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Elections and campaigns of Margaret Thatcher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a summary of the electoral history of Margaret Thatcher, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley from 1959 to 1992.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Norman Dodds | 38,128 | 56.38 | ||
Conservative | Margaret Roberts | 24,490 | 36.21 | ||
Liberal | Anthony H. Giles | 5,011 | 7.41 | New | |
Majority | 13,638 | 20.17 | |||
Turnout | 67,629 | 85.51 | |||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Norman Dodds | 40,094 | 59.09 | ||
Conservative | Margaret Roberts | 27,760 | 40.91 | ||
Majority | 12,334 | 18.18 | |||
Turnout | 67,854 | 85.22 | |||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +3.71 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 29,697 | 53.2 | ―1.3 | |
Labour | Eric Deakins | 13,437 | 24.1 | ―7.3 | |
Liberal | Henry Ivan Spence | 12,701 | 22.7 | +8.7 | |
Majority | 16,260 | 29.1 | +6.0 | ||
Turnout | 55,835 | 80.8 | +2.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 24,591 | 46.6 | ―6.6 | |
Liberal | John Pardoe | 15,789 | 29.9 | +7.2 | |
Labour | Albert Edward Tomlinson | 12,408 | 23.5 | ―0.6 | |
Majority | 8,802 | 16.7 | ―12.4 | ||
Turnout | 52,788 | 78.2 | ―2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 23,968 | 46.5 | ―0.1 | |
Labour | Yvonne Sieve | 14,504 | 28.1 | +4.6 | |
Liberal | Frank Davis | 13,070 | 25.4 | ― 4.5 | |
Majority | 9,464 | 18.4 | +1.7 | ||
Turnout | 51,542 | 75.3 | ―2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―2.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 25,480 | 53.8 | +7.3 | |
Labour | Michael Freeman | 14,295 | 30.2 | +2.1 | |
Liberal | Graham Mitchell | 7,614 | 16.1 | ―9.3 | |
Majority | 11,185 | 23.6 | +5.2 | ||
Turnout | 47,389 | 65.6 | ―9.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 18,180 | 43.7 | ―8.6 | |
Labour | Martin O'Connor | 12,202 | 29.3 | ―2.3 | |
Liberal | Laurence Brass | 11,221 | 27.0 | +10.9 | |
Majority | 5,978 | 14.4 | |||
Turnout | 41,603 | 78.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―3.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 16,498 | 44.0 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Martin O'Connor | 12,587 | 33.6 | +4.3 | |
Liberal | Laurence Brass | 7,384 | 19.7 | ―7.3 | |
National Front | Janet Godfrey | 993 | 2.7 | New | |
Majority | 3,911 | 10.4 | ―4.0 | ||
Turnout | 37,462 | 69.5 | ―8.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 20,918 | 52.5 | +8.5 | |
Labour | Richard May | 13,040 | 32.7 | ―0.9 | |
Liberal | Anthony Paterson | 5,254 | 13.2 | ―6.5 | |
National Front | William Verity | 534 | 1.3 | ―1.4 | |
Independent Democrat | Elizabeth Lloyd | 86 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 7,878 | 19.8 | +9.4 | ||
Turnout | 39,832 | 72.5 | +3.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 19,616 | 51.1 | ―1.4 | |
Labour | Laurence Spigel | 10,302 | 26.8 | ―5.9 | |
Liberal | Margaret Joachim | 7,763 | 20.2 | +7.0 | |
Ecology | Simone Wilkinson | 279 | 0.7 | New | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 235 | 0.6 | New | |
Ban Every Licensing Law Society | Anthony Noonan | 75 | 0.2 | New | |
Rail Not Motorway | Helen Anscomb | 42 | 0.1 | New | |
Law and Order in Gotham City | Anthony Whitehead | 37 | 0.1 | New | |
Anti-Censorship | David Webb | 28 | 0.1 | New | |
Party of Associates with Licensees | Brian Wareham | 27 | 0.1 | New | |
Belgrano Blood-Hunger | Benjamin Wedmore | 13 | 0.0 | New | |
Majority | 9,314 | 24.3 | +4.5 | ||
Turnout | 38,417 | 69.0 | ―3.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 21,603 | 53.9 | +2.8 | |
Labour | John Davies | 12,690 | 31.7 | +4.9 | |
Liberal | David Howarth | 5,580 | 13.9 | ―7.3 | |
Gremloid Party | Lord Buckethead | 131 | 0.3 | New | |
Gold Party | Michaelle St Vincent | 59 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 8,913 | 22.2 | ―2.1 | ||
Turnout | 40,063 | 69.4 | +0.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―1.0 |
First ballot: 4 February 1975 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Candidate | Votes | % | |
Margaret Thatcher | 130 | 47.1 | |
Edward Heath | 119 | 43.1 | |
Hugh Fraser | 16 | 5.8 | |
Second ballot required |
Second ballot: 11 February 1975 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Candidate | Votes | % | |
Margaret Thatcher | 146 | 52.9 | |
William Whitelaw | 79 | 28.6 | |
Geoffrey Howe | 19 | 6.9 | |
Jim Prior | 19 | 6.9 | |
John Peyton | 11 | 4 | |
Margaret Thatcher elected |
Only ballot: 5 December 1989 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Candidate | Votes | % | |
Margaret Thatcher | 314 | 84.0 | |
Sir Anthony Meyer | 33 | 8.8 | |
Abstentions | 3 | 0.8 | |
Spoilt | 24 | 6.4 | |
Majority | 281 | 75.1 | |
Turnout | 374 | N/A | |
Margaret Thatcher re-elected |
First ballot: 20 November 1990 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Candidate | Votes[5] | % | |
Margaret Thatcher | 204 | 54.8 | |
Michael Heseltine | 152 | 40.9 | |
Abstentions | 16 | 4.3 | |
Majority | 52 | 14.0 | |
Turnout | 372 | 100 | |
Second ballot required |
Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Leader | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 622 | 339 | 63 | 1 | +62 | 53.4 | 43.9 | 13,697,923 | +8.1 | |
Labour | James Callaghan | 623 | 269[lower-alpha 1] | 4 | 54 | −50 | 42.4 | 36.9 | 11,532,218 | −2.3 | |
Liberal | David Steel | 577 | 11 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 1.7 | 13.8 | 4,313,804 | −4.5 | |
SNP | William Wolfe | 71 | 2 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0.31 | 1.6 | 504,259 | −1.3 | |
UUP | Harry West | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 0.79 | 0.8 | 254,578 | −0.1 | |
National Front | John Tyndall | 303 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.6 | 191,719 | +0.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Gwynfor Evans | 36 | 2 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0.31 | 0.4 | 132,544 | −0.2 | |
SDLP | Gerry Fitt | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.16 | 0.4 | 126,325 | −0.2 | |
Alliance | Oliver Napier | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.3 | 82,892 | +0.1 | |
DUP | Ian Paisley | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 0.47 | 0.2 | 70,795 | −0.1 | |
Ecology | Jonathan Tyler | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 39,918 | +0.1 | |
UUUP | Ernest Baird | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.16 | 0.1 | 39,856 | N/A | |
Ulster Popular Unionist | James Kilfedder | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.16 | 0.1 | 36,989 | +0.1 | |
Independent Labour | N/A | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 26,058 | −0.1 | |
Irish Independence | Fergus McAteer and Frank McManus | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 23,086 | N/A | |
Ind. Republican | N/A | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 22,398 | −0.1 | |
Independent | N/A | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 19,531 | +0.1 | |
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 16,858 | 0.0 | |
SLP | Jim Sillars | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 13,737 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Michael Banda | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 12,631 | +0.1 | |
Workers' Party | Tomás Mac Giolla | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.1 | 12,098 | 0.0 | |
Independent SDLP | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 10,785 | N/A | |
Unionist Party NI | Anne Dickson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 8,021 | −0.1 | |
Ind. Conservative | N/A | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 4,841 | 0.0 | |
NI Labour | Alan Carr | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 4,441 | 0.0 | |
Mebyon Kernow | Richard Jenkin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 4,164 | 0.0 | |
Democratic Labour | Dick Taverne | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 3,785 | −0.1 | |
Wessex Regionalist | Viscount Weymouth | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 3,090 | N/A | |
Socialist Unity | N/A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 2,834 | N/A | |
United Labour | Paddy Devlin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 1,895 | N/A | |
Independent Democratic | N/A | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 1,087 | N/A | |
United Country | Edmund Iremonger | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 1,033 | N/A | |
Independent Liberal | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 1,023 | 0.0 | |
Independent Socialist | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 770 | 0.0 | |
Workers (Leninist) | Royston Bull | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 767 | 0.0 | |
New Britain | Dennis Delderfield | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 717 | 0.0 | |
Fellowship | Ronald Mallone | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 531 | 0.0 | |
More Prosperous Britain | Tom Keen | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 518 | 0.0 | |
United English National | John Kynaston | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 238 | 0.0 | |
Cornish Nationalist | James Whetter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 227 | N/A | |
Social Democrat | Donald Kean | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 144 | 0.0 | |
English National | Frank Hansford-Miller | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 142 | 0.0 | |
The Dog Lovers' Party | Auberon Waugh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 79 | 0.0 | |
Socialist (GB) | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0.0 | 78 | 0.0 |
Government's new majority | 43 |
Total votes cast | 31,221,362 |
Turnout | 76% |
Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Leader | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 633 | 397 | 47 | 10 | +37 | 61.1 | 42.4 | 13,012,316 | −1.5 | |
Labour | Michael Foot | 633 | 209[lower-alpha 4] | 4 | 55 | −51 | 32.2 | 27.6 | 8,456,934 | −9.3 | |
Alliance | David Steel & Roy Jenkins | 636[lower-alpha 5] | 23 | 12 | 0 | +12 | 3.5 | 25.4 | 7,794,770 | +11.6 | |
SNP | Gordon Wilson | 72 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 331,975 | −0.5 | |
UUP | James Molyneaux | 16 | 11 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 259,952 | 0.0 | |
