# Labour wins a landslide election (1945)

URL: https://english-history.com/timeline/1945-labour-wins-a-landslide-election
Categories: ruler-change, main-event

Clement Attlee's Labour Party defeated Churchill's Conservatives. Within the broader Early 20Th Century & World Wars period, mass democracy, the two world wars, Irish partition, economic crisis and the rise of Labour remade the political and social order. This event is placed at July 1945 in the chronology so it can be read alongside the political, military, social and cultural changes around it. The result gave Labour a mandate for welfare-state expansion, nationalization and postwar reconstruction.

## Why it matters
The result gave Labour a mandate for welfare-state expansion, nationalization and postwar reconstruction.

Ruler at the time: [George VI](https://english-history.com/rulers/george-vi)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — Labour wins a landslide election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Labour+wins+a+landslide+election&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Labour wins a landslide election](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Labour+wins+a+landslide+election)
- [Wikipedia — Timeline of British history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_British_history)
- [The National Archives — twentieth-century resources](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/)