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The <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberals</a>, led by Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman" title="Henry Campbell-Bannerman">Henry Campbell-Bannerman</a>, won a <a href="/wiki/Landslide_victory" title="Landslide victory">landslide</a> majority at the election. The <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservatives</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Arthur Balfour</a>, who had been in government until the month before the election, lost more than half their seats, including party leader Balfour's own seat in <a href="/wiki/Manchester_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Manchester East (UK Parliament constituency)">Manchester East</a>, leaving the party with its fewest recorded seats ever in history until <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024</a>. The election saw a 5.4% swing from the Conservative Party to the Liberal Party, the largest-ever seen at the time (and if only looking at seats contested in both 1900 and 1906, the Conservative vote fell by 11.6%).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This has resulted in the 1906 general election being dubbed the "Liberal landslide", and is now ranked alongside the <a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">1924</a>, <a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931</a>, <a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">1945</a>, <a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a>, <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997</a>, <a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024</a> general elections as one of the largest landslide election victories.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><table class="infobox ib-election infobox-table vevent" style="width:360px"><caption class="infobox-title summary">1906 United Kingdom general election</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/75px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/100px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600"></span></span></span><hr></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><table style="width:100%; margin:1px; display:inline-table;"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0 0.5em 0 0;width:20%;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1900 United Kingdom general election">1900</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 1px;width:60%;" class=""><b>12 January – 8 February 1906<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtstart">1906-01-12</span> – <span class="dtend">1906-02-08</span>)</span></b></td> <td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 0 0 0.5em;width:20%;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="January 1910 United Kingdom general election">Jan 1910</a> →</td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;width:40%; text-align:center;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_1900" class="mw-redirect" title="List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1900">outgoing members</a></div><div style="float: right; text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;width:40%; text-align:center;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_1906" class="mw-redirect" title="List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906">elected members</a> →</div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><hr>All <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_Parliament_constituencies_(1885%E2%80%931918)" title="List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies (1885–1918)">670 seats</a> in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a><br>336 seats needed for a majority</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Turnout</th><td class="infobox-data">83.2% (<span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300"></span></span>8.1 <a href="/wiki/Percentage_point" title="Percentage point">pp</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;"> </th> <th style="text-align:center">First party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Second party </th></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #FFD700;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir-Henry-Campbell-Bannerman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Sir-Henry-Campbell-Bannerman.jpg/114px-Sir-Henry-Campbell-Bannerman.jpg" decoding="async" width="114" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Sir-Henry-Campbell-Bannerman.jpg/171px-Sir-Henry-Campbell-Bannerman.jpg 1.5x, 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<tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman" title="Henry Campbell-Bannerman">Henry Campbell-Bannerman</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Arthur Balfour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> and <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Unionist">Liberal Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader since </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">December 1898 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">11 June 1902 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader's seat </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Stirling_Burghs_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stirling Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)">Stirling Burghs</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Manchester_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Manchester East (UK Parliament constituency)">Manchester East</a> <i>(defeated)</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">183 seats, 45.1% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">402 seats, 50.2% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>397</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">156 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300"></span></span>214 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300"></span></span>246 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>2,565,644</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">2,278,076 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>48.9%</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">43.4% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300"></span></span>3.8% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300"></span></span>6.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4"><hr> </td></tr> <tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;"> </th> <th style="text-align:center">Third party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Fourth party </th></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #99FF66;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Redmond,_circa_1909.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/John_Redmond%2C_circa_1909.jpg/106px-John_Redmond%2C_circa_1909.jpg" decoding="async" width="106" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/John_Redmond%2C_circa_1909.jpg/160px-John_Redmond%2C_circa_1909.