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- In which year did Margaret Thatcher become the UK's first female Prime Minister?
- The 1708 British general election saw which party gain a majority in the House of Commons?
- Name the independent body which oversees elections in the UK?
- In which month was the 2019 general election held?
- Tony Blair was a Member of Parliament for which constituency in County Durham?
- Which leader of the Liberal Democrats lost her seat in the 2019 general election?
- The Sun newspaper put the portrait of which leader in a light-bulb in 1992?
- Which year saw the first hung parliament since 1974?
- Which electoral system is used in UK general elections?
- Sir Winston Churchill lost the 1945 general election to which Labour Party leader?
- When was the last time two general elections were held in the same year?
- The general election of 1929 saw which Labour leader win a second term as Prime Minister?
- Who led the Conservative Party to a landslide victory in 1955?
- In the early 1980s Labour leader Michael Foot was often lambasted in the press for wearing what sort of coat?
- Who served as the Labour Party's first parliamentary leader from 1906 to 1908?
- Which party's 2019 general election slogan was: "Stop Brexit. Build a Brighter Future"?
- Which year saw the UK's first general election in which all women over the age of 21 were allowed to vote on equal terms with men?
- Which English musician was the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party?
- Who lost his Enfield Southgate seat in the 1997 general election to Labour's Stephen Twigg?
- Who once said: "I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election"?
- During the 2015 campaign, Ed Miliband was ridiculed for an awkward encounter with which sort of food?
- Who said in 2005: "I have covered nine general elections and it's time for someone else to handle the swingometer"?
- Which two words did Gordon Brown unfortunately use to describe a female voter in a microphone gaffe during his 2010 campaign?
- Which party became the third-largest in the House of Commons after the 2015 general election?
- Which Labour leader did Harold Macmillan defeat in the 1959 general election?
- What car model entered popular culture in the 1990s when Tony Blair used it in a phrase to describe an affluent generation of car and home owners?
Answers
- 1979
- Whigs
- The Electoral Commission
- December (2019)
- Sedgefield
- Jo Swinson
- Neil Kinnock
- 2010
- First-past-the-post electoral system
- Clement Attlee
- 1974
- Ramsay MacDonald
- Anthony Eden
- Donkey jacket
- Keir Hardie
- Liberal Democrats
- 1929
- Screaming Lord Sutch
- Michael Portillo
- Liz Truss
- Bacon sandwich
- Peter Snow
- Bigoted woman
- SNP (the Scottish National Party)
- Hugh Gaitskell
- Ford Mondeo as in "Mondeo Man"