This is a summary of the electoral history of John Major, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon from 1979 to 2001.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | A.J. Crouch | 1,901 | 66.5 | ||
Labour | G.A. Gold | 1,875 | |||
Labour | W.F. King | 1,861 | |||
Conservative | J.H. Chambers | 774 | 27.1 | ||
Conservative | J.R. Major | 752 | |||
Conservative | E. Brady | 740 | |||
Communist | S.G. Hope | 107 | 3.7 | ||
Independent | P.R. Winchester | 77 | 2.7 | ||
Turnout | 2,755 | 24.5 | |||
Registered electors | 11,243 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | J.E. Langley | 1,025 | 18.0% | ||
Conservative | G.R.I. Allnut | 1,002 | 17.6% | ||
Conservative | John Roy Major | 991 | 17.4% | ||
Labour | L.G.M. Davis | 921 | 16.2% | ||
Labour | J.M. Dodson | 892 | 15.7% | ||
Labour | D.J. Packer | 863 | 15.2% | ||
Turnout | 5,694 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | D. W. Wendon | 2,205 | 15.3% | |
Labour | W. P. Weston | 2,176 | 15.1% | |
Labour | H. A. Bavin | 2,167 | 15.1% | |
Conservative | A. E. S. Meyer | 2,065 | 14.4% | |
Conservative | John Major | 2,061 | 14.3% | |
Conservative | J. S. Steele | 2,055 | 14.3% | |
Liberal | J. P. Taylor | 205 | 1.4% | |
Liberal | A. G. Blackmore | 182 | 1.3% | |
Liberal | Mrs M. A. Granger | 178 | 1.2% | |
Communist | Mrs J. E. Styles | 80 | 0.6% | |
Turnout | 14,376 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Stallard | 14,761 | 52.76 | ||
Conservative | John Major | 7,926 | 28.33 | ||
Liberal | Paul J Medlicott | 4,825 | 17.25 | New | |
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 466 | 1.67 | ||
Majority | 6,835 | 24.43 | |||
Turnout | 27,978 | 67.53 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Stallard | 14,155 | 58.53 | ||
Conservative | John Major | 6,602 | 27.30 | ||
Liberal | Paul J Medlicott | 3,428 | 14.17 | ||
Majority | 7,553 | 31.23 | |||
Turnout | 24,185 | 58.10 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 40,193 | 55.3 | +10.2 | |
Labour | Julian G H Fulbrook | 18,630 | 25.7 | −3.9 | |
Liberal | Dennis Graham Rowe | 12,812 | 17.6 | −7.7 | |
National Front | K T Robinson | 983 | 1.4 | New | |
Majority | 21,563 | 29.6 | +14.1 | ||
Turnout | 72.618 | 77.4 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +7.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 34,254 | 62.4 | ||
Liberal | Sheila Gatiss | 13,906 | 25.3 | ||
Labour | Mark Slater | 6,317 | 11.5 | ||
Ecology | Timothy Eiloart | 444 | 0.8 | ||
Majority | 20,348 | 37.1 | |||
Turnout | 54,921 | 71.6 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 40,530 | 63.6 | +1.2 | |
SDP | Anthony Nicholson | 13,486 | 21.1 | ―4.2 | |
Labour | David Brown | 8,883 | 13.9 | +2.4 | |
Green | William Lavin | 874 | 1.4 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 27,044 | 42.5 | +5.4 | ||
Turnout | 63,773 | 74.0 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 48,662 | 66.2 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Hugh Seckleman | 12,432 | 16.9 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Duff | 9,386 | 12.8 | ―8.3 | |
Liberal | Paul Wiggin | 1,045 | 1.4 | New | |
Green | Deborah Birkhead | 846 | 1.2 | ―0.2 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 728 | 1.0 | New | |
Conservative Thatcherite | Michael Flanagan | 231 | 0.3 | New | |
Gremloids | Lord Buckethead | 107 | 0.1 | New | |
Forward to Mars Party | Charles S. Cockell | 91 | 0.1 | New | |
Natural Law | David Shepherd | 26 | 0.0 | New | |
Majority | 36,230 | 49.3 | +6.8 | ||
Turnout | 73,554 | 79.2 | +5.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 31,501 | 55.3 | ―9.9 | |
Labour | Jason Reece | 13,361 | 23.5 | +6.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matthew Owen | 8,390 | 14.7 | ―6.4 | |
Referendum | David Bellamy | 3,114 | 5.5 | New | |
UKIP | Charles Coyne | 331 | 0.6 | New | |
Christian Democrat | Veronica Hufford | 177 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | Duncan Robertson | 89 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 18,140 | 31.8 | ―6.8 | ||
Turnout | 56,963 | 74.9 | ―4.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―8.25 |
Second ballot: 27 November 1990 | |||
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Candidate | Votes | % | |
John Major | 185 | 49.7 | |
Michael Heseltine | 131 | 35.2 | |
Douglas Hurd | 56 | 15.1 | |
Majority | 54 | 14.5 | |
Turnout | 372 | 100 | |
Third ballot required |
