UK Elections Info
< General Election - February 1974 >
| Westminster Elections |
| MPs by Constituency |
| Full List |
| MPs by Age |
| MPs by Surname |
| MPs by Party |
| Candidates by Party |
| MPs by %age of Vote |
| Candidates by %age of Vote |
| Votes for Parties |
| Majorities |
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| CON | 297 |
| LAB | 285 |
| LAB Co-op | 16 |
| LIB | 14 |
| SNP | 7 |
| UU | 7 |
| VUPP | 3 |
| PC | 2 |
| Ind LAB | 1 |
| DUP | 1 |
| SDLP | 1 |
| Dem LAB | 1 |
| Party | MPs | Total Votes |
Percentage of Votes | Contests | %age Votes in Contested |
%age Votes of Total Electorate | %age Votes of Electorate Contested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 301 | 11,645,586 | 37.16 | 623 | 38.03 | 29.29 | 30.07 |
| Conservative & Unionist Party | 297 | 11,871,960 | 37.88 | 623 | 38.77 | 29.86 | 30.66 |
| Liberal Party | 14 | 6,059,527 | 19.33 | 517 | 23.57 | 15.24 | 18.76 |
| Scottish National Party | 7 | 633,120 | 2.02 | 70 | 22.07 | 1.59 | 17.44 |
| Ulster Unionist | 7 | 232,103 | 0.74 | 7 | 54.12 | 0.58 | 37.19 |
| Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party | 3 | 75,944 | 0.24 | 3 | 43.12 | 0.19 | 32.41 |
| Plaid Cymru | 2 | 171,374 | 0.55 | 36 | 10.75 | 0.43 | 8.60 |
| Social Democratic Labour Party | 1 | 160,437 | 0.51 | 12 | 22.36 | 0.40 | 15.62 |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 1 | 58,656 | 0.19 | 2 | 52.07 | 0.15 | 34.78 |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 26,102 | 0.08 | 4 | 13.60 | 0.07 | 9.89 |
| Democratic Labour | 1 | 14,780 | 0.05 | 1 | 35.56 | 0.04 | 28.13 |
| PAUU | 0 | 94,301 | 0.30 | 7 | 22.75 | 0.24 | 16.49 |
| National Front | 0 | 76,865 | 0.25 | 54 | 3.08 | 0.19 | 2.35 |
| Communist Party | 0 | 32,743 | 0.10 | 44 | 1.70 | 0.08 | 1.28 |
| Independent Liberal | 0 | 27,656 | 0.09 | 7 | 8.79 | 0.07 | 6.63 |
| Independent | 0 | 23,659 | 0.08 | 32 | 1.48 | 0.06 | 1.17 |
| Alliance Party | 0 | 22,660 | 0.07 | 3 | 12.25 | 0.06 | 8.05 |
| Unity | 0 | 17,593 | 0.06 | 2 | 14.26 | 0.04 | 10.94 |
| Independent Socialist | 0 | 17,300 | 0.06 | 2 | 15.93 | 0.04 | 13.02 |
| Northern Ireland Labour Party | 0 | 17,284 | 0.06 | 5 | 6.23 | 0.04 | 4.25 |
| Republican Clubs | 0 | 15,152 | 0.05 | 4 | 6.54 | 0.04 | 4.47 |
| Independent Conservative | 0 | 9,463 | 0.03 | 15 | 1.30 | 0.02 | 1.03 |
| Independent Republican | 0 | 5,662 | 0.02 | 1 | 11.88 | 0.01 | 8.62 |
| People | 0 | 4,576 | 0.01 | 6 | 1.67 | 0.01 | 1.29 |
| Workers Revolutionary Party | 0 | 4,191 | 0.01 | 9 | 1.09 | 0.01 | 0.80 |
| SD | 0 | 1,883 | 0.01 | 3 | 1.20 | 0.00 | 1.01 |
| Conservative Against the Common Market | 0 | 1,738 | 0.01 | 3 | 1.32 | 0.00 | 0.96 |
| Communist Party of England | 0 | 1,419 | 0.00 | 6 | 0.61 | 0.00 | 0.44 |
| NIP | 0 | 1,373 | 0.00 | 1 | 4.42 | 0.00 | 2.90 |
| Ind People | 0 | 1,237 | 0.00 | 1 | 2.19 | 0.00 | 1.61 |
| Nat Dem Party | 0 | 1,161 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.60 | 0.00 | 1.34 |
| Independent Democratic Alliance | 0 | 1,148 | 0.00 | 5 | 0.48 | 0.00 | 0.39 |
| Anti-Common Market | 0 | 1,007 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.94 | 0.00 | 0.78 |
| Dem Christian | 0 | 875 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.70 | 0.00 | 1.36 |
| Mebyon Kernow | 0 | 850 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.46 | 0.00 | 1.19 |
| Social Democrat | 0 | 763 | 0.00 | 1 | 2.46 | 0.00 | 1.61 |
| Powellite | 0 | 749 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.30 | 0.00 | 1.03 |
| Dem CON | 0 | 720 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.15 | 0.00 | 0.97 |
| British Movement | 0 | 711 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.47 | 0.00 | 1.03 |
| Ind SD | 0 | 661 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.05 | 0.00 | 0.89 |
| Nat Ind | 0 | 657 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.75 | 0.00 | 0.57 |
| LAB and Dem | 0 | 570 | 0.00 | 1 | 2.19 | 0.00 | 1.38 |
| Wessex Regiment | 0 | 521 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.85 | 0.00 | 0.71 |
| Eng Nat | 0 | 482 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.99 | 0.00 | 0.80 |
| Intl Marxist | 0 | 424 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.89 | 0.00 | 0.67 |
| Independent Democrat | 0 | 386 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.75 | 0.00 | 0.59 |
| IPP | 0 | 337 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.45 | 0.00 | 0.37 |
| International Marxist Group | 0 | 292 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.40 | 0.00 | 0.28 |
| Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 0 | 234 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.42 | 0.00 | 0.32 |
| UKP | 0 | 228 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.38 | 0.00 | 0.32 |
| Christian Dem Soc | 0 | 220 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 0.35 |
| JHNFP | 0 | 203 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.38 | 0.00 | 0.29 |
| World Government | 0 | 118 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.23 | 0.00 | 0.19 |
| Social Credit | 0 | 106 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 0.18 |
| Royal Republican | 0 | 93 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.13 |