<Ul> <Li> 1951 election </Li> <Li> MPs </Li> </Ul> <P> The 1945 United Kingdom general election was held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, because of local wakes weeks . The results were counted and declared on 26 July, to allow time to transport the votes of those serving overseas . </P> <P> The result was an unexpected landslide victory for Clement Attlee's Labour Party, over Winston Churchill's Conservatives . It was the first time the Conservatives had lost the popular vote since the 1906 election; they would not win it again until 1955 . Labour won its first majority government, and a mandate to implement its postwar reforms . The 12.0% national swing from the Conservative Party to the Labour Party remains the largest ever achieved in a British general election . </P> <P> Held less than two months after VE Day, it was the first general election since 1935, as general elections had been suspended during the Second World War . Clement Attlee, Leader of the Labour Party, refused Winston Churchill's offer of continuing the wartime coalition until the Allied defeat of Japan . Parliament was dissolved on 15 June . </P>

Who was elected as british prime minister in 1945