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lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="যুক্তরাজ্যের সাধারণ নির্বাচন, ১৯৪৫" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleccions_al_Parlament_del_Regne_Unit_de_1945" title="Eleccions al Parlament del Regne Unit de 1945 – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Eleccions al Parlament del Regne Unit de 1945" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C5%A1eobecn%C3%A9_volby_ve_Spojen%C3%A9m_kr%C3%A1lovstv%C3%AD_1945" title="Všeobecné volby ve Spojeném království 1945 – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Všeobecné volby ve Spojeném království 1945" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" 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href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1945 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polls</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Turnout</th><td class="infobox-data">24,073,025<br />72.8% (<span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.7 <a href="/wiki/Percentage_point" title="Percentage point">pp</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr class="sr-only"> <th 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style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">154 seats, 38.0% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">386 seats, 47.8% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>393</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">197<sup id="cite_ref-speaker_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-speaker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, 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1935 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">1940 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader's seat </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Caithness_and_Sutherland" class="mw-redirect" title="Caithness and Sutherland">Caithness and Sutherland</a> <i>(defeated)</i> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Leith_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leith (UK Parliament constituency)">Leith</a> <i>(defeated)</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">21 seats, 6.7% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">35 seats, 3.7% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">12 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">11 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" 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style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">2,177,938 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">686,652 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">9.0% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">2.9% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>2.3 <a href="/wiki/Percentage_point" title="Percentage point">pp</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.8 <a href="/wiki/Percentage_point" title="Percentage point">pp</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1945_UK_general_election_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/1945_UK_general_election_map.svg/200px-1945_UK_general_election_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/1945_UK_general_election_map.svg/300px-1945_UK_general_election_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/1945_UK_general_election_map.svg/400px-1945_UK_general_election_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="829" data-file-height="1231" /></a></span><div>Colours denote the winning party – as shown in <a href="#Results">§ Results</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1945_UK_GE_Composition_diagram.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/1945_UK_GE_Composition_diagram.svg/330px-1945_UK_GE_Composition_diagram.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/1945_UK_GE_Composition_diagram.svg/495px-1945_UK_GE_Composition_diagram.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/1945_UK_GE_Composition_diagram.svg/660px-1945_UK_GE_Composition_diagram.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="198" /></a></span><div>Composition of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> after the election</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%; text-align:left;"><b><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> before election</b><br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </p> </td> <td style="width:50%; text-align:right;"><b>Prime Minister after<br />election</b> <br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>1945 United Kingdom general election</b> took place on Thursday 5 July 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">the war</a> still fresh in voter's minds, the opposition <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a> won in a landslide victory with a majority of 146 seats, defeating the incumbent <a href="/wiki/Churchill_caretaker_ministry" title="Churchill caretaker ministry">Conservative-led government</a> under Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> amidst growing concerns by the public over the future of the United Kingdom in the <a href="/wiki/Post-war_Britain_(1945%E2%80%931979)" title="Post-war Britain (1945–1979)">post-war period</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The election's campaigning was focused on leadership of the country and its postwar future. Churchill sought to use his wartime popularity as part of his campaign to keep the Conservatives in power after a <a href="/wiki/Churchill_war_ministry" title="Churchill war ministry">wartime coalition</a> had been in place since 1940 with the other political parties, but he faced questions from public opinion surrounding the Conservatives' actions in the 1930s and his ability to handle domestic issues unrelated to warfare. <a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a>, leader of the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a>, had been Deputy Prime Minister in the <a href="/wiki/Churchill_war_ministry" title="Churchill war ministry">wartime coalition in 1940–1945</a> and was seen as a more competent leader by voters, particularly those who feared a return to the levels of unemployment in the 1930s and sought a strong figurehead in British politics to lead the postwar rebuilding of the country. Opinion polls when the election was called showed strong approval ratings for Churchill, but Labour had gradually gained support for months before the war's conclusion. </p><p>The final result of the election showed Labour to have won a <a href="/wiki/Landslide_victory" title="Landslide victory">landslide victory</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERowe200437_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERowe200437-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> making a net gain of 239 seats, winning 49.7% of the popular vote and achieving a majority of 146 seats, thus allowing Attlee to be appointed prime minister. This election marked the first time that the Labour Party had won an outright majority in Parliament, and allowed Attlee to begin implementing the party's <a href="/wiki/Post-war_consensus" title="Post-war consensus">post-war reforms</a> for the country.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynch20084_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynch20084-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the Conservatives, the Labour victory was a shock,<sup id="cite_ref-BBCreport_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCreport-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as they suffered a net loss of 189 seats although they won 36.2% of the vote and had campaigned on the mistaken belief that Churchill would win as people praised his leadership during the war. Of the other two major parties, the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a> faced a serious blow after taking a net loss of nine seats with a vote share of 9.0%, many within urban areas and including the seat held by its leader, <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Sinclair" class="mw-redirect" title="Archibald Sinclair">Archibald Sinclair</a>. The <a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1931)" title="National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)">Liberal National Party</a> fared significantly worse, enduring a net loss of 22 seats with a vote share of 2.9%, with its leader <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Brown_(British_politician)" title="Ernest Brown (British politician)">Ernest Brown</a> losing his seat. 324 MPs were elected for the first time, which would remain the record turnover until <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 10.7% swing from the Conservatives to an opposition party is the largest since the <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1800" title="Acts of Union 1800">Acts of Union 1800</a>; the Conservative loss of the vote exceeded that of the <a href="/wiki/1906_Liberal_landslide" class="mw-redirect" title="1906 Liberal landslide">1906 Liberal landslide</a> ousting of a Conservative administration. It was also the first election since <a href="/wiki/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1906 United Kingdom general election">1906</a> in which the Conservatives did not win a plurality of the popular vote. Churchill remained actively involved in politics and returned as prime minister after leading his party into the <a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">1951 general election</a>. 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election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1945 United Kingdom general election">MPs</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950 election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1950 United Kingdom general election">MPs</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">1951 election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1951 United Kingdom general election">MPs</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dissolution_of_Parliament_and_campaign">Dissolution of Parliament and campaign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Dissolution of Parliament and campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Austria_Under_Allied_Occupation_CL2983.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Austria_Under_Allied_Occupation_CL2983.jpg/220px-Austria_Under_Allied_Occupation_CL2983.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Austria_Under_Allied_Occupation_CL2983.jpg/330px-Austria_Under_Allied_Occupation_CL2983.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Austria_Under_Allied_Occupation_CL2983.jpg/440px-Austria_Under_Allied_Occupation_CL2983.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="544" /></a><figcaption>RAF mechanics in <a href="/wiki/Klagenfurt" class="mw-redirect" title="Klagenfurt">Klagenfurt</a>, Austria study election material.</figcaption></figure> <p>Held less than two months following <a href="/wiki/VE_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="VE Day">VE Day</a>, this was the first general election since <a href="/wiki/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1935 United Kingdom general election">1935</a>, as general elections had been <a href="/wiki/Septennial_Act_1716#Prolongation_of_Parliament_during_the_First_World_War_and_Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Septennial Act 1716">suspended</a> by Parliament <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_Kingdom_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II">during the Second World War</a>. <a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a>, the leader of the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a>, refused <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>'s offer of continuing the <a href="/wiki/Churchill_war_ministry" title="Churchill war ministry">wartime coalition</a> until the Allied <a href="/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day" title="Victory over Japan Day">defeat of Japan</a>. On 15 June, King <a href="/wiki/George_VI" title="George VI">George VI</a> dissolved Parliament, which had been sitting for nearly ten years without an election. </p><p>The Labour manifesto, <i>Let Us Face the Future</i>, included promises of <a href="/wiki/Nationalisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalisation">nationalisation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Economic_planning" title="Economic planning">economic planning</a>, <a href="/wiki/Full_employment" title="Full employment">full employment</a>, a <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service" title="National Health Service">National Health Service</a>, and a system of <a href="/wiki/Welfare_state_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Welfare state in the United Kingdom">social security</a>. The manifesto proved popular with the electorate, selling one and a half million copies.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Conservative manifesto, <i>Mr. Churchill's Declaration to the Voters</i>, on the other hand, included progressive ideas on key social issues but was relatively vague on the idea of postwar economic control,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThomasWillis2016154–155_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThomasWillis2016154–155-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the party was associated with high levels of unemployment in the 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCanalysis_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCanalysis-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It failed to convince voters that it could effectively deal with unemployment in a postwar Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 1945, when the war in Europe ended, Churchill's approval ratings stood at 83%, but the Labour Party had held an 18% poll lead as of February 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCanalysis_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCanalysis-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The polls for some seats were delayed until 12 July and in <a href="/wiki/Nelson_and_Colne" class="mw-redirect" title="Nelson and Colne">Nelson and Colne</a> until 19 July because of local <a href="/wiki/Wakes_week" title="Wakes week">wakes weeks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The results were counted and declared on 26 July to allow time to transport the votes of those serving overseas. <a href="/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day" title="Victory over Japan Day">Victory over Japan Day</a> ensued on 15 August. