The 1970 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 18 June 1970. It resulted in a surprise victory for the Conservative Party under leader Edward ... Election date · Overview · Results · Incumbents defeated

Prime Minister Harold Wilson was confident of victory but Labour's lead in the opinion polls proved to be shaky. Poor economic figures released just before the ...

A general election was held on 18 June 1970 to elect all 630 members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Conservative Party won the election.

Edward Heath becomes the new British prime minister after a surprise victory for the Conservatives in the general election.

Historians have suggested a number of reasons for the Conservative's sudden surge to electoral victory. David Butler and Michael Pinto-Duschinsky emphasise ...

Every single day of the campaign brought alarming news about the Party's prospects from the opinion polls, and it seems inconceivable that its leader was not ...

of the young voter. 2 See, for instance, 'The New Revolution in Political Science', by David. Easton, in American " ...

The Wounds of Government 1966–1969. David Butler, Michael Pinto-Duschinsky. Pages 1-46. Download chapter PDF · Transport House: The Rusty Penny Farthing.

party would win. Inevitably and sensibly, the British Market Research Society (whose membership includes the managing directors of all the polling orga-.

Results of UK parliamentary general elections between 1955 and 1970 arranged by constituency and accompanied by certain other information.