British general election 1983
(Share of votes in%)
%
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
42.4
28.0
25.6
1.1
0.8
2.2
Gains and losses
compared to 1979
% p
12
10
8th
6th
4th
2
0
-2
-4
-6
-8th
-10
-1.5
-9.3
+11.5
-0.5
± 0.0
-0.5
The British general election in 1983 took place on June 9, 1983. It was the greatest electoral success of the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher or a party since Labor won the general election in 1945 .
The opposition parties SDP / Liberal Alliance and Labor received almost the same number of votes. This was the Labor Party's biggest electoral defeat since 1918, losing over 3 million votes compared to 1979 and giving the Conservatives a majority of 144 seats, although the latter also suffered a slight loss of votes.
The SDP-Liberal Alliance was only 675,985 votes behind Labor, but received 186 seats less due to the relative majority voting rights.
Results
Political party | be right | Mandates | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||
Conservative party | 13,012,316 | 42.4 | −1.5 | 397 | +58 | |
Labor Party | 8,456,934 | 27.6 | −9.3 | 209 | −60 | |
SDP-Liberal Alliance | 7,780,949 | 25.4 | +11.6 | 23 | +12 | |
Scottish National Party | 331.975 | 1.1 | −0.5 | 2 | - | |
Ulster Unionist Party | 259,952 | 0.8 | - | 11 | +5 | |
Democratic Unionist Party | 152.749 | 0.5 | +0.3 | 3 | - | |
Social Democratic and Labor Party | 137.012 | 0.4 | - | 1 | - | |
Plaid Cymru | 125,309 | 0.4 | - | 2 | - | |
Sinn Féin | 102,701 | 0.3 | +0.3 | 1 | +1 | |
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | 61,275 | 0.2 | −0.1 | - | - | |
Ecology Party | 52.507 | 0.2 | +0.1 | - | - | |
British National Front | 27,065 | 0.1 | −0.5 | - | - | |
Independent | 26,031 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
Ulster Popular Unionist Party | 22,861 | 0.1 | - | 1 | +1 | |
Independent Labor | 17,151 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
Independent Conservative | 16,657 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
Workers' Party of Ireland | 14,650 | 0.0 | −0.1 | - | - | |
British National Party | 14,621 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
Independent liberal | 13,632 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
Communist Party of Great Britain | 11.606 | 0.0 | −0.1 | - | - | |
Independent socialist | 10,414 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 3,798 | 0.0 | −0.1 | - | - | |
Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 3,524 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
Wessex Regionalist Party | 1,750 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
Others | 13,698 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
total | 30,671,137 | 100.0 | 650 | |||
Eligible voters | 42.192.999 | |||||
voter turnout | 72.69% | |||||
Source: |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Summary results of the 1983 election United Kingdom Election Results (English)