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The 1966 general election was the third constitutionally mandated election held in the Republic of England, conducted on May 1st, 1966. The election featured the first true two-party election in the country's history - the governing coalition of various factions under Prime Minister Charles Morgan was challenged, and defeated, by a strong, focused Labour Party led by Donald Sutcliffe that took a small majority of seats in Parliament and thereby ousted the Morgan regime that had governed effectively unchallenged since the provisional Parliament was formed in 1957.

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  • English general election, 1966 (Napoleon's World)
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  • The 1966 general election was the third constitutionally mandated election held in the Republic of England, conducted on May 1st, 1966. The election featured the first true two-party election in the country's history - the governing coalition of various factions under Prime Minister Charles Morgan was challenged, and defeated, by a strong, focused Labour Party led by Donald Sutcliffe that took a small majority of seats in Parliament and thereby ousted the Morgan regime that had governed effectively unchallenged since the provisional Parliament was formed in 1957.
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  • The 1966 general election was the third constitutionally mandated election held in the Republic of England, conducted on May 1st, 1966. The election featured the first true two-party election in the country's history - the governing coalition of various factions under Prime Minister Charles Morgan was challenged, and defeated, by a strong, focused Labour Party led by Donald Sutcliffe that took a small majority of seats in Parliament and thereby ousted the Morgan regime that had governed effectively unchallenged since the provisional Parliament was formed in 1957. The election was significant in that it brought a more liberal, left-wing approach to the ongoing Reconstruction, began the process of turning the Republic of England into a two-party parliamentary state and brought out the highest voter turnout in English history until the 1990 election. It also elevated a Jewish man as the head of government and state in an industrialized, Western country for the first time in history, as Sutcliffe came from a primarily Jewish family.
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