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General Election

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

22Records
1922–2019Date range
7Named people
7Places

Chronological records

1922

Arthur Greenwood15 November 1922

Nelson and Colne · Politics / Labour Party

Wins Nelson and Colne for Labour and enters the House of Commons.

1923

Arthur Greenwood6 December 1923

Nelson and Colne · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Nelson and Colne for Labour in the general election.

1924

Arthur Greenwood29 October 1924

Nelson and Colne · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Nelson and Colne for Labour after the fall of the first Labour government.

1935

Arthur Greenwood14 November 1935

Wakefield · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Wakefield for Labour in the general election.

1945

Aneurin Bevan5 July 1945

Ebbw Vale · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Ebbw Vale as Labour wins nationally.

Arthur Greenwood5 July 1945

Wakefield · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Wakefield for Labour in the general election that brings Clement Attlee to power.

1950

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman23 February 1950

Coventry · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Coventry East at the 1950 general election.

Arthur Greenwood23 February 1950

Wakefield · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Wakefield for Labour with a substantial majority in the general election.

Denis Winston Healey23 February 1950

Pudsey and Otley · Politics / Labour Party

Healey again contests Pudsey and Otley but remains outside the House of Commons.

1951

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman25 October 1951

Coventry · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Coventry East despite Labour losing the general election.

Arthur Greenwood25 October 1951

Wakefield · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Wakefield for Labour in his final general election.

Roy Harris Jenkins25 October 1951

Birmingham · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Birmingham Stechford for Labour at the general election.

1955

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman26 May 1955

Coventry · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Coventry East at the 1955 general election.

Roy Harris Jenkins26 May 1955

Birmingham · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Birmingham Stechford for Labour as the Conservatives win nationally.

1959

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman8 October 1959

Coventry · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Coventry East at the 1959 general election.

Roy Harris Jenkins8 October 1959

Birmingham · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Birmingham Stechford for Labour during another Conservative general election victory.

1964

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman15 October 1964

Coventry · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Coventry East as Labour returns to government.

Roy Harris Jenkins15 October 1964

Birmingham · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Birmingham Stechford as Labour returns to government under Harold Wilson.

1966

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman31 March 1966

Coventry · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Coventry East when Labour increases its parliamentary majority.

1970

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman18 June 1970

Coventry · Politics / Labour Party

Retains Coventry East as Labour loses the general election.

2010

James Gordon Brown6 May 2010

Great Britain · Politics / Labour Party

Brown leads Labour into the general election that produces a hung Parliament.

2019

Jeremy Corbyn12 December 2019

Great Britain · Politics / Labour Party

Leads Labour to defeat in the general election.

Names involved

Aneurin BevanArthur GreenwoodDenis Winston HealeyJames Gordon BrownJeremy CorbynRichard Howard Stafford CrossmanRoy Harris Jenkins

Provenance

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