2
Liberal || Hythe || Hester Lloyd Holland || 6,912 || 30.7 || 2
Liberal || Islington North || Domini Crosfield || 10,210 || 23.4 || 3
Liberal || Kensington North || Frances Henrietta Stewart || 5,516 || 13.5 || 3
Liberal || Kingston upon Hull North West || Catherine Alderton || 10,059 || 28.3 || 3
Liberal || Louth, Lincolnshire || Margaret Wintringham || 13,560 || 42.9 || 2
Liberal || Manchester Gorton || Beatrice Bayfield || 3,385 || 9.4 || 3
Liberal || North Norfolk || Zelia Hoffman || 3,403 || 11.1 || 3
Liberal || Northampton || Helen Schilizzi || 11,054 || 20.6 || 3
Liberal || Rotherhithe || Dora West || 4,556 || 19.1 || 3
Liberal || St Pancras South East || Elizabeth Edwardes || 3,798 || 13.8 || 3
Liberal || Salford West || Mary Pollock Grant || 5,614 || 15.4 || 3
Liberal || Salisbury || Lucy Masterman || 13,022 || 39.3 || 2
Liberal || Smethwick || Maude Egerton Marshall || 3,909 || 11.0 || 3
Liberal || Sunderland || Elizabeth Morgan || 21,300 || 13.0 || 5
Liberal || Surrey East || Ida Swinburne || 7,435 || 23.1 || 2
Liberal || Tavistock || Hilda Runciman || 14,040 || 44.1 || 2
Liberal || Warrington || Alison Garland || 3,070 || 7.2 || 3
Liberal || Winchester || Frances Josephy || 7,278 || 18.6 || 3
Unionist || Bothwell || Helen Brown Shaw || 12,077 || 39.3 || 2
Unionist || Kinross and Western Perthshire || Duchess of Atholl || 12,245 || 48.6 || 1
Unionist || Paisley || Minna Cowan || 7,094 || 17.7 || 3

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

By-elections, 1929-1931
PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Communist || 1929 Kilmarnock by-election || Isabel Brown || 1,448 || 4.4 || 3
Labour || 1930 North Norfolk by-election || Lucy Noel-Buxton || 14,821 || 50.3 || 1
Labour || 1930 Paddington South by-election || Dorothy Evans || 7,944 || 26.6 || 3
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Labour || 1931 Islington East by-election || Leah Manning || 10,591 || 34.7 || 1
Conservative || 1931 Islington East by-election || Thelma Cazalet || 7,182 || 23.5 || 3
Liberal || 1931 Salisbury by-election || Lucy Masterman || 9,588 || 32.7 || 2
Liberal || 1931 Sunderland by-election || Elizabeth Morgan || 15,020 || 19.9 || 3
National (Scotland) || 1931 Glasgow St Rollox by-election || Elma Campbell || 3,521 || 15.8 || 3