Only ballot: 4 July 1995 | |||
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Candidate | Votes | % | |
John Major | 218 | 66.3 | |
John Redwood | 89 | 27.1 | |
Abstentions | 10 | 3.0 | |
Spoilt | 12 | 3.6 | |
Majority | 129 | 39.2 | |
Turnout | 329 | N/A | |
John Major re-elected |
Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||
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Party | Leader | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Conservative | John Major | 645 | 336 | 3 | 44 | −41 | 51.69 | 41.9 | 14,093,007 | −0.3 | |
Labour | Neil Kinnock | 634 | 271 | 43 | 1 | +42 | 41.62 | 34.4 | 11,560,484 | +3.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paddy Ashdown | 632 | 20 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3.07 | 17.8 | 5,999,606 | −4.8 | |
SNP | Alex Salmond | 72 | 3 | ![]() |
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0.46 | 1.9 | 629,564 | +0.6 | |
UUP | James Molyneaux | 13 | 9 | ![]() |
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1.38 | 0.8 | 271,049 | 0.0 | |
SDLP | John Hume | 13 | 4 | 1 | ![]() |
+1 | 0.61 | 0.5 | 184,445 | 0.0 | |
Green | Jean Lambert and Richard Lawson | 253 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.5 | 170,047 | +0.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Wigley | 38 | 4 | 1 | ![]() |
+1 | 0.61 | 0.5 | 156,796 | +0.1 | |
DUP | Ian Paisley | 7 | 3 | ![]() |
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0.46 | 0.3 | 103,039 | 0.0 | |
Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 14 | 0 | ![]() |
1 | −1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 78,291 | −0.1 | |
Alliance | John Alderdice | 16 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.2 | 68,665 | 0.0 | |
Liberal | Michael Meadowcroft | 73 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.2 | 64,744 | ![]() | |
Natural Law | Geoffrey Clements | 309 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.2 | 62,888 | ![]() | |
Ind. Social Democrat | N/A | 2 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 28,599 | ![]() | |
Independent | N/A | 6 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 22,844 | ![]() | |
UPUP | James Kilfedder | 1 | 1 | ![]() |
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0.15 | 0.1 | 19,305 | 0.0 | |
Ind. Conservative | N/A | 12 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 11,356 | ![]() | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 25 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 7,929 | +0.1 | |
Independent | N/A | 23 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 7,631 | ![]() | |
BNP | John Tyndall | 13 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 7,631 | ![]() | |
SDP | John Bates | 8 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 6,649 | ![]() | |
Scottish Militant Labour | Tommy Sheridan | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 6,287 | ![]() | |
National Front | John McAuley | 14 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 4,816 | ![]() | |
True Labour | Sydney Bidwell | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 4,665 | ![]() | |
Anti-Federalist | Alan Sked | 17 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 4,383 | ![]() | |
Workers' Party | Marian Donnelly | 8 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 4,359 | 0.0 | |
Official Conservative Hove Party | Nigel Furness | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 2,658 | ![]() | |
Loony Green | Stuart Hughes | 5 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 2,538 | ![]() | |
Ind. Unionist | N/A | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 2,256 | ![]() | |
New Agenda | Proinsias De Rossa | 2 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 2,133 | ![]() | |
Independent Progressive Socialist | N/A | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 1,094 | ![]() | |
Islamic Party | David Pidcock | 4 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 1,085 | ![]() | |
Revolutionary Communist | Frank Furedi | 8 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 745 | ![]() | |
Independent Nationalist | N/A | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 649 | ![]() | |
Communist (PCC) | Jack Conrad | 4 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 603 | ![]() |
All parties with more than 500 votes shown. Plaid Cymru result includes votes for Green/Plaid Cymru Alliance.