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Outcome">Outcome</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Outcome"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Churchill_caretaker_ministry" title="Churchill caretaker ministry">caretaker government</a>, led by Churchill, was heavily defeated. The Labour Party led by Attlee won a landslide victory and gained a majority of 146 seats. It was the first election in which Labour gained a majority of seats and the first in which it won a plurality of votes. </p><p>The election was a disaster for the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a>, which lost all of its urban seats, and marked its transition from being a party of government to a party of the political fringe.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaines1995_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaines1995-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its leader, <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Sinclair" class="mw-redirect" title="Archibald Sinclair">Archibald Sinclair</a>, lost his rural seat of <a href="/wiki/Caithness_and_Sutherland" class="mw-redirect" title="Caithness and Sutherland">Caithness and Sutherland</a>. That was the last general election until <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019</a> in which a major party leader lost their seat, but Sinclair lost only by a handful of votes in a very tight three-way contest. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1931)" title="National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)">Liberal National Party</a> fared even worse by losing two-thirds of its seats and falling behind the Liberals in seat count for the first time since the parties split in 1931. It was the final election that the Liberal Nationals fought as an autonomous party, as they merged with the Conservative Party two years later although they continued to exist as a subsidiary party of the Conservatives until 1968. </p><p>Future prominent figures who entered Parliament included <a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">James Callaghan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Castle" title="Barbara Castle">Barbara Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Foot" title="Michael Foot">Michael Foot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Gaitskell" title="Hugh Gaitskell">Hugh Gaitskell</a>. Future Conservative Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Harold Macmillan</a> lost his seat, but he returned to Parliament at a <a href="/wiki/By-election" title="By-election">by-election</a> later that year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reasons_for_Labour_victory">Reasons for Labour victory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reasons for Labour victory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Attlee_with_GeorgeVI_HU_59486.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Attlee_with_GeorgeVI_HU_59486.jpg/220px-Attlee_with_GeorgeVI_HU_59486.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Attlee_with_GeorgeVI_HU_59486.jpg/330px-Attlee_with_GeorgeVI_HU_59486.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Attlee_with_GeorgeVI_HU_59486.jpg/440px-Attlee_with_GeorgeVI_HU_59486.jpg 2x" data-file-width="977" data-file-height="1300" /></a><figcaption>Attlee meeting King <a href="/wiki/George_VI" title="George VI">George VI</a> following Labour's 1945 election victory</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Ingersoll_(PM_publisher)" title="Ralph Ingersoll (PM publisher)">Ralph Ingersoll</a> reported in late 1940: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"Everywhere I went in London people admired [Churchill's] energy, his courage, his singleness of purpose. People said they didn't know what Britain would do without him. He was obviously respected. But no one felt he would be Prime Minister after the war. He was simply the right man in the right job at the right time. The time being the time of a desperate war with Britain's enemies".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIngersoll1940127_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIngersoll1940127-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The historian <a href="/wiki/Henry_Pelling" title="Henry Pelling">Henry Pelling</a>, noting that polls showed a steady Labour lead after 1942, pointed to long-term forces that caused the Labour landslide: the usual swing against the party in power, the Conservative loss of initiative, wide fears of a return to the high unemployment of the 1930s, the theme that socialist planning would be more efficient in operating the economy, and the mistaken belief that Churchill would continue as prime minister regardless of the result.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPelling1980399–414_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPelling1980399–414-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Labour_strengths">Labour strengths</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Labour strengths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Medical_facilities_available_at_a_modern_health_centre_contr_Wellcome_L0023766.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Medical_facilities_available_at_a_modern_health_centre_contr_Wellcome_L0023766.jpg/220px-Medical_facilities_available_at_a_modern_health_centre_contr_Wellcome_L0023766.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Medical_facilities_available_at_a_modern_health_centre_contr_Wellcome_L0023766.jpg/330px-Medical_facilities_available_at_a_modern_health_centre_contr_Wellcome_L0023766.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Medical_facilities_available_at_a_modern_health_centre_contr_Wellcome_L0023766.jpg/440px-Medical_facilities_available_at_a_modern_health_centre_contr_Wellcome_L0023766.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3960" data-file-height="2662" /></a><figcaption>A 1943 poster by the <a href="/wiki/Army_Bureau_of_Current_Affairs" title="Army Bureau of Current Affairs">Army Bureau of Current Affairs</a> suggested that a British victory would lead to positive social change, like <a href="/wiki/Slum_clearance_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Slum clearance in the United Kingdom">slum clearance</a>. Churchill considered the poster "a disgraceful libel on the conditions prevailing in Great Britain before the war" and ordered it suppressed.<sup id="cite_ref-Games_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Games-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The greatest factor in Labour's dramatic win appeared to be its policy of <a href="/wiki/Social_reform" class="mw-redirect" title="Social reform">social reform</a>. In one opinion poll, 41% of respondents considered housing to be the most important issue that faced the country, 15% stated the Labour policy of full employment, 7% mentioned social security, 6% nationalisation, and just 5% international security, which was emphasised by the Conservatives. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Beveridge_Report" title="Beveridge Report">Beveridge Report</a>, published in 1942, proposed the creation of a welfare state. It called for a dramatic turn in British social policy, with provision for <a href="/wiki/National_health_insurance" title="National health insurance">nationalised healthcare</a>, expansion of <a href="/wiki/State-funded_education" class="mw-redirect" title="State-funded education">state-funded education</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Insurance" title="National Insurance">National Insurance</a> and a new <a href="/wiki/Housing_policy" class="mw-redirect" title="Housing policy">housing policy</a>. The report was extremely popular, and copies of its findings were widely purchased, turning it into a best-seller. The Labour Party adopted the report eagerly,<sup id="cite_ref-BBCreport_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCreport-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Conservatives (including Churchill, who did not regard the reforms as socialist) accepted many of the principles of the report, but claimed that they were not affordable.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynch200810_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynch200810-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Labour offered a new comprehensive welfare policy, reflecting a consensus that social changes were needed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynch20084_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynch20084-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Conservatives were not willing to make the same changes that Labour proposed, and appeared out of step with public opinion. </p><p>Labour played to the concept of "winning the peace" that would follow the war. Possibly for that reason, there was especially strong support for Labour in the <a href="/wiki/British_Armed_Forces" title="British Armed Forces">armed services</a>, which feared the <a href="/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment">unemployment</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homelessness" title="Homelessness">homelessness</a> to which the soldiers of the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> had returned. It has been claimed that the left-wing bias of teachers in the armed services was a contributing factor, but that argument has generally not carried much weight, and the failure of the Conservative governments in the 1920s to deliver a "land fit for heroes" was likely more important.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynch20084_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynch20084-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Labour had also been given during the war the opportunity to display to the electorate its domestic competence in government, under men such as Attlee as <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Deputy Prime Minister</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Morrison" title="Herbert Morrison">Herbert Morrison</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Home_Office" title="Home Office">Home Office</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Bevin" title="Ernest Bevin">Ernest Bevin</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Labour_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Labour (United Kingdom)">Ministry of Labour</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThomasWillis2016154–155_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThomasWillis2016154–155-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The differing wartime strategies of the two parties likewise gave Labour an advantage. Labour continued to attack prewar Conservative governments for their inactivity in tackling Hitler, reviving the economy and rearming Britain,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynch20081–4_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynch20081–4-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Churchill was less interested in furthering his party, much to the chagrin of many of its members and MPs.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCanalysis_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCanalysis-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Conservative_weaknesses">Conservative weaknesses</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Conservative weaknesses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Though voters respected and liked Churchill's wartime record, they were more distrustful of the Conservative Party's domestic and foreign policy record in the late 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThomasWillis2016154–155_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThomasWillis2016154–155-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Churchill and the Conservatives are also generally considered to have run a poor campaign in comparison to Labour. Churchill's personal popularity remained high; hence, the Conservatives were confident of victory and based much of their election campaign on that, rather than proposing new programmes. However, people distinguished between Churchill and his party, a contrast that Labour repeatedly emphasised throughout the campaign. Voters also harboured doubts over Churchill's ability to lead the country on the domestic front.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynch20084_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynch20084-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The writer and soldier <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Burgess" title="Anthony Burgess">Anthony Burgess</a> remarked that Churchill, who then often wore a colonel's uniform, was not nearly as popular with soldiers at the front as with officers and civilians. Burgess noted that Churchill often smoked <a href="/wiki/Cigar" title="Cigar">cigars</a> in front of soldiers who had not had a decent <a href="/wiki/Cigarette" title="Cigarette">cigarette</a> in days.