The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. It was ultimately counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas.

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  • The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. It was ultimately counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas. A khaki election held just months after VE Day, it was the first general election to be held since 1935, as general elections had been suspended until the Allied victory in the Second World War had been assured. It resulted in the election defeat of the Conservatives led by Winston Churchill and the landslide victory of the Labour Party led by Clement Attlee, who won a majority of 145 seats. The result of the election came as a major shock to the Conservatives, given the heroic status of Winston Churchill, but reflected the voters' belief that the Labour Party were better able to rebuild the country following the war than the Conservatives. Churchill and the Conservatives are also generally considered to have run a poor campaign in comparison to Labour; Churchill's statement that Attlee's programme would require a Gestapo-esque body to implement is considered to have been particularly poorly judged. Equally, whilst voters respected and liked Churchill's wartime record, they were more distrustful of the Conservative Party's domestic and foreign policy record in the late thirties. Labour had also been given, during the war, the opportunity to display to the electorate their domestic competence in government under men such as Attlee, Herbert Morrison and Ernest Bevin at the Ministry of Labour. The Labour Party ran on promises to create full employment, a tax funded universal National Health Service, and a cradle-to-grave welfare state, with the campaign message 'Let us face the future. ' This was the first election in which Labour gained a majority of seats, and also the first time it won a plurality of votes. If it had won another 68,767 or 0.3% of votes it would have had over 50% of all those cast.
  • Die britischen Unterhauswahlen 1945 fanden am 5. Juli statt. Es waren die ersten Unterhauswahlen seit 1935, da diese während des Zweiten Weltkrieg ausgesetzt wurden. Die Ergebnisse waren so nicht erwartet worden, da Winston Churchill die Briten durch den Krieg führte und in großen Teilen der Gesellschaft einen Heldenstatus einnahm. Allerdings wurde Labour im Bezug auf den Wiederaufbau des Landes nach dem Krieg eine größere Kompetenz zugeschrieben. So gewannen die Arbeiterpartei mit ihrem Spitzenkandidaten Clement Attlee mit einem Vorsprung von 145 Sitzen deutlich.
  • Les eleccions al Parlament del Regne Unit de 1945 es van celebrar el 5 de juliol de 1945. Malgrat el paper de Winston Churchill durant la Segona Guerra Mundial, va guanyar el Partit Laborista per la majoria més ampla de la història de les eleccions del Regne Unit.
  • Parlamentsvalet i Storbritannien 1945 hölls den 5 juli 1945 men blev inte sluträknat och tillkännagivet förrän 26 juli 1945 (på grund av den tid det tog att transportera röster från soldater utomlands). Valet blev ett av de mest betydelsefulla i Storbritanniens 1900-talshistoria. Valet hölls bara några månader efter slutet på andra världskriget i Europa och var det första sedan 1935, eftersom valen var inställda under kriget. Valresultatet blev en överraskande förlust för Conservative Party, som leddes av Winston Churchill, och en jordskredsseger för Labour, lett av Clement Attlee, som fick egen majoritet med 145 platsers övervikt. Resultatet var nästan helt oväntat på grund av Winstons Churchills ställning som landsfader under kriget, men visade att väljarna trodde att Labour skulle kunna återuppbygga landet efter kriget bättre än de konservativa. Churchill och hans parti anses allmänt också ha fört en svag valkampanj jämfört med Labour. Dessutom hade Labour ingått i samlingsregeringen under kriget och då kunnat visa sin kompetens i inrikespolitiken. Labours valkampanj innehöll löften om full sysselsättning, skattefinansierad sjukvård för alla och överhuvudtaget uppbyggandet av en välfärdsstat. Totalt antal avlagda röster: 24 073 025. Alla partier med fler än 1 100 röster visade. Conservative Party inkluderar Ulsterunionister.
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  • 21 seats, 6.7%
  • 386 seats, 47.8%
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  • The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. It was ultimately counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas.
  • Die britischen Unterhauswahlen 1945 fanden am 5. Juli statt. Es waren die ersten Unterhauswahlen seit 1935, da diese während des Zweiten Weltkrieg ausgesetzt wurden. Die Ergebnisse waren so nicht erwartet worden, da Winston Churchill die Briten durch den Krieg führte und in großen Teilen der Gesellschaft einen Heldenstatus einnahm. Allerdings wurde Labour im Bezug auf den Wiederaufbau des Landes nach dem Krieg eine größere Kompetenz zugeschrieben.
  • Les eleccions al Parlament del Regne Unit de 1945 es van celebrar el 5 de juliol de 1945. Malgrat el paper de Winston Churchill durant la Segona Guerra Mundial, va guanyar el Partit Laborista per la majoria més ampla de la història de les eleccions del Regne Unit.
  • Parlamentsvalet i Storbritannien 1945 hölls den 5 juli 1945 men blev inte sluträknat och tillkännagivet förrän 26 juli 1945 (på grund av den tid det tog att transportera röster från soldater utomlands). Valet blev ett av de mest betydelsefulla i Storbritanniens 1900-talshistoria. Valet hölls bara några månader efter slutet på andra världskriget i Europa och var det första sedan 1935, eftersom valen var inställda under kriget.
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  • United Kingdom general election, 1945
  • Britische Unterhauswahlen 1945
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