Electoral history of Winston Churchill

This is a summary of the electoral history of Winston Churchill, who served in a multitude of ministerial positions between 1908 and 1955, including as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955, and as a Member of Parliament (MP) for five different constituencies between 1900 and 1964, except for a break in 1922–24.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	YAlfred Emmott	12,976	26.7	+2.1
	Liberal	YWalter Runciman	12,770	26.2	+2.0
	Conservative	Winston Churchill	11,477	23.6	−2.6
	Conservative	James Mawdsley	11,449	23.5	−1.5
Majority			1,527	3.2	N/A
Majority			1,293	2.6	N/A
Turnout			24,546 (est)	86.2	−1.3
Registered electors			28,476
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+2.4
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+1.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	YAlfred Emmott	12,947	25.3	+0.7
	Conservative	YWinston Churchill	12,931	25.3	−0.9
	Liberal	Walter Runciman	12,709	24.9	+0.7
	Conservative	Charles Birch Crisp	12,522	24.5	−0.5
Turnout			51,109	87.9	+0.4
Registered electors			29,253
Majority			425	0.8	N/A
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+0.6
Majority			222	0.4	0.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	−0.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Winston Churchill	5,639	56.2	*New*
	Conservative	William Joynson-Hicks	4,398	43.8	N/A
Majority			1,241	12.4	N/A
Turnout			10,037	88.0	N/A
Registered electors			11,411
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Joynson-Hicks	5,417	50.7	+6.9
	Liberal	Winston Churchill	4,988	46.7	−9.5
	Social Democratic Federation	Dan Irving	276	2.6	New
Majority			429	4.0	N/A
Turnout			10,681	89.7	+1.7
Registered electors			11,914
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+8.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Winston Churchill	7,079	43.9	−8.7
	Liberal Unionist	George Washington Baxter, 1st Baronet	4,370	27.1	−3.0
	Labour	G. H. Stuart-Bunning	4,014	24.9	+1.6
	Scottish Prohibition	Edwin Scrymgeour	655	4.1	New
Majority			2,709	16.8	−1.7
Turnout			16,138	84.6	+2.7
Registered electors			19,041
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.9

Electoral history of Winston Churchill

Parliamentary elections

1899 Oldham by-election

1900 general election, Oldham

1906 general election, Manchester North West

1908 Manchester North West by-election

1908 Dundee by-election

January 1910 general election, Dundee

December 1910 general election, Dundee

1917 Dundee by-election

1918 general election, Dundee

1922 general election, Dundee

1923 general election, Leicester West

1924 by-election, Westminster Abbey

1924 general election, Epping

1929 general election, Epping

1931 general election, Epping

1935 general election, Epping

1945 general election, Woodford

1950 general election, Woodford

1951 general election, Woodford

1955 general election, Woodford

1959 general election, Woodford

General elections (as leader of the Conservative Party)

