Skip to content

1955 general election map

Map of the 1955 UK general election: each nation and region coloured by the party that won most of its seats.

South East: Conservative 56 of 62 seatsWest Midlands: Labour 32 of 54 seatsNorth West: Conservative 46 of 83 seatsEast Midlands: Labour 23 of 40 seatsLondon: Conservative 54 of 102 seatsYorkshire and the Humber: Labour 32 of 55 seatsEast of England: Conservative 35 of 41 seatsSouth West: Conservative 33 of 43 seatsNorth East: Labour 24 of 31 seatsNorthern Ireland: Conservative 10 of 12 seatsScotland: Conservative 36 of 71 seatsWales: Labour 27 of 36 seats
Each nation and region is coloured by the party that won most of its seats; darker means a larger share of the seats. Constituency maps start in 2010, when the hexagon layouts begin.

Full 1955 results →

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