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UK General Election Losing Candidates

The leaders of every political party to have finished in second place in a UK general election since 1945.
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Year
Party
Answer
2024
Conservative
Rishi Sunak
2019
Labour
Jeremy Corbyn
2017
Labour
Jeremy Corbyn
2015
Labour
Ed Miliband
2010
Labour
Gordon Brown
2005
Conservative
Michael Howard
2001
Conservative
William Hague
1997
Conservative
John Major
1992
Labour
Neil Kinnock
1987
Labour
Neil Kinnock
1983
Labour
Michael Foot
Year
Party
Answer
1979
Labour
James Callaghan
1974 (October)
Conservative
Edward Heath
1974 (February)
Conservative
Edward Heath
1970
Labour
Harold Wilson
1966
Conservative
Edward Heath
1964
Conservative
Alec Douglas-Home
1959
Labour
Hugh Gaitskell
1955
Labour
Clement Attlee
1951
Labour
Clement Attlee
1950
Conservative
Winston Churchill
1945
Conservative
Winston Churchill
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