SDP-Liberal Alliance

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Party logo of the SDP-Liberal Alliance

The SDP-Liberal Alliance ( English for "SDP-Liberal Alliance") was a centrist electoral alliance of the British Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party with the aim of ousting the Labor Party as the strongest opposition party

history

The SDP-Liberal Alliance was founded because smaller parties were often underrepresented in the House of Commons due to the British majority vote . The alliance took part in the parliamentary elections in 1983 and 1987 as well as in the European elections in 1984 , and despite the proportion of votes in some cases of over 20 percent, due to the right to vote, it only achieved a small number of seats.

In 1988 the two parties merged to form today's Liberal Democrats .

Election results

year	choice	be right	Share of votes	Seats
1983	General election 1983	7,780,949	25.4%	23/650
1987	General election 1987	7,341,651	22.6%	22/650

Web links

• bbc.com: BBC Rewind: 1983 SDP-Liberal Alliance manifesto

Individual evidence

1. ^ Earl Aaron Reitan, The Thatcher Revolution: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, and the Transformation of Modern Britain, 1979-2001 . Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7425-2203-9 , p. 37.