1983 United Kingdom general election in Wales information
1983 United Kingdom general election in Wales
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All 38 Welsh seats to the House of Commons
First party
Second party
Leader
Michael Foot
Margaret Thatcher
Party
Labour
Conservative
Leader since
10 November 1980
11 February 1975
Last election
21 seats, 46.9%
11 seats, 32.2%
Seats before
23[a]
12[a]
Seats won
20
14
Seat change
3[b]
2[b]
Popular vote
603,858
499,310
Percentage
37.5%
31.0%
Swing
9.4%
1.2%
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
David Steel (Lib)
Roy Jenkins (SDP)
Dafydd Wigley
Party
Alliance
Plaid Cymru
Leader since
July 1976/July 1982
1981
Last election
1 seats, 10.6%
2 seats, 8.0%
Seats before
1[a]
2[a]
Seats won
2
2
Seat change
1[b]
Popular vote
373,358
125,309
Percentage
23.2%
7.8%
Swing
12.6%
0.2%
Main article: 1983 United Kingdom general election
The 1983 United Kingdom general election in Wales took place on 9 June 1983 for all 38 Welsh seats to the House of Commons. The Labour Party again won a majority of Welsh MPs, but the party's vote share declined by 9.4% and they lost three seats. In this election popular vote and percentage gap produced between Labour and Conservative parties will be the smallest one up until 2019 UK general election.
Despite the Labour party winning the most votes in Wales, the Conservatives won the general election.[1]
The governing Conservatives made a net gain of two seats, with the SDP–Liberal Alliance gaining one.[2] Across the UK the Conservatives won a landslide majority and continued in office for a second term.[3]
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^"UK Election Statistics: 1918-2022, A Long Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. p. 22.
^"Ups and downs on Welsh vote trail". BBC News. 5 April 2005. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
^"GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS, 9 JUNE 1983" (PDF). 1984. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
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