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UK General Election
10 October 1974
UK NEWS
The day of the general election. It was the second of two United Kingdom general elections held that year. Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, having taken power in a hung parliament after the February election, returned to the polls and won a tiny majority of three.
Link: 1974 General Election
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