London: 1945 general election results
How London voted at the 1945 general election: Labour won 86 of 114 seats with 52.9% of the vote. Every constituency result.
| Party | Seats | Change | Votes | Share | Change | Share bar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 86 | +52 | 1,884,248 | 52.9% | +11.7 | ||
| Conservative | 24 | −38 | 1,304,975 | 36.6% | −16.7 | ||
| Others | 1 | +1 | 32,194 | 0.9% | +0.9 | ||
| Communist | 1 | new | 26,481 | 0.7% | — | ||
| Liberal | 0 | −1 | 276,719 | 7.8% | +4.1 | ||
| 4 other parties and independents | 37,822 | 1.1% | |||||
Change compared with the 1935 general election in London.
Constituencies
Download CSV| Constituency | Winner | Majority | % | Turnout | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barking | Lab | 18,911 | 54.4 | 73.4% | |
| Battersea North | Lab | 9,101 | 47.8 | 70.9% | |
| Battersea South | Lab | 7,225 | 23.1 | 72.9% | |
| Bermondsey Rotherhithe | Lab | 7,164 | 58.2 | 68.1% | |
| Bermondsey West Bermondsey | Lab | 5,901 | 52.3 | 66.3% | |
| Bethnal Green North East | Lab | 3,717 | 28.9 | 66.9% | |
| Bethnal Green South West | Lab | 2,456 | 21.1 | 68.3% | |
| Bexley | Lab | 11,763 | 27.1 | 76.7% | |
| Bromley | Con | 6,259 | 10.8 | 70.9% | |
| Camberwell Dulwich | Lab | 211 | 0.9 | 71.4% | |
| Camberwell North | Lab | 5,792 | 61.8 | 60.5% | |
| Camberwell North West | Lab | 6,905 | 39.2 | 65.2% | |
| Camberwell Peckham | Lab | 7,039 | 37.4 | 65.3% | |
| Chelsea | Con | 6,169 | 32.6 | 62.8% | |
| City of London | 2-member seat: not split by party in the source | — | — | 63.9% | |
| Croydon North | Con | 607 | 1.1 | 73.2% | |
| Croydon South | Lab | 3,503 | 6.8 | 70.8% | |
| Dagenham | Lab | 29,539 | 67.4 | 68.9% | |
| Deptford | Lab | 14,254 | 46.9 | 68.7% | |
| Ealing East | Con | 4,297 | 9.0 | 73.2% | |
| Ealing West | Lab | 16,235 | 33.7 | 74.4% | |
| East Ham North | Lab | 10,559 | 40.3 | 71.2% | |
| East Ham South | Lab | 12,434 | 48.0 | 69.9% | |
| Edmonton | Lab | 19,069 | 39.2 | 69.0% | |
| Essex Hornchurch | Lab | 11,756 | 24.5 | 72.1% | |
| Finsbury | Lab | 5,757 | 41.7 | 63.9% | |
| Fulham East | Lab | 5,353 | 18.9 | 73.8% | |
| Fulham West | Lab | 7,521 | 23.8 | 76.3% | |
| Greenwich | Lab | 10,498 | 31.2 | 69.9% | |
| Hackney Central | Lab | 9,921 | 45.0 | 65.5% | |
| Hackney North | Lab | 11,566 | 43.4 | 69.2% | |
| Hackney South | Lab | 5,531 | 27.4 | 67.4% | |
| Hammersmith North | Oth | 11,329 | 38.4 | 73.0% | |
| Hammersmith South | Lab | 3,458 | 16.1 | 65.7% | |
| Hampstead | Con | 1,358 | 3.6 | 68.4% | |
| Harrow East | Lab | 6,770 | 11.4 | 77.2% | |
| Harrow West | Con | 9,656 | 16.8 | 78.4% | |
| Hendon North | Lab | 4,644 | 12.1 | 74.9% | |
| Hendon South | Con | 2,057 | 5.3 | 75.1% | |
| Hertfordshire Barnet | Lab | 682 | 1.7 | 73.8% | |
| Heston and Isleworth | Lab | 6,569 | 12.2 | 74.3% | |
| Holborn | Con | 925 | 8.3 | 68.3% | |
| Hornsey | Con | 12,669 | 27.1 | 72.9% | |
| Ilford North | Lab | 2,820 | 6.4 | 71.4% | |
| Ilford South | Lab | 4,706 | 11.7 | 71.0% | |
| Islington East | Lab | 8,976 | 31.1 | 66.2% | |
| Islington North | Lab | 11,994 | 34.8 | 67.2% | |
| Islington South | Lab | 8,016 | 45.1 | 64.0% | |
| Islington West | Lab | 7,406 | 47.5 | 60.1% | |
| Kensington North | Lab | 6,139 | 20.6 | 70.2% | |
| Kensington South | Con | 16,152 | 50.9 | 67.9% | |
| Kent Chislehurst | Lab | 6,279 | 12.2 | 72.4% | |
| Kent Orpington | Con | 4,542 | 10.8 | 72.7% | |
