1922 United Kingdom general election

The Liberal Party had divided into two factions following the ousting of H. H. Asquith as Prime Minister in December 1916. From then until October 1922 the Conservatives had been in coalition with a Liberal faction (which later became the "National Liberals") led by David Lloyd George. Following the Carlton Club meeting, Lloyd George resigned as Prime Minister and Bonar Law formed a Conservative majority government.

Although still leader of the Liberal Party and a frequent public speaker, former Prime Minister Asquith was no longer a particularly influential figure in the national political debate, and he had played no part in the downfall of the Lloyd George coalition. Most attention was focused on Law and Lloyd George. Asquith's daughter Violet Bonham-Carter, a prominent Liberal Party campaigner, likened the election to a contest between a man with sleeping sickness (Bonar Law) and a man with St Vitus Dance (Lloyd George).{{sfn|Jenkins|1964|p=495}}

Some of Lloyd George's National Liberals were not opposed by Conservative candidates (e.g. Winston Churchill, who was defeated at Dundee nonetheless), while many leading Conservatives (e.g. former parliamentary leaders Arthur Balfour and Sir Austen Chamberlain, and former Lord Chancellor Lord Birkenhead) were not members of Bonar Law's government, and hoped to hold the balance of power after the election (comparisons were made with the Peelite group—the ousted Conservative front bench of the late 1840s and 1850s); this was not to be, as Bonar Law won an overall majority.

It was the first election at which Labour surpassed the combined strength of both Liberal parties in votes and seats. The election was also notable for Labour in that it saw future Prime Minister Clement Attlee elected as MP for Limehouse.

Some Liberal candidates stood calling for a reunited Liberal Party, while others appear to have backed both Asquith and Lloyd George. Few sources are able to agree on exact numbers, and even in contemporary records held by the two groups, some MPs were claimed for both sides. By one estimate, there were 29 seats where Liberals stood against one another. This is thought to have cost them at least 14 seats, 10 of them to Labour, so in theory a reunited Liberal Party would have been much closer to, and perhaps even ahead of, Labour in terms of seats. However, in reality the two factions were on poor terms, and Lloyd George was still hoping for a renewed coalition with the Conservatives.{{sfn|Koss|1985|p=257–258}}

Neither of the leaders of the two main parties succeeded in enjoying their achievement in the election for very long; within less than a month of the election, Clynes was defeated in a leadership challenge by former Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald, while Bonar Law would only last a little over seven months as Prime Minister before being forced to step down due to a terminal illness, resulting in Stanley Baldwin succeeding him as both party leader and Prime Minister. As a result, Bonar Law was the shortest-serving UK Prime Minister of the twentieth century. Parliament was dissolved on 26 October; Bonar Law died four days later.{{cite web |title=Parliamentary Election Timetables |url=https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP97-40/RP97-40.pdf |publisher=House of Commons Library |edition=3rd |date=25 March 1997 |access-date=3 July 2022}}

The Conservative Party offered continuity to the electorate. Bonar Law's election address stated:{{blockquote|

The crying need of the nation have this moment ... Is that we should have tranquility and stability both at home and abroad so that the free scope should be given to the initiative and enterprise of our own citizens, for it is in that way, far more than by any action of the Government that we can hope to recover from the economic and social results of the war.{{sfn|Craig|1970|p=10}}

}}

The Labour Party proposed to nationalise the mines and railways, to impose a levy on financial capital, and to revise the peace treaties. It promised a higher standard of living for workers, higher wages, and better housing.{{sfnm|Somervell|1936|1p=303|Craig|1970|2pp=9–17}}

