Talk:1906 United Kingdom general election

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There was no British general election in 1900. Does the writer mean 1902?

Just search for Google for "general election 1900", and you'll find hundreds of references to the British general election in 1900. There wasn't one in 1902, though. Warofdreams talk 17:05, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Irish Nationalist votes[edit]

The article says the Irish Party got 88 seats on the basis of only 35,000 votes or so. Surely taht cannot be right. The Irish Party was the dominant force in Ireland and must have had a much bigger total vote. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.169.162.100 (talk • contribs)

The Irish Nationalists won most of their seats without a contest; they didn't take any votes at all in those seats. Warofdreams talk 14:52, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mapping metropolitan areas and Ireland.[edit]

The election maps for the 20th century are really useful. I wondered if it would be possible to also map Ireland up until it's separation as well as Northern Ireland throughout the period, as to just show Great Britain does not give us the whole picture. It is also very difficult to see what is going on in metropolitan areas particularly London. Is it possible to find an insert that shows London close-up? Where are the maps from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.237.94 (talk) 15:21, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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2 + 27 = 29[edit]

sorry, I'm no native speaker.

Tha table says there was a plus of 28 seats for Labour.

Keir Hardie and Richard Bell were the zwo LRC members of parliament in 1900.

I guess the plus was in fact 27 seats . --Neun-x (talk) 10:11, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Use of term landslide[edit]

From reading W. Churchill, The World Crisis, Vol 1. in Chapter 2, I find the following:

"The result of the polls in January, 1906, was a Conservative landslide."

Was the term 'landslide' used differently than the current use at the time of Churchill's writing? Churchill goes on in the same paragraph to describe the advantages gained by the Liberals.

I don't have a page number for the quote because the e-book I'm using does not have page numbers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elyons1955 (talk • contribs) 18:48, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

page 17 Graemp (talk) 19:18, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Double Independent Conservative?[edit]

Can somebody tell me, why is there double "Independent Conservative"? Looked into the lists of elected members and couldn't find actually even one member, which would be indep. cons., so I am kinda confused at the moment... GuestOneR (talk) 01:43, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Labour Leader[edit]

The page gives Keir Hardie as Labour leader since 28 February 1900 (the date of the formation of the Independent Labour Party). See http://www.election.demon.co.uk/lableader.html - "Before the Labour Party took its present name, it existed in the form of the Labour Representation Committee. That body had an elected Chairman who may be considered as the Leader. This post was held by:... 1905-06 Arthur Henderson MP". Arthur Henderson shows him as "Chairman of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party 1905–1906". The election took place from 12 January – 8 February 1906. According to his own page, Hardie became party leader on 17 January 1906 but http://www.election.demon.co.uk/lableader.html says that he took office on 17 February. Comments? Alekksandr (talk) 21:08, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And to confuse things further, The Times for 13 February 1906 says that he had been elected as Leader the previous day.^[1] Alekksandr (talk) 21:22, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Manchester Guardian also reported on 13 February that Hardie had been elected Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party the previous day. Hardie was the most prominent figure in the LRC from 1900 to 1906, but MacDonald was the secretary and the most logical choice as leader for the infobox. The other option would be Arthur Henderson, who was the chair of the LRC for the 1905 to 1906 session. I'm not sure exactly which date he was elected, but it was probably in January, at or just after the annual conference. Warofdreams talk 23:39, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well done for spotting this error. Hardie was not leader during the election campaign but was elected Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party by the Labour MPs after the election. The person holding this post has generally been regarded as the Labour Party Leader. I think this was a newly created position so it doesn't help us in determining LRC leader for 1906. In my mind the defacto LRC leader for the campaign was Macdonald as he was secretary, which was probably the position which had all the leadership duties. So I would support replacing Hardie with Macdonald. Graemp (talk) 08:21, 8 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Political Notes." Times [London, England] 13 Feb. 1906: 9+. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 7 July 2016

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Inconsistency[edit]

This table is mismatched with the headers in the results sub section. I noticed that different formats have been used in other British General Election results. I think adding a party leader in the table is an incorrect way of doing these. Views? --Gepid (talk) 13:19, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Political Notes." Times [London, England] 13 Feb. 1906: 9+. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 7 July 2016

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