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Summary | |
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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 |
Aberavon | |||
51,341/64,864 | 79.15 | ||
Labour Party | 31,665 | 61.68 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,692 | 24.72 | |
Liberal Party | 4,624 | 9.01 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,954 | 3.81 | |
Communist Party | 406 | 0.79 | |
Majority | 18,973 | 36.95 | |
Aberdare | |||
37,339/47,500 | 78.61 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 26,716 | 71.55 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,453 | 17.28 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3,652 | 9.78 | |
Communist Party | 518 | 1.39 | |
Majority | 20,263 | 54.27 | |
Aberdeen North | |||
45,111/64,747 | 69.67 | ||
Labour Party | 26,771 | 59.34 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,657 | 16.97 | |
Scottish National Party | 5,796 | 12.85 | |
Liberal Party | 4,887 | 10.83 | |
Majority | 19,114 | 42.37 | |
Aberdeen South | |||
51,130/65,090 | 78.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,820 | 40.72 | |
Labour Party | 20,048 | 39.21 | |
Liberal Party | 5,901 | 11.54 | |
Scottish National Party | 4,361 | 8.53 | |
Majority | 772 | 1.51 | |
Abertillery | |||
28,559/35,602 | 80.22 | ||
Labour Party | 21,698 | 75.98 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,613 | 16.15 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,248 | 7.87 | |
Majority | 17,085 | 59.82 | |
11 December 1981 Jeffrey Thomas resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
Abingdon | |||
76,676/96,447 | 79.50 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 41,211 | 53.75 | |
Labour Party | 18,920 | 24.68 | |
Liberal Party | 16,164 | 21.08 | |
Independent | 381 | 0.50 | |
Majority | 22,291 | 29.07 | |
Ruth Pinder sought election as a Christian Humane Independant for Peace. | |||
Accrington | |||
40,012/50,822 | 78.73 | ||
Labour Party | 19,576 | 48.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,282 | 40.69 | |
Liberal Party | 3,646 | 9.11 | |
National Front | 508 | 1.27 | |
Majority | 3,294 | 8.23 | |
Aldershot | |||
66,150/86,516 | 76.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 38,014 | 57.47 | |
Liberal Party | 14,438 | 21.83 | |
Labour Party | 13,698 | 20.71 | |
Majority | 23,576 | 35.64 | |
Aldridge-Brownhills | |||
52,308/63,377 | 82.53 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,289 | 50.26 | |
Labour Party | 20,621 | 39.42 | |
Liberal Party | 5,398 | 10.32 | |
Majority | 5,668 | 10.84 | |
Altrincham & Sale | |||
57,915/74,547 | 77.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,873 | 51.58 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 14,643 | 25.28 | |
Liberal Party | 12,603 | 21.76 | |
Ecology Party | 796 | 1.37 | |
Majority | 15,230 | 26.30 | |
Anglesey | |||
38,746/47,726 | 81.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,100 | 38.97 | |
Labour Party | 12,283 | 31.70 | |
Plaid Cymru | 7,863 | 20.29 | |
Liberal Party | 3,500 | 9.03 | |
Majority | 2,817 | 7.27 | |
Argyll | |||
33,132/43,527 | 76.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,191 | 36.80 | |
Scottish National Party | 10,545 | 31.83 | |
Labour Party | 5,283 | 15.95 | |
Liberal Party | 5,113 | 15.43 | |
Majority | 1,646 | 4.97 | |
Armagh | |||
65,231/93,069 | 70.09 | ||
Official Unionist Party | 31,668 | 48.55 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 23,545 | 36.09 | |
Democratic Unionist Party | 5,634 | 8.64 | |
Republican Clubs | 2,310 | 3.54 | |
Alliance Party | 2,074 | 3.18 | |
Majority | 8,123 | 12.45 | |
Arundel | |||
67,685/91,638 | 73.86 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 43,968 | 64.96 | |
Liberal Party | 13,208 | 19.51 | |
Labour Party | 10,509 | 15.53 | |
Majority | 30,760 | 45.45 | |
Ashfield | |||
62,746/77,878 | 80.57 | ||
Labour Party | 33,116 | 52.78 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,319 | 40.35 | |
Liberal Party | 3,914 | 6.24 | |
National Front | 397 | 0.63 | |
Majority | 7,797 | 12.43 | |
Ashford | |||
47,119/61,299 | 76.87 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,224 | 55.65 | |
Labour Party | 12,586 | 26.71 | |
Liberal Party | 7,631 | 16.20 | |
National Front | 678 | 1.44 | |
Majority | 13,638 | 28.94 | |
Ashton-under-Lyne | |||
44,876/58,588 | 76.60 | ||
Labour Party | 24,535 | 54.67 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,156 | 36.00 | |
Liberal Party | 3,699 | 8.24 | |
National Front | 486 | 1.08 | |
Majority | 8,379 | 18.67 | |
Aylesbury | |||
58,292/74,746 | 77.99 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,953 | 58.25 | |
Labour Party | 14,091 | 24.17 | |
Liberal Party | 10,248 | 17.58 | |
Majority | 19,862 | 34.07 | |
Ayr | |||
43,700/54,753 | 79.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,907 | 43.27 | |
Labour Party | 16,139 | 36.93 | |
Liberal Party | 4,656 | 10.65 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,998 | 9.15 | |
Majority | 2,768 | 6.33 | |
Banbury | |||
56,922/72,711 | 78.29 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,137 | 54.70 | |
Labour Party | 16,623 | 29.20 | |
Liberal Party | 8,658 | 15.21 | |
National Front | 504 | 0.89 | |
Majority | 14,514 | 25.50 | |
Banff | |||
23,742/32,768 | 72.45 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,580 | 44.56 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,781 | 41.20 | |
Labour Party | 3,381 | 14.24 | |
Majority | 799 | 3.37 | |
Barking | |||
34,314/48,289 | 71.06 | ||
Labour Party | 18,111 | 52.78 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,103 | 32.36 | |
Liberal Party | 3,679 | 10.72 | |
National Front | 1,021 | 2.98 | |
Independent Labour | 400 | 1.17 | |
Majority | 7,008 | 20.42 | |
Barkston Ash | |||
71,789/91,890 | 78.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 40,381 | 56.25 | |
Labour Party | 21,670 | 30.19 | |
Liberal Party | 7,909 | 11.02 | |
Ecology Party | 1,829 | 2.55 | |
Majority | 18,711 | 26.06 | |
Barnsley | |||
56,667/77,699 | 72.93 | ||
Labour Party | 36,276 | 64.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,654 | 24.10 | |
Liberal Party | 5,751 | 10.15 | |
Independent Socialist | 638 | 1.13 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 348 | 0.61 | |
Majority | 22,622 | 39.92 | |
William Gallagher advocated the withdrawal of British troops from Ireland and had the support of Socialist Unity. | |||
Barrow-in-Furness | |||
42,616/54,451 | 78.26 | ||
Labour Party | 22,687 | 53.24 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,946 | 35.07 | |
Liberal Party | 4,983 | 11.69 | |
Majority | 7,741 | 18.16 | |
Barry | |||
60,346/75,127 | 80.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,720 | 50.91 | |
Labour Party | 21,928 | 36.34 | |
Liberal Party | 6,105 | 10.12 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,281 | 2.12 | |
National Front | 312 | 0.52 | |
Majority | 8,792 | 14.57 | |
Basildon | |||
80,818/103,596 | 78.01 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,919 | 46.92 | |
Labour Party | 32,739 | 40.51 | |
Liberal Party | 9,280 | 11.48 | |
National Front | 880 | 1.09 | |
Majority | 5,180 | 6.41 | |
Basingstoke | |||
78,786/99,124 | 79.48 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 42,625 | 54.10 | |
Labour Party | 20,879 | 26.50 | |
Liberal Party | 14,605 | 18.54 | |
National Front | 677 | 0.86 | |
Majority | 21,746 | 27.60 | |
Bassetlaw | |||
58,586/73,763 | 79.42 | ||
Labour Party | 29,426 | 50.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,247 | 37.97 | |
Liberal Party | 6,913 | 11.80 | |
Majority | 7,179 | 12.25 | |
Bath | |||
49,633/63,575 | 78.07 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,025 | 46.39 | |
Liberal Party | 13,913 | 28.03 | |
Labour Party | 11,407 | 22.98 | |
Ecology Party | 1,082 | 2.18 | |
National Front | 206 | 0.42 | |
Majority | 9,112 | 18.36 | |
Batley & Morley | |||
46,867/62,871 | 74.54 | ||
Labour Party | 22,984 | 49.04 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,632 | 37.62 | |
Liberal Party | 4,943 | 10.55 | |
Independent Labour | 848 | 1.81 | |
Ecology Party | 460 | 0.98 | |
Majority | 5,352 | 11.42 | |
Battersea North | |||
28,166/41,435 | 67.98 | ||
Labour Party | 15,834 | 56.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,358 | 33.22 | |
Liberal Party | 2,021 | 7.18 | |
National Front | 772 | 2.74 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 104 | 0.37 | |
Workers Party | 47 | 0.17 | |
Community | 30 | 0.11 | |
Majority | 6,476 | 22.99 | |
Battersea South | |||
30,999/43,712 | 70.92 | ||
Labour Party | 13,984 | 45.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,652 | 44.04 | |
Liberal Party | 2,802 | 9.04 | |
National Front | 561 | 1.81 | |
Majority | 332 | 1.07 | |
Beaconsfield | |||
51,782/67,961 | 76.19 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,938 | 61.68 | |
Labour Party | 10,443 | 20.17 | |
Liberal Party | 8,853 | 17.10 | |
National Front | 548 | 1.06 | |
Majority | 21,495 | 41.51 | |
27 February 1982 Death of Sir Ronald Bell. | |||
27 May 1982 | 37,306/69,206 | 53.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,049 | 61.78 | |
Liberal Party in Alliance | 9,996 | 26.79 | |
Labour Party | 3,886 | 10.42 | |
New Britain | 225 | 0.60 | |
Independent | 99 | 0.27 | |
Independent | 51 | 0.14 | |
Majority | 13,053 | 34.99 | |
Tom Keen sought election as "Benn in 10 unless P R". | |||
Bill Boaks sought election as "Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident". | |||
Bebington & Ellesmere Port | |||
74,081/91,816 | 80.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,488 | 43.85 | |
Labour Party | 32,002 | 43.20 | |
Liberal Party | 9,591 | 12.95 | |
Majority | 486 | 0.66 | |
Beckenham | |||
43,281/57,939 | 74.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,607 | 56.85 | |
Labour Party | 10,856 | 25.08 | |
Liberal Party | 6,450 | 14.90 | |
Ecology Party | 762 | 1.76 | |
National Front | 606 | 1.40 | |
Majority | 13,751 | 31.77 | |
Bedford | |||
60,809/77,315 | 78.65 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,140 | 51.21 | |
Labour Party | 18,727 | 30.80 | |
Liberal Party | 10,129 | 16.66 | |
National Front | 813 | 1.34 | |
Majority | 12,413 | 20.41 | |
Bedwellty | |||
40,356/50,708 | 79.59 | ||
Labour Party | 28,794 | 71.35 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,358 | 20.71 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,648 | 6.56 | |
Ecology Party | 556 | 1.38 | |
Majority | 20,436 | 50.64 | |
Beeston | |||
63,285/77,802 | 81.34 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,273 | 52.58 | |
Labour Party | 23,077 | 36.47 | |
Liberal Party | 6,935 | 10.96 | |
Majority | 10,196 | 16.11 | |
Belfast East | |||
50,989/75,481 | 67.55 | ||
Democratic Unionist Party | 15,994 | 31.37 | |
Official Unionist Party | 15,930 | 31.24 | |
Alliance Party | 15,066 | 29.55 | |
UPNI | 2,017 | 3.96 | |
Northern Ireland Labour Party | 1,982 | 3.89 | |
Majority | 64 | 0.13 | |
Belfast North | |||
42,344/65,073 | 65.07 | ||
Democratic Unionist Party | 11,690 | 27.61 | |
Official Unionist Party | 10,695 | 25.26 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 7,823 | 18.47 | |
UPNI | 4,220 | 9.97 | |
Alliance Party | 4,120 | 9.73 | |
Republican Clubs | 1,907 | 4.50 | |
Northern Ireland Labour Party | 1,889 | 4.46 | |
Majority | 995 | 2.35 | |
Belfast South | |||
46,790/68,920 | 67.89 | ||
Official Unionist Party | 28,875 | 61.71 | |
Alliance Party | 11,745 | 25.10 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 3,694 | 7.89 | |
UPNI | 1,784 | 3.81 | |
Independent Labour | 692 | 1.48 | |
Majority | 17,130 | 36.61 | |
Jeff Dudgeon sought election as a Labour Integrationist. | |||
14 November 1981 Assassination of Robert Bradford. | |||
4 March 1982 | 43,534/66,219 | 65.74 | |
Official Unionist Party | 17,123 | 39.33 | |
Alliance Party | 11,726 | 26.94 | |
Democratic Unionist Party | 9,818 | 22.55 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 3,839 | 8.82 | |
Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party | 576 | 1.32 | |
U LAB | 303 | 0.70 | |
Independent | 137 | 0.31 | |
Independent | 12 | 0.03 | |
Majority | 5,397 | 12.40 | |
Jagat Narain sought election for Peace State, and withdrew before polling day. | |||
Simon Hall-Raleigh sought election for One Human Family. | |||
Belfast West | |||
33,287/58,884 | 56.53 | ||
Social Democratic Labour Party | 16,480 | 49.51 | |
Official Unionist Party | 8,245 | 24.77 | |
Democratic Unionist Party | 3,716 | 11.16 | |
Republican Clubs | 2,282 | 6.86 | |
Alliance Party | 2,024 | 6.08 | |
Northern Ireland Labour Party | 540 | 1.62 | |
Majority | 8,235 | 24.74 | |
22 November 1979 Gerry Fitt resigns from the SDLP, and sits as a Socialist. | |||
Belper | |||
61,295/73,341 | 83.58 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,193 | 44.36 | |
Labour Party | 26,311 | 42.93 | |
Liberal Party | 7,331 | 11.96 | |
National Front | 460 | 0.75 | |
Majority | 882 | 1.44 | |
Bermondsey | |||
30,406/51,246 | 59.33 | ||
Labour Party | 19,338 | 63.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,582 | 24.94 | |
Liberal Party | 2,072 | 6.81 | |
National Front | 1,175 | 3.86 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 239 | 0.79 | |
Majority | 11,756 | 38.66 | |
2 August 1982 Robert Mellish resigns the Labour whip. | |||
1 November 1982 Resignation of Robert Mellish. | |||
24 February 1983 | 29,489/51,096 | 57.71 | |
Liberal Party in Alliance | 17,017 | 57.71 | |
Labour Party | 7,698 | 26.10 | |
Real LAB | 2,243 | 7.61 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 1,631 | 5.53 | |
National Front | 426 | 1.44 | |
Monster Raving Loony Party | 97 | 0.33 | |
Independent | 69 | 0.23 | |
New Britain | 62 | 0.21 | |
Independent Labour | 50 | 0.17 | |
Communist Party | 50 | 0.17 | |
Ecology Party | 45 | 0.15 | |
Revolutionary Communist Party | 38 | 0.13 | |
Nationalist Labour | 25 | 0.08 | |
United Democratic Party | 15 | 0.05 | |
Anti-Common Market and Free Trade Party | 15 | 0.05 | |
Independent Labour | 8 | 0.03 | |
Majority | 9,319 | 31.60 | |
Berwick & East Lothian | |||
50,529/60,919 | 82.94 | ||
Labour Party | 21,977 | 43.49 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,304 | 40.18 | |
Liberal Party | 4,948 | 9.79 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,300 | 6.53 | |
Majority | 1,673 | 3.31 | |
Berwick-upon-Tweed | |||
35,616/42,493 | 83.82 | ||
Liberal Party | 19,351 | 54.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,663 | 38.36 | |
Labour Party | 2,602 | 7.31 | |
Majority | 5,688 | 15.97 | |
Bethnal Green & Bow | |||
28,543/51,436 | 55.49 | ||
Labour Party | 14,227 | 49.84 | |
Liberal Party | 6,673 | 23.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,567 | 19.50 | |
National Front | 1,740 | 6.10 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 183 | 0.64 | |
Socialist Unity | 153 | 0.54 | |
Majority | 7,554 | 26.47 | |
Bexleyheath | |||
40,761/50,872 | 80.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,888 | 53.70 | |
Labour Party | 13,342 | 32.73 | |
Liberal Party | 4,782 | 11.73 | |
National Front | 749 | 1.84 | |
Majority | 8,546 | 20.97 | |
Birkenhead | |||
41,711/56,421 | 73.93 | ||
Labour Party | 20,803 | 49.87 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,894 | 35.71 | |
Liberal Party | 5,708 | 13.68 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 306 | 0.73 | |
Majority | 5,909 | 14.17 | |
Birmingham Edgbaston | |||
46,564/68,645 | 67.83 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,192 | 54.10 | |
Labour Party | 15,605 | 33.51 | |
Liberal Party | 4,377 | 9.40 | |
Ecology Party | 852 | 1.83 | |
Jesus & His Cross | 297 | 0.64 | |
Independent | 129 | 0.28 | |
Independent Liberal | 112 | 0.24 | |
Majority | 9,587 | 20.59 | |
Barry Dore was president of the Birmingham Polytechnic Students' Union and campaigned for more resources for the Polytechnic. | |||
Birmingham Erdington | |||
43,704/64,341 | 67.93 | ||
Labour Party | 20,105 | 46.00 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,425 | 44.45 | |
Liberal Party | 3,487 | 7.98 | |
National Front | 687 | 1.57 | |
Majority | 680 | 1.56 | |
Birmingham Hall Green | |||
49,635/67,683 | 73.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,072 | 54.54 | |
Labour Party | 17,508 | 35.27 | |
Liberal Party | 4,440 | 8.95 | |
National Front | 615 | 1.24 | |
Majority | 9,564 | 19.27 | |
Birmingham Handsworth | |||
30,787/45,018 | 68.39 | ||
Labour Party | 16,998 | 55.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,789 | 44.79 | |
Majority | 3,209 | 10.42 | |
Birmingham Ladywood | |||
21,171/33,989 | 62.29 | ||
Labour Party | 13,450 | 63.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,691 | 26.88 | |
Liberal Party | 2,030 | 9.59 | |
Majority | 7,759 | 36.65 | |
Birmingham Northfield | |||
55,700/78,873 | 70.62 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,304 | 45.43 | |
Labour Party | 25,100 | 45.06 | |
Liberal Party | 4,538 | 8.15 | |
National Front | 614 | 1.10 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 144 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 204 | 0.37 | |
31 July 1982 Death of Jocelyn Cadbury. | |||
28 October 1982 | 43,855/79,732 | 55.00 | |
Labour Party | 15,904 | 36.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,615 | 35.61 | |
Liberal Party in Alliance | 11,453 | 26.12 | |
National Front | 411 | 0.94 | |
Communist Party | 349 | 0.80 | |
Peoples' Progressive Party | 63 | 0.14 | |
Independent | 60 | 0.14 | |
Majority | 289 | 0.66 | |
Birmingham Perry Barr | |||
39,250/51,794 | 75.78 | ||
Labour Party | 18,674 | 47.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,183 | 46.33 | |
Liberal Party | 1,811 | 4.61 | |
National Front | 582 | 1.48 | |
Majority | 491 | 1.25 | |
Birmingham Selly Oak | |||
47,618/64,631 | 73.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,175 | 48.67 | |
Labour Party | 18,400 | 38.64 | |
Liberal Party | 5,452 | 11.45 | |
National Front | 401 | 0.84 | |
Independent | 190 | 0.40 | |
Majority | 4,775 | 10.03 | |
Philip Crome sought election for the Child and Family Protection Group. | |||
Birmingham Small Heath | |||
29,312/46,602 | 62.90 | ||
Labour Party | 17,735 | 60.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,268 | 21.38 | |
Liberal Party | 4,470 | 15.25 | |
National Front | 490 | 1.67 | |
Socialist Unity | 349 | 1.19 | |
Majority | 11,467 | 39.12 | |
Birmingham Sparkbrook | |||
29,830/45,910 | 64.97 | ||
Labour Party | 18,717 | 62.75 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,398 | 34.86 | |
Communist Party | 715 | 2.40 | |
Majority | 8,319 | 27.89 | |
Birmingham Stechford | |||
43,730/61,115 | 71.55 | ||
Labour Party | 21,166 | 48.40 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,517 | 44.63 | |
Liberal Party | 2,349 | 5.37 | |
National Front | 698 | 1.60 | |
Majority | 1,649 | 3.77 | |
Birmingham Yardley | |||
42,462/57,574 | 73.75 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,193 | 47.56 | |
Labour Party | 19,029 | 44.81 | |
Liberal Party | 2,491 | 5.87 | |
National Front | 749 | 1.76 | |
Majority | 1,164 | 2.74 | |
Bishop Auckland | |||
55,799/74,696 | 74.70 | ||
Labour Party | 27,200 | 48.75 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,160 | 37.92 | |
Liberal Party | 7,439 | 13.33 | |
Majority | 6,040 | 10.82 | |
Blaby | |||
57,135/68,576 | 83.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,221 | 58.14 | |
Labour Party | 12,581 | 22.02 | |
Liberal Party | 9,277 | 16.24 | |
National Front | 2,056 | 3.60 | |
Majority | 20,640 | 36.12 | |
Blackburn | |||
38,812/52,479 | 73.96 | ||
Labour Party | 19,683 | 50.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,193 | 36.57 | |
Liberal Party | 4,371 | 11.26 | |
National Front | 565 | 1.46 | |
Majority | 5,490 | 14.15 | |
Blackpool North | |||
43,259/59,557 | 72.63 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,209 | 53.65 | |
Labour Party | 12,980 | 30.01 | |
Liberal Party | 6,127 | 14.16 | |
National Front | 943 | 2.18 | |
Majority | 10,229 | 23.65 | |
Blackpool South | |||
42,257/58,615 | 72.09 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,762 | 51.50 | |
Labour Party | 12,914 | 30.56 | |
Liberal Party | 7,057 | 16.70 | |
National Front | 524 | 1.24 | |
Majority | 8,848 | 20.94 | |
Blaydon | |||
46,229/58,463 | 79.07 | ||
Labour Party | 24,687 | 53.40 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,178 | 35.00 | |
Liberal Party | 5,364 | 11.60 | |
Majority | 8,509 | 18.41 | |
Blyth | |||
62,404/79,727 | 78.27 | ||
Labour Party | 25,047 | 40.14 | |
Independent Labour | 17,987 | 28.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,194 | 22.75 | |
Liberal Party | 5,176 | 8.29 | |
Majority | 7,060 | 11.31 | |
Bodmin | |||
50,888/61,650 | 82.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,922 | 54.87 | |
Liberal Party | 17,893 | 35.16 | |
Labour Party | 3,508 | 6.89 | |
Mebyon Kernow | 865 | 1.70 | |
Ecology Party | 465 | 0.91 | |
National Front | 235 | 0.46 | |
Majority | 10,029 | 19.71 | |
Bolsover | |||
41,343/52,740 | 78.39 | ||
Labour Party | 27,495 | 66.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,160 | 24.57 | |
Liberal Party | 3,688 | 8.92 | |
Majority | 17,335 | 41.93 | |
Bolton East | |||
46,048/58,482 | 78.74 | ||
Labour Party | 21,920 | 47.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,068 | 43.58 | |
Liberal Party | 3,603 | 7.82 | |
National Front | 457 | 0.99 | |
Majority | 1,852 | 4.02 | |
Bolton West | |||
39,854/50,221 | 79.36 | ||
Labour Party | 17,857 | 44.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,257 | 43.30 | |
Liberal Party | 4,392 | 11.02 | |
National Front | 348 | 0.87 | |
Majority | 600 | 1.51 | |
Bootle | |||
44,083/62,578 | 70.44 | ||
Labour Party | 26,900 | 61.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,741 | 26.63 | |
Liberal Party | 4,531 | 10.28 | |
Independent Liberal | 911 | 2.07 | |
Majority | 15,159 | 34.39 | |
Bosworth | |||
76,339/90,290 | 84.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,030 | 48.51 | |
