England: October 1974 general election results

How England voted at the October 1974 general election: Labour won 255 of 516 seats with 40.1% of the vote. Every constituency result.

259 for a majority

Lab255
Con253
Lib8

England: results by party
Party	Seats	Change	Votes	Share	Change	Candidates
Labour	255	+18	9,695,051	40.1%	+2.4	516
Conservative	253	−14	9,416,242	38.9%	−1.1	516
Liberal	8	−1	4,878,852	20.2%	−1.2	515
Others	0	−3	200,990	0.8%	−0.1	179

Change compared with the February 1974 general election in England.

Constituencies

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Constituency	Winner	Majority	%	Turnout	Result
Abingdon	Con	10,637	15.5	75.8%	Con hold
Accrington	Lab	6,220	15.4	79.4%	Lab hold
Acton	Con	808	2.1	69.0%	Con hold
Aldershot	Con	10,359	17.7	72.8%	Con hold
Aldridge-Brownhill	Lab	2,519	5.1	79.7%
Altrincham and Sale	Con	6,912	12.4	76.3%	Con hold
Arundel	Con	18,811	30.9	73.0%	Con hold
Ashfield	Lab	22,915	41.1	74.7%	Lab hold
Ashford	Con	6,025	13.8	74.6%	Con hold
Ashton under Lyne	Lab	10,727	24.6	72.2%	Lab hold
Aylesbury	Con	8,973	17.8	74.4%	Con hold
Banbury	Con	6,191	12.1	75.7%	Con hold
Barking	Lab	16,290	48.3	67.4%	Lab hold
Barkston Ash	Con	9,941	15.7	75.8%	Con hold
Barnsley	Lab	24,812	47.4	68.4%	Lab hold
Barrow in Furness	Lab	7,354	17.5	77.1%	Lab hold
Basildon	Lab	10,551	15.6	73.8%	Lab hold
Basingstoke	Con	6,212	9.2	77.5%	Con hold
Bassetlaw	Lab	12,169	22.8	74.5%	Lab hold
Bath	Con	2,122	4.3	78.6%	Con hold
Batley and Morley	Lab	8,248	19.2	69.5%	Lab hold
Battersea North	Lab	11,142	40.4	61.6%	Lab hold
Battersea South	Lab	2,851	9.5	64.2%	Lab hold
Beaconsfield	Con	10,628	22.1	70.2%	Con hold
Bebington and Ellesmere Port	Lab	6,491	9.5	78.6%	Lab hold
Beckenham	Con	8,658	20.9	69.8%	Con hold
Bedford	Con	4,088	7.2	76.8%	Con hold
Beeston	Con	121	0.2	80.5%	Con hold
Belper	Lab	5,684	9.8	81.6%	Lab hold
Bermondsey	Lab	18,581	59.6	56.4%	Lab hold
Berwick upon Tweed	Lib	73	0.2	81.4%	Lib hold
Bethnal Green	Lab	15,949	55.9	53.1%
Bexley Heath	Con	1,987	5.0	77.8%
Birkenhead	Lab	9,484	22.4	70.2%	Lab hold
Birmingham Edgbaston	Con	2,410	5.4	63.3%	Con hold
Birmingham Erdington	Lab	8,777	20.4	65.5%	Lab hold
Birmingham Hall Green	Con	2,624	5.6	70.2%	Con hold
Birmingham Handsworth	Lab	3,896	12.8	66.5%	Lab hold
Birmingham Ladywood	Lab	9,739	42.4	56.9%	Lab hold
Birmingham Northfield	Lab	10,597	20.1	67.9%	Lab hold
Birmingham Perry Barr	Lab	3,204	8.3	73.4%	Lab hold
Birmingham Selly Oak	Lab	326	0.8	67.2%	Lab gain from Con
Birmingham Small Heath	Lab	14,055	47.5	57.6%	Lab hold
Birmingham Sparkbrook	Lab	8,521	28.5	60.2%	Lab hold
Birmingham Stechford	Lab	11,923	29.7	64.1%	Lab hold
Birmingham Yardley	Lab	4,170	9.7	73.1%	Lab hold
Bishop Auckland	Lab	11,095	21.6	70.9%
Blaby	Con	12,161	23.9	78.3%	Con hold
Blackburn	Lab	7,652	19.4	72.9%	Lab hold
Blackpool North	Con	5,467	13.1	69.7%	Con hold
Blackpool South	Con	5,221	12.9	69.9%	Con hold
Blaydon	Lab	13,466	32.5	72.9%	Lab hold