1931 UK general election
PartyConstituencyName[7]Votes%Position
Communist || Aberdeen North || Helen Crawfurd || 3,980 || 11.1 || 3
Communist || Greenwich || Kath Duncan || 2,024 || 4.4 || 4
Conservative || Caerphilly || Catherine Bowen-Davies || 11,044 || 32.4 || 2
Conservative || Cannock || Sarah Ward || 27,498 || 54.6 || 1
Conservative || Hackney South || Marjorie Graves || 15,920 || 55.4 || 1
Conservative || Hammersmith North || Mary Pickford || 18,815 || 59.2 || 1
Conservative || Islington East || Thelma Cazalet || 27,221 || 67.5 || 1
Conservative || Plymouth Sutton || Nancy Astor || 24,277 || 63.3 || 1
Conservative || Rotherhithe || Norah Runge || 11,666 || 50.3 || 1
Conservative || Silvertown || Eleonora Tennant || 5,654 || 22.2 || 2
Conservative || Southend-on-Sea || Countess of Iveagh || 46,564 || 85.7 || 1
Conservative || Stoke || Ida Copeland || 19,918 || 45.6 || 1
Conservative || Wallsend || Irene Ward || 25,999 || 58.6 || 1
Conservative || Willesden West || Mavis Tate || 23,910 || 60.6 || 1
Independent || Combined English Universities || Eleanor Rathbone || 5,096 || 37.2 || 1
Ind. Labour Party || Camborne || Kate Spurrell || 8,280 || 24.5 || 3
Ind. Labour Party || Clapham || Hilda Browning || 7,317 || 23.0 || 2
Ind. Labour Party || North Lanarkshire || Jennie Lee || 19,691 || 44.7 || 2
Ind. Labour Party || Norwich || Dorothy Jewson || 26,537 || 19.7 || 4
Ind. Labour Party || Perth || Helen Gault || 3,705 || 9.7 || 3
Ind. Labour Party || West Renfrewshire || Jean Mann || 10,203 || 31.5 || 2
Independent Liberal || Anglesey || Megan Lloyd George || 14,839 || 58.3 || 1
Labour || Aldershot || Mary Richardson || 4,091 || 15.6 || 2
Labour || Aylesbury || Dorothy Woodman || 4,677 || 10.9 || 3
Labour || Ayr Burghs || Clarice Shaw || 9,974 || 26.1 || 2
Labour || Bedford || Clare Annesley || 9,654 || 27.8 || 2
Labour || Blackburn || Mary Agnes Hamilton || 25,643 || 17.0 || 3
Labour || East Ham North || Susan Lawrence || 11,769 || 34.1 || 2
Labour || Flintshire || Frances Edwards || 16,158 || 28.6 || 2
Labour || Gillingham || Catherine Mary Wadham || 9,103 || 31.0 || 2
Labour || Hastings || Irene Goddard || 4,983 || 15.5 || 2
Labour || Hendon || Amber Blanco White || 15,305 || 18.8 || 2
Labour || Horsham and Worthing || Helen Keynes || 5,932 || 11.7 || 2
Labour || Hythe || Grace Colman || 3,608 || 15.1 || 2
Labour || Islington East || Leah Manning || 13,111 || 32.5 || 2
Labour || Kidderminster || Jessie Stephen || 9,814 || 22.7 || 2
Labour || Maidstone || Gertrude Speedwell Massingham || 6,770 || 19.8 || 2
Labour || Middlesbrough East || Ellen Wilkinson || 12,080 || 39.6 || 2
Labour || North Norfolk || Lucy Noel-Buxton || 13,035 || 39.5 || 2
Labour || Northwich || Barbara Gould || 15,746 || 34.4 || 2
Labour || Norwood || Ann Jane Anstey || 7,217 || 19.0 || 2
Labour || Paddington North || Esther Rickards || 9,597 || 28.6 || 2
Labour || Paddington South || Lucy Cox || 4,532 || 14.3 || 2
Labour || Rushcliffe || Florence Paton || 14,176 || 27.9 || 2
Labour || St Albans || Monica Whately || 10,289 || 21.9 || 2
Labour || Streatham || Betty Fraser || 5,343 || 15.0 || 2
Labour || Sunderland || Marion Phillips || 29,707 || 18.0 || 3
Labour || The Wrekin || Edith Picton-Turbervill || 14,162 || 38.9 || 2
Labour || Tonbridge || Constance Borrett || 8,208 || 21.2 || 2
Labour || Wallsend || Margaret Bondfield || 18,393 || 41.4 || 2
Labour || Woodbridge || Ida Mary Nussey Keeble || 5,885 || 18.7 || 2
Labour Co-op || Brighton || Rosalind Moore || 12,878 || 7.3 || 4
Liberal || Basingstoke || Frances Josephy || 6,106 || 18.1 || 2
Liberal || Exeter || Eleanor Acland || 8,571 || 23.2 || 2
Liberal || Holderness || Aline MacKinnon || 10,471 || 30.0 || 2
Liberal || Shrewsbury || Betty Morgan || 9,358 || 30.8 || 2
Liberal National || Wentworth || Charlotte Isabel Hilyer || 14,462 || 31.2 || 2
National (Scotland) || Glasgow St Rollox || Elma Campbell || 3,521 || 13.3 || 3
Unionist || Bothwell || Helen Brown Shaw || 16,571 || 50.0 || 1
Unionist || Dundee || Florence Horsbrugh || 48,556 || 27.7 || 2
Unionist || Glasgow Bridgeton || Catherine Gavin || 11,941 || 41.8 || 2
Unionist || Kinross and Western Perthshire || Duchess of Atholl || 16,228 || 60.6 || 1

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

By-elections, 1931-1935
PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Labour || 1932 Dulwich by-election || Helen Bentwich || 3,905 || 19.3 || 3
Independent || 1934 Lambeth North by-election || Alice Brown || 305 || 1.6 || 4
Labour || 1934 Putney by-election || Edith Summerskill || 12,936 || 45.3 || 2
Labour || 1935 Norwood by-election || Barbara Gould || 12,799 || 40.4 || 2
Labour || 1935 Perth by-election || Helen Gault || 3,705 || 9.7 || 3
Labour || 1935 Combined Scottish Universities by-election || Naomi Mitchison || 4,293 || 17.3 || 2

