This is a list of women who stood in general elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom up to and including the 1945 general election.
Summary of general election candidates[edit]
Unionist candidates or MPs in Scottish constituencies were counted as Conservatives.
Election results[edit]
1918 UK general election[edit]
Party | Constituency | Name | Votes | % | Position |
| Conservative | Kennington | Alice Lucas | 3,573 | 32.2 | 2 |
| Independent | Brentford and Chiswick | Ray Strachey | 1,263 | 9.7 | 3 |
| Independent | Chelsea | Emily Frost Phipps | 2,419 | 20.9 | 2 |
| Independent | Glasgow Bridgeton | Eunice Murray | 991 | 5.0 | 3 |
| Independent | Hendon | Edith How-Martyn | 2,067 | 10.5 | 3 |
| Independent | Richmond (Surrey) | Norah Dacre Fox | 3,615 | 20.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Battersea North | Charlotte Despard | 5,634 | 33.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Manchester Rusholme | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 2,985 | 15.6 | 3 |
| Labour | Stourbridge | Mary Anderson | 7,587 | 32.7 | 3 |
| Labour | University of Wales | Millicent Mackenzie | 176 | 19.2 | 2 |
| Liberal | Enfield | Janet McEwan | 1,987 | 12.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Birmingham Ladywood | Margery Corbett Ashby | 1,552 | 11.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Mansfield | Violet Carruthers | 4,000 | 19.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Portsmouth South | Alison Garland | 4,283 | 18.5 | 2 |
| Sinn Féin | Belfast Victoria | Winifred Carney | 539 | 4.1 | 3 |
| Sinn Féin | Dublin St Patrick's | Constance Markievicz | 7,835 | 65.9 | 1 |
| Women's Party | Smethwick | Christabel Pankhurst | 8,614 | 47.8 | 2 |
By-elections, 1918-1922[edit]
1922 UK general election[edit]
Party | Constituency | Name[3] | Votes | % | Position |
| Conservative | Camberwell North | Helen Gwynne-Vaughan | 8,066 | 49.2 | 2 |
| Conservative | Denbigh | Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick | 9,138 | 37.9 | 2 |
| Conservative | Ogmore | Dorothy Caroline Edmondes | 6,577 | 20.1 | 3 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 13,924 | 47.4 | 1 |
| Conservative | Walsall | Alice Cooper | 14,349 | 37.8 | 2 |
| Independent | Brentford and Chiswick | Ray Strachey | 7,804 | 43.5 | 2 |
| Independent | Liverpool East Toxteth | Eleanor Rathbone | 9,984 | 39.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Acton | Mary Richardson | 5,342 | 26.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Chelmsford | Clara Rackham | 3,767 | 17.6 | 3 |
| Labour | East Ham North | Susan Lawrence | 6,747 | 27.8 | 2 |
| Labour | East Surrey | Marjorie Pease | 3,667 | 22.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Islington North | Edith Picton-Turbervill | 7,993 | 27.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Islington East | Ethel Bentham | 5,900 | 22.7 | 3 |
| Labour | Lambeth North | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | 3,353 | 17.8 | 3 |
| Labour | Northampton | Margaret Bondfield | 14,498 | 37.9 | 2 |
| Labour | University of Wales | Olive Wheeler | 309 | 24.8 | 3 |
| Labour Co-op | Birmingham King's Norton | Eleanor Barton | 7,017 | 32.8 | 2 |
| Liberal | Bedford | Mary Camilla Lawson | 2,075 | 7.8 | 4 |
| Liberal | Dartford | Alison Garland | 2,175 | 6.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Devizes | Hilda Beatrice Currie | 6,576 | 40.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Glasgow Maryhill | Annie Burnett Smith | 3,617 | 13.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | High Peak | Anna Barlow | 5,802 | 20.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Huntingdonshire | Lina Scott Gatty | 5,123 | 25.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Louth, Lincolnshire | Margaret Wintringham | 11,609 | 52.0 | 1 |
| Liberal | Oldham | Mary Emmott | 6,186 | 7.0 | 5 |
| Liberal | Richmond (Surrey) | Margery Corbett Ashby | 5,765 | 24.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Waterloo | Nessie Stewart-Brown | 6,300 | 32.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Westminster St George's | Mary Sophia Allen | 1,303 | 6.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Wycombe | Vera Terrington | 11,154 | 35.8 | 2 |
| National Liberal | Edinburgh South | Catherine Alderton | 7,408 | 33.3 | 2 |
| National Liberal | Forest of Dean | Winifred Coombe Tennant | 3,861 | 18.7 | 3 |
| National Liberal | Glasgow Govan | Helen Fraser | 9,336 | 37.7 | 2 |
| National Liberal | Leeds South East | Mary Grant | 9,554 | 41.1 | 2 |
By-elections, 1922-1923[edit]
1923 UK general election[edit]
Party | Constituency | Name[4] | Votes | % | Position |
