Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990–present) election results

This article lists the election results of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in UK elections, founded following the 1990 dissolution of the "Continuing" Social Democratic Party after the even further dissolution in 1988 of the original Social Democratic Party.

Local government elections

1995

Authority	Ward	Candidate	Votes
Neath Port Talbot	Aberavon	Anthony Taylor	1,080
	Aberavon	Jeffrey Dinham
	Aberavon	Thomas John Sullivan

2023

Council	Seat	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Amber Valley	Ripley	Edwin Taylor	69	2.6
Barnsley	Dearne North	Steve Vajda	16	1.1
Barnsley	Dearne South	Dave Jarvis	446	24.9
Bradford	Keighley East	Andrew Vann	37	1.0
Cheshire East	Poynton East and Pott Shrigley	Tim O’Rourke	157	3.3
Derbyshire Dales	Hulland	Richard Bright	145	18.9
Kirklees	Birstall and Brenshaw	Mark Steele	53	1.4
Knowsley	St Gabriels	Patricia Jameson	26
Leeds	Ardsley and Robin Hood	Daniel Whetsone	101	1.9
Leeds	Beeston and Holbeck	Nigel Perry	107	2.7
Leeds	Bramley and Stanningly	Richard Riley	62	1.4
Leeds	Burmantofts and Richmond Hill	Paul Whetstone	59	1.5
Leeds	Chapel Allerton	Sasha Watson	48	0.8
Leeds	Farnley and Wartley	Jack Bellfield	17	0.3
Leeds	Hunslet and Riverside	Thomas Foster	48	1.1
Leeds	Middleton Park	Emma Pogson-Golden	1,985	45.9
Leeds	Morley North	Richard Cowles	25	0.4
Leeds	Morley South	Andrew Martin	41	0.8
Leeds	Rothwell	Sarah Welbourne	21	0.4
Leeds	Temple Newsam	Wendy Whetstone	61	1.2
Leeds	Weetwood	Rob Walker	47	0.7
South Oxfordshire	Cholsey	Kym Pomlett	188	6.1
South Oxfordshire	Didcot South	Owen Edwards	327	12.1
Manchester	Didsbury West	Wendy Andrew	26	0.5
Medway	Hempstead and Wigmore	Peter Wheeler	58	2.2
Medway	Wayfield and Weeds Wood	Steve Tanner	74	3.8
Newcastle	South Jesmond	Martin Evison	85	4.7
Salford	Weaste and Seedley	Stephen Lewthwaife	40	1.8
Sevenoaks	Sevenoaks Kippington	Ian Grattidge	78	5.0
Sheffield	Firth Park	April Worrall	183	6.5
Wakefield	Pontefract South	Trevor Lake	84	2.5
Wealden	Hailsham West	Stephen Gander	34	4.3
East Yorkshire	Bridlington Central and Old Town	Carlo Verda	228	7.2
East Yorkshire	Bridlington North	Joy Verda	118	1.2
East Yorkshire	Bridlington South	Chris Daniels	52	1.0

2024

Authority	Ward	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Barnsley	Dearne South	Dave Jarvis	396	22.3
Bradford	Keighley East	Alex Vann	58	1.0
Bristol	Frome Vale	Tommy Trueman	188	6.1
Bristol	Hengrove and Whitchurch Park	Neil Norton	59	1.6
Dorset	Blandford	Linda Stenner	31	1.3
Dorset		Daniel Avery	50	2.0
Leeds	Ardsley and Robin Hood	Mark Daniels	102	1.9
Leeds	Armley	Warwick Bettney	41	0.8
Leeds	Beeston & Holbeck	Sasha Watson	247	5.2
Leeds	Bramley & Stanningley	Richard Riley	82	1.9
Leeds	Burmantofts & Richmond Hill	Paul Whetstone	30	0.7
Leeds	Chapel Allerton	Richard Cowles	75	1.1
Leeds	Farnley & Wortley	Finley Taylor	76	1.6
Leeds	Horsforth	Nathan Wright	41	0.5
Leeds	Hunslet & Riverside	Daniel Whetstone	107	2.2
Leeds	Killingbeck & Seacroft	Catherine Dobson	106	2.5
Leeds	Middleton Park	Rob Chesterfield	1,882	42.8
Leeds	Moortown	Cordelia Lynan	39	0.5
Leeds	Morley North	Thomas Foster	19	0.3
Leeds	Morley South	Nigel Perry	8	0.1
Leeds	Rothwell	Sarah Welbourne	43	0.8
Leeds	Roundhay	Carl Richman	132	1.8
Leeds	Temple Newsam	Wendy Whetstone	33	0.6
Leeds	Weetwood	Rob Walker	67	1.0
Leeds	Wetherby	Ian Howell	43	0.6
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	South Jesmond	Martin Evison	52	2.4
Rotherham	Wath	Michael Chambers	345	21.6
Sheffield	Nether Hedge and Sharrow	Annie Stoker	175	5.5

