1983 United Kingdom general election in England information
1983 United Kingdom general election in England
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All 523 English seats in the House of Commons
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Margaret Thatcher
Michael Foot
David Steel (Lib)
Roy Jenkins (SDP)
Party
Conservative
Labour
Alliance
Leader since
11 February 1975
10 November 1980
July 1976/July 1982
Leader's seat
Finchley
Blaenau Gwent
Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale
Glasgow Hillhead
Last election
306 seats, 47.2%
203 seats, 36.7%
7 seats, 14.9%
Seats before
325[a]
193[a]
5[a]
Seats won
362
148
13
Seat change
37[b]
45[b]
8[b]
Popular vote
11,711,519
6,862,422
6,714,957
Percentage
46.0%
26.8%
26.4%
Swing
1.2%
9.8%
11.5%
Main article: 1983 United Kingdom general election
The 1983 United Kingdom general election in England was held on 9 June 1983 for 523 English seats to the House of Commons. The Conservative Party won a landslide majority of English seats, gaining 37 seats for a total of 362. The Labour Party came second, winning 148 MPs, a decline of 45. Labour's share of the vote in England was its lowest since 1918, and its number of English MPs was its smallest since 1931.[1] The SDP–Liberal Alliance won 26.4% of the popular vote, just 0.4% behind Labour, but won only 13 seats compared to 148 for Labour, due to the first-past-the-post electoral system.[2][3]
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^"GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS, 9 JUNE 1983" (PDF). 1984. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^Lindsay, Caron (2 April 2013). "The 1983 election: highlights and hindsight". Lib Dem Voice. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
^Stats for Lefties [@LeftieStats] (25 September 2019). "It may seem unbelievable that Labour could outpoll the Lib Dems by just 2pts and win 198 more seats. But bear in mind that, in 1983, Labour won 26.8% in England. The SDP-Liberal Alliance won 26.4%. Labour won 148 seats. The Alliance won 13" (Tweet). Retrieved 31 May 2020 – via Twitter.
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