The British General Election of 1945

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_British_General_Election_of_1945
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:event
gptkbp:Conservative_Party_seats_won 197
gptkbp:ConservativeLeader gptkb:Winston_Churchill
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:date 5 July 1945
gptkbp:defeatedBy gptkb:Conservative_Party
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:United_Kingdom_general_election,_1950
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The British General Election of 1945
gptkbp:Labour_Party_seats_won 393
gptkbp:leader gptkb:Clement_Attlee
gptkb:Archibald_Sinclair
gptkbp:LiberalSeatsWon 12
gptkbp:notableFor first general election after World War II
landslide victory for Labour
defeat of wartime leader Winston Churchill
start of Attlee ministry
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:Hugh_Dalton
gptkb:John_Stewart
gptkb:Tom_Driberg
gptkb:Rab_Butler
gptkb:John_Forman
gptkb:David_Kirkwood
gptkb:Iain_Macleod
gptkb:Manny_Shinwell
gptkb:Stafford_Cripps
gptkb:Aneurin_Bevan
gptkb:Clement_Attlee
gptkb:Ellen_Wilkinson
gptkb:Fenner_Brockway
gptkb:George_Brown
gptkb:George_Thomas
gptkb:Harold_Wilson
gptkb:James_Maxton
gptkb:Jennie_Lee
gptkb:John_Parker
gptkb:John_Strachey
gptkb:John_Taylor
gptkb:John_Wheatley
gptkb:John_Young
gptkb:Michael_Foot
gptkb:William_Gallacher
gptkb:Winston_Churchill
gptkb:Tom_Fraser
gptkb:John_Woodburn
gptkb:Arthur_Greenwood
gptkb:Alec_Douglas-Home
gptkb:Enoch_Powell
gptkb:Harold_Macmillan
gptkb:Herbert_Morrison
gptkb:John_Wilmot
gptkb:Wilfred_Fienburgh
gptkb:Hugh_Gaitskell
gptkb:John_McKay
gptkb:Richard_Crossman
gptkb:John_Baird
gptkb:Edward_Heath
gptkb:John_Rankin
gptkb:Tom_Williams
gptkb:Jo_Grimond
gptkb:Megan_Lloyd_George
gptkb:James_Carmichael
gptkb:Hector_McNeil
gptkb:George_Buchanan
gptkb:William_Ross
gptkb:Douglas_Jay
gptkb:John_McGovern
gptkb:James_Chuter_Ede
gptkb:John_Robertson
gptkb:Joseph_Westwood
gptkb:Barbara_Castle
gptkb:William_Whiteley
gptkb:John_Dugdale
gptkb:James_Griffiths
gptkb:William_Reid
gptkb:George_Isaacs
gptkb:Thomas_Fraser
gptkb:Wilfred_Paling
Anthony Eden
Ernest Bevin
James Callaghan
Arthur Bottomley
Hugh Jenkins
John Hynd
John Timmons
Sydney Silverman
gptkbp:numberOfIssues gptkb:state_order
employment
housing
postwar reconstruction
nationalisation
gptkbp:parliament gptkb:38th_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkbp:precededBy United Kingdom general election, 1935
gptkbp:primeMinister gptkb:Clement_Attlee
gptkb:Winston_Churchill
gptkbp:result Labour Party victory
gptkbp:voterTurnout 72.8%
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:R._D._McCallum
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8