Labour Party | 28,595 | 37.46 | |
Liberal Party | 10,032 | 13.14 | |
National Front | 682 | 0.89 | |
Majority | 8,435 | 11.05 | |
Bothwell | |||
48,194/61,309 | 78.61 | ||
Labour Party | 26,492 | 54.97 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,275 | 23.40 | |
Liberal Party | 5,225 | 10.84 | |
Scottish National Party | 5,202 | 10.79 | |
Majority | 15,217 | 31.57 | |
Bournemouth East | |||
41,203/56,382 | 73.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,808 | 62.64 | |
Labour Party | 7,553 | 18.33 | |
Liberal Party | 6,738 | 16.35 | |
New Britain | 581 | 1.41 | |
Ecology Party | 523 | 1.27 | |
Majority | 18,255 | 44.31 | |
Bournemouth West | |||
43,235/61,359 | 70.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,873 | 59.84 | |
Labour Party | 9,247 | 21.39 | |
Liberal Party | 7,677 | 17.76 | |
National Front | 438 | 1.01 | |
Majority | 16,626 | 38.45 | |
Bradford North | |||
49,208/68,530 | 71.81 | ||
Labour Party | 25,069 | 50.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,548 | 35.66 | |
Liberal Party | 5,819 | 11.83 | |
National Front | 614 | 1.25 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 158 | 0.32 | |
Majority | 7,521 | 15.28 | |
Bradford South | |||
55,877/76,353 | 73.18 | ||
Labour Party | 26,323 | 47.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,005 | 39.38 | |
Liberal Party | 7,127 | 12.75 | |
National Front | 422 | 0.76 | |
Majority | 4,318 | 7.73 | |
Bradford West | |||
45,164/65,407 | 69.05 | ||
Labour Party | 24,309 | 53.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,554 | 36.65 | |
Liberal Party | 3,668 | 8.12 | |
National Front | 633 | 1.40 | |
Majority | 7,755 | 17.17 | |
19 March 1981 Edward Lyons resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
Braintree | |||
60,783/75,103 | 80.93 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,593 | 51.98 | |
Labour Party | 19,075 | 31.38 | |
Liberal Party | 10,115 | 16.64 | |
Majority | 12,518 | 20.59 | |
Brecon & Radnor | |||
47,978/56,975 | 84.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,660 | 47.23 | |
Labour Party | 19,633 | 40.92 | |
Liberal Party | 4,654 | 9.70 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,031 | 2.15 | |
Majority | 3,027 | 6.31 | |
Brent East | |||
38,154/57,034 | 66.90 | ||
Labour Party | 20,351 | 53.34 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,008 | 36.71 | |
Liberal Party | 2,799 | 7.34 | |
National Front | 706 | 1.85 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 290 | 0.76 | |
Majority | 6,343 | 16.62 | |
Brent North | |||
55,352/72,158 | 76.71 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,995 | 54.19 | |
Labour Party | 18,612 | 33.62 | |
Liberal Party | 5,872 | 10.61 | |
National Front | 873 | 1.58 | |
Majority | 11,383 | 20.56 | |
Brent South | |||
40,687/59,620 | 68.24 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 24,178 | 59.42 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,562 | 30.87 | |
Liberal Party | 2,859 | 7.03 | |
National Front | 811 | 1.99 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 277 | 0.68 | |
Majority | 11,616 | 28.55 | |
Brentford & Isleworth | |||
55,717/71,337 | 78.10 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,527 | 49.41 | |
Labour Party | 22,533 | 40.44 | |
Liberal Party | 4,208 | 7.55 | |
National Front | 738 | 1.32 | |
Ecology Party | 454 | 0.81 | |
Conservative Against the Common Market | 257 | 0.46 | |
Majority | 4,994 | 8.96 | |
Brentwood & Ongar | |||
48,177/59,759 | 80.62 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,113 | 60.43 | |
Labour Party | 12,182 | 25.29 | |
Liberal Party | 6,882 | 14.28 | |
Majority | 16,931 | 35.14 | |
Bridgwater | |||
57,861/73,040 | 79.22 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,259 | 54.02 | |
Labour Party | 16,809 | 29.05 | |
Liberal Party | 9,793 | 16.93 | |
Majority | 14,450 | 24.97 | |
Bridlington | |||
51,071/68,849 | 74.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,988 | 54.80 | |
Labour Party | 12,693 | 24.85 | |
Liberal Party | 10,390 | 20.34 | |
Majority | 15,295 | 29.95 | |
Brigg & Scunthorpe | |||
71,603/94,822 | 75.51 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,130 | 43.48 | |
Labour Party | 30,644 | 42.80 | |
Liberal Party | 7,664 | 10.70 | |
Democratic Labour | 2,042 | 2.85 | |
Independent | 123 | 0.17 | |
Majority | 486 | 0.68 | |
Cyril and Maxwell Nottingham were brothers. | |||
Brighouse & Spenborough | |||
52,440/65,415 | 80.17 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,448 | 44.71 | |
Labour Party | 21,714 | 41.41 | |
Liberal Party | 7,278 | 13.88 | |
Majority | 1,734 | 3.31 | |
Brighton Kemptown | |||
47,599/64,170 | 74.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,512 | 53.60 | |
Labour Party | 17,504 | 36.77 | |
Liberal Party | 4,179 | 8.78 | |
National Front | 404 | 0.85 | |
Majority | 8,008 | 16.82 | |
Brighton Pavilion | |||
41,356/57,003 | 72.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,218 | 53.72 | |
Labour Party | 12,099 | 29.26 | |
Liberal Party | 5,965 | 14.42 | |
Ecology Party | 638 | 1.54 | |
National Front | 436 | 1.05 | |
Majority | 10,119 | 24.47 | |
Bristol North East | |||
37,504/51,053 | 73.46 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,337 | 51.56 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,685 | 36.49 | |
Liberal Party | 3,693 | 9.85 | |
Ecology Party | 469 | 1.25 | |
National Front | 320 | 0.85 | |
Majority | 5,652 | 15.07 | |
Bristol North West | |||
53,347/65,601 | 81.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,915 | 48.58 | |
Labour Party | 21,238 | 39.81 | |
Liberal Party | 5,857 | 10.98 | |
National Front | 264 | 0.49 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 73 | 0.14 | |
Majority | 4,677 | 8.77 | |
Bristol South | |||
43,235/60,149 | 71.88 | ||
Labour Party | 25,038 | 57.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,855 | 32.05 | |
Liberal Party | 3,815 | 8.82 | |
National Front | 392 | 0.91 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 135 | 0.31 | |
Majority | 11,183 | 25.87 | |
Bristol South East | |||
54,826/69,937 | 78.39 | ||
Labour Party | 24,878 | 45.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,988 | 41.93 | |
Liberal Party | 6,371 | 11.62 | |
National Front | 523 | 0.95 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 66 | 0.12 | |
Majority | 1,890 | 3.45 | |
Bristol West | |||
42,320/59,140 | 71.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,257 | 52.59 | |
Labour Party | 9,690 | 22.90 | |
Liberal Party | 8,880 | 20.98 | |
Ecology Party | 1,154 | 2.73 | |
National Front | 246 | 0.58 | |
United Democratic Party | 93 | 0.22 | |
Majority | 12,567 | 29.70 | |
Bromsgrove & Redditch | |||
82,175/104,375 | 78.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 44,621 | 54.30 | |
Labour Party | 28,736 | 34.97 | |
Liberal Party | 8,066 | 9.82 | |
National Front | 752 | 0.92 | |
Majority | 15,885 | 19.33 | |
Buckingham | |||
81,319/103,511 | 78.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 41,719 | 51.30 | |
Labour Party | 27,752 | 34.13 | |
Liberal Party | 11,045 | 13.58 | |
National Front | 803 | 0.99 | |
Majority | 13,967 | 17.18 | |
Burnley | |||
39,677/51,050 | 77.72 | ||
Labour Party | 20,172 | 50.84 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,062 | 35.44 | |
Liberal Party | 5,091 | 12.83 | |
Independent Democrat | 352 | 0.89 | |
Majority | 6,110 | 15.40 | |
Burton | |||
55,224/70,130 | 78.75 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,821 | 54.00 | |
Labour Party | 20,020 | 36.25 | |
Liberal Party | 5,383 | 9.75 | |
Majority | 9,801 | 17.75 | |
Bury & Radcliffe | |||
64,475/79,503 | 81.10 | ||
Labour Party | 29,194 | 45.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,156 | 45.22 | |
Liberal Party | 5,711 | 8.86 | |
National Front | 414 | 0.64 | |
Majority | 38 | 0.06 | |
Bury St Edmunds | |||
72,979/95,621 | 76.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 41,426 | 56.76 | |
Labour Party | 21,167 | 29.00 | |
Liberal Party | 10,386 | 14.23 | |
Majority | 20,259 | 27.76 | |
Bute & North Ayrshire | |||
37,873/49,931 | 75.85 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,317 | 45.72 | |
Labour Party | 13,004 | 34.34 | |
Scottish National Party | 5,272 | 13.92 | |
Liberal Party | 2,280 | 6.02 | |
Majority | 4,313 | 11.39 | |
Caernarvon | |||
35,083/43,041 | 81.51 | ||
Plaid Cymru | 17,420 | 49.65 | |
Labour Party | 8,696 | 24.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,968 | 19.86 | |
Liberal Party | 1,999 | 5.70 | |
Majority | 8,724 | 24.87 | |
31 October 1981 Dafydd Wigley elected President of Plaid Cymru. | |||
Caerphilly | |||
46,424/58,908 | 78.81 | ||
Labour Party | 27,280 | 58.76 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,783 | 18.92 | |
Plaid Cymru | 6,931 | 14.93 | |
Liberal Party | 3,430 | 7.39 | |
Majority | 18,497 | 39.84 | |
22 December 1981 Ednyfed Hudson-Davies resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
Caithness & Sutherland | |||
23,174/29,564 | 78.39 | ||
Labour Party | 9,613 | 41.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,074 | 30.53 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,487 | 27.99 | |
Majority | 2,539 | 10.96 | |
2 March 1981 Robert Maclennan resigns the Labour whip to join the Social Democratic Party. | |||
Cambridge | |||
55,936/77,666 | 72.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,568 | 45.71 | |
Labour Party | 20,772 | 37.14 | |
Liberal Party | 9,285 | 16.60 | |
National Front | 311 | 0.56 | |
Majority | 4,796 | 8.57 | |
Cambridgeshire | |||
72,927/93,179 | 78.27 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 41,218 | 56.52 | |
Labour Party | 17,929 | 24.58 | |
Liberal Party | 13,780 | 18.90 | |
Majority | 23,289 | 31.93 | |
Cannock | |||
47,483/59,511 | 79.79 | ||
Labour Party | 25,050 | 52.76 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,704 | 37.28 | |
Liberal Party | 4,729 | 9.96 | |
Majority | 7,346 | 15.47 | |
Canterbury | |||
66,579/89,104 | 74.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 38,805 | 58.28 | |
Labour Party | 16,168 | 24.28 | |
Liberal Party | 10,665 | 16.02 | |
National Front | 941 | 1.41 | |
Majority | 22,637 | 34.00 | |
Cardiff North | |||
36,316/47,973 | 75.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,181 | 47.31 | |
Labour Party | 13,133 | 36.16 | |
Liberal Party | 4,921 | 13.55 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,081 | 2.98 | |
Majority | 4,048 | 11.15 | |
Cardiff North West | |||
35,163/43,639 | 80.58 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,925 | 50.98 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 11,663 | 33.17 | |
Liberal Party | 4,832 | 13.74 | |
Plaid Cymru | 743 | 2.11 | |
Majority | 6,262 | 17.81 | |
10 February 1983 Death of Michael Roberts. | |||
Cardiff South East | |||
40,288/54,556 | 73.85 | ||
Labour Party | 23,871 | 59.25 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,170 | 37.65 | |
Plaid Cymru | 628 | 1.56 | |
Independent | 375 | 0.93 | |
Independent Socialist | 132 | 0.33 | |
Communist Party | 112 | 0.28 | |
Majority | 8,701 | 21.60 | |
Raymond Aldridge sought election as a "Severnside Libertarian Association" candidate. | |||
Cardiff West | |||
31,594/51,982 | 60.78 | ||
Speaker of the House of Commons | 27,035 | 85.57 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3,272 | 10.36 | |
National Front | 1,287 | 4.07 | |
Majority | 23,763 | 75.21 | |
Cardigan | |||
37,130/45,555 | 81.51 | ||
Liberal Party | 13,227 | 35.62 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,033 | 29.71 | |
Labour Party | 7,488 | 20.17 | |
Plaid Cymru | 5,382 | 14.50 | |
Majority | 2,194 | 5.91 | |
Carlisle | |||
42,949/53,703 | 79.98 | ||
Labour Party | 21,343 | 49.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,777 | 39.06 | |
Liberal Party | 4,829 | 11.24 | |
Majority | 4,566 | 10.63 | |
Carlton | |||
60,434/76,593 | 78.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,762 | 52.56 | |
Labour Party | 18,989 | 31.42 | |
Liberal Party | 9,077 | 15.02 | |
National Front | 606 | 1.00 | |
Majority | 12,773 | 21.14 | |
Carmarthen | |||
52,089/61,714 | 84.40 | ||
Labour Party | 18,667 | 35.84 | |
Plaid Cymru | 16,689 | 32.04 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,272 | 23.56 | |
Liberal Party | 4,186 | 8.04 | |
National Front | 149 | 0.29 | |
Keep Britain United Association | 126 | 0.24 | |
Majority | 1,978 | 3.80 | |
Carshalton | |||
51,644/67,255 | 76.79 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,492 | 51.30 | |
Labour Party | 16,121 | 31.22 | |
Liberal Party | 8,112 | 15.71 | |
National Front | 919 | 1.78 | |
Majority | 10,371 | 20.08 | |
Central Ayrshire | |||
53,664/67,288 | 79.75 | ||
Labour Party | 27,438 | 51.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,734 | 29.32 | |
Scottish National Party | 5,596 | 10.43 | |
Liberal Party | 4,896 | 9.12 | |
Majority | 11,704 | 21.81 | |
Central Dunbartonshire | |||
39,510/49,381 | 80.01 | ||
Labour Party | 20,515 | 51.92 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,512 | 21.54 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,055 | 15.33 | |
Liberal Party | 3,099 | 7.84 | |
Communist Party | 1,017 | 2.57 | |
CD | 312 | 0.79 | |
Majority | 12,003 | 30.38 | |
Central Fife | |||
47,596/61,476 | 77.42 | ||
Labour Party | 27,619 | 58.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,597 | 20.16 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,208 | 19.35 | |
Communist Party | 1,172 | 2.46 | |
Majority | 18,022 | 37.86 | |
Cheadle | |||
55,090/67,362 | 81.78 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,407 | 58.83 | |
Liberal Party | 15,268 | 27.71 | |
Labour Party | 7,415 | 13.46 | |
Majority | 17,139 | 31.11 | |
Chelmsford | |||
68,186/84,155 | 81.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,808 | 49.58 | |
Liberal Party | 28,337 | 41.56 | |
Labour Party | 6,041 | 8.86 | |
Majority | 5,471 | 8.02 | |
Chelsea | |||
32,955/57,515 | 57.30 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,782 | 66.10 | |
Labour Party | 6,092 | 18.49 | |
Liberal Party | 4,544 | 13.79 | |
National Front | 342 | 1.04 | |
CSD | 146 | 0.44 | |
Independent | 49 | 0.15 | |
Majority | 15,690 | 47.61 | |
Miss Amanda Fielding sought election as Independent - Trepanation for the National Health. | |||
Cheltenham | |||
50,225/64,726 | 77.60 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,618 | 51.01 | |
Liberal Party | 15,080 | 30.02 | |
Labour Party | 9,185 | 18.29 | |
National Front | 342 | 0.68 | |
Majority | 10,538 | 20.98 | |
Chertsey & Walton | |||
52,626/68,749 | 76.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,810 | 49.04 | |
Liberal Party | 13,786 | 26.20 | |
Labour Party | 12,211 | 23.20 | |
National Front | 819 | 1.56 | |
Majority | 12,024 | 22.85 | |
Chesham & Amersham | |||
53,594/67,224 | 79.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,924 | 61.43 | |
Liberal Party | 12,328 | 23.00 | |
Labour Party | 7,645 | 14.26 | |
National Front | 697 | 1.30 | |
Majority | 20,596 | 38.43 | |
Chester-le-Street | |||
64,031/83,415 | 76.76 | ||
Labour Party | 38,672 | 60.40 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,112 | 25.16 | |
Liberal Party | 9,247 | 14.44 | |
Majority | 22,560 | 35.23 | |
Chesterfield | |||
54,111/73,738 | 73.38 | ||
Labour Party | 31,049 | 57.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,445 | 32.24 | |
Liberal Party | 5,617 | 10.38 | |
Majority | 13,604 | 25.14 | |
Chichester | |||
55,703/73,720 | 75.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,696 | 62.29 | |
Liberal Party | 10,920 | 19.60 | |
Labour Party | 8,569 | 15.38 | |
United Country Party | 862 | 1.55 | |
Ecology Party | 656 | 1.18 | |
Majority | 23,776 | 42.68 | |
Chingford | |||
43,928/56,061 | 78.36 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,640 | 56.09 | |
Labour Party | 12,257 | 27.90 | |
Liberal Party | 5,225 | 11.89 | |
National Front | 1,157 | 2.63 | |
Ecology Party | 649 | 1.48 | |
Majority | 12,383 | 28.19 | |
Chippenham | |||
59,586/74,519 | 79.96 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,308 | 49.19 | |
Liberal Party | 24,611 | 41.30 | |
Labour Party | 5,146 | 8.64 | |
Ecology Party | 521 | 0.87 | |
Majority | 4,697 | 7.88 | |
Chipping Barnet | |||
44,033/58,254 | 75.59 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,154 | 57.13 | |
Labour Party | 11,147 | 25.32 | |
Liberal Party | 6,867 | 15.60 | |
National Front | 865 | 1.96 | |
Majority | 14,007 | 31.81 | |
Chislehurst | |||
42,652/54,024 | 78.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,259 | 54.53 | |
Labour Party | 13,494 | 31.64 | |
Liberal Party | 5,335 | 12.51 | |
National Front | 564 | 1.32 | |
Majority | 9,765 | 22.89 | |
Chorley | |||
66,438/81,016 | 82.01 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,125 | 46.85 | |
Labour Party | 28,546 | 42.97 | |
Liberal Party | 6,388 | 9.61 | |
National Front | 379 | 0.57 | |
Majority | 2,579 | 3.88 | |
Christchurch & Lymington | |||
45,168/58,182 | 77.63 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,817 | 66.01 | |
Liberal Party | 7,654 | 16.95 | |
Labour Party | 6,722 | 14.88 | |
Ecology Party | 975 | 2.16 | |
Majority | 22,163 | 49.07 | |
Cirencester & Tewkesbury | |||
67,283/85,444 | 78.75 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,651 | 55.96 | |
Liberal Party | 18,057 | 26.84 | |
Labour Party | 11,575 | 17.20 | |
Majority | 19,594 | 29.12 | |
City of Chester | |||
55,925/72,027 | 77.64 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,764 | 51.43 | |
Labour Party | 19,450 | 34.78 | |
Liberal Party | 7,711 | 13.79 | |
Majority | 9,314 | 16.65 | |
City of London & Westminster South | |||
28,041/50,357 | 55.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,851 | 60.09 | |
Labour Party | 7,067 | 25.20 | |
Liberal Party | 3,375 | 12.04 | |
National Front | 748 | 2.67 | |
Majority | 9,784 | 34.89 | |
Clackmannan & East Stirlingshire | |||
54,354/66,535 | 81.69 | ||
Labour Party | 22,780 | 41.91 | |
Scottish National Party | 21,796 | 40.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,778 | 17.99 | |
Majority | 984 | 1.81 | |
Cleveland & Whitby | |||
52,370/65,488 | 79.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,735 | 51.05 | |
Labour Party | 19,818 | 37.84 | |
Liberal Party | 5,817 | 11.11 | |
Majority | 6,917 | 13.21 | |
Clitheroe | |||
43,945/54,468 | 80.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,081 | 57.07 | |
Labour Party | 13,502 | 30.72 | |
Liberal Party | 5,362 | 12.20 | |
Majority | 11,579 | 26.35 | |
Coatbridge & Airdrie | |||
45,300/60,133 | 75.33 | ||
Labour Party | 27,598 | 60.92 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,442 | 27.47 | |
Scottish National Party | 5,260 | 11.61 | |
Majority | 15,156 | 33.46 | |
12 May 1982 Death of James Dempsey. | |||
24 June 1982 | 34,851/61,876 | 56.32 | |
Labour Party | 19,208 | 55.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,118 | 26.16 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,652 | 10.48 | |
Liberal Party in Alliance | 2,873 | 8.24 | |
Majority | 10,090 | 28.95 | |
Colchester | |||
69,411/90,589 | 76.62 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,740 | 52.93 | |
Labour Party | 22,877 | 32.96 | |
Liberal Party | 9,794 | 14.11 | |
Majority | 13,863 | 19.97 | |
Colne Valley | |||
52,501/64,139 | 81.86 | ||
Liberal Party | 20,151 | 38.38 | |
Labour Party | 17,799 | 33.90 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,450 | 27.52 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 101 | 0.19 | |
Majority | 2,352 | 4.48 | |
Consett | |||
43,597/57,547 | 75.76 | ||
Labour Party | 26,708 | 61.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,841 | 24.87 | |
Liberal Party | 6,048 | 13.87 | |
Majority | 15,867 | 36.39 | |
Conway | |||
40,575/51,350 | 79.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,142 | 44.71 | |
Labour Party | 12,069 | 29.74 | |
Liberal Party | 6,867 | 16.92 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3,497 | 8.62 | |
Majority | 6,073 | 14.97 | |
Coventry North East | |||
47,103/64,806 | 72.68 | ||
Labour Party | 27,010 | 57.34 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,487 | 35.00 | |
Liberal Party | 2,291 | 4.86 | |
National Front | 547 | 1.16 | |
Communist Party | 390 | 0.83 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 378 | 0.80 | |
Majority | 10,523 | 22.34 | |
Coventry North West | |||
38,819/49,008 | 79.21 | ||
Labour Party | 19,460 | 50.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,489 | 39.90 | |
Liberal Party | 3,413 | 8.79 | |
National Front | 359 | 0.92 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 98 | 0.25 | |
Majority | 3,971 | 10.23 | |
Coventry South East | |||
35,603/50,961 | 69.86 | ||
Labour Party | 19,583 | 55.00 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,097 | 33.98 | |
Liberal Party | 2,984 | 8.38 | |
National Front | 513 | 1.44 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 426 | 1.20 | |
Majority | 7,486 | 21.03 | |
Coventry South West | |||
56,684/69,552 | 81.50 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,928 | 49.27 | |
Labour Party | 22,274 | 39.30 | |
Liberal Party | 5,921 | 10.45 | |
National Front | 482 | 0.85 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 79 | 0.14 | |
Majority | 5,654 | 9.97 | |
Crewe | |||
46,121/59,530 | 77.48 | ||
Labour Party | 22,288 | 48.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,051 | 39.14 | |
Liberal Party | 5,430 | 11.77 | |
National Front | 352 | 0.76 | |
Majority | 4,237 | 9.19 | |
Crosby | |||
61,055/81,208 | 75.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,768 | 56.95 | |
Labour Party | 15,496 | 25.38 | |
Liberal Party | 9,302 | 15.24 | |
Ecology Party | 1,489 | 2.44 | |
Majority | 19,272 | 31.56 | |
1 October 1981 Death of Rt Hon Sir Graham Page. | |||
26 November 1981 | 57,297/82,687 | 69.29 | |
Social Democratic Party in Alliance | 28,118 | 49.07 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,829 | 39.84 | |