| Kingston upon Thames | Con | 8,569 | 13.1 | 74.0% | |
| Lambeth Brixton | Lab | 6,655 | 27.2 | 65.4% | |
| Lambeth Kennington | Lab | 7,439 | 40.5 | 62.2% | |
| Lambeth North | Lab | 6,053 | 46.5 | 64.4% | |
| Lambeth Norwood | Lab | 2,023 | 5.7 | 71.3% | |
| Lewisham East | Lab | 15,219 | 25.2 | 76.2% | |
| Lewisham West | Lab | 2,516 | 6.7 | 73.6% | |
| Leyton East | Lab | 6,246 | 31.5 | 68.2% | |
| Leyton West | Lab | 8,729 | 29.6 | 72.7% | |
| Middlesex Acton | Lab | 7,456 | 21.4 | 77.7% | |
| Middlesex Brentford and Chiswick | Lab | 4,687 | 15.3 | 75.8% | |
| Middlesex Enfield | Lab | 11,690 | 18.7 | 74.4% | |
| Middlesex Finchley | Con | 5,645 | 11.3 | 73.9% | |
| Middlesex Uxbridge | Lab | 1,084 | 1.9 | 73.0% | |
| Middlesex Wood Green | Con | 5,885 | 8.7 | 74.9% | |
| Mitcham | Lab | 7,168 | 15.4 | 73.4% | |
| Paddington North | Lab | 6,545 | 24.1 | 71.0% | |
| Paddington South | Con | 3,530 | 15.5 | 64.2% | |
| Poplar Bow and Bromley | Lab | 8,907 | 68.2 | 62.7% | |
| Poplar South Poplar | Lab | 10,217 | 78.5 | 66.2% | |
| Richmond (Surrey) | Con | 8,325 | 18.3 | 76.4% | |
| Romford | Lab | 5,777 | 18.0 | 74.5% | |
| Shoreditch | Lab | 7,511 | 47.9 | 57.6% | |
| Southall | Lab | 24,057 | 41.2 | 74.2% | |
| Southwark Central | Lab | 5,682 | 43.7 | 62.6% | |
| Southwark North | Lab | 3,270 | 38.0 | 61.1% | |
| Southwark South East | Lab | 6,718 | 53.8 | 60.6% | |
| St Marylebone | Con | 5,151 | 15.5 | 68.3% | |
| St Pancras North | Lab | 7,630 | 29.1 | 71.0% | |
| St Pancras South East | Lab | 4,710 | 28.0 | 64.2% | |
| St Pancras South West | Lab | 3,671 | 23.9 | 61.1% | |
| Stepney Limehouse | Lab | 6,780 | 67.7 | 61.2% | |
| Stepney Mile End | Com | 1,214 | 11.4 | 65.9% | |
| Stepney Whitechapel and St George'S | Lab | 9,347 | 74.6 | 66.4% | |
| Stoke Newington | Lab | 4,201 | 23.1 | 67.3% | |
| Surrey Carshalton | Con | 1,017 | 2.3 | 77.0% | |
| Sutton and Cheam | Con | 2,138 | 5.1 | 75.7% | |
| Tottenham North | Lab | 15,405 | 43.6 | 70.3% | |
| Tottenham South | Lab | 13,855 | 55.4 | 69.0% | |
| Twickenham | Con | 3,309 | 6.1 | 74.6% | |
| Walthamstow East | Lab | 6,532 | 21.3 | 73.5% | |
| Walthamstow West | Lab | 12,700 | 47.4 | 70.1% | |
| Wandsworth Balham and Tooting | Lab | 5,230 | 15.2 | 70.9% | |
| Wandsworth Central | Lab | 5,174 | 22.4 | 73.6% | |
| Wandsworth Clapham | Lab | 5,191 | 18.5 | 70.8% | |
| Wandsworth Putney | Con | 3,887 | 11.5 | 73.6% | |
| Wandsworth Streatham | Con | 6,166 | 18.4 | 72.7% | |
| Wembley North | Lab | 432 | 1.2 | 76.8% | |
| Wembley South | Lab | 3,431 | 9.7 | 74.9% | |
| West Ham Plaistow | Lab | 14,888 | 75.1 | 68.4% | |
| West Ham Silvertown | Lab | 8,864 | 86.5 | 65.8% | |
| West Ham Stratford | Lab | 8,322 | 54.1 | 60.9% | |
| West Ham Upton | Lab | 9,396 | 49.0 | 67.4% | |
| Westminster Abbey | Con | 4,752 | 28.2 | 58.5% | |
| Westminster St George'S | Con | 7,772 | 39.9 | 57.2% | |
| Willesden East | Lab | 9,430 | 21.3 | 72.5% | |
| Willesden West | Lab | 16,330 | 44.4 | 70.5% | |
| Wimbledon | Lab | 1,368 | 2.0 | 76.0% | |
| Woolwich East | Lab | 11,746 | 43.8 | 72.7% | |
| Woolwich West | Lab | 8,884 | 23.1 | 72.1% |
Questions and answers
Who won in London at the 1945 general election?
Labour won 86 of the 114 seats in London, with 52.9% of the vote.
How many seats were there in London in 1945?
114 constituencies.
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