1964 United Kingdom general election
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The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on 15 October 1964, five years after the previous election, and thirteen years after the Conservative Party, first led by Winston Churchill, had entered power. It resulted in the Conservatives, led by its fourth leader, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, narrowly losing the election to the Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson, with Labour having an overall majority of four seats. It resulted in Labour ending its thirteen years in opposition and led to Wilson to become, at the time, the youngest Prime Minister in more than 150 years.[citation needed]
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Contents
- 1 Background
- 2 Campaign
- 3 Opinion poll summary
- 4 Results
- 5 Transfers of seats
- 6 Incumbents defeated
- 7 Televised results programmes
- 8 Televised declarations
- 9 See also
- 10 Notes
- 11 References
- 12 Further reading
- 13 External links
- 14 Test core - PR
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- 17 Test core - SP
- 18 Test core - PE
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- 21 Test core - E
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Background
Both major parties had changed leadership in 1963; after the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell early in the year, Labour chose Harold Wilson (who was then thought of as being on the party's centre-left), while Sir Alec Douglas-Home (then the Earl of Home) had taken over as Conservative leader and Prime Minister in the autumn after Harold Macmillan announced his resignation. Douglas-Home shortly afterwards disclaimed his title under the Peerage Act 1963 in order to lead the party from the Commons.
Macmillan had led the Conservative government since January 1957. Despite initial popularity and a resounding election victory in 1959, he had become increasingly unpopular in the early-1960s, and while it was for a while thought likely that the Conservatives would win the scheduled 1964 general election, albeit with a reduced majority, the emergence of the Profumo affair in March 1963 and Macmillan's handling of the matter all but destroyed the credibility of his government. While he survived a vote of no confidence in June 1963, polling indicated that the Conservatives would lose the next election heavily if Macmillan remained in power, which, along with health issues, caused Macmillan to announce his resignation in the autumn of 1963.
Douglas-Home faced a difficult task in rebuilding the party's popularity with just a year elapsing between taking office and having to face a general election. Wilson had begun to try to tie the Labour Party to the growing confidence of Britain in the 1960s, asserting that the "white heat of [scientific] revolution" would sweep away "restrictive practices ... on both sides of industry". The Liberal Party enjoyed a resurgence after a virtual wipeout in the 1950s, and doubled its share of the vote, primarily at the expense of the Conservatives. Although Labour did not increase its vote share significantly, the fall in support for the Conservatives led to Wilson securing an overall majority of four seats.[1] This proved to be unworkable, and Wilson called a snap election in 1966.
Campaign
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The pre-election campaign was prolonged, as Douglas-Home delayed calling a general election to give himself as much time as possible to improve the prospects of his party. The election campaign formally began on 15 September 1964 when Douglas-Home saw the Queen and asked for a dissolution of Parliament. The campaign was dominated by some of the more voluble characters of the political scene at the time. While George Brown, deputy leader of the Labour Party, toured the country making energetic speeches (and the occasional gaffe), Quintin Hogg was a leading spokesman for the Conservatives. The image of Hogg lashing out at a Wilson poster with his walking stick was one of the most striking of the campaign. Many party speakers, especially at televised rallies, had to deal with hecklers; in particular Douglas-Home was treated very roughly at a meeting in Birmingham.
The election night was broadcast live by the BBC, and was presented for the fifth and final time by Richard Dimbleby, with Robin Day, Ian Trethowan, Cliff Michelmore and David Butler.[2]
Opinion poll summary
- NOP: Lab swing 3.5% (Lab majority of 12)
- Gallup: Lab swing 4% (Lab majority of 23)
- Research Services: Lab swing 2.75% (Con majority of 30)
- Daily Express: Lab swing of 1.75% (Con majority of 60)[lower-alpha 1]
Results
The election resulted in a very slim majority of four seats for the Labour Party, forming a government for the first time since 1951. Labour achieved a swing of just over 3%, although its vote rose by only 0.2%. The main shift was the swing from the Conservatives to the Liberals of 5.7%. The Liberals won nearly twice as many votes as in 1959, partly because they had 150 more candidates. Wilson became Prime Minister, replacing Douglas-Home. The four-seat majority was not sustainable for a full Parliament, and Wilson called another general election in 1966. In particular the small majority meant the government could not implement its policy of nationalising the steel industry, due to the opposition of two of its backbenchers, Woodrow Wyatt and Desmond Donnelly.