Labour Party | 5,450 | 9.51 | |
Ecology Party | 480 | 0.84 | |
Independent | 223 | 0.39 | |
Independent | 99 | 0.17 | |
Independent | 36 | 0.06 | |
Independent | 31 | 0.05 | |
Independent | 31 | 0.05 | |
Majority | 5,289 | 9.23 | |
Thomas Keen sought election as a Conservative/Liberal Alliance. | |||
Donald Potter sought election as a Humanitarian candidate. | |||
Tarquin Stop-F'Tang-F'Tang-Ole-Biscuit-Barrel changed his name by deed poll from John Desmond Lewis, who was president of the Cambridge University Raving Loony Society. The name change was an attempt to have the longest name on a ballot paper. | |||
Croydon Central | |||
50,422/66,629 | 75.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,457 | 52.47 | |
Labour Party | 18,499 | 36.69 | |
Liberal Party | 5,112 | 10.14 | |
Independent Conservative | 238 | 0.47 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 116 | 0.23 | |
Majority | 7,958 | 15.78 | |
Michael Soper advocated the re-introduction of capital punishment. | |||
Croydon North East | |||
42,267/57,022 | 74.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,560 | 51.01 | |
Labour Party | 14,784 | 34.98 | |
Liberal Party | 5,459 | 12.92 | |
National Front | 464 | 1.10 | |
Majority | 6,776 | 16.03 | |
Croydon North West | |||
40,326/55,608 | 72.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,928 | 49.42 | |
Labour Party | 16,159 | 40.07 | |
Liberal Party | 4,239 | 10.51 | |
Majority | 3,769 | 9.35 | |
18 June 1981 Death of Robert Taylor. | |||
22 October 1981 | 34,542/55,009 | 62.79 | |
Liberal Party in Alliance | 13,800 | 39.95 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,546 | 30.53 | |
Labour Party | 8,967 | 25.96 | |
National Front | 429 | 1.24 | |
Independent | 340 | 0.98 | |
Ecology Party | 155 | 0.45 | |
Independent | 111 | 0.32 | |
Independent | 81 | 0.23 | |
Independent | 51 | 0.15 | |
Independent | 31 | 0.09 | |
Independent | 20 | 0.06 | |
Anti-Common Market and Free Trade Party | 11 | 0.03 | |
Majority | 3,254 | 9.42 | |
Josef Joseph was the nominee of the London Federation of the Self-Employed. | |||
George Major sought election on a policy advocating reforms in family law. | |||
Lawrence Brooks sought election on a policy of support for the disabled. | |||
Susan McKenzie was the nominee of the Constitutional Movement, which was opposed to a multi-racial society. | |||
Marilyn Gillies-Carr sought election as Independant Pro-Life. | |||
Croydon South | |||
47,598/62,022 | 76.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,874 | 64.86 | |
Liberal Party | 10,006 | 21.02 | |
Labour Party | 6,249 | 13.13 | |
National Front | 469 | 0.99 | |
Majority | 20,868 | 43.84 | |
Dagenham | |||
46,996/67,990 | 69.12 | ||
Labour Party | 24,707 | 52.57 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,600 | 31.07 | |
Liberal Party | 5,583 | 11.88 | |
National Front | 1,553 | 3.30 | |
Communist Party | 553 | 1.18 | |
Majority | 10,107 | 21.51 | |
Darlington | |||
49,576/63,218 | 78.42 | ||
Labour Party | 22,565 | 45.52 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,513 | 43.39 | |
Liberal Party | 5,054 | 10.19 | |
National Front | 444 | 0.90 | |
Majority | 1,052 | 2.12 | |
13 February 1983 Death of Edward Fletcher. | |||
24 March 1983 | 52,001/64,969 | 80.04 | |
Labour Party | 20,544 | 39.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,132 | 34.87 | |
Social Democratic Party in Alliance | 12,735 | 24.49 | |
Monster Raving Loony Party | 374 | 0.72 | |
Independent | 164 | 0.32 | |
Independent | 27 | 0.05 | |
Independent | 15 | 0.03 | |
Republican | 10 | 0.02 | |
Majority | 2,412 | 4.64 | |
Dartford | |||
46,292/57,507 | 80.50 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,195 | 45.79 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,874 | 42.93 | |
Liberal Party | 4,417 | 9.54 | |
National Front | 478 | 1.03 | |
Fancy Dress | 328 | 0.71 | |
Majority | 1,321 | 2.85 | |
Darwen | |||
58,480/75,008 | 77.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,789 | 52.65 | |
Labour Party | 17,763 | 30.37 | |
Liberal Party | 9,928 | 16.98 | |
Majority | 13,026 | 22.27 | |
Daventry | |||
73,169/90,892 | 80.50 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 41,422 | 56.61 | |
Labour Party | 19,939 | 27.25 | |
Liberal Party | 11,286 | 15.42 | |
National Front | 522 | 0.71 | |
Majority | 21,483 | 29.36 | |
Dearne Valley | |||
46,183/64,183 | 71.96 | ||
Labour Party | 31,783 | 68.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,048 | 19.59 | |
Liberal Party | 5,352 | 11.59 | |
Majority | 22,735 | 49.23 | |
Denbigh | |||
52,757/65,902 | 80.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,683 | 44.89 | |
Liberal Party | 14,883 | 28.21 | |
Labour Party | 9,276 | 17.58 | |
Plaid Cymru | 4,915 | 9.32 | |
Majority | 8,800 | 16.68 | |
Deptford | |||
35,765/56,096 | 63.76 | ||
Labour Party | 19,391 | 54.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,638 | 32.54 | |
Liberal Party | 2,774 | 7.76 | |
National Front | 1,490 | 4.17 | |
Socialist Unity | 274 | 0.77 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 198 | 0.55 | |
Majority | 7,753 | 21.68 | |
Derby North | |||
64,181/83,580 | 76.79 | ||
Labour Party | 28,797 | 44.87 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,583 | 44.53 | |
Liberal Party | 6,093 | 9.49 | |
National Front | 592 | 0.92 | |
United English Nationalist Party | 116 | 0.18 | |
Majority | 214 | 0.33 | |
Derby South | |||
53,849/75,422 | 71.40 | ||
Labour Party | 26,945 | 50.04 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,853 | 38.72 | |
Liberal Party | 5,196 | 9.65 | |
National Front | 587 | 1.09 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 146 | 0.27 | |
United English Nationalist Party | 122 | 0.23 | |
Majority | 6,092 | 11.31 | |
Devizes | |||
63,704/80,028 | 79.60 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,439 | 50.92 | |
Labour Party | 16,351 | 25.67 | |
Liberal Party | 14,059 | 22.07 | |
Ecology Party | 713 | 1.12 | |
Wessex Regiment | 142 | 0.22 | |
Majority | 16,088 | 25.25 | |
Dewsbury | |||
48,857/63,379 | 77.09 | ||
Labour Party | 22,829 | 46.73 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,448 | 37.76 | |
Liberal Party | 7,580 | 15.51 | |
Majority | 4,381 | 8.97 | |
7 October 1981 David Ginsburg resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
Don Valley | |||
71,202/95,287 | 74.72 | ||
Labour Party | 39,603 | 55.62 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,243 | 31.24 | |
Liberal Party | 8,238 | 11.57 | |
Workers Party | 720 | 1.01 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 398 | 0.56 | |
Majority | 17,360 | 24.38 | |
Doncaster | |||
45,338/60,487 | 74.95 | ||
Labour Party | 22,184 | 48.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,208 | 42.37 | |
Liberal Party | 3,646 | 8.04 | |
National Front | 300 | 0.66 | |
Majority | 2,976 | 6.56 | |
Dorking | |||
47,213/60,630 | 77.87 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,003 | 61.43 | |
Liberal Party | 9,240 | 19.57 | |
Labour Party | 8,970 | 19.00 | |
Majority | 19,763 | 41.86 | |
Dover & Deal | |||
61,196/75,883 | 80.65 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,606 | 50.01 | |
Labour Party | 22,664 | 37.04 | |
Liberal Party | 6,906 | 11.29 | |
Silly | 642 | 1.05 | |
National Front | 378 | 0.62 | |
Majority | 7,942 | 12.98 | |
Dudley East | |||
41,838/59,661 | 70.13 | ||
Labour Party | 22,521 | 53.83 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,834 | 35.46 | |
Liberal Party | 3,639 | 8.70 | |
National Front | 844 | 2.02 | |
Majority | 7,687 | 18.37 | |
Dudley West | |||
59,177/77,525 | 76.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,158 | 50.96 | |
Labour Party | 29,019 | 49.04 | |
Majority | 1,139 | 1.92 | |
Dulwich | |||
43,139/61,259 | 70.42 | ||
Labour Party | 18,557 | 43.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,435 | 42.73 | |
Liberal Party | 4,759 | 11.03 | |
National Front | 920 | 2.13 | |
Ecology Party | 468 | 1.08 | |
Majority | 122 | 0.28 | |
Dumfries | |||
50,220/64,311 | 78.09 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,704 | 45.21 | |
Labour Party | 13,700 | 27.28 | |
Liberal Party | 7,169 | 14.28 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,647 | 13.24 | |
Majority | 9,004 | 17.93 | |
Dundee East | |||
49,959/64,330 | 77.66 | ||
Scottish National Party | 20,497 | 41.03 | |
Labour Party | 17,978 | 35.99 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,072 | 18.16 | |
Liberal Party | 2,317 | 4.64 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 95 | 0.19 | |
Majority | 2,519 | 5.04 | |
15 September 1979 Gordon Wilson elected National Convenor of the SNP. | |||
Dundee West | |||
50,059/63,883 | 78.36 | ||
Labour Party | 23,654 | 47.25 | |
Scottish National Party | 13,197 | 26.36 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,892 | 25.75 | |
Communist Party | 316 | 0.63 | |
Majority | 10,457 | 20.89 | |
Dunfermline | |||
51,447/64,868 | 79.31 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 22,803 | 44.32 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,490 | 30.11 | |
Scottish National Party | 7,351 | 14.29 | |
Liberal Party | 5,803 | 11.28 | |
Majority | 7,313 | 14.21 | |
Durham | |||
59,141/77,463 | 76.35 | ||
Labour Party | 30,903 | 52.25 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,666 | 33.25 | |
Liberal Party | 8,572 | 14.49 | |
Majority | 11,237 | 19.00 | |
Ealing Acton | |||
40,607/56,875 | 71.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,056 | 51.85 | |
Labour Party | 15,258 | 37.57 | |
Liberal Party | 3,549 | 8.74 | |
National Front | 501 | 1.23 | |
INP | 243 | 0.60 | |
Majority | 5,798 | 14.28 | |
Ealing North | |||
59,777/76,805 | 77.83 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,524 | 46.04 | |
Labour Party | 26,044 | 43.57 | |
Liberal Party | 5,162 | 8.64 | |
National Front | 1,047 | 1.75 | |
Majority | 1,480 | 2.48 | |
Ealing Southall | |||
52,412/73,146 | 71.65 | ||
Labour Party | 28,498 | 54.37 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,220 | 32.86 | |
Liberal Party | 3,920 | 7.48 | |
National Front | 1,545 | 2.95 | |
Independent | 637 | 1.22 | |
Socialist Unity | 477 | 0.91 | |
Independent | 115 | 0.22 | |
Majority | 11,278 | 21.52 | |
Easington | |||
48,497/65,242 | 74.33 | ||
Labour Party | 29,537 | 60.90 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,981 | 24.70 | |
Liberal Party | 6,979 | 14.39 | |
Majority | 17,556 | 36.20 | |
East Aberdeenshire | |||
39,297/54,292 | 72.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,827 | 42.82 | |
Scottish National Party | 16,269 | 41.40 | |
Labour Party | 6,201 | 15.78 | |
Majority | 558 | 1.42 | |
East Dunbartonshire | |||
61,466/73,261 | 83.90 | ||
Labour Party | 23,268 | 37.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,944 | 34.07 | |
Scottish National Party | 12,654 | 20.59 | |
Liberal Party | 4,600 | 7.48 | |
Majority | 2,324 | 3.78 | |
East Fife | |||
46,830/59,297 | 78.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,117 | 42.96 | |
Liberal Party | 10,762 | 22.98 | |
Labour Party | 9,339 | 19.94 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,612 | 14.12 | |
Majority | 9,355 | 19.98 | |
East Flint | |||
60,696/74,262 | 81.73 | ||
Labour Party | 29,339 | 48.34 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,116 | 38.08 | |
Liberal Party | 6,736 | 11.10 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,198 | 1.97 | |
Communist Party | 307 | 0.51 | |
Majority | 6,223 | 10.25 | |
East Grinstead | |||
45,577/59,124 | 77.09 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,279 | 62.05 | |
Liberal Party | 11,102 | 24.36 | |
Labour Party | 6,196 | 13.59 | |
Majority | 17,177 | 37.69 | |
East Hertfordshire | |||
74,950/96,327 | 77.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 41,599 | 55.50 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 20,139 | 26.87 | |
Liberal Party | 11,393 | 15.20 | |
National Front | 1,819 | 2.43 | |
Majority | 21,460 | 28.63 | |
East Kilbride | |||
58,277/73,094 | 79.73 | ||
Labour Party | 31,401 | 53.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,128 | 29.39 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,090 | 15.60 | |
Communist Party | 658 | 1.13 | |
Majority | 14,273 | 24.49 | |
East Renfrewshire | |||
51,937/64,456 | 80.58 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,910 | 49.89 | |
Labour Party | 12,672 | 24.40 | |
Liberal Party | 9,366 | 18.03 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,989 | 7.68 | |
Majority | 13,238 | 25.49 | |
East Surrey | |||
44,982/57,364 | 78.42 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,266 | 62.84 | |
Liberal Party | 8,866 | 19.71 | |
Labour Party | 7,398 | 16.45 | |
National Front | 452 | 1.00 | |
Majority | 19,400 | 43.13 | |
Eastbourne | |||
58,951/76,880 | 76.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,168 | 63.05 | |
Liberal Party | 11,084 | 18.80 | |
Labour Party | 10,166 | 17.24 | |
National Front | 533 | 0.90 | |
Majority | 26,084 | 44.25 | |
Eastleigh | |||
68,881/85,400 | 80.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 38,516 | 55.92 | |
Labour Party | 18,222 | 26.45 | |
Liberal Party | 12,143 | 17.63 | |
Majority | 20,294 | 29.46 | |
Ebbw Vale | |||
28,931/36,207 | 79.90 | ||
Labour Party | 20,028 | 69.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,937 | 13.61 | |
Liberal Party | 3,082 | 10.65 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,884 | 6.51 | |
Majority | 16,091 | 55.62 | |
3 November 1980 Rt Hon Michael Foot elected Leader of the Labour Party. | |||
Eccles | |||
45,317/58,496 | 77.47 | ||
Labour Party | 24,280 | 53.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,221 | 35.79 | |
Liberal Party | 4,448 | 9.82 | |
Communist Party | 368 | 0.81 | |
Majority | 8,059 | 17.78 | |
Edinburgh Central | |||
25,479/37,740 | 67.51 | ||
Labour Party | 12,191 | 47.85 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,530 | 29.55 | |
Liberal Party | 3,096 | 12.15 | |
Scottish National Party | 2,486 | 9.76 | |
Scottish Labour | 176 | 0.69 | |
Majority | 4,661 | 18.29 | |
Edinburgh East | |||
43,730/57,473 | 76.09 | ||
Labour Party | 23,477 | 53.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,660 | 33.52 | |
Scottish National Party | 5,296 | 12.11 | |
Communist Party | 173 | 0.40 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 124 | 0.28 | |
Majority | 8,817 | 20.16 | |
Edinburgh Leith | |||
27,993/37,204 | 75.24 | ||
Labour Party | 12,961 | 46.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,944 | 31.95 | |
Liberal Party | 3,382 | 12.08 | |
Scottish National Party | 2,706 | 9.67 | |
Majority | 4,017 | 14.35 | |
Edinburgh North | |||
32,509/45,303 | 71.76 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,170 | 43.59 | |
Labour Party | 9,773 | 30.06 | |
Liberal Party | 5,045 | 15.52 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,521 | 10.83 | |
Majority | 4,397 | 13.53 | |
Edinburgh Pentlands | |||
45,023/58,652 | 76.76 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,684 | 39.28 | |
Labour Party | 16,486 | 36.62 | |
Liberal Party | 5,919 | 13.15 | |
Scottish National Party | 4,934 | 10.96 | |
Majority | 1,198 | 2.66 | |
Edinburgh South | |||
45,264/58,556 | 77.30 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,986 | 39.74 | |
Labour Party | 15,526 | 34.30 | |
Liberal Party | 7,400 | 16.35 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,800 | 8.40 | |
Ecology Party | 552 | 1.22 | |
Majority | 2,460 | 5.43 | |
Edinburgh West | |||
42,603/54,727 | 77.85 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,360 | 45.44 | |
Labour Party | 12,009 | 28.19 | |
Liberal Party | 7,330 | 17.21 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,904 | 9.16 | |
Majority | 7,351 | 17.25 | |
Edmonton | |||
43,935/58,860 | 74.64 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 20,713 | 47.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,733 | 42.64 | |
Liberal Party | 3,276 | 7.46 | |
National Front | 1,213 | 2.76 | |
Majority | 1,980 | 4.51 | |
Enfield North | |||
51,868/66,427 | 78.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,927 | 48.06 | |
Labour Party | 21,444 | 41.34 | |
Liberal Party | 4,681 | 9.02 | |
National Front | 816 | 1.57 | |
Majority | 3,483 | 6.72 | |
Enfield Southgate | |||
51,365/67,355 | 76.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,663 | 61.64 | |
Labour Party | 11,584 | 22.55 | |
Liberal Party | 7,223 | 14.06 | |
National Front | 895 | 1.74 | |
Majority | 20,079 | 39.09 | |
Epping Forest | |||
51,079/66,723 | 76.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,447 | 57.65 | |
Labour Party | 13,994 | 27.40 | |
Liberal Party | 6,528 | 12.78 | |
National Front | 1,110 | 2.17 | |
Majority | 15,453 | 30.25 | |
Epsom & Ewell | |||
63,165/82,126 | 76.91 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 39,104 | 61.91 | |
Liberal Party | 12,746 | 20.18 | |
Labour Party | 11,315 | 17.91 | |
Majority | 26,358 | 41.73 | |
Erith & Crayford | |||
47,570/61,350 | 77.54 | ||
Labour Party | 22,450 | 47.19 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,770 | 41.56 | |
Liberal Party | 4,512 | 9.48 | |
National Front | 838 | 1.76 | |
Majority | 2,680 | 5.63 | |
3 July 1981 James Wellbeloved resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
Esher | |||
37,097/47,860 | 77.51 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,152 | 65.10 | |
Liberal Party | 7,311 | 19.71 | |
Labour Party | 5,634 | 15.19 | |
Majority | 16,841 | 45.40 | |
Eton & Slough | |||
48,636/64,916 | 74.92 | ||
Labour Party | 20,710 | 42.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,370 | 39.83 | |
Liberal Party | 5,254 | 10.80 | |
Independent Conservative | 2,359 | 4.85 | |
National Front | 943 | 1.94 | |
Majority | 1,340 | 2.76 | |
Exeter | |||
56,128/68,825 | 81.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,173 | 48.41 | |
Labour Party | 19,146 | 34.11 | |
Liberal Party | 8,756 | 15.60 | |
Ecology Party | 1,053 | 1.88 | |
Majority | 8,027 | 14.30 | |
Eye | |||
55,244/69,843 | 79.10 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,707 | 51.96 | |
Labour Party | 13,686 | 24.77 | |
Liberal Party | 12,259 | 22.19 | |
Independent | 324 | 0.59 | |
Anti-Common Market Conservative | 268 | 0.49 | |
Majority | 15,021 | 27.19 | |
Falmouth & Camborne | |||
53,852/69,705 | 77.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,523 | 56.68 | |
Labour Party | 13,923 | 25.85 | |
Liberal Party | 7,489 | 13.91 | |
Mebyon Kernow | 1,637 | 3.04 | |
National Front | 280 | 0.52 | |
Majority | 16,600 | 30.83 | |
Fareham | |||
48,708/61,612 | 79.06 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,730 | 58.98 | |
Liberal Party | 11,685 | 23.99 | |
Labour Party | 8,041 | 16.51 | |
National Front | 252 | 0.52 | |
Majority | 17,045 | 34.99 | |
Farnham | |||
51,656/66,607 | 77.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,127 | 58.32 | |
Liberal Party | 13,658 | 26.44 | |
Labour Party | 7,497 | 14.51 | |
Protest | 204 | 0.39 | |
United Country Party | 170 | 0.33 | |
Majority | 16,469 | 31.88 | |
Farnworth | |||
55,866/71,844 | 77.76 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 27,965 | 50.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,858 | 35.55 | |
Liberal Party | 8,043 | 14.40 | |
Majority | 8,107 | 14.51 | |
2 March 1981 John Roper resigns the Labour whip to join the Social Democratic Party. | |||
Faversham | |||
61,652/78,509 | 78.53 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,513 | 54.36 | |
Labour Party | 21,351 | 34.63 | |
Liberal Party | 6,349 | 10.30 | |
National Front | 439 | 0.71 | |
Majority | 12,162 | 19.73 | |
Feltham & Heston | |||
59,362/79,873 | 74.32 | ||
Labour Party | 28,675 | 48.31 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,570 | 41.39 | |
Liberal Party | 5,051 | 8.51 | |
National Front | 898 | 1.51 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 168 | 0.28 | |
Majority | 4,105 | 6.92 | |
Fermanagh & South Tyrone | |||
62,171/71,481 | 86.98 | ||
Independent Republican | 22,398 | 36.03 | |
Official Unionist Party | 17,411 | 28.01 | |
Independent Social Democratic Labour | 10,685 | 17.19 | |
UUU | 10,607 | 17.06 | |
Alliance Party | 1,070 | 1.72 | |
Majority | 4,987 | 8.02 | |
5 March 1981 Death of Frank Maguire. | |||
9 April 1981 | 59,538/72,283 | 82.37 | |
Anti-H | 30,492 | 51.21 | |
Ulster Unionist | 29,046 | 48.79 | |
Majority | 1,446 | 2.43 | |
5 May 1981 Death of Bobby Sands. | |||
20 August 1981 | 63,727/72,834 | 87.50 | |
Anti-H | 31,278 | 49.08 | |
Ulster Unionist | 29,048 | 45.58 | |
Alliance Party | 1,930 | 3.03 | |
Republican Clubs | 1,132 | 1.78 | |
Peace Lover | 249 | 0.39 | |
General Amnesty | 90 | 0.14 | |
Majority | 2,230 | 3.50 | |
Finchley | |||
39,832/55,468 | 71.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,918 | 52.52 | |
Labour Party | 13,040 | 32.74 | |
Liberal Party | 5,254 | 13.19 | |
National Front | 534 | 1.34 | |
Independent Democrat | 86 | 0.22 | |
Majority | 7,878 | 19.78 | |
Folkestone & Hythe | |||
48,147/66,297 | 72.62 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,837 | 55.74 | |
Liberal Party | 10,817 | 22.47 | |
Labour Party | 10,015 | 20.80 | |
National Front | 478 | 0.99 | |
Majority | 16,020 | 33.27 | |
Fulham | |||
43,380/57,018 | 76.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,249 | 46.68 | |
Labour Party | 18,750 | 43.22 | |
Liberal Party | 3,882 | 8.95 | |
National Front | 499 | 1.15 | |
Majority | 1,499 | 3.46 | |
Gainsborough | |||
51,830/65,654 | 78.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,040 | 46.38 | |
Liberal Party | 16,885 | 32.58 | |
Labour Party | 10,335 | 19.94 | |
Independent Conservative | 570 | 1.10 | |
Majority | 7,155 | 13.80 | |
Galloway | |||
33,383/41,110 | 81.20 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,306 | 45.85 | |
Scottish National Party | 12,384 | 37.10 | |
Liberal Party | 2,852 | 8.54 | |
Labour Party | 2,841 | 8.51 | |
Majority | 2,922 | 8.75 | |
