Key Numbers

• The Great Reform Act

  1832
• First Representation of the People Act

  1918
• Second Representation of the People Act

  1918
• Third Representation of the People Act

  1969
• EU Referendum

  2016
• NUWSS Founded

  1914
• WSPU Found

  1903
• Number of Eligible Voters in the UK

  45,000,000
• Human Rights Act

  1998
• Number of Votes gained by UKIP in 2015

  4,000,000
• Number of MPs in UKIP in 2015

  1
• John Major wrote the Conservative Party manifesto in...

  1992
• English Votes for English Laws'

  2015
• Gordon Brown became the leader of the Labour Party in...

  2007
• Margaret Thatcher became PM in...

  1979
• Liberal Democrats formed in...

  1988
• Number of seats won by the Lib Dems in 2015

  8
• Number of Constituencies in the UK

  650
• Percentage of nominations a candidate must receive to stand as leader of the Labour Party

  10
• How much money did Ecclestone donate to the Labour Party in 1997?

  £1,000,000
• PERA introduced in...

  2000
• PPEA introduced in...

  2009
• Amount of Money spent by the Conservatives in the 1997 election campaign

  20,000,000
• Percentage of income Labour received from membership fees

  19%
• ECSC founded in...

  1950
• Treaty of Rome

  1957
• EEC founded in...

  1958
• Customs Union

  1968
• UK joined the EU in...

  1973
• Single European Act

  1985
• Maastricht Treaty

  1991
• The number of Months the Presidency of the Council of the EU is held for...

  6
• Elections to the European Parliament are held every ... years

  5
• Factortame Case

  1990
• Net Contribution of UK to EU budget in 2015

  £8.5 Billion
• Fixed Term Parliament Act

  2011
• Council elections take place every ... years

  4
• Percentage of vote won by Labour in Liverpool Walton in 2017

  86%
• Number of seats gained by the Conservatives in Scotland in 2017

  12
• Percentage of Seats Won by the Conservatives in the North East in 2017

  10%