Blyth	Lab	78	0.1	74.3%	Lab gain from Oth
Bodmin	Con	665	1.5	82.3%	Con gain from Lib
Bolsover	Lab	21,066	54.5	74.5%	Lab hold
Bolton East	Lab	4,065	8.8	76.7%	Lab hold
Bolton West	Lab	906	2.3	77.3%	Lab gain from Con
Bootle	Lab	16,890	39.1	67.2%	Lab hold
Bosworth	Con	302	0.4	82.1%	Con hold
Bournemouth East	Con	10,661	26.5	70.5%	Con hold
Bournemouth West	Con	10,728	25.5	68.7%	Con hold
Bradford North	Lab	8,589	18.4	70.4%	Lab hold
Bradford South	Lab	8,275	15.8	71.6%	Lab hold
Bradford West	Lab	4,941	11.4	69.5%	Lab hold
Braintree	Con	1,090	2.1	79.4%	Con hold
Brent East	Lab	8,927	23.5	60.1%	Lab hold
Brent North	Con	7,312	14.1	71.9%	Con hold
Brent South	Lab	11,053	29.5	61.2%	Lab hold
Brentford and Isleworth	Con	232	0.4	73.3%	Con hold
Brentwood and Ongar	Con	7,946	17.6	77.2%	Con hold
Bridgwater	Con	6,187	11.5	77.3%	Con hold
Bridlington	Con	10,106	22.6	67.9%	Con hold
Brigg and Scunthorpe	Lab	6,742	10.6	70.5%	Lab hold
Brighouse and Spenborough	Lab	2,177	4.4	78.6%	Lab hold
Brighton Kemptown	Con	2,665	5.6	72.3%	Con hold
Brighton Pavilion	Con	7,417	18.9	68.6%	Con hold
Bristol North East	Lab	8,591	23.2	71.2%	Lab hold
Bristol North West	Lab	633	1.2	79.3%	Lab gain from Con
Bristol South	Lab	14,984	35.4	69.3%	Lab hold
Bristol South East	Lab	9,373	17.7	76.2%	Lab hold
Bristol West	Con	6,957	17.6	65.4%	Con hold
Bromsgrove and Redditch	Con	2,068	3.0	79.6%	Con hold
Buckingham	Con	2,918	4.6	79.7%	Con hold
Burnley	Lab	11,876	30.1	74.7%	Lab hold
Burton	Con	2,098	4.0	78.0%	Con hold
Bury and Radcliffe	Lab	442	0.7	80.8%	Lab gain from Con
Bury St Edmunds	Con	11,082	17.3	73.2%	Con hold
Camberwell Dulwich	Lab	7,459	17.0	65.1%
Camberwell Peckham	Lab	18,826	54.9	54.2%
Cambridge	Con	2,773	5.3	69.6%	Con hold
Cambridgeshire	Con	12,655	19.7	76.1%	Con hold
Cannock	Lab	12,222	28.4	76.0%	Lab hold
Canterbury	Con	14,755	23.7	72.6%	Con hold
Carlisle	Lab	6,254	15.2	78.8%	Lab hold
Carlton	Con	4,619	8.3	77.7%	Con hold
Carshalton	Con	3,698	7.5	74.3%	Con hold
Cheadle	Con	7,176	13.6	80.3%	Con hold
Chelmsford	Con	4,002	6.3	79.2%	Con hold
Chelsea	Con	13,167	40.8	50.0%	Con hold
Cheltenham	Con	8,454	18.0	75.0%	Con hold
Chertsey and Walton	Con	10,304	20.8	73.5%	Con hold
Chesham and Amersham	Con	10,987	22.2	78.1%	Con hold
Chester-le-Street	Lab	24,278	47.6	74.6%	Lab hold
Chesterfield	Lab	17,560	34.0	72.6%	Lab hold
Chichester	Con	11,341	22.1	73.6%	Con hold
Chingford	Con	4,645	11.1	73.4%	Con hold
Chippenham	Con	1,929	3.6	78.4%	Con hold
Chipping Barnet	Con	7,866	18.9	73.6%	Con hold
Chislehurst	Con	3,894	9.5	76.1%	Con hold
Chorley	Lab	2,713	4.4	81.2%	Lab hold
Christchurch	Con	13,890	33.6	74.7%
Cirencester and Tewkesbury	Con	10,160	16.5	76.7%	Con hold
Cities of London and Westminster	Con	5,761	20.8	53.2%
City of Chester	Con	4,618	8.8	75.4%
Cleveland	Con	1,528	3.3	76.2%
Clitheroe	Con	6,868	16.8	78.6%	Con hold
Colchester	Con	5,500	8.8	76.2%	Con hold
Colne Valley	Lib	1,666	3.4	81.7%	Lib hold