Government's new majority | 21 |
Total votes cast [5] | 33,614,074 |
Turnout | 77.7% |
Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||
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Party | Leader | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Labour | Tony Blair | 639 | 418 | 146 | 0 | +146 | 63.4 | 43.2 | 13,518,167 | +8.8 | |
Conservative | John Major | 648 | 165 | 0 | 178 | –178 | 25.0 | 30.7 | 9,600,943 | –11.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paddy Ashdown | 639 | 46 | 30 | 2 | +28 | 7.0 | 16.8 | 5,242,947 | –1.0 | |
Referendum | James Goldsmith | 547 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | 811,849 | N/A | ||
SNP | Alex Salmond | 72 | 6 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 621,550 | +0.1 | |
UUP | David Trimble | 16 | 10 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 258,349 | 0.0 | |
SDLP | John Hume | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | –1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 190,814 | +0.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Wigley | 40 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 161,030 | 0.0 | |
Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 126,921 | 0.0 | |
DUP | Ian Paisley | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | –1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 107,348 | 0.0 | |
UKIP | Alan Sked | 193 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 105,722 | N/A | ||
Independent | N/A | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 64,482 | 0.0 | |
Alliance | John Alderdice | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 62,972 | 0.0 | ||
Green | Peg Alexander and David Taylor | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 61,731 | –0.2 | ||
Socialist Labour | Arthur Scargill | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 52,109 | N/A | ||
Liberal | Michael Meadowcroft | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 45,166 | –0.1 | ||
BNP | John Tyndall | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 35,832 | 0.0 | ||
Natural Law | Geoffrey Clements | 197 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 30,604 | –0.1 | ||
Speaker | Betty Boothroyd | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 23,969 | |||
ProLife Alliance | Bruno Quintavalle | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 19,332 | N/A | ||
UK Unionist | Robert McCartney | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 12,817 | N/A | |
PUP | Hugh Smyth | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 10,928 | N/A | ||
National Democrats | Ian Anderson | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 10,829 | N/A | ||
Socialist Alternative | Peter Taaffe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9,906 | N/A | |||
Scottish Socialist | Tommy Sheridan | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9,740 | N/A | ||
Independent | N/A | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9,233 | – 0.1 | ||
Ind. Conservative | N/A | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 8,608 | –0.1 | ||
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 7,906 | –0.1 | ||
Make Politicians History | Rainbow George Weiss | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,745 | N/A | ||
NI Women's Coalition | Monica McWilliams and Pearl Sagar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,024 | N/A | ||
Workers' Party | Tom French | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,766 | –0.1 | ||
National Front | John McAuley | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,716 | N/A | ||
Cannabis Law Reform | Howard Marks | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,085 | N/A | ||
Socialist People's Party | Jim Hamezian | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,995 | N/A | ||
Mebyon Kernow | Loveday Jenkin | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,906 | N/A | ||
Scottish Green | Robin Harper | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,721 | |||
Conservative Anti-Euro | Christopher Story | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,434 | N/A | ||
Socialist (GB) | None | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,359 | N/A | ||
Community Representative | Ralph Knight | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,290 | N/A | ||
Neighborhood association | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,263 | N/A | |||
SDP | John Bates | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,246 | –0.1 | ||
Workers Revolutionary | Sheila Torrance | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,178 | N/A | ||
Real Labour | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,117 | N/A | ||
Independent Democrat | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 982 | ||||
Independent | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 890 | ||||
Communist | Mike Hicks | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 639 | |||
Independent | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 593 | |||
Green (NI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 539 | ||||
Socialist Equality | Davy Hyland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 505 |
The Popular Unionist MP elected in 1992 died in 1995, and the party folded shortly afterwards.
