ABSTRACT
The Labour vote in parliamentary elections expanded steadily throughout the first half of the inter-war years. The trend can be recorded in the percentage of the total ballot received by the party at successive elections. 1918 22.2 * 1922 29.5 1923 30.5 1924 33.0 1929 37.1
Including the votes of four unendorsed MPs who joined the party immediately after the election. The estimate of the vote is complicated by the presence of independent socialist candidates.
