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urn:uuid:3aed10e4-4e86-4d91-ab28-2ee4b2b41eb4 03 15 9781914477737 00 EB E107 10 01 01 The 1922 General Election Reconsidered High Politics and the Birth of the Modern British Election 1 A01 G.H. Bennett G.H. Bennett is Associate Professor of History at Plymouth University where he has taught since 1992. His is author of over 20 books on military, diplomatic and political history of the twentieth century. 01 eng 12 HBJD1 10 HIS015070 23 History 23 Liberal Party 12 JP 23 Lloyd George 10 POL008000 12 1DBK 23 post-war British politics 12 3JJG 23 general election 23 1922 23 coalition 23 Bonar Law 23 Conservative Party 01 06 03 00 Revisiting the high-stakes politics of 1922, G.H. Bennett unveils how one election transformed Britain’s electoral system and redefined party alliances for decades to come.The General Election of 15 November 1922 was a pivotal election in British political history. As parties adjusted to peacetime conditions and an electoral system changed forever by the enfranchisement of women and working-class men, the 1922 election stood as the first real test of party performance and engagement with voter priorities in a Britain fundamentally altered by the First World War. The result was a general election that would set national polling culture for the next century, and mark a significant step towards the decline of the Liberal Party and the emergence of a Conservative-Labour duopoly.This book examines the way the 1922 election was fought, the performance of the parties and the operation of a semi-official, but undeclared, party pact between the Conservative and Coalition Liberal Parties to manage the outcome, as they emerged from the Lloyd George Coalition and attempted to shut the Labour Party out of power. Capturing the high and the low politics of the election, and making use of newly available archival collections and digitised resources, this concise and accessible volume shows how the 1922 election marked the birth of the modern British general election as we know it today. 04 00 <ul> <li>Introduction</li> <li>1 The Party Political Outlook in October 1918</li> <li>2 The Position of the Four Main Parties</li> <li>3 Locally Arranged Pacts</li> <li>4 “There is no Pact – But”</li> <li>5 “Co-operation” in the Constituencies</li> <li>6 Impact of the Local Elections and Nomination Day</li> <li>7 Defining Coalition Liberal Strategy</li> <li>8 Trying to Broker a Deal with the Conservatives</li> <li>9 Exchanges Between the Parties After 4 November</li> <li>10 Methods and Tone</li> <li>11 Final Positions</li> <li>12 The Day of the Election and the Hours After</li> <li>13 Results</li> <li>14 Repercussions of the 1922 Election</li> <li>Conclusion</li> <li>Afterword – Considerations for British Politics</li> </ul> University of London Press 01 University of London Press 04 01 20250918 02 WORLD 06 15 9781914477713 06 15 9781914477706 06 15 9781914477737 WORLD 09 University of London Press 20 01