| Conservative | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Mabel Philipson | 10,636 | 48.0 | 1 |
| Conservative | Camberwell North | Helen Gwynne-Vaughan | 5,934 | 35.8 | 2 |
| Conservative | Ince | Rachel Parsons | 6,262 | 26.5 | 2 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 16,114 | 54.5 | 1 |
| Conservative | St Helens | Margaret Evelyn Pilkington | 16,109 | 44.5 | 2 |
| Independent | Brentford and Chiswick | Ray Strachey | 4,828 | 27.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Ashton-under-Lyne | Ellen Wilkinson | 6,208 | 28.7 | 3 |
| Labour | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Edna Penny | 2,784 | 12.5 | 3 |
| Labour | Bournemouth | Minnie Pallister | 5,986 | 19.5 | 3 |
| Labour | Chatham | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 5,794 | 24.1 | 3 |
| Labour | East Ham North | Susan Lawrence | 8,727 | 35.7 | 1 |
| Labour | Farnham | Anne Corner | 3,520 | 16.7 | 3 |
| Labour | Isle of Wight | Emily Palmer | 2,475 | 7.1 | 3 |
| Labour | Islington East | Ethel Bentham | 6,941 | 26.0 | 3 |
| Labour | Northampton | Margaret Bondfield | 15,556 | 40.5 | 1 |
| Labour | Norwich | Dorothy Jewson | 19,304 | 20.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Portsmouth South | Jessie Stephen | 7,388 | 24.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Warwick and Leamington | Countess of Warwick | 4,015 | 12.8 | 3 |
| Labour | West Dorset | Louie Simpson | 7,087 | 41.2 | 2 |
| Labour Co-op | Birmingham King's Norton | Eleanor Barton | 6,743 | 30.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Birmingham King's Norton | Elizabeth Cadbury | 5,686 | 25.9 | 3 |
| Liberal | Birmingham Moseley | Janet Clarkson | 7,904 | 28.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Cambridgeshire | Elsbeth Dimsdale | 6,619 | 24.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | Consett | Ursula Williams | 14,619 | 48.0 | 2 |
| Liberal | Gower | Leah Norah Folland | 10,219 | 40.9 | 2 |
| Liberal | Hamilton | Helen Fraser | 8,436 | 41.6 | 2 |
| Liberal | Hanley | Ada Rowley Moody | 4,268 | 19.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Hastings | Maria Gordon | 5,876 | 25.9 | 2 |
| Liberal | Louth, Lincolnshire | Margaret Wintringham | 12,104 | 52.4 | 1 |
| Liberal | Pontefract | Mary Pollock Grant | 4,567 | 18.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | Richmond (Surrey) | Margery Corbett Ashby | 7,702 | 37.0 | 2 |
| Liberal | Wycombe | Lady Terrington | 14,910 | 46.9 | 1 |
| Unionist | Glasgow St Rollox | Violet Mary Robertson | 9,204 | 37.7 | 2 |
| Unionist | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Duchess of Atholl | 9,235 | 50.4 | 1 |
Jewson was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
1924 UK general election[edit]
Party | Constituency | Name[5] | Votes | % | Position |
| Conservative | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Mabel Philipson | 12,130 | 50.9 | 1 |
| Conservative | Camberwell North | Helen Gwynne-Vaughan | 7,564 | 36.7 | 2 |
| Conservative | Denbigh | Lesley Venetia Elizabeth Brodrick | 11,250 | 47.0 | 2 |
| Conservative | Derby | Hilda Hulse | 21,700 | 20.3 | 4 |
| Conservative | Manchester Ardwick | Mary Kingsmill Jones | 13,115 | 45.1 | 2 |
| Conservative | Morpeth | Irene Ward | 10,828 | 32.0 | 2 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 18,174 | 58.1 | 1 |
| Conservative | St Helens | Margaret Evelyn Pilkington | 16,908 | 44.2 | 2 |
| Conservative | Wansbeck | Mary Middleton | 18,875 | 47.1 | 2 |
| Independent Labour | Acton | Mary Richardson | 1,775 | 7.6 | 4 |
| Labour | Blackburn | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 24,330 | 21.8 | 3 |
| Labour | Bournemouth | Minnie Pallister | 7,735 | 27.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Chelsea | Dora Russell | 5,661 | 26.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Dumfriesshire | Agnes Dollan | 6,342 | 23.0 | 3 |
| Labour | East Ham North | Susan Lawrence | 10,137 | 35.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Edinburgh North | Eleanor Stewart | 8,192 | 27.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Farnham | Anne Corner | 4,613 | 20.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Hackney North | Stella Churchill | 6,097 | 24.1 | 3 |
| Labour | Hastings | Muriel Matters Porter | 6,082 | 28.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Hemel Hempstead | Amy Sayle | 1,553 | 6.9 | 3 |
| Labour | Islington East | Ethel Bentham | 10,280 | 32.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Lewisham West | Barbara Drake | 6,781 | 20.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Liverpool Fairfield | Mary Mercer | 8,412 | 37.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Middlesbrough East | Ellen Wilkinson | 9,574 | 38.5 | 1 |
