United Kingdom Election Results

This is the site to go to for election results, data and information from the United Kingdom. Unlike some other political sites, this site doesn’t go in for minimising the information to ‘major parties’ only, using flashy graphics that distract from the content, compromising its impartiality by accepting sponsorship, or including irrelevant party propaganda. On these pages you will find authoritative unbiased information and nothing else.

Copyright Notice

The right of David Boothroyd to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (1988 c. 48).

This site aims to include political facts which are not available elsewhere, or not available elsewhere in the same detail or to the same accuracy. For that reason, and also for copyright reasons, individual constituency results before 1983 will not be available here. Researchers interested in these election results will find them in the books of F.W.S. Craig - see the bibliography page.

Published in 2001, the Politico’s Guide to the History of British Political Parties. This book gives a history of more than 250 political parties which have contested parliamentary elections since 1832, along with details of contact information and electoral performance, to provide a unique political reference book. It is an essential companion to this website and to anyone looking at election results. It is possible to order online via Politico’s Publishing.

Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament

NEW: Results of elections to the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom in 2005 are being added. At present, results are available for the London Borough constituencies and for the first part of the English Boroughs.

These files contain details of all elections to the 52nd and 53rd Parliaments of the United Kingdom. Constituencies have been split according to their location and type. The Boundary Commission is instructed to classify a constituency as a County constituency if it contains “more than a small rural element” (page 12 of the Fourth Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for England, Volume 1). Occasionally this can cause confusion - for example over Reading and Milton Keynes, each of which have two constituencies where one is a Borough and the other a County constituency.

For ease of reference, the county constituencies have (except in the case of Northern Ireland) been grouped with the county they are in.

• London Boroughs (includes 2005)
• English Boroughs part 1 (Aldridge-Brownhills to Leeds, West) (includes 2005)
• English Boroughs part 2 (Leicester, East to Wythenshawe and Sale East)
• English Counties part 1 (Avon, Bath to Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury)
• English Counties part 2 (Greater Manchester, Bolton West to Northamptonshire, Wellingborough)
• English Counties part 3 (Northumberland, Berwick-upon-Tweed to West Yorkshire, Wakefield)
• Welsh Boroughs
• Welsh Counties
• Scottish Burghs
• Scottish Counties
• Northern Irish Boroughs
• Northern Irish Counties

• Candidates for the 2001 General Election
• Summary results of the 1997 election.
• Summary results of the 2001 election.
• Order in which constituencies declared in the 1997 election, including the declaration time. Includes declaration times for byelections in 1997-2001.
• Order in which constituencies declared in the 2001 election, including the declaration time. Includes declaration times for byelections since the general election.
• By-elections in the 1997-2001 Parliament.. Including the full result and biographies of by-election candidates.
• By-elections in the 2001-2005 Parliament. Including the full result and biographies of by-election candidates.
• By-elections in the 2005 Parliament. Including the full result and biographies of by-election candidates.

Election results from the general election of 1983 onwards are in these files in the same order.

• London Boroughs 1983-97
• English Boroughs 1983-97 part 1 (Aldridge-Brownhills to Leeds, West)
• English Boroughs 1983-97 part 2 (Leicester, East to York)
• English Counties 1983-97
• Welsh Boroughs 1983-97
• Welsh Counties 1983-97
• Scottish Burghs 1983-97
• Scottish Counties 1983-97
• Northern Irish Boroughs 1983-97
• Northern Irish Counties 1983-97

• Summary results of the 1983 election.
• Summary results of the 1987 election.
• Summary results of the 1992 election.
• By-elections in the 1979-83 Parliament.
• By-elections in the 1983-87 Parliament.
• By-elections in the 1987-92 Parliament.
• By-elections in the 1992-97 Parliament.

Historical Parliaments of the United Kingdom

• Constituencies in the unreformed House of Commons. This is a complete list of Boroughs and counties which returned members to sit in Parliament, prior to the first reform of the system of election in 1832.

Miscellaneous Parliamentary Election statistics

• Summary results of General Elections, 1885-1979.
• Unchanged constituencies in the 1997 boundary changes.
• Summary of the partisan effects of the 1997 boundary changes.
• Top and bottom ten turnouts at each General Election since 1959.
• Smallest majorities at Parliamentary elections since 1918.
• Closest Four- and Three-way marginals since 1918.
• The swing in each constituency at the 1983, 1987 and 1992 elections.
• The 10 highest swings in each direction at each general election since 1951.
• List of seats which changed hands at each general election since 1974.
• The strength of each party in Parliament since 1964, day-by-day.
• Members of Parliament with the longest service in Parliament recently.
• Members of Parliament with the shortest service in Parliament since 1945.
• List of the youngest MPs at each point since 1895.
• List of Government Ministers defeated at Parliamentary elections since 1901.
• Causes of Parliamentary byelections since the Reform Act.
• List of Members expelled by the House of Commons since the Restoration [1660]. Includes Members expelled by the Irish House of Commons from 1690.
• House of Commons Divisions in which the result was a tie since 1801.
• House of Commons Divisions in which the Government was defeated from 1885 to 1918.
• House of Commons Divisions in which the Government was defeated since 1918.