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurgess1987305_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurgess1987305-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to the poor Conservative general election strategy, Churchill went so far as to accuse Attlee of seeking to behave as a dictator, despite Attlee's service as part of Churchill's war cabinet. In the most famous incident of the campaign, Churchill's first election broadcast on 4 June backfired dramatically and memorably. Denouncing his former coalition partners, he declared that Labour "would have to fall back on some form of a <a href="/wiki/Gestapo" title="Gestapo">Gestapo</a>" to impose <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a> on Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarr20085–6_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarr20085–6-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Attlee responded the next night by ironically thanking the prime minister for demonstrating to the people the difference between "Churchill the great wartime leader" and "Churchill the peacetime politician" and argued the case for public control of industry. </p><p>Another blow to the Conservative campaign was the memory of the 1930s policy of <a href="/wiki/Appeasement" title="Appeasement">appeasement</a>, conducted by Churchill's Conservative predecessors, <a href="/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain" title="Neville Chamberlain">Neville Chamberlain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Stanley Baldwin</a>, that had been widely discredited for allowing <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>'s Germany to become too powerful.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynch20084_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynch20084-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Labour had strongly advocated appeasement until 1938, but the interwar period had been dominated by Conservatives. With the exception of two brief minority Labour governments in 1924 and 1929–1931, the Conservatives had been in power for all of the interwar period. As a result, the Conservatives were generally blamed for the era's mistakes: appeasement, <a href="/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation">inflation</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment">unemployment</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELynch20084_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELynch20084-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many voters felt that although the First World War had been won, the peace that followed had been lost. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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.sticky-header-multi,body.skin-vector-2022 .mw-parser-output .sticky-header,body.skin-vector-2022 .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi{display:table}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header>caption,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi>caption{display:table-caption}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi.wikitable{background-color:#101418}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .sticky-header-multi.wikitable{background-color:#101418}}</style> <table class="wikitable sortable sticky-header-multi" style="font-size:95%"> <caption>UK General Election 1945 </caption> <tbody><tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9;vertical-align:top;"> <th colspan="3"> </th> <th colspan="6" style="width:30px">Candidates </th> <th colspan="3" style="width:30px">Votes </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Party </th> <th>Leader </th> <th>Stood </th> <th>Elected </th> <th>Gained </th> <th>Unseated </th> <th style="width:45px">Net </th> <th>% of total </th> <th>% </th> <th>No. </th> <th>Net % </th></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#E4003B; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">603 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">393 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">242 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">+239 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">61.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">49.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">11,967,746 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">+9.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#0087DC; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">559 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">197 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">204 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−190 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">30.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">36.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,716,211 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−11.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FFD700; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Sinclair" class="mw-redirect" title="Archibald Sinclair">Archibald Sinclair</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">306 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,177,938 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#AFEEEE; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1931)" title="National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)">National Liberal</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Brown_(British_politician)" title="Ernest Brown (British politician)">Ernest Brown</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">49 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">22 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−22 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">686,652 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DCDCDC; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">38 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">133,191 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px">National </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">130,513 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#ff7f50; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Common_Wealth_Party" title="Common Wealth Party">Common Wealth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/C._A._Smith" title="C. A. Smith">C. A. Smith</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">23 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Chelmsford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Chelmsford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">110,634 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:red; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harry_Pollitt" title="Harry Pollitt">Harry Pollitt</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">21 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Mile_End_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mile End (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">97,945 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#32cd32; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Party_(Northern_Ireland)" title="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)">Nationalist</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_McSparran" title="James McSparran">James McSparran</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">92,819 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px">National Independent </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">65,171 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FFBBBB; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Labour">Independent Labour</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">63,135 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DDEEFF; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Conservative">Ind. Conservative</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">57,823 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#B22222; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour_Party" title="Independent Labour Party">Ind. Labour Party</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bob_Edwards_(politician)" title="Bob Edwards (politician)">Bob Edwards</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Gorbals_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Gorbals (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">46,769 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:orange; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Progressive" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Progressive">Independent Progressive</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Bridgwater_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Bridgwater_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">45,967 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FFFFAA; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Liberal" title="Independent Liberal">Independent Liberal</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">30,450 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FDF38E; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Young_(classicist)" title="Douglas Young (classicist)">Douglas Young</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26,707 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#005B54; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Plaid_Cymru" title="Plaid Cymru">Plaid Cymru</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abi_Williams" title="Abi Williams">Abi Williams</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16,017 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#b22222; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Labour_Party" title="Commonwealth Labour Party">Commonwealth Labour</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harry_Midgley" title="Harry Midgley">Harry Midgley</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Belfast_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14,096 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#cdffab; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Nationalist" title="Independent Nationalist">Ind. Nationalist</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,430 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Protestant_Party" title="Liverpool Protestant Party">Liverpool Protestant</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/H._D._Longbottom" class="mw-redirect" title="H. D. Longbottom">H. D. Longbottom</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Kirkdale_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Liverpool Kirkdale (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,601 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px">Christian Pacifist </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Kettering_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kettering (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,381 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:lightyellow; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(UK,_1942)" title="Democratic Party (UK, 1942)">Democratic</a> </td> <td>Norman Leith-Hay-Clark </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,809 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px">Agriculturist </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/West_Derbyshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,068 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DC241f; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Socialist Party of Great Britain">Socialist (GB)</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Paddington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paddington North (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">472 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Movement" title="United Socialist Movement">United Socialist</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guy_Aldred" title="Guy Aldred">Guy Aldred</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Central (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">300 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Total votes cast: 24,073,025. Turnout: 72.8%.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">All parties shown. Conservative total includes <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionists" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulster Unionists">Ulster Unionists</a>. Of the eight seats won by National Labour in 1935 five were defended under the National label.</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Votes_summary">Votes summary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Votes summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:550px; background: var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,white); color: var(--color-base,black)"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Popular vote</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:350px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><b>Labour</b></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#E4003B; width:49.71%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">49.71%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Conservative</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#0087DC; width:36.21%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">36.21%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Liberal</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FFD700; width:9.05%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">9.05%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Liberal National</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#AFEEEE; width:2.85%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.85%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#A9A9A9; width:2.18%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.18%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seats_summary">Seats summary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Seats summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:550px; background: var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,white); color: var(--color-base,black)"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Parliamentary seats</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:350px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><b>Labour</b></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#E4003B; width:61.41%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">61.41%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Conservative</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#0087DC; width:30.78%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">30.78%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Liberal</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FFD700; width:1.88%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.88%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Liberal National</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#AFEEEE; width:1.72%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.72%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#A9A9A9; width:4.22%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4.22%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transfers_of_seats">Transfers of seats</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Transfers of seats"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Special:EditPage/1945 United Kingdom general election">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. 