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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.
After the sweeping Conservative gains in the local elections of 1967 and 1968, the Labour Party – which had been in government since 1964 – was left with little to defend. But the Labour Party still stood to lose ground because the council wards being fought in 1969 had last been fought at a good time for them: in 1966 in the afterglow of ...
1969 Birmingham Ladywood by-election; 1969 Glasgow Gorbals by-election; 1969 Islington North by-election; 1969 Louth by-election; 1969 Mid Ulster by-election; 1969 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election; 1969 Northern Ireland general election; 1969 Paddington North by-election; 1969 Swindon by-election; 1969 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election
Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch purchases the best-selling UK Sunday newspaper The News of the World. [ 2 ] 4 January – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix caused complaints of arrogance from television producers after playing an impromptu version of "Sunshine Of Your Love" past his allotted timeslot on the BBC1 programme Happening for Lulu .
The first Roman Catholic general election victors in the UK Parliament were at the 1830 general election. They included Daniel O'Connell and James Patrick Mahon in Clare. The first Quaker general election victor was Edward Pease at the 1832 general election. The first Moravian general election victor was Charles Hindley at the 1835 general ...
The 1969 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election of 30 October 1969 was caused by the death of Labour MP Stephen Swingler in February of that year. It was held on the same day as four other by-elections [ 1 ] (in Glasgow Gorbals , Islington North , Paddington North , and Swindon ) and the seat was retained by Labour.
The result means the Lib Dems have regained a seat they first won at the 1997 general election and then held for 18 years – one of a number of constituencies in south-west England that once made ...
However the same article also noted that the low turnouts in Brighton and Walthamstow East had distorted the results and allowed Labour to claim that as its supporters had stayed at home and were reserving their judgement on the Government. [5] Amery easily held the seat at the next year's general election with a majority of over 10,000 votes. [2]