DUP | Ian Paisley | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 152,749 | +0.3 | |
SDLP | John Hume | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 137,012 | 0.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Wigley | 38 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 125,309 | 0.0 | |
Sinn Féin | Ruairí Ó Brádaigh | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 102,701 | N/A | |
Alliance | Oliver Napier | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 61,275 | −0.1 | |
Ecology | Jonathon Porritt | 109 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 54,299 | +0.1 | |
Independent | N/A | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 30,422 | N/A | |
National Front | Andrew Brons | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 27,065 | −0.5 | |
UPUP | James Kilfedder | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 22,861 | N/A | |
Independent Labour | N/A | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 16,447 | 0.0 | |
Workers' Party | Tomás Mac Giolla | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14,650 | −0.1 | |
BNP | John Tyndall | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14,621 | N/A | |
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11,606 | −0.1 | |
Independent Socialist | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10,326 | N/A | |
Ind. Conservative | N/A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9,442 | 0.0 | |
Independent Communist | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4,760 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Michael Banda | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3,798 | −0.1 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3,015 | N/A | |
Wessex Regionalist | N/A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,750 | 0.0 | |
Mebyon Kernow | Richard Jenkin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,151 | N/A | |
Independent DUP | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,134 | N/A | |
Licensees | N/A | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 934 | N/A | |
Nationalist Party | N/A | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 874 | N/A | |
Labour and Trade Union | Peter Hadden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 584 | N/A | |
Revolutionary Communist | Frank Furedi | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 581 | N/A | |
Freedom Party | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 508 | N/A |
Government's new majority | 144 |
Total votes cast | 30,671,137 |
Turnout | 72.7% |
Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Leader | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Conservative | Margaret Thatcher | 633 | 376[lower-alpha 10] | 9 | 30 | −21 | 57.85 | 42.2 | 13,760,583 | −0.2 | |
Labour | Neil Kinnock | 633 | 229 | 26 | 6 | +20 | 35.23 | 30.8 | 10,029,807 | +3.2 | |
Alliance | David Owen & David Steel | 633 | 22 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 3.38 | 22.6 | 7,341,633 | −2.8 | |
SNP | Gordon Wilson | 72 | 3 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 0.46 | 1.3 | 416,473 | +0.2 | |
UUP | James Molyneaux | 12 | 9 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 1.38 | 0.8 | 276,230 | 0.0 | |
SDLP | John Hume | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 0.46 | 0.5 | 154,067 | +0.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Elis-Thomas | 38 | 3 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.46 | 0.4 | 123,599 | 0.0 | |
Green | N/A | 133 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 89,753 | +0.1 | ||
DUP | Ian Paisley | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.46 | 0.3 | 85,642 | −0.2 | |
Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.15 | 0.3 | 83,389 | 0.0 | |
Alliance | John Alderdice | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 72,671 | 0.0 | ||
Workers' Party | Tomás Mac Giolla | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 19,294 | +0.1 | ||
UPUP | James Kilfedder | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 18,420 | 0.0 | |
Real Unionist | Robert McCartney | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 14,467 | N/A | ||
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 6,078 | 0.0 | ||
Protestant Unionist | George Seawright | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 5,671 | N/A | ||
Red Front | N/A | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,177 | N/A | ||
Orkney and Shetland Movement | John Goodlad | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,095 | N/A | ||
Moderate Labour | Brian Marshall | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,269 | N/A | ||
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,951 | 0.0 | ||
Workers Revolutionary | Sheila Torrance | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,721 | 0.0 | ||
Independent Liberal | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 686 | 0.0 | ||
BNP | John Tyndall | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 553 | 0.0 | ||
Spare the Earth | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 522 | N/A |
Government's new majority | 102 |
Total votes cast | 32,529,578 |
Turnout | 75.3% |
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