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Such circumstances are marked with a †.</li></ul> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:1em"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">To </th> <th colspan="2">From </th> <th>No. </th> <th class="unsortable">Seats </th></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: red;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of Great Britain"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mile_End_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mile End (UK Parliament constituency)">Mile End</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="8" style="color:inherit;background:#E4003B"> </td> <td rowspan="8"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #B22222;" data-sort-value="Independent Labour Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour_Party" title="Independent Labour Party">Ind. Labour Party</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Gorbals_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Gorbals (UK Parliament constituency)">Gorbals</a>* </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: green;" data-sort-value="National Labour Organisation"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/National_Labour_Organisation" title="National Labour Organisation">National Labour</a> </td> <td>8 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kilmarnock_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kilmarnock (UK Parliament constituency)">Kilmarnock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derby_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Derby (UK Parliament constituency)">Derby</a> (one of two)†, <a href="/wiki/Ormskirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ormskirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Ormskirk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicester_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Leicester West">Leicester West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottingham South">Nottingham South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lichfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lichfield (UK Parliament constituency)">Lichfield</a>†, <a href="/wiki/Leeds_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="Leeds Central">Leeds Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardiff_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cardiff Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Cardiff C</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td>9 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dundee_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dundee (UK Parliament constituency)">Dundee</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/Paisley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birkenhead_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Birkenhead East">Birkenhead East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bristol_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol North">Bristol North</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bethnal_Green_South-West" class="mw-redirect" title="Bethnal Green South-West">Bethnal Green South-West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wolverhampton_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wolverhampton East (UK Parliament constituency)">Wolverhampton East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Middlesbrough_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Middlesbrough West">Middlesbrough West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bradford_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Bradford South">Bradford South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carnarvonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnarvonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Carnarvonshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mossley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mossley (UK Parliament constituency)">Mossley</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #cccccc;" data-sort-value="UK National Government"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/UK_National_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="UK National Government">National</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brecon_and_Radnor_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brecon and Radnor (UK Parliament constituency)">Brecon and Radnor</a>† </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td>186 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dundee_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dundee (UK Parliament constituency)">Dundee</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Kelvingrove_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Kelvingrove (UK Parliament constituency)">Kelvingrove</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dunbartonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Dunbartonshire</a>†, <a href="/wiki/Lanark_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lanark (UK Parliament constituency)">Lanark</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Lanarkshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Lanarkshire N</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Renfrewshire W</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rutherglen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rutherglen (UK Parliament constituency)">Rutherglen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh North (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peebles_and_South_Midlothian_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peebles and South Midlothian (UK Parliament constituency)">Midlothian S & Peebles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Berwick_and_Haddington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency)">Berwick & Haddington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bedford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bedford (UK Parliament constituency)">Bedford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buckingham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency)">Buckingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wycombe_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency)">Wycombe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cambridge (UK Parliament constituency)">Cambridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Cambridgeshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birkenhead_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birkenhead West (UK Parliament constituency)">Birkenhead West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crewe_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Crewe (UK Parliament constituency)">Crewe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stalybridge_and_Hyde" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalybridge and Hyde">Stalybridge and Hyde</a>, <a href="/wiki/Penryn_and_Falmouth" class="mw-redirect" title="Penryn and Falmouth">Penryn and Falmouth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlisle_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency)">Carlisle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derby_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Derby (UK Parliament constituency)">Derby</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/Belper_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Belper (UK Parliament constituency)">Belper</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Derbyshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Derbyshire South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Derbyshire West">Derbyshire West</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Sutton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)">Sutton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Darlington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Darlington (UK Parliament constituency)">Darlington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stockton-on-Tees_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stockton-on-Tees (UK Parliament constituency)">Stockton-on-Tees</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sunderland_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency)">Sunderland</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/The_Hartlepools" class="mw-redirect" title="The Hartlepools">The Hartlepools</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leyton_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leyton East (UK Parliament constituency)">Leyton East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colchester_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Colchester (UK Parliament constituency)">Colchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Ham_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Ham North (UK Parliament constituency)">East Ham N</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epping_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Epping (UK Parliament constituency)">Epping</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_East_Essex_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South East Essex (UK Parliament constituency)">Essex SE</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ilford_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ilford North (UK Parliament constituency)">Ilford N</a> (from <a href="/wiki/Ilford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ilford (UK Parliament constituency)">Ilford</a>), <a href="/wiki/Maldon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Maldon (UK Parliament constituency)">Maldon</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Walthamstow_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Walthamstow East (UK Parliament constituency)">Walthamstow E</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol Central">Bristol Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gloucester_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gloucester (UK Parliament constituency)">Gloucester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stroud_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stroud (UK Parliament constituency)">Stroud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thornbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Thornbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Thornbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="Portsmouth Central">Portsmouth Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Portsmouth North">Portsmouth North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southampton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Southampton (UK Parliament constituency)">Southampton</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/Winchester_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Winchester (UK Parliament constituency)">Winchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dudley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dudley (UK Parliament constituency)">Dudley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kidderminster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kidderminster (UK Parliament constituency)">Kidderminster</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stourbridge_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stourbridge (UK Parliament constituency)">Stourbridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hitchin_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hitchin (UK Parliament constituency)">Hitchin</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Albans_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="St Albans (UK Parliament constituency)">St Albans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Watford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Watford (UK Parliament constituency)">Watford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull_North_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingston upon Hull North West">Kingston upon Hull North West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull_South_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingston upon Hull South West">Kingston upon Hull South West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chatham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chatham (UK Parliament constituency)">Chatham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chislehurst_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chislehurst (UK Parliament constituency)">Chislehurst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dartford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dartford (UK Parliament constituency)">Dartford</a>†, <a href="/wiki/Dover_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dover (UK Parliament constituency)">Dover</a>, <a href="/wiki/Faversham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Faversham (UK Parliament constituency)">Faversham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gillingham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gillingham (UK Parliament constituency)">Gillingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gravesend_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gravesend (UK Parliament constituency)">Gravesend</a>, <a