1945 general election

1950 general election

1951 general election

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Winston Churchill	10,747	34.1	−8.5
	Labour	Alexander Wilkie	10,365	32.9	+9.6
	Conservative	John Hall Seymour Lloyd	4,552	14.4	+3.5
	Liberal Unionist	James Glass	4,339	13.8	+0.6
	Scottish Prohibition	Edwin Scrymgeour	1,512	4.8	N/A
Turnout			31,515	86.1	+4.2
Registered electors			19,374
Majority			6,195	19.7	+1.2
	Liberal hold
Majority			5,813	18.5	+16.1
	Labour hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Winston Churchill	9,240	30.1	−4.0
	Labour	Alexander Wilkie	8,957	29.3	−3.6
	Liberal Unionist	George Washington Baxter, 1st Baronet	5,685	18.6	+4.8
	Conservative	John Hall Seymour Lloyd	4,914	16.0	+1.6
	Scottish Prohibition	Edwin Scrymgeour	1,825	6.0	+1.2
Turnout			30,621	84.1	−2.0
Registered electors			19,118
Majority			3,555	11.5	−8.2
	Liberal hold
Majority			3,272	10.7	−7.8
	Labour hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Winston Churchill	7,302	78.2	+58.1
	Scottish Prohibition	Edwin Scrymgeour	2,036	21.8	+15.8
Majority			5,266	56.4	+44.9
Turnout			9,338	42.5	−41.6
Registered electors			21,953
	National Liberal hold		Swing	+21.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	National Liberal	Winston Churchill	25,788	37.5	+7.4
	Labour	Alexander Wilkie	24,822	36.1	+6.8
	Scottish Prohibition	Edwin Scrymgeour	10,423	15.1	+9.1
	Labour	James Sunney Brown	7,769	11.3	N/A
Turnout			68,802	46.6	−37.5
Majority			15,365	22.4	+10.9
	National Liberal hold
Majority			14,399	21.0	+10.3
	Labour hold
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Scottish Prohibition	Edwin Scrymgeour	32,578	27.6	+12.5
	Labour	E. D. Morel	30,292	25.6	−10.5
	National Liberal	David Johnstone MacDonald	22,244	18.8	N/A
	National Liberal	Winston Churchill	20,466	17.3	−20.2
	Liberal	Robert Pilkington	6,681	5.7	N/A
	Communist	Willie Gallacher	5,906	5.0	New
Majority			12,132	10.3	N/A
Majority			8,048	6.8	−14.2
Turnout			118,167	80.5	+33.9
	Scottish Prohibition gain from National Liberal		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frederick Pethick-Lawrence	13,634	44.6	−0.4
	Liberal	Winston Churchill	9,236	30.2	+3.6
	Unionist	Alfred Instone	7,696	25.2	New
Majority			4,398	14.4	−2.2
Turnout			30,566	76.0	+3.5
Registered electors			40,244
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Otho Nicholson	8,187	35.9	*N/A*
	Constitutionalist	Winston Churchill	8,144	35.8	New
	Labour	Fenner Brockway	6,156	27.0	New
	Liberal	James Scott Duckers	291	1.3	New
Majority			43	0.1	N/A
Turnout			22,778	61.6	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutionalist	Winston Churchill	19,843	58.9	*N/A*
	Liberal	Gilbert Granville Sharp	10,080	29.9	−17.2
	Labour	J R McPhie	3,768	11.2	New
Majority			9,763	29.0	N/A
Turnout			33,691	78.3	+11.9
Registered electors			43,055
	Constitutionalist gain from Unionist		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Winston Churchill	23,972	48.5	−10.4
	Liberal	Gilbert Granville Sharp	19,005	38.4	+8.5
	Labour	Walton Newbold	6,472	13.1	+1.9
Majority			4,967	10.1	−18.9
Turnout			49,449	75.2	−3.1
Registered electors			65,758
	Unionist gain from Constitutionalist		Swing	−9.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Winston Churchill	35,956	63.8	+15.3
	Liberal	Arthur Comyns Carr	15,670	27.8	−10.6
	Labour	James Ranger	4,713	8.4	−4.7
Majority			20,286	36.0	+25.9
Turnout			56,339	77.3	+2.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1945: Woodford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Winston Churchill^[a]	27,688	72.53
	Independent	Alexander Hancock	10,488	27.47
Majority			17,200	45.06
Turnout			38,176	65.53
	Conservative win (new seat)

General election 1950: Woodford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Winston Churchill	37,239	59.61	−12.92
	Labour	Seymour Hills	18,740	30.00	New
	Liberal	Howard Vivien Davies	5,664	9.07	New
	Communist	Bill Brooks^[9]	827	1.32	New
Majority			18,499	29.61	−15.45
Turnout			62,470	86.06	+20.53
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1951: Woodford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Winston Churchill	40,938	62.96	+3.35
	Labour	William Aaron Archer	22,359	34.39	+4.39
	Communist	John Ross Campbell	871	1.34	+0.02
	Independent	Alexander Hancock	851	1.31	New
Majority			18,579	28.57	−1.04
Turnout			65,019	83.38	−2.68
	Conservative hold		Swing