Consett	Lab	19,446	48.0	68.6%	Lab hold
Coventry North East	Lab	15,969	35.9	70.0%	Lab hold
Coventry North West	Lab	7,488	20.2	75.2%	Lab hold
Coventry South East	Lab	12,123	35.3	67.6%	Lab hold
Coventry South West	Lab	2,118	3.9	79.4%	Lab hold
Crewe	Lab	7,255	16.7	73.2%	Lab hold
Crosby	Con	12,175	21.1	73.5%	Con hold
Croydon Central	Con	164	0.3	72.6%	Con hold
Croydon North East	Con	2,151	5.2	71.0%	Con hold
Croydon North West	Con	1,479	3.9	69.3%	Con hold
Croydon South	Con	14,189	31.9	73.9%	Con hold
Dagenham	Lab	21,994	48.3	65.0%	Lab hold
Darlington	Lab	3,712	7.9	74.4%	Lab hold
Dartford	Lab	5,486	12.6	76.6%	Lab hold
Darwen	Con	5,651	10.5	76.6%	Con hold
Daventry	Con	9,062	14.1	77.1%	Con hold
Dearne Valley	Lab	27,269	60.7	71.1%	Lab hold
Deptford	Lab	13,034	36.3	58.7%	Lab hold
Derby North	Lab	4,193	6.9	73.3%	Lab hold
Derby South	Lab	9,332	18.1	69.5%	Lab hold
Derbyshire West	Con	7,846	20.4	78.5%	Con hold
Devizes	Con	7,021	12.0	75.2%	Con hold
Devon North	Lib	6,721	11.5	79.7%	Lib hold
Devon West	Con	5,929	13.1	78.6%	Con hold
Dewsbury	Lab	6,901	15.4	72.9%	Lab hold
Don Valley	Lab	27,420	42.1	73.4%	Lab hold
Doncaster	Lab	7,430	17.2	72.8%	Lab hold
Dorking	Con	10,305	23.3	75.0%	Con hold
Dorset North	Con	8,541	15.1	79.2%	Con hold
Dorset West	Con	8,685	20.8	77.9%	Con hold
Dover	Con	2,294	3.9	78.7%
Dudley East	Lab	12,191	29.6	68.3%	Lab hold
Dudley West	Lab	8,525	15.2	75.2%	Lab hold
Durham	Lab	18,116	33.9	71.6%	Lab hold
Durham North West	Lab	18,756	43.1	71.1%	Lab hold
Ealing North	Lab	2,922	5.4	73.9%	Lab hold
Easington	Lab	20,937	47.6	69.0%	Lab hold
East Grinstead	Con	9,280	22.4	74.5%	Con hold
East Hertfordshire	Con	8,335	12.7	74.1%
Eastbourne	Con	16,025	28.8	74.6%	Con hold
Eastleigh	Con	7,815	13.1	78.8%	Con hold
Eccles	Lab	9,266	22.1	72.8%	Lab hold
Edmonton	Lab	6,828	16.6	67.1%	Lab hold
Enfield North	Lab	4,793	10.0	70.5%	Lab hold
Epping	Con	6,774	14.4	73.3%
Epsom	Con	16,290	27.4	73.7%
Erith and Crayford	Lab	8,467	19.1	73.1%	Lab hold
Esher	Con	10,860	30.7	74.3%	Con hold
Eton and Slough	Lab	7,663	16.5	72.7%	Lab hold
Exeter	Con	2,348	4.4	80.3%	Con hold
Eye	Con	7,857	15.5	77.4%	Con hold
Falmouth and Camborne	Con	5,856	11.6	75.8%	Con hold
Fareham	Con	4,448	10.1	77.0%	Con hold
Farnham	Con	8,259	17.3	76.2%	Con hold
Farnworth	Lab	14,695	27.9	74.7%	Lab hold
Faversham	Con	2,877	4.9	76.7%	Con hold
Feltham and Heston	Lab	9,147	17.1	67.9%	Lab hold
Finchley	Con	3,911	10.4	69.5%	Con hold
Folkestone and Hythe	Con	8,442	18.6	70.0%	Con hold
Fulham	Lab	5,321	12.9	70.9%	Lab hold
Gainsborough	Con	3,968	8.6	74.8%	Con hold
Gateshead East	Lab	17,599	39.4	70.3%	Lab hold
Gateshead West	Lab	9,427	46.7	65.7%	Lab hold
Gillingham	Con	3,996	8.5	75.9%	Con hold
Gloucester	Con	3,528	7.2	78.7%	Con hold
Gloucestershire West	Lab	409	0.8	80.2%	Lab hold
Goole	Lab	14,097	31.5	69.3%	Lab hold
Gosport	Con	6,866	18.7	75.3%	Con hold
Grantham	Con	8,030	13.8	74.2%	Con hold
Gravesend	Lab	2,305	3.4	78.7%	Lab hold