1935 UK general election
PartyConstituencyName[8]Votes%Position
Conservative || Caerphilly || N. J. Stoneham || 7,738 || 23.8 || 2
Conservative || Cannock || Sarah Ward || 26,876 || 49.1 || 2
Conservative || Clay Cross || Bridget Jackson || 8,391 || 25.4 || 2
Conservative || Ebbw Vale || Ethel Scarborough || 7,145 || 22.2 || 2
Conservative || Frome || Mavis Tate || 19,684 || 46.3 || 1
Conservative || Hackney South || Marjorie Graves || 10,876 || 40.7 || 2
Conservative || Islington East || Thelma Cazalet || 18,248 || 52.5 || 1
Conservative || Plaistow || Dorothy Roddick || 6,730 || 26.7 || 2
Conservative || Plymouth Sutton || Nancy Astor || 21,491 || 58.3 || 1
Conservative || Poplar South || Diana Spearman || 6,862 || 26.8 || 2
Conservative || Rotherhithe || Norah Runge || 9,751 || 40.3 || 2
Conservative || Rothwell || Gwendoline Beaumont || 17,352 || 35.5 || 2
Conservative || Silvertown || Eleonora Tennant || 4,276 || 19.0 || 2
Conservative || Stoke || Ida Copeland || 18,867 || 47.3 || 2
Conservative || Wallsend || Irene Ward || 23,842 || 52.6 || 1
Independent || Combined English Universities || Eleanor Rathbone || unopposed || N/A || 1
Independent || Putney || Violet Van der Elst || 1,021 || 3.0 || 3
Ind. Labour Party || Camborne || Kate Spurrell || 592 || 1.9 || 4
Ind. Labour Party || North Lanarkshire || Jennie Lee || 17,267 || 37.3 || 2
Labour || Birkenhead East || Mary Mercer || 8,028 || 23.3 || 3
Labour || Bradford North || Muriel Nichol || 14,047 || 35.2 || 2
Labour || Burton || Gladys Paling || 8,041 || 25.5 || 2
Labour || Bury || Edith Summerskill || 12,845 || 34.4 || 2
Labour || Cheltenham || Elizabeth Pakenham || 7,784 || 29.5 || 2
Labour || City of Chester || Agnes Bulley || 6,450 || 19.3 || 3
Labour || Clapham || Monica Whately || 11,368 || 23.0 || 2
Labour || Dartford || Janet Adamson || 35,596 || 48.2 || 2
Labour || Darwen || Frances Kerby || 7,778 || 20.9 || 3
Labour || Edinburgh South || Barbara Woodburn || 5,365 || 16.5 || 2
Labour || Harrow || Helen Bentwich || 31,422 || 37.3 || 2
Labour || Hendon || Amber Blanco White || 28,375 || 26.8 || 2
Labour || Hornsey || Mari Power || 10,320 || 21.9 || 2
Labour || Jarrow || Ellen Wilkinson || 20,324 || 53.1 || 1
Labour || Lewisham East || Freda Corbet || 25,425 || 44.6 || 2
Labour || Manchester Hulme || Barbara Ayrton-Gould || 11,221 || 39.7 || 2
Labour || New Forest and Christchurch || Catherine Mary Wadham || 10,876 || 25.2 || 2
Labour || North Dorset || M. M. Whitehead || 1,360 || 5.2 || 4
Labour || North Norfolk || Lucy Noel-Buxton || 14,465 || 44.7 || 2
Labour || Paddington North || Caroline Ganley || 9,925 || 34.4 || 2
Labour || Pudsey and Otley || Lucy Cox || 9,997 || 23.3 || 3
Labour || Saffron Walden || Clara Rackham || 9,633 || 32.9 || 2
Labour || St Marylebone || Elizabeth Jacobs || 8,088 || 20.4 || 2
Labour || Sheffield Hallam || Grace Colman || 10,346 || 32.7 || 2
Labour || Southend-on-Sea || Helen Keynes || 7,796 || 13.8 || 3
Labour || Stockton-on-Tees || Susan Lawrence || 19,217 || 40.3 || 2
Labour || Stroud || Constance Borrett || 14,133 || 36.8 || 2
Labour || Sunderland || Leah Manning || 32,059 || 19.8 || 4
Labour || Wallsend || Margaret Bondfield || 21,462 || 47.4 || 2
Labour || Westminster St George's || Anne Fremantle || 4,643 || 15.4 || 2
Labour || Westmorland || Evelyn Short || 10,417 || 31.5 || 2
Labour || West Renfrewshire || Jean Mann || 12,407 || 38.8 || 2
Labour || Wood Green || Dorothy Woodman || 14,561 || 24.8 || 2
Liberal || Anglesey || Megan Lloyd George || 11,227 || 44.5 || 1
Liberal || Aylesbury || Margaret Wintringham || 13,622 || 31.6 || 2
Liberal || Carlisle || Barbara Bliss || 3,525 || 10.3 || 3
Liberal || Devizes || Frances Josephy || 9,903 || 40.7 || 2
Liberal || Edinburgh North || Chrystal Macmillan || 1,798 || 5.8 || 3
Liberal || Hemel Hempstead || Margery Corbett Ashby || 7,078 || 22.0 || 2
Liberal || Holderness || Aline Mackinnon || 10,348 || 24.9 || 2
Liberal || Kinross and Western Perthshire || Elizabeth MacDonald || 10,069 || 39.8 || 2
Liberal || Maldon || Hilda Buckmaster || 5,680 || 17.7 || 3
Liberal || Rye || Dorothy Osborn || 9,162 || 28.8 || 2
Liberal || Willesden East || Nancy Stewart Parnell || 3,217 || 7.3 || 3
Unionist || Bothwell || Helen Brown Shaw || 13,761 || 39.7 || 2
Unionist || Dundee || Florence Horsbrugh || 50,542 || 26.8 || 1
Unionist || Edinburgh East || Minna Cowan || 12,229 || 39.6 || 2
Unionist || Kinross and Western Perthshire || Duchess of Atholl || 15,238 || 60.2 || 1