General elections

Election	Seats	±	Candidates	Total votes	%	Votes per candidate	Government
1992	0 / 651		8	6,649	0.1%	831	No seats
1997	0 / 659		2	1,246	0.0%	623	No seats
2010 [1]	0 / 650		2	1,551	0.0%	776	No seats
2015 [2]	0 / 650		2	125	0.0%	63	No seats
2017 [3]	0 / 650		6	469	0.0%	78	No seats
2019	0 / 650		20 [4]	3,295 [5]	0.0%	165	No seats
2024	0 / 650		122 [6]	33,811 [7]	0.1%	277	No seats

1992

Constituency	Candidate	Votes
Glanford & Scunthorpe	Cyril Nottingham	996 out of 58,045 (1.7%)
Plymouth Devonport	Harold Luscombe	2,152 out of 51,216 (4.2%)
Plymouth Drake	D. M. Stanbury	476 out of 39,042 (0.2%)
Reigate	M. Bilcliff	513 out of 56,449 (0.9%)
South East Staffordshire	Jill Taylor	895 out of 57,603 (1.6%)
Wycombe	Alan Page	449 out of 56,611 (0.8%)

Notes: Received 6,649 votes out of 33,614,074 (0.1%) | Position- 21/35

Source: ^{[8] [9] [10]}

1997

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%
East Yorkshire	Raymond Allerston	1,049 out of 48,971 (2.1%)	2.1%
Vale of York	Tony Pelton	197 out of 53,265 (0.4%)	0.4%

Notes: Received 1,246 votes out of 31,286,284 (0.0%) | Position- 42/49

Source: ^[11]

2010

Constituency	Candidate	Votes
Birmingham Hodge Hill	Peter Johnson	637 out of 42,472 (1.5%)
East Yorkshire	Raymond Allerston	914 out of 51,254 (1.8%)

Notes: Received 1,551 votes out of 29,687,604 (0.0%) | Position- 43/58

Sources: ^{[12] [13]}

2015

Constituency	Candidate	Votes
Birmingham Yardley	Peter Johnson	71 out of 41,313 (0.2%)
Kingston upon Hull East	Val Hoodless	54 out of 35,144 (0.2%)

Notes: Received 125 votes out of 30,697,525 (0.0%) | Position- N/A because the party received less than 400 votes

Source: ^[14]

2017

Constituency	Candidate	Votes
Glasgow East	Steven Marshall	148 out of 36,175 (0.4%)
Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough	Muzafar Rahman	47 out of 41,870 (0.1%)
Sheffield Central	Joe Westnidge	38 out of 47,877 (0.1%)
Sheffield Hallam	Steven Winstone	70 out of 57,020 (0.1%)
Sheffield Heeley	Jaspreet Oberoi	64 out of 44,226 (0.1%)
Sheffield South East	Ishleen Oberoi	102 out of 43,596 (0.2%)

Notes: Received 469 votes out of 32,204,184 (0.0%) | Position- 37/41

Source: ^[15]

