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This is a summary of the electoral history of Margaret Thatcher, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley from 1959 to 1992.
Parliamentary elections
1950 general election, Dartford
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Norman Dodds | 38,128 | 56.38 | ||
Conservative | Margaret Roberts | 24,490 | 36.21 | ||
Liberal | Anthony H. Giles | 5,011 | 7.41 | New | |
Majority | 13,638 | 20.17 | |||
Turnout | 67,629 | 85.51 | |||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing |
1951 general election, Dartford
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Norman Dodds | 40,094 | 59.09 | ||
Conservative | Margaret Roberts | 27,760 | 40.91 | ||
Majority | 12,334 | 18.18 | |||
Turnout | 67,854 | 85.22 | |||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +3.71 |
1959 general election, Finchley
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 29,697 | 53.2 | ―1.3 | |
Labour | Eric Deakins | 13,437 | 24.1 | ―7.3 | |
Liberal | Henry Ivan Spence | 12,701 | 22.7 | +8.7 | |
Majority | 16,260 | 29.1 | +6.0 | ||
Turnout | 55,835 | 80.8 | +2.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.0 |
1964 general election, Finchley
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 24,591 | 46.6 | ―6.6 | |
Liberal | John Pardoe | 15,789 | 29.9 | +7.2 | |
Labour | Albert Edward Tomlinson | 12,408 | 23.5 | ―0.6 | |
Majority | 8,802 | 16.7 | ―12.4 | ||
Turnout | 52,788 | 78.2 | ―2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
1966 general election, Finchley
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 23,968 | 46.5 | ―0.1 | |
Labour | Yvonne Sieve | 14,504 | 28.1 | +4.6 | |
Liberal | Frank Davis | 13,070 | 25.4 | ― 4.5 | |
Majority | 9,464 | 18.4 | +1.7 | ||
Turnout | 51,542 | 75.3 | ―2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―2.4 |
1970 general election, Finchley
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 25,480 | 53.8 | +7.3 | |
Labour | Michael Freeman | 14,295 | 30.2 | +2.1 | |
Liberal | Graham Mitchell | 7,614 | 16.1 | ―9.3 | |
Majority | 11,185 | 23.6 | +5.2 | ||
Turnout | 47,389 | 65.6 | ―9.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 |
February 1974 general election, Finchley
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 18,180 | 43.7 | ―8.6 | |
Labour | Martin O'Connor | 12,202 | 29.3 | ―2.3 | |
Liberal | Laurence Brass | 11,221 | 27.0 | +10.9 | |
Majority | 5,978 | 14.4 | |||
Turnout | 41,603 | 78.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―3.1 |
October 1974 general election, Finchley
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 16,498 | 44.0 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Martin O'Connor | 12,587 | 33.6 | +4.3 | |
Liberal | Laurence Brass | 7,384 | 19.7 | ―7.3 | |
National Front | Janet Godfrey | 993 | 2.7 | New | |
Majority | 3,911 | 10.4 | ―4.0 | ||
Turnout | 37,462 | 69.5 | ―8.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―2.0 |
1979 general election, Finchley
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 20,918 | 52.5 | +8.5 | |
Labour | Richard May | 13,040 | 32.7 | ―0.9 | |
Liberal | Anthony Paterson | 5,254 | 13.2 | ―6.5 | |
National Front | William Verity | 534 | 1.3 | ―1.4 | |
Independent Democrat | Elizabeth Lloyd | 86 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 7,878 | 19.8 | +9.4 | ||
Turnout | 39,832 | 72.5 | +3.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.7 |
1983 general election, Finchley
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 19,616 | 51.1 | ―1.4 | |
Labour | Laurence Spigel | 10,302 | 26.8 | ―5.9 | |
Liberal | Margaret Joachim | 7,763 | 20.2 | +7.0 | |
Ecology | Simone Wilkinson | 279 | 0.7 | New | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 235 | 0.6 | New | |
Ban Every Licensing Law Society | Anthony Noonan | 75 | 0.2 | New | |
Rail Not Motorway | Helen Anscomb | 42 | 0.1 | New | |
Law and Order in Gotham City | Anthony Whitehead | 37 | 0.1 | New | |
Anti-Censorship | David Webb | 28 | 0.1 | New | |
Party of Associates with Licensees | Brian Wareham | 27 | 0.1 | New | |
Belgrano Blood-Hunger | Benjamin Wedmore | 13 | 0.0 | New | |
Majority | 9,314 | 24.3 | +4.5 | ||
Turnout | 38,417 | 69.0 | ―3.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.2 |
1987 general election, Finchley
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 21,603 | 53.9 | +2.8 | |
Labour | John Davies | 12,690 | 31.7 | +4.9 | |
Liberal | David Howarth | 5,580 | 13.9 | ―7.3 | |
Gremloid Party | Lord Buckethead | 131 | 0.3 | New | |
Gold Party | Michaelle St Vincent | 59 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 8,913 | 22.2 | ―2.1 | ||
Turnout | 40,063 | 69.4 | +0.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―1.0 |
Conservative Party leadership elections
