This article lists the Common Wealth Party's election results in UK parliamentary elections.

Summary of general election performance

YearNumber of CandidatesTotal votesAverage voters per candidatePercentage of voteSaved depositsChange (%)Number of MPs
1945 23110,6344,8100.57N/A1

Elections results

By-elections, 1943–45

By-electionCandidateVotes %Position
1943 Ashford by-electionCatherine Williamson4,19230.32
1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-electionTom Wintringham10,75148.12
1943 Portsmouth North by-electionThomas Sargant4,54540.32
1943 Watford by-electionRaymond Blackburn11,83846.12
1943 Eddisbury by-electionJohn Loverseed8,02343.71
1943 Daventry by-electionDennis Webb6,59133.42
1943 The Hartlepools by-electionElaine Burton3,63417.42
1943 Newark by-electionEdward Moeran3,18913.93
1943 Birmingham Aston by-electionGilbert Hall1,88621.62
1944 Skipton by-electionHugh Lawson12,22244.91
1944 Manchester Rusholme by-electionHarold W. Blomerley6,87042.12
1945 Chelmsford by-electionErnest Millington24,54857.51

1945 general election

ConstituencyCandidateVotes %Position
AldershotTom Wintringham14,43542.62
Bury St EdmundsEric Gordon England7502.44
CanterburyCatherine Williamson1,0172.63
ChelmsfordErnest Millington27,30946.71
ChelseaDorothy Sharpe9845.23
EveshamDesmond Donnelly7,72723.13
FyldeKarl Edwin Heath1,7842.93
Glasgow PollokWilliam John Voisey-Youldon9323.03
Harrow WestHugh Lawson2,4624.34
KnutsfordFrank William Young6281.14
NewburyGeorge Suggett4240.94
Newcastle-upon-Tyne NorthHenry Arthur Charles Ridsdale9042.64
North MidlothianKitty Wintringham3,2996.43
PetersfieldThomas Sargant6,60018.53
Plymouth DrakeEdgar Trout1,6815.73
PutneyRichard Acland2,6868.03
Richmond (Surrey)Douglas George Horace Frank7531.74
Richmond (Yorks)Roy Norman Chesterton8132.34
Sheffield EcclesallSydney Checkland12,04535.92
Sutton ColdfieldJoyce Purser2,0434.23
Thirsk and MaltonEdward Moeran13,57239.92
Westminster St George'sWilfred Brown5,31427.32
WimbledonK. Horne2,4723.64

References

    • F. W. S. Craig, Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833-1987
    • Craig, F. W. S. (1975). Minor Parties in British By-elections, 1885-1974. London: Macmillan Press. pp. 14–15.
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