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The 1945 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 5 July 1945. [b] With the Second World War still fresh in voters’ minds, the opposition Labour Party under the leadership of Clement Attlee won a landslide victory with a majority of 146 seats, defeating the incumbent Conservative-led government under Prime Minister Winston Churchill amidst growing concerns by the public over ...
The 1945 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 5 July 1945 to elect 640 members of the House of Commons, of which 510 constituencies were in England.It was the first general election held since the conclusion of the Second World War and nearly 10 years since the last general election in November 1935.
Labour Governments, 1945–1951 (1984) 313pp. Pritt, Denis Nowell. The Labour Government 1945–1951 (1963) detailed coverage, with a far-left perspective online; Reeves, Rachel, and Martin McIvor. "Clement Attlee and the foundations of the British welfare state". Renewal: a Journal of Labour Politics 22#3/4 (2014): 42+.
Clement Attlee, who led the Labour Party's first majority government. The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Formed in 1900, it is one of the two main political parties along with the Conservative Party. In all general elections since 1918, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition.
This article lists the Labour Party's election results from the 1945 United Kingdom general election until 1955, including by-elections. All candidates were sponsored, in some cases by the Divisional Labour Party (noted as "Constituency").
This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom held between 1931 and 1950, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party at the election, the result is highlighted: red for a Labour gain, blue for a Conservative gain, orange for a Liberal gain, yellow for an SNP gain and grey for any other gain.
This is a list of the British Labour Party general election manifestos since the nascent party first fielded candidates at the 1900 general election.. From its foundation, general election manifestos were issued for the Labour Party as a whole, whereas the manifestos of the Conservative and Liberal parties generally took the form of a form of a short personal address by the leader of the party ...