Elections Collection (page 2)

Perm any 12 from 22 - "Worse than doing the pools"
Perm any 12 from 22 - " Worse than doing the pools" was the comment from a voter in Haltemprice where electors have up to 12 votes and a choice of 22 candidates. 15th June 1973

Courtroom into polling station - Mr V. N. Bowen (left) and Mr H. Dutton helping to convert Bridlingtons courthouse into a polling station for the 1959 general election. 8th October 1959

The first of the ballot boxes is emptied out at the Guildhall, Hull for counting in the 1987 General Election. 15th June 1987

Children at R. O. Wilberforce (Conservative) campaign headquarters in Hull during the build up to the 1950 General Election. 2nd February 1950

To register their votes - Early arrivals at the polling booth in Pickering-Road, Hull. Forty-six candidates will contest the Hull Council elections. 15th May 1957

Vote-getting - by pony and trap - Mr John MacCallum campaigning in Holderness-road, Hull. Circa October 1959

A typical day in an election candidates routine, accompanied Liberal nominee for Beverley, Major. H. Stewart Freemantle, on a tour of part of his constituency during the run up to the 1950 General

Tony Benn, M. P. seen here out on the campaign trail during the 1979 General Election
Tony Benn, M.P. seen here out on the campaign trail during the 1979 General Election. 15th April 1979

Sir Frederic Mackarness Bennett MP for Torquay seen here electioneering. 1st July 1955

Margaret Thatcher meets her adoring public during a visit to Newton Abbot in 27th May 1987

Margaret Thatcher at Bovey Tracey in May 1987

Conservative MP for Torbay Rupert Allason at the General Election count in June 1987 with defeated SDP Liberal Alliance candidate Nick Bye

Baroness Margaret Thatcher and her late husband Denis during a visit to the L F Harris motorcycle factory. Newton Abbot. 27th May 1987

Photo-call to promote the first elections to the new institution, the National Assembly for Wales, elections to be held on 6th May 1999. Pictured, model Sara Ogwen Williams, 25th March 1999

Prospective Labour member of Parliament Harriet Harman canvassing in Peckham, South-east London ahead of the by-election on 28th October. 24th September 1982

Victorious Labour Party candidates Parshotam Joshi and George Duggins celebrate their by-election wins with supporters, Coventry, 6th May 1993

Donald Dewar, Scottish Secretary of State, pictured with his new team, Sam Galbraith, Brian Wilson, Henry McLeish and Malcolm Chisholm, Edinburgh, Scotland, 5th May 1997

Michael Heseltine, Secretary of State for Defence, Teesside, 14th March 1983

Bootle By-election 1990, Merseyside, 8th November 1990. Won by Labour Party, Joe Benton, the leader of Sefton Borough Council, a local Justice of the Peace and a personnel manager with Girobank

Labour MP Margaret McKay has bought an ice cream van from which to canvass her constituency. She is seen here in the Clapham Park area of London in her converted van with some of her supporters

Independent Constitutionalist anti-Socialist candidate for Epping, Winston Churchill makes a speech to a large crowd gathered at Waltham Abbey Holy Cross Church on the eve of the the General

Ladywood, Birmingham, By-election, 18th August 1977. At the count

Mr Winston Churchill seen here at the Dingle Lane School addressing a meeting in support of his sons candidature for the 1935 General Election 12th November 1935

A Coventry voter casts his vote in the 1959 General Election at Cheylesmore polling station. 8th October 1959

Margo MacDonald Scottish Nationalist candidate for the Govan by-election seen here two days before her electoral success that over turned the safe Labour seat. 5th November 1973

Election writs for the four Newcastle constituencies were handed over to the Lord Mayor, Coun. Mrs Doris Starkey, in a ceremony at the Civic Centre, Newcastle. 9th April 1979

Senator Edward Kennedy on the platform, gestures to a Maine audience during his election campaign 20th February 1980

Flight engineers working on the engines of the Air France L Intrepide Wibault 280.T12 at Croydon Airport being canvassed by T Crawford the Labour candidate for Croydon South in the upcoming General

Making a polling day tour of her Fulham constituency. Dr Edith Summerskill, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food 23rd February 1950

Votes in the 1951 General Election for one of the Coventry constituencies are seen here being counted 25th October 1951

Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber speaks at a Conservative Party Press Conference during the 1974 general election campaign. 18th February 1974

Police sniffer dogs searched every inch of Coventry Sports Centre before last nights " big count". The building was closed to the public from 6pm and sniffer dogs

Coventrys town clerk Mr Fred Smith(right) and the scrutineers taking the Coventry West Division Services postal voters boxes into St. Marys Hall counting room

Pat Phoenix, Actress, 15th May 1982, in Slough to support Labour candidate Tony Blair, Beaconsfield By Election 1982

Anne McGuire Labour prospective parliamentary candidate PPC in Stirling challenge to Scottish Secretary of State Michael Forsyth at general election walking through main street with party leader Tony

Young Supporters for George Thomas, the Labour Candidate for Cardiff West, publicise their favourite Pic shows three-year-old Alan Hollaman of Ely

Sir Alec Douglas Home Prime Minister and schoolchildren campaigning in Classroom at Carnbo after outdoor meeting was rained off - ahead of Kinross By Election. November 1963

Gordon Brown, Student, aged 21 years old, first year history postgraduate, hoping to become University of Edinburghs second student rector on Friday, pictured Tuesday 7th November 1972

Edward Ted Heath Ex Prime Minister who took Britain into the Common Market arrives to cast vote in Westminster 1975

Nelson Mandela seen here campaigning during the South African elections standing beside a Vote ANC poster

John Major Prime Minister with his wife Norma outside 11 Downing Street 1990

Hon Bob Condon agent for Sarne at meeting of Cannock Chase Miners to consider Sunday working at the colliery February 1947 006731/1

Pat Phoenix, Actress, 15th May 1982, in Slough to support Labour candidate Tony Blair, Beaconsfield By Election 1982

Margaret Thatcher, October 1974, election press conference

Tony Blair MP Labour at Labour leadership elections 1994

Margaret Thatcher February 1975, winning Conservative Leadership Election

Winston Churchill photographed March 1924 addressing an election campaign meeting with him is Clementine Churchill

City crowds cheer Labour leader Clement Attlee and Conservative leader Winston Churchill on the steps of St Pauls Cathedral as they arrive for a pre-election service. July 1945

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