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The leader of the Labour Party is the highest position within the United Kingdom's Labour Party. ... 13 years, 50 days Douglas-Home 1963–1964; Himself 1964–1970:
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 ...
This is a list of United Kingdom Labour Party MPs. ... Those in italics are overall leaders of the Labour Party, ... 1945–50; Wandsworth Central, 1950–55; ...
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 ...
In 1921, George Lansbury, the Labour mayor of the neighbouring borough of Poplar, and future Labour Party leader, launched the Poplar Rates Rebellion; a campaign of disobedience seeking to equalise the poor relief burden across all the London boroughs. Attlee, who was a personal friend of Lansbury, strongly supported this.
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 ...
Vaughan Gething won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government. ... Gething, 50, won 51.7% of the ...
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 .