List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

[Rule Britannia]

Damn you and your 1000th Post.

[Mumby]

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1955: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1956: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1956: Douglas Jay (Radical) [1]
1961: Douglas Jay (Radical)
1966: Douglas Jay (Radical-Liberal Coalition)
1969: John Amery (Conservative-Imperial Coalition)
1974: John Amery (Imperial Conservatives)[2]
1978: Anthony Wedgwood-Benn (Radical) [3]
1983: Anthony Wedgwood-Benn (Radical)
1984: Gerald Kaufman (Radical) [4]
1989: Michael Hesseltine (New Conservative-Liberal Coalition)[5]
1994: Paddy Ashdown (Liberal-SDP Coalition)
1995: Field Marshall Peter Inge (Military Junta) [6]
2001: Jack Straw (Unity Council of the United Kingdom) [7]
2005: Jack Straw (New Radical) [8]
2010: Jack Straw (New Radical)
2013: Robert Jones (New Radical) [9]
2018: Robert Jones (New Radical)
2020: Kathy Dunderdale (Liberal Conservatives) [10]


[1] The Suez Crisis results in a vote of no confidence in the Thorneycroft government, leading to a dissolution. The social democratic Radical Party, emerging out of severe in-fighting within the now defunct Labour Party, wins a landslide majority.
[2] The Imperials unite with the failing Conservatives to win the next election.
[3] The election campaign is marred by a car bomb killing Benn's driver. After the promised evidence that the attempt on the leader of the opposition's life was carried out by 'rabid nationalist movements from the colonies' fails to materialise and rumours circulate that MI5 were behind the attack, the increasingly mad Amery administration is removed from office by a Radical landslide that promises to 'finally begin the decolonisation that Britain, her subjects and the world needs'.
[4] In a move Clement Freud would later call 'the greatest shot in the foot in colonial history', Kenyan militants detonate a bomb in a Blackpool hotel during the Radical Party conference, killing Benn and three other cabinet ministers. Kaufmann takes over in the interim and wins the leadership of the party unopposed. Decolonisation policy is, of course, treated with more caution rather than greater speed as the militants wanted, and Kenya is placed under Martial Law even after the terrorists have been caught and imprisoned (capital punishment having been completely abolished in Benn's second Queen's Speech).
[5] Following the split in the Imperial Conservative party, the re-branded New Conservatives, now accepting decolonisation as inevitable, entered power with Paddy Ashdown's Liberals in a hung parliament.
[6] The British military overthrows the anti-colonialist government and reengages in the remaining colonies. Independence deadlines are cancelled. The commonwealth dominions are uneasy.
[7] After a 6 year long resistance movement finally takes control, Jack Straw creates a Unity Council to restore democracy to the UK.
[8] The 4 year rule of the Unity Council, and the fairness of the Conciliation Bureaus, combined with Straws stunning resistance credentials, lead to his victory in the first general election since the Coup.
[9] Straw collapses in a session of Parliament, and is diagonosed with PTSD brought on by the horrors of the resistance. His wartime lieutenant, and political right-hand man, Welshman Robert Jones, fills the position of Prime Minister.
[10] Jones called a snap election in 2020, after he too suffered from a PTSD-related collapse. The Liberal Conservatives unseated the New Radicals, and established a powerful majority. First PM from the integrated colonies (She has served as an MP from Newfoundland). The second New World PM (after Bonar). Her government does much to further include integrated colonies from around the world into Westminster.

[theman from the ministery]

Every election result opposite of OTL :
1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)

[Rule Britannia]

Every election result opposite of OTL :
1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)

[President_Gore]

Every election result opposite of OTL :
1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)

[Rule Britannia]

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)

[elyski]

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Clement Attlee (Labour)

[President_Gore]

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [1]
1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)

[1] Gaitskell became PM in 1957 following Attlee's resignation over the Suez affair

I'm assuming that the winner of each election is OTL losing Leader of the Opposition so for 1959 it would have been Gaitskell, not Attlee

[Meadow]

This isn't exactly a list that can be shared among others (Thande did one like this in the complete lists thread anyway) but what the heck:

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [1]
1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1966: Edward Heath (Conservative) [2]

[1] Gaitskell became PM in 1957 following Attlee's resignation over the Suez affair
[2] The 'Young Turks' of the Tories depose the aristocratic Home and replace him with grammar school boy Edward Heath.

[FletcherofSaltoun]

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [1]
1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1966: Edward Heath (Conservative) [2]
1970: James Harold Wilson (Social Democrat) [3]

[1] Gaitskell became PM in 1957 following Attlee's resignation over the Suez affair
[2] The 'Young Turks' of the Tories depose the aristocratic Home and replace him with grammar school boy Edward Heath.
[3] Following the merger of the Labour and Liberal Parties, Wilson wins with a small majority.