By-elections, 1935-1945
PartyElectionNameVotes%Position
Conservative || 1936 Clay Cross by-election || Bridget Jackson || 8,042 || 24.9 || 2
Independent || 1936 Preston by-election || Florence White || 3,221 || 4.8 || 3
Conservative || 1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election || Frances Davidson || 14,992 || 57.7 || 1
Liberal || 1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election || Margery Corbett Ashby || 7,078 || 22.0 || 2
Labour || 1937 Glasgow Springburn by-election || Agnes Hardie || 14,859 || 62.6 || 1
Liberal National || 1938 Pontypridd by-election || Juliet Rhys-Williams || 14,810 || 40.1 || 2
Independent || 1938 Combined Scottish Universities by-election || Frances Melville || 5,618 || 19.5 || 2
Labour || 1938 Fulham West by-election || Edith Summerskill || 16,583 || 52.2 || 1
Labour || 1938 Dartford by-election || Jennie Adamson || 46,514 || 52.4 || 1
Labour || 1938 Fylde by-election || Mabel Tylecote || 17,648 || 31.6 || 2
Independent || 1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election || Duchess of Atholl || 10,495 || 47.1 || 2
Liberal || 1939 Holderness by-election || Aline Mackinnon || 11,590 || 25.7 || 2
Unionist || 1939 South Ayrshire by-election || Catherine Gavin || 12,986 || 42.0 || 2
National Independent || 1940 Southwark Central by-election || Violet van der Elst || 1,382 || 16.8 || 3
Ind. Labour Party || 1940 East Renfrewshire by-election || Annie Maxton || 8,206 || 19.3 || 2
Communist || 1940 Bow and Bromley by-election || Isabel Brown || 506 || 4.2 || 2
Conservative || 1941 Bodmin by-election || Beatrice Wright || unopposed || N/A || 1
Independent || 1941 Harrow by-election || Winifred Henney || 3,433 || 19.1 || 2
Common Wealth || 1943 Ashford by-election || Catherine Williamson || 4,192 || 30.3 || 2
Conservative || 1943 Bristol Central by-election || Violet Bathurst || 5,867 || 52.1 || 1
Independent Labour || 1943 Bristol Central by-election || Jennie Lee || 4,308 || 38.2 || 2
Common Wealth || 1943 The Hartlepools by-election || Elaine Burton || 3,634 || 17.4 || 2
Independent Liberal || 1943 Darwen by-election || Honor Balfour || 8,799 || 49.8 || 2
Independent || 1943 Acton by-election || Dorothy Crisp || 707 || 8.5 || 3
Independent Liberal || 1944 Bury St Edmunds by-election || Margery Corbett Ashby || 9,121 || 43.8 || 2

