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The 1979 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 3 May 1979 to elect 635 members to the House of Commons. The election was held following the defeat of the Labour government in a no-confidence motion on 28 March 1979, six months before the Parliament was due for dissolution in October 1979. The Conservative Party, led by Margaret ...
1979 general election results. The Conservatives won the election with 43.9 per cent of the vote, with 70 seats over Labour and an overall majority of 43 seats. Labour earned 36.9 per cent of the popular vote, which was close to its 1974 election percentage of 39.2 per cent.
The 1979 United Kingdom general election saw the Conservative Party win the most votes and seats in England. [1] They received 12.26 million English votes, a record at the time. [2]
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1979: Election victory for Margaret Thatcher. The Conservative Party has won the general election making Margaret Thatcher Britain's first ever woman prime minister. Mrs Thatcher arrived at...
The general election of 1979 was to prove a political watershed. Most historians and commentators agree that the election of Margaret Thatcher marked a break in post-war British history.
1979 General Election: Margaret Thatcher leads the Tories to victory. From March 1977 onwards Labour had had a minority of seats in Parliament and governed with Liberal support. The election saw the largest swing since 1945, and brought Margaret Thatcher to power as Britain's first woman Prime Minister.
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'We never count our chickens before they are hatched, and we don't count No.10 Downing Street until it is thatched,' Margaret Thatcher quipped on the morning of 3 May 1979, a day that would change her own and Britain's future. The General Election of 1979 was momentous for several reasons.
