The Conservatives' Record in Government and Their Likeliness to Lose the General Election in 1906
Between 1900 and 1905, the Conservatives' under Lord Salisbury
(1900-1902) and then Balfour (1902-1905), steadily lost support and
respect from the British public. From a period of political dominance
from 1885 to a crushing defeat in 1906, which saw a landslide victory
for the Liberals', there were a series of decisions, indecisions and
acts passed during the 5 years in question that many historians view
as the reason for the Conservative defeat in 1906. In the 1900
election, lord Salisbury with his reforms in the years previous to it,
won a convincing victory and 334 seat along with the 68 seats from the
Liberal Unionists, who supported the Conservatives' during this time.
However another Conservative government would not be in power again
until 1922. However there are five events during this time which see
the Conservatives loose support, The Taff Vale Judgement (1901), The
Education Act (1902), 'Chinese Slavery', Tariff Reform and The 1904
Licensing Act.
During 1900,workers from the Taff Vale Railway Company went on strike
over pay, following this, the company took the union, the Amalgamated
Society of Railway Servants, to court and won; the union had to pay
£23,000 damages. This judgement made it clear to unions that they
could not go on strike without the fear of being sued after it, being
rendered bankrupt. Therefore the working class, who Lord Salisbury had
worked so hard to summon support for the 'Tories' from, now wanted
Balfour to reverse the decision, rather than do this, he set up a
Royal Commission which to the working class was not acceptable. This
decision undid all of the hard work done by Salisbury and his
governments, the working class now went to the Liberals, but mainly
the up and coming party, The Labour Representation Committee (to
become the Labour Party) for support. This was the first incident that
started the long decline of support for the Conservatives; however it
was not clear at the time that this unpopular decision (with the
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who had been seen by many Tories as a future leader of the party lost
The Liberal victory in General Election of 1906 has gone down in History for being one of the biggest landslides in modern UK politics, but it can be argued that it was more of a Conservative loss than a Liberal gain.
The 1900 election gave the Conservatives 402 seats to the Liberals 183 seats continuing the Conservative dominance, in the last twenty years the Liberals had only seen three years in government. The 1906 election result gave the Conservatives only 157 seats, former Conservative Prime Minister, Balfour, lost his Manchester seat. The Liberals won 401 seats; these included 24 Lib-Lab MPs; the Liberals would also have the support of 29 Labour members and 82 Irish Nationalists. This was an excellent result which gave the new Government a majority of 356. Although the Conservatives were overwhelmingly defeated, their proportion of the votes did not go down compared to the election in 1900.
for the split in 1931. It was also not easy for the labour party when
In the 1906 election, the number of seats won by Liberals increased from 184 to 377, in contrast the numbers of seats lost by the Conservatives went from 402 seats won in 1900 to 157 seats lost in the 1906 election, this represented the lowest number of seats held by a Conservative government since 1832. This dramatic reversal of constituencies held, is due to a number of reasons. An argument is that, due to some poor decisions made by the Conservative governments, they in fact contributed largely to the landslide result in the 1906 election. ‘They were in effect the architects to the own downfall.’
The Liberal Election of 1906 and the Dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party The 1906 election was a landslide victory for the Liberal Party. It was a dramatic turn-around for the main contender to British Government that had been out of power for twenty years. The Liberals won 377 seats outright, and including the 27 Lib-Lab seats and around 80 Irish Home Rule seats they had made a dramatic defeat. The Conservative Party lost 245 seats since the 1900 election, in 1906 they had only 157.
As a result, people would think that Britain was not as secure under the Unionists as it could be under the Liberals and this would be a reason for their election loss. It can be seen that the Unionists won the 1900 election mainly ... ... middle of paper ... ...is issue. Overall, the Liberals won the 1906 election due to the Tory decline and Liberal supremacy. The Liberals had good organization attacking key areas and issues with powerful and crowd pleasing speakers.
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of the affairs in the way that he did - for example Ireland - as some
being out of office and at the worst a civil war. It was all part of
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