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/John_Redmond%2C_circa_1909.jpg/213px-John_Redmond%2C_circa_1909.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2181" data-file-height="3272"></a></span> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #b22222;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Keir_Hardie_by_George_Charles_Beresford_(1905).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Keir_Hardie_by_George_Charles_Beresford_%281905%29.jpg/111px-Keir_Hardie_by_George_Charles_Beresford_%281905%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="111" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Keir_Hardie_by_George_Charles_Beresford_%281905%29.jpg/166px-Keir_Hardie_by_George_Charles_Beresford_%281905%29.jpg 1.5x, 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Cmte.</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader since </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">6 February 1900 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">28 February 1900 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader's seat </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Waterford_City_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Waterford City (UK Parliament constituency)">Waterford City</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Merthyr_Tydfil_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Merthyr Tydfil (UK Parliament constituency)">Merthyr Tydfil</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">77 seats, 1.8% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">2 seats, 1.3% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">82 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">29 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300"></span></span>5 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300"></span></span>27 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">33,231 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">254,202 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">0.6% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">4.8% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300"></span></span>1.2% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300"></span></span>3.5% </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg/330px-United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="343" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg/495px-United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg/660px-United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1166" data-file-height="1211"></a></span><div>Colours denote the winning party</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:House_of_Commons_-_United_Kingdom_general_election,_1906.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/House_of_Commons_-_United_Kingdom_general_election%2C_1906.svg/360px-House_of_Commons_-_United_Kingdom_general_election%2C_1906.svg.png" decoding="async" width="360" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/House_of_Commons_-_United_Kingdom_general_election%2C_1906.svg/540px-House_of_Commons_-_United_Kingdom_general_election%2C_1906.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/House_of_Commons_-_United_Kingdom_general_election%2C_1906.svg/720px-House_of_Commons_-_United_Kingdom_general_election%2C_1906.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="435" data-file-height="237"></a></span><div>Composition of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> after the election</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%; text-align:left;"><b><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> before election</b><br> <p><a href="/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman" title="Henry Campbell-Bannerman">Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman</a><br> <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </p> </td> <td style="width:50%; text-align:right;"><b>Prime Minister after<br>election</b> <br> <p><a href="/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman" title="Henry Campbell-Bannerman">Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman</a><br> <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)#Labour_Representation_Committee_(1900%E2%80%931906)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Representation Committee</a> was far more successful than at the <a href="/wiki/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1900 United Kingdom general election">1900 general election</a> and after the election would be renamed the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> with 29 MPs and <a href="/wiki/Keir_Hardie" title="Keir Hardie">Keir Hardie</a> as leader. The <a href="/wiki/Irish_Parliamentary_Party" title="Irish Parliamentary Party">Irish Parliamentary Party</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/John_Redmond" title="John Redmond">John Redmond</a>, achieved its seats with a relatively low number of votes, as 73 candidates stood unopposed. This election was a landslide defeat for the Conservative Party and their <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> allies, with the primary reason given by historians being the party's weakness after its split over the issue of <a href="/wiki/Free_trade" title="Free trade">free trade</a> (<a href="/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain" title="Joseph Chamberlain">Joseph Chamberlain</a> had resigned from government in September 1903 in order to campaign for <a href="/wiki/Tariff_Reform_League" title="Tariff Reform League">Tariff Reform</a>, which would allow "preferential tariffs"). Many working-class people at the time saw this as a threat to the price of food, hence the debate was nicknamed "Big Loaf, Little Loaf". The Liberals' landslide victory of 125 seats over all other parties led to the passing of social legislation known as the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_welfare_reforms" title="Liberal welfare reforms">Liberal reforms</a>. </p><p>This was the last general election in which the Liberals won an absolute majority in the House of Commons, the last general election in which neither Labour nor the Conservatives won the popular vote, and the only election held between <a href="/wiki/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1886 United Kingdom general election">1886</a> and <a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">1945</a> in which the Conservatives did not win the popular vote. It was also the last peacetime election held more than five years after the previous one prior to passage of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_Act_1911" title="Parliament Act 1911">Parliament Act 1911</a>, which limited the duration of Parliaments in peacetime to five years. 