query: office_contested united kingdom general election
supports: James Ramsay MacDonald, (12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party Prime Minister, leading Labour governments in 1924, 19291931 and, having been expelled from the party he had helped to found, a National Government from 1931 to 1935. The United Kingdom general election held on 14 November 1935 resulted in a large , though reduced , majority for the National Government now led by Conservative Stanley Baldwin . The greatest number of Members , as before , were Conservatives , while the National Liberal vote held steady . The National Labour vote collapsed , and even its leader Ramsay MacDonald lost his seat . Labour , under what was then regarded internally as the caretaker leadership of Clement Attlee , made large gains over their very poor showing in the 1931 general election . The Liberals continued their slow political collapse and lost further ground , with their leader Sir Herbert Samuel losing his own seat . The Independent Labour Party stood entirely separately from Labour for the first time since 1895 , having stood candidates unendorsed by Labour at the 1931 election and having disaffiliated fully from Labour in 1932 . The Scottish National Party contested their first election , and the Communist Party gained their first parliamentary seat in almost ten years , West Fife . The major election issues were the continuing unemployment problems and the role of the League of Nations , particularly as regarding the Empire of Japan . No general elections were held during the Second World War until Allied victory was assured ; hence the 1935 House sat until 1945 . As a result , this parliament would see two leadership changes . Neville Chamberlain took over as Prime Minister and Conservative leader in 1937 . He in turn resigned in 1940 , when the office of Prime Minister passed to Winston Churchill , who linked the three main parties in the House of Commons in an all - party unity government for the duration of the Second World War . Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (3 August 186714 December 1947) was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars. Three times Prime Minister, he is the only premier to have served under three monarchs (George V, Edward VIII and George VI). A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime minister is the presiding member and chairman of the cabinet. In a minority of systems, notably in semi-presidential systems of government, a prime minister is the official who is appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives of the head of state.
  In parliamentary systems fashioned after the Westminster system, the prime minister is the presiding and actual head of government and head of the executive branch. In such systems, the head of state or the head of state's official representative (i.e. the monarch, president, or governor-general) usually holds a largely ceremonial position, although often with reserve powers. Earl Baldwin of Bewdley is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for the Conservative politician Stanley Baldwin. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1923 to 1924, from 1924 to 1929 and from 1935 to 1937. Baldwin was made Viscount Corvedale, of Corvedale in the County of Salop, at the same time he was given the earldom.
candidates: member premier prime minister prime minister of the united kingdom
answer: prime minister of the united kingdom