Pemilihan umum Britania Raya 1945

Pemilihan umum Britania Raya 1945 diadakan pada 5 Juli 1945, dengan pemungutan suara di beberapa konstituensi tertunda sampai 12 Juli dan di Nelson and Colne sampai 19 Juli. Hasilnya dihitung dan dideklrasikan pada 26 Juli.

Hasilnya adalah kemenangan longsor bagi Partai Buruh pimpinan Clement Attlee, atas Konservatif pimpinan Winston Churchill, pertama kalinya partai tersebut gagal meraih suara populer dalam sebuah pemilihan umum sejak pemerintah 1906; mereka tidak menang lagi sampai 1955.

Daftar pustaka

• Addison, Paul. The road to 1945: British politics and the Second World War (London: Cape, 1975)
• Baines, Malcolm. "The liberal party and 1945 general election." Contemporary Record (1995) 9#1 pp: 48-61.
• Brooke, Stephen. Labour's war: the Labour party during the Second World War (Oxford University Press, 1992)
• Burgess, Simon. "1945 Observed - A History of the Histories," Contemporary Record (1991) 5#1 pp 155–170; historiography
• F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987
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• McCallum, R.B. and Alison Readman. The British general election of 1945 (1947) the standard scholarly study
• McCulloch, Gary. "Labour, the Left, and the British General Election of 1945." Journal of British Studies (1985) 24#4 pp: 465-489.
• Nicholas, H. (1951). The British general election of 1950. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-77865-0. 
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• Toye, Richard. "Winston Churchill's "Crazy Broadcast": Party, Nation, and the 1945 Gestapo Speech," Journal of British Studies (2010) 49#3 pp. 655–680 in JSTOR; online

Pranala luar

• United Kingdom election results - summary results 1885-1979Diarsipkan 2012-01-30 di Wayback Machine.
• Labour Wins - newspaper report from the Melbourne Argus, 27 July 1945 Diarsipkan 2008-07-29 di Wayback Machine.

Manifesto

• Mr. Churchill's Declaration of Policy to the Electors Diarsipkan 2012-07-24 di Wayback Machine.- 1945 Conservative manifesto.
• Let Us Face the Future Diarsipkan 2012-07-25 di Wayback Machine. - 1945 Labour Party manifesto.
• 20 Point Manifesto of the Liberal Party Diarsipkan 2012-05-31 di Wayback Machine. - 1945 Liberal Party manifesto.