href="/wiki/Accrington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Accrington (UK Parliament constituency)">Accrington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barrow-in-Furness_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barrow-in-Furness (UK Parliament constituency)">Barrow-in-Furness</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency)">Blackburn</a> (both seats), <a href="/wiki/Chorley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chorley (UK Parliament constituency)">Chorley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clitheroe_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Clitheroe (UK Parliament constituency)">Clitheroe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Preston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Preston (UK Parliament constituency)">Preston</a> (both seats), <a href="/wiki/Rossendale_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rossendale (UK Parliament constituency)">Rossendale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bolton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolton (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolton</a> (both seats), <a href="/wiki/Eccles_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Eccles (UK Parliament constituency)">Eccles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heywood_and_Radcliffe" class="mw-redirect" title="Heywood and Radcliffe">Heywood and Radcliffe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Blackley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Manchester Blackley (UK Parliament constituency)">Blackley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Exchange_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Manchester Exchange (UK Parliament constituency)">Manchester Exchange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Hulme_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Manchester Hulme (UK Parliament constituency)">Hulme</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Moss_Side_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Manchester Moss Side (UK Parliament constituency)">Moss Side</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Rusholme_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Manchester Rusholme (UK Parliament constituency)">Rusholme</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oldham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Oldham (UK Parliament constituency)">Oldham</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/Salford_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Salford North (UK Parliament constituency)">Salford North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salford_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Salford South (UK Parliament constituency)">Salford South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salford_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Salford West (UK Parliament constituency)">Salford West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stretford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stretford (UK Parliament constituency)">Stretford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bootle_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bootle (UK Parliament constituency)">Bootle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Edge_Hill_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Liverpool Edge Hill (UK Parliament constituency)">Edge Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Liverpool Exchange">Liverpool Exchange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Fairfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Liverpool Fairfield (UK Parliament constituency)">Fairfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Kirkdale_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Liverpool Kirkdale (UK Parliament constituency)">Kirkdale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Walton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Liverpool Walton (UK Parliament constituency)">Walton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warrington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Warrington (UK Parliament constituency)">Warrington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Widnes_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Widnes (UK Parliament constituency)">Widnes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Harborough (UK Parliament constituency)">Harborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicester_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Leicester East">Leicester East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicester_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Leicester South">Leicester South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loughborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Loughborough (UK Parliament constituency)">Loughborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grimsby_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency)">Grimsby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)">Lincoln</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balham_and_Tooting" class="mw-redirect" title="Balham and Tooting">Balham and Tooting</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battersea_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Battersea South (UK Parliament constituency)">Battersea South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brixton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Brixton (UK Parliament constituency)">Brixton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Camberwell_North_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Camberwell North West (UK Parliament constituency)">Camberwell North-West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clapham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Clapham (UK Parliament constituency)">Clapham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dulwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dulwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Dulwich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fulham_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Fulham East">Fulham East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greenwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Greenwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Greenwich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hackney_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Hackney North">Hackney North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Hammersmith South">Hammersmith South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islington_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Islington East">Islington East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kensington_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Kensington North">Kensington North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lewisham_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lewisham East (UK Parliament constituency)">Lewisham East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lewisham_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lewisham West (UK Parliament constituency)">Lewisham West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norwood_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Norwood (UK Parliament constituency)">Norwood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paddington_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Paddington North">Paddington North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fulham_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Fulham West">Fulham West</a>†, <a href="/wiki/Islington_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Islington North">Islington North</a>†, <a href="/wiki/Kennington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kennington (UK Parliament constituency)">Kennington</a>†, <a href="/wiki/Peckham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Peckham (UK Parliament constituency)">Peckham</a>†, <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="St Pancras North (UK Parliament constituency)">St Pancras North</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_South_East" class="mw-redirect" title="St Pancras South East">St Pancras South East</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_South_West" class="mw-redirect" title="St Pancras South West">St Pancras South West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stoke_Newington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stoke Newington (UK Parliament constituency)">Stoke Newington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="Wandsworth Central">Wandsworth Central</a>†, <a href="/wiki/Woolwich_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Woolwich West (UK Parliament constituency)">Woolwich West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ealing_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Ealing West">Ealing West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Enfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Enfield (UK Parliament constituency)">Enfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harrow_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Harrow East">Harrow East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spelthorne_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Spelthorne (UK Parliament constituency)">Spelthorne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uxbridge_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Uxbridge (UK Parliament constituency)">Uxbridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willesden_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Willesden East">Willesden East</a>, <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Lynn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)">King's Lynn</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Norfolk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)">Norfolk North</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Norfolk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)">Norfolk South</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_West_Norfolk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)">Norfolk South West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Norwich</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/Kettering_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kettering (UK Parliament constituency)">Kettering</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northampton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)">Northampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peterborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)">Peterborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellingborough (UK Parliament constituency)">Wellingborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="Newcastle upon Tyne Central">Newcastle upon Tyne Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Newcastle upon Tyne West">Newcastle upon Tyne West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tynemouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tynemouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Tynemouth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wallsend_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wallsend (UK Parliament constituency)">Wallsend</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wansbeck_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wansbeck (UK Parliament constituency)">Wansbeck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottingham Central">Nottingham Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottingham East">Nottingham East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rushcliffe_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rushcliffe (UK Parliament constituency)">Rushcliffe</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Wrekin_(historic_UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Wrekin (historic UK Parliament constituency)">The Wrekin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frome_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Frome (UK Parliament constituency)">Frome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taunton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)">Taunton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burton (UK Parliament constituency)">Burton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smethwick_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency)">Smethwick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stafford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stafford (UK Parliament constituency)">Stafford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bilston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bilston (UK Parliament constituency)">Bilston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wolverhampton_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wolverhampton West (UK Parliament constituency)">Wolverhampton West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ipswich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency)">Ipswich</a>†, <a href="/wiki/Lowestoft_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lowestoft (UK Parliament constituency)">Lowestoft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sudbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Sudbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Croydon_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Croydon South (UK Parliament constituency)">Croydon South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mitcham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mitcham (UK Parliament constituency)">Mitcham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wimbledon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wimbledon (UK Parliament constituency)">Wimbledon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Duddeston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birmingham Duddeston (UK Parliament