[Rule Britannia]

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [1]
1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1966: Edward Heath (Conservative) [2]
1970: James Harold Wilson (Social Democrat) [3]
1974: Edward Heath (Conservative)

[1] Gaitskell became PM in 1957 following Attlee's resignation over the Suez affair
[2] The 'Young Turks' of the Tories depose the aristocratic Home and replace him with grammar school boy Edward Heath.
[3] Following the merger of the Labour and Liberal Parties, Wilson wins with a small majority.

[FletcherofSaltoun]

Originally Posted by Rule Britannia

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [1]
1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1966: Edward Heath (Conservative) [2]
1970: James Harold Wilson (Social Democrat) [3]
1973: Edward Heath (Conservative)

[1] Gaitskell became PM in 1957 following Attlee's resignation over the Suez affair
[2] The 'Young Turks' of the Tories depose the aristocratic Home and replace him with grammar school boy Edward Heath.
[3] Following the merger of the Labour and Liberal Parties, Wilson wins with a small majority.

There wasn't an election in '73, do you mean '74?

[Rule Britannia]

Originally Posted by FletcherofSaltoun

There wasn't an election in '73, do you mean '74?

Fixed

[President_Gore]

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [1]
1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1966: Edward Heath (Conservative) [2]
1970: James Harold Wilson (Social Democrat) [3]
1974: Edward Heath (Conservative)
1976: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) [4]

[1] Gaitskell became PM in 1957 following Attlee's resignation over the Suez affair
[2] The 'Young Turks' of the Tories depose the aristocratic Home and replace him with grammar school boy Edward Heath.
[3] Following the merger of the Labour and Liberal Parties, Wilson wins with a small majority.
[4] Becomes the first female PM after Heath is forced to resign over union disputes

[FletcherofSaltoun]

Originally Posted by President_Gore

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [1]
1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1966: Edward Heath (Conservative) [2]
1970: James Harold Wilson (Social Democrat) [3]
1974: Edward Heath (Conservative)
1976: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) [4]

[1] Gaitskell became PM in 1957 following Attlee's resignation over the Suez affair
[2] The 'Young Turks' of the Tories depose the aristocratic Home and replace him with grammar school boy Edward Heath.
[3] Following the merger of the Labour and Liberal Parties, Wilson wins with a small majority.
[4] Becomes the first female PM after Heath is forced to resign over union disputes

Defeats the game I'm afraid. Next election in 74 again with a Heath win. You can choose the party though. Don't blame me, I didn't make the rules for this one..

[FletcherofSaltoun]

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [1]
1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1966: Edward Heath (Conservative) [2]
1970: James Harold Wilson (Social Democrat) [3]
1974: Edward Heath (Conservative)
1974: Edward Heath (Conservative-Nationalist coalition)

[1] Gaitskell became PM in 1957 following Attlee's resignation over the Suez affair
[2] The 'Young Turks' of the Tories depose the aristocratic Home and replace him with grammar school boy Edward Heath.
[3] Following the merger of the Labour and Liberal Parties, Wilson wins with a small majority.

[theman from the ministery]

Originally Posted by Meadow

This isn't exactly a list that can be shared among others (Thande did one like this in the complete lists thread anyway)
.

But the results can be different in terms of what the country is like (another list that had the same PM's but for very different reasons). For instance ITTL is there an NHS? Was it Churchill’s trying to hold on to India -and the ensuing blood bath- that lost him the election? What fate awaits the Miner's in the 80's or the Falklands. so this list is focused on the foot notes

[elyski]

Every election result opposite of OTL :

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [1]
1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1966: Edward Heath (Conservative) [2]
1970: James Harold Wilson (Social Democrat) [3]
1974: Edward Heath (Conservative)
1974: Edward Heath (Conservative-Nationalist coalition)
1979: James Callaghan (Social Democrat)

[1] Gaitskell became PM in 1957 following Attlee's resignation over the Suez affair
[2] The 'Young Turks' of the Tories depose the aristocratic Home and replace him with grammar school boy Edward Heath.
[3] Following the merger of the Labour and Liberal Parties, Wilson wins with a small majority.

[Constantinople]

Every election result opposite of OTL

1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [1]
1964: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1966: Edward Heath (Conservative) [2]
1970: James Harold Wilson (Social Democrat) [3]
1974: Edward Heath (Conservative)
1974: Edward Heath (Conservative-Nationalist coalition)
1979: James Callaghan (Social Democrat)
1983: Michael Foot (New Labour) [4]

[1] Gaitskell became PM in 1957 following Attlee's resignation over the Suez affair
[2] The 'Young Turks' of the Tories depose the aristocratic Home and replace him with grammar school boy Edward Heath.
[3] Following the merger of the Labour and Liberal Parties, Wilson wins with a small majority.
[4] A vote of no confidence succeeds against Callaghan after the Falklands Disaster. With hundreds of men dead, the HMS Hermes on the sea floor, and thousands of prisoners taken by the Argentinians, the Falklands remain occupied. The Social Democratic party falls apart. So does the British economy. Michael Foot's New Labour party successfully campaigns on behalf of the beleaguered British working class, but also on behalf of Britain's pacifists, who believe the war should have never happened in the first place. The remaining vote is bitterly split between the revived Liberals, Conservatives, and the rump Social Democratic party.