Gateshead East | |||
47,055/62,475 | 75.32 | ||
Labour Party | 28,776 | 61.15 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,078 | 29.92 | |
Liberal Party | 4,201 | 8.93 | |
Majority | 14,698 | 31.24 | |
Gateshead West | |||
20,125/29,037 | 69.31 | ||
Labour Party | 13,533 | 67.24 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,221 | 25.94 | |
Liberal Party | 1,185 | 5.89 | |
National Front | 186 | 0.92 | |
Majority | 8,312 | 41.30 | |
2 March 1981 John Horam resigns the Labour whip to join the Social Democratic Party. | |||
Gillingham | |||
50,423/63,951 | 78.85 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,791 | 53.13 | |
Labour Party | 16,292 | 32.31 | |
Liberal Party | 6,219 | 12.33 | |
National Front | 528 | 1.05 | |
Ecology Party | 501 | 0.99 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 92 | 0.18 | |
Majority | 10,499 | 20.82 | |
Glasgow Cathcart | |||
38,195/48,574 | 78.63 | ||
Labour Party | 17,550 | 45.95 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,950 | 41.76 | |
Scottish National Party | 2,653 | 6.95 | |
Liberal Party | 2,042 | 5.35 | |
Majority | 1,600 | 4.19 | |
Glasgow Central | |||
11,788/19,826 | 59.46 | ||
Labour Party | 8,542 | 72.46 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 1,937 | 16.43 | |
Scottish National Party | 1,309 | 11.10 | |
Majority | 6,605 | 56.03 | |
30 April 1980 Death of Thomas McMillan. | |||
26 June 1980 | 8,068/19,984 | 40.37 | |
Labour Party | 4,902 | 60.76 | |
Scottish National Party | 2,122 | 26.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 707 | 8.76 | |
Ind NF | 148 | 1.83 | |
Independent Liberal | 134 | 1.66 | |
Ecology Party | 45 | 0.56 | |
Independent | 10 | 0.12 | |
Majority | 2,780 | 34.46 | |
Donald Kean sought election as a candidate of a Social Democratic Party he had founded in Manchester in July 1979. | |||
John MacKenzie's candidature was repudiated by the National Front. | |||
Glasgow Craigton | |||
33,313/44,326 | 75.15 | ||
Labour Party | 19,952 | 59.89 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,480 | 28.46 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,881 | 11.65 | |
Majority | 10,472 | 31.44 | |
Glasgow Garscadden | |||
38,370/52,440 | 73.17 | ||
Labour Party | 23,591 | 61.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,393 | 21.87 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,012 | 15.67 | |
Communist Party | 374 | 0.97 | |
Majority | 15,198 | 39.61 | |
Glasgow Govan | |||
17,204/24,894 | 69.11 | ||
Labour Party | 11,676 | 67.87 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,188 | 18.53 | |
Scottish National Party | 2,340 | 13.60 | |
Majority | 8,488 | 49.34 | |
Glasgow Hillhead | |||
30,133/39,793 | 75.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,368 | 41.04 | |
Labour Party | 10,366 | 34.40 | |
Liberal Party | 4,349 | 14.43 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,050 | 10.12 | |
Majority | 2,002 | 6.64 | |
2 January 1982 Death of Hon Sir Thomas Galbraith. | |||
25 March 1982 | 30,289/39,626 | 76.44 | |
Social Democratic Party in Alliance | 10,106 | 33.37 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,068 | 26.64 | |
Labour Party | 7,846 | 25.90 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,416 | 11.28 | |
Independent | 388 | 1.28 | |
Independent | 282 | 0.93 | |
Ecology Party | 178 | 0.59 | |
Independent | 5 | 0.02 | |
Majority | 2,038 | 6.73 | |
Rev Jack Glass sought election for the "Protestant Crusade against the Papal Visit". | |||
Roy Jenkins (Ind) had changed his name from Douglas Parkin, and was nominated by the Social Democratic Party founded by Kean in Manchester in July 1979. | |||
2 July 1982 Rt Hon Roy Jenkins elected leader of the SDP. | |||
Glasgow Kelvingrove | |||
22,118/33,701 | 65.63 | ||
Labour Party | 11,133 | 50.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,374 | 28.82 | |
Liberal Party | 2,412 | 10.91 | |
Scottish National Party | 2,199 | 9.94 | |
Majority | 4,759 | 21.52 | |
Glasgow Maryhill | |||
34,139/50,434 | 67.69 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 22,602 | 66.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,106 | 14.96 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,812 | 11.17 | |
Liberal Party | 2,332 | 6.83 | |
Communist Party | 287 | 0.84 | |
Majority | 17,496 | 51.25 | |
Glasgow Pollok | |||
43,495/59,032 | 73.68 | ||
Labour Party | 21,420 | 49.25 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,928 | 29.72 | |
Scottish National Party | 4,187 | 9.63 | |
Liberal Party | 3,946 | 9.07 | |
Independent Labour | 869 | 2.00 | |
National Front | 104 | 0.24 | |
Independent Democrat | 41 | 0.09 | |
Majority | 8,492 | 19.52 | |
Glasgow Provan | |||
34,659/52,482 | 66.04 | ||
Labour Party | 24,083 | 69.49 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,239 | 15.12 | |
Scottish National Party | 4,767 | 13.75 | |
Communist Party | 377 | 1.09 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 193 | 0.56 | |
Majority | 18,844 | 54.37 | |
Glasgow Queen's Park | |||
23,492/34,332 | 68.43 | ||
Labour Party | 15,120 | 64.36 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,642 | 24.02 | |
Scottish National Party | 2,276 | 9.69 | |
Communist Party | 263 | 1.12 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 99 | 0.42 | |
Socialist Unity | 92 | 0.39 | |
Majority | 9,478 | 40.35 | |
22 September 1982 Death of Frank McElhone. | |||
3 December 1982 | 15,801/33,681 | 46.91 | |
Labour Party | 8,851 | 56.02 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,157 | 19.98 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 1,888 | 11.95 | |
Liberal Party in Alliance | 1,487 | 9.41 | |
Communist Party | 339 | 2.15 | |
Peace and Soc | 40 | 0.25 | |
Scot Republican Soc | 39 | 0.25 | |
Majority | 5,694 | 36.04 | |
John Connell sought election as a Peace and Socialist candidate. | |||
Glasgow Shettleston | |||
21,771/31,910 | 68.23 | ||
Labour Party | 13,955 | 64.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,794 | 22.02 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,022 | 13.88 | |
Majority | 9,161 | 42.08 | |
Glasgow Springburn | |||
28,558/42,116 | 67.81 | ||
Labour Party | 18,871 | 66.08 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,100 | 21.36 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,587 | 12.56 | |
Majority | 12,771 | 44.72 | |
Gloucester | |||
51,650/64,958 | 79.51 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,163 | 48.72 | |
Labour Party | 18,747 | 36.30 | |
Liberal Party | 7,213 | 13.97 | |
National Front | 527 | 1.02 | |
Majority | 6,416 | 12.42 | |
Goole | |||
48,105/66,042 | 72.84 | ||
Labour Party | 27,690 | 57.56 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,439 | 34.17 | |
Liberal Party | 3,976 | 8.27 | |
Majority | 11,251 | 23.39 | |
Gosport | |||
39,754/51,318 | 77.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,553 | 61.76 | |
Labour Party | 10,460 | 26.31 | |
Liberal Party | 4,741 | 11.93 | |
Majority | 14,093 | 35.45 | |
Gower | |||
46,887/58,023 | 80.81 | ||
Labour Party | 24,963 | 53.24 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,322 | 30.55 | |
Liberal Party | 4,245 | 9.05 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3,357 | 7.16 | |
Majority | 10,641 | 22.69 | |
7 June 1982 Death of Ifor Davies. | |||
16 September 1982 | 39,319/60,123 | 65.40 | |
Labour Party | 17,095 | 43.48 | |
Social Democratic Party in Alliance | 9,875 | 25.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,690 | 22.10 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3,431 | 8.73 | |
Computer Democrat | 125 | 0.32 | |
Independent | 103 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 7,220 | 18.36 | |
D Burns sought election as a Civil Rights/Welsh Political Prisoner candidate. At the time of the election he was being held on remand in Cardiff prison. | |||
Grantham | |||
66,096/84,479 | 78.24 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,697 | 55.52 | |
Labour Party | 18,547 | 28.06 | |
Liberal Party | 10,852 | 16.42 | |
Majority | 18,150 | 27.46 | |
Gravesend | |||
72,358/88,895 | 81.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,592 | 51.95 | |
Labour Party | 28,246 | 39.04 | |
Liberal Party | 5,917 | 8.18 | |
National Front | 603 | 0.83 | |
Majority | 9,346 | 12.92 | |
Greenock & Port Glasgow | |||
45,397/61,610 | 73.68 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 24,071 | 53.02 | |
Liberal Party | 12,789 | 28.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,926 | 10.85 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,435 | 7.57 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 176 | 0.39 | |
Majority | 11,282 | 24.85 | |
1 October 1981 Dickson Mabon resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
Greenwich | |||
36,389/51,519 | 70.63 | ||
Labour Party | 18,975 | 52.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,133 | 33.34 | |
Liberal Party | 3,870 | 10.64 | |
National Front | 951 | 2.61 | |
Fellowship | 460 | 1.26 | |
Majority | 6,842 | 18.80 | |
Grimsby | |||
50,511/66,644 | 75.79 | ||
Labour Party | 26,282 | 52.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,041 | 39.68 | |
Liberal Party | 3,837 | 7.60 | |
Mod LAB | 214 | 0.42 | |
National Front | 137 | 0.27 | |
Majority | 6,241 | 12.36 | |
Guildford | |||
55,189/73,251 | 75.34 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,595 | 57.25 | |
Labour Party | 11,689 | 21.18 | |
Liberal Party | 11,673 | 21.15 | |
Rhodesian Front | 232 | 0.42 | |
Majority | 19,906 | 36.07 | |
Hackney Central | |||
27,953/46,464 | 60.16 | ||
Labour Party | 16,506 | 59.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,718 | 27.61 | |
Liberal Party | 1,835 | 6.56 | |
National Front | 1,418 | 5.07 | |
Communist Party | 340 | 1.22 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 136 | 0.49 | |
Majority | 8,788 | 31.44 | |
Hackney North & Stoke Newington | |||
28,488/46,776 | 60.90 | ||
Labour Party | 14,688 | 51.56 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,467 | 33.23 | |
Liberal Party | 3,033 | 10.65 | |
National Front | 860 | 3.02 | |
Communist Party | 440 | 1.54 | |
Majority | 5,221 | 18.33 | |
Hackney South & Shoreditch | |||
25,888/43,090 | 60.08 | ||
Labour Party | 14,016 | 54.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,312 | 28.24 | |
Liberal Party | 2,387 | 9.22 | |
National Front | 1,958 | 7.56 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 215 | 0.83 | |
Majority | 6,704 | 25.90 | |
2 December 1981 Ronald Brown resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
Halesowen & Stourbridge | |||
67,047/84,534 | 79.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,247 | 49.59 | |
Labour Party | 24,282 | 36.22 | |
Liberal Party | 8,597 | 12.82 | |
National Front | 921 | 1.37 | |
Majority | 8,965 | 13.37 | |
Halifax | |||
48,906/63,768 | 76.69 | ||
Labour Party | 21,416 | 43.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,182 | 41.27 | |
Liberal Party | 6,853 | 14.01 | |
National Front | 455 | 0.93 | |
Majority | 1,234 | 2.52 | |
Haltemprice | |||
61,905/80,058 | 77.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,525 | 55.77 | |
Liberal Party | 14,637 | 23.64 | |
Labour Party | 12,743 | 20.58 | |
Majority | 19,888 | 32.13 | |
Hamilton | |||
41,229/51,802 | 79.59 | ||
Labour Party | 24,593 | 59.65 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,794 | 23.76 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,842 | 16.60 | |
Majority | 14,799 | 35.89 | |
Hammersmith North | |||
35,778/50,821 | 70.40 | ||
Labour Party | 17,241 | 48.19 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,735 | 38.39 | |
Liberal Party | 4,147 | 11.59 | |
National Front | 462 | 1.29 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 193 | 0.54 | |
Majority | 3,506 | 9.80 | |
Hampstead | |||
43,147/64,004 | 67.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,410 | 47.30 | |
Labour Party | 16,729 | 38.77 | |
Liberal Party | 5,753 | 13.33 | |
National Front | 255 | 0.59 | |
Majority | 3,681 | 8.53 | |
Harborough | |||
55,209/68,989 | 80.03 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,328 | 60.37 | |
Labour Party | 11,350 | 20.56 | |
Liberal Party | 9,529 | 17.26 | |
National Front | 1,002 | 1.81 | |
Majority | 21,978 | 39.81 | |
Harlow | |||
53,133/67,494 | 78.72 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 22,698 | 42.72 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,306 | 40.10 | |
Liberal Party | 8,289 | 15.60 | |
National Front | 840 | 1.58 | |
Majority | 1,392 | 2.62 | |
Harrogate | |||
51,378/69,182 | 74.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,551 | 59.46 | |
Liberal Party | 12,021 | 23.40 | |
Labour Party | 8,221 | 16.00 | |
National Front | 585 | 1.14 | |
Majority | 18,530 | 36.07 | |
Harrow Central | |||
33,963/44,747 | 75.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,627 | 48.96 | |
Labour Party | 12,124 | 35.70 | |
Liberal Party | 4,785 | 14.09 | |
National Front | 427 | 1.26 | |
Majority | 4,503 | 13.26 | |
Harrow East | |||
38,420/49,354 | 77.85 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,871 | 54.32 | |
Labour Party | 12,993 | 33.82 | |
Liberal Party | 3,984 | 10.37 | |
National Front | 572 | 1.49 | |
Majority | 7,878 | 20.50 | |
Harrow West | |||
44,797/56,907 | 78.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,007 | 58.06 | |
Labour Party | 10,794 | 24.10 | |
Liberal Party | 7,350 | 16.41 | |
National Front | 646 | 1.44 | |
Majority | 15,213 | 33.96 | |
Hartlepool | |||
49,109/65,732 | 74.71 | ||
Labour Party | 27,039 | 55.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,877 | 38.44 | |
Liberal Party | 3,193 | 6.50 | |
Majority | 8,162 | 16.62 | |
Harwich | |||
69,374/92,908 | 74.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,685 | 54.32 | |
Labour Party | 16,998 | 24.50 | |
Liberal Party | 14,094 | 20.32 | |
National Front | 597 | 0.86 | |
Majority | 20,687 | 29.82 | |
Hastings | |||
41,360/57,699 | 71.68 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,311 | 51.53 | |
Labour Party | 12,392 | 29.96 | |
Liberal Party | 6,474 | 15.65 | |
Independent | 839 | 2.03 | |
National Front | 344 | 0.83 | |
Majority | 8,919 | 21.56 | |
Gordon McNally was opposed to Britain's membership of the Common Market. | |||
Havant & Waterloo | |||
62,094/82,116 | 75.62 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,580 | 57.30 | |
Labour Party | 15,240 | 24.54 | |
Liberal Party | 11,274 | 18.16 | |
Majority | 20,340 | 32.76 | |
Hayes & Harlington | |||
42,129/56,165 | 75.01 | ||
Labour Party | 20,350 | 48.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,048 | 40.47 | |
Liberal Party | 3,900 | 9.26 | |
National Front | 582 | 1.38 | |
Communist Party | 249 | 0.59 | |
Majority | 3,302 | 7.84 | |
2 March 1981 Neville Sandelson resigns the Labour whip to join the Social Democratic Party. | |||
Hazel Grove | |||
58,414/70,005 | 83.44 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,420 | 55.50 | |
Liberal Party | 17,148 | 29.36 | |
Labour Party | 8,846 | 15.14 | |
Majority | 15,272 | 26.14 | |
Hemel Hempstead | |||
77,880/91,843 | 84.80 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,953 | 48.73 | |
Labour Party | 32,964 | 42.33 | |
Liberal Party | 6,314 | 8.11 | |
National Front | 649 | 0.83 | |
Majority | 4,989 | 6.41 | |
Hemsworth | |||
52,449/71,581 | 73.27 | ||
Labour Party | 36,509 | 69.61 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,466 | 19.95 | |
Liberal Party | 5,474 | 10.44 | |
Majority | 26,043 | 49.65 | |
Hendon North | |||
39,891/54,036 | 73.82 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,766 | 52.06 | |
Labour Party | 14,374 | 36.03 | |
Liberal Party | 4,113 | 10.31 | |
National Front | 638 | 1.60 | |
Majority | 6,392 | 16.02 | |
Hendon South | |||
37,864/53,954 | 70.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,981 | 52.77 | |
Labour Party | 11,231 | 29.66 | |
Liberal Party | 5,799 | 15.32 | |
Ecology Party | 563 | 1.49 | |
National Front | 290 | 0.77 | |
Majority | 8,750 | 23.11 | |
Henley | |||
51,110/65,933 | 77.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,982 | 58.66 | |
Liberal Party | 11,693 | 22.88 | |
Labour Party | 9,435 | 18.46 | |
Majority | 18,289 | 35.78 | |
Hereford | |||
48,204/61,447 | 78.45 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,012 | 47.74 | |
Liberal Party | 18,042 | 37.43 | |
Labour Party | 7,150 | 14.83 | |
Majority | 4,970 | 10.31 | |
Hertford & Stevenage | |||
70,423/87,623 | 80.37 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,739 | 45.07 | |
Labour Party | 30,443 | 43.23 | |
Liberal Party | 7,660 | 10.88 | |
National Front | 581 | 0.83 | |
Majority | 1,296 | 1.84 | |
Hexham | |||
53,115/66,798 | 79.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,483 | 47.98 | |
Labour Party | 16,935 | 31.88 | |
Liberal Party | 10,697 | 20.14 | |
Majority | 8,548 | 16.09 | |
Heywood & Royton | |||
63,276/82,199 | 76.98 | ||
Labour Party | 28,789 | 45.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,202 | 41.41 | |
Liberal Party | 7,644 | 12.08 | |
National Front | 641 | 1.01 | |
Majority | 2,587 | 4.09 | |
High Peak | |||
48,509/59,323 | 81.77 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,532 | 46.45 | |
Labour Party | 17,777 | 36.65 | |
Liberal Party | 8,200 | 16.90 | |
Majority | 4,755 | 9.80 | |
Hitchin | |||
63,125/76,807 | 82.19 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,169 | 52.54 | |
Labour Party | 19,940 | 31.59 | |
Liberal Party | 8,224 | 13.03 | |
Ecology Party | 911 | 1.44 | |
National Front | 881 | 1.40 | |
Majority | 13,229 | 20.96 | |
Holborn & St Pancras South | |||
24,387/40,376 | 60.40 | ||
Labour Party | 12,026 | 49.31 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,703 | 39.79 | |
Liberal Party | 2,190 | 8.98 | |
National Front | 334 | 1.37 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 134 | 0.55 | |
Majority | 2,323 | 9.53 | |
Holland with Boston | |||
63,828/85,578 | 74.58 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,440 | 55.52 | |
Labour Party | 17,908 | 28.06 | |
Liberal Party | 10,480 | 16.42 | |
Majority | 17,532 | 27.47 | |
Honiton | |||
60,612/78,303 | 77.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,832 | 62.42 | |
Liberal Party | 12,601 | 20.79 | |
Labour Party | 8,756 | 14.45 | |
Ecology Party | 1,423 | 2.35 | |
Majority | 25,231 | 41.63 | |
Horncastle | |||
38,754/51,531 | 75.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,362 | 55.12 | |
Liberal Party | 10,833 | 27.95 | |
Labour Party | 6,240 | 16.10 | |
National Front | 319 | 0.82 | |
Majority | 10,529 | 27.17 | |
Hornchurch | |||
47,562/60,865 | 78.14 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,340 | 44.87 | |
Labour Party | 20,571 | 43.25 | |
Liberal Party | 4,657 | 9.79 | |
National Front | 994 | 2.09 | |
Majority | 769 | 1.62 | |
Hornsey | |||
40,964/58,409 | 70.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,225 | 49.37 | |
Labour Party | 16,188 | 39.52 | |
Liberal Party | 4,058 | 9.91 | |
National Front | 337 | 0.82 | |
Independent Conservative | 156 | 0.38 | |
Majority | 4,037 | 9.85 | |
Horsham & Crawley | |||
81,450/100,059 | 81.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 42,529 | 52.21 | |
Labour Party | 27,508 | 33.77 | |
Liberal Party | 10,920 | 13.41 | |
National Front | 493 | 0.61 | |
Majority | 15,021 | 18.44 | |
Houghton-le-Spring | |||
44,091/60,491 | 72.89 | ||
Labour Party | 30,181 | 68.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,105 | 20.65 | |
Liberal Party | 4,479 | 10.16 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 326 | 0.74 | |
Majority | 21,076 | 47.80 | |
Hove | |||
50,342/70,318 | 71.59 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,256 | 60.10 | |
Labour Party | 10,807 | 21.47 | |
Liberal Party | 8,771 | 17.42 | |
National Front | 508 | 1.01 | |
Majority | 19,449 | 38.63 | |
Howden | |||
47,383/63,708 | 74.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,550 | 56.03 | |
Liberal Party | 12,006 | 25.34 | |
Labour Party | 8,827 | 18.63 | |
Majority | 14,544 | 30.69 | |
Huddersfield East | |||
40,118/53,983 | 74.32 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,040 | 47.46 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,945 | 39.75 | |
Liberal Party | 4,890 | 12.19 | |
Independent | 243 | 0.61 | |
Majority | 3,095 | 7.71 | |
Huddersfield West | |||
41,826/55,066 | 75.96 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,504 | 44.24 | |
Labour Party | 16,996 | 40.64 | |
Liberal Party | 6,225 | 14.88 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 101 | 0.24 | |
Majority | 1,508 | 3.61 | |
Huntingdon | |||
72,618/93,862 | 77.37 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 40,193 | 55.35 | |
Labour Party | 18,630 | 25.65 | |
Liberal Party | 12,812 | 17.64 | |
National Front | 983 | 1.35 | |
Majority | 21,563 | 29.69 | |
Huyton | |||
52,864/73,006 | 72.41 | ||
Labour Party | 27,449 | 51.92 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,939 | 37.72 | |
Liberal Party | 5,476 | 10.36 | |
Majority | 7,510 | 14.21 | |
Ilford North | |||
51,391/65,052 | 79.00 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,381 | 51.33 | |
Labour Party | 19,186 | 37.33 | |
Liberal Party | 4,568 | 8.89 | |
National Front | 804 | 1.56 | |
Independent Conservative | 452 | 0.88 | |
Majority | 7,195 | 14.00 | |
Ilford South | |||
41,192/54,295 | 75.87 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,290 | 46.83 | |
Labour Party | 17,602 | 42.73 | |
Liberal Party | 3,664 | 8.89 | |
National Front | 636 | 1.54 | |
Majority | 1,688 | 4.10 | |
Ilkeston | |||
58,799/75,305 | 78.08 | ||
Labour Party | 29,760 | 50.61 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,160 | 35.99 | |
Liberal Party | 7,879 | 13.40 | |
Majority | 8,600 | 14.63 | |
Ince | |||
61,598/83,019 | 74.20 | ||
Labour Party | 34,599 | 56.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,263 | 32.90 | |
Liberal Party | 6,294 | 10.22 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 442 | 0.72 | |
