General Elections Having Historic Significance
- 2010: the first Coalition government to arise from a general election result.
- 1997: Blair, New Labour
- 1979: Thatcher, end of the post-war consensus
- 1945: Labour, Welfare State
- 1931: National Government presides over the Great Depression and Appeasement
- 1923: First Labour government emerges
- 1910 (two Liberal general election victories) Establishment of supremacy of the Commons. The Parliament Act 1911.
- 1906: Liberal landslide
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