Greenwich	Lab	9,906	28.7	65.3%	Lab hold
Grimsby	Lab	6,982	15.2	69.4%	Lab hold
Guildford	Con	10,904	21.0	71.9%	Con hold
Hackney Central	Lab	12,853	50.2	52.8%	Lab hold
Hackney South and Shoreditch	Lab	13,295	49.1	54.7%	Lab hold
Halesowen and Stourbridge	Con	850	1.4	76.2%	Con hold
Halifax	Lab	4,178	8.8	74.6%	Lab hold
Haltemprice	Con	11,640	20.4	75.0%	Con hold
Hammersmith North	Lab	8,122	24.0	64.6%	Lab hold
Hampstead	Con	1,725	4.3	63.1%	Con hold
Harborough	Con	13,209	26.3	76.4%	Con hold
Harlow	Lab	13,451	28.4	75.2%	Lab hold
Harrogate	Con	13,314	29.2	70.5%	Con hold
Harrow Central	Con	2,068	6.3	73.0%	Con hold
Harrow East	Con	3,478	9.4	74.9%	Con hold
Harrow West	Con	11,582	27.5	74.5%	Con hold
Harwich	Con	10,828	16.9	72.3%	Con hold
Hastings	Con	4,652	11.4	71.6%	Con hold
Havant and Waterloo	Con	8,732	15.7	73.8%	Con hold
Hayes and Harlington	Lab	9,420	24.2	69.5%	Lab hold
Hazel Grove	Con	2,831	5.1	82.4%	Con gain from Lib
Hemel Hempstead	Lab	485	0.7	81.7%	Lab gain from Con
Hemsworth	Lab	31,572	64.5	70.2%	Lab hold
Hendon North	Con	1,750	4.8	72.3%	Con hold
Hendon South	Con	4,963	13.7	69.7%	Con hold
Henley	Con	10,266	22.3	73.6%	Con hold
Hereford	Con	1,112	2.5	75.8%	Con hold
Hertford Stevenage	Lab	9,046	14.4	76.3%
Hertfordshire South	Con	2,228	4.5	76.1%	Con hold
Hexham	Con	4,641	9.5	75.4%	Con hold
Heywood and Royton	Lab	7,899	13.3	76.6%	Lab hold
High Peak	Con	2,002	4.4	80.5%	Con hold
Hitchin	Con	3,186	5.5	79.6%	Con hold
Holborn and St Pancras	Lab	5,441	25.8	53.8%
Holland With Boston	Con	8,684	15.0	72.2%	Con hold
Honiton	Con	13,220	23.9	75.7%	Con hold
Horncastle	Con	5,244	14.9	70.8%	Con hold
Hornchurch	Lab	6,801	15.5	72.8%	Lab hold
Hornsey	Con	782	2.0	68.5%	Con hold
Horsham	Con	3,699	5.2	78.1%
Houghton-le-Spring	Lab	20,401	47.0	72.5%	Lab hold
Hove	Con	14,876	29.2	69.8%	Con hold
Howden	Con	4,780	11.5	72.6%	Con hold
Huddersfield East	Lab	8,414	21.7	72.4%	Lab hold
Huddersfield West	Lab	1,364	3.3	76.3%	Lab hold
Huntingdonshire	Con	9,244	15.4	75.1%	Con hold
Huyton	Lab	16,233	31.1	71.1%	Lab hold
Ilford North	Lab	778	1.6	74.5%	Lab gain from Con
Ilford South	Lab	1,749	4.5	69.7%	Lab hold
Ilkeston	Lab	15,858	28.3	74.9%	Lab hold
Ince	Lab	23,530	42.2	72.4%	Lab hold
Ipswich	Lab	1,733	2.5	79.5%	Lab gain from Con
Isle of Wight	Lib	2,040	3.1	76.8%	Lib hold
Islington Central	Lab	9,393	37.4	55.4%	Lab hold
Islington North	Lab	6,818	30.4	54.2%	Lab hold
Islington South and Finsbury	Lab	9,593	40.5	56.0%	Lab hold
Jarrow	Lab	15,851	40.6	71.4%	Lab hold
Keighley	Lab	3,081	7.2	83.0%	Lab hold
Kensington	Con	1,917	5.6	56.4%	Con hold
Kettering	Lab	11,170	17.8	73.2%	Lab hold
Kidderminster	Con	6,769	11.4	74.9%	Con hold
Kingston upon Thames	Con	8,414	19.8	71.8%	Con hold
Kingston-upon-Hull Central	Lab	9,821	22.9	67.7%
Kingston-upon-Hull East	Lab	23,793	43.4	67.1%
Kingston-upon-Hull West	Lab	10,121	27.2	64.6%
Kingswood	Lab	2,566	5.5	84.1%	Lab hold
Knutsford	Con	10,426	24.6	76.8%	Con hold
