Winston Churchill on his way to vote in the 1951 general election
AQA and Edexcel both require you to study an election after 1945 and before 1997.
Labour’s defeat in the 1951 general election was surprising, as it had won a historic majority of 146 seats just 6 years earlier. Its shock victory in 1945 had ejected wartime leader Winston Churchill from power, giving Labour’s Clement Attlee a mandate to build a new, progressive, Britain. From 1945 to 1951, Labour created a welfare state and nationalised key industries. The creation of the NHS in 1948 was hugely popular, and the institution remains very important to voters today.
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