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INC (R) Prime Minister after election. Morarji Desai. JP. General elections were held in India between 16 and 20 March 1977 to elect the members of the sixth Lok Sabha. [2] The elections took place during the Emergency period, which expired on 21 March 1977, shortly before the final results were announced. [1]
Indira Gandhi. INC (I) General elections were held in India on 3 and 6 January 1980 to elect the members of the 7th Lok Sabha. The Janata Party alliance came into power in the 1977 general elections amidst public anger with the Indian National Congress (R) and the Emergency. However, its position was weak; the loose coalition barely held on to ...
The General Election of 1979 was momentous for several reasons. It was the first time a woman was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The elections also came after the 'Winter of Discontent,' the name given to a series of strikes from December 1978 to February 1979 which crippled not only the country, but the sitting Labour government.
An election was held on 3 May 1979 to elect all 635 seats of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Conservative Party won the election and Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. She was the first female Prime Minister of the UK. The election happened because of a vote of no confidence in the James Callaghan passing by one vote in ...
Labour. The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 15 October 1964. It resulted in the Conservatives, led by incumbent Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, narrowly losing to the Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson; Labour secured a parliamentary majority of four seats and ended its thirteen years in opposition since the 1951 ...
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019 with 47,074,800 registered voters [3] entitled to vote to elect members of the House of Commons. The Conservative Party won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats, [n 5] a net gain of 48, on 43.6% of the popular vote, the highest percentage for any party ...
The 1885 United Kingdom general election was held from 24 November to 18 December 1885. This was the first general election after an extension of the franchise and redistribution of seats. For the first time a majority of adult males could vote and most constituencies by law returned a single member to Parliament, fulfilling one of the ideals ...