| Labour | Northampton | Margaret Bondfield | 15,046 | 37.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Northwich | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | 11,630 | 34.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Norwich | Dorothy Jewson | 22,931 | 22.0 | 4 |
| Labour | Portsmouth South | Jessie Stephen | 8,310 | 27.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Stroud | Edith Picton-Turbervill | 7,418 | 25.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Totnes | Kate Spurrell | 2,240 | 6.1 | 3 |
| Labour | West Dorset | Louie Simpson | 5,764 | 31.7 | 2 |
| Labour Co-op | Leeds North East | Edna Penny | 8,894 | 31.6 | 2 |
| Liberal | Ilkeston | Anna Barlow | 4,320 | 17.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | Lanark | Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell | 2,126 | 8.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Louth, Lincolnshire | Margaret Wintringham | 11,330 | 47.2 | 2 |
| Liberal | Southwark South East | Elsie Cameron Elias | 2,388 | 11.2 | 3 |
| Liberal | Watford | Margery Corbett Ashby | 5,205 | 18.7 | 3 |
| Liberal | Wycombe | Lady Terrington | 12,526 | 33.0 | 2 |
| Unionist | Aberdeen North | Laura Sandeman | 8,545 | 39.2 | 2 |
| Unionist | Bothwell | Helen Brown Shaw | 11,314 | 43.7 | 2 |
| Unionist | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Duchess of Atholl | 13,565 | 72.0 | 1 |
By-elections, 1924-1929[edit]
Party | Election | Name | Votes | % | Position |
| Labour | 1926 Wallsend by-election | Margaret Bondfield | 18,866 | 57.7 | 1 |
| Labour | 1926 East Ham North by-election | Susan Lawrence | 10,798 | 40.6 | 1 |
| Conservative | 1927 Southend by-election | Countess of Iveagh | 21,221 | 54.6 | 1 |
| Labour | 1928 Bristol West by-election | Clare Annesley | 7,702 | 26.0 | 2 |
| Liberal | 1928 St Ives by-election | Hilda Runciman | 10,241 | 42.6 | 1 |
| Unionist | 1928 Linlithgowshire by-election | Margaret Kidd | 9,268 | 31.5 | 2 |
| Labour | 1928 Epsom by-election | Helen Keynes | 3,719 | 16.8 | 3 |
| Unionist | 1928 Aberdeen North by-election | Laura Sandeman | 4,696 | 23.1 | 2 |
| Labour | 1928 Cheltenham by-election | Florence Widdowson | 3,962 | 18.8 | 3 |
| Labour | 1929 Bishop Auckland by-election | Ruth Dalton | 14,797 | 57.1 | 1 |
| Labour | 1929 North Lanarkshire by-election | Jennie Lee | 15,711 | 57.5 | 1 |
| Liberal | 1929 North Lanarkshire by-election | Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell | 2,488 | 9.1 | 3 |
1929 UK general election[edit]
Party | Constituency | Name[6] | Votes | % | Position |
| Communist | Bothwell | Helen Crawfurd | 1,677 | 5.5 | 3 |
| Communist | Mansfield | Rose Smith | 533 | 1.1 | 4 |
| Communist | Motherwell | Isabel Brown | 984 | 3.4 | 4 |
| Conservative | Farnworth | Mary Pickford | 10,643 | 25.4 | 2 |
| Conservative | Liverpool Everton | Margaret Beavan | 12,667 | 47.1 | 2 |
| Conservative | Manchester Ardwick | Mary Kingsmill Jones | 13,177 | 39.7 | 2 |
| Conservative | Morpeth | Irene Ward | 9,206 | 22.1 | 2 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 16,625 | 43.2 | 1 |
| Conservative | Pontypridd | May Gordon Williams | 3,967 | 10.1 | 3 |
| Conservative | Southend-on-Sea | Countess of Iveagh | 27,605 | 55.8 | 1 |
| Independent | Combined English Universities | Eleanor Rathbone | 3,331 | 33.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Ayr Burghs | Clarice Shaw | 13,429 | 36.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Blackburn | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 37,256 | 26.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Brentford and Chiswick | Stella Churchill | 10,918 | 37.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Bristol West | Clare Annesley | 11,961 | 25.3 | 2 |
| Labour | East Ham North | Susan Lawrence | 13,969 | 42.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Edinburgh North | Eleanor Stewart | 11,340 | 32.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Honiton | Rose Davies | 915 | 2.6 | 3 |
| Labour | Horsham and Worthing | Helen Keynes | 7,611 | 16.4 | 3 |
| Labour | Hythe | Grace Colman | 2,597 | 11.5 | 3 |
| Labour | Islington East | Ethel Bentham | 15,199 | 38.0 | 1 |
| Labour | Lewisham West | Catherine Mary Wadham | 10,598 | 25.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Luton | Florence Harrison Bell | 7,351 | 16.5 | 3 |
| Labour | Middlesbrough East | Ellen Wilkinson | 12,215 | 41.3 | 1 |
| Labour | North Lanarkshire | Jennie Lee | 19,884 | 55.9 | 1 |
| Labour | Northwich | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | 15,473 | 34.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Norwich | Dorothy Jewson | 31,040 | 24.0 | 3 |