There was no incumbent Speaker in the 1992 election.Government's new majority | 179 |
Total votes cast | 31,286,284 |
Turnout | 71.3% |
This is a summary of the electoral history of John Major, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon from 1979 to 2001.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | A.J. Crouch | 1,901 | 66.5 | ||
Labour | G.A. Gold | 1,875 | |||
Labour | W.F. King | 1,861 | |||
Conservative | J.H. Chambers | 774 | 27.1 | ||
Conservative | J.R. Major | 752 | |||
Conservative | E. Brady | 740 | |||
Communist | S.G. Hope | 107 | 3.7 | ||
Independent | P.R. Winchester | 77 | 2.7 | ||
Turnout | 2,755 | 24.5 | |||
Registered electors | 11,243 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | J.E. Langley | 1,025 | 18.0% | ||
Conservative | G.R.I. Allnut | 1,002 | 17.6% | ||
Conservative | John Roy Major | 991 | 17.4% | ||
Labour | L.G.M. Davis | 921 | 16.2% | ||
Labour | J.M. Dodson | 892 | 15.7% | ||
Labour | D.J. Packer | 863 | 15.2% | ||
Turnout | 5,694 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Labour | D. W. Wendon | 2,205 | 15.3% | |
Labour | W. P. Weston | 2,176 | 15.1% | |
Labour | H. A. Bavin | 2,167 | 15.1% | |
Conservative | A. E. S. Meyer | 2,065 | 14.4% | |
Conservative | John Major | 2,061 | 14.3% | |
Conservative | J. S. Steele | 2,055 | 14.3% | |
Liberal | J. P. Taylor | 205 | 1.4% | |
Liberal | A. G. Blackmore | 182 | 1.3% | |
Liberal | Mrs M. A. Granger | 178 | 1.2% | |
Communist | Mrs J. E. Styles | 80 | 0.6% | |
Turnout | 14,376 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Stallard | 14,761 | 52.76 | ||
Conservative | John Major | 7,926 | 28.33 | ||
Liberal | Paul J Medlicott | 4,825 | 17.25 | New | |
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 466 | 1.67 | ||
Majority | 6,835 | 24.43 | |||
Turnout | 27,978 | 67.53 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Stallard | 14,155 | 58.53 | ||
Conservative | John Major | 6,602 | 27.30 | ||
Liberal | Paul J Medlicott | 3,428 | 14.17 | ||
Majority | 7,553 | 31.23 | |||
Turnout | 24,185 | 58.10 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 40,193 | 55.3 | +10.2 | |
Labour | Julian G H Fulbrook | 18,630 | 25.7 | −3.9 | |
Liberal | Dennis Graham Rowe | 12,812 | 17.6 | −7.7 | |
National Front | K T Robinson | 983 | 1.4 | New | |
Majority | 21,563 | 29.6 | +14.1 | ||
Turnout | 72.618 | 77.4 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +7.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 34,254 | 62.4 | ||
Liberal | Sheila Gatiss | 13,906 | 25.3 | ||
Labour | Mark Slater | 6,317 | 11.5 | ||
Ecology | Timothy Eiloart | 444 | 0.8 | ||
Majority | 20,348 | 37.1 | |||
Turnout | 54,921 | 71.6 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 40,530 | 63.6 | +1.2 | |
SDP | Anthony Nicholson | 13,486 | 21.1 | ―4.2 | |
Labour | David Brown | 8,883 | 13.9 | +2.4 | |
Green | William Lavin | 874 | 1.4 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 27,044 | 42.5 | +5.4 | ||
Turnout | 63,773 | 74.0 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 48,662 | 66.2 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Hugh Seckleman | 12,432 | 16.9 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Duff | 9,386 | 12.8 | ―8.3 | |
Liberal | Paul Wiggin | 1,045 | 1.4 | New | |
Green | Deborah Birkhead | 846 | 1.2 | ―0.2 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 728 | 1.0 | New | |
Conservative Thatcherite | Michael Flanagan | 231 | 0.3 | New | |
Gremloids | Lord Buckethead | 107 | 0.1 | New | |
Forward to Mars Party | Charles S. Cockell | 91 | 0.1 | New | |
Natural Law | David Shepherd | 26 | 0.0 | New | |
Majority | 36,230 | 49.3 | +6.8 | ||
Turnout | 73,554 | 79.2 | +5.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 31,501 | 55.3 | ―9.9 | |
Labour | Jason Reece | 13,361 | 23.5 | +6.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matthew Owen | 8,390 | 14.7 | ―6.4 | |
Referendum | David Bellamy | 3,114 | 5.5 | New | |
UKIP | Charles Coyne | 331 | 0.6 | New | |
Christian Democrat | Veronica Hufford | 177 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | Duncan Robertson | 89 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 18,140 | 31.8 | ―6.8 | ||
Turnout | 56,963 | 74.9 | ―4.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―8.25 |
Second ballot: 27 November 1990 | |||
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Candidate | Votes | % | |
John Major | 185 | 49.7 | |
Michael Heseltine | 131 | 35.2 | |