Lambeth Central	Lab	8,677	33.9	52.6%	Lab hold
Lambeth Norwood	Lab	4,771	14.6	61.9%
Lambeth Vauxhall	Lab	9,766	39.8	52.7%
Lancaster	Con	1,421	3.7	78.2%	Con hold
Leeds East	Lab	12,311	27.7	65.7%	Lab hold
Leeds North East	Con	5,628	14.6	65.5%	Con hold
Leeds North West	Con	4,027	9.3	66.3%	Con hold
Leeds South	Lab	15,265	45.4	63.8%	Lab hold
Leeds South East	Lab	11,016	39.3	56.3%	Lab hold
Leeds West	Lab	7,607	18.3	69.0%	Lab hold
Leek	Con	4,324	6.6	78.5%	Con hold
Leicester East	Lab	3,811	8.3	72.3%	Lab hold
Leicester South	Lab	1,133	2.3	68.9%	Lab gain from Con
Leicester West	Lab	9,960	22.5	68.4%	Lab hold
Leigh	Lab	14,635	30.4	73.9%	Lab hold
Leominster	Con	579	1.7	78.4%	Con hold
Lewes	Con	13,847	26.0	73.8%	Con hold
Lewisham East	Lab	8,952	18.7	68.8%	Lab hold
Lewisham West	Lab	5,529	12.6	70.1%	Lab hold
Leyton	Lab	11,513	28.6	62.7%	Lab hold
Lichfield and Tamworth	Lab	331	0.5	78.2%	Lab gain from Con
Lincoln	Lab	984	2.5	74.8%	Lab gain from Oth
Liverpool Edge Hill	Lab	6,171	24.6	61.2%	Lab hold
Liverpool Garston	Lab	3,300	5.7	71.9%	Lab hold
Liverpool Kirkdale	Lab	9,481	32.9	63.5%	Lab hold
Liverpool Scotland	Lab	12,920	68.4	53.8%
Liverpool Toxteth	Lab	7,250	26.9	58.7%	Lab hold
Liverpool Walton	Lab	9,862	27.8	68.3%	Lab hold
Liverpool Wavertree	Con	2,755	6.7	69.3%	Con hold
Liverpool West Derby	Lab	12,519	31.6	67.3%	Lab hold
Loughborough	Lab	2,348	4.3	78.5%	Lab hold
Louth	Con	2,880	5.6	73.1%	Con hold
Lowestoft	Con	2,062	3.4	78.2%	Con hold
Ludlow	Con	6,236	17.2	74.8%	Con hold
Luton East	Lab	3,677	9.4	73.5%	Lab hold
Luton West	Lab	6,439	14.8	74.9%	Lab hold
Macclesfield	Con	13,093	20.8	78.7%	Con hold
Maidstone	Con	10,271	15.7	74.1%	Con hold
Maldon	Con	6,387	13.6	76.3%	Con hold
Manchester Ardwick	Lab	6,783	24.1	58.7%	Lab hold
Manchester Blackley	Lab	7,119	18.4	70.7%	Lab hold
Manchester Central	Lab	10,611	49.9	53.4%	Lab hold
Manchester Gorton	Lab	8,864	22.3	71.0%	Lab hold
Manchester Moss Side	Lab	4,111	12.7	62.9%	Lab hold
Manchester Openshaw	Lab	8,513	30.4	65.8%	Lab hold
Manchester Withington	Con	2,001	5.1	67.8%	Con hold
Manchester Wythenshawe	Lab	14,179	31.7	68.8%	Lab hold
Mansfield	Lab	17,279	34.3	72.6%	Lab hold
Melton	Con	14,196	22.4	77.0%	Con hold
Meriden	Lab	8,966	12.3	75.1%	Lab hold
Mid Oxfordshire	Con	7,403	16.3	78.3%
Mid-Bedfordshire	Con	9,326	15.9	61.2%
Middlesborough	Lab	13,807	37.5	61.2%
Middleton and Prestwick	Lab	3,714	6.4	75.8%	Lab hold
Mitcham and Morden	Lab	6,191	13.3	71.1%	Lab hold
Morecambe and Lonsdale	Con	12,244	24.5	72.9%	Con hold
Morpeth	Lab	14,687	41.3	73.3%	Lab hold
Nantwich	Con	3,374	7.2	76.2%	Con hold
Nelson and Colne	Lab	669	1.7	81.1%	Lab gain from Con
New Forest	Con	13,423	23.2	74.2%	Con hold
Newark	Lab	5,771	10.4	77.9%	Lab hold
Newbury	Con	1,022	1.9	76.3%	Con hold
Newcastle under Lyme	Lab	7,370	13.0	78.1%	Lab hold
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central	Lab	8,114	55.2	58.4%	Lab hold
Newcastle-upon-Tyne East	Lab	6,249	19.1	71.8%	Lab hold