constituency)">Duddeston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coventry_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Coventry East">Coventry East</a> (replaced <a href="/wiki/Coventry_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Coventry (UK Parliament constituency)">Coventry</a>), <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Aston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birmingham Aston (UK Parliament constituency)">Aston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Deritend_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birmingham Deritend (UK Parliament constituency)">Deritend</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Erdington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birmingham Erdington (UK Parliament constituency)">Erdington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_King%27s_Norton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birmingham King's Norton (UK Parliament constituency)">King's Norton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Ladywood_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency)">Ladywood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Yardley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birmingham Yardley (UK Parliament constituency)">Yardley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Sparkbrook_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birmingham Sparkbrook (UK Parliament constituency)">Sparkbrook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birmingham West (UK Parliament constituency)">Birmingham West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swindon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Swindon (UK Parliament constituency)">Swindon</a>, <a href="/wiki/York_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="York (UK Parliament constituency)">York</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cleveland (UK Parliament constituency)">Cleveland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leeds_North_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Leeds North East">Leeds North East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheffield Central">Sheffield Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bradford_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Bradford North">Bradford North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sowerby_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Sowerby (UK Parliament constituency)">Sowerby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elland_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Elland (UK Parliament constituency)">Elland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leeds_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Leeds West">Leeds West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Halifax_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Halifax (UK Parliament constituency)">Halifax</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bradford_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Bradford East">Bradford East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newport_(Monmouthshire)_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Newport (Monmouthshire) (UK Parliament constituency)">Newport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Llandaff_%26_Barry" class="mw-redirect" title="Llandaff & Barry">Llandaff & Barry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardiff_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)">Cardiff E</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Cardiff_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cardiff South (UK Parliament constituency)">Cardiff S</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #AFEEEE;" data-sort-value="National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1931)" title="National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)">Liberal National</a> </td> <td>17 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greenock_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Greenock (UK Parliament constituency)">Greenock</a>†, <a href="/wiki/Leith_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leith (UK Parliament constituency)">Leith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Luton (UK Parliament constituency)">Luton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Devonport_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Plymouth Devonport (UK Parliament constituency)">Devonport</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Gateshead_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gateshead (UK Parliament constituency)">Gateshead</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sunderland_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency)">Sunderland</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/Southampton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Southampton (UK Parliament constituency)">Southampton</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/Oldham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Oldham (UK Parliament constituency)">Oldham</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/Bosworth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosworth (UK Parliament constituency)">Bosworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southwark_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Southwark North">Southwark North</a>†, <a href="/wiki/Great_Yarmouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Great Yarmouth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Norwich</a> (one of two), <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Newcastle upon Tyne East">Newcastle upon Tyne East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walsall_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Walsall (UK Parliament constituency)">Walsall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Huddersfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Huddersfield (UK Parliament constituency)">Huddersfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spen_Valley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Spen Valley (UK Parliament constituency)">Spen Valley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swansea_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Swansea West (UK Parliament constituency)">Swansea West</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">New seats </td> <td>14 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eton_and_Slough" class="mw-redirect" title="Eton and Slough">Eton and Slough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ilford_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilford South">Ilford South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barking_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Barking (UK Parliament constituency)">Barking</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dagenham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dagenham (UK Parliament constituency)">Dagenham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hornchurch_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hornchurch (UK Parliament constituency)">Hornchurch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thurrock_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Thurrock (UK Parliament constituency)">Thurrock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barnet_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Barnet (UK Parliament constituency)">Barnet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hendon_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Hendon North">Hendon North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southall_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Southall (UK Parliament constituency)">Southall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wembley_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Wembley North">Wembley North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wembley_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Wembley South">Wembley South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bexley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bexley (UK Parliament constituency)">Bexley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Acock%27s_Green_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Birmingham Acock's Green (UK Parliament constituency)">Acock's Green</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coventry_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Coventry West">Coventry West</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:#FFBBBB"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Labour">Independent Labour</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hammersmith North (UK Parliament constituency)">Hammersmith North</a>* </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">UUP</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Belfast_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)">Belfast West</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ff7f50;" data-sort-value="Common Wealth Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Common_Wealth_Party" title="Common Wealth Party">Common Wealth</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chelmsford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)">Chelmsford</a>* </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background:#FFD700"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carmarthen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Carmarthen (UK Parliament constituency)">Carmarthen</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td>2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Dorset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)">Dorset North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buckrose_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Buckrose (UK Parliament constituency)">Buckrose</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #AFEEEE;" data-sort-value="National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1931)" title="National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)">Liberal National</a> </td> <td>2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eye_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Eye (UK Parliament constituency)">Eye</a>*, <a href="/wiki/Montgomeryshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Montgomeryshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Montgomeryshire</a>* </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: orange;" data-sort-value="Independent Progressive"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Progressive" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Progressive">Independent Progressive</a> </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background:#0087DC"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bridgwater_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)">Bridgwater</a>† </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grantham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)">Grantham</a>†, <a href="/wiki/City_of_London_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="City of London (UK Parliament constituency)">City of London</a> (one of two)†, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rugby (UK Parliament constituency)">Rugby</a>† </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #cccccc;" data-sort-value="National Independent"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/National_Independent" class="mw-redirect" title="National Independent">National</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheltenham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cheltenham (UK Parliament constituency)">Cheltenham</a><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background:#0087DC"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td>5 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caithness_and_Sutherland" class="mw-redirect" title="Caithness and Sutherland">Caithness and Sutherland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Ely_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Isle of Ely (UK Parliament constituency)">Isle of Ely</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barnstaple_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency)">Barnstaple</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Berwick-upon-Tweed (UK Parliament constituency)">Berwick-upon-Tweed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carnarvon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnarvon (UK Parliament constituency)">Carnarvon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Daventry_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Daventry (UK Parliament constituency)">Daventry</a>† </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">New seats </td> <td>8 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bucklow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bucklow (UK Parliament constituency)">Bucklow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Woodford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Woodford (UK Parliament constituency)">Woodford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orpington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Orpington (UK Parliament constituency)">Orpington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blackpool_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Blackpool North (UK Parliament constituency)">Blackpool North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carshalton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Carshalton (UK Parliament constituency)">Carshalton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sutton_and_Cheam" class="mw-redirect" title="Sutton and Cheam">Sutton and Cheam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Worthing_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Worthing (UK Parliament constituency)">Worthing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Solihull_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Solihull (UK Parliament constituency)">Solihull</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DDEEFF;" data-sort-value="Independent