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href="#Voting_summary"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Voting summary</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Seats_summary"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Seats summary</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Analysis"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Analysis</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Notable_results"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Notable results</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8"><a href="#Manchester_East"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Manchester East</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Gladstone%E2%80%93MacDonald_pact"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Gladstone–MacDonald pact</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Manifestos"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Manifestos</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <p>A coalition between the Conservative and Liberal Unionist parties had governed the United Kingdom since the 1895 general election. <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Arthur Balfour</a> had served as Prime Minister from 1902 until 5 December 1905, when he chose to resign over growing unpopularity. Instead of calling a general election, Balfour had hoped that under a Liberal government, splits would re-emerge; which would therefore help the Conservative Party achieve victory at the next general election.<sup id="cite_ref-oxforddnb.com_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxforddnb.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The incoming Liberal government chose to capitalise on the Conservative government's unpopularity and called an immediate general election one month later on 12 January 1906, which resulted in a crushing defeat for the Conservatives.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conservative_unpopularity">Conservative unpopularity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Conservative unpopularity" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ten_Years_of_Toryism.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ten_Years_of_Toryism.jpg/170px-Ten_Years_of_Toryism.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="248" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="1167"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 170px;height: 248px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ten_Years_of_Toryism.jpg/170px-Ten_Years_of_Toryism.jpg" data-width="170" data-height="248" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ten_Years_of_Toryism.jpg/255px-Ten_Years_of_Toryism.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ten_Years_of_Toryism.jpg/340px-Ten_Years_of_Toryism.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Example of a Liberal poster during the election</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Unionist_government,_1895%E2%80%931905" title="Unionist government, 1895–1905">Unionist government</a> had become deeply divided over the issue of <a href="/wiki/Free_trade" title="Free trade">free trade</a>, which soon became an electoral liability. This culminated in <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain" title="Joseph Chamberlain">Joseph Chamberlain</a>'s resignation from the government in May 1903 to campaign for tariff reform in order to protect British industry from foreign competition. This division was in contrast to the Liberal Party's belief in free trade, which it argued would help keep costs of living down.<sup id="cite_ref-oxforddnb.com_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxforddnb.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The issue of free trade became the feature of the Liberal campaign, under the slogan 'big loaf' under a Liberal government, 'little loaf' under a Conservative government. It also commissioned a variety of posters warning the electorate over rises in <a href="/wiki/Food_prices" title="Food prices">food prices</a> under <a href="/wiki/Protectionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Protectionist">protectionist</a> policies, including one which mentioned that "Balfour and Chamberlain are linked together against free trade ... Don't be deceived by Tory tricks".<sup id="cite_ref-auto_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Boer War</a> had also contributed to the unpopularity of the Conservative and Unionist government. The war had lasted over two and half years, much longer than had originally been expected, while details were revealed of the existence of <a href="/wiki/British_concentration_camps" class="mw-redirect" title="British concentration camps">concentration camps</a> where over 20,000 men, women and children were reported to have died because of poor sanitation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The war had also unearthed the poor social state of the country in the early 1900s. This was after more than 40% of military recruits for the Boer War were declared unfit for military service; in <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, 8,000 of the 11,000 men who had been recruited had to be turned away for being in poor physical condition. This was after the 1902 <a href="/wiki/Seebohm_Rowntree" title="Seebohm Rowntree">Rowntree</a> study of poverty in <a href="/wiki/York" title="York">York</a> showed that almost one-third of the population lived below the '<a href="/wiki/Poverty_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Poverty line">poverty line</a>', which helped to increase the calls for social reforms, something which had been neglected by the Conservative and Unionist government.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Conservative and Unionist Prime Minister, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Arthur Balfour</a>, had been blamed over the issue of 'Chinese Slavery', i.e. the use of Chinese-indentured labour in South Africa (see <a href="/wiki/Chinese_South_Africans" title="Chinese South Africans">Chinese South Africans</a>). This became controversial among the Conservative Party's middle-class supporters, who saw it as unethical. The working-class also objected to the practice, as White emigration to South Africa could have created jobs for the unemployed in Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)" title="Nonconformist (Protestantism)">Nonconformists</a> were angered when Conservatives pushed through the <a href="/wiki/Education_Act_1902" title="Education Act 1902">Education Act 1902</a>, which integrated voluntary schools into the state system and provided for their support from the local rate. The local school boards were abolished and replaced by <a href="/wiki/Local_education_authority_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Local education authority in England">local education authorities</a> based on county or county borough councils. Worst of all, the Anglican schools, which were on the edge of bankruptcy would thus receive funding from local rates that everyone had to pay.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One tactic was to refuse to pay local taxes.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The school system played a major role in the Liberal victory in 1906, as Dissenter (nonconformist) Conservatives punished their old party and voted Liberal. However, the Liberals were conscious of the call to fair treatment their victory had in the counties and neither repealed or modified the 1902 law.