This was the only election in Britain's recent history when all seats were won by the three main parties: no minor parties, independents or splinter groups won any seats. It was also the last election in which one party, namely the Conservative Party, contested every single seat. The Conservatives had previously held off on contesting certain Liberal-held seats as per local-level agreements to avoid vote-splitting, but ended that policy at this election. The resultant splitting of votes actually helped grant Labour a majority, by throwing two formerly Liberal-held seats in northern England to Labour; however, the outcome of the election would not have been meaningfully altered had the Liberals retained the seats, as Labour would still have had as many seats as the other two parties combined, and Liberal leader Jo Grimond was not inclined to prop up a minority Conservative government.
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Party | Leader | Standing | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Labour | Harold Wilson | 628 | 317 | 65 | 6 | +59 | 50.3 | 44.1 | 12,205,808 | +0.3 | |
Conservative | Alec Douglas-Home | 630 | 304 | 5 | 66 | −61 | 48.3 | 43.4 | 12,002,642 | −6.0 | |
Liberal | Jo Grimond | 365 | 9 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 1.4 | 11.2 | 3,099,283 | +5.3 | |
Independent Republican | N/A | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 101,628 | N/A | ||
Plaid Cymru | Gwynfor Evans | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 69,507 | 0.0 | ||
SNP | Arthur Donaldson | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 64,044 | +0.1 | ||
Communist | John Gollan | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 46,442 | +0.1 | ||
Independent | N/A | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 18,677 | N/A | ||
Independent Liberal | N/A | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 16,064 | N/A | ||
Republican Labour | Gerry Fitt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 14,678 | N/A | ||
Independent Conservative | N/A | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0.0 | 6,459 | N/A | ||
British National | John Bean | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,410 | N/A | ||
Anti-Common Market League | John Paul & Michael Shay | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,083 | N/A | ||
Ind. Nuclear Disarmament | Pat Arrowsmith | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,534 | N/A | ||
Fellowship | Ronald Mallone | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,112 | 0.0 | ||
Patriotic Party | Richard Hilton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,108 | N/A | ||
League of Empire Loyalists | Arthur K. Chesterton | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,046 | N/A | ||
Communist Anti-Revisionist | Michael McCreery | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 899 | N/A | ||
Christian Progressive | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 865 | N/A | ||
Taxpayers' Coalition Party | John E. Dayton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 709 | N/A | ||
Agriculturalist | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 534 | N/A | ||
Independent Labour | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 458 | N/A | ||
National Democratic | David Brown | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 349 | N/A | ||
Socialist (GB) | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 322 | 0.0 | ||
World Government | Gilbert Young | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 318 | N/A | ||
British and Commonwealth | Miles Blair | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 310 | N/A | ||
Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | John Hargrave | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 304 | N/A | ||
Christian Socialist | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 265 | N/A |
Government's new majority | 4 |
Total votes cast | 27,657,148 |
Turnout | 77% |
Votes summary
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Seats summary
Regional results
Great Britain
Party | Votes | % of vote | Candidates | Seats | % of seats | +/– | ||
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Labour | 12,103,049 | 44.8 | 618 | 317 | ||||
Conservative & Unionist | 11,600,745 | 42.9 | 618 | 292 | ||||
Conservative | 10,292,974 | 38.1 | 599 | 286 | ||||
Unionist | 981,641 | 3.6 | 65 | 24 | ||||
National Liberal | 326,130 | 1.2 | 19 | 6 | ||||
Liberal | 3,081,929 | 11.4 | 361 | 9 | ||||