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{{Election summary begin with leaders| title = UK General Election 1922}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|leader = Bonar Law

|candidates = 482

|seats = 344

|gain = 54

|loss = 92

|net = −35

|votes = 5,294,465

|votes % = 38.5

|seats % = 55.9

|plus/minus = +0.1

|government = yes

|vps = 15,391

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Labour Party (UK)

|leader = J. R. Clynes

|candidates = 414

|seats = 142

|gain = 91

|loss = 6

|net = +85

|votes = 4,076,665

|votes % = 29.7

|seats % = 23.1

|plus/minus = +8.9

|vps = 28,709

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|leader = H. H. Asquith

|candidates = 334

|seats = 62

|gain = 44

|loss = 21

|net = +23

|votes = 2,601,486

|votes % = 18.9

|seats % = 10.1

|plus/minus = +5.9

|vps = 41,959

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)

|leader = David Lloyd George

|candidates = 155

|seats = 53

|gain = 9

|loss = 80

|net = −71

|votes = 1,355,366

|votes % = 9.9

|seats % = 8.6

|plus/minus = −2.7

|vps = 25,573

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Independent Conservative

|leader = N/A

|candidates = 20

|seats = 3

|gain = 3

|loss = 1

|net = +2

|votes = 116,861

|votes % = 0.9

|seats % = 0.5

|plus/minus = +0.5

|vps = 38,954

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Independent (politician)

|leader = N/A

|candidates = 15

|seats = 3

|gain = 3

|loss = 2

|net = 0

|votes = 114,697

|votes % = 0.8

|seats % = 0.5

|plus/minus = −0.2

|vps = 38,232

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)

|leader = Joseph Devlin

|candidates = 3

|seats = 2

|gain = 2

|loss = 5

|net = −5

|votes = 45,027

|votes % = 0.3

|seats % = 0.5

|plus/minus = −1.9

|vps = 19,214

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Communist Party of Great Britain

|leader = Albert Inkpin

|candidates = 4

|seats = 1

|gain = 1

|loss = 0

|net = +1

|votes = 30,684

|votes % = 0.2

|seats % = 0.1

|plus/minus = N/A

|vps = 30,684

}}

{{Election summary with leaders|

|party = Agriculturalist

|leader = Harry German

|candidates = 4

|seats = 0

|gain = 0

|loss = 0

|net = 0

|votes = 21,510

|votes % = 0.2

|seats % =

|plus/minus = 0.0

|vps = N/A

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Independent Labour

|leader = N/A

|candidates = 4

|seats = 1

|gain = 0

|loss = 1

|net = −1

|votes = 18,419

|votes % = 0.1

|seats % = 0.17

|plus/minus = −1.0

|vps = 18,419

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Constitutionalist (UK)

|leader = N/A

|candidates = 1

|seats = 1

|gain = 1

|loss = 0

|net = +1

|votes = 16,662

|votes % = 0.1

|seats % = 0.17

|plus/minus = N/A

|vps = 16,662

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Scottish Prohibition Party

|leader = Edwin Scrymgeour

|candidates = 1

|seats = 1

|gain = 1

|loss = 0

|net = +1

|votes = 16,289

|votes % = 0.1

|seats % = 0.17

|plus/minus = +0.1

|vps = 16,289

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Independent Liberal

|leader = N/A

|candidates = 3

|seats = 1

|gain = 1

|loss = 1

|net = 0

|votes = 13,197

|votes % = 0.1

|seats % = 0.17

|plus/minus = −0.1

|vps = 13,197

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Nationalist Party (Ireland)