Newcastle-upon-Tyne North	Con	469	1.8	65.0%	Con hold
Newcastle-upon-Tyne West	Lab	15,074	28.5	68.9%	Lab hold
Newham North East	Lab	13,541	34.7	59.2%	Lab hold
Newham North West	Lab	13,381	48.5	51.6%	Lab hold
Newham South	Lab	17,761	57.6	53.5%	Lab hold
Newton	Lab	16,472	22.5	76.8%	Lab hold
Norfolk North West	Con	1,343	2.2	78.5%	Con hold
Normanton	Lab	14,633	35.3	70.4%	Lab hold
North Cornwall	Lib	3,856	9.3	80.5%
North East Derbyshire	Lab	10,241	20.3	75.6%
North Fylde	Con	17,139	32.1	71.5%
North Norfolk	Con	11,121	16.1	76.5%
North Somerset	Con	9,475	13.2	80.5%
Northampton North	Lab	1,538	4.1	76.0%	Lab hold
Northampton South	Con	141	0.4	75.5%	Con hold
Northwich	Con	4,610	11.2	78.6%	Con hold
Norwich North	Lab	9,204	28.7	71.2%	Lab hold
Norwich South	Lab	3,405	9.7	78.5%	Lab hold
Nottingham East	Lab	5,956	18.5	60.0%	Lab hold
Nottingham North	Lab	6,841	13.3	67.1%	Lab hold
Nottingham West	Lab	9,265	16.8	70.9%	Lab hold
Nuneaton	Lab	17,761	30.8	73.9%	Lab hold
Oldham East	Lab	8,137	22.5	71.2%	Lab hold
Oldham West	Lab	8,037	23.2	72.2%	Lab hold
Ormskirk	Lab	8,851	12.6	72.8%	Lab hold
Orpington	Con	5,010	9.7	79.0%	Con hold
Oswestry	Con	8,414	20.8	71.9%	Con hold
Oxford	Lab	1,036	1.9	70.8%	Lab gain from Con
Paddington	Lab	2,311	6.4	61.7%	Lab hold
Penistone	Lab	15,135	30.2	74.7%	Lab hold
Penrith and the Borders	Con	13,756	33.9	73.0%
Peterborough	Lab	1,848	3.8	77.9%	Lab gain from Con
Petersfield	Con	8,987	15.8	76.5%	Con hold
Plymouth Devonport	Lab	2,259	6.1	73.5%	Lab hold
Plymouth Drake	Con	34	0.1	75.4%	Con hold
Plymouth Sutton	Con	5,188	11.3	75.2%	Con hold
Pontefract	Lab	23,242	54.2	71.2%
Poole	Con	11,425	18.2	75.3%	Con hold
Portsmouth North	Lab	1,345	2.5	76.9%	Lab hold
Portsmouth South	Con	8,071	16.4	69.4%	Con hold
Preston North	Lab	1,784	4.5	76.7%	Lab hold
Preston South	Lab	3,749	9.5	76.4%	Lab hold
Pudsey	Con	4,581	9.0	78.2%	Con hold
Ravensbourne	Con	8,505	23.7	74.0%	Con hold
Reading North	Con	468	1.0	72.4%	Con hold
Reading South	Con	6,666	12.9	74.7%	Con hold
Redcar	Lab	10,430	24.2	69.1%	Lab hold
Reigate	Con	13,584	24.8	75.3%	Con hold
Richmond (Surrey)	Con	4,215	10.4	75.1%
Richmond (Yorkshire)	Con	13,628	33.5	65.7%
Ripon	Con	7,004	17.7	78.9%	Con hold
Rochdale	Lib	2,753	5.9	70.3%	Lib hold
Rochester and Chatham	Lab	2,418	4.1	73.6%	Lab gain from Con
Romford	Con	2,651	6.7	71.5%	Con hold
Rossendale	Lab	203	0.5	80.9%	Lab gain from Con
Rother Valley	Lab	32,777	49.4	72.2%	Lab hold
Rotherham	Lab	17,034	42.5	65.5%	Lab hold
Rugby	Lab	5,204	10.9	79.8%	Lab hold
Ruislip Northwood	Con	10,289	25.5	74.6%	Con hold
Runcorn	Con	5,468	10.1	77.6%	Con hold
Rushcliffe	Con	14,943	30.2	77.4%	Con hold
Rutland and Stamford	Con	6,990	16.9	75.6%	Con hold
Rye	Con	15,683	29.2	74.2%	Con hold
Saffron Waldon	Con	6,521	13.4	78.1%
Salford East	Lab	7,836	32.8	59.5%	Lab hold
Salford West	Lab	8,572	28.7	65.2%	Lab hold
Salisbury	Con	4,180	8.9	74.7%	Con hold
Scarborough and Whitby	Con	9,708	24.3	68.1%