Plaid Cymru | 69,507 | 0.3 | 23 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
SNP | 64,044 | 0.2 | 15 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Communist | 46,442 | 0.2 | 36 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Other parties and independents | 53,116 | 0.2 | 47 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Total (turnout: 77.2%) | 27,018,832 | 100.0 | 1,718 | 618 | 100.0 | |||
Did not vote | 7,984,670 | |||||||
Registered voters | 35,003,502 | |||||||
British population | 52,608,000 | |||||||
Source: Rallings & Thrasher |
England
Party | Votes | % of vote | Candidates | Seats | % of seats | +/– | ||
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Conservative & Unionist | 10,106,028 | 44.1 | 511 | 262 | 51.3 | |||
Conservative | 9,894,014 | 43.1 | 500 | 256 | 50.1 | |||
National Liberal | 212,014 | 0.9 | 11 | 6 | 1.1 | |||
Labour | 9,982,360 | 43.5 | 511 | 246 | 48.1 | |||
Liberal | 2,775,752 | 12.1 | 323 | 3 | 0.6 | |||
Communist | 24,824 | 0.1 | 22 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Other parties and independents | 48,287 | 0.2 | 42 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Total (turnout: 77.0%) | 22,937,251 | 100.0 | 1,409 | 511 | 100.0 | |||
Did not vote | 6,867,376 | |||||||
Registered voters | 29,804,627 | |||||||
English population | 44,610,500 | |||||||
Source: Rallings & Thrasher |
Scotland
Party | Votes | % of vote | Candidates | Seats | % of seats | +/– | ||
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Labour | 1,283,667 | 48.7 | 71 | 43 | 60.6 | +5 | ||
Conservative & Unionist | 1,069,695 | 40.6 | 71 | 24 | 33.8 | −7 | ||
Unionist | 981,641 | 37.3 | 65 | 24 | 33.8 | −1 | ||
National Liberal | 88,054 | 3.3 | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | −6 | ||
Liberal | 200,063 | 7.6 | 26 | 4 | 5.6 | +3 | ||
SNP | 64,044 | 2.4 | 15 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Communist | 12,241 | 0.5 | 9 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Other parties and independents | 4,829 | 0.2 | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Total (turnout: 77.6%) | 2,634,539 | 100.0 | 197 | 71 | 100.0 | |||
Did not vote | 759,352 | |||||||
Registered voters | 3,393,891 | |||||||
Scottish population | 5,209,000 | |||||||
Source: Rallings & Thrasher |
Wales
Party | Votes | % of vote | Candidates | Seats | % of seats | +/– | ||
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Labour | 837,022 | 57.8 | 36 | 28 | 77.8 | |||
Conservative & Unionist | 425,022 | 29.4 | 36 | 6 | 16.7 | |||
Conservative | 398,960 | 27.6 | 34 | 6 | 16.7 | |||
National Liberal | 26,062 | 1.8 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Liberal | 106,114 | 7.3 | 12 | 2 | 5.6 | |||
Plaid Cymru | 69,507 | 4.8 | 23 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Communist | 9,377 | 0.6 | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Total (turnout: 80.1%) | 1,447,042 | 100.0 | 112 | 36 | 100.0 | |||
Did not vote | 358,453 | |||||||
Registered voters | 1,805,495 | |||||||
Voting age population | 1,805,925 | |||||||
Welsh population | 2,676,400 | |||||||
Source: Rallings & Thrasher |
Northern Ireland
Party | Votes | % of vote | Candidates | Seats | % of seats | +/– | ||
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Conservative & Unionist | 401,897 | 63.0 | 12 | 12 | 100.0 | |||
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Labour | 102,759 | 16.1 | 10 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Independent Republican | 101,628 | 15.9 | 12 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Ulster Liberal | 17,354 | 2.7 | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Republican Labour | 14,678 | 2.3 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Total (turnout: 71.7%) | 638,316 | 100.0 | 12 | 100.0 | ||||
Did not vote | 252,236 | |||||||
Registered voters | 890,552 | |||||||
Voting age population | 891,043 | |||||||
Northern Irish population | 1,458,000 | |||||||
Source: Rallings & Thrasher |
Transfers of seats
- All comparisons are with the 1959 election.
- In some cases the change is due to the MP defecting to the gaining party. Such circumstances are marked with a *.
- In other circumstances the change is due to the seat having been won by the gaining party in a by-election in the intervening years, and then retained in 1964. Such circumstances are marked with a †.
- 3 Seat gained by Labour in a by-election but regained by the Conservatives in 1964.
- 4 Seat gained by Conservatives in a 1961 by-election but regained by Labour in another 1963 by-election.
