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Constituency election results in the 1945 United Kingdom general election

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36th Parliament (1931)
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This is an incomplete alphabetical list of constituency election results to the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1945 general election, held in July 1945.

Notes

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  • Change in % vote and swing is calculated between the winner and second place and their respective performances at the 1935 election. A plus denotes a swing to the winner and a minus against the winner.

England

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London Boroughs

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B

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General election 1945: Balham and Tooting[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Richard Adams 19,782 57.6 +20.5
Conservative Walter Stanley Edgson 14,552 42.4 −20.5
Majority 5,230 15.2 N/A
Turnout 34,334 70.9 +14.1
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General election 1945: Battersea North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Francis Douglas 14,070 73.9 +15.2
Conservative John Serocold Paget Mellor 4,969 26.1 −15.2
Majority 9,101 47.8 +30.4
Turnout 19,039 71.1 +15.6
Labour hold Swing
General election 1945: Battersea South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Caroline Ganley 19,275 61.53
Conservative Ernest Partridge 12,050 38.47
Majority 7,225 23.06 N/A
Turnout 31,325 73.04
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative Swing
General election 1945: Bermondsey West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Richard Sargood 8,139 72.2 +10.0
National Liberal W. Bernard Pemberton 2,238 19.8 −18.0
Liberal Francis Howard Collier 903 8.0 New
Majority 5,901 52.4 +28.0
Turnout 17,004 66.3 +0.5
Labour hold Swing +14.0
General election 1945: Bethnal Green North East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Dan Chater 7,696 59.9 −3.6
Liberal Paul Wright 3,979 30.9 −5.6
Conservative William Sackville 1,185 9.2 New
Majority 3,717 29.0 +2.0
Turnout 19,225 66.9 +11.4
Labour Co-op hold Swing +1.0
General election 1945: Bethnal Green South West[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Percy Holman 6,669 57.3 +10.4
Liberal Percy Harris 4,213 36.2 −16.9
National O. Howard Leicester 750 6.5 New
Majority 2,456 21.1 N/A
Turnout 11,632
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +13.6
General election 1945: Poplar, Bow and Bromley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Charles Key 10,982 84.1 +7.1
Conservative Charles Kenneth Duthie 2,075 15.9 −7.1
Majority 8,907 68.2 +14.2
Turnout 13,057 62.7 +3.2
Labour hold
General election 1945: Brixton[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Marcus Lipton 15,583 63.6 +27.5
Conservative Nigel Colman 8,928 36.4 −21.2
Majority 6,655 27.2 N/A
Turnout 37,493 65.4 +6.9
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +24.4

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General election 1945: Camberwell North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Cecil Manning 7,186 76.6 +11.9
Conservative Edward Rudolph Mayer 1,394 14.9 −17.9
Independent National Thomas Frederick Rhodes Disher 794 8.5 New
Majority 5,792 61.7 +29.8
Turnout 15,506 60.5 +4.9
Labour hold Swing
General election 1945: Camberwell North West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Freda Künzlen Corbet 12,251 69.6 +24.3
Conservative L. Avon May 5,346 30.4 −18.2
Majority 6,905 39.2 N/A
Turnout 17,597 65.2 +5.9
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +21.2
General election 1945: Chelsea
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Allan Noble 12,043 63.7 −11.3
Labour Margaret Douglas Shufeldt 5,874 31.1 +6.0
Common Wealth Dorothy Anderton Sharpe 984 5.2 New
Majority 6,169 32.6 −17.3
Turnout 30,095 62.8 +1.1
Conservative hold Swing -8.6
General election 1945: City of London (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Andrew Duncan 5,332 39.48 N/A
Conservative George Broadbridge 5,309 39.31 N/A
Liberal Andrew McFadyean 1,487 11.01 New
Independent S. W. Alexander 1,379 10.21 New
Majority 3,822 28.30 N/A
Turnout 10,851 63.9 N/A
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1945: Clapham[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Battley 15,205 54.17
Conservative Roy Lucas Lowndes 10,014 35.68
Liberal Charles Erik Paterson 2,850 10.15 New
Majority 5,191 18.49 N/A
Turnout 28,069 70.78
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

