The 1979 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 3 May 1979 to elect 635 members to the House of Commons. The election was held following...
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The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Andrew Bonar...
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The 1906 United Kingdom general election was held from 12 January to 8 February 1906. It's dubbed as the "Liberal landslide": the opposition Liberals...
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The 1900 United Kingdom general election was held between 26 September and 24 October 1900, following the dissolution of Parliament on 25 September. Also...
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The 1979 United Kingdom general election saw the Conservative Party win the most votes and seats in England. They received 12.26 million English votes...
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United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802. The members of the...
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the October general election until 3 May 1979. The chart below depicts opinion polls conducted for the 1979 United Kingdom general election. All data is...
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A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 3 May 1979 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested. The 1979 Scottish devolution referendum...
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The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first to be held after a full term of a majority Labour government. The general election was held on Thursday...
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The 1924 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 29 October 1924, as a result of the defeat of the Labour minority government, led by Prime...
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The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019, with 47,074,800 registered voters entitled to vote to elect 650 Members...
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The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held twenty months after the 1950 general election, which the Labour Party had won with a slim majority of...
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The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher the...
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The 1885 United Kingdom general election was held from 24 November to 18 December 1885. The first general election after an extension of the franchise...
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The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday...
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The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015; it was the first since...
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The 1931 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday, 27 October 1931. It saw a landslide election victory for the National Government, a three-party...
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The 1923 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 December 1923. The Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, won the most...
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The 1979 United Kingdom general election in Wales saw the Labour Party win the most votes and seats in Wales. The Labour party won the most votes in Wales...
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The 1966 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 31 March 1966. The result was a landslide victory for the Labour Party led by Prime Minister...
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The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 30 May 1929, and resulted in a hung parliament. Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party won the...
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The 1987 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 11 June 1987, to elect 650 members to the House of Commons. The election was the third consecutive...
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January 1910 United Kingdom general election Parliamentary franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918 January 1910 United Kingdom general election in Ireland...
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The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 26 May 1955. It was a snap election: Anthony Eden called the election after succeeding Churchill...
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The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 15 October 1964. It resulted in the Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home...
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government in the United Kingdom and Europe. These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1979 general election. Note: The Scottish...
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The 1992 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 April 1992, to elect 651 members to the House of Commons. The governing Conservative Party...
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The 1970 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 18 June 1970. It resulted in a surprise victory for the Conservative Party under leader...
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The 1959 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 8 October 1959. The Conservative Party under the leadership of incumbent prime minister...
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The December 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 3 to 19 December. It was the last general election to be held over several days and the...
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