Sources
Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, British Electoral Facts 1832-2006
House of Commons Research Papers 01/37, 01/54, 05/33 & 10/36
Link: http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP12-43/RP12-43.pdf
Date | Party forming government | Initial Prime Minister |
---|---|---|
27/10/1931 | National Government | Ramsay MacDonald |
14/11/1935 | National Government | Stanley Baldwin |
05/07/1945 | Labour | Clement Attlee |
23/02/1950 | Labour | Clement Attlee |
25/10/1951 | Conservative | Sir Winston Churchill |
26/05/1955 | Conservative | Sir Anthony Eden |
08/10/1959 | Conservative | Harold Macmillan |
15/10/1964 | Labour | Harold Wilson |
31/03/1966 | Labour | Harold Wilson |
18/06/1970 | Conservative | Edward Heath |
28/02/1974 | Labour | Harold Wilson |
10/10/1974 | Labour | Harold Wilson |
03/05/1979 | Conservative | Margaret Thatcher |
09/06/1983 | Conservative | Margaret Thatcher |
11/06/1987 | Conservative | Margaret Thatcher |
09/04/1992 | Conservative | John Major |
01/05/1997 | Labour | Tony Blair |
07/06/2001 | Labour | Tony Blair |
05/05/2005 | Labour | Tony Blair |
06/05/2010 | Coalition | David Cameron |
07/05/2015 | Conservative | David Cameron |