Douglas Hurd | 56 | 15.1 | |
Majority | 54 | 14.5 | |
Turnout | 372 | 100 | |
Third ballot required |
Only ballot: 4 July 1995 | |||
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Candidate | Votes | % | |
John Major | 218 | 66.3 | |
John Redwood | 89 | 27.1 | |
Abstentions | 10 | 3.0 | |
Spoilt | 12 | 3.6 | |
Majority | 129 | 39.2 | |
Turnout | 329 | N/A | |
John Major re-elected |
Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||
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Party | Leader | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Conservative | John Major | 645 | 336 | 3 | 44 | −41 | 51.69 | 41.9 | 14,093,007 | −0.3 | |
Labour | Neil Kinnock | 634 | 271 | 43 | 1 | +42 | 41.62 | 34.4 | 11,560,484 | +3.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paddy Ashdown | 632 | 20 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3.07 | 17.8 | 5,999,606 | −4.8 | |
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0.46 | 1.9 | 629,564 | +0.6 | |
UUP | James Molyneaux | 13 | 9 | ![]() |
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1.38 | 0.8 | 271,049 | 0.0 | |
SDLP | John Hume | 13 | 4 | 1 | ![]() |
+1 | 0.61 | 0.5 | 184,445 | 0.0 | |
Green | Jean Lambert and Richard Lawson | 253 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.5 | 170,047 | +0.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Wigley | 38 | 4 | 1 | ![]() |
+1 | 0.61 | 0.5 | 156,796 | +0.1 | |
DUP | Ian Paisley | 7 | 3 | ![]() |
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0.46 | 0.3 | 103,039 | 0.0 | |
Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 14 | 0 | ![]() |
1 | −1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 78,291 | −0.1 | |
Alliance | John Alderdice | 16 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.2 | 68,665 | 0.0 | |
Liberal | Michael Meadowcroft | 73 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.2 | 64,744 | ![]() | |
Natural Law | Geoffrey Clements | 309 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.2 | 62,888 | ![]() | |
Ind. Social Democrat | N/A | 2 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 28,599 | ![]() | |
Independent | N/A | 6 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 22,844 | ![]() | |
UPUP | James Kilfedder | 1 | 1 | ![]() |
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0.15 | 0.1 | 19,305 | 0.0 | |
Ind. Conservative | N/A | 12 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 11,356 | ![]() | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 25 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 7,929 | +0.1 | |
Independent | N/A | 23 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 7,631 | ![]() | |
BNP | John Tyndall | 13 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 7,631 | ![]() | |
SDP | John Bates | 8 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 6,649 | ![]() | |
Scottish Militant Labour | Tommy Sheridan | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 6,287 | ![]() | |
National Front | John McAuley | 14 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 4,816 | ![]() | |
True Labour | Sydney Bidwell | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 4,665 | ![]() | |
Anti-Federalist | Alan Sked | 17 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 4,383 | ![]() | |
Workers' Party | Marian Donnelly | 8 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 4,359 | 0.0 | |
Official Conservative Hove Party | Nigel Furness | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 2,658 | ![]() | |
Loony Green | Stuart Hughes | 5 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 2,538 | ![]() | |
Ind. Unionist | N/A | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 2,256 | ![]() | |
New Agenda | Proinsias De Rossa | 2 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 2,133 | ![]() | |
Independent Progressive Socialist | N/A | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 1,094 | ![]() | |
Islamic Party | David Pidcock | 4 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 1,085 | ![]() | |
Revolutionary Communist | Frank Furedi | 8 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 745 | ![]() | |
Independent Nationalist | N/A | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 649 | ![]() | |
Communist (PCC) | Jack Conrad | 4 | 0 | ![]() |
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0.0 | 0.0 | 603 | ![]() |
All parties with more than 500 votes shown. Plaid Cymru result includes votes for Green/Plaid Cymru Alliance.
