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

... Britain enter the Common Market. The Government performed badly in local elections, by-elections (Labour lost 16 seats between 1966-1970) and opinion polls.

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.

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 ...

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

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

PDF | The Labour government's defeat in the June 1970 general election was a considerable surprise to many commentators, because, according to Gallup.

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

A unique documentary film dedicated Major General Sosabowski and all ranks who served in the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade Group.