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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 ...
Elections were held on November 5, 1946, and elected the members of the 80th United States Congress.In the first election after World War II, incumbent President Harry S. Truman (who took office on April 12, 1945, upon the death of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the Democratic Party suffered large losses.
The vote was largely seen as a referendum on Truman, whose approval rating had sunk to 32 percent [1] over the president's controversial handling of a wave of post-war labor strikes, including a United Auto Workers strike against Ford and General Motors in 1945, a United Mine Workers strike starting in April 1946, and a national railroad worker ...
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").
Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin speaks to a small crowd in the early hours of Wednesday, November 6, 2024, during the Michigan Democratic Party election night event at the Motor City Casino ...
↩️ Past election history. The results of the last three presidential elections in Wisconsin are as follows: 2020: Joe Biden (D) defeated Donald Trump (R) by 0.63% 2016: Donald Trump (R ...
The 1946 United States Senate elections were held November 5, 1946, in the middle of Democratic President Harry S. Truman's first term after Roosevelt's passing. The 32 seats of Class 1 were contested in regular elections, and four special elections were held to fill vacancies.
He ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin 2012, losing the Republican primary to former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who went on to lose the general election to Baldwin.