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The leader of the Labour Party is the highest position within the United Kingdom's Labour Party. ... (1950–1955) 25 October 1935 : 7 December 1955 [5]
First party Second party Third party Leader Clement Attlee: Winston Churchill: Clement Davies: Party Labour: Conservative: Liberal: Leader since 25 October 1935: 9 October 1940 2 August 1945 Leader's seat Walthamstow West [a] Woodford: Montgomeryshire: Last election 393 seats, 47.7% 208 seats, 39.1% [b] 12 seats, 9.0% Seats won 315: 298 [note 1 ...
Although Gaitskell had until recently thought Bevan an inevitable future leader for the Labour Party, by the 1950 Party Conference (2 October) "The Daily Telegraph" political correspondent guessed correctly that he and Gaitskell were already fighting a proxy battle for the future leadership. [45]
First party Second party Third party Leader Clement Attlee: Winston Churchill: Clement Davies: Party Labour: Conservative: Liberal: Leader since 25 October 1935: 9 October 1940 2 August 1945 Leader's seat Walthamstow West: Woodford: Montgomeryshire: Last election 331 seats, 48.5% 167 seats, 40.5% 5 seats, 9.4% Seats won 251 253: 2 Seat change ...
National votes for Labour at general elections since 1992 (millions) England Wales Scotland 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 15 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019 2024 A graph showing the percentage of the popular vote received by major parties in general elections (1832–2005), with the rapid rise of the Labour Party after its founding during the late 19th century being clear as it became one of the ...
This is a list of United Kingdom Labour Party MPs. ... Those in italics are overall leaders of the Labour Party, ... 1950–61; 1963–83; Chesterfield, 1984–2001;
The 1955 Labour Party leadership election was held following the resignation of Clement Attlee. Attlee was Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951 and stayed on as party leader until he lost the 1955 general election .
He went on to come first in both the first and second ballots, formally being elected Leader of the Labour Party on 3 December 1935. [44] Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s, the Labour Party's official policy had been to oppose rearmament, instead supporting internationalism and collective security under the League of Nations. [45]