|leader = T. P. O'Connor

|candidates = 2

|seats = 1

|gain = 0

|loss = 0

|net = 0

|votes = 12,614

|votes % = 0.1

|seats % = 0.2

|plus/minus = N/A

|vps = N/A

}}

{{Election summary party with leaders|

|party = Independent Unionist

|leader = N/A

|candidates = 1

|seats = 0

|gain = 0

|loss = 0

|net = 0

|votes = 9,861

|votes % = 0.1

|seats % =

|plus/minus = N/A

|vps = N/A

}}

{{Election summary with leaders|

|party = Independent Communist

|leader = N/A

|candidates = 1

|seats = 0

|gain = 0

|loss = 0

|net = 0

|votes = 4,027

|votes % = 0.0

|seats % =

|plus/minus = N/A

|vps = N/A

}}

{{Election summary with leaders|

|party = Anti-Parliamentary Communist

|leader = Guy Aldred

|candidates = 1

|seats = 0

|gain = 0

|loss = 0

|net = 0

|votes = 470

|votes % = 0.0

|seats % =

|plus/minus = N/A

|vps = N/A

}}

|}

{{Hatnote|Total votes cast: 13,748,300. Turnout: 73.0%.{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp2008/rp08-012.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date=23 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708134346/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp2008/rp08-012.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2014 |df=dmy-all}}{{efn|All parties shown. Conservatives include Ulster Unionists. National Liberals were party formed by Lloyd George's Coalition Liberals after leaving the government. Their net seat change is compared with the Coalition Liberals' number of seats after the 1918 election.}}

}}

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|title=Popular vote

|titlebar=#ddd

|width=600px

|barwidth=500px

|bars=

{{bar percent|Conservative|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|38.51}}

{{bar percent|Labour|{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|29.65}}

{{bar percent|Liberal|{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}|18.92}}

{{bar percent|National Liberal|{{party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}}|9.86}}

{{bar percent|Others|{{party color|Independent}}|3.06}}

}}

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|title=Parliamentary seats

|titlebar=#ddd

|width=600px

|barwidth=500px

|bars=

{{bar percent|Conservative|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|55.93}}

{{bar percent|Labour|{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|23.09}}

{{bar percent|Liberal|{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}|10.08}}

{{bar percent|National Liberal|{{party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}}|8.62}}

{{bar percent|Others|{{party color|Independent}}|2.28}}

}}

• All comparisons are with the 1918 election.
• In some cases the change is due to the MP defecting to the gaining party. Such circumstances are marked with a *.
• In other circumstances the change is due to the seat having been won by the gaining party in a by-election in the intervening years, and then retained in 1922. Such circumstances are marked with a †.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:1em"

!colspan=2|From

!colspan=2|To

!No.

!class=unsortable|Seats

|-

| rowspan=4 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=4|{{party shortname linked|Labour Party (UK)}}

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} (HOLD)

|51

|Abertillery, Ayrshire South, Bedwellty, Bishop Auckland, Broxtowe, Burnley, Burslem, Caerphilly, Chester-le-Street, Deptford, Derby (one of two), Dundee (one of two), Ebbw Vale, Edinburgh Central, Fife West, Forest of Dean, Gorton, Govan, Gower, Hamilton, Hemsworth, Holland with Boston, Houghton-le-Spring, Ince, Kingswinford, Leeds South East, Leek, Morpeth, Nelson and Colne, Newton, Normanton, Nottingham West, Ogmore, Plaistow, Platting, Pontypool, Preston (one of two), Rhondda East, Rhondda West, Rother Valley, Rothwell, St Helens, Salford North, Smethwick, Wednesbury, Wentworth, West Bromwich, Westhoughton, Wigan, Woolwich East, Workington

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}}

|1

|Mansfield

|-

| {{Party name with colour|National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}}

|1

|Wellingborough

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}

|4

|Barnard Castle, Bolton (one of two), Clitheroe, Ormskirk

|-

| rowspan=3 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Coalition Labour}}" |

|rowspan=3 |{{party shortname linked|Coalition Labour}}

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}

|2

|Cannock, Gorbals

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Independent (politician)}}

|1

|Norwich (one of two)*

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}

|1

|Stockport (one of two)†

|-

| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent Labour}}" |

| rowspan=2 |{{party shortname linked|Independent Labour}}

| {{Party name with colour|Independent Labour}}

|1

|Anglesey

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}

|1

|Aberdeen North*

|-

| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Coalition National Democratic and Labour Party}}" |

| rowspan=2|{{party shortname linked|Coalition National Democratic and Labour Party}}