Majority | 14,336 | 23.27 | |
Inverness | |||
46,576/63,130 | 73.78 | ||
Liberal Party | 15,716 | 33.74 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,559 | 24.82 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,603 | 20.62 | |
Labour Party | 9,586 | 20.58 | |
Fine Gael | 112 | 0.24 | |
Majority | 4,157 | 8.93 | |
Ipswich | |||
71,483/88,416 | 80.85 | ||
Labour Party | 34,444 | 48.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,703 | 42.95 | |
Liberal Party | 5,772 | 8.07 | |
National Front | 449 | 0.63 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 115 | 0.16 | |
Majority | 3,741 | 5.23 | |
Isle of Ely | |||
56,531/69,954 | 80.81 | ||
Liberal Party | 26,397 | 46.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,067 | 40.80 | |
Labour Party | 7,067 | 12.50 | |
Majority | 3,330 | 5.89 | |
Isle of Wight | |||
74,440/90,961 | 81.84 | ||
Liberal Party | 35,889 | 48.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,537 | 47.74 | |
Labour Party | 3,014 | 4.05 | |
Majority | 352 | 0.47 | |
Islington Central | |||
26,040/40,884 | 63.69 | ||
Labour Party | 13,415 | 51.52 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,276 | 35.62 | |
Liberal Party | 2,242 | 8.61 | |
National Front | 797 | 3.06 | |
Ecology Party | 310 | 1.19 | |
Majority | 4,139 | 15.89 | |
21 October 1981 John Grant resigns the Labour whip. | |||
16 November 1981 John Grant joins the SDP. | |||
Islington North | |||
23,413/38,253 | 61.21 | ||
Labour Party | 12,317 | 52.61 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,861 | 33.58 | |
Liberal Party | 2,079 | 8.88 | |
National Front | 501 | 2.14 | |
Socialist Unity | 438 | 1.87 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 217 | 0.93 | |
Majority | 4,456 | 19.03 | |
7 September 1981 Michael O'Halloran resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
10 February 1983 Michael O'Halloran resigns the SDP whip. | |||
Islington South & Finsbury | |||
24,177/38,427 | 62.92 | ||
Labour Party | 12,581 | 52.04 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,237 | 34.07 | |
Liberal Party | 1,991 | 8.24 | |
National Front | 824 | 3.41 | |
Communist Party | 330 | 1.36 | |
New Britain | 136 | 0.56 | |
Socialist Party of Great Britain | 78 | 0.32 | |
Majority | 4,344 | 17.97 | |
30 November 1981 George Cunningham resigns the Labour whip. | |||
16 June 1982 George Cunningham accepts the SDP whip. | |||
Jarrow | |||
43,114/55,619 | 77.52 | ||
Labour Party | 24,057 | 55.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,529 | 29.06 | |
Liberal Party | 3,907 | 9.06 | |
Independent Labour | 2,247 | 5.21 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 374 | 0.87 | |
Majority | 11,528 | 26.74 | |
Keighley | |||
43,822/54,428 | 80.51 | ||
Labour Party | 19,698 | 44.95 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,620 | 44.77 | |
Liberal Party | 4,062 | 9.27 | |
National Front | 234 | 0.53 | |
Ecology Party | 208 | 0.47 | |
Majority | 78 | 0.18 | |
Kensington | |||
33,850/52,396 | 64.60 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,361 | 51.29 | |
Labour Party | 11,898 | 35.15 | |
Liberal Party | 3,537 | 10.45 | |
Ecology Party | 698 | 2.06 | |
National Front | 356 | 1.05 | |
Majority | 5,463 | 16.14 | |
Kettering | |||
70,104/88,396 | 79.31 | ||
Labour Party | 31,579 | 45.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,101 | 42.94 | |
Liberal Party | 8,424 | 12.02 | |
Majority | 1,478 | 2.11 | |
Kidderminster | |||
62,385/80,434 | 77.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,523 | 53.74 | |
Labour Party | 17,871 | 28.65 | |
Liberal Party | 9,939 | 15.93 | |
National Front | 1,052 | 1.69 | |
Majority | 15,652 | 25.09 | |
Kilmarnock | |||
48,932/60,351 | 81.08 | ||
Labour Party | 25,718 | 52.56 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,251 | 29.12 | |
Scottish National Party | 8,963 | 18.32 | |
Majority | 11,467 | 23.43 | |
Kingston-upon-Hull Central | |||
42,808/60,801 | 70.41 | ||
Labour Party | 22,318 | 52.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,725 | 34.40 | |
Liberal Party | 5,069 | 11.84 | |
National Front | 422 | 0.99 | |
Socialist Unity | 274 | 0.64 | |
Majority | 7,593 | 17.74 | |
Kingston-upon-Hull East | |||
63,047/89,023 | 70.82 | ||
Labour Party | 39,411 | 62.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,719 | 24.93 | |
Liberal Party | 7,543 | 11.96 | |
National Front | 374 | 0.59 | |
Majority | 23,692 | 37.58 | |
Kingston-upon-Hull West | |||
35,407/52,489 | 67.46 | ||
Labour Party | 19,750 | 55.78 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,590 | 32.73 | |
Liberal Party | 3,656 | 10.33 | |
National Front | 411 | 1.16 | |
Majority | 8,160 | 23.05 | |
Kingston-upon-Thames | |||
43,115/57,572 | 74.89 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,944 | 57.85 | |
Labour Party | 11,400 | 26.44 | |
Liberal Party | 6,771 | 15.70 | |
Majority | 13,544 | 31.41 | |
Kingswood | |||
51,913/60,229 | 86.19 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,553 | 45.37 | |
Labour Party | 23,250 | 44.79 | |
Liberal Party | 4,852 | 9.35 | |
National Front | 258 | 0.50 | |
Majority | 303 | 0.58 | |
Kinross & West Perthshire | |||
30,733/38,591 | 79.64 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,523 | 50.51 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,045 | 29.43 | |
Liberal Party | 3,572 | 11.62 | |
Labour Party | 2,593 | 8.44 | |
Majority | 6,478 | 21.08 | |
Kirkcaldy | |||
47,251/61,057 | 77.39 | ||
Labour Party | 25,449 | 53.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,386 | 26.21 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,416 | 19.93 | |
Majority | 13,063 | 27.65 | |
Knutsford | |||
44,976/57,671 | 77.99 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,795 | 59.58 | |
Labour Party | 8,992 | 19.99 | |
Liberal Party | 8,499 | 18.90 | |
Independent Conservative | 690 | 1.53 | |
Majority | 17,803 | 39.58 | |
Lambeth Central | |||
27,597/43,678 | 63.18 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 15,101 | 54.72 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,125 | 33.07 | |
Liberal Party | 2,339 | 8.48 | |
National Front | 830 | 3.01 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 152 | 0.55 | |
Independent | 50 | 0.18 | |
Majority | 5,976 | 21.65 | |
Lanark | |||
41,966/51,320 | 81.77 | ||
Labour Party | 18,118 | 43.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,979 | 30.93 | |
Scottish National Party | 7,902 | 18.83 | |
Liberal Party | 2,967 | 7.07 | |
Majority | 5,139 | 12.25 | |
Lancaster | |||
40,719/51,252 | 79.45 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,400 | 47.64 | |
Labour Party | 15,174 | 37.27 | |
Liberal Party | 5,949 | 14.61 | |
National Front | 196 | 0.48 | |
Majority | 4,226 | 10.38 | |
Leeds East | |||
47,532/67,048 | 70.89 | ||
Labour Party | 26,346 | 55.43 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,810 | 33.26 | |
Liberal Party | 4,622 | 9.72 | |
National Front | 445 | 0.94 | |
Ecology Party | 206 | 0.43 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 103 | 0.22 | |
Majority | 10,536 | 22.17 | |
Leeds North East | |||
41,455/59,113 | 70.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,297 | 48.96 | |
Labour Party | 14,913 | 35.97 | |
Liberal Party | 5,329 | 12.85 | |
Ecology Party | 813 | 1.96 | |
Anti-Corruption | 103 | 0.25 | |
Majority | 5,384 | 12.99 | |
Leeds North West | |||
50,206/68,702 | 73.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,837 | 47.48 | |
Labour Party | 17,623 | 35.10 | |
Liberal Party | 7,899 | 15.73 | |
Ecology Party | 847 | 1.69 | |
Majority | 6,214 | 12.38 | |
Leeds South | |||
34,520/50,119 | 68.88 | ||
Labour Party | 22,388 | 64.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,058 | 23.34 | |
Liberal Party | 3,658 | 10.60 | |
National Front | 416 | 1.21 | |
Majority | 14,330 | 41.51 | |
Leeds South East | |||
28,258/43,472 | 65.00 | ||
Labour Party | 15,921 | 56.34 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,549 | 23.18 | |
Liberal Party | 5,430 | 19.22 | |
Communist Party | 190 | 0.67 | |
National Front | 168 | 0.59 | |
Majority | 9,372 | 33.17 | |
Leeds West | |||
43,116/58,798 | 73.33 | ||
Labour Party | 21,290 | 49.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,626 | 26.96 | |
Liberal Party | 9,734 | 22.58 | |
National Front | 466 | 1.08 | |
Majority | 9,664 | 22.41 | |
Leek | |||
70,370/87,502 | 80.42 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,508 | 51.88 | |
Labour Party | 25,937 | 36.86 | |
Liberal Party | 6,474 | 9.20 | |
Ratepayer | 1,451 | 2.06 | |
Majority | 10,571 | 15.02 | |
Leicester East | |||
50,840/67,269 | 75.58 | ||
Labour Party | 23,844 | 46.90 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,988 | 41.28 | |
Liberal Party | 4,623 | 9.09 | |
National Front | 1,385 | 2.72 | |
Majority | 2,856 | 5.62 | |
20 February 1981 Tom Bradley resigns the Labour whip to support the Council for Social Democracy. | |||
Leicester South | |||
52,894/70,714 | 74.80 | ||
Labour Party | 24,548 | 46.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,550 | 42.63 | |
Liberal Party | 4,856 | 9.18 | |
National Front | 940 | 1.78 | |
Majority | 1,998 | 3.78 | |
Leicester West | |||
48,566/67,209 | 72.26 | ||
Labour Party | 26,032 | 53.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,194 | 35.40 | |
Liberal Party | 4,032 | 8.30 | |
National Front | 1,308 | 2.69 | |
Majority | 8,838 | 18.20 | |
Leigh | |||
51,245/66,603 | 76.94 | ||
Labour Party | 27,736 | 54.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,713 | 36.52 | |
Liberal Party | 4,796 | 9.36 | |
Majority | 9,023 | 17.61 | |
Leominster | |||
39,486/48,211 | 81.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,126 | 53.50 | |
Liberal Party | 16,261 | 41.18 | |
Labour Party | 2,099 | 5.32 | |
Majority | 4,865 | 12.32 | |
Lewes | |||
58,187/76,290 | 76.27 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,992 | 58.42 | |
Liberal Party | 12,279 | 21.10 | |
Labour Party | 11,152 | 19.17 | |
National Front | 764 | 1.31 | |
Majority | 21,713 | 37.32 | |
Lewisham East | |||
49,862/67,066 | 74.35 | ||
Labour Party | 22,916 | 45.96 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,323 | 42.76 | |
Liberal Party | 4,265 | 8.55 | |
National Front | 1,168 | 2.34 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 190 | 0.38 | |
Majority | 1,593 | 3.19 | |
Lewisham West | |||
45,065/59,292 | 76.01 | ||
Labour Party | 20,932 | 46.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,882 | 44.12 | |
Liberal Party | 3,350 | 7.43 | |
National Front | 901 | 2.00 | |
Majority | 1,050 | 2.33 | |
Leyton | |||
41,060/59,176 | 69.39 | ||
Labour Party | 21,095 | 51.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,361 | 37.41 | |
Liberal Party | 3,425 | 8.34 | |
National Front | 1,179 | 2.87 | |
Majority | 5,734 | 13.96 | |
22 January 1982 Bryan Magee resigns the Labour whip. | |||
March 1982 Bryan Magee accepts the SDP whip. | |||
Lichfield & Tamworth | |||
82,343/101,343 | 81.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 41,454 | 50.34 | |
Labour Party | 33,006 | 40.08 | |
Liberal Party | 7,408 | 9.00 | |
National Front | 475 | 0.58 | |
Majority | 8,448 | 10.26 | |
Lincoln | |||
42,517/55,194 | 77.03 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,777 | 41.81 | |
Labour Party | 17,175 | 40.40 | |
Liberal Party | 5,638 | 13.26 | |
Democratic Labour | 1,743 | 4.10 | |
National Front | 107 | 0.25 | |
Rev Refm | 77 | 0.18 | |
Majority | 602 | 1.42 | |
Liverpool Edge Hill | |||
24,404/35,350 | 69.04 | ||
Liberal Party | 12,701 | 52.04 | |
Labour Party | 8,453 | 34.64 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,098 | 12.69 | |
National Front | 152 | 0.62 | |
Majority | 4,248 | 17.41 | |
Liverpool Garston | |||
58,455/79,248 | 73.76 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,105 | 48.08 | |
Labour Party | 25,318 | 43.31 | |
Liberal Party | 4,890 | 8.37 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 142 | 0.24 | |
Majority | 2,787 | 4.77 | |
Liverpool Kirkdale | |||
30,394/43,304 | 70.19 | ||
Labour Party | 17,043 | 56.07 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,334 | 30.71 | |
Liberal Party | 3,819 | 12.56 | |
National Front | 198 | 0.65 | |
Majority | 7,709 | 25.36 | |
7 October 1981 James Dunn resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
Liverpool Scotland Exchange | |||
18,544/32,303 | 57.41 | ||
Labour Party | 13,920 | 75.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,264 | 12.21 | |
Liberal Party | 1,939 | 10.46 | |
Communist Party | 421 | 2.27 | |
Majority | 11,656 | 62.86 | |
Liverpool Toxteth | |||
27,115/41,859 | 64.78 | ||
Labour Party | 14,833 | 54.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,690 | 32.05 | |
Liberal Party | 3,206 | 11.82 | |
Socialist Unity | 238 | 0.88 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 148 | 0.55 | |
Majority | 6,143 | 22.66 | |
20 February 1981 Dick Crawshaw resigns the Labour whip to support the Council for Social Democracy. | |||
Liverpool Walton | |||
36,637/50,303 | 72.83 | ||
Labour Party | 20,231 | 55.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,673 | 34.59 | |
Liberal Party | 3,479 | 9.50 | |
National Front | 254 | 0.69 | |
Majority | 7,558 | 20.63 | |
Liverpool Wavertree | |||
43,293/59,040 | 73.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,760 | 50.26 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 14,828 | 34.25 | |
Liberal Party | 6,705 | 15.49 | |
Majority | 6,932 | 16.01 | |
Liverpool West Derby | |||
40,697/57,973 | 70.20 | ||
Labour Party | 22,576 | 55.47 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,356 | 35.28 | |
Liberal Party | 3,765 | 9.25 | |
Majority | 8,220 | 20.20 | |
27 October 1981 Eric Ogden resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP on 29 October 1981. | |||
Llanelli | |||
51,153/64,429 | 79.39 | ||
Labour Party | 30,416 | 59.46 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,471 | 20.47 | |
Liberal Party | 5,856 | 11.45 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3,793 | 7.42 | |
Communist Party | 617 | 1.21 | |
Majority | 19,945 | 38.99 | |
Londonderry | |||
63,623/94,770 | 67.13 | ||
Official Unionist Party | 31,592 | 49.65 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 19,185 | 30.15 | |
Alliance Party | 5,830 | 9.16 | |
Irish Independence Party | 5,489 | 8.63 | |
Republican Clubs | 888 | 1.40 | |
Independent Labour | 639 | 1.00 | |
Majority | 12,407 | 19.50 | |
William Webster was the nominee of the Derry Labour and Trade Union Party. | |||
Loughborough | |||
62,106/76,455 | 81.23 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,788 | 47.96 | |
Labour Party | 24,589 | 39.59 | |
Liberal Party | 6,650 | 10.71 | |
Ecology Party | 595 | 0.96 | |
National Front | 484 | 0.78 | |
Majority | 5,199 | 8.37 | |
Louth | |||
57,419/73,264 | 78.37 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,771 | 44.88 | |
Liberal Party | 19,071 | 33.21 | |
Labour Party | 12,316 | 21.45 | |
National Front | 261 | 0.45 | |
Majority | 6,700 | 11.67 | |
Lowestoft | |||
66,149/82,733 | 79.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,376 | 50.46 | |
Labour Party | 25,555 | 38.63 | |
Liberal Party | 6,783 | 10.25 | |
Ecology Party | 435 | 0.66 | |
Majority | 7,821 | 11.82 | |
Ludlow | |||
39,607/50,413 | 78.57 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,906 | 52.78 | |
Liberal Party | 12,524 | 31.62 | |
Labour Party | 5,717 | 14.43 | |
National Front | 354 | 0.89 | |
Independent | 106 | 0.27 | |
Majority | 8,382 | 21.16 | |
Luton East | |||
40,730/52,427 | 77.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,809 | 43.72 | |
Labour Party | 16,962 | 41.64 | |
Liberal Party | 5,285 | 12.98 | |
National Front | 461 | 1.13 | |
Communist Party | 107 | 0.26 | |
CPPS | 61 | 0.15 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 45 | 0.11 | |
Majority | 847 | 2.08 | |
Luton West | |||
48,148/61,186 | 78.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,230 | 44.09 | |
Labour Party | 20,984 | 43.58 | |
Liberal Party | 5,233 | 10.87 | |
National Front | 701 | 1.46 | |
Majority | 246 | 0.51 | |
Macclesfield | |||
68,621/87,864 | 78.10 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 40,116 | 58.46 | |
Labour Party | 16,779 | 24.45 | |
Liberal Party | 11,726 | 17.09 | |
Majority | 23,337 | 34.01 | |
Maidstone | |||
71,738/93,125 | 77.03 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,727 | 52.59 | |
Liberal Party | 16,676 | 23.25 | |
Labour Party | 16,632 | 23.18 | |
National Front | 703 | 0.98 | |
Majority | 21,051 | 29.34 | |
Maldon | |||
51,163/65,659 | 77.92 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,585 | 57.82 | |
Labour Party | 12,848 | 25.11 | |
Liberal Party | 8,730 | 17.06 | |
Majority | 16,737 | 32.71 | |
Manchester Ardwick | |||
30,419/44,497 | 68.36 | ||
Labour Party | 17,235 | 56.66 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,963 | 32.75 | |
Liberal Party | 2,934 | 9.65 | |
Socialist Unity | 287 | 0.94 | |
Majority | 7,272 | 23.91 | |
Manchester Blackley | |||
40,382/52,878 | 76.37 | ||
Labour Party | 20,346 | 50.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,842 | 39.23 | |
Liberal Party | 3,868 | 9.58 | |
National Front | 326 | 0.81 | |
Majority | 4,504 | 11.15 | |
Manchester Central | |||
19,947/31,312 | 63.70 | ||
Labour Party | 14,117 | 70.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,413 | 22.12 | |
Liberal Party | 1,052 | 5.27 | |
National Front | 365 | 1.83 | |
Majority | 9,704 | 48.65 | |
11 June 1979 Elevation of Rt Hon Harold Lever to the Peerage - Baron Lever of Manchester. | |||
27 July 1979 | 10,599/31,558 | 33.59 | |
Labour Party | 7,494 | 70.70 | |
Liberal Party | 1,502 | 14.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 1,275 | 12.03 | |
Independent Labour | 187 | 1.76 | |
Ecology Party | 129 | 1.22 | |
Independent | 12 | 0.11 | |
Majority | 5,992 | 56.53 | |
Manchester Gorton | |||
41,638/53,943 | 77.19 | ||
Labour Party | 22,293 | 53.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,009 | 38.45 | |
Liberal Party | 2,867 | 6.89 | |
National Front | 469 | 1.13 | |
Majority | 6,284 | 15.09 | |
Manchester Moss Side | |||
34,205/47,811 | 71.54 | ||
Labour Party | 17,765 | 51.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,234 | 38.69 | |
Liberal Party | 2,981 | 8.72 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 225 | 0.66 | |
Majority | 4,531 | 13.25 | |
Manchester Openshaw | |||
27,524/37,816 | 72.78 | ||
Labour Party | 17,099 | 62.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,955 | 36.17 | |
National Front | 296 | 1.08 | |
Communist Party | 174 | 0.63 | |
Majority | 7,144 | 25.96 | |
Manchester Withington | |||
39,916/53,408 | 74.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,862 | 47.25 | |
Labour Party | 15,510 | 38.86 | |
Liberal Party | 5,387 | 13.50 | |
Feudal | 157 | 0.39 | |
Majority | 3,352 | 8.40 | |
Manchester Wythenshawe | |||
45,460/60,602 | 75.01 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 26,860 | 59.08 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,747 | 32.44 | |
Liberal Party | 3,853 | 8.48 | |
Majority | 12,113 | 26.65 | |
Mansfield | |||
55,566/71,851 | 77.34 | ||
Labour Party | 29,051 | 52.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,720 | 31.89 | |
Liberal Party | 8,536 | 15.36 | |
National Front | 259 | 0.47 | |
Majority | 11,331 | 20.39 | |
Melton | |||
68,720/87,319 | 78.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 40,242 | 58.56 | |
Labour Party | 15,882 | 23.11 | |
Liberal Party | 12,596 | 18.33 | |
Majority | 24,360 | 35.45 | |
Meriden | |||
76,173/98,914 | 77.01 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,151 | 48.77 | |
Labour Party | 33,024 | 43.35 | |
Liberal Party | 4,966 | 6.52 | |
National Front | 1,032 | 1.35 | |
Majority | 4,127 | 5.42 | |
Merioneth | |||
22,724/27,250 | 83.39 | ||
Plaid Cymru | 9,275 | 40.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,365 | 23.61 | |
Labour Party | 5,332 | 23.46 | |
Liberal Party | 2,752 | 12.11 | |
Majority | 3,910 | 17.21 | |
Merthyr Tydfil | |||
31,386/39,680 | 79.10 | ||
Labour Party | 22,386 | 71.32 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,426 | 14.10 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,962 | 9.44 | |
Liberal Party | 1,275 | 4.06 | |
Communist Party | 223 | 0.71 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 114 | 0.36 | |
Majority | 17,960 | 57.22 | |
Mid Bedfordshire | |||
66,331/81,564 | 81.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,724 | 56.87 | |
Labour Party | 17,140 | 25.84 | |
Liberal Party | 11,467 | 17.29 | |
Majority | 20,584 | 31.03 | |
Mid Oxfordshire | |||
50,010/63,212 | 79.11 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,465 | 56.92 | |
Labour Party | 13,004 | 26.00 | |
Liberal Party | 8,367 | 16.73 | |
Independent | 174 | 0.35 | |
Majority | 15,461 | 30.92 | |
Peter Madden advocated a policy of better pay and conditions for servicemen. | |||
Mid Sussex | |||
53,210/68,232 | 77.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,548 | 61.17 | |
Liberal Party | 11,705 | 22.00 | |
Labour Party | 8,260 | 15.52 | |
Independent Conservative | 697 | 1.31 | |
Majority | 20,843 | 39.17 | |
Mid Ulster | |||
65,465/81,457 | 80.37 | ||
UUU | 29,249 | 44.68 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 19,266 | 29.43 | |
Irish Independence Party | 12,055 | 18.41 | |
Alliance Party | 3,481 | 5.32 | |
Republican Clubs | 1,414 | 2.16 | |
Majority | 9,983 | 15.25 | |
Middlesbrough | |||
43,337/65,179 | 66.49 | ||
Labour Party | 24,872 | 57.39 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,463 | 31.07 | |
Liberal Party | 4,023 | 9.28 | |
Independent Labour | 861 | 1.99 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 118 | 0.27 | |
Majority | 11,409 | 26.33 | |
Middleton & Prestwich | |||
60,976/78,599 | 77.58 | ||
Labour Party | 27,918 | 45.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,820 | 43.98 | |
Liberal Party | 5,888 | 9.66 | |
