# Canonical recap data for Winston Churchill Elected Prime Minister (1940)
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slug: churchill-prime-minister
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1940/churchill-prime-minister"
title: Winston Churchill Elected Prime Minister
subtitle: Churchill's elevation to PM during Britain's darkest hour defined the nation's wartime leadership and his legendary defiance of Nazi Germany.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1940-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1940
decade: 1940
country:
name: United Kingdom
slug: united-kingdom
summaryShort: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total
summaryLong: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
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heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Winston Churchill"
importance: 86
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill"
  title: Winston Churchill
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- election
metaDescription: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, duri
wikidataQid: Q8016
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260628155646/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-28
  label: Winston Churchill
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill"
taxonomy:
domain: political
eventTypes:
- election
canonicalClasses:
- governance
- transformation
impactRadius: global
velocity: sudden
predictability: scheduled
intentionality: planned
domainCoupling: multi_domain
lifecycleClass: transition