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}

|8

|Aberdare, Bradford East, Don Valley, East Ham South, Hanley, Leicester West, Wallsend, Walthamstow West

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}

|1

|Duddeston

|-

| {{Party name with colour|National Socialist Party (UK)}}

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}

|1

|Silvertown*

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Co-operative Party}}

| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}

|1

|Kettering

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Unionist}}

|colspan=2|abolished

|3

|Shankill, St Anne's, Victoria

|-

| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Sinn Féin}}" |

|rowspan=2|{{party shortname linked|Sinn Féin}}

| {{Party name with colour|Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)}}

|1

|Fermanagh and Tyrone (one of two) (replaced Fermanagh South)

|-

|colspan=2|abolished

|72

|Londonderry City, Tyrone NW, N Donegal, S Donegal, W Donegal, N Monaghan, S Monaghan, E Cavan, W Cavan, Connemara, E Galway, N Galway, S Galway, Leitrim, N Roscommon, S Roscommon, N Sligo, S Sligo, E Mayo, N Mayo, S Mayo, W Mayo, Longford, Louth, King's County, Queen's County, Westmeath, County Carlow, N Meath, S Meath, Dublin College Green, Dublin Harbour, Dublin St Patrick's, Dublin St Stephen's Green, N Dublin, S Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin Clontarf, Dublin Pembroke, Dublin St James's, Dublin St Michan's, E Wicklow, W Wicklow, N Kildare, S Kildare, N Kilkenny, S Kilkenny, N Wexford, S Wexford, E Clare, W Clare, E Tipperary, Mid Tipperary, N Tipperary, S Tipperary, Limerick City, E Limerick, W Limerick, E Kerry, N Kerry, S Kerry, W Kerry, Cork (both seats), E Cork, Mid Cork, N Cork, NE Cork, S Cork, SE Cork, W Cork, County Waterford

|-

| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)}}" |

| rowspan=2 |{{party shortname linked|Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)}}

| {{Party name with colour|Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)}}

|2

|Fermanagh and Tyrone (one of two) (replaced Tyrone North-East)

|-

|colspan=2|abolished

|3

|Armagh South, Belfast Falls, Down South

|-

| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Irish Parliamentary Party}}" |

| rowspan=2 |{{party shortname linked|Irish Parliamentary Party}}

| {{Party name with colour|Nationalist Party (Ireland)}}

|1

|Liverpool Scotland

|-

|colspan=2|abolished

|2

|East Donegal, Waterford City

|-

| rowspan=4 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=4 |{{party shortname linked|Liberal Party (UK)}}

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}

|9

|Stirling and Falkirk, Midlothian South & Peebles, Derbyshire North East, Spennymoor, Seaham, Consett, Leigh, Bermondsey West, Whitechapel and St Georges

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}} (HOLD)

|15

|Greenock, Paisley, Leith, Edinburgh East, Chesterfield, Belper, Derbyshire West, Kingston upon Hull South West, Lambeth North, Wolverhampton East, Middlesbrough West, Penistone, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire, South Molton

|-

| {{Party name with colour|National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}}

|6

|Camborne, Western Isles, Kinross and West Perthshire*, Loughborough, Norwich* (one of two), Berwick-upon-Tweed

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}

|5

|Portsmouth Central, Stourbridge, Middlesbrough East, Cardiff East, Norfolk South

|-

| rowspan=9 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}}" |

|rowspan=9|{{party shortname linked|Coalition Liberal}}

| {{Party name with colour|Scottish Prohibition Party}}

|1

|Dundee (one of two)

