UK Elections Info

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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Harold Macmillan

Born: 10 February 1894

Died: 29 December 1986

1st Earl of Stockton - 1984

Member of Privy Council - 1942

Balliol College, Oxford

Eton College

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Supply	May 1940	February 1942
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies	February 1942	December 1942
Secretary of State for Air	May 1945	July 1945
Minister for Housing and Local Government	October 1951	18 October 1954
Minister of Defence	18 October 1954	7 April 1955
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	7 April 1955	20 December 1955
Chancellor of the Exchequer	20 December 1955	13 January 1957
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	13 January 1957	18 October 1963

6 December 1923	Stockton-on-Tees	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,661	34.28
29 October 1924	Stockton-on-Tees	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,163	42.02
30 May 1929	Stockton-on-Tees	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,572	36.07
27 October 1931	Stockton-on-Tees	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,199	61.64
14 November 1935	Stockton-on-Tees	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,285	48.86
June 1936 The Conservative Whip was withdrawn from Harold Macmillan.
July 1937 The Conservative Whip was restored to Harold Macmillan.
5 July 1945	Stockton-on-Tees	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,464	37.44
14 November 1945	Bromley	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,367	49.59
23 February 1950	Bromley	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,042	57.26
25 October 1951	Bromley	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,710	65.43
26 May 1955	Bromley	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,612	68.21
8 October 1959	Bromley	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,055	69.99