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The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 1 May 1997. The governing Conservative Party led by Prime Minister John Major was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Labour Party led by Tony Blair, achieving a 179-seat majority and a total of 419 seats.
Under Tony Blair, the Labour Party won a landslide majority of English seats, the first time since 1966 that Labour had won an overall majority of English seats. [2] The England result, together with even larger landslide Labour results in Scotland and Wales, gave Labour the biggest majority for any single party since 1931. Blair subsequently ...
This is a summary of the electoral history of Tony Blair, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007.
As the casualties of the Iraq War mounted, Blair was accused of misleading Parliament, [104] [105] and his popularity dropped as a result, [106] [107] with Labour's overall majority at the 2005 election reduced from 167 to 66 seats.
But because of defections, by-elections and suspensions, the Conservative majority before the 2024 election was called had fallen to 42 (with 346 seats still held). In 1997, Tony Blair won 418 ...
The governing Labour Party, led by Tony Blair, was looking to secure a third consecutive term in office and to retain a large majority.The Conservative Party was seeking to regain seats lost to both Labour and the Liberal Democrats since the 1992 general election, and move from being the Official Opposition into government.
The Labour leader would become prime minister with a 212-seat majority if an election were held tomorrow, ... In his 1997 victory, Sir Tony Blair won 418 seats, compared with Sir John Major’s ...
The first Blair ministry lasted from May 1997 to June 2001. After eighteen years in opposition, Labour ousted the Conservatives at the May 1997 election with a 179-seat majority. The Prime Minister , Tony Blair , who turned 44 years old days after leading Labour to victory, was the youngest Prime Minister of the twentieth century.