1945 UK general election
PartyConstituencyNameVotes%Position
Common Wealth || Canterbury || Catherine Williamson || 1,017 || 2.6 || 3
Common Wealth || Chelsea || Dorothy Sharpe || 984 || 5.2 || 3
Common Wealth || North Midlothian || Kitty Wintringham || 3,299 || 6.4 || 3
Common Wealth || Sutton Coldfield || Joyce Purser || 2,043 || 4.2 || 3
Communist || Birmingham Handsworth || Jessie Eden || 1,390 || 3.4 || 5
Communist || Harrow East || Gladys Driver || 3,493 || 5.9 || 4
Conservative || Bristol Central || Violet Bathurst || 7,369 || 36.1 || 2
Conservative || Frome || Mavis Tate || 24,228 || 44.9 || 2
Conservative || Islington East || Thelma Cazalet-Keir || 9,960 || 34.5 || 2
Conservative || Hemel Hempstead || Frances Davidson || 19,536 || 44.2 || 1
Conservative || Kingston upon Hull Central || Diana Spearman || 4,106 || 27.5 || 2
Conservative || Manchester Ardwick || Nellie Beer || 8,093 || 36.0 || 2
Conservative || Poplar South || Joan Vickers || 1,403 || 10.8 || 2
Conservative || Rotherhithe || Norah Runge || 2,577 || 20.9 || 2
Conservative || Wallsend || Irene Ward || 21,319 || 39.9 || 2
Conservative || Wentworth || Aymée Lavender Gandar Dower || 8,670 || 16.4 || 2
Independent || Combined English Universities || Eleanor Rathbone || 11,176 || 53.3 || 1
Independent || Hornchurch || Violet van der Elst || 232 || 0.5 || 4
Independent || Westminster St George's || Dorothy Crisp || 1,069 || 5.5 || 3
Ind. Conservative || Putney || Eleonora Tennant || 144 || 0.4 || 5
Independent Progressive || London University || Mary Danvers Stocks || 7,469 || 49.5 || 2
Labour Co-op || Battersea South || Caroline Ganley || 19,275 || 61.5 || 1
Labour Co-op || Birmingham Duddeston || Edith Agnes Wills || 10,745 || 65.0 || 1
Labour Co-op || Ilford North || Mabel Ridealgh || 18,833 || 42.8 || 1
Labour || Basingstoke || Edith Alice Weston || 13,763 || 33.8 || 2
Labour || Bath || Dorothy Archibald || 18,120 || 39.2 || 2
Labour || Bexley || Jennie Adamson || 24,686 || 56.9 || 1
Labour || Blackburn || Barbara Castle || 35,145 || 26.0 || 2
Labour || Bradford North || Muriel Nichol || 20,268 || 43.6 || 1
Labour || Bury St Edmunds || Cecily Alicia McCall || 9,195 || 29.8 || 2
Labour || Camberwell North West || Freda Corbet || 12,251 || 69.6 || 1
Labour || Cannock || Jennie Lee || 48,849 || 62.6 || 1
Labour || Chelsea || Margaret Douglas Shufeldt || 5,874 || 31.1 || 2
Labour || Cheltenham || Phyllis Maude Warner || 11,095 || 29.9 || 2
Labour || Chichester || Rosalie Francesca Chamberlayne || 13,670 || 24.1 || 2
Labour || Coatbridge || Jean Mann || 18,619 || 61.1 || 1
Labour || Croydon North || Marian Billson || 22,810 || 40.1 || 2
Labour || Epping || Leah Manning || 15,993 || 44.1 || 1
Labour || Flintshire || Eirene Lloyd Jones || 26,761 || 37.4 || 2
Labour || Fulham West || Edith Summerskill || 19,537 || 61.9 || 1
Labour || Harrow West || B. J. K. Thompson || 18,961 || 33.0 || 2
Labour || Hemel Hempstead || Doris Mobbs || 14,426 || 32.6 || 2
Labour || Hendon North || Barbara Gould || 18,251 || 47.6 || 1
Labour || Hendon South || Elaine Burton || 14,917 || 38.1 || 2
Labour || Holborn || Irene Marcousé || 5,136 || 45.9 || 2
Labour || Jarrow || Ellen Wilkinson || 22,656 || 66.0 || 1
Labour || Kensington South || Patricia Strauss || 6,014 || 18.9 || 2
Labour || Kilmarnock || Clarice Shaw || 23,837 || 59.4 || 1