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}

|37

|Dunfermline Burghs, Glasgow Cathcart, Renfrewshire East, Renfrewshire West, Rutherglen, Dumbarton Burghs, Glasgow Bridgeton, Crewe, Carlisle, Clay Cross, Ilkeston, Blaydon, Jarrow, Poplar South, Stepney Limehouse, Newcastle upon Tyne East, Newcastle upon Tyne West, Pontefract, Sheffield Hillsborough, Sheffield Attercliffe, Sheffield Brightside, Leeds South, Doncaster, Barnsley, Batley and Morley, Colne Valley, Wrexham, Llanelli, Carnarvonshire, Aberavon, Merthyr, Neath, Pontypridd†, Swansea East, Wansbeck, Cornwall North, Battersea North

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}}

|13

|Orkney and Shetland, East Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire, Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine, Galloway, South Shields, Bethnal Green North-East, Leeds West*, Huddersfield, Spen Valley, Combined Scottish Universities (one of three)*, Eye*, Banff, Kilmarnock

|-

| {{Party name with colour|National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}} (HOLD)

|45

|Combined English Universities (one of two), University of Wales, Caithness and Sutherland, Inverness, Ross and Cromarty, Moray and Nairn, Montrose Burghs, Argyll, Partick, Kirkcaldy Burghs, Roxburgh & Selkirk, Berwick & Haddington, Stockport (one of two), Stockton-on-Tees, Romford, Bristol East, Bristol North, Bristol South, Blackburn (one of two), Bolton (one of two), Heywood and Radcliffe, Middleton & Prestwich, Oldham (one of two), Stretford, Leicester East, Camberwell North-West, Hackney Central, Shoreditch, Southwark Central, Southwark North, Southwark South East, Northampton, Lichfield, Stoke, Shipley, Denbigh, Flintshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthen, Pembrokeshire, Carnarvon, Brecon and Radnor, Swansea West, Norfolk South West, Sheffield Park

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)}}

|1

|Halifax*

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}

|28

|St Ives, Perth, Bedford, Luton, Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely, Derbyshire South, Barnstaple, Sunderland (one of two), Leyton East, East Ham North, Stroud, Thornbury, Southampton (both seats), Buckrose, Bosworth, Kennington, Peckham, Banbury, The Wrekin, Lowestoft, Sudbury, Pudsey and Otley, Leeds North, Leeds Central, Newport (Monmouthshire)†, Saffron Walden

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Independent Conservative}}

|1

|Dorset East

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Constitutionalist (UK)}}

|1

|Dartford

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Independent (politician)}}

|1

|Mossley*

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Independent (politician)}}

| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}

|2

|Hackney South†, Sowerby

|-

|style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent}}|

|Coalition Independent

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}

|1

|Norfolk North

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)}}

| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}}

|1

|Penrith and Cockermouth

|-

|rowspan=1 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent Liberal}}" |

|rowspan=1|{{party shortname linked|Independent Liberal}}

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}

|1

|Newcastle-under-Lyme*

|-

| rowspan=7 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=7 |{{party shortname linked|Conservative Party (UK)}}

| {{Party name with colour|Communist Party of Great Britain}}

|1

|Motherwell

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}

|32

|Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire, Stirlingshire West, Lanarkshire North, Glasgow Maryhill, Glasgow Camlachie, Bothwell†, Coatbridge, Glasgow Springburn, Glasgow Tradeston, Glasgow St. Rollox, Glasgow Shettleston, Linlithgow, Durham, Sedgefield, Gateshead, Stratford, Accrington, Eccles, Farnworth, Manchester Ardwick, Oldham (one of two), Rochdale, Bow and Bromley, Camberwell North†, Edmonton, Tottenham North, Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Elland, Bradford Central, Keighley, Dewsbury, Whitehaven

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}}

|30

|Aberdeen and Kincardine Central†, Forfarshire, Fife East, Edinburgh West, Dumfriesshire, Bedfordshire Mid, Birkenhead East, Derby (one of two), Tavistock, Dorset North, The Hartlepools, Harwich, Isle of Wight, Worcester, Holderness, Kingston upon Hull Central†, Preston (one of two), Bootle, Grantham, Horncastle, Bethnal Green South-West, Great Yarmouth, Nottingham Central, Oxford, Taunton, Chippenham, Westbury, Bradford South, Louth†, Bodmin†

