UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Iain Duncan Smith

George Ian Duncan Smith

Born: 9 April 1954, Edinburgh

Knighted - 16 November 2022

Member of Privy Council - 18 September 2001

husband of Elizabeth Fremantle

HMS Conway (cadet school), Anglesey

Universita di Peruguia, Italy (1973 - 1974)

Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1974 - 1975)

Leader of HM Opposition	13 September 2001	6 November 2003
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	12 May 2010	18 March 2016

11 June 1987	Bradford West	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,224	36.70
9 April 1992	Chingford	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,730	59.22
1 May 1997	Chingford & Woodford Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,109	47.49
7 June 2001	Chingford & Woodford Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,834	48.22
13 September 2001 Iain Duncan Smith elected Leader of the Conservative Party.
29 October 2003 Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith loses a vote of confidence in him as Leader of the Conservative Party by 90 votes to 75.
5 May 2005	Chingford & Woodford Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,555	53.19
6 May 2010	Chingford & Woodford Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,743	52.76
7 May 2015	Chingford & Woodford Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,999	47.94
8 June 2017	Chingford & Woodford Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,076	49.14
12 December 2019	Chingford & Woodford Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,481	48.47
4 July 2024	Chingford & Woodford Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,281	35.62