UK Elections Info

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

Margaret Jackson

Miss Margaret Mary Jackson

Born: 15 January 1943, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire

Baroness Beckett - 14 August 2024

Knighted - 29 December 2012

Member of Privy Council - 10 March 1993

Notre Dame High School, Norwich

Notre Dame High School, Manchester

Manchester College of Science and Technology

John Dalton Polytechnic

Assistant Government Whip	1975	1976
Under Secretary of State for Education and Science	1976	May 1979
Leader of HM Opposition	12 May 1994	12 July 1994
President of the Board of Trade	2 May 1997	27 July 1998
Leader of the House of Commons	27 July 1998	8 June 2001
Lord President of the Council	28 July 1998	8 June 2001
Secretary of State for the Environment and Rural Affairs	8 June 2001	5 May 2006
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	5 May 2006	27 June 2007

28 February 1974	Lincoln	Labour Party	13,487	32.45
10 October 1974	Lincoln	Labour Party	14,698	37.08
3 May 1979	Lincoln	Labour Party	17,175	40.40
9 June 1983	Derby South	Labour Party	18,169	39.34
11 June 1987	Derby South	Labour Party	21,003	43.67
9 April 1992	Derby South	Labour Party	25,917	51.73
24 April 1995 Margaret Beckett assumes the leadership of the Labour Party on the death of John Smith.
1 May 1997	Derby South	Labour Party	29,154	56.26
7 June 2001	Derby South	Labour Party	24,310	56.44
5 May 2005	Derby South	Labour Party	19,683	45.38
6 May 2010	Derby South	Labour Party	17,851	43.34
7 May 2015	Derby South	Labour Party	20,007	49.01
8 June 2017	Derby South	Labour Party	26,430	58.34
12 December 2019	Derby South	Labour Party	21,690	51.08