| Labour | Nottingham Central | Eleanor Barton | 11,573 | 33.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Perth | Helen Gault | 8,291 | 23.5 | 3 |
| Labour | Petersfield | Gertrude Massingham | 3,418 | 12.1 | 3 |
| Labour | Portsmouth South | Jessie Stephen | 10,127 | 24.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Rushcliffe | Florence Widdowson | 16,069 | 35.0 | 2 |
| Labour | St Albans | Monica Whately | 11,699 | 27.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Stoke-on-Trent | Cynthia Mosley | 26,548 | 58.7 | 1 |
| Labour | Sunderland | Marion Phillips | 31,794 | 19.5 | 1 |
| Labour | The Wrekin | Edith Picton-Turbervill | 14,569 | 44.4 | 1 |
| Labour | Totnes | Kate Spurrell | 5,828 | 12.9 | 3 |
| Labour | Wallsend | Margaret Bondfield | 20,057 | 49.5 | 1 |
| Labour | Wells | Ruby Davies | 4,472 | 15.0 | 3 |
| Labour | Weston-super-Mare | Constance Borrett | 4,766 | 11.1 | 3 |
| Labour | Wycombe | Rochelle Townsend | 8,899 | 18.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Anglesey | Megan Lloyd George | 13,181 | 49.4 | 1 |
| Liberal | Birmingham Deritend | Beta Hornabrook | 2,268 | 6.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Caerphilly | Alice Grace Roberts | 8,190 | 22.4 | 2 |
| Liberal | East Grinstead | Barbara Bliss | 9,718 | 25.6 | 2 |
| Liberal | Hackney South | Muriel Morgan Gibbon | 6,302 | 20.7 | 3 |
| Liberal | Hendon | Margery Corbett Ashby | 13,449 | 22.2 | 3 |
| Liberal | Hitchin | Enid Lapthorn | 9,325 | 28.3 | 2 |
| Liberal | Hythe | Hester Lloyd Holland | 6,912 | 30.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Islington North | Domini Crosfield | 10,210 | 23.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Kensington North | Frances Henrietta Stewart | 5,516 | 13.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Kingston upon Hull North West | Catherine Alderton | 10,059 | 28.3 | 3 |
| Liberal | Louth, Lincolnshire | Margaret Wintringham | 13,560 | 42.9 | 2 |
| Liberal | Manchester Gorton | Beatrice Bayfield | 3,385 | 9.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | North Norfolk | Zelia Hoffman | 3,403 | 11.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Northampton | Helen Schilizzi | 11,054 | 20.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | Rotherhithe | Dora West | 4,556 | 19.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | St Pancras South East | Elizabeth Edwardes | 3,798 | 13.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Salford West | Mary Pollock Grant | 5,614 | 15.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Salisbury | Lucy Masterman | 13,022 | 39.3 | 2 |
| Liberal | Smethwick | Maude Egerton Marshall | 3,909 | 11.0 | 3 |
| Liberal | Sunderland | Elizabeth Morgan | 21,300 | 13.0 | 5 |
| Liberal | Surrey East | Ida Swinburne | 7,435 | 23.1 | 2 |
| Liberal | Tavistock | Hilda Runciman | 14,040 | 44.1 | 2 |
| Liberal | Warrington | Alison Garland | 3,070 | 7.2 | 3 |
| Liberal | Winchester | Frances Josephy | 7,278 | 18.6 | 3 |
| Unionist | Bothwell | Helen Brown Shaw | 12,077 | 39.3 | 2 |
| Unionist | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Duchess of Atholl | 12,245 | 48.6 | 1 |
| Unionist | Paisley | Minna Cowan | 7,094 | 17.7 | 3 |
Rathbone was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
By-elections, 1929-1931[edit]
1931 UK general election[edit]
Party | Constituency | Name[7] | Votes | % | Position |
| Communist | Aberdeen North | Helen Crawfurd | 3,980 | 11.1 | 3 |
| Communist | Greenwich | Kath Duncan | 2,024 | 4.4 | 4 |
| Conservative | Caerphilly | Catherine Bowen-Davies | 11,044 | 32.4 | 2 |
| Conservative | Cannock | Sarah Ward | 27,498 | 54.6 | 1 |
| Conservative | Hackney South | Marjorie Graves | 15,920 | 55.4 | 1 |
| Conservative | Hammersmith North | Mary Pickford | 18,815 | 59.2 | 1 |
| Conservative | Islington East | Thelma Cazalet | 27,221 | 67.5 | 1 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 24,277 | 63.3 | 1 |
| Conservative | Rotherhithe | Norah Runge | 11,666 | 50.3 | 1 |
| Conservative | Silvertown | Eleonora Tennant | 5,654 | 22.2 | 2 |
| Conservative | Southend-on-Sea | Countess of Iveagh | 46,564 | 85.7 | 1 |
| Conservative | Stoke | Ida Copeland | 19,918 | 45.6 | 1 |
| Conservative | Wallsend | Irene Ward | 25,999 | 58.6 | 1 |
| Conservative | Willesden West | Mavis Tate | 23,910 | 60.6 | 1 |
| Independent | Combined English Universities | Eleanor Rathbone | 5,096 | 37.2 | 1 |
| Ind. Labour Party | Camborne | Kate Spurrell | 8,280 | 24.5 | 3 |
| Ind. Labour Party | Clapham | Hilda Browning | 7,317 | 23.0 | 2 |
| Ind. Labour Party | North Lanarkshire | Jennie Lee | 19,691 | 44.7 | 2 |