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Independent Liberal}}

|1

|Cambridge University (one of two)

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Independent (politician)}}

|1

|Harrow*

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} (HOLD)

|289

|Cambridge University (one of two), Combined English Universities (one of two), Oxford University (both seats), London University, Combined Scottish Universities (two of three), Aberdeen South, Ayr Burghs, Ayrshire N & Bute, Glasgow Central, Hillhead, Pollok, Kelvingrove, Dunbartonshire, Lanark, Edinburgh South, Midlothian N, Edinburgh North, Abingdon, Newbury, Reading, Windsor, Aylesbury, Buckingham, Wycombe, Cambridge, Huntingdonshire, Altrincham, Birkenhead West, Chester, Eddisbury, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Northwich, Stalybridge and Hyde, Wallasey, Wirral, Penryn and Falmouth, Cumberland North, Westmorland, High Peak, Exeter, Honiton, Plymouth Devonport, Plymouth Drake, Plymouth Sutton, Tiverton, Torquay, Totnes, Dorset South, Dorset West, Darlington, Sunderland (one of two), Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping, Essex SE, Ilford, Maldon, Leyton West, Southend, Walthamstow E, Upton, Bristol Central, Bristol West, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Aldershot, Basingstoke, Fareham, New Forest & Christchurch, Petersfield, Portsmouth North, Portsmouth South, Winchester, Hereford, Leominster, Bewdley, Dudley, Evesham, Kidderminster, Hitchin, St Albans, Watford, Hemel Hempstead, Ealing, Hornsey, Twickenham, Wood Green, Finchley, Brentford and Chiswick, Hendon, Spelthorne, Uxbridge, Willesden East, Acton, Enfield, Tottenham South, Willesden West, Howdenshire, Kingston upon Hull East, Kingston upon Hull North West, Ashford, Bromley, Canterbury, Chatham, Chislehurst, Dover, Faversham, Gillingham, Gravesend, Hythe, Isle of Thanet, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn (one of two), Blackpool, Chorley, Darwen, Fylde, Lancaster, Lonsdale, Rossendale, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Manchester Blackley, Manchester Clayton, Manchester Exchange, Hulme, Moss Side, Rusholme, Withington, Royton, Salford South, Salford West, E Toxteth, Edge Hill, Everton, Liverpool Exchange, Fairfield, Kirkdale, Walton, Wavertree, West Derby, West Toxteth, Southport, Warrington, Waterloo, Widnes, Harborough, Leicester South, Melton, Brigg, Gainsborough, Grimsby, Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford, Balham and Tooting, Chelsea, Clapham, Dulwich, Fulham East, Hampstead, Holborn, Lewisham East, Lewisham West, Kensington South, Hackney North, Brixton, Fulham West, Hammersmith South, Islington North, Kensington North, Battersea South, Greenwich, Islington East, Hammersmith North, Finsbury, Islington South, Islington West, City of London (both seats), Mile End, Stoke Newington, Norwood, Paddington North, Paddington South, Putney, Rotherhithe, St Marylebone, St Pancras North, St Pancras South East, St Pancras South West, Streatham, Wandsworth Central, Westminster Abbey, Woolwich West, King's Lynn, Norfolk East, Daventry, Peterborough, Hexham, Newcastle upon Tyne North, Tynemouth, Bassetlaw, Nottingham South, Nottingham East, Rushcliffe, Newark, Henley, Ludlow, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Bath, Bridgwater, Frome, Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Yeovil, Burton, Stafford, Stone, Tamworth, Bilston, Wolverhampton West, Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich, Woodbridge, Chertsey, Croydon North, Croydon South, Epsom, Farnham, Guildford, Kingston upon Thames, Mitcham, Reigate, Surrey East, Wimbledon, Brighton (both seats), Chichester, East Grinstead, Eastbourne, Hastings, Horsham and Worthing, Lewes, Rye, Nuneaton, Coventry, Aston, Deritend, Erdington, King's Norton, Ladywood, Yardley, Sparkbrook, Birmingham West, Edgbaston, Handsworth, Moseley, Rugby, Warwick and Leamington, Devizes, Salisbury, Swindon, York, Cleveland, Richmond (Yorks), Scarborough and Whitby, Thirsk and Malton, Barkston Ash, Ripon, Ecclesall, Hallam, Skipton, Leeds North East, Sheffield Central, Bradford North, Wakefield, Rotherham, Monmouth, Llandaff & Barry, Cardiff C, Cardiff S

