1964 United Kingdom general election in England
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15 October 1964
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The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 15 October 1964 to elect 630 members of the House of Commons, of which 511 constituencies were in England.
In this election, although the incumbent Conservative government led by Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home was ousted by the Labour Party led by Harold Wilson, the Conservatives narrowly won a majority of seats in England. In the post-war era, this remains one of the two elections (the other being the 1950 election) where the party winning a majority in the House of Commons not winning a plurality of seats in England- rather, the party which lost the general election won a majority of seats in England.