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Mile End
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Communist Phil Piratin 5,075 47.6 new
Labour Daniel Frankel 3,861 36.2 −21.0
Conservative Vernon Motion 1,722 16.2 −26.6
Majority 1,214 11.4 n/a
Turnout 16,177 65.9 +2.4
Communist gain from Labour Swing n/a

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Paddington North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Noel Mason-Macfarlane 16,638 61.2 +26.8
Conservative Brendan Bracken 10,093 37.1 −22.3
Socialist (GB) Clifford Groves 472 1.7 new
Majority 6,545 24.1 n/a
Turnout 27,203 71.0 +10.7
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

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Westminster Abbey
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Harold Webbe 9,160 54.4 −23.1
Labour Jeremy Hutchinson 4,408 26.1 +3.6
Communist Gabriel 'Billy' Carritt 2,964 17.6 n/a
Democratic Norman Leith-Hay-Clark 326 1.9 n/a
Majority 4,752 28.3 −6.5
Turnout 28,823 58.5 +28.2
Conservative hold Swing n/a
Westminster St George's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Arthur Howard 13,086 67.2 −17.4
Common Wealth Wilfred Brown 5,314 27.3 n/a
Independent Dorothy Crisp 1,069 5.5 n/a
Majority 7,772 39.9 −29.3
Turnout 19,469 57.2 +2.0
Conservative hold Swing n/a

English boroughs

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Portsmouth Central
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Julian Snow 14,745 55.3 +25.4
Conservative Ralph Beaumont 11,345 42.6 −17.4
Democratic Walter Robert C Foster 561 2.1 n/a
Majority 3,400 12.7 42.8
Turnout 73.5 +2.4
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +21.4
Portsmouth North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Donald Bruce 15,352 51.1 +17.7
Conservative Greville Howard 14,310 47.6 −19.0
Democratic John Edward Vincent Keast 388 1.3 n/a
Majority 1,042 3.5 36.7
Turnout 75.4 +10.5
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +18.3
  • ignores by-election in 1943
Sheffield Ecclesall[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Roberts 18,120 54.0 −19.4
Common Wealth Sydney Checkland 12,045 35.9 n/a
Liberal Philip Rodney Nightingale 3,391 10.1 n/a
Majority 6,075 18.1 −29.1
Turnout 75.6 −4.6
Conservative hold Swing n/a

