General Election 1959

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/General_Election_1959

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:politics
gptkbp:Conservative_Party_seats_won	365
gptkbp:Conservative_Party_vote_share	49.4%
gptkbp:country	gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:date	8 October 1959
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:General_Election_1964
gptkbp:Labour_Party_seats_won	258
gptkbp:Labour_Party_vote_share	43.8%
gptkbp:LiberalSeatsWon	6
gptkbp:liberalVoteShare	5.9%
gptkbp:location	gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:notableLeader1	gptkb:Harold_Macmillan
gptkbp:notableLeader2	gptkb:Hugh_Gaitskell
gptkbp:notableLeader3	gptkb:Jo_Grimond
gptkbp:parliament	gptkb:42nd_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkbp:party	gptkb:Conservative_Party gptkb:Labour_Party gptkb:Liberal_Party
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:General_Election_1955
gptkbp:primeMinister	gptkb:Harold_Macmillan
gptkbp:seatingCapacity	630
gptkbp:type	parliamentary
gptkbp:voterTurnout	78.7%
gptkbp:votingSystem	first-past-the-post
gptkbp:winner	gptkb:Conservative_Party
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Pontypridd_constituency gptkb:Leigh_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	General Election 1959