United Kingdom general election, 1950

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1950
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:politics
gptkbp:Conservative_Party_seats_won 298
gptkbp:Conservative_Party_vote_percentage 43.4%
gptkbp:Conservative_Party_votes 12,496,183
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:date 23 February 1950
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label United Kingdom general election, 1950
gptkbp:Labour_Party_seats_won 315
gptkbp:Labour_Party_vote_share 46.1%
gptkbp:Labour_Party_votes 13,266,176
gptkbp:leader gptkb:Clement_Attlee
gptkb:Winston_Churchill
gptkb:Clement_Davies
gptkbp:Liberal_Party_vote_percentage 9.1%
gptkbp:Liberal_Party_votes 2,621,487
gptkbp:LiberalSeatsWon 9
gptkbp:majoritySeats 313
gptkbp:nextEdition United Kingdom general election, 1951
gptkbp:notableFeature first election with all seats single-member constituencies
Labour majority reduced to 5 seats
first general election after World War II with new constituency boundaries
gptkbp:parliament gptkb:39th_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkbp:previousEdition United Kingdom general election, 1945
gptkbp:primeMinister gptkb:Clement_Attlee
gptkbp:seatingCapacity 625
gptkbp:voterTurnout 83.9%
gptkbp:winner gptkb:Labour_Party
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:General_Election_1945
gptkb:The_British_General_Election_of_1950
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8