Related Research Articles
The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001,four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997,to elect 659 members to the House of Commons. The governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory with a 167 majority,returning 412 members of Parliament versus 418 from the 1997 general election,a net loss of six seats,though with a significantly lower turnout than before—59.4%,compared to 71.6% at the previous election. The number of votes Labour received fell by nearly three million. Tony Blair went on to become the only Labour Prime Minister to serve two consecutive full terms in office. As Labour retained almost all of their seats won in the 1997 landslide victory,the media dubbed the 2001 election "the quiet landslide".
The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday,1 May 1997. The governing Conservative Party led by Prime Minister John Major was defeated in a landslide by the Labour Party led by Tony Blair,achieving a 179-seat majority.
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.
The 1992 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 April 1992,to elect 651 members to the House of Commons. The election resulted in the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party since 1979,with a majority of 21 and would be the last time that the Conservatives would win an overall majority at a general election until 2015. It was also the last general election to be held on a day which did not coincide with any local elections until 2017. This election result took many by surprise,as opinion polling leading up to the election day had shown a narrow but consistent lead for the Labour Party under leader Neil Kinnock.
The 1987 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 11 June 1987,to elect 650 members to the House of Commons. The election was the third consecutive general election victory for the Conservative Party,who won a majority of 102 seats and second landslide under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher,who became the first Prime Minister since the Earl of Liverpool in 1820 to lead a party into three successive electoral victories.
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr,13th Marquess of Lothian,Baron Kerr of Monteviot,,commonly known as Michael Ancram,is a Scottish 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.
The Referendum Party was a Eurosceptic,single-issue political party that was active in the United Kingdom from 1994 to 1997. The party's sole objective was for a referendum to be held on the nature of the UK's membership of the European Union (EU). Specifically,it called for a referendum on whether the British electorate wanted to be part of a federal European state or to revert to being a sovereign nation that was part of a European free-trade bloc without wider political functions.
The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held twenty months after the 1950 general election,which the Labour Party had won with a slim majority of just five seats. The Labour government called a snap election for Thursday 25 October 1951 in the hope of increasing its parliamentary majority. However,despite winning the popular vote and achieving both the highest-ever total vote until it was surpassed by the Conservative Party in 1992 and again in 2019 and the highest percentage vote share,Labour won fewer seats than the Conservative Party. That was caused mainly by the collapse of the Liberal vote,which enabled the Conservatives to win seats by default. The election marked the return of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister and the beginning of Labour's 13-year spell in opposition. It was the third and final general election to be held during the reign of King George VI,as he died the following year on 6 February and was succeeded by his daughter,Elizabeth II. It was the last election in which the Conservatives did better in Scotland than in England.
Brian Arthur Robert White was a British Labour politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Milton Keynes from the 1997 general election,but lost his seat in 2005.
Wolverhampton South West is a constituency created in 1950 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Stuart Anderson of the Conservative Party.
Peter Gerald "Gerry" Malone is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 1987 and again from 1992 to 1997.
Sir David Edgeworth Butler was an English political scientist who specialised in psephology,the study of elections. He has been described as "the father of modern election science".
Gary Peter Anthony Waller was a British Conservative politician.
Roger Kenneth Evans is a British politician and barrister who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouth from 1992 to 1997. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Christopher John Butler is a British former Conservative Party politician.
Paul Butler is a republican politician in Northern Ireland and a former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He served as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Lagan Valley from 2007 to 2011.
The 1985 Brecon and Radnor by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 4 July 1985 for the British House of Commons constituency of Brecon and Radnor.
Mark Christopher Butler is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since 2007. He was a minister in the Gillard and Rudd governments and also served as national president of the ALP from 2015 to 2018.
Barry John MacKinnon is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1977 to 1993. He was the state leader of the Liberal Party from 1986 to 1992,although he led the party at only one election. MacKinnon had earlier served as a minister in the governments of Sir Charles Court and Ray O'Connor. He worked as an accountant before entering politics,and since leaving parliament has involved himself in various community organisations.
References
- ↑ "Times Guide to the House of Commons", Times Newspapers Limited, 1997 edition
- ↑ "The Flying Scotsma(so)n". Freemasonry Today. Archived from the original on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
