Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 1945 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 5 July 1945. [b] With the war still fresh in voter's minds, the opposition Labour Party under the leadership of Clement Attlee won in 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 future of ...
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.
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 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
This diagram show the composition of the parties in the 1945 general election. Note: This is not the official seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.
1945 Combined Scottish Universities by-election; 1945 United Kingdom general election; List of MPs elected in the 1945 United Kingdom general election; 1945 Middlesbrough West by-election; 1945 Monmouth by-election; 1945 Motherwell by-election; 1945 Neath by-election; 1945 Newport by-election; 1945 Northern Ireland general election; 1945 ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Constituency election results in the 1945 United Kingdom general election.
Members of Parliament (MPs) of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected to the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1945–1950) This includes MPs elected in the 1945 United Kingdom general election and those subsequently elected in by-elections.
Print/export Download as PDF ... 1945 Bournemouth by-election; 1945 Broadway Consolidated Liberator crash ... Elvetham air crash; F. Farm Hall; G. 1945 United Kingdom ...