| Ind. Labour Party | Norwich | Dorothy Jewson | 26,537 | 19.7 | 4 |
| Ind. Labour Party | Perth | Helen Gault | 3,705 | 9.7 | 3 |
| Ind. Labour Party | West Renfrewshire | Jean Mann | 10,203 | 31.5 | 2 |
| Independent Liberal | Anglesey | Megan Lloyd George | 14,839 | 58.3 | 1 |
| Labour | Aldershot | Mary Richardson | 4,091 | 15.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Aylesbury | Dorothy Woodman | 4,677 | 10.9 | 3 |
| Labour | Ayr Burghs | Clarice Shaw | 9,974 | 26.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Bedford | Clare Annesley | 9,654 | 27.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Blackburn | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 25,643 | 17.0 | 3 |
| Labour | East Ham North | Susan Lawrence | 11,769 | 34.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Flintshire | Frances Edwards | 16,158 | 28.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Gillingham | Catherine Mary Wadham | 9,103 | 31.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Hastings | Irene Goddard | 4,983 | 15.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Hendon | Amber Blanco White | 15,305 | 18.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Horsham and Worthing | Helen Keynes | 5,932 | 11.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Hythe | Grace Colman | 3,608 | 15.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Islington East | Leah Manning | 13,111 | 32.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Kidderminster | Jessie Stephen | 9,814 | 22.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Maidstone | Gertrude Speedwell Massingham | 6,770 | 19.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Middlesbrough East | Ellen Wilkinson | 12,080 | 39.6 | 2 |
| Labour | North Norfolk | Lucy Noel-Buxton | 13,035 | 39.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Northwich | Barbara Gould | 15,746 | 34.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Norwood | Ann Jane Anstey | 7,217 | 19.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Paddington North | Esther Rickards | 9,597 | 28.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Paddington South | Lucy Cox | 4,532 | 14.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Rushcliffe | Florence Paton | 14,176 | 27.9 | 2 |
| Labour | St Albans | Monica Whately | 10,289 | 21.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Streatham | Betty Fraser | 5,343 | 15.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Sunderland | Marion Phillips | 29,707 | 18.0 | 3 |
| Labour | The Wrekin | Edith Picton-Turbervill | 14,162 | 38.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Tonbridge | Constance Borrett | 8,208 | 21.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Wallsend | Margaret Bondfield | 18,393 | 41.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Woodbridge | Ida Mary Nussey Keeble | 5,885 | 18.7 | 2 |
| Labour Co-op | Brighton | Rosalind Moore | 12,878 | 7.3 | 4 |
| Liberal | Basingstoke | Frances Josephy | 6,106 | 18.1 | 2 |
| Liberal | Exeter | Eleanor Acland | 8,571 | 23.2 | 2 |
| Liberal | Holderness | Aline MacKinnon | 10,471 | 30.0 | 2 |
| Liberal | Shrewsbury | Betty Morgan | 9,358 | 30.8 | 2 |
| National Liberal | Wentworth | Charlotte Isabel Hilyer | 14,462 | 31.2 | 2 |
| National (Scotland) | Glasgow St Rollox | Elma Campbell | 3,521 | 13.3 | 3 |
| Unionist | Bothwell | Helen Brown Shaw | 16,571 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Unionist | Dundee | Florence Horsbrugh | 48,556 | 27.7 | 2 |
| Unionist | Glasgow Bridgeton | Catherine Gavin | 11,941 | 41.8 | 2 |
| Unionist | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Duchess of Atholl | 16,228 | 60.6 | 1 |
Horsbrugh was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
By-elections, 1931-1935[edit]
1935 UK general election[edit]
Party | Constituency | Name[8] | Votes | % | Position |
| Conservative | Caerphilly | N. J. Stoneham | 7,738 | 23.8 | 2 |
| Conservative | Cannock | Sarah Ward | 26,876 | 49.1 | 2 |
| Conservative | Clay Cross | Bridget Jackson | 8,391 | 25.4 | 2 |
| Conservative | Ebbw Vale | Ethel Scarborough | 7,145 | 22.2 | 2 |
| Conservative | Frome | Mavis Tate | 19,684 | 46.3 | 1 |
| Conservative | Hackney South | Marjorie Graves | 10,876 | 40.7 | 2 |
| Conservative | Islington East | Thelma Cazalet | 18,248 | 52.5 | 1 |
| Conservative | Plaistow | Dorothy Roddick | 6,730 | 26.7 | 2 |
| Conservative | Plymouth Sutton | Nancy Astor | 21,491 | 58.3 | 1 |
| Conservative | Poplar South | Diana Spearman | 6,862 | 26.8 | 2 |
| Conservative | Rotherhithe | Norah Runge | 9,751 | 40.3 | 2 |
| Conservative | Rothwell | Gwendoline Beaumont | 17,352 | 35.5 | 2 |
