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1924 general election

North East: 1924 general election results

How North East voted at the 1924 general election: Labour won 17 of 31 seats with 45.1% of the vote. Every constituency result.

North East: results by party
PartySeatsChangeVotesShareChangeShare barCandidates
Labour17+3417,67045.1%+2.429
Conservative10+5328,26835.4%+6.725
Liberal2−8165,79317.9%−10.717
Constitutionalist0new14,8361.6%—1

Change compared with the 1923 general election in North East.

Constituencies

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ConstituencyWinnerMajority%TurnoutResult
DarlingtonCon2,1667.786.1%Con hold
Durham Barnard CastleCon3131.784.9%Con gain from Lab
Durham Bishop AucklandLab2,91810.280.9%Lab hold
Durham BlaydonLab7,12125.277.0%Lab hold
Durham Chester Le StreetLab13,45042.178.7%Lab hold
Durham ConsettLab4,00611.983.4%Lab hold
Durham DurhamLab5,41819.885.2%Lab hold
Durham Houghton Le SpringLab4,83415.779.6%Lab hold
Durham JarrowLab4,67614.780.9%Lab hold
Durham SeahamLab10,62431.178.8%Lab hold
Durham SedgefieldCon1,4165.385.4%Con hold
Durham SpennymoorLab7,11026.078.3%Lab hold
GatesheadLab9,33619.982.7%Lab gain from Lib
Middlesbrough EastLab9273.783.7%Lab gain from Lib
Middlesbrough WestLibunopposed——Lib hold
MorpethLab8,42024.975.0%Lab hold
Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLab8963.279.8%Lab hold
Newcastle upon Tyne EastLab3441.283.9%Lab gain from Lib
Newcastle upon Tyne NorthCon11,39544.974.2%Con hold
Newcastle upon Tyne WestLab4,63016.183.8%Lab gain from Lib
Northumberland Berwick upon TweedCon3,96516.777.7%Con hold
Northumberland HexhamCon4,19018.782.2%Con gain from Lib
Northumberland WansbeckLab2,2845.779.4%Lab hold
South ShieldsLib6,31915.875.3%Lib hold
Stockton on TeesCon3,2158.990.2%Con gain from Lib
Sunderland2-member seat: not split by party in the source——84.6%
The HartlepoolsCon3,3538.790.3%Con gain from Lib
TynemouthCon4,39017.784.6%Con hold
WallsendLab1,6024.985.4%Lab hold
Yorkshire (North Riding) ClevelandCon5,42514.386.3%Con gain from Lib

North East at every election →

Questions and answers

Who won in North East at the 1924 general election?

Labour won 17 of the 31 seats in North East, with 45.1% of the vote.

How many seats were there in North East in 1924?

31 constituencies.

Official results House of Commons Library, General election results from 1918 to 2019. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. How we use this data