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 |
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7,780,949 | 25.4% |
23/650 |
1987 |
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7,341,651 | 22.6% |
22/650 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.