Government's new majority | 21 |
Total votes cast [5] | 33,614,074 |
Turnout | 77.7% |
Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||
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Party | Leader | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |
Labour | Tony Blair | 639 | 418 | 146 | 0 | +146 | 63.4 | 43.2 | 13,518,167 | +8.8 | |
Conservative | John Major | 648 | 165 | 0 | 178 | –178 | 25.0 | 30.7 | 9,600,943 | –11.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paddy Ashdown | 639 | 46 | 30 | 2 | +28 | 7.0 | 16.8 | 5,242,947 | –1.0 | |
Referendum | James Goldsmith | 547 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | 811,849 | N/A | ||
SNP | Alex Salmond | 72 | 6 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 621,550 | +0.1 | |
UUP | David Trimble | 16 | 10 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 258,349 | 0.0 | |
SDLP | John Hume | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | –1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 190,814 | +0.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Wigley | 40 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 161,030 | 0.0 | |
Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 126,921 | 0.0 | |
DUP | Ian Paisley | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | –1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 107,348 | 0.0 | |
UKIP | Alan Sked | 193 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 105,722 | N/A | ||
Independent | N/A | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 64,482 | 0.0 | |
Alliance | John Alderdice | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 62,972 | 0.0 | ||
Green | Peg Alexander and David Taylor | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 61,731 | –0.2 | ||
Socialist Labour | Arthur Scargill | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 52,109 | N/A | ||
Liberal | Michael Meadowcroft | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 45,166 | –0.1 | ||
BNP | John Tyndall | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 35,832 | 0.0 | ||
Natural Law | Geoffrey Clements | 197 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 30,604 | –0.1 | ||
Speaker | Betty Boothroyd | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 23,969 | |||
ProLife Alliance | Bruno Quintavalle | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 19,332 | N/A | ||
UK Unionist | Robert McCartney | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 12,817 | N/A | |
PUP | Hugh Smyth | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 10,928 | N/A | ||
National Democrats | Ian Anderson | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 10,829 | N/A | ||
Socialist Alternative | Peter Taaffe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9,906 | N/A | |||
Scottish Socialist | Tommy Sheridan | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9,740 | N/A | ||
Independent | N/A | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9,233 | – 0.1 | ||
Ind. Conservative | N/A | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 8,608 | –0.1 | ||
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 7,906 | –0.1 | ||
Make Politicians History | Rainbow George Weiss | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,745 | N/A | ||
NI Women's Coalition | Monica McWilliams and Pearl Sagar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,024 | N/A | ||
Workers' Party | Tom French | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,766 | –0.1 | ||
National Front | John McAuley | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,716 | N/A | ||
Cannabis Law Reform | Howard Marks | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,085 | N/A | ||
Socialist People's Party | Jim Hamezian | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,995 | N/A | ||
Mebyon Kernow | Loveday Jenkin | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,906 | N/A | ||
Scottish Green | Robin Harper | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,721 | |||
Conservative Anti-Euro | Christopher Story | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,434 | N/A | ||
Socialist (GB) | None | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,359 | N/A | ||
Community Representative | Ralph Knight | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,290 | N/A | ||
Neighborhood association | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,263 | N/A | |||
SDP | John Bates | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,246 | –0.1 | ||
Workers Revolutionary | Sheila Torrance | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,178 | N/A | ||
Real Labour | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,117 | N/A | ||
Independent Democrat | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 982 | ||||
Independent | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 890 | ||||
Communist | Mike Hicks | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 639 | |||
Independent | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 593 | |||
Green (NI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 539 | ||||
Socialist Equality | Davy Hyland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 505 |
The Popular Unionist MP elected in 1992 died in 1995, and the party folded shortly afterwards.
There was no incumbent Speaker in the 1992 election.Government's new majority | 179 |
Total votes cast | 31,286,284 |
Turnout | 71.3% |