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Independent Conservative}}

|2

|Westminster St George's, Richmond (Surrey)

|-

| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Ulster Unionist Party}}" |

| rowspan=2 |{{party shortname linked|Ulster Unionist Party}}

| {{Party name with colour|Ulster Unionist Party}}

|10

|Antrim (both seats) (replaced South Antrim and Antrim Mid), Armagh (replaced Armagh North), Belfast East (replaced Belfast Pottinger), Belfast North (replaced Belfast Duncairn), Belfast South (replaced Belfast Ormeau), Belfast West (replaced Belfast Woodvale), Down (both seats) (replaced Down East and Down North), Londonderry (replaced Londonderry North)

|-

|colspan=2|abolished

|10

|Antrim East, Antrim North, Armagh Mid, Belfast Cromac, Down Mid, Down West, Londonderry South, Fermanagh North, Tyrone South, Queen's University of Belfast

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Irish Unionist Alliance}}

|colspan=2|abolished

|2

|Dublin Rathmines, Dublin University (one of two)

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Independent Unionist}}

|colspan=2|abolished

|1

|Dublin University (one of two)

|-

| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|National Party (UK, 1917)}}" |

| rowspan=2 |{{party shortname linked|National Party (UK, 1917)}}

| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}}

|1

|Walsall

|-

| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| rowspan=2 |{{party shortname linked|Conservative Party (UK)}}

|1

|Bournemouth*

|-

|

|Silver Badge

|1

|Hertford†¹

|}

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:†¹ MP elected as an Anti-Waste League candidate at a 1921 by-election, but moved to the Conservatives for the 1922 election

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• List of MPs elected in the 1922 United Kingdom general election
• 1922 United Kingdom general election in Scotland
• 1922 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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• {{citation |editor-last=Craig |editor-first=F. W. S. |editor-link=F. W. S. Craig |title=British General Election Manifestos, 1900–1966 |year=1970 |pages=9–17 |publisher=[Not available]}}
• {{citation |editor-last=Craig |editor-first=F. W. S. |title=British Electoral Facts: 1832–1987 |location=Dartmouth |publisher=Gower |year=1989 |isbn=0900178302}}
• {{citation |last=Jenkins |first=Roy |author-link=Roy Jenkins |title=Asquith |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cKdBAAAAIAAJ&q=asquith+Jenkins |publisher=Collins |location=London |edition=first |year=1964 |oclc=243906913}}
• {{citation |last=Koss |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Koss |title=Asquith |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tBGGAAAAIAAJ&q=Asquith+Stephen+Koss |publisher=Hamish Hamilton |location=London |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-231-06155-1}}
• {{citation |last=Somervell |first=D. C. |author-link=D. C. Somervell |title=The Reign of King George V |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176466 |year=1936 |page=303 |publisher=Faber and Faber Limited}}

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• [http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html United Kingdom election results—summary results 1885–1979] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008002213/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html |date=8 October 2020}}

• [http://www.conservativemanifesto.com/1922/1922-conservative-manifesto.shtml 1922 Conservative manifesto]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20040212175705/http://labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1922/1922-labour-manifesto.shtml 1922 Labour manifesto]
• [http://www.libdemmanifesto.com/1922/1922-liberal-manifesto.shtml 1922 Liberal manifesto]

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