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</ul> </li> <li id="toc-Opinion_polling" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Opinion_polling"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Opinion polling</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Opinion_polling-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notional_1992_results" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notional_1992_results"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Notional 1992 results</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notional_1992_results-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Results" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Results"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Results</span> </div> </a> <button 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id="toc-Internet_coverage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Internet_coverage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Internet coverage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Internet_coverage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Footnotes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Footnotes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Footnotes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Footnotes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Further reading subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Manifestos" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Manifestos"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.1</span> <span>Manifestos</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Manifestos-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" 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lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="যুক্তরাজ্যের সাধারণ নির্বাচন, ১৯৯৭" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleccions_al_Parlament_del_Regne_Unit_de_1997" title="Eleccions al Parlament del Regne Unit de 1997 – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Eleccions al Parlament del Regne Unit de 1997" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etholiad_cyffredinol_y_Deyrnas_Unedig,_1997" title="Etholiad cyffredinol y Deyrnas Unedig, 1997 – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Etholiad cyffredinol y Deyrnas Unedig, 1997" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlamentsvalget_i_Storbritannien_1997" title="Parlamentsvalget i Storbritannien 1997 – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Parlamentsvalget i Storbritannien 1997" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britische_Unterhauswahl_1997" title="Britische Unterhauswahl 1997 – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Britische Unterhauswahl 1997" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%82_%CE%B5%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AD%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%97%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%92%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85_1997" title="Γενικές εκλογές του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου 1997 – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γενικές εκλογές του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου 1997" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elecciones_generales_del_Reino_Unido_de_1997" title="Elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 1997 – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 1997" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lections_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rales_britanniques_de_1997" title="Élections générales britanniques de 1997 – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Élections générales britanniques de 1997" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%EB%85%84_%EC%98%81%EA%B5%AD_%EC%B4%9D%EC%84%A0" title="1997년 영국 총선 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="1997년 영국 총선" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eingkosningar_%C3%AD_Bretlandi_1997" title="Þingkosningar í Bretlandi 1997 – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Þingkosningar í Bretlandi 1997" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elezioni_generali_nel_Regno_Unito_del_1997" title="Elezioni generali nel Regno Unito del 1997 – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Elezioni generali nel Regno Unito del 1997" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%91%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%91%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94_1997" title="הבחירות הכלליות בבריטניה 1997 – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הבחירות הכלליות בבריטניה 1997" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E5%B9%B4%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E7%B7%8F%E9%81%B8%E6%8C%99" title="1997年イギリス総選挙 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="1997年イギリス総選挙" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlamentsvalget_i_Storbritannia_1997" title="Parlamentsvalget i Storbritannia 1997 – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Parlamentsvalget i Storbritannia 1997" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wybory_parlamentarne_w_Wielkiej_Brytanii_w_1997_roku" title="Wybory parlamentarne w Wielkiej Brytanii w 1997 roku – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Wybory parlamentarne w Wielkiej Brytanii w 1997 roku" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elei%C3%A7%C3%B5es_gerais_no_Reino_Unido_em_1997" title="Eleições gerais no Reino Unido em 1997 – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Eleições gerais no Reino Unido em 1997" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%B2_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_(1997)" title="Парламентские выборы в Великобритании (1997) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Парламентские выборы в Великобритании (1997)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="1997 United Kingdom general election" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C4%87i_izbori_u_Ujedinjenom_Kraljevstvu_1997." title="Opći izbori u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu 1997. – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Opći izbori u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu 1997." data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yhdistyneen_kuningaskunnan_parlamenttivaalit_1997" title="Yhdistyneen kuningaskunnan parlamenttivaalit 1997 – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Yhdistyneen kuningaskunnan parlamenttivaalit 1997" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlamentsvalet_i_Storbritannien_1997" title="Parlamentsvalet i Storbritannien 1997 – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Parlamentsvalet i Storbritannien 1997" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" 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style="width:100%; margin:1px; display:inline-table;"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0 0.5em 0 0;width:20%;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 1px;width:60%;" class=""><b>1 May 1997</b></td> <td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 0 0 0.5em;width:20%;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001</a> →</td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;width:40%; text-align:center;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1992 United Kingdom general election">outgoing members</a></div><div style="float: right; text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;width:40%; text-align:center;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1997 United Kingdom general election">elected members</a> →</div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><hr />All 659 seats to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a><br />330 seats needed for a majority</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1997 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polls</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registered</th><td class="infobox-data">43,846,152<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Turnout</th><td class="infobox-data">31,286,284<br />71.3% (<span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>6.4 <a href="/wiki/Percentage_point" title="Percentage point">pp</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">First party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Second party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Third party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #E4003B;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -0px; left: -0px; width: 120px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tony_Blair_1997.