UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 7 July 1941, Gorseinon

Baron Howard of Lympne - 13 July 2010

Member of Privy Council - 4 January 1990

son of Hilda Hecht

son of Bernat Hecht

husband of Sandra Gradfield

Llanelli Grammar School

Peterhouse, Cambridge

Inner Temple (1962 -)

Barrister

Minister for Corporate and Consumer Affairs	1985	June 1987
Minister of State for Local Government	June 1987	July 1988
Minister for Water and Planning	July 1988	July 1989
Minister of State for Housing and Planning	July 1989	January 1990
Secretary of State for Employment	January 1990	11 April 1992
Secretary of State for Environment	11 April 1992	27 May 1993
Secretary of State for the Home Department	27 May 1993	2 May 1997
Leader of HM Opposition	6 November 2003	6 December 2005

31 March 1966	Liverpool Edge Hill	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,662	36.94
18 June 1970	Liverpool Edge Hill	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,804	42.28
9 June 1983	Folkestone & Hythe	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,261	56.95
11 June 1987	Folkestone & Hythe	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,915	55.36
9 April 1992	Folkestone & Hythe	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,437	52.33
1 May 1997	Folkestone & Hythe	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,313	39.03
7 June 2001	Folkestone & Hythe	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,645	45.02
6 November 2003 Rt Hon Michael Howard unanimously elected Leader of the Conservative Party. No other candidates had come forward by the time nominations closed.
5 May 2005	Folkestone & Hythe	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,161	53.94