English shires

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Aldershot[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Lyttelton 19,456 57.4 −16.0
Common Wealth Tom Wintringham 14,435 42.6 n/a
Majority 5,021 14.8 −32.0
Turnout 33,891 69.2 n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
Bewdley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Roger Conant 17,393 55.0 n/a
Liberal Gerald Samson 14,223 45.0 n/a
Majority 3,170 10.0 n/a
Turnout 31,616 67.5 n/a
Conservative hold Swing
Bridgwater
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Progressive Vernon Bartlett 17,937 45.8 n/a
Conservative Gerald Wills 15,625 39.9 −17.0
Labour Norman Corkhill 5,613 14.3 −5.5
Majority 2,312 5.9
Turnout 39,175 72.7 −0.0
Independent Progressive hold Swing
Buckrose
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal George Wadsworth 15,934 51.5 +6.6
Conservative Albert Braithwaite 14,985 48.5 −6.6
Majority 949 3.0 n/a
Turnout 30,919 71.9 −6.5
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +6.6
Chelmsford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Common Wealth Ernest Millington 27,309 46.7 n/a
Conservative Hubert Ashton 25,229 43.2 −27.6
Liberal Hilda Buckmaster 5,909 10.1 n/a
Majority 2,080 3.6
Turnout 73.4 +8.0
Common Wealth gain from Conservative Swing
  • ignores by-election
Cheltenham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Conservative Daniel Lipson 16,081 43.3 n/a
Labour Phyllis Maude Warner 11,095 29.9 +0.4
Conservative W. W. Hicks Beach 9,972 26.8 −45.7
Majority 4,986 13.4 −27.6
Turnout 37,148 75.4 +5.0
Ind. Conservative hold Swing +7.6
Chichester
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Lancelot Joynson-Hicks 30,989 54.6 −23.7
Labour Rosalie Francesca Chamberlayne 13,670 24.1 +2.4
Liberal Gerald Kidd 11,345 20.0 n/a
National Michael Henry Woodard 625 1.1 n/a
Democratic Paul Tracy Carter 118 0.2 n/a
Majority 17,319 30.5 −26.1
Turnout 68.2 +8.7
Conservative hold Swing −13.0
  • ignores by-election in 1942
Dorset Northern
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Frank Byers 14,444 53.7 +15.8
Conservative Richard Glyn 12,479 46.3 −3.8
Majority 1,965 7.40 n/a
Turnout 26,923 75.04 −4.9
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Eccles
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Proctor 23,008 51.1 +3.8
Conservative Robert Cary 15,562 34.6 −18.1
Liberal Arthur Gerald Pollitt 6,215 13.8 new
Independent Progressive Aubrey Bernard Brocklehurst 211 0.5 new
Majority 7,446 16.5 n/a
Turnout 44,996
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +10.9
Edmonton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Evan Durbin 33,163 68.2 +13.0
Conservative Geoffrey Maber Sparrow 14,094 29.0 −15.8
Independent Progressive John Alfred Ward 1,382 2.8 new
Majority 19,069 39.2 +28.8
Turnout 48,639 69.0 +4.5
Labour hold Swing
Evesham[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Rupert De la Bère 17,835 53.4 −11.7
Liberal Duncan McGuffie 7,849 23.5 +10.4
Common Wealth Desmond Donnelly 7,727 23.1 n/a
Majority 9,986 29.9 −13.4
Turnout 63.3 −3.1
Conservative hold Swing −11.1
Grantham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Denis Kendall 27,719 58.2 n/a
Conservative George Arthur Worth 12,206 25.6 −32.5
Labour Thomas Sansby Bavin 7,728 16.2 −25.7
Majority 15,513 32.6 n/a
Turnout 47,653 75.9 +1.7
Independent hold Swing
Hastings
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Neill Cooper-Key 14,105 51.8 −17.2
Labour Lewis Gassman 10,580 38.8 +7.8
Independent Progressive Sydney Muller Parkman 2,564 9.4 new
Majority 3,525 13.0 −25.0
Turnout 27,249 74.9 +8.4
Conservative hold Swing
Maidstone[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Alfred Bossom 21,320 53.3 −19.2
Labour Otto Leslie Shaw 18,295 45.7 +18.2
Democratic George Murray 416 1.0 n/a
Majority 3,025 7.6 −37.4
Turnout 71.0 +3.6
Conservative hold Swing −18.7
Petersfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative George Jeffreys 20,838 58.4 −20.7
Liberal Basil Goldstone 8,269 23.2 n/a
Common Wealth Thomas Sargant 6,600 18.5 n/a
Majority 12,569 35.2 −22.9
Turnout 64.4 +1.0
Conservative hold Swing n/a
  • ignores by-election
Rugby
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent William Brown 18,615 40.4 n/a
Conservative John Lakin 17,049 37.0 −24.6
Labour Ronald Lewis 10,470 22.7 −15.8
Majority 1,566 3.4 n/a
Turnout 46,144 73.6 −0.2
Independent gain from Conservative Swing
Thirsk and Malton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Turton 20,483 60.1 n/a
Common Wealth Edward Moeran 13,572 39.8 n/a
Majority 6,911 20.3 n/a
Turnout 65.5 n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
Wallasey
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ernest Marples 18,448 42.94 +9.74
Independent George Reakes 14,638 34.07 −24.53
Labour Co-op Thomas Findley 9,879 22.99 −9.57
Majority 3,810 8.87
Turnout 42,965 75.23
Conservative gain from Independent Swing 17.13

