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This is a list of United Kingdom general elections since the first in 1802. The members of the 1801-1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below. For by-election results see List of UK by-elections. For information on UK elections in general, see Elections in the United Kingdom.
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Manx People's Political Association
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movement for Scottish independence was demonstrated by the results of the 1974 United Kingdom general... towards the creation of an independent sovereign state of Scotland, separate from the United Kingdom... independence movement was stalled by the election of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister of the United...
of Ireland (Parliament), formed by Sinn Féin MPs elected from Ireland in the United Kingdom general election in 1918. The first general election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland in 1921..., allowing Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland to be separately governed as regions of the United...
Irish (UK) general election, 1918
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