Sevenoaks	Con	11,605	20.5	75.7%	Con hold
Sheffield Attercliffe	Lab	21,558	50.2	67.2%	Lab hold
Sheffield Brightside	Lab	7,926	21.7	67.4%	Lab hold
Sheffield Hallam	Con	10,664	20.0	68.8%	Con hold
Sheffield Heeley	Lab	9,406	19.6	73.5%	Lab hold
Sheffield Hillsborough	Lab	12,308	35.5	66.6%	Lab hold
Sheffield Park	Lab	23,964	56.9	62.4%	Lab hold
Shipley	Con	3,036	7.2	81.0%	Con hold
Shoreham	Con	11,373	22.2	74.7%	Con hold
Shrewsbury	Con	5,421	12.3	73.4%	Con hold
Sidcup	Con	7,543	20.1	75.9%	Con hold
Skipton	Con	590	1.4	82.1%	Con hold
Solihull	Con	15,859	26.4	75.3%	Con hold
South Bedfordshire	Con	4,443	8.8	78.3%
South Dorset	Con	6,699	12.6	75.4%
South East Derbyshie	Con	1,005	2.3	80.2%
South East Essex	Con	8,710	15.5	73.7%
South Fylde	Con	22,666	34.6	72.0%
South Gloucestershire	Con	4,346	6.9	79.6%
South Norfolk	Con	8,765	12.7	76.2%
South Shields	Lab	14,825	31.6	64.7%	Lab hold
South West Hertfordshire	Con	5,841	10.0	77.0%
South West Norfolk	Con	4,928	11.9	76.9%
South Worcestershire	Con	9,052	16.4	75.1%
Southall	Lab	9,983	22.2	63.6%	Lab hold
Southampton Test	Lab	530	1.0	73.1%	Lab gain from Con
Southamptonitchen	Lab	7,795	13.5	70.3%
Southend East	Con	4,603	11.7	68.8%	Con hold
Southend West	Con	7,071	14.3	73.2%	Con hold
Southgate	Con	14,922	31.1	67.7%	Con hold
Southport	Con	5,627	11.6	73.7%	Con hold
Sowerby	Lab	646	1.7	79.2%	Lab hold
Spelthorne	Con	5,948	11.5	74.5%	Con hold
St.Albans	Con	9,135	16.8	78.0%	Con hold
St.Helens	Lab	22,066	43.4	66.9%	Lab hold
St.Ives	Con	5,868	15.5	73.7%	Con hold
St.Marylebone	Con	6,503	26.1	57.0%	Con hold
St.Pancras North	Lab	7,553	31.2	58.1%	Lab hold
Stafford and Stone	Con	6,328	10.6	76.0%	Con hold
Staffordshire South West	Con	7,539	16.4	75.4%	Con hold
Stalybridge and Hyde	Lab	9,757	20.1	73.2%	Lab hold
Stepney and Poplar	Lab	20,976	67.4	51.5%	Lab hold
Stockport North	Lab	1,824	4.4	78.0%	Lab hold
Stockport South	Lab	4,220	11.9	74.3%	Lab hold
Stockton	Lab	14,474	24.5	69.1%	Lab hold
Stoke Newington and Hackney North	Lab	10,553	37.8	52.8%
Stoke on Trent Central	Lab	14,653	36.7	65.3%	Lab hold
Stoke on Trent North	Lab	15,072	36.2	69.6%	Lab hold
Stoke on Trent South	Lab	16,495	32.9	69.1%	Lab hold
Stratford	Con	12,568	23.6	74.1%
Stretford	Con	1,237	2.4	76.5%	Con hold
Stroud	Con	7,054	12.7	80.4%	Con hold
Sudbury and Woodbridge	Con	12,063	19.1	75.0%	Con hold
Sunderland North	Lab	15,671	30.9	67.0%	Lab hold
Sunderland South	Lab	13,030	25.0	68.1%	Lab hold
Surbiton	Con	6,021	17.9	72.9%	Con hold
Surrey East	Con	9,845	23.2	76.2%	Con hold
Surrey North West	Con	13,581	27.8	70.9%	Con hold
Sussex Mid	Con	11,997	25.7	76.4%	Con hold
Sutton and Cheam	Con	5,161	11.1	76.9%	Con hold
Sutton Coldfield	Con	13,356	29.6	74.5%	Con hold
Swindon	Lab	10,270	22.1	74.0%	Lab hold
Taunton	Con	6,821	13.5	79.4%	Con hold
Thanet East	Con	4,503	13.1	71.6%	Con hold
Thanet West	Con	5,108	16.8	69.2%	Con hold
The Hartlepools	Lab	7,894	16.7	72.4%