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another issue which lost the Conservatives nonconformist votes was the Licensing Act 1904. Although the legislation aimed to reduce the number of <a href="/wiki/Pub" title="Pub">public houses</a>, it proposed to compensate brewers for the cancellation of their licence, through a fund the brewers themselves would have to pay into <sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> leading many who adhered to <a href="/wiki/Temperance_movement" title="Temperance movement">temperance</a> to denounce it as a "brewers' bill", and Brewers generally being dissatisfied.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" 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.sticky-header-multi,body.skin-vector-2022 .mw-parser-output .sticky-header,body.skin-vector-2022 .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi{display:table}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header>caption,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi>caption{display:table-caption}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi.wikitable{background-color:#101418}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi.wikitable{background-color:#101418}}</style> <table class="wikitable sortable sticky-header-multi" style="font-size:95%"> <caption>UK General Election 1906 </caption> <tbody><tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9;vertical-align:top;"> <th colspan="3"> </th> <th colspan="6" style="width:30px">Candidates </th> <th colspan="3" style="width:30px">Votes </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Party </th> <th>Leader </th> <th>Stood </th> <th>Elected </th> <th>Gained </th> <th>Unseated </th> <th style="width:45px">Net </th> <th>% of total </th> <th>% </th> <th>No. </th> <th>Net % </th></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FFD700; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman" title="Henry Campbell-Bannerman">Henry Campbell-Bannerman</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">528 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">397 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">223 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">+214 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">59.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">48.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">2,565,644 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">+3.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#0281aa; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_and_Liberal_Unionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative and Liberal Unionist">Conservative and Liberal Unionist</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Arthur Balfour</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">557 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">156 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">251 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−246 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">23.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">43.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,278,076 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−6.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#b22222; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Representation_Committee_(1900)" title="Labour Representation Committee (1900)">Labour Repr. Cmte.</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Keir_Hardie" title="Keir Hardie">Keir Hardie</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">50 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">29 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">28 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Derby_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Derby (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+27 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">254,202 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+3.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#99FF66; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Irish_Parliamentary_Party" title="Irish Parliamentary Party">Irish Parliamentary</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Redmond" title="John Redmond">John Redmond</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">84 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">82 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/South_Dublin_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Dublin (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">33,231 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−1.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DDEEFF; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Conservative">Ind. Conservative</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> (Russelites) </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26,183 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#B22222; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour_Party" title="Independent Labour Party">Ind. Labour Party</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Chester-le-Street_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chester-le-Street (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Chester-le-Street_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chester-le-Street (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">18,886 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:red; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Federation" title="Social Democratic Federation">Social Democratic Federation</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/H._M._Hyndman" class="mw-redirect" title="H. M. Hyndman">H. M. Hyndman</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">18,446 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DDEEFF; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Conservative">Ind. Conservative</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Belfast_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Belfast_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15,972 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#b22222; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Workers%27_Representation_Committee" title="Scottish Workers' Representation Committee">Scottish Workers</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Carson_(trade_unionist)" title="George Carson (trade unionist)">George Carson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14,877 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FFFFDD; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Free_Trader" title="Free Trader">Free Trader</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Eldon_Gorst" title="John Eldon Gorst">John Eldon Gorst</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,974 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px"> </th> <td style="width: 130px">Independent <a href="/wiki/Liberal-Labour_(UK)" title="Liberal-Labour (UK)">Liberal-Labour</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Gower_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gower (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Gower_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gower (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Gower_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gower (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,841 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DCDCDC; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,806 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#cdffab; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Nationalist" title="Independent Nationalist">Ind. Nationalist</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Cork_City_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cork City (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,800 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FFFFAA; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Liberal" title="Independent Liberal">Independent Liberal</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Osgoldcross_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Osgoldcross (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,581 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#2061FF; width:3px"> </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Independent_Liberal_Unionist&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Independent Liberal Unionist (page does not exist)">Ind. Liberal Unionist</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Belfast_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">153 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Total votes cast: 5,246,672.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br>Electorate: 7,264,608 (6,347,660 in contested seats)<br>Turnout: 83.2% <sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Voting_summary">Voting summary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Voting summary" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="notheme barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:600px; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Popular vote</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:350px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><b>Liberal</b></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FFD700; width:48.90%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">48.90%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Conservative and Liberal Unionist</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#0281aa; width:43.42%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">43.42%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Labour Repr. Cmte.</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#b22222; width:4.85%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4.85%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Irish Parliamentary</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#99FF66; width:0.63%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.63%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#A9A9A9; width:2.20%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.20%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seats_summary">Seats summary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Seats summary" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="notheme barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:600px; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Parliamentary seats</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:350px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><b>Liberal</b></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FFD700; width:59.25%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">59.25%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Conservative and Liberal Unionist</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#0281aa; width:23.28%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">23.28%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Irish Parliamentary</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#99FF66; width:12.24%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">12.24%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Labour Repr. Cmte.</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#b22222; width:4.33%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4.33%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#A9A9A9; width:0.90%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.90%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Analysis">Analysis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Analysis" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <p>According to historian <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Goldman" title="Lawrence Goldman">Lawrence Goldman</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The election of 1906 led eventually to old-age pensions, the Trade Boards Act of 1909 which applied minimum wages to the 'sweated trades', the redistributive 1909 '<a href="/wiki/People%27s_Budget" title="People's Budget">people's budget</a>', the introduction of labour exchanges, the <a href="/wiki/National_Insurance_Act_1911" title="National Insurance Act 1911">National Insurance Act</a> of 1911, and the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_Act_1911" title="Parliament Act 1911">Parliament Act</a> of that year which removed the House of Lords' veto on legislation from the Commons ... Though the eventual achievements of the parliament elected in 1906 were remarkable, the election was something of a fluke; the scale of the Liberal victory was in direct proportion to the scale of preceding Tory blunders but it exaggerated the degree of dependable Liberal support in the country. The subsequent elections in January and December 1910, during the crisis over the people's budget, saw the number of Liberal MPs reduced to 275 and 272 respectively, while Conservative support recovered and the party, together with their Liberal Unionist allies, took 273 and then 272 seats.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_results">Notable results</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notable results" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The landslide Liberal victory led to many Conservative and Unionist MPs losing what had previously been regarded as <a href="/wiki/Safe_seats" class="mw-redirect" title="Safe seats">safe seats</a>. This resulted in prominent Conservative ministers being unseated including former Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Arthur Balfour</a>. Only three of the Conservative cabinet which had served until December 1905 (one month before the election) held onto their seats, the outgoing: Home Secretary <a href="/wiki/Aretas_Akers-Douglas,_1st_Viscount_Chilston" title="Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston">Aretas Akers-Douglas</a>, Chancellor <a href="/wiki/Austen_Chamberlain" title="Austen Chamberlain">Austen Chamberlain</a> (Liberal Unionist), Secretary of State for War <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Arnold-Forster" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugh Arnold-Forster">H.O. Arnold-Forster</a> who changed to that allied party before the election.