The House of Lords

• All Life Peerages created under the Life Peerages Act, 1958.
• Elections of hereditary peers under the House of Lords Act 1999.
• Byelection to replace the Viscount of Oxfuird, March 2003.
• Byelection to replace Lord Vivian, May 2004.

Maps

Most of these maps do not have the names of constituencies or wards attached.

• Parliamentary Constituencies in 1918-22. Constituencies in Great Britain had the same boundaries until 1945, and in most areas until 1950.
• Parliamentary Constituencies in 1950-55.
• Parliamentary Constituencies in 1955-74.
• Parliamentary Constituencies in 1974-83.
• Parliamentary Constituencies in 1992-97. In everywhere except north Buckinghamshire, these boundaries applied from 1983.
• Parliamentary Constituencies in 1997-.
• Wards of the Corporation of London.
• Wards of Central London Boroughs 1978-2002.
• Wards of Central London Boroughs 2002-.
• Local Authority Boundaries at present.

2004 Elections to the European Parliament

• Candidates for the 2004 elections.

1999 Elections to the European Parliament

• European Parliamentary Election in Eastern region by constituency, 1999.
• European Parliamentary Election in East Midlands region by constituency, 1999.
• European Parliamentary Election in London by constituency, 1999.
• European Parliamentary Election in North East region by constituency, 1999.
• European Parliamentary Election in North West region by constituency, 1999.
• European Parliamentary Election in South East region by constituency, 1999.
• European Parliamentary Election in South West region by constituency, 1999.
• European Parliamentary Election in West Midlands region by constituency, 1999.
• European Parliamentary Election in Yorkshire and the Humber region by constituency, 1999.
• European Parliamentary Election in Wales by constituency, 1999.
• European Parliamentary Election in Scotland by constituency, 1999.
• Candidates for the 1999 elections.

Elections to the European Parliament 1979-99

• Constituencies in London.
• Constituencies in England part 1 (A - Liverpool).
• Constituencies in England part 2 (Merseyside East - Z)
• Constituencies in Wales.
• Constituencies in Scotland.
• Northern Ireland constituency first preference votes.
• Summary results of the 1994 election.
• Composition of European Parliamentary Constituencies in terms of Westminster constituencies.
• 1992 election results projected on European constituencies.

Referendums

• Referendum on establishment of the Scottish Parliament (11th September 1997).
• Referendum on establishment of the Welsh Assembly (18th September 1997).
• Referendum on establishment of the Greater London Authority (7th May 1998).

Elections to subsidiary Parliaments, Assemblies and Councils

National Assembly for Wales / Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru [1999-]

• Results of the National Assembly for Wales elections 1999-2007.
• Results of the National Assembly for Wales elections 2007-.

Scottish Parliament [1999-]

• Candidates for the Scottish Parliament.

Parliament of Northern Ireland [1921-1972]

• All elections to the Northern Ireland House of Commons are indexed on this page.

Northern Ireland Assembly [1998-]

• Full STV results of the first Northern Ireland Assembly elections. Wide screen setting recommended.

Greater London Council [1964-86]

• All GLC election results are linked on this index page, along with results of direct elections to the Inner London Education Authority (1986-90).

Greater London Authority [2000-]

• Greater London Authority election results including the Mayor of London and the Greater London Assembly.
• Candidates for the Greater London Authority in 2000.
• Candidates for the Greater London Authority in 2004.

The Political Parties

• Leaders of the Conservative Party since 1809, including leadership election results.
• Leaders of the Labour Party since 1906, including leadership election results.
• Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election results in the 1992 Parliament.
• Labour Party National Executive Committee election result in 1994.
• Labour Party National Executive Committee election result in 1995.
• Labour Party National Executive Committee election result in 1996.
• Labour Party National Executive Committee election result in 1997.
• Labour Party National Executive Committee election result in 1998.
• Labour Party National Executive Committee election result in 1999.
• Leaders of the Liberal Party since 1834, including leadership election results. Also includes SDP leaders and the Liberal Democrats.

Separate sites

• Westminster City Council election results 1964-.
• Tower Hamlets Borough Council election results 1964-2002.
• History of Politics on Television (still under construction).

This site is compiled and maintained by David Boothroyd. If you have an enquiry please mail me and I may be able to help.