The Isle of Ely	Lib	2,685	5.1	77.1%
The Wrekin	Lab	6,838	11.0	75.5%	Lab hold
Thirsk and Malton	Con	13,862	29.8	72.9%	Con hold
Thornaby	Lab	4,648	10.3	72.3%	Lab hold
Thurrock	Lab	19,080	31.1	68.6%	Lab hold
Tiverton	Con	5,354	9.9	77.5%	Con hold
Tonbridge and Malling	Con	8,609	17.4	75.5%	Con hold
Tooting	Lab	7,855	23.0	63.4%	Lab hold
Torbay	Con	12,438	19.9	73.0%	Con hold
Totnes	Con	6,401	10.3	76.8%	Con hold
Tottenham	Lab	9,216	34.5	56.2%	Lab hold
Truro	Lib	464	0.8	78.7%	Lib gain from Con
Tunbridge Wells	Con	12,027	24.0	72.5%	Con hold
Twickenham	Con	9,507	17.7	74.4%	Con hold
Tynemouth	Con	3,121	5.5	74.3%	Con hold
Upminster	Con	694	1.4	76.2%	Con hold
Uxbridge	Con	2,153	4.8	75.1%	Con hold
Wakefield	Lab	12,806	27.4	70.3%	Lab hold
Wallasey	Con	1,970	3.7	76.3%	Con hold
Wallsend	Lab	21,269	33.2	70.9%	Lab hold
Walsall North	Lab	15,885	33.4	66.6%	Lab hold
Walsall South	Lab	4,662	10.7	73.6%	Lab hold
Walthamstow	Lab	10,664	30.8	66.2%	Lab hold
Wandsworth Putney	Lab	2,775	5.8	71.8%
Wandsworth Streatham	Con	2,867	7.9	64.1%
Wanstead and Woodfod	Con	10,840	27.2	68.3%	Con hold
Warley East	Lab	8,177	21.2	67.1%	Lab hold
Warley West	Lab	14,857	36.2	67.0%	Lab hold
Warrington	Lab	12,261	38.7	68.0%	Lab hold
Warwick and Leamington	Con	8,245	14.0	74.8%	Con hold
Watford	Lab	3,957	9.1	77.3%	Lab hold
Wellingborough	Con	1,758	2.6	79.6%	Con hold
Wells	Con	7,701	14.0	78.9%	Con hold
Welwyn and Hatfield	Lab	520	1.0	81.3%	Lab gain from Con
West Bromwich East	Lab	7,529	19.1	67.6%	Lab hold
West Bromwich West	Lab	14,799	39.5	62.8%	Lab hold
Westbury	Con	6,043	10.4	78.7%	Con hold
Westhoughton	Lab	13,575	24.2	77.9%	Lab hold
Westmorland	Con	7,715	19.1	72.4%	Con hold
Weston Super Mare	Con	12,859	20.2	74.8%	Con hold
Whitehaven	Lab	9,933	25.3	77.1%	Lab hold
Widnes	Lab	16,871	31.7	70.9%	Lab hold
Wigan	Lab	18,827	44.7	74.0%	Lab hold
Wimbledon	Con	8,706	17.9	68.8%	Con hold
Winchester	Con	9,220	14.8	75.2%	Con hold
Windsor and Maidenhead	Con	12,841	22.5	71.8%	Con hold
Wirral	Con	13,488	19.2	75.5%	Con gain from Oth
Woking	Con	8,735	17.6	72.9%	Con hold
Wokingham	Con	7,705	13.9	75.6%	Con hold
Wolverhampton N.e.	Lab	14,653	31.9	—
Wolverhampton S.w.	Con	5,300	11.2	—
Wolverhampton Se	Lab	11,698	32.0	—
Wood Green	Lab	8,211	25.4	62.3%	Lab hold
Woolwich East	Lab	12,425	37.8	64.4%	Lab hold
Woolwich West	Lab	3,541	8.5	73.9%	Lab hold
Worcester	Con	4,989	9.0	73.9%	Con hold
Workington	Lab	9,551	23.7	75.8%	Lab hold
Worthing	Con	17,345	33.6	71.1%	Con hold
Wycombe	Con	9,079	15.5	74.3%	Con hold
Yarmouth	Con	2,260	4.3	73.7%	Con hold
Yeovil	Con	7,379	12.4	79.4%	Con hold
York	Lab	3,689	6.4	75.3%	Lab hold

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Questions and answers

Who won in England at the October 1974 general election?

Labour won 255 of the 516 seats in England, with 40.1% of the vote.

How many seats were there in England in October 1974?

516 constituencies.

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