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1955 United Kingdom general election

← 1951 26 May 1955 1959 →

All 630 seats in the House of Commons
316 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout76.8%, Decrease5.8%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Anthony Eden Clement Attlee Harry Pollitt
Party Conservative Labour Communist
Leader since 7 April 1955 25 October 1935 June 1941
Leader's seat Warwick and
Leamington
Walthamstow West Rhondda East
Last election 321 seats, 48.0% 270 seats, 45.6% 25 seats, 3.2%
Seats won 173 146 112
Seat change Decrease148 Decrease124 Increase87
Popular vote 7,358,925 6,181,497 4,763,232
Percentage 27.5% 23.1% 17.8%
Swing Decrease20.5% Decrease22.5% Increase14.6%

Colours denote the winning party—as shown in § Results

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Composition of the House of Commons after the election

Prime Minister before election

Anthony Eden
Conservative

Prime Minister after election

Anthony Eden
Conservative

1956 French legislative election

← 1951 2 January 1956 1961 →

All 595 seats to the French National Assembly
298 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout82.8% (Increase 2.6 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
CNIP
Leader Maurice Thorez Guy Mollet none
Party PCF SFIO CNIP
Leader's seat Seine Pas-de-Calais none
Last election 103 seats 107 seats 96 seats
Seats won 181 125 72
Seat change Increase 78 Increase 18 Decrease 24
Popular vote 6,469,093 4,458,285 2,594,454
Percentage 30.37% 20.93% 12.18%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Pierre Poujade Pierre Mendès France (Radical),
René Pleven (UDSR)
Party UFF MRP Radical-UDSR
Leader's seat Eure (Mendès France),
Côtes-du-Nord (Pleven)
Last election New party 95 seats N/A (split from Rally of the Republican Lefts)
Seats won 76 64 58
Seat change Increase 52 Decrease 31 N/A
Popular vote 2,744,562 2,366,321 2,389,163
Percentage 12.88% 10.76% 9.75%

PM before election

Edgar Faure
PRV

Elected PM

Guy Mollet
SFIO

2314 British general election

← 2309 29 March 2309 (2309-03-29)

All 810 seats to the People's Assembly
405 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Candidate Reg Birch Buck Hall Harley Neel
Party Communist Conservative Popular Front
Last election 5,152,275 3,139,531 1,288,451
Seats before 447 233 70
Seats won 438 246 101
Seat change Decrease 9 Increase 13 Increase 31
Popular vote 5,242,549 3,448,401 2,120,346
Percentage 45.0% 29.6% 18.2
Swing Increase 0.2 Increase 2.3 Increase 7.0

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Candidate Bryan Jimenez Jasmine Houle Philbert Potter
Party Democratic Liberal Democrats Militant
Last election 471,512 425,522 80,567
Seats before 15 13 2
Seats won 13 11 2
Seat change Decrease 2 Decrease 2 Steady
Popular vote 419,452 384,450 23,357
Percentage 3.6 3.3 0.2
Swing Decrease 0.5 Decrease 0.4 Decrease 0.5

A map of West Yorkshire with black lines dividing the area into irregular shapes
Boundary of Bradford West in West Yorkshire.

MP before election

Marsha Singh
Labour

Subsequent MP

George Galloway
Respect

Country Party National MPs
British People's Republic Communist Labour Party
417 / 810
Labour Party
12 / 810
Socialist Party of Great Britain
91 / 810
People's Democratic Republic of New England New England Socialist Party
120 / 129
Canadian Democratic Republic New Democratic Party
123 / 123
 Federal Republic of Germany Socialist Party
118 / 880