Results of the July 1945 general election to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Party^[10]^[11]^[12]			Leader	Candidates	MPs					Aggregate votes
Party^[10]^[11]^[12]			Leader	Candidates	Total	Gains	Losses	Net	Of total (%)	Total	Of total (%)^[b]	Change (%)
	Labour		Clement Attlee	603^[c]	393^[d]	242^[e]	3	239	61.4^[f]	11,967,746^[g]	48.0^[h]	10.0^[i]
	Churchill Caretaker Ministry (Total)		Winston Churchill	618	210	16	235	219	32.8	9,972,010	39.6	13.7
		Conservative^[j]	Winston Churchill	559	197^[k]	14	204	190	30.8	9,101,099	36.2	11.6
		Liberal National	Ernest Brown	49	11	0	22	22	1.7	737,732	2.9	0.8
		National	N/a	10	2^[l]	2^[m]	1^[n]	1	0.3	133,179	0.5	0.2
		National Labour	N/a	0	0	Dissolved		8	—	0	0.0	1.5
	Liberal		Archibald Sinclair	306	12	5	14	9	1.9	2,252,430	9.0	2.3
	Nationalist		James McSparran	3	2	0	0		0.3	148,078	0.4	0.1
	Independent		N/a	36	8	6	0	6	—	132,340	0.5	0.5
	Common Wealth		C. A. Smith	23	1^[o]	New		1	—	110,634	0.4	New
	Communist		Harry Pollitt	21	2^[p]	1^[q]	0	1	0.3	102,780	0.4	0.3
	Independent Unionist		N/a	3	2^[r]	Did not stand in 1935		2	—	82,542	0.3	N/a
	Independent Labour		N/a	7	2	2^[s]	0	2	—	63,135	0.3	0.2
	National Independent		N/a	11	2^[t]	1^[u]	1^[v]		—	61,749	0.3	0.1
	Ind. Labour Party		Bob Edwards	5	3	0	1^[w]	1	0.5	46,679	0.2	0.5
	Independent Progressive		N/a	7	1	1^[x]	0	1	0.2	35,071	0.1	0.1
	SNP		Douglas Young	8	0	0	0		—	30,595	0.1
	Independent Liberal		N/a	3	2	2^[y]	0	2	—	30,450	0.1	0.1
	Plaid Cymru		Saunders Lewis	7	0	0	0		—	16,017	0.1	0.1
	Commonwealth Labour Party		Harry Midgley	1	0	New			—	14,096	0.1	New
	Independent Conservative		N/a	3	0	0	0		—	9,729	0.0	0.1
	Independent National		N/a	4	0	Did not stand in 1935			—	5,430	0.0	N/a
	Liverpool Protestant		Harry Dixon Longbottom	1	0	0	0		—	2,601	0.0
	Protestant Action		John Cormack	1	0	New			—	2,493	0.0	New
	Christian Pacifist		N/a	1	0	Did not stand in 1935			—	2,381	0.0	N/a
	Agriculturalist		N/a	2	0	Did not stand in 1935			—	2,057	0.0	N/a
	Democratic		Norman Leith-Hay-Clark	5	0	New			—	1,809	0.0	New
	Medical		N/a	1	0	New			—	1,249	0.0	New
	Socialist (GB)		N/a	1	0	New			—	472	0.0	New
	United Socialist		Guy Aldred	1	0	New			—	300	0.0	New
	Independent Scoittish Nationalist		N/a	1	0	New			—	232	0.0	New
Total				1,683	640	25^[z]		25	100.0	25,095,195	100.0	0.0
Registered voters, and turnout										33,672,036^[13]^[aa]	72.8^[14]^[ab]	1.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Winston Churchill	34,849	59.0	−4.8
	Liberal	Gilbert Granville Sharp	14,430	24.4	−3.4
	Labour	James Ranger	9,758	16.5	+8.1
Majority			20,419	34.6	−1.4
Turnout			59,037	67.7	−9.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Winston Churchill	25,069	73.02
	Labour	Arnold Keith Morgan Milner	9,261	26.98
Majority			15,808	46.04
Turnout			34,330	75.96
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Winston Churchill	24,815	71.24	−1.78
	Labour	Arthur Latham	10,018	28.76	+1.78
Majority			14,797	42.48	−3.57
Turnout			34,833	77.29	+1.33
	Conservative hold		Swing