| Conservative | Silvertown | Eleonora Tennant | 4,276 | 19.0 | 2 |
| Conservative | Stoke | Ida Copeland | 18,867 | 47.3 | 2 |
| Conservative | Wallsend | Irene Ward | 23,842 | 52.6 | 1 |
| Independent | Combined English Universities | Eleanor Rathbone | unopposed | N/A | 1 |
| Independent | Putney | Violet Van der Elst | 1,021 | 3.0 | 3 |
| Ind. Labour Party | Camborne | Kate Spurrell | 592 | 1.9 | 4 |
| Ind. Labour Party | North Lanarkshire | Jennie Lee | 17,267 | 37.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Birkenhead East | Mary Mercer | 8,028 | 23.3 | 3 |
| Labour | Bradford North | Muriel Nichol | 14,047 | 35.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Burton | Gladys Paling | 8,041 | 25.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Bury | Edith Summerskill | 12,845 | 34.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Cheltenham | Elizabeth Pakenham | 7,784 | 29.5 | 2 |
| Labour | City of Chester | Agnes Bulley | 6,450 | 19.3 | 3 |
| Labour | Clapham | Monica Whately | 11,368 | 23.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Dartford | Janet Adamson | 35,596 | 48.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Darwen | Frances Kerby | 7,778 | 20.9 | 3 |
| Labour | Edinburgh South | Barbara Woodburn | 5,365 | 16.5 | 2 |
| Labour | Harrow | Helen Bentwich | 31,422 | 37.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Hendon | Amber Blanco White | 28,375 | 26.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Hornsey | Mari Power | 10,320 | 21.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Jarrow | Ellen Wilkinson | 20,324 | 53.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Lewisham East | Freda Corbet | 25,425 | 44.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Manchester Hulme | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | 11,221 | 39.7 | 2 |
| Labour | New Forest and Christchurch | Catherine Mary Wadham | 10,876 | 25.2 | 2 |
| Labour | North Dorset | M. M. Whitehead | 1,360 | 5.2 | 4 |
| Labour | North Norfolk | Lucy Noel-Buxton | 14,465 | 44.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Paddington North | Caroline Ganley | 9,925 | 34.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Pudsey and Otley | Lucy Cox | 9,997 | 23.3 | 3 |
| Labour | Saffron Walden | Clara Rackham | 9,633 | 32.9 | 2 |
| Labour | St Marylebone | Elizabeth Jacobs | 8,088 | 20.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Sheffield Hallam | Grace Colman | 10,346 | 32.7 | 2 |
| Labour | Southend-on-Sea | Helen Keynes | 7,796 | 13.8 | 3 |
| Labour | Stockton-on-Tees | Susan Lawrence | 19,217 | 40.3 | 2 |
| Labour | Stroud | Constance Borrett | 14,133 | 36.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Sunderland | Leah Manning | 32,059 | 19.8 | 4 |
| Labour | Wallsend | Margaret Bondfield | 21,462 | 47.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Westminster St George's | Anne Fremantle | 4,643 | 15.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Westmorland | Evelyn Short | 10,417 | 31.5 | 2 |
| Labour | West Renfrewshire | Jean Mann | 12,407 | 38.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Wood Green | Dorothy Woodman | 14,561 | 24.8 | 2 |
| Liberal | Anglesey | Megan Lloyd George | 11,227 | 44.5 | 1 |
| Liberal | Aylesbury | Margaret Wintringham | 13,622 | 31.6 | 2 |
| Liberal | Carlisle | Barbara Bliss | 3,525 | 10.3 | 3 |
| Liberal | Devizes | Frances Josephy | 9,903 | 40.7 | 2 |
| Liberal | Edinburgh North | Chrystal Macmillan | 1,798 | 5.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Hemel Hempstead | Margery Corbett Ashby | 7,078 | 22.0 | 2 |
| Liberal | Holderness | Aline Mackinnon | 10,348 | 24.9 | 2 |
| Liberal | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Elizabeth MacDonald | 10,069 | 39.8 | 2 |
| Liberal | Maldon | Hilda Buckmaster | 5,680 | 17.7 | 3 |
| Liberal | Rye | Dorothy Osborn | 9,162 | 28.8 | 2 |
| Liberal | Willesden East | Nancy Stewart Parnell | 3,217 | 7.3 | 3 |
| Unionist | Bothwell | Helen Brown Shaw | 13,761 | 39.7 | 2 |
| Unionist | Dundee | Florence Horsbrugh | 50,542 | 26.8 | 1 |
| Unionist | Edinburgh East | Minna Cowan | 12,229 | 39.6 | 2 |
| Unionist | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Duchess of Atholl | 15,238 | 60.2 | 1 |
By-elections, 1935-1945[edit]
Party | Election | Name | Votes | % | Position |
| Conservative | 1936 Clay Cross by-election | Bridget Jackson | 8,042 | 24.9 | 2 |
| Independent | 1936 Preston by-election | Florence White | 3,221 | 4.8 | 3 |
| Conservative | 1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election | Frances Davidson | 14,992 | 57.7 | 1 |
| Liberal | 1937 Hemel Hempstead by-election | Margery Corbett Ashby | 7,078 | 22.0 | 2 |
