Stanley Baldwin Conservative Ramsay MacDonald Labour The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 30 May 1929, and resulted in a hung parliament.

The Liberal Party, led again by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George, regained some of the ground lost in the 1924 general election and held the balance of power.

The election was fought against a background of rising unemployment, with the memory of the 1926 general strike still fresh in voters' minds.

This was the first general election to be contested by the newly formed Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru.

The Liberals performed more successfully than at the previous general election in 1924, but could not regain their pre-World War I status as a party of government.