title: Common Wealth Party election results
text: # Common Wealth Party election results
  
  This article lists the Common Wealth Party's election results in UK parliamentary elections.
  
  ## Summary of general election performance
  
  | Year | Number of Candidates | Total votes | Average voters per candidate | Percentage of vote | Saved deposits | Change (%) | Number of MPs |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1945 | 23 | 110,634 | 4,810 | 0.5 | 7 | N/A | 1 |
  
  ## Elections results
  
  ### By-elections, 1943–45
  
  | By-election | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1943 Ashford by-election | Catherine Williamson | 4,192 | 30.3 | 2 |
  | 1943 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election | Tom Wintringham | 10,751 | 48.1 | 2 |
  | 1943 Portsmouth North by-election | Thomas Sargant | 4,545 | 40.3 | 2 |
  | 1943 Watford by-election | Raymond Blackburn | 11,838 | 46.1 | 2 |
  | 1943 Eddisbury by-election | John Loverseed | 8,023 | 43.7 | 1 |
  | 1943 Daventry by-election | Dennis Webb | 6,591 | 33.4 | 2 |
  | 1943 The Hartlepools by-election | Elaine Burton | 3,634 | 17.4 | 2 |
  | 1943 Newark by-election | Edward Moeran | 3,189 | 13.9 | 3 |
  | 1943 Birmingham Aston by-election | Gilbert Hall | 1,886 | 21.6 | 2 |
  | 1944 Skipton by-election | Hugh Lawson | 12,222 | 44.9 | 1 |
  | 1944 Manchester Rusholme by-election | Harold W. Blomerley | 6,870 | 42.1 | 2 |
  | 1945 Chelmsford by-election | Ernest Millington | 24,548 | 57.5 | 1 |
  
  ### 1945 general election
  
  | Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Position |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Aldershot | Tom Wintringham | 14,435 | 42.6 | 2 |
  | Bury St Edmunds | Eric Gordon England | 750 | 2.4 | 4 |
  | Canterbury | Catherine Williamson | 1,017 | 2.6 | 3 |
  | Chelmsford | Ernest Millington | 27,309 | 46.7 | 1 |
  | Chelsea | Dorothy Sharpe | 984 | 5.2 | 3 |
  | Evesham | Desmond Donnelly | 7,727 | 23.1 | 3 |
  | Fylde | Karl Edwin Heath | 1,784 | 2.9 | 3 |
  | Glasgow Pollok | William John Voisey-Youldon | 932 | 3.0 | 3 |
  | Harrow West | Hugh Lawson | 2,462 | 4.3 | 4 |
  | Knutsford | Frank William Young | 628 | 1.1 | 4 |
  | Newbury | George Suggett | 424 | 0.9 | 4 |
  | Newcastle-upon-Tyne North | Henry Arthur Charles Ridsdale | 904 | 2.6 | 4 |
  | North Midlothian | Kitty Wintringham | 3,299 | 6.4 | 3 |
  | Petersfield | Thomas Sargant | 6,600 | 18.5 | 3 |
  | Plymouth Drake | Edgar Trout | 1,681 | 5.7 | 3 |
  | Putney | Richard Acland | 2,686 | 8.0 | 3 |
  | Richmond (Surrey) | Douglas George Horace Frank | 753 | 1.7 | 4 |
  | Richmond (Yorks) | Roy Norman Chesterton | 813 | 2.3 | 4 |
  | Sheffield Ecclesall | Sydney Checkland | 12,045 | 35.9 | 2 |
  | Sutton Coldfield | Joyce Purser | 2,043 | 4.2 | 3 |
  | Thirsk and Malton | Edward Moeran | 13,572 | 39.9 | 2 |
  | Westminster St George's | Wilfred Brown | 5,314 | 27.3 | 2 |
  | Wimbledon | K. Horne | 2,472 | 3.6 | 4 |
  