| Labour | 1937 Glasgow Springburn by-election | Agnes Hardie | 14,859 | 62.6 | 1 |
| National Liberal | 1938 Pontypridd by-election | Juliet Rhys-Williams | 14,810 | 40.1 | 2 |
| Independent | 1938 Combined Scottish Universities by-election | Frances Melville | 5,618 | 19.5 | 2 |
| Labour | 1938 Fulham West by-election | Edith Summerskill | 16,583 | 52.2 | 1 |
| Labour | 1938 Dartford by-election | Jennie Adamson | 46,514 | 52.4 | 1 |
| Labour | 1938 Fylde by-election | Mabel Tylecote | 17,648 | 31.6 | 2 |
| Independent | 1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election | Duchess of Atholl | 10,495 | 47.1 | 2 |
| Liberal | 1939 Holderness by-election | Aline Mackinnon | 11,590 | 25.7 | 2 |
| Unionist | 1939 South Ayrshire by-election | Catherine Gavin | 12,986 | 42.0 | 2 |
| National | 1940 Southwark Central by-election | Violet van der Elst | 1,382 | 16.8 | 3 |
| Ind. Labour Party | 1940 East Renfrewshire by-election | Annie Maxton | 8,206 | 19.3 | 2 |
| Communist | 1940 Bow and Bromley by-election | Isabel Brown | 506 | 4.2 | 2 |
| Conservative | 1941 Bodmin by-election | Beatrice Wright | unopposed | N/A | 1 |
| Independent | 1941 Harrow by-election | Winifred Henney | 3,433 | 19.1 | 2 |
| Common Wealth | 1943 Ashford by-election | Catherine Williamson | 4,192 | 30.3 | 2 |
| Conservative | 1943 Bristol Central by-election | Violet Bathurst | 5,867 | 52.1 | 1 |
| Independent Labour | 1943 Bristol Central by-election | Jennie Lee | 4,308 | 38.2 | 2 |
| Common Wealth | 1943 The Hartlepools by-election | Elaine Burton | 3,634 | 17.4 | 2 |
| Independent Liberal | 1943 Darwen by-election | Honor Balfour | 8,799 | 49.8 | 2 |
| Independent | 1943 Acton by-election | Dorothy Crisp | 707 | 8.5 | 3 |
| Independent Liberal | 1944 Bury St Edmunds by-election | Margery Corbett Ashby | 9,121 | 43.8 | 2 |
1945 UK general election[edit]
Party | Constituency | Name | Votes | % | Position |
| Common Wealth | Canterbury | Catherine Williamson | 1,017 | 2.6 | 3 |
| Common Wealth | Chelsea | Dorothy Sharpe | 984 | 5.2 | 3 |
| Common Wealth | North Midlothian | Kitty Wintringham | 3,299 | 6.4 | 3 |
| Common Wealth | Sutton Coldfield | Joyce Purser | 2,043 | 4.2 | 3 |
| Communist | Birmingham Handsworth | Jessie Eden | 1,390 | 3.4 | 5 |
| Communist | Harrow East | Gladys Driver | 3,493 | 5.9 | 4 |
| Conservative | Bristol Central | Violet Bathurst | 7,369 | 36.1 | 2 |
| Conservative | Frome | Mavis Tate | 24,228 | 44.9 | 2 |
| Conservative | Islington East | Thelma Cazalet-Keir | 9,960 | 34.5 | 2 |
| Conservative | Hemel Hempstead | Frances Davidson | 19,536 | 44.2 | 1 |
| Conservative | Kingston upon Hull Central | Diana Spearman | 4,106 | 27.5 | 2 |
| Conservative | Manchester Ardwick | Nellie Beer | 8,093 | 36.0 | 2 |
| Conservative | Rotherhithe | Norah Runge | 2,577 | 20.9 | 2 |
| Conservative | Wallsend | Irene Ward | 21,319 | 39.9 | 2 |
| Conservative | Wentworth | Aymée Lavender Gandar Dower | 8,670 | 16.4 | 2 |
| Independent | Combined English Universities | Eleanor Rathbone | 11,176 | 53.3 | 1 |
| Independent | Hornchurch | Violet Van der Elst | 232 | 0.5 | 4 |
| Independent | Westminster St George's | Dorothy Crisp | 1,069 | 5.5 | 3 |
| Ind. Conservative | Putney | Eleonora Tennant | 144 | 0.4 | 5 |
| Independent Progressive | London University | Mary Danvers Stocks | 7,469 | 49.5 | 2 |
| Labour Co-op | Battersea South | Caroline Ganley | 19,275 | 61.5 | 1 |
| Labour Co-op | Birmingham Duddeston | Edith Agnes Wills | 10,745 | 65.0 | 1 |
| Labour Co-op | Ilford North | Mabel Ridealgh | 18,833 | 42.8 | 1 |
| Labour | Basingstoke | Edith Alice Weston | 13,763 | 33.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Bath | Dorothy Archibald | 18,120 | 39.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Bexley | Jennie Adamson | 24,686 | 56.9 | 1 |
| Labour | Blackburn | Barbara Castle | 35,145 | 26.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Bradford North | Muriel Nichol | 20,268 | 43.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Bury St Edmunds | Cecily Alicia McCall | 9,195 | 29.8 | 2 |
| Labour | Camberwell North West | Freda Corbet | 12,251 | 69.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Cannock | Jennie Lee | 48,849 | 62.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Chelsea | Margaret Douglas Shufeldt | 5,874 | 31.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Cheltenham | Phyllis Maude Warner | 11,095 | 29.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Chichester | Rosalie Francesca Chamberlayne | 13,670 | 24.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Coatbridge | Jean Mann | 18,619 | 61.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Croydon North | Marion Billson | 22,810 | 40.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Epping | Leah Manning | 15,993 | 44.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Flintshire | Eirene Lloyd Jones | 26,761 | 37.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Fulham West | Edith Summerskill | 19,537 | 61.9 | 1 |
