United Kingdom general election, 1964

• Labour: 317
• Tories: 298
• Otherwise:. 15

The British general election, 1964 took place on 15 October 1964. In the elections of the deputies of the lower house (House of Commons ) were redetermined.

Electoral system

Was chosen according to the simple majority system.

Election result

The Labour Party was founded with slight gains election winner. It reached a concise absolute majority with 317 of 630 seats. The previous ruling Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in the elections and thereby lost its absolute majority.

Alec Douglas-Home (1903 - 1995, Tories ), who was prime minister since October 1963, thereby lost his position; the Labour Party leader Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995) became the new prime minister.

Others

This ended a 13 -year-old Regierungsära the Tories; they had started in October 1951 with a narrow election victory of the Tories, led by Winston Churchill ( in May 1955 won his successor Anthony Eden, Eden was replaced in January 1957 by Harold Macmillan, Macmillan and the Tories won the general election in October 1959).