2019

Constituency	Candidate	Votes
Basildon & Billericay	Simon Breedon	224 out of 44,128 (0.5%)
Cambridge	Jane Robins	91 out of 53,729 (0.2%)
Cynon Valley	Ian McLean	114 out of 30,236 (0.4%)
Edinburgh South West	Mev Brown	114 out of 52,131 (0.2%)
Epping Forest	Jon Newham	170 out of 50,268 (0.3%)
Folkestone & Hythe	Colin Menniss	190 out of 59,005 (0.3%)
Havant	Alan Black	344 out of 45,959 (0.7%)
Jarrow	Mark Conway	212 out of 40,736 (0.5%)
Keighley	Matthew Rose	132 out of 52,600 (0.3%)
Leeds Central	William Clouston	281 out of 49,284 (0.6%)
Leeds West	Daniel Whetstone	46 out of 40,281 (0.1%)
Neath	Carl Williams	67 out of 36,756 (0.2%)
Thirsk & Malton	Michael Taylor	127 out of 56,588 (0.2%)
Tooting	Roz Hubley	77 out of 58,473 (0.1%)
Tottenham	Andrew Bence	91 out of 46,856 (0.2%)
Warrington South	Kevin Hickson	168 out of 61,899 (0.3%)
Warwick & Leamington	Xander Bennett	67 out of 54,205 (0.1%)
Watford	Michael McGetrick	333 out of 58,065 (0.6%)
Wentworth & Dearne	David Bettney	313 out of 41,557 (0.8%)
York Central	Andrew Dunn	134 out of 49,505 (0.3%)

Notes: Received 3,295 votes out of 32,014,110 (0.0%) | Position- 25/47

2024

Source: ^[16]

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	Vote share	Vote change	Position
Doncaster North	Dave Bettney	1,960	6.3%	-	3rd
Leeds South	Daniel Whelstone	1,874	5.9%	5.3%	4th
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	Rod Liddle	1,835	4.8%	-	4th
Hexham	William Clouston	1,211	2.3%	-	6th
Sheffield South East	Matthel Lesse	1,061	3.0%	-	7th
Mid Dorset and North Poole	John Dowling	1,061	2.1%	-	5th
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	Jeremy Turner	873	2.8%	-	7th
Earley and Woodley	Alaster Hunter	784	1.7%	-	5th
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven	Valerie Gray	784	1.9%	-	6th
Sheffield Heeley	Helen Jackman	711	1.8%	-	5th
Sheffield Hallam	Andrew Cowell	654	1.3%	-	5th
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge	Alexander Branham	650	1.5%	-	6th
Bristol East	Claire Dunnage	555	1.2%	-	6th
Leeds East	Catherine Dobson	519	1.3%	-	7th
Maidenhead	Tim Burt	518	1.0%	-	6th
Henley and Thame	Maryse Pomlette	515	1.0%	-	6th
Ealing Central and Acton	Stephen Balogh	410	0.9%	-	7th
Mid Buckinghamshire	Yvonne Wilding	337	0.6%	-	6th
Sheffield Central	Annie Stoker	334	1.1%	-	8th
Coventry South	Alastair Mellon	334	0.8%	-	7th
Wythenshawe and Sale East	Hilary Salt	326	0.8%	-	7th
North Durham	Tom Chittenden	320	0.8%	-	7th
Sussex Weald	Stephen Gander	319	0.6%	-	7th
Bicester and Woodstock	Tim Funnel	291	0.6%	-	6th
Newcastle upon Tyne North	Martin Evison	285	0.6%	-	7th
Canterbury	Luke Buchanan-Hogman	285	0.6%	-	6th
Wellingborough and Rushden	Jeremy Brittian	273	0.6%	-	6th
Spelthorne	Alistair Miller	273	0.6%	-	6th
Oxford West and Abingdon	Anni Byard	259	0.6%	-	6th
Horsham	Paul Abbot	244	0.4%	-	7th
Carlisle	Rachel Hayton	244	0.5%	-	7th
Didcot and Wantage	Kim Pommlet	242	0.4%	-	6th
Orpington	John Bright	240	0.5%	-	6th
Manchester Central	Sebastian Moore	240	0.6%	-	7th
Ealing North	Les Beaumont	240	0.6%	-	8th
Droitwich and Evesham	Andrew Flaxman	239	0.5%	-	6th
North Ayrshire and Arran	Ian Gibson	238	0.6%	-	7th
Esher and Walton	Richard Bateson	234	0.4%	-	6th
Richmond Park	Richard Harrison	233	0.4%	-	7th
Bethnal Green and Stepney	Jon Madbutt	233	0.5%	-	11th
Oxford East	Benjamin Adams	232	0.6%	-	11th
Lewes	Rowena Easton	229	0.4%	-	6th
Salford	Stephen Lewthwaite	227	0.6%	-	7th
Harpenden and Berkhamsted	Mark Pattern	223	0.4%	-	6th
Macclesfield	Dickie Fletcher	222	0.4%	-	7th
Bristol North West	Ben Smith	222	0.5%	-	6th
Sevenoaks	Adam Hibbert	209	0.4%	-	7th
Grantham and Bourne	Alexander Mitchell	204	0.4%	-	8th
Harborough, Oadby and Wigston	Robin Lambert	203	0.4%	-	6th
Vauxhall and Camberwell Green	Andrew Mcrobbie	201	0.5%	-	6th
Uxbridge and South Ruislip	Steve Gardner	200	0.4%	-	7th
Gainsborough	Tim Melloris	196	0.4%	-	6th
Poplar and Limehouse	Manny Lawal	194	0.5%	-	8th
Central Ayrshire	Alan Macmillan	188	0.5%	-	8th
Leeds Central and Headingley	Rob Walker	187	0.6%	-	7th
Wakefield and Rothwell	Nicholas Sanders	185	0.5%	-	8th
Brighton Pavilion	Carl Buckfield	184	0.4%	-	7th
Arundel and South Downs	Mike Smith	184	0.3%	-	6th
City of Durham	Sarah Welbourne	178	0.4%	-	6th
Mid Bedfordshire	Richard Brunning	172	0.3%	-	7th
Ely and East Cambridgeshire	Robert Bayley	172	0.3%	-	7th
Calder Valley	Jim Mcnell	171	0.3%	-	7th
Redcar	Gary Conlin	169	0.4%	-	6th
Bristol South	Neil Norton	164	0.4%	-	6th
Islington South and Finsbury	Jake Painter	162	0.4%	-	9th
South West Hertfordshire	Michael Mcgetrick	158	0.3%	-	8th
New Forest West	Paul Simon	157	0.3%	-	7th
Tonbridge	Ian Grattidge	156	0.3%	-	7th
South Cotswolds	Martin Broomfield	156	0.3%	-	8th
Penrith and Solway	Shaun Long	156	0.3%	-	7th
Banbury	Declan Sopher	155	0.3%	-	8th
Manchester Withington	Wendy Andrew	154	0.4%	-	7th
Epsom and Ewell	Damon Young	153	0.3%	-	7th
East Hampshire	Sara Smith	152	0.3%	-	7th
Battersea	Ed Dampier	149	0.3%	-	9th
Blackpool North and Fleetwood	Jan Cresswell	147	0.4%	-	8th
Winchester	Andrew Davis	146	0.3%	-	6th
Chatham and Aylesford	Steve Tanner	141	0.3%	-	8th
South Basildon and East Thurrock	Simon Breedon	140	0.4%	-	8th
Streatham and Croydon North	Myles Owen	139	0.3%	-	8th
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley	Trevor Lake	139	0.4%	-	6th
Hendon	Jane Gibson	139	0.3%	-	8th
Bournemouth West	David Warden	139	0.4%	-	7th
Shipley	Paul Shkura	137	0.3%	-	9th
Cramlington and Killingworth	Mathew Wilkinson	137	0.3%	-	8th
Knowsley	Patricia Jameson	135	0.4%	-	7th
Blaydon and Consett	Paul Topping	135	0.3%	-	6th
West Suffolk	Ivan Kinsman	133	0.3%	-	8th
Beaconsfield	Catherine Harker	131	0.3%	-	7th
Worcester	Duncan Murray	130	0.3%	-	7th
South Norfolk	Jason Maguire	129	0.3%	-	7th
Leeds North East	Cordelia Lynan	125	0.3%	-	9th
Bristol North East	Tommy Trueman	122	0.3%	-	8th
Waveney Valley	Maya Serevyn	118	0.2%	-	6th
Runcorn and Helsby	Paul Murphy	116	0.3%	-	7th
Aylesbury	Richard Wilding	116	0.2%	-	7th
Hazel Grove	Tim O'Rouke	113	0.2%	-	6th
Gillingham and Rainham	Peter Wheeler	111	0.3%	-	8th
Warrington South	Graeme Kelly	110	0.2%	-0.1%	7th
Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice	Lucy Needham	110	0.3%	-	6th
Cities of London and Westminster	Huge De Burgh	110	0.3%	-	8th
Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	Christopher Stephinson	108	0.3%	-	7th
Bridlington and The Wolds	Carlo Verda	104	0.2%	-	8th
St Albans	Stewart Satterly	103	0.2%	-	7th
Leeds South West and Morley	Nigel Perry	99	0.2%	-	7th
Luton North	Paul Trathen	98	0.3%	-	8th
North Herefordshire	Michael Guest	95	0.2%	-	6th
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend	Robert Malyn	95	0.2%	-	9th
North Northumberland	Andrew Martin	92	0.2%	-	8th
Louth and Horncastle	Marcus Moorhouse	92	0.2%	-	8th
Beverley and Holderness	Chris Collin	89	0.2%	-	7th
Bournemouth East	Miles Penn	88	0.2%	-	7th
Kettering	Matthew Murphy	85	0.2%	-	7th
Carshalton and Wallington	Steve Kelleher	85	0.2%	-	8th
Lincoln	Craig Marshall	80	0.2%	-	9th
Leeds West and Pudsey	Sasha Watson	79	0.2%	0.1%	8th
Leeds North West	Kathy Bushell	78	0.2%	-	7th
Scarborough and Whitby	Thomas Foster	76	0.2%	-	8th
North Dorset	Daniel Woodruffe	74	0.1%	-	8th
Bradford East	Richard Riley	65	0.2%	-	10th
Christchurch	Trevor Parsons	59	0.1%	-	9th
Westmorland and Lonsdale	Wendy Long	57	0.1%	-	8th
Total	N/A	33,811	0.12%		7th (nationally)