National Front | 350 | 0.57 | |
Majority | 1,098 | 1.80 | |
Midlothian | |||
78,919/101,482 | 77.77 | ||
Labour Party | 37,733 | 47.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,797 | 26.35 | |
Scottish National Party | 13,260 | 16.80 | |
Liberal Party | 7,129 | 9.03 | |
Majority | 16,936 | 21.46 | |
Mitcham & Morden | |||
47,942/62,365 | 76.87 | ||
Labour Party | 21,668 | 45.20 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,050 | 43.91 | |
Liberal Party | 4,258 | 8.88 | |
National Front | 966 | 2.01 | |
Majority | 618 | 1.29 | |
11 December 1981 Bruce Douglas-Mann resigns the Labour whip. | |||
5 May 1982 Resignation of Bruce Douglas-Mann on joining the SDP. | |||
3 June 1982 | 30,673/63,225 | 48.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,306 | 43.38 | |
Social Democratic Party in Alliance | 9,032 | 29.45 | |
Labour Party | 7,475 | 24.37 | |
National Front | 547 | 1.78 | |
Independent Liberal | 123 | 0.40 | |
Ethnic Minority | 84 | 0.27 | |
Independent | 66 | 0.22 | |
Independent | 22 | 0.07 | |
Computer Democrat | 18 | 0.06 | |
Majority | 4,274 | 13.93 | |
Christopher Farnsworth sought election as a Computer Democrat. | |||
Monmouth | |||
66,467/80,085 | 83.00 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,547 | 50.47 | |
Labour Party | 23,785 | 35.78 | |
Liberal Party | 8,494 | 12.78 | |
Plaid Cymru | 641 | 0.96 | |
Majority | 9,762 | 14.69 | |
Montgomery | |||
29,134/35,786 | 81.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,751 | 40.33 | |
Liberal Party | 10,158 | 34.87 | |
Labour Party | 4,751 | 16.31 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,474 | 8.49 | |
Majority | 1,593 | 5.47 | |
Moray & Nairn | |||
35,485/45,802 | 77.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,220 | 40.07 | |
Scottish National Party | 13,800 | 38.89 | |
Liberal Party | 4,361 | 12.29 | |
Labour Party | 3,104 | 8.75 | |
Majority | 420 | 1.18 | |
Morecambe & Lonsdale | |||
52,471/68,625 | 76.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,068 | 55.40 | |
Labour Party | 13,253 | 25.26 | |
Liberal Party | 10,150 | 19.34 | |
Majority | 15,815 | 30.14 | |
Morpeth | |||
38,629/49,881 | 77.44 | ||
Labour Party | 21,744 | 56.29 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,913 | 25.66 | |
Liberal Party | 6,972 | 18.05 | |
Majority | 11,831 | 30.63 | |
Motherwell & Wishaw | |||
39,146/50,317 | 77.80 | ||
Labour Party | 22,263 | 56.87 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,326 | 28.93 | |
Scottish National Party | 4,817 | 12.31 | |
Communist Party | 740 | 1.89 | |
Majority | 10,937 | 27.94 | |
Nantwich | |||
50,928/64,211 | 79.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,624 | 50.31 | |
Labour Party | 17,919 | 35.18 | |
Liberal Party | 6,571 | 12.90 | |
National Front | 814 | 1.60 | |
Majority | 7,705 | 15.13 | |
Neath | |||
41,956/51,659 | 81.22 | ||
Labour Party | 27,071 | 64.52 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,455 | 20.15 | |
Plaid Cymru | 6,430 | 15.33 | |
Majority | 18,616 | 44.37 | |
Nelson & Colne | |||
38,930/47,739 | 81.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,522 | 45.01 | |
Labour Party | 17,086 | 43.89 | |
Liberal Party | 4,322 | 11.10 | |
Majority | 436 | 1.12 | |
New Forest | |||
65,748/85,137 | 77.23 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 39,124 | 59.51 | |
Liberal Party | 13,674 | 20.80 | |
Labour Party | 12,950 | 19.70 | |
Majority | 25,450 | 38.71 | |
Newark | |||
60,444/75,612 | 79.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,711 | 45.85 | |
Labour Party | 25,960 | 42.95 | |
Liberal Party | 6,773 | 11.21 | |
Majority | 1,751 | 2.90 | |
Newbury | |||
63,741/80,355 | 79.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,677 | 52.83 | |
Liberal Party | 23,388 | 36.69 | |
Labour Party | 6,676 | 10.47 | |
Majority | 10,289 | 16.14 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne Central | |||
15,450/23,678 | 65.25 | ||
Labour Party | 10,395 | 67.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,982 | 19.30 | |
Liberal Party | 2,073 | 13.42 | |
Majority | 7,413 | 47.98 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne East | |||
33,162/44,484 | 74.55 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 18,257 | 55.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,087 | 36.45 | |
Liberal Party | 2,818 | 8.50 | |
Majority | 6,170 | 18.61 | |
2 March 1981 Mike Thomas resigns the Labour whip to join the Social Democratic Party. | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne North | |||
26,714/39,307 | 67.96 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,721 | 47.62 | |
Labour Party | 11,010 | 41.21 | |
Liberal Party | 2,983 | 11.17 | |
Majority | 1,711 | 6.40 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne West | |||
60,219/83,156 | 72.42 | ||
Labour Party | 32,827 | 54.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,591 | 35.85 | |
Liberal Party | 5,801 | 9.63 | |
Majority | 11,236 | 18.66 | |
Newcastle-under-Lyme | |||
59,104/72,442 | 81.59 | ||
Labour Party | 28,649 | 48.47 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,421 | 41.32 | |
Liberal Party | 5,878 | 9.95 | |
British Empire Society | 156 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 4,228 | 7.15 | |
Sydney Rowe sought election as a British Empire Socialist. | |||
Newham North East | |||
41,872/66,371 | 63.09 | ||
Labour Party | 22,818 | 54.49 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,778 | 30.52 | |
Liberal Party | 4,027 | 9.62 | |
National Front | 1,769 | 4.22 | |
Independent | 208 | 0.50 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 154 | 0.37 | |
Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident | 118 | 0.28 | |
Majority | 10,040 | 23.98 | |
Newham North West | |||
29,923/54,030 | 55.38 | ||
Labour Party | 18,392 | 61.46 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,937 | 26.52 | |
Liberal Party | 2,377 | 7.94 | |
National Front | 1,217 | 4.07 | |
Majority | 10,455 | 34.94 | |
Newham South | |||
30,483/53,431 | 57.05 | ||
Labour Party | 19,636 | 64.42 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,863 | 22.51 | |
Liberal Party | 2,085 | 6.84 | |
National Front | 1,899 | 6.23 | |
Majority | 12,773 | 41.90 | |
Newport | |||
59,858/75,122 | 79.68 | ||
Labour Party | 30,919 | 51.65 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,742 | 36.32 | |
Liberal Party | 6,270 | 10.47 | |
Plaid Cymru | 473 | 0.79 | |
National Front | 454 | 0.76 | |
Majority | 9,177 | 15.33 | |
Newton | |||
80,702/102,885 | 78.44 | ||
Labour Party | 41,466 | 51.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,125 | 37.33 | |
Liberal Party | 8,470 | 10.50 | |
National Front | 641 | 0.79 | |
Majority | 11,341 | 14.05 | |
Normanton | |||
47,123/61,390 | 76.76 | ||
Labour Party | 26,591 | 56.43 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,398 | 30.55 | |
Liberal Party | 6,134 | 13.02 | |
Majority | 12,193 | 25.87 | |
North Angus & Mearns | |||
31,821/43,122 | 73.79 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,302 | 57.52 | |
Scottish National Party | 7,387 | 23.21 | |
Labour Party | 6,132 | 19.27 | |
Majority | 10,915 | 34.30 | |
North Antrim | |||
65,692/102,202 | 64.28 | ||
Democratic Unionist Party | 33,941 | 51.67 | |
Official Unionist Party | 15,398 | 23.44 | |
Alliance Party | 7,797 | 11.87 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 4,867 | 7.41 | |
Irish Independence Party | 3,689 | 5.62 | |
Majority | 18,543 | 28.23 | |
North Cornwall | |||
47,411/55,076 | 86.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,489 | 51.65 | |
Liberal Party | 20,742 | 43.75 | |
Labour Party | 1,514 | 3.19 | |
Ecology Party | 442 | 0.93 | |
National Front | 224 | 0.47 | |
Majority | 3,747 | 7.90 | |
North Devon | |||
63,514/77,715 | 81.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,811 | 50.09 | |
Liberal Party | 23,338 | 36.74 | |
Labour Party | 7,108 | 11.19 | |
Ecology Party | 729 | 1.15 | |
National Front | 237 | 0.37 | |
English National Party | 142 | 0.22 | |
Dog Lovers' Party | 79 | 0.12 | |
Wessex Regiment | 50 | 0.08 | |
Independent | 20 | 0.03 | |
Majority | 8,473 | 13.34 | |
Bill Boaks sought election as "Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident". | |||
North Dorset | |||
64,339/80,732 | 79.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 40,046 | 62.24 | |
Liberal Party | 16,750 | 26.03 | |
Labour Party | 7,543 | 11.72 | |
Majority | 23,296 | 36.21 | |
North Down | |||
62,081/99,861 | 62.17 | ||
Independent Ulster Unionist | 36,989 | 59.58 | |
Alliance Party | 13,364 | 21.53 | |
Official Unionist Party | 11,728 | 18.89 | |
Majority | 23,625 | 38.06 | |
January 1980 James Kilfedder founds the Ulster Progressive Unionist Party. | |||
North East Derbyshire | |||
56,543/70,767 | 79.90 | ||
Labour Party | 27,218 | 48.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,889 | 38.71 | |
Liberal Party | 7,436 | 13.15 | |
Majority | 5,329 | 9.42 | |
North Fylde | |||
58,853/78,130 | 75.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,366 | 60.09 | |
Labour Party | 14,376 | 24.43 | |
Liberal Party | 8,630 | 14.66 | |
National Front | 481 | 0.82 | |
Majority | 20,990 | 35.67 | |
North Lanarkshire | |||
45,097/56,565 | 79.73 | ||
Labour Party | 25,015 | 55.47 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,195 | 31.48 | |
Scottish National Party | 5,887 | 13.05 | |
Majority | 10,820 | 23.99 | |
North Norfolk | |||
77,269/98,135 | 78.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 43,952 | 56.88 | |
Labour Party | 22,126 | 28.64 | |
Liberal Party | 10,643 | 13.77 | |
National Front | 548 | 0.71 | |
Majority | 21,826 | 28.25 | |
North Somerset | |||
79,447/96,606 | 82.24 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 43,173 | 54.34 | |
Labour Party | 22,122 | 27.84 | |
Liberal Party | 12,898 | 16.23 | |
Ecology Party | 1,254 | 1.58 | |
Majority | 21,051 | 26.50 | |
North West Durham | |||
48,164/63,387 | 75.98 | ||
Labour Party | 29,525 | 61.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,245 | 29.58 | |
Liberal Party | 4,394 | 9.12 | |
Majority | 15,280 | 31.72 | |
North West Norfolk | |||
66,252/83,702 | 79.15 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,796 | 51.01 | |
Labour Party | 25,868 | 39.04 | |
Liberal Party | 6,588 | 9.94 | |
Majority | 7,928 | 11.97 | |
16 March 1981 Chrisopher Brocklebank-Fowler resigns the Conservative whip to join the Social Democratic Party. | |||
North West Surrey | |||
56,815/75,197 | 75.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,219 | 63.75 | |
Labour Party | 10,763 | 18.94 | |
Liberal Party | 9,037 | 15.91 | |
National Front | 796 | 1.40 | |
Majority | 25,456 | 44.81 | |
Northampton North | |||
38,563/50,739 | 76.00 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,597 | 48.22 | |
Labour Party | 13,934 | 36.13 | |
Liberal Party | 5,659 | 14.67 | |
National Front | 373 | 0.97 | |
Majority | 4,663 | 12.09 | |
Northampton South | |||
38,501/51,151 | 75.27 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,125 | 49.67 | |
Labour Party | 15,491 | 40.24 | |
Liberal Party | 3,478 | 9.03 | |
National Front | 407 | 1.06 | |
Majority | 3,634 | 9.44 | |
Northwich | |||
43,967/54,362 | 80.88 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,201 | 52.77 | |
Labour Party | 14,455 | 32.88 | |
Liberal Party | 6,311 | 14.35 | |
Majority | 8,746 | 19.89 | |
Norwich North | |||
35,298/46,687 | 75.61 | ||
Labour Party | 17,927 | 50.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,336 | 34.95 | |
Liberal Party | 4,253 | 12.05 | |
Ecology Party | 334 | 0.95 | |
National Front | 250 | 0.71 | |
Communist Party | 106 | 0.30 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 92 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 5,591 | 15.84 | |
Norwich South | |||
36,164/45,073 | 80.23 | ||
Labour Party | 16,240 | 44.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,042 | 41.59 | |
Liberal Party | 4,618 | 12.77 | |
National Front | 264 | 0.73 | |
Majority | 1,198 | 3.31 | |
Norwood | |||
34,382/48,857 | 70.37 | ||
Labour Party | 16,282 | 47.36 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,342 | 41.71 | |
Liberal Party | 3,051 | 8.87 | |
National Front | 707 | 2.06 | |
Majority | 1,940 | 5.64 | |
Nottingham East | |||
30,580/47,838 | 63.92 | ||
Labour Party | 15,433 | 50.47 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,199 | 39.89 | |
Liberal Party | 2,270 | 7.42 | |
National Front | 426 | 1.39 | |
Socialist Unity | 252 | 0.82 | |
Majority | 3,234 | 10.58 | |
Nottingham North | |||
53,409/78,996 | 67.61 | ||
Labour Party | 25,028 | 46.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,956 | 41.11 | |
Liberal Party | 4,900 | 9.17 | |
Communist Party | 1,071 | 2.01 | |
National Front | 454 | 0.85 | |
Majority | 3,072 | 5.75 | |
Nottingham West | |||
56,509/77,155 | 73.24 | ||
Labour Party | 26,301 | 46.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,801 | 42.12 | |
Liberal Party | 5,497 | 9.73 | |
National Front | 718 | 1.27 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 192 | 0.34 | |
Majority | 2,500 | 4.42 | |
Nuneaton | |||
62,959/80,225 | 78.48 | ||
Labour Party | 31,403 | 49.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,715 | 37.67 | |
Liberal Party | 6,184 | 9.82 | |
National Front | 1,028 | 1.63 | |
Independent Labour | 629 | 1.00 | |
Majority | 7,688 | 12.21 | |
Ogmore | |||
55,909/70,156 | 79.69 | ||
Labour Party | 29,867 | 53.42 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,780 | 24.65 | |
Liberal Party | 9,812 | 17.55 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,450 | 4.38 | |
Majority | 16,087 | 28.77 | |
Oldham East | |||
36,013/52,420 | 68.70 | ||
Labour Party | 18,248 | 50.67 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,616 | 37.81 | |
Liberal Party | 4,149 | 11.52 | |
Majority | 4,632 | 12.86 | |
Oldham West | |||
33,946/46,763 | 72.59 | ||
Labour Party | 17,802 | 52.44 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,025 | 35.42 | |
Liberal Party | 3,604 | 10.62 | |
National Front | 515 | 1.52 | |
Majority | 5,777 | 17.02 | |
Orkney & Shetland | |||
19,410/28,884 | 67.20 | ||
Liberal Party | 10,950 | 56.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,140 | 21.33 | |
Labour Party | 3,385 | 17.44 | |
Scottish National Party | 935 | 4.82 | |
Majority | 6,810 | 35.09 | |
Ormskirk | |||
74,406/97,764 | 76.11 | ||
Labour Party | 37,222 | 50.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,364 | 48.87 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 820 | 1.10 | |
Majority | 858 | 1.15 | |
Orpington | |||
55,467/67,917 | 81.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,150 | 57.96 | |
Liberal Party | 16,074 | 28.98 | |
Labour Party | 6,581 | 11.86 | |
National Front | 516 | 0.93 | |
Homeland | 146 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 16,076 | 28.98 | |
Oswestry | |||
43,106/58,334 | 73.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,551 | 54.64 | |
Labour Party | 10,150 | 23.55 | |
Liberal Party | 9,405 | 21.82 | |
Majority | 13,401 | 31.09 | |
Oxford | |||
60,614/81,708 | 74.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,459 | 45.30 | |
Labour Party | 25,962 | 42.83 | |
Liberal Party | 6,234 | 10.28 | |
Independent Ecology | 887 | 1.46 | |
Independent | 72 | 0.12 | |
Majority | 1,497 | 2.47 | |
Anthony Cheke was the nominee of the Oxford Ecology Movement. | |||
Paddington | |||
35,606/56,234 | 63.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,189 | 45.47 | |
Labour Party | 16,083 | 45.17 | |
Liberal Party | 2,815 | 7.91 | |
National Front | 402 | 1.13 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 117 | 0.33 | |
Majority | 106 | 0.30 | |
Paisley | |||
46,416/63,765 | 72.79 | ||
Labour Party | 25,894 | 55.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,139 | 26.15 | |
Scottish National Party | 7,305 | 15.74 | |
Scottish Labour | 811 | 1.75 | |
Communist Party | 145 | 0.31 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 122 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 13,755 | 29.63 | |
Peckham | |||
34,027/59,015 | 57.66 | ||
Labour Party | 20,364 | 59.85 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,553 | 28.07 | |
Liberal Party | 2,607 | 7.66 | |
National Front | 1,503 | 4.42 | |
Majority | 10,811 | 31.77 | |
21 August 1982 Death of Harry Lamborn. | |||
28 October 1982 | 22,543/59,260 | 38.04 | |
Labour Party | 11,349 | 50.34 | |
Social Democratic Party in Alliance | 7,418 | 32.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,800 | 12.42 | |
National Front | 874 | 3.88 | |
Independent | 102 | 0.45 | |
Majority | 3,931 | 17.44 | |
Pembroke | |||
62,014/76,268 | 81.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,483 | 49.16 | |
Labour Party | 23,015 | 37.11 | |
Liberal Party | 6,249 | 10.08 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,573 | 2.54 | |
Ecology Party | 694 | 1.12 | |
Majority | 7,468 | 12.04 | |
Penistone | |||
57,091/72,370 | 78.89 | ||
Labour Party | 28,010 | 49.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,309 | 32.07 | |
Liberal Party | 10,772 | 18.87 | |
Majority | 9,701 | 16.99 | |
Penrith & The Border | |||
44,041/57,210 | 76.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,940 | 61.17 | |
Labour Party | 9,844 | 22.35 | |
Liberal Party | 7,257 | 16.48 | |
Majority | 17,096 | 38.82 | |
Perth & East Perthshire | |||
48,045/62,142 | 77.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,153 | 41.95 | |
Scottish National Party | 17,050 | 35.49 | |
Labour Party | 6,432 | 13.39 | |
Liberal Party | 4,410 | 9.18 | |
Majority | 3,103 | 6.46 | |
Peterborough | |||
56,829/72,912 | 77.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,734 | 48.80 | |
Labour Party | 22,632 | 39.82 | |
Liberal Party | 5,685 | 10.00 | |
National Front | 672 | 1.18 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 106 | 0.19 | |
Majority | 5,102 | 8.98 | |
Petersfield | |||
64,107/81,887 | 78.29 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 39,200 | 61.15 | |
Liberal Party | 16,825 | 26.25 | |
Labour Party | 8,082 | 12.61 | |
Majority | 22,375 | 34.90 | |
Plymouth Devonport | |||
34,895/48,236 | 72.34 | ||
Labour Party | 16,545 | 47.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,544 | 44.55 | |
Liberal Party | 2,360 | 6.76 | |
National Front | 243 | 0.70 | |
Independent | 203 | 0.58 | |
Majority | 1,001 | 2.87 | |
2 March 1981 Rt Hon Dr David Owen relinquishes the Labour whip as a member of the Council for Social Democracy and announces his intention to sit as a Social Democrat. | |||
Plymouth Drake | |||
43,005/55,711 | 77.19 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,759 | 50.60 | |
Labour Party | 17,515 | 40.73 | |
Liberal Party | 3,452 | 8.03 | |
National Front | 279 | 0.65 | |
Majority | 4,244 | 9.87 | |
Plymouth Sutton | |||
52,723/68,516 | 76.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,892 | 54.80 | |
Labour Party | 17,605 | 33.39 | |
Liberal Party | 6,226 | 11.81 | |
Majority | 11,287 | 21.41 | |
Pontefract & Castleford | |||
44,847/60,697 | 73.89 | ||
Labour Party | 30,566 | 68.16 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,665 | 23.78 | |
Liberal Party | 3,616 | 8.06 | |
Majority | 19,901 | 44.38 | |
Pontypool | |||
44,811/57,187 | 78.36 | ||
Labour Party | 27,751 | 61.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,383 | 23.17 | |
Liberal Party | 5,508 | 12.29 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,169 | 2.61 | |
Majority | 17,368 | 38.76 | |
Pontypridd | |||
58,606/75,050 | 78.09 | ||
Labour Party | 32,801 | 55.97 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,114 | 29.20 | |
Liberal Party | 6,228 | 10.63 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,200 | 3.75 | |
National Front | 263 | 0.45 | |
Majority | 15,687 | 26.77 | |
Poole | |||
68,138/87,208 | 78.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 38,846 | 57.01 | |
Labour Party | 15,291 | 22.44 | |
Liberal Party | 14,001 | 20.55 | |
Majority | 23,555 | 34.57 | |
Portsmouth North | |||
54,175/68,870 | 78.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,356 | 48.65 | |
Labour Party | 24,045 | 44.38 | |
Liberal Party | 3,354 | 6.19 | |
National Front | 298 | 0.55 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 122 | 0.23 | |
Majority | 2,311 | 4.27 | |
Portsmouth South | |||
49,085/67,346 | 72.88 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,835 | 54.67 | |
Labour Party | 15,306 | 31.18 | |
Liberal Party | 6,487 | 13.22 | |
National Front | 457 | 0.93 | |
Majority | 11,529 | 23.49 | |
Preston North | |||
40,279/51,756 | 77.82 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,632 | 46.26 | |
Labour Party | 18,603 | 46.19 | |
Liberal Party | 2,715 | 6.74 | |
National Front | 329 | 0.82 | |
Majority | 29 | 0.07 | |
Preston South | |||
39,998/51,820 | 77.19 | ||
Labour Party | 17,810 | 44.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,189 | 42.97 | |
Liberal Party | 4,625 | 11.56 | |
National Front | 258 | 0.65 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 116 | 0.29 | |
Majority | 621 | 1.55 | |
Pudsey | |||
54,510/67,853 | 80.34 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,591 | 45.11 | |
Liberal Party | 15,852 | 29.08 | |
Labour Party | 13,727 | 25.18 | |
Ecology Party | 340 | 0.62 | |
Majority | 8,739 | 16.03 | |
Putney | |||
49,200/64,648 | 76.10 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,044 | 46.84 | |
Labour Party | 20,410 | 41.48 | |
Liberal Party | 5,061 | 10.29 | |
National Front | 685 | 1.39 | |
Majority | 2,634 | 5.35 | |
Ravensbourne | |||
36,938/47,601 | 77.60 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,501 | 60.92 | |
Liberal Party | 7,111 | 19.25 | |
Labour Party | 6,848 | 18.54 | |
National Front | 478 | 1.29 | |
Majority | 15,390 | 41.66 | |
Reading North | |||
49,598/65,369 | 75.87 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,085 | 50.58 | |
Labour Party | 17,662 | 35.61 | |