1975 leadership election
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First ballot: 4 February 1975 | |||
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Candidate | Votes | % | |
Margaret Thatcher | 130 | 47.1 | |
Edward Heath | 119 | 43.1 | |
Hugh Fraser | 16 | 5.8 | |
Second ballot required |
Second ballot: 11 February 1975 | |||
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Candidate | Votes | % | |
Margaret Thatcher | 146 | 52.9 | |
William Whitelaw | 79 | 28.6 | |
Geoffrey Howe | 19 | 6.9 | |
Jim Prior | 19 | 6.9 | |
John Peyton | 11 | 4 | |
Margaret Thatcher elected |
1989 leadership election
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Only ballot: 5 December 1989 | |||
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Candidate | Votes | % | |
Margaret Thatcher | 314 | 84.0 | |
Sir Anthony Meyer | 33 | 8.8 | |
Abstentions | 3 | 0.8 | |
Spoilt | 24 | 6.4 | |
Majority | 281 | 75.1 | |
Turnout | 374 | N/A | |
Margaret Thatcher re-elected |
1990 leadership election
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First ballot: 20 November 1990 | |||
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Candidate | Votes[5] | % | |
Margaret Thatcher | 204 | 54.8 | |
Michael Heseltine | 152 | 40.9 | |
Abstentions | 16 | 4.3 | |
Majority | 52 | 14.0 | |
Turnout | 372 | 100 | |
Second ballot required |
United Kingdom general elections
1979 general election
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Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||
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Party | Leader | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 622 | 339 | 63 | 1 | +62 | 53.4 | 43.9 | 13,697,923 | +8.1 | |
Labour | James Callaghan | 623 | 269[a] | 4 | 54 | −50 | 42.4 | 36.9 | 11,532,218 | −2.3 | |
Liberal | David Steel | 577 | 11 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 1.7 | 13.8 | 4,313,804 | −4.5 | |
SNP | William Wolfe | 71 | 2 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0.31 | 1.6 | 504,259 | −1.3 | |
UUP | Harry West | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 0.79 | 0.8 | 254,578 | −0.1 | |
National Front | John Tyndall | 303 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.6 | 191,719 | +0.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Gwynfor Evans | 36 | 2 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0.31 | 0.4 | 132,544 | −0.2 | |
SDLP | Gerry Fitt | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.16 | 0.4 | 126,325 | −0.2 | |
Alliance | Oliver Napier | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.3 | 82,892 | +0.1 | |
DUP | Ian Paisley | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 0.47 | 0.2 | 70,795 | −0.1 | |
Ecology | Jonathan Tyler | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 39,918 | +0.1 | |
UUUP | Ernest Baird | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.16 | 0.1 | 39,856 | N/A | |
Ulster Popular Unionist | James Kilfedder | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.16 | 0.1 | 36,989 | +0.1 | |
Independent Labour | N/A | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 26,058 | −0.1 | |
Irish Independence | Fergus McAteer and Frank McManus | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 23,086 | N/A | |
Ind. Republican | N/A | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 22,398 | −0.1 | |
Independent | N/A | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 19,531 | +0.1 | |
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 16,858 | 0.0 | |
SLP | Jim Sillars | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 13,737 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Michael Banda | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 12,631 | +0.1 | |
Workers' Party | Tomás Mac Giolla | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 12,098 | 0.0 | |
Independent SDLP | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 10,785 | N/A | |
Unionist Party NI | Anne Dickson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 8,021 | −0.1 | |
Ind. Conservative | N/A | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 4,841 | 0.0 | |
NI Labour | Alan Carr | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 4,441 | 0.0 | |
Mebyon Kernow | Richard Jenkin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 4,164 | 0.0 | |
Democratic Labour | Dick Taverne | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 3,785 | −0.1 | |
Wessex Regionalist | Viscount Weymouth | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 3,090 | N/A | |
Socialist Unity | N/A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 2,834 | N/A | |
United Labour | Paddy Devlin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 1,895 | N/A | |
Independent Democratic | N/A | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 1,087 | N/A | |