Labour || Leeds North East || Alice Bacon || 28,870 || 53.1 || 1
Labour || Liverpool Exchange || Bessie Braddock || 8,494 || 52.0 || 1
Labour || Middleton and Prestwich || Mabel Tylecote || 25,908 || 49.2 || 2
Labour || Newbury || Iris Brook || 15,754 || 33.7 || 2
Labour || North Lanarkshire || Margaret Herbison || 30,251 || 59.6 || 1
Labour || Norwich || Lucy Noel-Buxton || 31,553 || 27.9 || 1
Labour || Plymouth Sutton || Lucy Middleton || 15,417 || 51.6 || 1
Labour || Rushcliffe || Florence Paton || 43,303 || 54.2 || 1
Labour || St Marylebone || Elizabeth Jacobs || 10,740 || 32.4 || 2
Labour || Sutton and Cheam || Helen Judd || 17,293 || 41.0 || 2
Labour || Tonbridge || Vera Dart || 16,590 || 35.9 || 2
Labour || Tynemouth || Grace Colman || 13,963 || 46.1 || 1
Labour || Windsor || Marjorie Nicholson || 16,420 || 33.1 || 2
Labour || Wirral || Agnes Bulley || 25,919 || 31.3 || 2
Liberal || Anglesey || Megan Lloyd George || 12,610 || 52.2 || 1
Liberal || Barnet || Jean Henderson || 4,495 || 11.4 || 3
Liberal || Birmingham Handsworth || Barbara Lewis || 4,945 || 12.0 || 4
Liberal || Blackburn || Marjorie Annie MacInerney || 6,096 || 4.5 || 6
Liberal || Chelmsford || Hilda Buckmaster || 5,909 || 10.1 || 3
Liberal || Darwen || Honor Balfour || 7,979 || 24.3 || 3
Liberal || Devizes || Frances Josephy || 6,278 || 23.1 || 3
Liberal || Exeter || Freda Evelyn Griffith Morgan || 6,220 || 16.4 || 3
Liberal || Hackney North || Doreen Gorsky || 3,546 || 13.3 || 3
Liberal || Ilford North || Juliet Rhys-Williams || 9,128 || 20.8 || 3
Liberal || Isle of Wight || May O'Conor || 5,967 || 12.6 || 3
Liberal || Mossley || Marjorie Wainwright Jalland || 7,128 || 12.4 || 3
Liberal || Paisley || Louise Glen-Coats || 4,532 || 10.0 || 3
Liberal || Plymouth Sutton || Joan Gaved || 3,695 || 12.4 || 3
Liberal || Ripon || Mabel Cowley || 6,122 || 12.6 || 3
Liberal || St Albans || Enid Lakeman || 5,601 || 10.7 || 3
Liberal || St Pancras South East || Audrey Blackman || 1,474 || 8.8 || 3
Liberal || Sevenoaks || Nelia Muspratt || 6,906 || 16.7 || 3
Liberal || Sudbury || Margaret Hitchcock || 5,045 || 20.5 || 3
Liberal || Wells || Violet Bonham-Carter || 7,910 || 25.1 || 3
Plaid Cymru || University of Wales || Gwenan Jones || 1,696 || 24.5 || 2
Unionist || Aberdeen North || Priscilla Buchan || 9,623 || 25.1 || 2
Unionist || Bothwell || Helen Brown Shaw || 13,207 || 34.2 || 2
Unionist || Dundee || Florence Horsbrugh || 32,309 || 18.9 || 4
UUP || Fermanagh and Tyrone || Noreen Cooper || 46,260 || 22.8 || 4

Castle won in Blackburn by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

See also

References
  1. Richard Keen; Richard Cracknell. "Women in Parliament and Government". House of Commons Library. p. 22.
  2. Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 62. ISBN 0900178000.
  3. "The defeated thirty", Manchester Guardian, 5 December 1922
  4. "Eight woman MPs", The Times, 8 December 1923
  5. "The 41 women candidates", Manchester Guardian, 20 October 1924
  6. "Women candidates: a total of 64 for all parties", Manchester Guardian, 4 May 1929
  7. "Women candidates: 61 Nominated : Two Straight Fights", Manchester Guardian, 17 October 1931
  8. "Women candidates", The Times, 5 November 1935
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949

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