Scotland

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Scottish burghs

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Aberdeen North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hector Hughes 26,753 69.7 +21.0
Unionist Grant of Monymusk 9,623 25.1 −15.1
SNP Austin William Walker 2,021 5.3 n/a
Majority 17,130 44.6 +36.1
Turnout 67.5 +1.6
Labour hold Swing +18.0
Edinburgh East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frederick Pethick-Lawrence 19,300 56.4 +13.2
Unionist William Angus Sinclair 12,771 37.3 −2.3
SNP Frederick Cameron Yeaman 2,149 6.3 n/a
Majority 6,529 19.1 +15.5
Turnout 69.6 +1.0
Labour hold Swing +7.7
Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Williams 12,273 46.0 −2.1
Unionist Walter Elliot 12,185 45.7 −3.0
SNP Hugh MacDiarmid 1,314 4.9 n/a
Liberal Charles John Edwin Morgan 919 3.4 +0.2
Majority 88 0.3 +0.9
Turnout 61.7 −10.8
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +0.4
Kirkcaldy Burghs[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Thomas Hubbard 15,401 45.0 −11.3
Unionist Christopher Guest 10,099 29.5 −14.2
SNP Douglas Young 5,811 17.0 n/a
Communist John McArthur 2,898 8.47 n/a
Majority 5,302 15.5 +2.9
Turnout 34,209 76.4 −3.5
Labour hold Swing +1.4
  • ignores the by-election of 1944

Scottish shires

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Galloway
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Unionist John Mackie 13,647 40.7 n/a
Labour Robert Neale Hales 11,822 35.3 new
Unionist Bernard Edward Fergusson 8,032 24.0
Majority 1,825 5.4 n/a
Turnout 33,501 70.1
Ind. Unionist gain from Unionist Swing
West Fife
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Communist Willie Gallacher 17,636 42.1 +4.7
Labour Willie Hamilton 15,580 37.3 +1.6
National Liberal Robert Scott Stevenson 8,597 20.6 −6.3
Majority 2,056 4.8 +3.1
Turnout 41,813 75.4 −2.4
Communist hold Swing
Motherwell
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alexander Anderson 15,831 52.7 +2.0
SNP Robert McIntyre 8,022 26.7 n/a
Unionist John d'Henin Hamilton 6,197 20.6 −28.7
Majority 7,809 26.0 +24.7
Turnout 72.8 −3.1
Labour hold Swing n/a
  • ignores the by-election of April 1945
Perth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Alan Gomme-Duncan 22,484 63.1 −10.6
Labour William Hughes 11,617 32.6 +6.3
SNP James Blair Brown 1,547 4.3 n/a
Majority 10,867 30.5 +16.9
Turnout 65.7 +1.6
Unionist hold Swing −8.5
Renfrewshire West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Thomas Scollan 15,050 48.9 +10.1
Unionist Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn 13,836 44.9 −4.8
SNP Robert Blair Wilkie 1,995 6.3 −5.2
Majority 1,214 3.9 14.8
Turnout 30,841 70.0 −11.2
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +7.4

