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.
Year | Number of Candidates [1] | Number of MPs |
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1918 | 17 | 1 |
1922 | 33 | 2 |
1923 | 34 | 8 |
1924 | 41 | 4 |
1929 | 69 | 14 |
1931 | 62 | 15 |
1935 | 67 | 9 |
1945 | 87 | 24 |
Year | Conservative [1] | Labour [1] | Liberal [1] | Independent [2] | Other parties [2] | |||||
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Candidates | MPs | Candidates | MPs | Candidates | MPs | Candidates | MPs | Candidates | MPs | |
1918 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
1922 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1923 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1924 | 12 | 3 | 22 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1929 | 10 | 3 | 30 | 9 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
1931 | 16 | 13 | 36 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
1935 | 19 | 6 | 33 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
1945 | 13 | 1 | 41 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
Unionist candidates or MPs in Scottish constituencies were counted as Conservatives.
Party | Constituency | Name | Votes | % | Position | |
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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 |
Party | Election | Name | Votes | % | Position | |
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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 |
Party | Election | Name | Votes | % | Position | |
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Conservative | 1923 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election | Mabel Philipson | 12,000 | 55.0 | 1 |
Jewson was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
Party | Election | Name | Votes | % | Position | |
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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 |
Rathbone was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
Party | Election | Name | Votes | % | Position | |
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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 | |
United Empire | 1930 Paddington South by-election | Alexandra Stewart-Richardson | 494 | 1.7 | 4 | |
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 |
Horsbrugh was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
Party | Election | Name | Votes | % | Position | |
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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 |
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