Liberal Party | 6,170 | 12.44 | |
National Front | 554 | 1.12 | |
Independent | 127 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 7,423 | 14.97 | |
Reading South | |||
55,831/73,001 | 76.48 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,067 | 53.85 | |
Labour Party | 14,422 | 25.83 | |
Liberal Party | 10,642 | 19.06 | |
Ecology Party | 700 | 1.25 | |
Majority | 15,645 | 28.02 | |
Redcar | |||
47,445/62,511 | 75.90 | ||
Labour Party | 25,470 | 53.68 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,417 | 36.71 | |
Liberal Party | 4,225 | 8.91 | |
Independent | 333 | 0.70 | |
Majority | 8,053 | 16.97 | |
Reigate | |||
56,478/72,248 | 78.17 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,767 | 59.79 | |
Labour Party | 12,454 | 22.05 | |
Liberal Party | 10,257 | 18.16 | |
Majority | 21,313 | 37.74 | |
Rhondda | |||
50,578/63,412 | 79.76 | ||
Labour Party | 38,007 | 75.15 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,526 | 12.90 | |
Plaid Cymru | 4,226 | 8.36 | |
Communist Party | 1,819 | 3.60 | |
Majority | 31,481 | 62.24 | |
20 March 1983 Death of Rt Hon Alec Jones. | |||
Richmond (Surrey) | |||
41,343/50,811 | 81.37 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,294 | 46.67 | |
Liberal Party | 16,764 | 40.55 | |
Labour Party | 4,692 | 11.35 | |
Independent | 315 | 0.76 | |
National Front | 244 | 0.59 | |
Independent | 34 | 0.08 | |
Majority | 2,530 | 6.12 | |
Jonathan King sought election as a Libertarian Party and English Nationalist Party candidate. | |||
Richmond (Yorks) | |||
47,095/65,319 | 72.10 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,958 | 61.49 | |
Liberal Party | 9,964 | 21.16 | |
Labour Party | 8,173 | 17.35 | |
Majority | 18,994 | 40.33 | |
Ripon | |||
41,911/53,180 | 78.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,292 | 60.35 | |
Liberal Party | 9,089 | 21.69 | |
Labour Party | 6,749 | 16.10 | |
Ecology Party | 781 | 1.86 | |
Majority | 16,203 | 38.66 | |
Rochdale | |||
49,234/66,841 | 73.66 | ||
Liberal Party | 22,172 | 45.03 | |
Labour Party | 16,878 | 34.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,494 | 19.28 | |
National Front | 690 | 1.40 | |
Majority | 5,294 | 10.75 | |
Rochester & Chatham | |||
58,096/79,872 | 72.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,574 | 47.46 | |
Labour Party | 24,886 | 42.84 | |
Liberal Party | 5,219 | 8.98 | |
National Front | 417 | 0.72 | |
Majority | 2,688 | 4.63 | |
Romford | |||
42,254/55,154 | 76.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,714 | 53.76 | |
Labour Party | 13,902 | 32.90 | |
Liberal Party | 4,818 | 11.40 | |
National Front | 820 | 1.94 | |
Majority | 8,812 | 20.85 | |
Ross & Cromarty | |||
25,116/32,892 | 76.36 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,650 | 42.40 | |
Scottish National Party | 5,915 | 23.55 | |
Labour Party | 5,055 | 20.13 | |
Liberal Party | 3,496 | 13.92 | |
Majority | 4,735 | 18.85 | |
Rossendale | |||
42,401/51,504 | 82.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,370 | 48.04 | |
Labour Party | 18,497 | 43.62 | |
Liberal Party | 3,534 | 8.33 | |
Majority | 1,873 | 4.42 | |
Rother Valley | |||
73,907/99,029 | 74.63 | ||
Labour Party | 45,986 | 62.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,984 | 27.04 | |
Liberal Party | 7,937 | 10.74 | |
Majority | 26,002 | 35.18 | |
Rotherham | |||
43,901/60,871 | 72.12 | ||
Labour Party | 26,580 | 60.55 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,145 | 29.94 | |
Liberal Party | 3,686 | 8.40 | |
National Front | 490 | 1.12 | |
Majority | 13,435 | 30.60 | |
Roxburgh, Selkirk & Peebles | |||
48,948/59,691 | 82.00 | ||
Liberal Party | 25,993 | 53.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,303 | 31.26 | |
Labour Party | 4,150 | 8.48 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,502 | 7.15 | |
Majority | 10,690 | 21.84 | |
Royal Tunbridge Wells | |||
53,626/71,825 | 74.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,928 | 59.54 | |
Labour Party | 11,392 | 21.24 | |
Liberal Party | 9,797 | 18.27 | |
National Front | 509 | 0.95 | |
Majority | 20,536 | 38.29 | |
Rugby | |||
51,601/61,506 | 83.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,417 | 47.32 | |
Labour Party | 21,688 | 42.03 | |
Liberal Party | 4,945 | 9.58 | |
National Front | 551 | 1.07 | |
Majority | 2,729 | 5.29 | |
Ruislip-Northwood | |||
43,633/55,505 | 78.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,748 | 61.30 | |
Labour Party | 9,541 | 21.87 | |
Liberal Party | 6,867 | 15.74 | |
National Front | 477 | 1.09 | |
Majority | 17,207 | 39.44 | |
Runcorn | |||
63,916/82,126 | 77.83 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,907 | 51.48 | |
Labour Party | 22,226 | 34.77 | |
Liberal Party | 8,783 | 13.74 | |
Majority | 10,681 | 16.71 | |
Rushcliffe | |||
54,968/67,286 | 81.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,196 | 62.21 | |
Labour Party | 11,712 | 21.31 | |
Liberal Party | 9,060 | 16.48 | |
Majority | 22,484 | 40.90 | |
Rutherglen | |||
39,709/49,979 | 79.45 | ||
Labour Party | 18,546 | 46.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,523 | 26.50 | |
Liberal Party | 7,315 | 18.42 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,325 | 8.37 | |
Majority | 8,023 | 20.20 | |
Rutland & Stamford | |||
46,382/59,404 | 78.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,198 | 56.48 | |
Labour Party | 11,383 | 24.54 | |
Liberal Party | 8,801 | 18.98 | |
Majority | 14,815 | 31.94 | |
Rye | |||
56,625/73,416 | 77.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,516 | 62.72 | |
Liberal Party | 12,438 | 21.97 | |
Labour Party | 6,852 | 12.10 | |
Ecology Party | 1,267 | 2.24 | |
National Front | 552 | 0.97 | |
Majority | 23,078 | 40.76 | |
Saffron Walden | |||
53,077/65,034 | 81.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,563 | 53.81 | |
Liberal Party | 13,200 | 24.87 | |
Labour Party | 10,547 | 19.87 | |
Anti-Common Market | 425 | 0.80 | |
National Front | 342 | 0.64 | |
Majority | 15,363 | 28.94 | |
Salford East | |||
21,050/32,718 | 64.34 | ||
Labour Party | 13,453 | 63.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,597 | 36.09 | |
Majority | 5,856 | 27.82 | |
Salford West | |||
29,951/43,587 | 68.72 | ||
Labour Party | 18,411 | 61.47 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,157 | 37.25 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 383 | 1.28 | |
Majority | 7,254 | 24.22 | |
Salisbury | |||
50,001/64,615 | 77.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,962 | 49.92 | |
Liberal Party | 18,718 | 37.44 | |
Labour Party | 6,321 | 12.64 | |
Majority | 6,244 | 12.49 | |
Scarborough | |||
44,525/60,896 | 73.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,669 | 53.16 | |
Labour Party | 11,344 | 25.48 | |
Liberal Party | 9,025 | 20.27 | |
Independent | 487 | 1.09 | |
Majority | 12,325 | 27.68 | |
Sevenoaks | |||
63,940/80,960 | 78.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,697 | 57.39 | |
Labour Party | 14,583 | 22.81 | |
Liberal Party | 11,839 | 18.52 | |
National Front | 821 | 1.28 | |
Majority | 22,114 | 34.59 | |
Sheffield Attercliffe | |||
45,775/62,984 | 72.68 | ||
Labour Party | 29,702 | 64.89 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,599 | 25.34 | |
Liberal Party | 4,017 | 8.78 | |
National Front | 457 | 1.00 | |
Majority | 18,103 | 39.55 | |
Sheffield Brightside | |||
37,487/54,459 | 68.84 | ||
Labour Party | 25,672 | 68.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,979 | 21.28 | |
Liberal Party | 3,482 | 9.29 | |
National Front | 354 | 0.94 | |
Majority | 17,693 | 47.20 | |
Sheffield Hallam | |||
57,220/78,901 | 72.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,436 | 54.94 | |
Labour Party | 16,502 | 28.84 | |
Liberal Party | 8,982 | 15.70 | |
National Front | 300 | 0.52 | |
Majority | 14,934 | 26.10 | |
Sheffield Heeley | |||
49,445/63,996 | 77.26 | ||
Labour Party | 24,618 | 49.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,845 | 40.14 | |
Liberal Party | 4,708 | 9.52 | |
National Front | 274 | 0.55 | |
Majority | 4,773 | 9.65 | |
Sheffield Hillsborough | |||
36,176/51,088 | 70.81 | ||
Labour Party | 20,556 | 56.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,206 | 33.74 | |
Liberal Party | 3,088 | 8.54 | |
National Front | 326 | 0.90 | |
Majority | 8,350 | 23.08 | |
Sheffield Park | |||
40,077/62,174 | 64.46 | ||
Labour Party | 27,489 | 68.59 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,159 | 17.86 | |
Liberal Party | 4,737 | 11.82 | |
National Front | 302 | 0.75 | |
Communist Party | 279 | 0.70 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 111 | 0.28 | |
Majority | 20,330 | 50.73 | |
Shipley | |||
43,081/53,516 | 80.50 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,641 | 52.55 | |
Labour Party | 14,281 | 33.15 | |
Liberal Party | 5,673 | 13.17 | |
Ecology Party | 486 | 1.13 | |
Majority | 8,360 | 19.41 | |
Shoreham | |||
56,366/72,288 | 77.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,339 | 60.92 | |
Liberal Party | 12,754 | 22.63 | |
Labour Party | 8,867 | 15.73 | |
National Front | 406 | 0.72 | |
Majority | 21,585 | 38.29 | |
Shrewsbury | |||
48,470/63,236 | 76.65 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,548 | 48.58 | |
Liberal Party | 13,364 | 27.57 | |
Labour Party | 11,558 | 23.85 | |
Majority | 10,184 | 21.01 | |
Sidcup | |||
39,610/49,976 | 79.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,692 | 59.81 | |
Labour Party | 10,236 | 25.84 | |
Liberal Party | 4,908 | 12.39 | |
National Front | 774 | 1.95 | |
Majority | 13,456 | 33.97 | |
Skipton | |||
45,293/53,881 | 84.06 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,177 | 51.17 | |
Liberal Party | 17,484 | 38.60 | |
Labour Party | 4,632 | 10.23 | |
Majority | 5,693 | 12.57 | |
Solihull | |||
65,039/84,272 | 77.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 43,027 | 66.16 | |
Labour Party | 10,820 | 16.64 | |
Liberal Party | 10,214 | 15.70 | |
National Front | 978 | 1.50 | |
Majority | 32,207 | 49.52 | |
South Angus | |||
45,936/57,513 | 79.87 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,029 | 43.60 | |
Scottish National Party | 19,066 | 41.51 | |
Labour Party | 4,623 | 10.06 | |
Liberal Party | 2,218 | 4.83 | |
Majority | 963 | 2.10 | |
South Antrim | |||
73,638/126,444 | 58.24 | ||
Official Unionist Party | 50,782 | 68.96 | |
Alliance Party | 11,914 | 16.18 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 7,432 | 10.09 | |
United Labour | 1,895 | 2.57 | |
Republican Clubs | 1,615 | 2.19 | |
Majority | 38,868 | 52.78 | |
7 May 1979 Jim Molyneaux elected leader of the OUP. | |||
South Ayrshire | |||
40,541/50,727 | 79.92 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 14,271 | 35.20 | |
Scottish Labour | 12,750 | 31.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,287 | 25.37 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,233 | 7.97 | |
Majority | 1,521 | 3.75 | |
South Bedfordshire | |||
58,521/73,247 | 79.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,988 | 56.37 | |
Labour Party | 16,505 | 28.20 | |
Liberal Party | 8,402 | 14.36 | |
National Front | 626 | 1.07 | |
Majority | 16,483 | 28.17 | |
South Dorset | |||
58,154/74,239 | 78.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,372 | 55.67 | |
Labour Party | 17,133 | 29.46 | |
Liberal Party | 8,649 | 14.87 | |
Majority | 15,239 | 26.20 | |
South Down | |||
64,476/89,562 | 71.99 | ||
Official Unionist Party | 32,254 | 50.02 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 24,033 | 37.27 | |
Alliance Party | 4,407 | 6.84 | |
Irish Independence Party | 1,853 | 2.87 | |
Republican Clubs | 1,682 | 2.61 | |
Independent | 216 | 0.34 | |
Reform | 31 | 0.05 | |
Majority | 8,221 | 12.75 | |
Francis Rice sought election as an Interdependence candidate. | |||
South East Derbyshire | |||
46,637/57,516 | 81.09 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,004 | 51.47 | |
Labour Party | 16,617 | 35.63 | |
Liberal Party | 5,518 | 11.83 | |
National Front | 498 | 1.07 | |
Majority | 7,387 | 15.84 | |
South East Essex | |||
63,320/82,350 | 76.89 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 40,497 | 63.96 | |
Labour Party | 15,965 | 25.21 | |
Liberal Party | 6,858 | 10.83 | |
Majority | 24,532 | 38.74 | |
South Fylde | |||
72,398/94,335 | 76.75 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 45,883 | 63.38 | |
Labour Party | 13,636 | 18.83 | |
Liberal Party | 11,938 | 16.49 | |
National Front | 941 | 1.30 | |
Majority | 32,247 | 44.54 | |
South Gloucestershire | |||
69,637/84,867 | 82.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,627 | 51.16 | |
Labour Party | 20,465 | 29.39 | |
Liberal Party | 12,850 | 18.45 | |
Ecology Party | 695 | 1.00 | |
Majority | 15,162 | 21.77 | |
South Hertfordshire | |||
51,523/65,198 | 79.03 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,858 | 54.07 | |
Labour Party | 16,059 | 31.17 | |
Liberal Party | 7,001 | 13.59 | |
National Front | 605 | 1.17 | |
Majority | 11,799 | 22.90 | |
South Norfolk | |||
78,537/100,243 | 78.35 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 42,792 | 54.49 | |
Labour Party | 23,755 | 30.25 | |
Liberal Party | 11,990 | 15.27 | |
Majority | 19,037 | 24.24 | |
South Shields | |||
50,229/70,566 | 71.18 | ||
Labour Party | 28,675 | 57.09 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,551 | 30.96 | |
Liberal Party | 6,003 | 11.95 | |
Majority | 13,124 | 26.13 | |
South West Hertfordshire | |||
60,543/75,930 | 79.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,112 | 54.69 | |
Labour Party | 16,784 | 27.72 | |
Liberal Party | 9,808 | 16.20 | |
National Front | 839 | 1.39 | |
Majority | 16,328 | 26.97 | |
24 October 1979 Resignation of Geoffrey Dodsworth. | |||
13 December 1979 | 37,077/76,776 | 48.29 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,031 | 45.93 | |
Labour Party | 10,259 | 27.67 | |
Liberal Party | 8,752 | 23.60 | |
Ecology Party | 602 | 1.62 | |
Anti-Common Market and Free Trade Party | 288 | 0.78 | |
Independent | 145 | 0.39 | |
Majority | 6,772 | 18.26 | |
Nigel Ffooks sought election as Father Christmas: Support Southampton University Rag. | |||
South West Norfolk | |||
45,193/57,901 | 78.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,767 | 54.80 | |
Labour Party | 14,063 | 31.12 | |
Liberal Party | 6,363 | 14.08 | |
Majority | 10,704 | 23.69 | |
South West Staffordshire | |||
53,245/67,383 | 79.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,153 | 60.39 | |
Labour Party | 14,720 | 27.65 | |
Liberal Party | 5,460 | 10.25 | |
National Front | 912 | 1.71 | |
Majority | 17,433 | 32.74 | |
South Worcestershire | |||
61,126/79,036 | 77.34 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,926 | 57.14 | |
Liberal Party | 14,272 | 23.35 | |
Labour Party | 10,206 | 16.70 | |
Ecology Party | 1,722 | 2.82 | |
Majority | 20,654 | 33.79 | |
Southampton Itchen | |||
60,602/81,151 | 74.68 | ||
Labour Party | 28,036 | 46.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,434 | 43.62 | |
Liberal Party | 6,132 | 10.12 | |
Majority | 1,602 | 2.64 | |
5 October 1981 Richard Mitchell resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
Southampton Test | |||
58,666/76,890 | 76.30 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,198 | 46.36 | |
Labour Party | 25,075 | 42.74 | |
Liberal Party | 6,393 | 10.90 | |
Majority | 2,123 | 3.62 | |
Southend East | |||
39,972/57,037 | 70.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,413 | 56.07 | |
Labour Party | 11,639 | 29.12 | |
Liberal Party | 5,244 | 13.12 | |
National Front | 676 | 1.69 | |
Majority | 10,774 | 26.95 | |
26 December 1979 Death of Sir Stephen McAdden. | |||
13 March 1980 | 35,637/57,016 | 62.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,117 | 36.81 | |
Labour Party | 12,687 | 35.60 | |
Liberal Party | 8,939 | 25.08 | |
New Britain | 532 | 1.49 | |
Anti-Common Market and Free Trade Party | 207 | 0.58 | |
Independent Liberal | 132 | 0.37 | |
Independent | 23 | 0.06 | |
Majority | 430 | 1.21 | |
Southend West | |||
51,055/66,958 | 76.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,449 | 57.68 | |
Liberal Party | 12,585 | 24.65 | |
Labour Party | 8,341 | 16.34 | |
National Front | 680 | 1.33 | |
Majority | 16,864 | 33.03 | |
Southport | |||
51,104/68,385 | 74.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,953 | 50.78 | |
Liberal Party | 19,426 | 38.01 | |
Labour Party | 5,725 | 11.20 | |
Majority | 6,527 | 12.77 | |
Sowerby | |||
39,783/49,275 | 80.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,797 | 42.22 | |
Labour Party | 15,617 | 39.26 | |
Liberal Party | 7,369 | 18.52 | |
Majority | 1,180 | 2.97 | |
Spelthorne | |||
54,510/70,898 | 76.89 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,290 | 57.40 | |
Labour Party | 15,137 | 27.77 | |
Liberal Party | 7,565 | 13.88 | |
National Front | 518 | 0.95 | |
Majority | 16,153 | 29.63 | |
St Albans | |||
58,996/73,339 | 80.44 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,301 | 53.06 | |
Liberal Party | 14,057 | 23.83 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 13,638 | 23.12 | |
Majority | 17,244 | 29.23 | |
St Helens | |||
54,481/74,830 | 72.81 | ||
Labour Party | 32,489 | 59.63 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,934 | 31.08 | |
Liberal Party | 4,587 | 8.42 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 471 | 0.86 | |
Majority | 15,555 | 28.55 | |
St Ives | |||
41,376/53,715 | 77.03 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,352 | 54.02 | |
Labour Party | 8,636 | 20.87 | |
Liberal Party | 8,299 | 20.06 | |
Mebyon Kernow | 1,662 | 4.02 | |
Ecology Party | 427 | 1.03 | |
Majority | 13,716 | 33.15 | |
St Marylebone | |||
24,874/40,885 | 60.84 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,899 | 59.90 | |
Labour Party | 6,586 | 26.48 | |
Liberal Party | 2,459 | 9.89 | |
Ecology Party | 691 | 2.78 | |
National Front | 239 | 0.96 | |
Majority | 8,313 | 33.42 | |
St Pancras North | |||
26,839/42,106 | 63.74 | ||
Labour Party | 14,556 | 54.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,110 | 33.94 | |
Liberal Party | 2,654 | 9.89 | |
National Front | 360 | 1.34 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 159 | 0.59 | |
Majority | 5,446 | 20.29 | |
Stafford & Stone | |||
65,646/83,300 | 78.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,387 | 52.38 | |
Labour Party | 21,210 | 32.31 | |
Liberal Party | 10,049 | 15.31 | |
Majority | 13,177 | 20.07 | |
Stalybridge & Hyde | |||
52,226/67,772 | 77.06 | ||
Labour Party | 27,082 | 51.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,502 | 39.26 | |
Liberal Party | 4,642 | 8.89 | |
Majority | 6,580 | 12.60 | |
Stepney & Poplar | |||
31,262/58,637 | 53.31 | ||
Labour Party | 19,576 | 62.62 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,561 | 20.99 | |
Liberal Party | 2,234 | 7.15 | |
National Front | 1,571 | 5.03 | |
Independent Labour | 672 | 2.15 | |
Communist Party | 413 | 1.32 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 235 | 0.75 | |
Majority | 13,015 | 41.63 | |
Stirling, Falkirk & Grangemouth | |||
52,236/66,164 | 78.95 | ||
Labour Party | 29,499 | 56.47 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,881 | 26.57 | |
Scottish National Party | 8,856 | 16.95 | |
Majority | 15,618 | 29.90 | |
Stockport North | |||
42,585/53,533 | 79.55 | ||
Labour Party | 18,789 | 44.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,456 | 43.34 | |
Liberal Party | 5,096 | 11.97 | |
National Front | 244 | 0.57 | |
Majority | 333 | 0.78 | |
Stockport South | |||
37,527/48,513 | 77.35 | ||
Labour Party | 16,910 | 45.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,785 | 42.06 | |
Liberal Party | 4,458 | 11.88 | |
National Front | 374 | 1.00 | |
Majority | 1,125 | 3.00 | |
7 October 1981 Tom McNally resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP. | |||
Stockton | |||
65,751/89,206 | 73.71 | ||
Labour Party | 34,917 | 53.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,790 | 36.18 | |
Liberal Party | 6,074 | 9.24 | |
National Front | 384 | 0.58 | |
Independent | 343 | 0.52 | |
Communist Party | 243 | 0.37 | |
Majority | 11,127 | 16.92 | |
2 March 1981 Rt Hon Bill Rodgers resigned the Labour whip and announced his intention to sit as a Social Democrat. | |||
Stoke-on-Trent Central | |||
41,071/59,493 | 69.04 | ||
Labour Party | 24,707 | 60.16 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,104 | 29.47 | |
Liberal Party | 4,260 | 10.37 | |
Majority | 12,603 | 30.69 | |
Stoke-on-Trent North | |||
43,215/59,402 | 72.75 | ||
Labour Party | 25,652 | 59.36 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,228 | 30.61 | |
Liberal Party | 3,994 | 9.24 | |
National Front | 341 | 0.79 | |
Majority | 12,424 | 28.75 | |
Stoke-on-Trent South | |||
53,803/74,193 | 72.52 | ||
Labour Party | 31,610 | 58.75 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,364 | 32.27 | |
Liberal Party | 4,829 | 8.98 | |
Majority | 14,246 | 26.48 | |
Stratford-on-Avon | |||
58,720/76,588 | 76.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,470 | 60.41 | |
Liberal Party | 12,916 | 22.00 | |
Labour Party | 10,334 | 17.60 | |
Majority | 22,554 | 38.41 | |
Streatham | |||
38,164/53,347 | 71.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,630 | 51.44 | |
Labour Party | 14,130 | 37.02 | |
Liberal Party | 3,779 | 9.90 | |
National Front | 523 | 1.37 | |
Independent | 102 | 0.27 | |
Majority | 5,500 | 14.41 | |
Alf Hollender sought election as a Providers Who Care candidate, and campaigned on a policy of wealth and happiness for the old and the weak. | |||
Stretford | |||
53,807/69,258 | 77.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,972 | 48.27 | |
Labour Party | 21,466 | 39.89 | |
Liberal Party | 6,369 | 11.84 | |
Majority | 4,506 | 8.37 | |
Stroud | |||
61,885/76,137 | 81.28 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,534 | 52.57 | |
Labour Party | 17,037 | 27.53 | |
Liberal Party | 12,314 | 19.90 | |
Majority | 15,497 | 25.04 | |
Sudbury & Woodbridge | |||
