100 years ago today, on 14 December 1918, one of the most important and historic General Elections was held in the UK.

Known as the Khaki Election due to the number of servicemen who voted it was the first for eight years, the war prevented the scheduled Election in 1915.

It is chiefly remembered however as the first in which women could both vote and stand as candidates. Hence the electorate jumped to around 21.39 million. 707 seats were contested and resulted in a huge victory for the wartime coalition of Conservative, Liberal and Labour members who took 523 seats. The other big winners were Sinn Fein in Ireland who won 73 of the 102 Irish seats, although no Sinn Fein MP was to take his/her seat. The first woman MP was elected - Constance, Countess  Markievicz who won in Dublin, St Patrick's for Sinn Fein, but, as mentioned, she did not take her seat.