| Labour | Harrow West | B. J. K. Thompson | 18,961 | 33.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Hemel Hempstead | Doris Mobbs | 14,426 | 32.6 | 2 |
| Labour | Hendon North | Barbara Gould | 18,251 | 47.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Hendon South | Elaine Burton | 14,917 | 38.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Holborn | Irene Marcousé | 5,136 | 45.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Jarrow | Ellen Wilkinson | 22,656 | 66.0 | 1 |
| Labour | Kensington South | Patricia Strauss | 6,014 | 18.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Kilmarnock | Clarice Shaw | 23,837 | 59.4 | 1 |
| Labour | Leeds North East | Alice Bacon | 28,870 | 53.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Liverpool Exchange | Bessie Braddock | 8,494 | 52.0 | 1 |
| Labour | Middleton and Prestwich | Mabel Tylecote | 25,908 | 49.2 | 2 |
| Labour | Newbury | Iris Brook | 15,754 | 33.7 | 2 |
| Labour | North Lanarkshire | Margaret Herbison | 30,251 | 59.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Norwich | Lucy Noel-Buxton | 31,553 | 27.9 | 1 |
| Labour | Plymouth Sutton | Lucy Middleton | 15,417 | 51.6 | 1 |
| Labour | Rushcliffe | Florence Paton | 43,303 | 54.2 | 1 |
| Labour | St Marylebone | Elizabeth Jacobs | 10,740 | 32.4 | 2 |
| Labour | Sutton and Cheam | Helen Judd | 17,293 | 41.0 | 2 |
| Labour | Tonbridge | Vera Dart | 16,590 | 35.9 | 2 |
| Labour | Tynemouth | Grace Colman | 13,963 | 46.1 | 1 |
| Labour | Windsor | Marjorie Nicholson | 16,420 | 33.1 | 2 |
| Labour | Wirral | Agnes Bulley | 25,919 | 31.3 | 2 |
| Liberal | Anglesey | Megan Lloyd George | 12,610 | 52.2 | 1 |
| Liberal | Barnet | Jean Henderson | 4,495 | 11.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Birmingham Handsworth | Barbara Lewis | 4,945 | 12.0 | 4 |
| Liberal | Blackburn | Marjorie Annie MacInerney | 6,096 | 4.5 | 6 |
| Liberal | Chelmsford | Hilda Buckmaster | 5,909 | 10.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Darwen | Honor Balfour | 7,979 | 24.3 | 3 |
| Liberal | Devizes | Frances Josephy | 6,278 | 23.1 | 3 |
| Liberal | Exeter | Freda Evelyn Griffith Morgan | 6,220 | 16.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Hackney North | Doreen Gorsky | 3,546 | 13.3 | 3 |
| Liberal | Ilford North | Juliet Rhys-Williams | 9,128 | 20.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Isle of Wight | May O'Conor | 5,967 | 12.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | Mossley | Marjorie Wainwright Jalland | 7,128 | 12.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Paisley | Louise Glen-Coats | 4,532 | 10.0 | 3 |
| Liberal | Plymouth Sutton | Joan Gaved | 3,695 | 12.4 | 3 |
| Liberal | Ripon | Mabel Cowley | 6,122 | 12.6 | 3 |
| Liberal | St Albans | Enid Lakeman | 5,601 | 10.7 | 3 |
| Liberal | St Pancras South East | Audrey Blackman | 1,474 | 8.8 | 3 |
| Liberal | Sevenoaks | Nelia Muspratt | 6,906 | 16.7 | 3 |
| Liberal | Sudbury | Margaret Hitchcock | 5,045 | 20.5 | 3 |
| Liberal | Wells | Violet Bonham-Carter | 7,910 | 25.1 | 3 |
| National Liberal | Poplar South | Joan Vickers | 1,403 | 10.8 | 2 |
| Plaid Cymru | University of Wales | Gwenan Jones | 1,696 | 24.5 | 2 |
| Unionist | Aberdeen North | Priscilla Buchan | 9,623 | 25.1 | 2 |
| Unionist | Bothwell | Helen Brown Shaw | 13,207 | 34.2 | 2 |
| Unionist | Dundee | Florence Horsbrugh | 32,309 | 18.9 | 4 |
| Ulster Unionist | Fermanagh and Tyrone | Noreen Cooper | 46,260 | 22.8 | 4 |
Castle won in Blackburn by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Richard Keen; Richard Cracknell (20 July 2021). "Women in Parliament and Government". House of Commons Library. p. 22.
- ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1968). British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 62. ISBN 0900178000.
- ^ "The defeated thirty", Manchester Guardian, 5 December 1922
- ^ "Eight woman MPs", The Times, 8 December 1923
- ^ "The 41 women candidates", Manchester Guardian, 20 October 1924
- ^ "Women candidates: a total of 64 for all parties", Manchester Guardian, 4 May 1929
- ^ "Women candidates: 61 Nominated : Two Straight Fights", Manchester Guardian, 17 October 1931
- ^ "Women candidates", The Times, 5 November 1935
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949
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