General Election

This short subject Covers a local race for Parliament in 1945. Historically, that's the election that ended the government of Winston Churchill and replaced it with a Labour Government. To ground the events of the election in reality, the seat for Kettering is chosen as representative, if not average.

If this particular district has any meaning to people three quarters of a century later, it is because one of the candidates - and the winner - was John Profumo. For movie fans this is interesting because he would marry Valerie Hobson in 1954; their marriage would last until her death in 1998. For history wonks, Profumo's name is more familiar because an affair he had with 19-year-old model Christine Keeler led to his resignation, and the defeat of the Conservative government in 1964.