Conservative"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Conservative">Ind. Conservative</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Galloway_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Galloway (UK Parliament constituency)">Galloway</a>* </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFFFAA;" data-sort-value="Independent Liberal"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Liberal" title="Independent Liberal">Independent Liberal</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #AFEEEE;" data-sort-value="National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1931)" title="National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)">Liberal National</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ross_and_Cromarty_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ross and Cromarty (UK Parliament constituency)">Ross and Cromarty</a><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>j<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #aadfff;" data-sort-value="Independent Unionist"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Unionist" title="Independent Unionist">Ind. Unionist</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">UUP</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Down (UK Parliament constituency)">Down</a> (one of two)* </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hexham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hexham (UK Parliament constituency)">Hexham</a>* </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="MPs_who_lost_their_seats">MPs who lost their seats</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: MPs who lost their seats"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conservative">Conservative</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Conservative"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Colman_(politician)" title="Nigel Colman (politician)">Nigel Colman</a> (<a href="/wiki/Brixton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Brixton (UK Parliament constituency)">Brixton</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Harold Macmillan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stockton-on-Tees_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stockton-on-Tees (UK Parliament constituency)">Stockton-on-Tees</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Liberal">Liberal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Liberal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Percy_Harris,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Percy Harris, 1st Baronet">Percy Harris</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bethnal_Green_South_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Bethnal Green South West">Bethnal Green South West</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Opinion_polls">Opinion polls</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Opinion polls"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1945 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polling for the 1945 United Kingdom general election</a></div> <p>Polls showed a lead for Labour since 1943, except for one poll in June 1945 when both Labour and the Conservatives tied on 45%. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1945 United Kingdom general election">List of MPs elected in the 1945 United Kingdom general election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Northern_Ireland" title="1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland">1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="1945 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">1945 United Kingdom general election in Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="1945 United Kingdom general election in England">1945 United Kingdom general election in England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_Prime_Minister%27s_Resignation_Honours" title="1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours">1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attlee_ministry" title="Attlee ministry">Attlee ministry</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-speaker-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-speaker_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The seat and vote count figures for the Conservatives given here include the Speaker of the House of Commons</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days, and the counting of votes was delayed until 26 July to provide time for <a href="/wiki/Absentee_voting_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Absentee voting in the United Kingdom">overseas votes</a> to be brought to Britain.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Candidate had defected to Liberal National Party.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Seat had been won by an Independent Labour candidate in a by-election, who fought and won the 1945 election as a Labour candidate.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Seat had been won by an independent candidate in a by-election, who fought and won the 1945 election as a Labour candidate.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Seat had been won by an independent candidate in a by-election.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Candidate had moved to 'National' label.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Seat had been won by Independent Conservative candidate in a by-election, who fought and won the 1945 election as a National Independent candidate.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Candidate had defected to the Common Wealth party.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Seat had been won by National Labour in a by-election.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation 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B. and Alison Readman. <i>The British General Election of 1945</i> (Nuffield Studies) (1964)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMarr2008" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Marr" title="Andrew Marr">Marr, Andrew</a> (2008), <a href="/wiki/A_History_of_Modern_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="A History of Modern Britain"><i>A History of Modern Britain</i></a>, Pan Macmillan Ltd., pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernb0000marr/page/5">5–6</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-43983-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-43983-1"><bdi>978-0-330-43983-1</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Modern+Britain&rft.pages=5-6&rft.pub=Pan+Macmillan+Ltd.&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-330-43983-1&rft.aulast=Marr&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1945+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPelling1980" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Pelling" title="Henry Pelling">Pelling, Henry</a> (1980), "The 1945 general election reconsidered", <i>Historical Journal</i>, <b>23</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">399–</span>414, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0018246X0002433X">10.1017/S0018246X0002433X</a>, <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2638675">2638675</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154658298">154658298</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Historical+Journal&rft.atitle=The+1945+general+election+reconsidered&rft.volume=23&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E399-%3C%2Fspan%3E414&rft.date=1980&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A154658298%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2638675%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0018246X0002433X&rft.aulast=Pelling&rft.aufirst=Henry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1945+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRowe2004" class="citation cs2">Rowe, Chris (2004), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PCVBTkQbSFEC&pg=PA37"><i>Britain 1929–1998</i></a>, Heinemann, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-435-32738-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-435-32738-5"><bdi>978-0-435-32738-5</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Britain+1929%E2%80%931998&rft.pub=Heinemann&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-435-32738-5&rft.aulast=Rowe&rft.aufirst=Chris&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPCVBTkQbSFEC%26pg%3DPA37&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1945+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThomasWillis2016" class="citation cs2">Thomas, Jo; Willis, Michael (2016), <i>Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition 1906–1957</i>, Oxford: <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-8354-598" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-8354-598"><bdi>978-0-19-8354-598</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Wars+and+Welfare%3A+Britain+in+Transition+1906%E2%80%931957&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-0-19-8354-598&rft.aulast=Thomas&rft.aufirst=Jo&rft.au=Willis%2C+Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1945+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin refbegin-hanging-indents refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAddison1975" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Addison" title="Paul Addison">Addison, Paul</a> (1975), <i>The Road to 1945: British politics and the Second World War</i>, London: Cape</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Road+to+1945%3A+British+politics+and+the+Second+World+War&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Cape&rft.date=1975&rft.aulast=Addison&rft.aufirst=Paul&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1945+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrooke1992" class="citation cs2">Brooke, Stephen (1992), <i>Labour's war: the Labour party during the Second World War</i>, Oxford: <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Labour%27s+war%3A+the+Labour+party+during+the+Second+World+War&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1992&rft.aulast=Brooke&rft.aufirst=Stephen&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1945+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBurgess1991" class="citation cs2">Burgess, Simon (1991), "1945 Observed – A History of the Histories", <i>Contemporary Record</i>, <b>5</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">155–</span>170, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F13619469108581164">10.1080/13619469108581164</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Contemporary+Record&rft.atitle=1945+Observed+%E2%80%93+A+History+of+the+Histories&rft.volume=5&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E155-%3C%2Fspan%3E170&rft.date=1991&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F13619469108581164&rft.aulast=Burgess&rft.aufirst=Simon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1945+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span> Historiography</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCraig1989" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/F._W._S._Craig" title="F. W. S. Craig">Craig, F.W.S.</a> (1989), <i>British Electoral Facts: 1832–1987</i>, Dartmouth: Gower, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0900178302" title="Special:BookSources/0900178302"><bdi>0900178302</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Electoral+Facts%3A+1832%E2%80%931987&rft.place=Dartmouth&rft.pub=Gower&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0900178302&rft.aulast=Craig&rft.aufirst=F.W.S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1945+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFielding1992" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Fielding_(political_historian)" title="Steven Fielding (political historian)">Fielding, Steven</a> (1992), "What did 'the people' want?: the meaning of the 1945 general election", <i>Historical Journal</i>, <b>35</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">623–</span>639, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0018246X00026005">10.1017/S0018246X00026005</a></span>, <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2639633">2639633</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Historical+Journal&rft.atitle=What+did+%27the+people%27+want%3F%3A+the+meaning+of+the+1945+general+election&rft.volume=35&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E623-%3C%2Fspan%3E639&rft.date=1992&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0018246X00026005&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2639633%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Fielding&rft.aufirst=Steven&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1945+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFry1991" class="citation cs2">Fry, Geoffrey K. 