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UK general election held July 1945. Clement Attlee's Labour won a historic landslide, defeating Winston Churchill's Conservatives despite Churchill's wartime popularity. Labour won 393 seats to the Conservatives' 213.
UK 1945 General Election is one of the tracked elections shaping power in United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom
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UK 1945 General Election is one of the tracked elections shaping power in United Kingdom.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. Led the Labour government that created the National Health Service, nationalized major industries, and built the modern British welfare state.