United Country | Edmund Iremonger | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 1,033 | N/A | |
Independent Liberal | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 1,023 | 0.0 | |
Independent Socialist | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 770 | 0.0 | |
Workers (Leninist) | Royston Bull | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 767 | 0.0 | |
New Britain | Dennis Delderfield | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 717 | 0.0 | |
Fellowship | Ronald Mallone | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 531 | 0.0 | |
More Prosperous Britain | Tom Keen | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 518 | 0.0 | |
United English National | John Kynaston | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 238 | 0.0 | |
Cornish Nationalist | James Whetter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 227 | N/A | |
Social Democrat | Donald Kean | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 144 | 0.0 | |
English National | Frank Hansford-Miller | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 142 | 0.0 | |
The Dog Lovers' Party | Auberon Waugh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 79 | 0.0 | |
Socialist (GB) | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 78 | 0.0 |
Government's new majority | 43 |
Total votes cast | 31,221,362 |
Turnout | 76% |
1983 general election
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Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||
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Party | Leader | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 633 | 397 | 47 | 10 | +37 | 61.1 | 42.4 | 13,012,316 | −1.5 | |
Labour | Michael Foot | 633 | 209[d] | 4 | 55 | −51 | 32.2 | 27.6 | 8,456,934 | −9.3 | |
Alliance | David Steel & Roy Jenkins | 636[e] | 23 | 12 | 0 | +12 | 3.5 | 25.4 | 7,794,770 | +11.6 | |
SNP | Gordon Wilson | 72 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 331,975 | −0.5 | |
UUP | James Molyneaux | 16 | 11 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 259,952 | 0.0 | |
DUP | Ian Paisley | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 152,749 | +0.3 | |
SDLP | John Hume | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 137,012 | 0.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Wigley | 38 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 125,309 | 0.0 | |
Sinn Féin | Ruairí Ó Brádaigh | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 102,701 | N/A | |
Alliance | Oliver Napier | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 61,275 | −0.1 | |
Ecology | Jonathon Porritt | 109 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 54,299 | +0.1 | |
Independent | N/A | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 30,422 | N/A | |
National Front | Andrew Brons | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 27,065 | −0.5 | |
UPUP | James Kilfedder | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 22,861 | N/A | |
Independent Labour | N/A | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 16,447 | 0.0 | |
Workers' Party | Tomás Mac Giolla | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14,650 | −0.1 | |
BNP | John Tyndall | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14,621 | N/A | |
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11,606 | −0.1 | |
Independent Socialist | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10,326 | N/A | |
Ind. Conservative | N/A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9,442 | 0.0 | |
Independent Communist | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4,760 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Michael Banda | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3,798 | −0.1 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3,015 | N/A | |
Wessex Regionalist | N/A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,750 | 0.0 | |
Mebyon Kernow | Richard Jenkin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,151 | N/A | |
Independent DUP | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,134 | N/A | |
Licensees | N/A | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 934 | N/A | |
Nationalist Party | N/A | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 874 | N/A | |
Labour and Trade Union | Peter Hadden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 584 | N/A | |
Revolutionary Communist | Frank Furedi | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 581 | N/A | |
Freedom Party | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 508 | N/A |
Government's new majority | 144 |
Total votes cast | 30,671,137 |
Turnout | 72.7% |
1987 general election
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Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||
