What have been the lowest and highest number of votes per seat of any party that has won seats in a UK general election?

Snowman

Old Sarum probably provided the MP with the lowest number of votes. It elected two members, despite having no eligible voters living within the constituency boundaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sarum_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29 Gatton in Surrey once returned an MP who won a by-election by one vote to nil but this was not a general election result. In 1931, Sir Cooper Rawson received 75205 votes for a majority of 62253 when winning the Brighton seat for the Conservatives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election_records#Largest_number_of_votes May 06 10, 11:59 AM

gmackematix

Very interesting, Snowman, even if none of it remotely answers the question! You seem to be looking at individual seats rather than political parties. I'm looking for the lowest and highest numbers of votes per seat ever attained by a particular party in a UK general election. May 06 10, 6:09 PM

Snowman

Sorry, I misunderstood the question. The highest number of votes per seat was achieved by the Liberal Party in the February 1974 election when they polled 6,059,519 votes but won only 6 seats for a ratio of votes to seats of 1,009,919:1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 The lowest recorded was in the 1847 election (numbers of votes were not counted prior to the 1832 reforms). The Conservative party won 325 on a popular vote of just 205,481. That is a votes to seats ratio of just over 632:1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1847 May 21 10, 9:12 AM