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Manchester_East">Manchester East</h4><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Manchester East" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Arthur Balfour</a>, who entered the general election as the Conservative Party leader and had until the month before been Prime Minister, unexpectedly lost his seat in the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Manchester East (UK Parliament constituency)">Manchester East constituency</a>, a seat which he had represented since 1885. The result in Manchester East saw a large 22.4% swing to the Liberal candidate <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gardner_Horridge" title="Thomas Gardner Horridge">Thomas Gardner Horridge</a>, much larger than the national 5.4% swing to the Liberals.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The Liberal candidate in Manchester East had been helped by a pact with the local Labour Party. Horridge said of his victory that "East Manchester is essentially a Labour constituency and the great Labour party has supported my candidacy very thoroughly and very loyally". He also said that "[Manchester East constituents] have returned me, I take it, first to uphold free trade, next to deal with Chinese labour, and after that to support legislation on the lines laid down in the programme of the Labour party, with which I am heartily in accord".<sup id="cite_ref-auto_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Balfour's unseating became symbolic of the Conservative Party's landslide defeat. The result has since been called one of the biggest upsets in British political history and remains a rare instance of a former Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition losing their seat in a General election.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gladstone–MacDonald_pact"><span id="Gladstone.E2.80.93MacDonald_pact"></span>Gladstone–MacDonald pact</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Gladstone–MacDonald pact" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Gladstone%E2%80%93MacDonald_pact" title="Gladstone–MacDonald pact">Gladstone–MacDonald pact</a></div> <p>In 1903, the Liberal <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Gladstone" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert Gladstone">Herbert Gladstone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald" title="Ramsay MacDonald">Ramsay MacDonald</a> of the Labour Representation Committee negotiated an informal agreement to ensure the anti-Conservative vote was not split between their two parties. The Gladstone–MacDonald pact meant that, in 31 of the 50 seats where LRC candidates stood, the Liberal Party did not put up a candidate. This proved helpful to both parties, as 24 of LRC 29 elected MPs came from constituencies where the Liberal Party agreed not to contest, while the pact allowed the Liberals to concentrate resources on Conservative/Liberal marginal constituencies.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1906_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1906 United Kingdom general election">List of MPs elected in the 1906 United Kingdom general election</a></li> <li><a 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Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-8354-598" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-8354-598"><bdi>978-0-19-8354-598</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Wars+and+Welfare%3A+Britain+in+Transition+1906%E2%80%931957&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pages=2&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-0-19-8354-598&rft.aulast=Thomas&rft.aufirst=Jo&rft.au=Willis%2C+Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">All parties shown.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120130011015/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html">"General Election Results 1885-1979"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html">the original</a> on 30 January 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 June</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=General+Election+Results+1885-1979&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.election.demon.co.uk%2Fgeresults.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoldman" class="citation cs2">Goldman, Lawrence, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/themes/95/95348.html"><i>Oxford DNB theme: The general election of 1906</i></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Oxford+DNB+theme%3A+The+general+election+of+1906&rft.aulast=Goldman&rft.aufirst=Lawrence&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxforddnb.com%2Fpublic%2Fthemes%2F95%2F95348.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151227091040/http://www.totalpolitics.com/print/3783/top-tenshock-election-results.thtml"><i>Top Ten...Shock election results | Total Politics</i></a>, archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.totalpolitics.com/print/3783/top-tenshock-election-results.thtml">the original</a> on 27 December 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 December</span> 2015</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Top+Ten...Shock+election+results+%26%23124%3B+Total+Politics&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.totalpolitics.com%2Fprint%2F3783%2Ftop-tenshock-election-results.thtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBealey1956" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Bealey" title="Frank Bealey">Bealey, Frank</a> (1956), "Negotiations Between the Liberal Party and the Labour Representation Committee Before the General Election of 1906", <i>Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research</i>, <b>29</b>: 265+</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bulletin+of+the+Institute+of+Historical+Research&rft.atitle=Negotiations+Between+the+Liberal+Party+and+the+Labour+Representation+Committee+Before+the+General+Election+of+1906&rft.volume=29&rft.pages=265%2B&rft.date=1956&rft.aulast=Bealey&rft.aufirst=Frank&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Betts, Oliver. (2016)"'The People’s Bread': A Social History of Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign." in <i>Joseph Chamberlain: International Statesman, National Leader, Local Icon</i> ed by I. Cawood and C. Upton. (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016) pp. 130–150.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBlewett1972" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Neal_Blewett" title="Neal Blewett">Blewett, Neal</a> (1972). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/peerspartiespeop0000blew/page/n5/mode/2up"><i>The Peers, the Parties and the People: The British General Elections of 1910</i></a></span>. