West Riding of Yorkshire Pontefract Constituency (PDivCon) : Political Parties

Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Coalition Liberal 8561 Elected
Labour 5047

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election



Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 9111 Elected
Conservative 8485
National Liberal 5879

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election



Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 11134 Elected
Conservative 8872
Liberal 4567

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election



Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 13745 Elected
Labour 13044

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election



Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17335 Elected
Conservative 10040
Liberal 8892

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election



Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20941 Elected
Labour 16870

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election



Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19783 Elected
National Liberal 17257

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election



Election of 24th Jul, 1941
Party Votes Outcome
Labour -1 Elected

This was a by-election.



Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24690 Elected
Conservative 16048

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election




The election result data we hold includes over three hundred party labels, so we have simplified them to these seven simple categories. Of course, most candidates in most elections, and almost every candidate who won, was standing for one of the main parties, but an enormous range of labels have been used by one or two candidates. These groupings have been defined based almost entirely on the party labels, rather than detailed research into party policies, but including words like 'Labour' or 'Conservative' in ...

your party label says a lot about where you stand, and even more about the people voting for you. 'Left' means broadly speaking candidates to the left of the Liberal or Labour parties, 'Right' candidates to the right of the Conservatives. 'Nationalist' means any kind of nationalist, even including Isle of Wight nationalists.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, West Riding of Yorkshire Pontefract Constituency (PDivCon) through time | Historical Statistics on Political Life | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12751096/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 31st May 2026