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• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 abstract "The United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party. Instead there was a hung parliament, even though many people had expected a Conservative victory for Edward Heath. Labour won the most seats (301, which was 17 seats short of an overall majority) with the Conservatives on 297 seats, although the Conservatives had a larger share of the popular vote.This election saw Northern Ireland diverging heavily from the rest of the United Kingdom, with all twelve MPs elected being from local parties (eleven of them representing unionist parties), following the decision of the Ulster Unionists to withdraw support from the Conservative Party in protest over the Sunningdale Agreement. In contrast the Scottish National Party achieved significant success in this election. They increased their share of the popular vote in Scotland from 11% to 22% and their number of MPs rose from 1 to 7. There were also the first Plaid Cymru MPs to be elected in a general election in Wales (they had previously won a by-election).Although the incumbent Conservative government of Edward Heath polled the most votes by a small margin, the Conservatives were overtaken in terms of Commons seats by Harold Wilson's Labour Party due to a more efficiently-distributed Labour vote, and the decision by Ulster Unionist MPs not to take the Conservative whip.The two largest parties both lost a considerable share of the popular vote, largely to the Liberals under Jeremy Thorpe who polled two and a half times the share of the national vote that they had achieved in the previous election. But even with over six million votes, only 14 Liberal MPs were elected, polling the most votes (~432,823) ever collected by a party for each MP elected in a general election. There had been some media expectation that the Liberals could take twice as many seats.Heath did not resign immediately as Prime Minister. Assuming that Northern Ireland's Unionist MPs could be persuaded to support a Conservative government on confidence matters over one led by Wilson, he entered into negotiations with Thorpe to form a coalition government. Thorpe, never enthusiastic about supporting the Conservatives, demanded major electoral reforms in exchange for such an agreement. Unwilling to accept such terms, Heath resigned and Wilson returned for his second spell as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.The Liberals did not have enough seats to combine with another party to achieve an overall majority. This made the formation of a stable government in this parliament a practical impossibility. Wilson called another election in October of the same year.The election night was covered live on the BBC, and presented by Alastair Burnet, David Butler, Robert McKenzie and Robin Day.".
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 firstLeader Harold_Wilson.
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 secondLeader Edward_Heath.
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 startDate "1974-02-28".
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 thumbnail Harold_Wilson_Number_10_official.jpg?width=300.
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 title "United Kingdom general election, February 1974".
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• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 electionDate "1974-02-28".
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• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 leader Edward_Heath.
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• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 leadersSeat Huyton_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 leadersSeat North_Devon_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
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• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 nextElection "United Kingdom general election, October 1974".
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• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 party All_Party_Alliance.
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 party Campaign_for_Social_Democracy.
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 party English_National_Party.
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 party Green_Party_(UK).
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 party "Alliance Party of Northern Ireland".
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• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 party "Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain".
• United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 party "Communist Party of England".
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