# How Would You Have Voted In the Past Redux **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 9, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-have-voted-in-the-past-redux/556603 "2010-10-09T14:24:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-have-voted-in-the-past-redux/556603/21 "2010-10-10T15:56:49Z")
Since I’m bored I’ll do one for British Parliamentery Elections starting with after the Reform Act of 1832. 1832: Earl Grey (Whig) 1835: The Viscount Melbourne (Whig) 1837: The Viscount Melbourne (Whig) 1841: The Viscount Melbourne (Whig) 1847: Lord John Russell (Whig) 1852: Lord John Russell (Whig) 1857: The Earl of Derby (Conservative) [1] 1859: The Earl of Derby (Conservative) [1] 1865: The Earl of Derby (Conservative) [1] 1868: William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) 1874: William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) 1880: William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) 1885: Lord Salisbury (Conservative) [2] 1886: Lord Salisbury (Conservative and Liberal Unionist) 1892: Lord Salisbury (Conservative and Liberal Unionist) 1895: Lord Salisbury (Conservative and Liberal Unionist) 1900: Lord Salisbury (Conservative and Liberal Unionist) 1906: Arthur Balfour (Conservative and Liberal Unionist) 1910 (February): Arthur Balfour (Conservative) 1910 (December): Arthur Balfour (Conservative) 1918: Andrew Bonar Law (Coalition Conservative) 1922: Andrew Bonar Law (Conservative) 1923: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) 1924: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) 1929: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) 1931: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) 1935: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) 1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1951: Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1955: Anthony Eden (Conservative) 1959: Harold Macmillan (Conservative) 1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative) 1966: Edward Heath (Conservative) 1970: Edward Heath (Conservative) 1974 (February): Edward Heath (Conservative) 1974 (October): Edward Heath (Conservative) 1979: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) 1983: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) 1987: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) 1992: John Major (Conservative) 1997: Tony Blair (Labour) [3] 2001: Tony Blair (Labour) [3] 2005: Tony Blair (Labour) [3] 2010: David Cameron (Conservative) Notes: [1] I can’t support Lord Palmerston’s pro-Confederate stance at all. [2] I am a Unionist and am opposed to Irish Home Rule. [3] I supported Tony Blair’s pro-American foreign policy --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-have-voted-in-the-past-redux/556603)._