By-elections

1987–1992 Parliament

By-election	Candidate	Votes	Position
1991 Neath	John Warman	1,826 out of 34,753 (5.3%)	5th of 8

Notes: Won back deposit

2017–2019 Parliament

By-election	Candidate	Votes	Position
2019 Newport West	Ian McLean	202 out of 23,515 (0.9%)	9th of 11
2019 Peterborough	Patrick O'Flynn	135 out of 33,920 (0.4%)	9th of 15

2019–present Parliament

By-election	Candidate	Votes	Position
2021 Hartlepool	David Bettney	108 out of 29,333 (0.4%)	14th of 16
2021 Airdrie & Shotts	Neil Manson	151 out of 21,827 (0.7%)	5th of 8
2021 Batley & Spen	Ollie Purser	66 out of 37,695 (0.2%)	14th of 16
2022 Stretford and Urmston	Julien Yvon	74 out of 18,418 (0.4%)	9th of 9 (Last)
2023 Selby and Ainsty	John Waterstone	314 out of 35,886 (0.9%)	8th of 13
2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip	Steve Gardner	248 out of 31,000 (0.8%)	6th of 17

Scottish Parliament elections

2021

Region	Candidates	Votes
Glasgow	Anthony McGinley, Robin John Dudfield, Robert Malyn, Richard Cameron	178 (0.1%)
Lothian	Alasdair Young, Neil Manson,Lawrence Edwards	227 (0.1%)

Notes: Received 405 votes out of 2,706,761 | Position- 21/25

Sources: ^{[17] [18]}

London mayoral elections

2021

Candidate	First round votes
Steve Kelleher	8,764 out of 2,531,357 (0.3%)

Notes: Position- 17/20

Source: ^[19]

2024

Candidate	Votes
Amy Gallagher	34,449 out of 2,495,559 (1.4%)

Notes: Position- 7/13 Source: ^[20]

London Assembly elections

2021

Constituency	Candidates	Votes
London-wide	Eric Siva-Jothy,Stephen Gardner,Matthew Beresford,Simon Marshall, Brilant Krasniqi,Seth Liebowitz,Tricia Bracher,Rosamund Hubley	7,782 out of 2,599,650 (0.3%)

Notes: Position- 16/18

Source: ^[19]

2024

Constituency	Candidates	Votes
London-wide	Amy Gallagher,Huge De Burgh,Stephen Balogh,Jon Mabbutt, Manny Lawal,Jane Gibson,Steve Kelleher,Alastair Mellon, Laurenzo Mefsut,Daniel Woodruffe,Jake Painter,David Hargreaves, Les Beaumont	23,021 out of 2,476,687 (0.9%)

Source: ^[21]

Mayoral elections

Combined authority

Authority	Election	Candidate	1st round votes	%
South Yorkshire	2022	David Bettney	10,177	3.9
	2024		20,835	7.6

Sources: ^{[22] [23]}

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