United Kingdom general election, 1955

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Anthony Eden

Clement Attlee

The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election. It resulted in a substantially increased majority of 60 for the Conservative government under Sir Anthony Eden against the Labour Party under Clement Attlee.

This was the earliest general election in the United Kingdom of which television coverage survives (the 1950 and 1951 election nights were not recorded). Only three hours of the coverage was made and this was rebroadcast on BBC Parliament on the fiftieth anniversary of the date.

[edit] Results

BBC election coverage

UK General Election 1955
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	Conservative	345			+ 23		49.7	13,310,891	+ 1.7
	Labour	277			- 18		46.4	12,405,254	- 2.4
	Liberal	6	0	0	0		2.7	722,402	+ 0.2
	Sinn Féin	2	2	0	+ 2		0.6	152,310	+ 0.5
	Plaid Cymru	0	0	0	0		0.2	45,119	+ 0.2
	Independent	0	0	0	0		0.2	43,791	+ 0.1
	Communist	0	0	0	0		0.1	33,144	0.0
	Irish Labour	0	0	1	- 1		0.1	16,050	0.0
	Independent Labour	0	0	0	0		0.0	15,322	N/A
	Scottish National Party	0	0	0	0		0.0	12,112	0.0
	Ind. Labour Party	0	0	0	0		0.0	3,334	0.0