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.
Michael John Gapes is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford South from 1992 to 2019.
Christopher Michael Leslie is a British business executive and former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and Nottingham East from 2010 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party,he defected to form Change UK and later became an independent politician.
Joan Marie Ryan is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield North from 1997 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2019. She was first elected as a Labour Party MP but later defected to join Change UK.
Christopher Heaton-Harris is a British former politician who served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from September 2022 to July 2024,and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from February to September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Daventry from 2010 to 2024.
The 1997 Uxbridge by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in July 1997 to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Uxbridge in Greater London,England. The seat was held by the Conservative Party,their first such victory since 1989.
Edward Samuel Miliband is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2024. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015. Alongside his brother,David Miliband,he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Sir David Anthony Evennett is a former Conservative politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bexleyheath and Crayford at the 2005 general election. Previously he was the MP for Erith and Crayford between the 1983 and 1997 general elections. He served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from September to October 2022. He retired as an MP at the July 2024 general election.
Ian Christopher Austin,Baron Austin of Dudley is a British politician who sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North from the 2005 general election until the 2019 general election when he stood down. Formerly a member of the Labour Party,he resigned from the party on 22 February 2019 to sit as an independent,and was ennobled in the 2019 Dissolution Honours. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010.
Wesley Paul William Streeting is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015.
David John Mowat is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warrington South,and was first elected at the 2010 general election. He was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care and Support at the Department of Health in July 2016. He lost the seat to Labour at the 2017 election.
John Zak Woodcock,Baron Walney is a British politician and life peer who formerly acted as the Conservative government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption and is currently in position under the Labour government. He had previously served as a Labour Co-op and then independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Barrow and Furness from 2010 to 2019. He has sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords since 2021,previously sitting as a non-affiliated peer.
Robert Henry Halfon is a British Conservative Party politician and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harlow from 2010 to 2024.
Iain Aitken Stewart is a British Conservative Party politician and former accountant. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Milton Keynes South from 2010 until the seat's abolition in 2024.
Sir Michael Tyrone Ellis is a British politician and barrister who served as Attorney General for England and Wales between September and October 2022,having previously served in the position from March to September 2021 during the maternity leave of Suella Braverman. A member of the Conservative Party,he previously served as Paymaster General from 2021 to 2022 and as Minister for the Cabinet Office from February to September 2022. Ellis served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Northampton North from 2010 to 2024.
Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman was a British politician and author who served as a minister throughout the Labour government of 1974 to 1979. Elected as a member of parliament (MP) at the 1970 general election,he became Father of the House in 2015 and served until his death in 2017.
The 1928 Ilford by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Ilford,London on 23 February 1928.
The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday,7 May 2015 to elect 650 members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons. The Conservative Party,led by prime minister David Cameron,won an unexpected majority victory of ten seats;they had been leading a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats. It was the last general election to be held before the UK voted to leave the European Union (EU) in June 2016.
Lee Anderson is a British Reform UK politician and television presenter who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashfield since 2019. He has served as Chief Whip of Reform UK since July 2024. He was elected in 2019 as a member of the Conservative Party,but defected to Reform UK in March 2024 after having the whip suspended. He became the party's first MP,and was subsequently elected for Reform UK at the 2024 general election.
This article lists the election results of Change UK in UK parliamentary elections and in elections to the European Parliament.
