UK Elections Info

Candidates by Party

< General Election - May 1979 >

Westminster Elections

MPs by Constituency

Candidates by %age of Vote

Votes for Parties

Majorities

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Updated: 20 July 2024
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Summary
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

Anti-Common Market Conservative - (ACM CON) (1)

Alliance Party - (Alliance) (12)

Anti-Common Market - (Anti-CM) (1)

Anti-Corruption (1)

British Empire Society - (Brit Empire Soc) (1)

Conservative Against the Common Market - (CACM) (1)

CD (1)

Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain - (CFMPB) (6)

Communist Party - (Comm) (38)

Community (1)

Conservative & Unionist Party - (CON) (622)

Cornish Nationalist - (Corn Nat) (1)

CPPS (1)

CSA (1)

CSD (1)

Democratic Labour - (Dem LAB) (2)

Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident - (DMPSWR) (2)

Dog Lovers' Party (1)

Democratic Unionist Party - (DUP) (5)

Ecology Party - (Ecology) (53)

English National Party - (ENP) (1)

Irish Independence Party - (IIP) (4)

Independent - (Ind) (33)

Independent Conservative - (Ind CON) (8)

Independent Democrat - (Ind Dem) (3)

Independent Ecology - (Ind Ecology) (1)

Independent Labour - (Ind LAB) (11)

Independent Liberal - (Ind LIB) (2)

Independent Republican - (Ind Rep) (1)

Independent Social Democratic Labour - (Ind SDLP) (1)

Independent Socialist - (Ind Soc) (2)

Independent Ulster Unionist - (Ind UU) (1)

INP (1)

Jesus & His Cross (1)

Keep Britain United Association - (KBUP) (1)

Labour Party - (LAB) (597)

Labour and Co-operative Party - (LAB Co-op) (25)

Liberal Party - (LIB) (577)

Mebyon Kernow (3)

Mod LAB (1)

New Britain (2)

National Front - (NF) (303)

Northern Ireland Labour Party - (NI LAB) (3)

Official Unionist Party - (OUP) (11)

Plaid Cymru - (PC) (36)

Protest (1)

Ratepayer (1)

Reform (1)

Republican Clubs - (Rep Club) (7)

Rev Refm (1)

Rhodesian Front (1)

Scottish Labour - (Scot LAB) (3)

Social Democratic Labour Party - (SDLP) (9)

Silly (1)

Scottish National Party - (SNP) (71)

Social Democrat - (Soc Dem) (1)

Socialist Unity - (Soc Unity) (10)

Speaker of the House of Commons - (Speaker) (1)

Socialist Party of Great Britain - (SPGB) (1)

United Country Party - (UCP) (2)

United Democratic Party - (UDP) (1)

United English Nationalist Party - (UENP) (2)

United Labour - (United LAB) (1)

UPNI (3)

UUU (2)

Wessex Regiment (7)

Workers Party - (Workers) (2)

Workers Revolutionary Party - (WRP) (60)