UK Elections Info
< General Election - May 1979 >
| Westminster Elections |
| MPs by Constituency |
| Full List |
| MPs by Age |
| MPs by Surname |
| MPs by Party |
| Candidates by Party |
| MPs by %age of Vote |
| Candidates by %age of Vote |
| Votes for Parties |
| Majorities |
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| CON | 339 |
| LAB | 251 |
| LAB Co-op | 17 |
| LIB | 11 |
| OUP | 5 |
| DUP | 3 |
| SNP | 2 |
| PC | 2 |
| SDLP | 1 |
| Speaker | 1 |
| UUU | 1 |
| Ind UU | 1 |
| Ind Rep | 1 |
| Party | MPs | Total Votes |
Percentage of Votes | Contests | %age Votes in Contested |
%age Votes of Total Electorate | %age Votes of Electorate Contested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative & Unionist Party | 339 | 13,697,913 | 43.87 | 622 | 44.92 | 33.33 | 34.23 |
| Labour Party | 268 | 11,505,493 | 36.85 | 622 | 37.73 | 28.00 | 28.75 |
| Liberal Party | 11 | 4,313,962 | 13.82 | 577 | 15.02 | 10.50 | 11.46 |
| Official Unionist Party | 5 | 254,578 | 0.82 | 11 | 40.39 | 0.62 | 26.92 |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 3 | 70,975 | 0.23 | 5 | 27.56 | 0.17 | 17.98 |
| Scottish National Party | 2 | 504,260 | 1.62 | 71 | 17.29 | 1.23 | 13.28 |
| Plaid Cymru | 2 | 132,544 | 0.42 | 36 | 8.10 | 0.32 | 6.43 |
| Social Democratic Labour Party | 1 | 126,325 | 0.40 | 9 | 24.27 | 0.31 | 16.19 |
| UUU | 1 | 39,856 | 0.13 | 2 | 31.23 | 0.10 | 26.06 |
| Independent Ulster Unionist | 1 | 36,989 | 0.12 | 1 | 59.58 | 0.09 | 37.04 |
| Speaker of the House of Commons | 1 | 27,035 | 0.09 | 1 | 85.57 | 0.07 | 52.01 |
| Independent Republican | 1 | 22,398 | 0.07 | 1 | 36.03 | 0.05 | 31.33 |
| National Front | 0 | 191,989 | 0.61 | 303 | 1.31 | 0.47 | 0.98 |
| Alliance Party | 0 | 82,892 | 0.27 | 12 | 11.91 | 0.20 | 8.07 |
| Ecology Party | 0 | 39,918 | 0.13 | 53 | 1.46 | 0.10 | 1.13 |
| Independent Labour | 0 | 26,409 | 0.08 | 11 | 5.25 | 0.06 | 3.70 |
| Irish Independence Party | 0 | 23,086 | 0.07 | 4 | 8.90 | 0.06 | 6.27 |
| Communist Party | 0 | 16,858 | 0.05 | 38 | 1.08 | 0.04 | 0.79 |
| Scottish Labour | 0 | 13,737 | 0.04 | 3 | 12.22 | 0.03 | 9.02 |
| Workers Revolutionary Party | 0 | 12,631 | 0.04 | 60 | 0.49 | 0.03 | 0.35 |
| Republican Clubs | 0 | 12,098 | 0.04 | 7 | 2.96 | 0.03 | 1.99 |
| Independent | 0 | 11,056 | 0.04 | 33 | 0.66 | 0.03 | 0.49 |
| Independent Social Democratic Labour | 0 | 10,685 | 0.03 | 1 | 17.19 | 0.03 | 14.95 |
| UPNI | 0 | 8,021 | 0.03 | 3 | 5.72 | 0.02 | 3.83 |
| Independent Conservative | 0 | 5,621 | 0.02 | 8 | 1.44 | 0.01 | 1.10 |
| Northern Ireland Labour Party | 0 | 4,411 | 0.01 | 3 | 3.48 | 0.01 | 2.21 |
| Mebyon Kernow | 0 | 4,164 | 0.01 | 3 | 2.85 | 0.01 | 2.25 |
| Democratic Labour | 0 | 3,785 | 0.01 | 2 | 3.32 | 0.01 | 2.52 |
| Wessex Regiment | 0 | 3,098 | 0.01 | 7 | 0.73 | 0.01 | 0.57 |
| Socialist Unity | 0 | 2,834 | 0.01 | 10 | 0.88 | 0.01 | 0.57 |
| United Labour | 0 | 1,895 | 0.01 | 1 | 2.57 | 0.00 | 1.50 |
| Ratepayer | 0 | 1,451 | 0.00 | 1 | 2.06 | 0.00 | 1.66 |
| United Country Party | 0 | 1,032 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.96 | 0.00 | 0.74 |
| Independent Liberal | 0 | 1,023 | 0.00 | 2 | 1.13 | 0.00 | 0.78 |
| Independent Ecology | 0 | 887 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.46 | 0.00 | 1.09 |
| Independent Socialist | 0 | 770 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.79 | 0.00 | 0.58 |
