United Kingdom general election, 1929
- Labour: 287
- Tories: 260
- Liberals: 59
- Otherwise:. 9
The British general election, 1929 took place on 30 May 1929 and resulted in no clear majority ratios. The Labour Party won the most seats (287 ), the Conservative Party had received a percentage point more votes. The Liberal Party was able to make up for some of their losses of the previous election; they had 59 of the 615 seats and was as Mehrheitsbeschafferin important. Your party chairman was from 1926-1931 David Lloyd George, who had been Prime Minister from December 1916 to 1922 (for more details here).
By 1929, the Conservative Stanley Baldwin was prime minister. The government Baldwin was shaken during their entire term of office of crises: The strike from May to November 1926, the rapidly deteriorating economic situation, a strong rise in unemployment. Lloyd George and the Liberals decided after the general election in 1929 in favor of supporting a minority government under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Labour. This had already been prime minister from January to November 1924.
MacDonald's government collapsed in the autumn of 1931 ( more details here ); on October 27, 1931 House elections were held again.
Electoral system
Was elected by a majority vote system. A restrictive clause did not exist.