Party
|
Number of Votes
|
% of Pop. Vote
|
Answer
|
Conservatives
|
14,093,007
|
41.9%
|
John Major
|
Labour
|
13,948,883
|
48.8%
|
Clement Attlee
|
Conservatives
|
13,760,935
|
42.2%
|
Margater Thatcher
|
Conservatives
|
13,750,875
|
49.4%
|
Harold Macmillan
|
Conservatives
|
13,632,914
|
42.3%
|
Theresa May
|
Labour
|
13,518,617
|
43.2%
|
Tony Blair
|
Conservatives
|
13,310,891
|
49.7%
|
Anthony Eden
|
Conservatives
|
13,145,123
|
46.4%
|
Edward Heath
|
Labour
|
13,096,629
|
48.0%
|
Harold Wilson
|
Labour
|
12,874,985
|
40.0%
|
Jeremy Corbyn
|
Labour
|
12,216,172
|
43.8%
|
Hugh Gaitskell
|
Conservatives
|
12,002,642
|
43.4%
|
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
|
Labour
|
11,560,484
|
34.4%
|
Neil Kinnock
|
Conservatives
|
11,507,061
|
40.0%
|
Winston Churchill
|
Labour
|
11,532,518
|
36.9%
|
James Callaghan
|
|