| Workers Party | 0 | 767 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.77 | 0.00 | 0.56 |
| New Britain | 0 | 717 | 0.00 | 2 | 1.10 | 0.00 | 0.76 |
| Silly | 0 | 642 | 0.00 | 1 | 1.05 | 0.00 | 0.85 |
| CSA | 0 | 569 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.95 | 0.00 | 0.74 |
| Fellowship | 0 | 531 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.82 | 0.00 | 0.54 |
| Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 0 | 518 | 0.00 | 6 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0.14 |
| Independent Democrat | 0 | 479 | 0.00 | 3 | 0.39 | 0.00 | 0.29 |
| Anti-Common Market | 0 | 425 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.80 | 0.00 | 0.65 |
| Fancy Dress | 0 | 328 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.71 | 0.00 | 0.57 |
| CD | 0 | 312 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.79 | 0.00 | 0.63 |
| Jesus & His Cross | 0 | 297 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.64 | 0.00 | 0.43 |
| Anti-Common Market Conservative | 0 | 268 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.49 | 0.00 | 0.38 |
| Conservative Against the Common Market | 0 | 257 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 0.36 |
| INP | 0 | 243 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.60 | 0.00 | 0.43 |
| United English Nationalist Party | 0 | 238 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.15 |
| Rhodesian Front | 0 | 232 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.42 | 0.00 | 0.32 |
| Cornish Nationalist | 0 | 227 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.36 | 0.00 | 0.30 |
| Mod LAB | 0 | 214 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.42 | 0.00 | 0.32 |
| Protest | 0 | 204 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.39 | 0.00 | 0.31 |
| Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident | 0 | 162 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 0.15 |
| Feudal | 0 | 157 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.39 | 0.00 | 0.29 |
| British Empire Society | 0 | 156 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.26 | 0.00 | 0.22 |
| CSD | 0 | 146 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.44 | 0.00 | 0.25 |
| Homeland | 0 | 146 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.26 | 0.00 | 0.21 |
| Social Democrat | 0 | 144 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 0.33 |
| English National Party | 0 | 142 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.18 |
| Keep Britain United Association | 0 | 126 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 0.20 |
| Fine Gael | 0 | 112 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 0.18 |
| Anti-Corruption | 0 | 103 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.17 |
| United Democratic Party | 0 | 93 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.16 |
| Dog Lovers' Party | 0 | 79 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.10 |
| Socialist Party of Great Britain | 0 | 78 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.32 | 0.00 | 0.20 |
| Rev Refm | 0 | 77 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.18 | 0.00 | 0.14 |
| CPPS | 0 | 61 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.12 |
| Reform | 0 | 31 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
| Community | 0 | 30 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.07 |