Wales

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Caernarvon Boroughs
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Price-White 11,432 32.9 −0.5
Liberal Seaborne Davies 11,096 32.0 −34.6
Labour Elwyn Jones 10,625 30.6 n/a
Plaid Cymru John Edward Daniel 1,560 4.5 n/a
Majority 336 0.9 34.1
Turnout 34,713 73.8 +15.0
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing
  • ignores the by-election of May 1945
Caernarvonshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Goronwy Roberts 22,043 55.3 +10.8
Liberal Goronwy Owen 15,637 39.3 −9.3
Plaid Cymru Ambrose Bebb 2,152 5.4 −1.5
Majority 6,406 16.1 20.1
Turnout 77.7 +2.8
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +10.0
Carmarthen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rhys Hopkin Morris 19,783 51.7 +17.9
Labour Moelwyn Hughes 18,504 48.3 +0.8
Majority 1,279 3.4 n/a
Turnout 38,286 76.1 −3.2
Liberal gain from Labour Swing
Merioneth[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Emrys Roberts 8,495 35.8 −4.2
Labour Huw Morris Jones 8,383 35.4 +0.2
Conservative Craig Parry Hughes 4,374 18.5 −6.3
Plaid Cymru Gwynfor Evans 2,448 10.3 n/a
Majority 112 0.4 −4.5
Turnout 82.2 +0.6
Liberal hold Swing −2.2
Neath
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour D. J. Williams 37,957 75.8 n/a
National Liberal David J Bowen 8,466 16.9 n/a
Plaid Cymru Wynne Samuel 3,659 7.3 n/a
Majority 29,491 58.9 n/a
Turnout 75.7 n/a
Labour hold Swing n/a
  • ignores the by-election of May 1945
Ogmore[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Edward Williams 32,715 76.4 n/a
National Owen Glyndwr Davies 7,712 18.0 n/a
Plaid Cymru Trefor Richard Morgan 2,379 5.6 n/a
Majority 25,003 58.4 n/a
Turnout 75.7 n/a
Labour hold Swing n/a
Rhondda East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Mainwaring 16,733 48.4 −13.4
Communist Harry Pollitt 15,761 45.5 + 7.3
Plaid Cymru James Kitchener Davies 2,123 6.1 n/a
Majority 972 2.9 −20.7
Turnout 82.8 + 2.0
Labour hold Swing −10.3

Northern Ireland

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Belfast South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
UUP Conolly Gage 24,282 52.2 n/a
Commonwealth Labour Harry Midgley 14,096 30.3 new
NI Labour James Morrow 8,166 17.5 new
Majority 10,186 21.9 n/a
Turnout 46,544 66.4 n/a
UUP hold Swing n/a

Universities

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Cambridge University (2 seats)
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4
Conservative Kenneth Pickthorn 46.18 10,202      
Independent Wilson Harris 16.18 3,574 4,709 5,185 6,556
Independent Progressive J. B. Priestley 22.82 5,041 5,128 5,238 5,745
Independent Charles Hill 10.13 2,238 3,092 3,595 eliminated
National Ernest Leslie Howard-Williams 4.69 1,036 1,798 eliminated
Electorate: 42,012   Valid: 22,091   Quota: 7,364   Turnout: 52.58  
Combined English Universities (2 seats)
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5
Independent Progressive Eleanor Rathbone 53.3 11,176        
Independent Kenneth Lindsay 9.2 1,923 3,503 3,856 4,528 5,826
Independent Labour Stanley Wormald 15.3 3,212 3,973 4,081 4,473 4,675
National Eric Cuthbert Arden 11.6 2,433 3,073 3,389 3,829 eliminated
Independent John Henry Richardson 5.3 1,124 1,995 2,341 eliminated  
Independent A. Russell Foxall 5.3 1,105 1,437 eliminated    
Electorate: 41,976   Valid: 20,973   Quota: 6,992   Turnout: 50.0  
London University
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Ernest Graham-Little 7,618 50.5 −19.1
Independent Progressive Mary Stocks 7,469 49.5 new
Majority 149 1.0 −38.2
Turnout 15,087 63.0 −8.7
National hold Swing n/a
University of Wales
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William John Gruffydd 5,239 75.5 +4.2
Plaid Cymru Gwenan Jones 1,696 24.5 n/a
Majority 3,543 51.0 +28.4
Turnout 6,935 58.5 −3.8
Liberal hold Swing n/a
  • ignores the by-election of 1943

References

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