Incumbents defeated
Conservative
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- Ernest Partridge (Battersea South)
- Sir Douglas Marshall (Bodmin)
- Edwin Taylor (Bolton East)
- Sir William Taylor, 1st Baronet (Bradford North)
- David James (Brighton Kemptown)
- John Bidgood (Bury and Radcliffe)
- Donald McIntosh Johnson (Carlisle)
- Anthony Bourne-Arton (Darlington)
- Anthony Barber (Doncaster), Minister of Health
- John Arbuthnot (Dover)
- Graeme Finlay (Epping)
- Frank Lilley (Glasgow Kelvingrove)
- Peter Michael Kirk (Gravesend), Under-Secretary of State for War
- Maurice Macmillan (Halifax)
- Tony Leavey (Heywood and Royton)
- Martin Maddan (Hitchin)
- Denys Bullard (King's Lynn)
- Michael Coulson (Kingston upon Hull North), Parliamentary Private Secretary
- Norman Pannell (Liverpool Kirkdale)
- Reginald Bevins (Liverpool Toxteth), Postmaster General
- Sir Kenneth Thompson, 1st Baronet (Liverpool Walton)
- John Woollam (Liverpool West Derby)
- Eric Johnson (Manchester Blackley)
- Eveline Hill (Manchester Wythenshawe)
- Geoffrey Rippon (Norwich South)
- John Cordeaux (Nottingham Central)
- Alan Green (Preston South), Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- Sir Hugh Linstead (Putney)
- Sir Norman John Hulbert DL (Stockport North)
- Sir Harold Macdonald Steward (Stockport South)
- Paul Williams (Sunderland South)
- Michael Hughes-Young (Wandsworth Central), Treasurer of the Household
- Frederick Farey-Jones (Watford)
- Colin Turner (Woolwich West)
- Philip Holland (Acton)
- William Compton Carr (Barons Court)
- John Hollingworth (Birmingham All Saints)
- Leslie Seymour (Birmingham Sparkbrook)
- Leonard Cleaver (Birmingham Yardley)
- Sir Alan Glyn (Clapham)
- Wilf Proudfoot (Cleveland)
- Philip Hocking (Coventry South)
- Geoffrey Johnson Smith (Holborn and St Pancras South)
- Marcus Worsley (Keighley)
- Gordon Matthews (Meriden)
- Fergus Montgomery (Newcastle upon Tyne East)
- Peter Tapsell (Nottingham West)
- Julian Critchley (Rochester and Chatham)
- Hugh Rees (Swansea West)
- John Kerans (The Hartlepools)
- Michael Hamilton (Wellingborough), Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
- Trevor Skeet (Willesden East)
- Neil McLean (Inverness)
- Sir John MacLeod (Ross and Cromarty)
Labour
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Liberal
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- Arthur Holt (Bolton West)
- Donald Wade (Huddersfield West), Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party
Televised results programmes
Both BBC and ITV provided televised coverage of the results and provided commentary. The BBC coverage is infrequently rebroadcast on the BBC Parliament channel—it was last broadcast on 12 November 2014.[3][4]
Televised declarations
These declarations were covered live by the BBC where the returning officer was heard to say "duly elected".
Constituency | Winning party 1959 | Constituency result 1964 by party | Winning party 1964 | |||||
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Cheltenham | Conservative | 19,797 | 14,557 | 7,568 | Conservative hold | |||
Salford West | Labour | 16,446 | 20,490 | Labour hold | ||||
Billericay | Conservative | 35,347 | 33,755 | 10,706 | Conservative hold | |||
Exeter | Conservative | 18,035 | 16,673 | 8,815 | Conservative hold | |||
Battersea South | Conservative | 10,615 | 12,263 | 3,294 | Labour gain | |||
Liverpool Exchange | Labour | 7,239 | 16,985 | Labour hold | ||||
Holborn and St Pancras South | Conservative | 13,117 | 15,823 | 226 | Labour gain | |||
North Devon | Liberal | 13,985 | 4,306 | 19,031 | Liberal hold | |||
Stockport South | Conservative | 13,718 | 16,755 | 7,107 | Labour gain | |||
Barons Court | Conservative | 14,800 | 15,966 | 2,821 | Labour gain | |||
Bolton West | Liberal | 13,522 | 16,519 | 10,086 | Labour gain | |||
Smethwick | Labour | 16,690 | 14,916 | 262 | Conservative gain | |||
Huyton | Labour | 22,940 | 42,213 | 899 | Labour hold | |||
Orpington | Conservative | 19,565 | 4,609 | 22,637 | Liberal win | |||
Torrington | Conservative | 16,889 | 5,867 | 14,831 | Conservative hold |
- Orpington was won by the Liberals in a by-election in 1962 and held in the general election. When this happens, it is described as a "win" as opposed to a "gain" or "hold".
See also
- List of MPs elected in the 1964 United Kingdom general election
- Smethwick in the 1964 general election
Notes
- ↑ This summary of opinion poll findings from the last few days of the campaign is given early in the BBC's election night coverage.
- ↑ Conservative total includes Scottish Unionists, Ulster Unionists, and National Liberals.
References
Further reading
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External links
Manifestos
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