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Party | Leader | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 633 | 376[j] | 9 | 30 | −21 | 57.85 | 42.2 | 13,760,583 | −0.2 | |
Labour | Neil Kinnock | 633 | 229 | 26 | 6 | +20 | 35.23 | 30.8 | 10,029,807 | +3.2 | |
Alliance | David Owen & David Steel | 633 | 22 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 3.38 | 22.6 | 7,341,633 | −2.8 | |
SNP | Gordon Wilson | 72 | 3 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 0.46 | 1.3 | 416,473 | +0.2 | |
UUP | James Molyneaux | 12 | 9 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 1.38 | 0.8 | 276,230 | 0.0 | |
SDLP | John Hume | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 0.46 | 0.5 | 154,067 | +0.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Elis-Thomas | 38 | 3 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.46 | 0.4 | 123,599 | 0.0 | |
Green | N/A | 133 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 89,753 | +0.1 | ||
DUP | Ian Paisley | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.46 | 0.3 | 85,642 | −0.2 | |
Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.15 | 0.3 | 83,389 | 0.0 | |
Alliance | John Alderdice | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 72,671 | 0.0 | ||
Workers' Party | Tomás Mac Giolla | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 19,294 | +0.1 | ||
UPUP | James Kilfedder | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 18,420 | 0.0 | |
Real Unionist | Robert McCartney | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 14,467 | N/A | ||
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 6,078 | 0.0 | ||
Protestant Unionist | George Seawright | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 5,671 | N/A | ||
Red Front | N/A | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,177 | N/A | ||
Orkney and Shetland Movement | John Goodlad | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,095 | N/A | ||
Moderate Labour | Brian Marshall | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,269 | N/A | ||
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,951 | 0.0 | ||
Workers Revolutionary | Sheila Torrance | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,721 | 0.0 | ||
Independent Liberal | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 686 | 0.0 | ||
BNP | John Tyndall | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 553 | 0.0 | ||
Spare the Earth | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 522 | N/A |
Government's new majority | 102 |
Total votes cast | 32,529,578 |
Turnout | 75.3% |
Notes
- ^ The seat and vote count figures for Labour given here include the Speaker of the House of Commons
- ^ The Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party had folded in 1978. Of its three MPs, two joined the Ulster Unionist Party (one held his seat, the other lost to the Democratic Unionist Party) and the third defended and held his seat for the United Ulster Unionist Party.
- ^ James Kilfedder had been previously elected as an Ulster Unionist MP, but left the party, defending and holding his seat as an Independent Ulster Unionist. He subsequently founded the Ulster Popular Unionist Party but did not use that label in this election.
- ^ Includes Speaker of the House of Commons, George Thomas
- ^ Includes official Liberal candidates who were not given national Alliance endorsement in three constituencies: Liverpool Broadgreen, Hackney South and Shoreditch, and Hammersmith.
- ^ The SDP–Liberal Alliance vote is compared with the Liberal Party vote in the 1979 election.
- ^ The Independent Unionist elected in the 1979 election defended and held his seat for the Ulster Popular Unionist Party. The United Ulster Unionist Party dissolved and its sole MP did not re-stand.
- ^ The Independent Republican elected in the 1979 election died in 1981. In the ensuring by-election the seat was won by Bobby Sands, an Anti-H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner who then died and was succeeded by an Anti-H-Block Proxy Political Prisoner candidate Owen Carron. He defended and lost his seat standing for Sinn Féin who contested seats in Northern Ireland for the first time since 1959.
- ^ This election was fought under revised boundaries. The changes reflect those comparing to the notional results on the new boundaries. One significant change was the increase in the number of seats allocated to Northern Ireland from 12 to 17.
- ^ The seat and vote count figures for the Conservatives given here include the Speaker of the House of Commons
References
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- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "1990: Thatcher fails to win party mandate". On This Day. BBC News. 20 November 1990. Retrieved 13 July 2011.