UK General Election 1964 - Results Round-up

Closing Remarks from Election '64 coverage. Robin Day, Richard Dimbleby & David Butler feature. This was Dimbleby's last election he covered (he died the following year from lung cancer).

The United Kingdom general election of 1964 was held on 15 October 1964, more than five years after its predecessor, and thirteen years after the Conservative Party had first taken power. Both major parties had changed leaders in 1963: after the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell, Labour chose Harold Wilson (who was then thought of as being on the party's centre left), and the Conservatives had unexpectedly chosen Alec Douglas-Home (also called the Earl of Home) as their new leader after Harold Macmillan announced his resignation (Home shortly after disclaimed his title under the Peerage Act 1963 in order to lead the party from the Commons). Macmillan's government had been increasingly unpopular in the mid-term, and Douglas-Home faced a difficult task in rebuilding the party's popularity.

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[ludvan64]

On a train over a radio telephone conversation. Oh how things have changed. Now every idiot has a radio telephone, and it drives everyone mad. "Alo mum what's for dinner to night", "fish 'n' chips, an if yeh don't eat it all up, I'll make ya isten to Arold Wilson on his radio telephone", "ah mum not again", "what fish 'n' chips?", "no fing arold Wilson"..

[Lab356]

How right David Butler really was

[xandy1959]

david butler was on the 1st ever general election results show in 1950

[LONDONGUY100]

very interesting. Thanks for posting.