UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Roberts

Margaret Hilda Roberts

Born: 13 October 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire

Died: 8 April 2013

Baroness Thatcher - 26 June 1992

Member of Privy Council - 22 June 1970

wife of Sir Denis Thatcher, Bt

daughter of Alfred Roberts

daughter of Beatrice Ethel Stephenson

Kesteven & Grantham Girls' School

Somerville College, Oxford (October 1943 - 1947)

Barrister

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance	9 October 1961	16 October 1964
Secretary of State for Education and Science	20 June 1970	4 March 1974
Leader of HM Opposition	11 February 1975	4 May 1979
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	4 May 1979	28 November 1990

23 February 1950	Dartford	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,490	36.21
25 October 1951	Dartford	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,760	40.91
8 October 1959	Finchley	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,697	53.19
15 October 1964	Finchley	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,591	46.58
31 March 1966	Finchley	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,968	46.50
18 June 1970	Finchley	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,480	53.77
28 February 1974	Finchley	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,180	43.70
10 October 1974	Finchley	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,498	43.52
11 February 1975 Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher elected Leader of the Conservative Party.
3 May 1979	Finchley	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,918	52.52
9 June 1983	Finchley	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,616	51.06
11 June 1987	Finchley	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,603	53.92