The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of the Labour Party in 1945,with a majority of 144 seats and the first of two consecutive landslide victories.
James Maxton was a British left-wing politician,and leader of the Independent Labour Party. He was a pacifist who opposed both world wars. A prominent proponent of Home Rule for Scotland,he is remembered as one of the leading figures of the Red Clydeside era. He broke with Ramsay MacDonald and the second minority Labour government,and became one of its most bitter critics. As the leader of the Independent Labour Party (ILP),he disaffiliated the ILP from the mainstream party in 1932. Afterwards,he became an independent dissident outside front-line politics.
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr,13th Marquess of Lothian,Baron Kerr of Monteviot,,commonly known as Michael Ancram,is a British politician and peer who served as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2005. He was formerly styled Earl of Ancram until he inherited the marquessate in 2004.
Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor,known as Teddy Taylor,was a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for forty years,from 1964 to 1979 for Glasgow Cathcart and from 1980 to 2005 for Southend East.
Humfrey Jonathon Malins CBE is a British Conservative Party politician,who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon North West and later Woking.
David George Clark,Baron Clark of Windermere PC DL is a British Labour Party politician,former cabinet minister and author.
Richard Giles Douglas was a Scottish politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) elected as a Labour Co-operative candidate,but who subsequently joined the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Neil George Carmichael,Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove was a Scottish politician. He was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in Glasgow from 1962 to 1983.
Leslie John Huckfield is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Nuneaton from 1967 to 1983 and as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1989.
James Hindle Hudson was a British Labour Party politician,who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 18 years in two periods between 1923 and 1955.
The Glasgow Camlachie by-election was held on Wednesday 28 January 1948,following the death of the sitting Member of Parliament,Campbell Stephen.
John McGovern was a Scottish socialist politician.
The Glasgow Bridgeton by-election was held on 29 August 1946,following the death of Independent Labour Party (ILP) Member of Parliament for Glasgow Bridgeton,James Maxton.
The 1933 Liverpool Exchange by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Exchange in Liverpool on 19 January 1933. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate John Shute.
The Glasgow Queen's Park by-election,1982 was a parliamentary by-election held on 2 December 1982 for the House of Commons constituency of Glasgow Queen's Park.
The 1943 Acton by-election was a by-election held on 12 December 1943 for the British House of Commons constituency of Acton in London.
Charles Dukes,1st Baron Dukeston CBE was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
Alexander Wilkinson Frederick Haycock was a Canadian-born British Labour politician,a leading member of the free trade movement.
This was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Stourbridge. Stourbridge was one of the Worcestershire constituencies,bordering Bewdley,where the Conservative Prime Minister,Stanley Baldwin sat.
The 1941 Lancaster by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Lancaster,Lancashire on 15 October 1941.