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href="/wiki/December_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="December 1910 United Kingdom general election">1910 (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1923 United Kingdom general election">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1935 United Kingdom general election">1935</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">1974 (Feb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">1974 (Oct)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Next_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Next United Kingdom general election">Next</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Local government in the United Kingdom">Local elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1889_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1889 United Kingdom local elections">1889</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1890_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1890 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1890</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1892 United Kingdom local elections">1892</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1894_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1894 United Kingdom local elections">1894</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1895_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1895 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1895</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1896_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1896 United Kingdom local elections">1896</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1897_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1897 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1897</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1898_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1898 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1898</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1899_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1899 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1899</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1900_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1900 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1900</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1901_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1901 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1901</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1902_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1902 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1902</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1903_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1903 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1903</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1904_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1904 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1904</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1905_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1905 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1905</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1906 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1906</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1907_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1907 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1907</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1908_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1908 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1908</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1909 United Kingdom local elections">1909</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1910_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1910 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1910</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1911_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1911 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1911</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1912_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1912 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1912</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1913_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1913 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1913</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1914_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1914 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1914</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1915_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1915 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1915</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1919_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1919 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1919</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1920_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1920 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1920</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1921_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1921 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1921</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1922_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1922 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1923_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1923 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1924_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1924 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1925_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1925 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1925</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1926_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1926 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1926</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1927_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1927 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1927</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1928_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1928 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1929_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1929 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1930_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1930 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1931_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1931 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1932_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1932 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1932</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1933_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1933 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1934 United Kingdom local elections">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1935_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1935 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1936_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1936 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1937_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1937 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1937</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1938 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1945 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1946_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1946 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1947_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1947 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1948_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1948 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1949 United Kingdom local elections">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1950_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1950 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1951_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1951 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1952 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1953_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1953 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1954_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1954 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1955 United Kingdom local elections">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1956_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1956 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1957_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1957 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1958_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1958 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1959 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1960_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1960 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1961_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1961 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1962_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1962 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1963_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1963 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1964 United Kingdom local elections">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1965 United Kingdom local elections">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1966_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1966 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1967_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1967 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1968 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1969 United Kingdom local elections">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1970 United Kingdom local elections">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1971 United Kingdom local elections">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1972 United Kingdom local elections">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1973 United Kingdom local elections">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1974 United Kingdom local elections">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1975 United Kingdom local elections">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1976 United Kingdom local elections">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1977 United Kingdom local elections">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1978 United Kingdom local elections">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1979 United Kingdom local elections">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1980 United Kingdom local elections">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1981 United Kingdom local elections">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1982 United Kingdom local elections">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1983 United Kingdom local elections">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1984 United Kingdom local elections">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1985 United Kingdom local elections">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1986 United Kingdom local elections">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1987 United Kingdom local elections">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1988 United Kingdom local elections">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1989 United Kingdom local elections">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1990 United Kingdom local elections">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1991 United Kingdom local elections">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1992 United Kingdom local elections">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1993 United Kingdom local elections">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1994 United Kingdom local elections">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1995 United Kingdom local elections">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1996 United Kingdom local elections">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1997 United Kingdom local elections">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1998 United Kingdom local elections">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1999 United Kingdom local elections">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2000 United Kingdom local elections">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2001 United Kingdom local elections">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2002 United Kingdom local elections">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2003 United Kingdom local elections">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2004 United Kingdom local elections">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2005 United Kingdom local elections">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2006 United Kingdom local elections">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2007 United Kingdom local elections">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2008 United Kingdom local elections">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2009 United Kingdom local elections">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2010 United Kingdom local elections">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2011 United Kingdom local elections">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2012 United Kingdom local elections">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2013 United Kingdom local elections">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2014 United Kingdom local elections">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2015 United Kingdom local elections">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2016 United Kingdom local elections">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2017 United Kingdom local elections">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2018 United Kingdom local elections">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2019 United Kingdom local elections">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2021 United Kingdom local elections">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2022 United Kingdom local elections">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2023 United Kingdom local elections">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2024 United Kingdom local elections">2024</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2025_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2025 United Kingdom local elections">2025</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Elections_to_the_European_Parliament" title="Elections to the European Parliament">European elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1979 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1984 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1989 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1999 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" 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