71,951/91,441 | 78.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 39,544 | 54.96 | |
Labour Party | 18,972 | 26.37 | |
Liberal Party | 13,435 | 18.67 | |
Majority | 20,572 | 28.59 | |
Sunderland North | |||
50,762/72,994 | 69.54 | ||
Labour Party | 29,213 | 57.55 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,311 | 32.13 | |
Liberal Party | 5,238 | 10.32 | |
Majority | 12,902 | 25.42 | |
Sunderland South | |||
55,389/79,130 | 70.00 | ||
Labour Party | 29,403 | 53.08 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,002 | 37.92 | |
Liberal Party | 4,984 | 9.00 | |
Majority | 8,401 | 15.17 | |
Surbiton | |||
35,417/46,922 | 75.48 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,063 | 56.65 | |
Labour Party | 9,261 | 26.15 | |
Liberal Party | 6,093 | 17.20 | |
Majority | 10,802 | 30.50 | |
Sutton & Cheam | |||
49,697/63,038 | 78.84 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,842 | 58.04 | |
Liberal Party | 13,136 | 26.43 | |
Labour Party | 7,126 | 14.34 | |
National Front | 465 | 0.94 | |
Independent | 128 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 15,706 | 31.60 | |
John Smoker resigned from the Labour Party to fight the election on a policy opposed to the taking of human life by abortion, euthanasia or capital punishment. | |||
Sutton Coldfield | |||
49,521/64,093 | 77.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,096 | 68.85 | |
Liberal Party | 7,989 | 16.13 | |
Labour Party | 6,511 | 13.15 | |
National Front | 466 | 0.94 | |
Independent Conservative | 459 | 0.93 | |
Majority | 26,107 | 52.72 | |
Swansea East | |||
45,638/60,350 | 75.62 | ||
Labour Party | 31,909 | 69.92 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,689 | 23.42 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,732 | 5.99 | |
Communist Party | 308 | 0.67 | |
Majority | 21,220 | 46.50 | |
Swansea West | |||
52,445/65,872 | 79.62 | ||
Labour Party | 24,175 | 46.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,774 | 45.33 | |
Liberal Party | 3,484 | 6.64 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,012 | 1.93 | |
Majority | 401 | 0.76 | |
Swindon | |||
50,246/65,761 | 76.41 | ||
Labour Party | 25,218 | 50.19 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,319 | 38.45 | |
Liberal Party | 5,709 | 11.36 | |
Majority | 5,899 | 11.74 | |
Taunton | |||
53,573/66,349 | 80.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,483 | 53.17 | |
Labour Party | 15,759 | 29.42 | |
Liberal Party | 7,928 | 14.80 | |
Ecology Party | 1,403 | 2.62 | |
Majority | 12,724 | 23.75 | |
Thanet East | |||
35,626/48,989 | 72.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,367 | 57.17 | |
Labour Party | 10,128 | 28.43 | |
Liberal Party | 4,755 | 13.35 | |
National Front | 376 | 1.06 | |
Majority | 10,239 | 28.74 | |
Thanet West | |||
32,715/45,694 | 71.60 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,122 | 55.39 | |
Labour Party | 8,576 | 26.21 | |
Liberal Party | 6,017 | 18.39 | |
Majority | 9,546 | 29.18 | |
The Wrekin | |||
71,710/92,592 | 77.45 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,672 | 45.56 | |
Labour Party | 31,707 | 44.22 | |
Liberal Party | 7,331 | 10.22 | |
Majority | 965 | 1.35 | |
Thirsk & Malton | |||
54,977/71,905 | 76.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,520 | 59.15 | |
Labour Party | 11,924 | 21.69 | |
Liberal Party | 10,533 | 19.16 | |
Majority | 20,596 | 37.46 | |
Thornaby | |||
46,176/61,783 | 74.74 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 23,597 | 51.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,073 | 39.14 | |
Liberal Party | 4,255 | 9.21 | |
National Front | 251 | 0.54 | |
Majority | 5,524 | 11.96 | |
20 February 1981 Ian Wrigglesworth resigns the Labour whip to support the Council for Social Democracy. | |||
Thurrock | |||
68,889/91,712 | 75.11 | ||
Labour Party | 33,449 | 48.55 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,030 | 39.24 | |
Liberal Party | 6,445 | 9.36 | |
National Front | 1,358 | 1.97 | |
Independent | 365 | 0.53 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 242 | 0.35 | |
Majority | 6,419 | 9.32 | |
Tiverton | |||
58,940/74,370 | 79.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,444 | 56.74 | |
Liberal Party | 17,215 | 29.21 | |
Labour Party | 8,281 | 14.05 | |
Majority | 16,229 | 27.53 | |
Tonbridge & Malling | |||
54,149/68,122 | 79.49 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,534 | 54.54 | |
Labour Party | 13,282 | 24.53 | |
Liberal Party | 10,904 | 20.14 | |
National Front | 429 | 0.79 | |
Majority | 16,252 | 30.01 | |
Tooting | |||
35,916/50,962 | 70.48 | ||
Labour Party | 18,642 | 51.90 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,442 | 37.43 | |
Liberal Party | 2,917 | 8.12 | |
National Front | 682 | 1.90 | |
Communist Party | 233 | 0.65 | |
Majority | 5,200 | 14.48 | |
Torbay | |||
66,057/87,987 | 75.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,099 | 54.65 | |
Liberal Party | 15,231 | 23.06 | |
Labour Party | 12,919 | 19.56 | |
Ecology Party | 1,161 | 1.76 | |
National Front | 647 | 0.98 | |
Majority | 20,868 | 31.59 | |
Totnes | |||
67,123/83,960 | 79.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,010 | 52.16 | |
Liberal Party | 24,445 | 36.42 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 7,668 | 11.42 | |
Majority | 10,565 | 15.74 | |
Tottenham | |||
28,640/46,821 | 61.17 | ||
Labour Party | 16,299 | 56.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,166 | 32.00 | |
Liberal Party | 2,177 | 7.60 | |
National Front | 833 | 2.91 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 94 | 0.33 | |
Fellowship | 71 | 0.25 | |
Majority | 7,133 | 24.91 | |
Truro | |||
63,532/76,597 | 82.94 | ||
Liberal Party | 33,571 | 52.84 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,863 | 39.13 | |
Labour Party | 4,689 | 7.38 | |
Cornish Nationalist | 227 | 0.36 | |
National Front | 182 | 0.29 | |
Majority | 8,708 | 13.71 | |
Twickenham | |||
57,463/71,535 | 80.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,017 | 52.24 | |
Liberal Party | 17,169 | 29.88 | |
Labour Party | 9,591 | 16.69 | |
National Front | 686 | 1.19 | |
Majority | 12,848 | 22.36 | |
Tynemouth | |||
58,054/74,722 | 77.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,941 | 51.57 | |
Labour Party | 22,377 | 38.55 | |
Liberal Party | 5,736 | 9.88 | |
Majority | 7,564 | 13.03 | |
Upminster | |||
53,036/65,966 | 80.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,960 | 52.72 | |
Labour Party | 18,895 | 35.63 | |
Liberal Party | 5,216 | 9.83 | |
National Front | 965 | 1.82 | |
Majority | 9,065 | 17.09 | |
Uxbridge | |||
47,565/60,313 | 78.86 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,967 | 52.49 | |
Labour Party | 16,972 | 35.68 | |
Liberal Party | 5,031 | 10.58 | |
National Front | 595 | 1.25 | |
Majority | 7,995 | 16.81 | |
Vauxhall | |||
24,899/39,870 | 62.45 | ||
Labour Party | 13,058 | 52.44 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,358 | 33.57 | |
Liberal Party | 1,842 | 7.40 | |
National Front | 879 | 3.53 | |
Independent Labour | 565 | 2.27 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 153 | 0.61 | |
Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident | 44 | 0.18 | |
Majority | 4,700 | 18.88 | |
Douglas Elliott sought election as a candidate of the Labour Alliance Party which he had founded. | |||
Wakefield | |||
53,284/70,509 | 75.57 | ||
Labour Party | 27,124 | 50.90 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,571 | 36.73 | |
Liberal Party | 6,059 | 11.37 | |
National Front | 530 | 0.99 | |
Majority | 7,553 | 14.17 | |
Wallasey | |||
53,475/69,211 | 77.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,548 | 49.65 | |
Labour Party | 21,167 | 39.58 | |
Liberal Party | 5,269 | 9.85 | |
National Front | 491 | 0.92 | |
Majority | 5,381 | 10.06 | |
Wallsend | |||
69,307/91,312 | 75.90 | ||
Labour Party | 38,214 | 55.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,695 | 31.30 | |
Liberal Party | 8,514 | 12.28 | |
National Front | 472 | 0.68 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 412 | 0.59 | |
Majority | 16,519 | 23.83 | |
Walsall North | |||
52,836/73,102 | 72.28 | ||
Labour Party | 26,913 | 50.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,047 | 39.83 | |
Liberal Party | 3,778 | 7.15 | |
National Front | 1,098 | 2.08 | |
Majority | 5,866 | 11.10 | |
Walsall South | |||
44,285/57,709 | 76.74 | ||
Labour Party | 22,539 | 50.90 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,951 | 47.31 | |
National Front | 795 | 1.80 | |
Majority | 1,588 | 3.59 | |
Walthamstow | |||
35,135/49,315 | 71.25 | ||
Labour Party | 17,651 | 50.24 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,248 | 37.71 | |
Liberal Party | 3,117 | 8.87 | |
National Front | 1,119 | 3.18 | |
Majority | 4,403 | 12.53 | |
Wanstead & Woodford | |||
42,170/57,218 | 73.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,214 | 62.16 | |
Labour Party | 8,464 | 20.07 | |
Liberal Party | 6,535 | 15.50 | |
National Front | 957 | 2.27 | |
Majority | 17,750 | 42.09 | |
Warley East | |||
38,773/55,026 | 70.46 | ||
Labour Party | 21,333 | 55.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,236 | 41.87 | |
National Front | 1,204 | 3.11 | |
Majority | 5,097 | 13.15 | |
Warley West | |||
43,113/60,935 | 70.75 | ||
Labour Party | 25,175 | 58.39 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,074 | 34.96 | |
Liberal Party | 2,864 | 6.64 | |
Majority | 10,101 | 23.43 | |
Warrington | |||
31,315/43,921 | 71.30 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,306 | 61.65 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,032 | 28.84 | |
Liberal Party | 2,833 | 9.05 | |
Social Democrat | 144 | 0.46 | |
Majority | 10,274 | 32.81 | |
1 June 1981 Resignation of Sir William Williams on appointment as a Judge of the South-Eastern Circuit. | |||
16 July 1981 | 29,508/44,059 | 66.97 | |
Labour Party | 14,280 | 48.39 | |
Social Democratic Party | 12,521 | 42.43 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,102 | 7.12 | |
Ecology Party | 219 | 0.74 | |
Democratic Labour | 149 | 0.50 | |
Independent | 111 | 0.38 | |
Independent Labour | 53 | 0.18 | |
Ind SDP | 38 | 0.13 | |
Independent | 14 | 0.05 | |
Independent | 11 | 0.04 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 10 | 0.03 | |
Majority | 1,759 | 5.96 | |
Iain Leslie sought election as a candidate of the Citizens' Band Radio Party. | |||
Daniel Hussey sought election as a candidate of the United Democratic Labour Party. | |||
Harry Wise sought election as a candidate of the English Democratic Party. | |||
Donald Kean sought election as a candidate of the Social Democratic Party which he had founded. | |||
Warwick & Leamington | |||
66,102/85,074 | 77.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,925 | 54.35 | |
Labour Party | 19,367 | 29.30 | |
Liberal Party | 9,905 | 14.98 | |
Ecology Party | 905 | 1.37 | |
Majority | 16,558 | 25.05 | |
Watford | |||
44,757/55,079 | 81.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,320 | 47.64 | |
Labour Party | 18,030 | 40.28 | |
Liberal Party | 5,019 | 11.21 | |
National Front | 388 | 0.87 | |
Majority | 3,290 | 7.35 | |
Wellingborough | |||
72,334/89,022 | 81.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,812 | 52.27 | |
Labour Party | 25,278 | 34.95 | |
Liberal Party | 8,506 | 11.76 | |
National Front | 529 | 0.73 | |
Independent | 209 | 0.29 | |
Majority | 12,534 | 17.33 | |
Wells | |||
59,204/74,717 | 79.24 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,400 | 51.35 | |
Liberal Party | 18,204 | 30.75 | |
Labour Party | 10,024 | 16.93 | |
Independent | 421 | 0.71 | |
Wessex Regiment | 155 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 12,196 | 20.60 | |
Welwyn & Hatfield | |||
59,457/69,957 | 84.99 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,892 | 48.59 | |
Labour Party | 25,418 | 42.75 | |
Liberal Party | 4,688 | 7.88 | |
National Front | 459 | 0.77 | |
Majority | 3,474 | 5.84 | |
West Aberdeenshire | |||
51,573/67,915 | 75.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,086 | 40.89 | |
Liberal Party | 18,320 | 35.52 | |
Labour Party | 7,907 | 15.33 | |
Scottish National Party | 4,260 | 8.26 | |
Majority | 2,766 | 5.36 | |
West Bromwich East | |||
40,990/57,660 | 71.09 | ||
Labour Party | 19,279 | 47.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,308 | 42.22 | |
Liberal Party | 3,228 | 7.88 | |
National Front | 1,175 | 2.87 | |
Majority | 1,971 | 4.81 | |
West Bromwich West | |||
39,465/58,803 | 67.11 | ||
Labour Party | 23,791 | 60.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,323 | 36.29 | |
National Front | 1,351 | 3.42 | |
Majority | 9,468 | 23.99 | |
West Derbyshire | |||
40,873/50,655 | 80.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,478 | 52.55 | |
Liberal Party | 11,261 | 27.55 | |
Labour Party | 8,134 | 19.90 | |
Majority | 10,217 | 25.00 | |
West Devon | |||
48,251/61,408 | 78.57 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,428 | 60.99 | |
Liberal Party | 12,256 | 25.40 | |
Labour Party | 6,174 | 12.80 | |
National Front | 393 | 0.81 | |
Majority | 17,172 | 35.59 | |
West Dorset | |||
44,762/56,658 | 79.00 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,281 | 58.71 | |
Liberal Party | 9,776 | 21.84 | |
Labour Party | 7,999 | 17.87 | |
National Front | 514 | 1.15 | |
Wessex Regiment | 192 | 0.43 | |
Majority | 16,505 | 36.87 | |
West Dunbartonshire | |||
43,710/54,507 | 80.19 | ||
Labour Party | 21,166 | 48.42 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,709 | 33.65 | |
Scottish National Party | 7,835 | 17.92 | |
Majority | 6,457 | 14.77 | |
West Flint | |||
53,771/68,418 | 78.59 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,364 | 49.03 | |
Labour Party | 16,678 | 31.02 | |
Liberal Party | 9,009 | 16.75 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,720 | 3.20 | |
Majority | 9,686 | 18.01 | |
West Gloucestershire | |||
58,832/70,104 | 83.92 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,183 | 47.90 | |
Labour Party | 24,009 | 40.81 | |
Liberal Party | 6,370 | 10.83 | |
National Front | 270 | 0.46 | |
Majority | 4,174 | 7.09 | |
West Lothian | |||
66,910/85,645 | 78.12 | ||
Labour Party | 36,713 | 54.87 | |
Scottish National Party | 16,631 | 24.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,162 | 19.67 | |
Communist Party | 404 | 0.60 | |
Majority | 20,082 | 30.01 | |
West Renfrewshire | |||
63,489/78,218 | 81.17 | ||
Labour Party | 28,236 | 44.47 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,664 | 30.97 | |
Scottish National Party | 8,333 | 13.13 | |
Liberal Party | 7,256 | 11.43 | |
Majority | 8,572 | 13.50 | |
West Stirlingshire | |||
47,208/57,602 | 81.96 | ||
Labour Party | 22,516 | 47.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,160 | 25.76 | |
Scottish National Party | 8,627 | 18.27 | |
Liberal Party | 3,905 | 8.27 | |
Majority | 10,356 | 21.94 | |
Westbury | |||
63,417/79,538 | 79.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,929 | 47.19 | |
Liberal Party | 15,950 | 25.15 | |
Labour Party | 12,532 | 19.76 | |
Independent | 2,547 | 4.02 | |
Wessex Regiment | 1,905 | 3.00 | |
Ecology Party | 554 | 0.87 | |
Majority | 13,979 | 22.04 | |
Western Isles | |||
15,119/22,393 | 67.52 | ||
Scottish National Party | 7,941 | 52.52 | |
Labour Party | 4,878 | 32.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 1,600 | 10.58 | |
Liberal Party | 700 | 4.63 | |
Majority | 3,063 | 20.26 | |
Westhoughton | |||
61,631/76,922 | 80.12 | ||
Labour Party | 29,689 | 48.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,398 | 39.59 | |
Liberal Party | 7,544 | 12.24 | |
Majority | 5,291 | 8.58 | |
Westmorland | |||
44,638/58,883 | 75.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,274 | 56.62 | |
Liberal Party | 12,867 | 28.83 | |
Labour Party | 6,497 | 14.55 | |
Majority | 12,407 | 27.79 | |
Weston-super-Mare | |||
71,343/92,096 | 77.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 40,618 | 56.93 | |
Liberal Party | 16,305 | 22.85 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 14,420 | 20.21 | |
Majority | 24,313 | 34.08 | |
Whitehaven | |||
43,146/52,787 | 81.74 | ||
Labour Party | 22,626 | 52.44 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,171 | 39.80 | |
Liberal Party | 2,559 | 5.93 | |
Independent | 790 | 1.83 | |
Majority | 5,455 | 12.64 | |
Widnes | |||
58,075/78,228 | 74.24 | ||
Labour Party | 32,033 | 55.16 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,752 | 37.46 | |
Liberal Party | 4,290 | 7.39 | |
Majority | 10,281 | 17.70 | |
Wigan | |||
43,743/59,024 | 74.11 | ||
Labour Party | 26,144 | 59.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,149 | 30.06 | |
Liberal Party | 4,102 | 9.38 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 348 | 0.80 | |
Majority | 12,995 | 29.71 | |
Wimbledon | |||
50,035/65,471 | 76.42 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,567 | 55.10 | |
Labour Party | 14,252 | 28.48 | |
Liberal Party | 7,604 | 15.20 | |
National Front | 612 | 1.22 | |
Majority | 13,315 | 26.61 | |
Winchester | |||
68,199/87,412 | 78.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 38,198 | 56.01 | |
Labour Party | 15,378 | 22.55 | |
Liberal Party | 14,228 | 20.86 | |
Wessex Regiment | 395 | 0.58 | |
Majority | 22,820 | 33.46 | |
Windsor & Maidenhead | |||
64,457/85,441 | 75.44 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 38,451 | 59.65 | |
Labour Party | 13,321 | 20.67 | |
Liberal Party | 11,496 | 17.84 | |
National Front | 930 | 1.44 | |
Wessex Regiment | 259 | 0.40 | |
Majority | 25,130 | 38.99 | |
Wirral | |||
75,476/97,033 | 77.78 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 44,519 | 58.98 | |
Labour Party | 21,188 | 28.07 | |
Liberal Party | 9,769 | 12.94 | |
Majority | 23,331 | 30.91 | |
Woking | |||
55,601/72,670 | 76.51 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,719 | 57.05 | |
Labour Party | 13,327 | 23.97 | |
Liberal Party | 9,991 | 17.97 | |
National Front | 564 | 1.01 | |
Majority | 18,392 | 33.08 | |
Wokingham | |||
66,484/85,001 | 78.22 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 36,194 | 54.44 | |
Labour Party | 17,448 | 26.24 | |
Liberal Party | 12,120 | 18.23 | |
National Front | 722 | 1.09 | |
Majority | 18,746 | 28.20 | |
Wolverhampton North East | |||
48,075/67,994 | 70.70 | ||
Labour Party | 24,046 | 50.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,986 | 37.41 | |
Liberal Party | 4,760 | 9.90 | |
National Front | 1,283 | 2.67 | |
Majority | 6,060 | 12.61 | |
Wolverhampton South East | |||
37,153/53,764 | 69.10 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 20,708 | 55.74 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,807 | 34.47 | |
Liberal Party | 2,499 | 6.73 | |
National Front | 1,139 | 3.07 | |
Majority | 7,901 | 21.27 | |
Wolverhampton South West | |||
50,666/66,180 | 76.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,587 | 52.48 | |
Labour Party | 15,827 | 31.24 | |
Liberal Party | 6,939 | 13.70 | |
National Front | 912 | 1.80 | |
Independent | 401 | 0.79 | |
Majority | 10,760 | 21.24 | |
John Deary sought election as an Anti-Common Market Free Enterprise candidate. | |||
Wood Green | |||
35,078/52,039 | 67.41 | ||
Labour Party | 16,465 | 46.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,950 | 39.77 | |
Liberal Party | 3,665 | 10.45 | |
National Front | 998 | 2.85 | |
Majority | 2,515 | 7.17 | |
Woolwich East | |||
36,822/52,523 | 70.11 | ||
Labour Party | 21,700 | 58.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,240 | 30.53 | |
Liberal Party | 2,998 | 8.14 | |
National Front | 884 | 2.40 | |
Majority | 10,460 | 28.41 | |
2 March 1981 John Cartwright resigns the Labour whip to join the Social Democratic Party. | |||
Woolwich West | |||
44,828/56,327 | 79.59 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,222 | 47.34 | |
Labour Party | 18,613 | 41.52 | |
Liberal Party | 4,363 | 9.73 | |
National Front | 630 | 1.41 | |
Majority | 2,609 | 5.82 | |
Worcester | |||
58,842/78,026 | 75.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,194 | 51.31 | |
Labour Party | 18,605 | 31.62 | |
Liberal Party | 8,886 | 15.10 | |
Ecology Party | 707 | 1.20 | |
National Front | 450 | 0.76 | |
Majority | 11,589 | 19.70 | |
Workington | |||
46,109/55,030 | 83.79 | ||
Labour Party | 24,523 | 53.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,767 | 40.70 | |
Liberal Party | 2,819 | 6.11 | |
Majority | 5,756 | 12.48 | |
Worthing | |||
54,924/74,961 | 73.27 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,624 | 61.22 | |
Liberal Party | 13,244 | 24.11 | |
Labour Party | 7,163 | 13.04 | |
National Front | 893 | 1.63 | |
Majority | 20,380 | 37.11 | |
Wrexham | |||
61,790/78,771 | 78.44 | ||
Labour Party | 30,405 | 49.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,256 | 29.55 | |
Liberal Party | 11,389 | 18.43 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,740 | 2.82 | |
Majority | 12,149 | 19.66 | |
20 February 1981 Tom Ellis resigns the Labour whip to support the Council for Social Democracy. | |||
Wycombe | |||
66,619/85,843 | 77.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 38,171 | 57.30 | |
Labour Party | 18,000 | 27.02 | |
Liberal Party | 9,615 | 14.43 | |
National Front | 833 | 1.25 | |
Majority | 20,171 | 30.28 | |
Yarmouth | |||
55,656/72,154 | 77.14 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,066 | 50.43 | |
Labour Party | 20,838 | 37.44 | |
Liberal Party | 6,112 | 10.98 | |
National Front | 640 | 1.15 | |
Majority | 7,228 | 12.99 | |
Yeovil | |||
65,358/80,646 | 81.04 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,321 | 47.92 | |
Liberal Party | 19,939 | 30.51 | |
Labour Party | 14,098 | 21.57 | |
Majority | 11,382 | 17.41 | |
York | |||
59,698/76,832 | 77.70 | ||
Labour Party | 26,703 | 44.73 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,453 | 42.64 | |
Liberal Party | 6,752 | 11.31 | |
CSA | 569 | 0.95 | |
National Front | 221 | 0.37 | |
Majority | 1,250 | 2.09 |