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General Elections 1945-97

1997 - Labour's Landslide

How the parties' campaigns went: Labour    Conservative    Liberal Democrat   


Click on a year in the following graph or the table underneath to go to that individual election.

[Vote Share graph]
  1945 Labour's post-war watershed   1970 Heath's surprise victory
  1950 Attlee just hangs on   1974 Feb Who governs Britain?
  1951 Churchill's Indian Summer   1974 Oct Wilson's cliffhanger
  1955 Eden wins his own mandate   1979 Dawn of the Thatcher era
  1959 "You've never had it so good"   1983 Mrs Thatcher's landslide
  1964 "White heat" for Wilson   1987 Thatcher does the hat-trick
  1966 Wilson's big victory   1992 Major confounds the polls
1997 Labour's landslide




Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997

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