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  2. List of United Kingdom general elections - Wikipedia

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    United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.

  3. United Kingdom general election records - Wikipedia

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    The first Roman Catholic general election victors in the UK Parliament were at the 1830 general election. They included Daniel O'Connell and James Patrick Mahon in Clare. The first Quaker general election victor was Edward Pease at the 1832 general election. The first Moravian general election victor was Charles Hindley at the 1835 general ...

  4. United Kingdom general elections overview - Wikipedia

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    This is an overview of United Kingdom general election results since 1922. The 1922 election was the first election in the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , after the creation of the Irish Free State removed Southern Ireland from the UK.

  5. General Election in numbers: Records broken and historic ...

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    At the same time as coming close to a record majority of seats, Labour has also ended up with the lowest ever share of the vote for a party that has won a majority at a general election. Labour ...

  6. Elections in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Advertisement in London publicised by the Electoral Commission encouraging voter registration ahead of the 2015 general election. The total number of names in the United Kingdom appearing in Electoral Registers published on 1 December 2010 and based on a qualifying date of 15 October 2010 was 45,844,691.

  7. Elections in the Kingdom of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Elections in the Kingdom of Great Britain were principally general elections and by-elections to the House of Commons of Great Britain. General elections did not have fixed dates, as parliament was summoned and dissolved within the royal prerogative , although on the advice of the ministers of the Crown.

  8. 2024 United Kingdom general election - Wikipedia

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    General elections in the United Kingdom are organised using first-past-the-post voting. The Conservative Party, which won a majority at the 2019 general election, included pledges in its manifesto to remove the 15-year limit on voting for British citizens living abroad, and to introduce a voter identification requirement in Great Britain. [86]

  9. October 1974 United Kingdom general election in England

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    It was the second general election held that year. While the Labour Party led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson clinched an overall narrow majority of 3 seats in the House of Commons, in England, the Labour Party won just two seats over the opposition Conservative Party led by Edward Heath .