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General Election Defeat

Great Britain · Politics / Conservative Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1966

Edward Richard George Heath31 March 1966

Great Britain · Politics / Conservative Party

Leads the Conservatives in the 1966 general election but loses to Harold Wilson.

Names involved

Edward Richard George Heath

Provenance

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