[Constantinople]

Originally Posted by Meadow

1968: Lord Mountbatten (MI5/Military)
1969: Edward Short (Labour)[1]
1974: Edward Heath (Conservative) [2]
1979: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1984: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative minority government) [3]
1987: David Steel (Liberal minority with confidence and supply from Socialist Labour) [4]
1992: Norman Tebbit (Nationalist)
1993: Tony Benn (Socialist Labour) [5]
1998: Tony Benn (Socialist Labour with supply and confidence from the Social Liberals [6]
1999: Robin Cook (Socialist Labour with supply and confidence from the Social Liberals [7]
2003: Anthony Blair (Reformed Labour) [8]
2008: Anthony Blair (Reformed Labour) [9]
2013: Jim Murphy (Socialist) [10]
2015: William Hague (National Conservative)[11]
2020: William Hague (National Conservative coalition with Reformed Labour) [12]

[1] With Labour sufficiently 'purged' of Wilsonite elements, the quiet man of the right (Jenkins was deemed too pro-Europe, Healey too close to Wilson and Callaghan too Union-friendly) became Prime Minister amid a swirl of suspicion, ill-feeling and distrust among the public. A General Election was hastily arranged and Labour won, although the exact turnout has never been recorded.

[2] Short's premiership went as well as can be expected. However, he was inextricably associated with the coup in the public imagination, being accused by more left-wing Labour figures of being Mountbatten's useful idiot. Ted Heath's bullishness and independent mindedness actually helped the Tories in TTL, making it hard for Labour to accuse him of being anyone other than his own man. After Heath's victory, Labour suffered a bitter split in the party between left and right.

[3] Popular discontent and unrest leads to a fraying of all major parties. The coup has left a deep scar in the British psyche, and the Conservatives, and the two branches of broken labour bleed dozens (and more) seats to independent candidates, and minor socialist or conservative (some might say xenophobic) parties. The Conservatives are unable to achieve a majority , and the harder right and moderate wings are beginning to fray. Labour continues to implode.

[4] With Labour fragmented and the Conservatives unpopular, the Liberals (who had been building seats ever since the coup) finally made an electoral comeback. They are supported by the smaller Socialist Labour Party led by Tony Benn. The SLP's price for confidence and supply is for the Liberals to commit to unilateral nuclear disarmament (which was already a Liberal policy).

[5] After the disastrous Tebbitt government saw race riots, a massive increase in IRA attacks and the US putting a run on Sterling, the army did some sabre rattling and forced the Chingford Strangler from office. Their move backfired when Benn swept the polls and into Downing Street, despite his age (he had not expected to win the election and so had remained leader).

[6] An aging Tony Benn and his part are returned to power, albeit in a much reduced form. Feuding with Anthony Blair's Reformed Labour Party has split the socialist vote (though many would dispute Blair and his parties credentials as socialist). The Socialist Labour party is consequently forced into an uneasy alliance with the Social Liberals, an offshoot of the fractured Liberal party. The Conservative parties languish in opposition with the Modernizers and Thatcherites both feuding with each other and the smaller, but collectively significant nationalist and libertarian factions.

[7] Benn retires a year after the election and the ensuing leadership contest (he shunned those who wanted him to handpick a successor, ever the democrat) is won by the Foreign Secretary Robin Cook. He is known to be a little more amenable to the Social Liberals than Benn's suspicious stance.

[8] In a shock result, Reformed Labour demolish the Nationalists and Liberal parties, leaving Britain with a Socialist Labour opposition and a Reformed Labour government. Parties of the right make up around 25% of the house.

[9] Blair's successful economical policies lead to another election victory, albeit with a smaller majority. The right-wing parties gain some seats.

[10] The country shifts left after the Regulation Crisis and the Socialist Labour party agree to rebrand at their 2011 conference. 'We are no longer defined by the party we seek to unseat!' said new leader Jim Murphy.

[11] After the Seascale Disaster, the country decided the left wasn't fit to run the country. The Nationalist and Conservative parties united to win the election.

[12] Reformed Labour showed their true colours by, under leader Sadiq Khan, going into coalition to prop up Hague's ailing Tories. The Socialists began their slow reclamation of the entirety of the left's ground.

Another one I liked a lot. One to add to the completed list!