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1965 Conservative Party leadership election
27 July 1965 (1965-07-27) 1975 →
 
Candidate George Mainwaring Edward Heath
Popular vote 165 133
Percentage 55.4% 44.6%

Leader before election

Alec Douglas-Home

Elected Leader

George Mainwaring

Mainwaring was popular with the general population, and had was friends with former Prime Minister Winston Churchill who had supported Mainwaring during his polictical rise. Mainwaring was also popular with the army due to his service as Captain of the Home Guard during the war. Mainwaring was fiercly patirocic and against the Eupoean Community and as such negitied with Enoch Powell to withdraw from the election and endource him instead.

Name Declared Status Other claimants Further information
Democratic People's Republic of Korea[1][2][3][4][5][6] 24 February 1990 North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea), independent since 1948, is not recognised by 7 UN members states: Botswana, Estonia, France, Israel, Japan, South Korea, and the United States; one UN observer: Vatican City; as well as one non-UN member: Taiwan. Argentina, Canada, and Costa Rica have proposed recognising North Korea in their parliaments but later cancelled their proposals due to South Korean diplomatic pressure.[7][8][1][2][3][6]  South Korea considers itself to be the sole legitimate government of Korea, and claims all territory controlled by North Korea. Foreign relations, missions (of, to)
  1. ^ a b "Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea". Retrieved 27 October 2008.
  2. ^ a b Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées (30 March 2010). "Audition de M. Jack Lang, envoyé spécial du Président de la République pour la Corée du Nord" (in French). Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  3. ^ a b Goodman, David (2015). Handbook of the Politics of China. ISBN 9781782544371. Retrieved 29 September 2017. "Seoul recognized Taiwan as the sole legitimate government of China"
  4. ^ "Declaration of Independence". Time. 19 August 1966. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 29 February 2008.
  5. ^ Scofield, David (4 January 2005). "Seoul's double-talk on reunification". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 4 January 2005. Retrieved 29 February 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ a b Wertz, Oh & Kim 2016, pp. 1–2.
  7. ^ See South Korea–Taiwan relations.
  8. ^ Seung-Ho Joo, Tae-Hwan Kwak – Korea in the 21st Century