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The
UK general election of February 1974 was held on
28 February 1974. It was the first of two
United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the only election since the
Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the
House of Commons for the winning party, instead producing a
hung parliament. The incumbent
Conservative government of
Edward Heath polled the most votes by a small margin, but the Tories were overtaken in terms of Commons seats by
Harold Wilson's
Labour Party due to the decision by
Ulster Unionist MPs not to take the Conservative
whip. After failed negotiations between Heath and
Liberal leader
Jeremy Thorpe, Heath resigned and Wilson returned for his second spell as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He would call
another election in October of the same year.
This election saw
Northern Ireland diverging heavily from the rest of the UK, with all twelve MPs elected being from local parties, following the decision of the
Ulster Unionists to withdraw support from the
Conservative Party in protest over the
Sunningdale Agreement. It also saw the first
Plaid Cymru MPs to be elected in a general election, in
Wales (they had previously won a by-election).
Results
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Total votes: 31,321,982. All parties are shown. The seats won by the Ulster Unionists are compared with those won by Unionist MPs in the 1970 election. The Protestant Unionist Party became the core of the Democratic Unionist Party and their candidates are compared with the result of the Protestant Unionist in 1970. The sole Republican Labour Party MP elected in 1970 subsequently left that party to co-found the Social Democrat and Labour Party in 1970 and the remains of the party disintegrated by 1974.Further Information
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