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8020-1838-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8020-1838-6"><bdi>0-8020-1838-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Peers%2C+the+Parties+and+the+People%3A+The+British+General+Elections+of+1910&rft.place=Toronto+and+Buffalo&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=1972&rft.isbn=0-8020-1838-6&rft.aulast=Blewett&rft.aufirst=Neal&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpeerspartiespeop0000blew%2Fpage%2Fn5%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCraig1989" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/F._W._S._Craig" title="F. W. S. Craig">Craig, F. W. S.</a> (1989), <i>British Electoral Facts: 1832–1987</i>, Dartmouth: Gower, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0900178302" title="Special:BookSources/0900178302"><bdi>0900178302</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Electoral+Facts%3A+1832%E2%80%931987&rft.place=Dartmouth&rft.pub=Gower&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0900178302&rft.aulast=Craig&rft.aufirst=F.+W.+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDutton1979" class="citation cs2">Dutton, David (1979), "Unionist Politics and the aftermath of the General Election of 1906: A Reassessment", <i>Historical Journal</i>, <b>22</b> (4): 861–876, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0018246X00017155">10.1017/S0018246X00017155</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153444456">153444456</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Historical+Journal&rft.atitle=Unionist+Politics+and+the+aftermath+of+the+General+Election+of+1906%3A+A+Reassessment&rft.volume=22&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=861-876&rft.date=1979&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0018246X00017155&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A153444456%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Dutton&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFraser1962" class="citation cs2">Fraser, Peter (1962), "Unionism and Tariff Reform: The Crisis of 1906", <i>Historical Journal</i>, <b>5</b> (2): 149–166, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0018246X00000170">10.1017/S0018246X00000170</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:155026903">155026903</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Historical+Journal&rft.atitle=Unionism+and+Tariff+Reform%3A+The+Crisis+of+1906&rft.volume=5&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=149-166&rft.date=1962&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0018246X00000170&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A155026903%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Fraser&rft.aufirst=Peter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoldman" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Goldman" title="Lawrence Goldman">Goldman, Lawrence</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/themes/95/95348.html"><i>Oxford DNB theme: The general election of 1906</i></a>, brief scholarly history</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Oxford+DNB+theme%3A+The+general+election+of+1906&rft.aulast=Goldman&rft.aufirst=Lawrence&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxforddnb.com%2Fpublic%2Fthemes%2F95%2F95348.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Citation" title="Template:Citation">citation</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: postscript (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_postscript" title="Category:CS1 maint: postscript">link</a>)</span></li> <li>Halévy, Élie (1956), <i>The Rule of Democracy (1905–1914)</i>, pp. 64–90. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461638/page/n1">online</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFIrwin1994" class="citation cs2">Irwin, Douglas A. (1994), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170510133025/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dirwin/docs/british-jle.pdf">"The political economy of free trade: voting in the British general election of 1906"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>, <i>Journal of Law and Economics</i>, <b>37</b>: 75–108, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1086%2F467307">10.1086/467307</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153373790">153373790</a>, archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dirwin/docs/british-jle.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 10 May 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 January</span> 2016</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Law+and+Economics&rft.atitle=The+political+economy+of+free+trade%3A+voting+in+the+British+general+election+of+1906&rft.volume=37&rft.pages=75-108&rft.date=1994&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1086%2F467307&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A153373790%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Irwin&rft.aufirst=Douglas+A.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dartmouth.edu%2F~dirwin%2Fdocs%2Fbritish-jle.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Machin, G. I. T. (1982) "The Last Victorian Anti-Ritualist Campaign, 1895-1906." <i>Victorian Studies</i> 25.3 (1982): 277–302. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3827200">online</a></li> <li>Purdue, A. W. (1973) "George Lansbury and the Middlesbrough election of 1906." <i>International Review of Social History</i> 18.3 (1973): 333–352.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRussell1973" class="citation cs2">Russell, A. K. (1973), <i>Liberal Landslide: The General Election of 1906</i>, David and Charles, the standard scholarly study</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Liberal+Landslide%3A+The+General+Election+of+1906&rft.pub=David+and+Charles&rft.date=1973&rft.aulast=Russell&rft.aufirst=A.+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Citation" title="Template:Citation">citation</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: postscript (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_postscript" title="Category:CS1 maint: postscript">link</a>)</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1979" class="citation cs2">Sykes, Alan (1979), <i>Tariff Reform in British Politics: 1903–1913</i>, Oxford University Press</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tariff+Reform+in+British+Politics%3A+1903%E2%80%931913&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1979&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Alan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1906+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Watson, Robert Spence. (1907) <i>The National Liberal Federation: From Its Commencement to the General Election of 1906.</i> (T. Fisher Unwin, 1907) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0nRmPcRdH2gC&dq=1906+election&pg=PR9">online</a>.</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: External links" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spartacus-educational.com/politics.htm">Spartacus: Political Parties and Election 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