High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party, instead producing a hung parliament. The result of the hung parliament came as a total surprise to the three main party leaders, the country, and Queen Elizabeth II, who was flying back from Australia at the time of the election as many people had expected a Conservative victory for Edward Heath. The hung parliament resulted in Labour being the largest overall party with 301 seats (17 seats short of an overall majority) with the Conservatives on 297 seats, although the Conservatives had a larger share of the popular vote. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном...