1959 United Kingdom general election in England
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The 1959 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 8 October 1959. As in the nation, in England, the Conservative Party registered a landslide victory over the Labour Party and its third consecutive victory overall.
The victory of the Conservative Party in England was even more remarkable than in the nation as it won over 120 seats than Labour with just over 50% of the voteshare. It was the only electiom between 1945 and 1979 in which a party won over 300 seats in England. It was also the best performance of the Conservative Party in England since 1935 and conversely the worst for the Labour Party in England since 1935.[1][2]
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Result Table
[edit]| Party | Seats won | Net change in seats | Total votes (in millions) | Voteshare | Change in voteshare |
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| Conservative | 315 |  22
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11.56 | 50.0% |  0.4%
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| Labour | 193 | 23
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10.09 | 43.6% | 3.2%
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| Liberal | 3 | 
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1.45 | 6.3% | 3.6%
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References
[edit]- ^ Harmer, Emily (2021-10-06), "The Candidates: Making the House (of Commons) Their Home?", Women, media and elections, Policy Press, pp. 21–57, ISBN 978-1-5292-0494-0, retrieved 2024-09-28
- ^ Craig, Frederick Walter Scott (1989). British electoral facts 1832-1987 (Fifth ed ed.). Dartmouth (N.-E): Parliamentary research services. ISBN 978-0-900178-30-6.
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- "8 October 1959", BBC Politics 97.
- "1959: Macmillan wins Tory hat trick", BBC News.
- Pilling, Sam; Cracknell, Richard (18 August 2021). "UK Election Statistics: 1918-2021: A Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. pp. 20–21.
- Sanders, David. "Pre-election polling in Britain, 1950–1997." Electoral Studies 22.1 (2003): 1-20.
- Ridge-Newman, Anthony, and Anthony Ridge-Newman. "1959 General Election, Tories and TV 1958–63." The Tories and Television, 1951-1964: Broadcasting an Elite (2017): 111-129.