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Tony Blair 1997.jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Tony_Blair_1997.jpg/120px-Tony_Blair_1997.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Tony_Blair_1997.jpg/180px-Tony_Blair_1997.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Tony_Blair_1997.jpg/240px-Tony_Blair_1997.jpg 2x" data-file-width="328" data-file-height="435" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #0087DC;"><div 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Blair">Tony Blair</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown" title="Paddy Ashdown">Paddy Ashdown</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader since </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/1994_Labour_Party_leadership_election" title="1994 Labour Party leadership election">21 July 1994</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/1995_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1995 Conservative Party leadership election">4 July 1995</a><sup id="cite_ref-MajorLeadershipElection_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MajorLeadershipElection-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/1988_Social_and_Liberal_Democrats_leadership_election" title="1988 Social and Liberal Democrats leadership election">16 July 1988</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader's seat </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Sedgefield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Sedgefield (UK Parliament constituency)">Sedgefield</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Huntingdon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)">Huntingdon</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Yeovil_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Yeovil (UK Parliament constituency)">Yeovil</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">271 seats, 34.4% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">336 seats, 41.9% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">20 seats, 17.8% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats before </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">273<sup>†</sup> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">325<sup>†</sup> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">18<sup>†</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>418</b><sup>‡</sup> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">165 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">46 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" 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style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>28* </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>13,518,167</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">9,591,085 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">5,242,947 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>43.2%</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">30.6% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">16.8% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>8.9% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>11.3% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>1.0% </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:UK_General_Election,_1997.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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title="List of MPs elected in the 1992 United Kingdom general election">MPs</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1997 election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1997 United Kingdom general election">MPs</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001 election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 2001 United Kingdom general election">MPs</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 2005 United Kingdom general election">MPs</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>1997 United Kingdom general election</b> was held on Thursday, 1 May 1997. The governing <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> was defeated in a <a href="/wiki/Landslide_victory" title="Landslide victory">landslide</a> by the opposition <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>, achieving a 179-seat majority and a total of 419 seats. </p><p>This was the first victory for the Labour party in a general election in nearly 23 years, its previous one registering a majority of 3 seats in <a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">October 1974</a> under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a>. It was also Labour's first comprehensive victory over the Conservatives since the <a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">1966 election</a>, which had produced a 100-seat majority. This election also marked Labour's highest vote share since the <a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">1970 election</a> and its second highest total number of votes in history (the largest being the <a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">1951 election</a>). On the other hand, it was an ignominious end to the 18-year government of the Conservatives, the longest continuous period of government of any party in modern British history. This election marked the third-largest defeat ever suffered by the Conservatives (the largest being the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 election</a>) with the party left with just 165 seats—it was left devoid of any MPs outside England, with only 17 MPs north of the Midlands, and with less than 20% of MPs in London. Additionally, the party also registered its lowest share of the vote since 1832 as well as its lowest vote in absolute terms since <a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a>. </p><p>The political backdrop of campaigning focused on public opinion towards a change in government. Blair, as <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Leader of the Labour Party (UK)">Labour Leader</a>, focused on transforming his party through a more <a href="/wiki/Centrist" class="mw-redirect" title="Centrist">centrist</a> policy platform, titled "<a href="/wiki/New_Labour" title="New Labour">New Labour</a>", with promises of <a href="/wiki/Devolution_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Devolution in the United Kingdom">devolution</a> referendums for <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, fiscal responsibility, and a decision to nominate more female politicians for election through the use of <a href="/wiki/All-women_shortlists" class="mw-redirect" title="All-women shortlists">all-women shortlists</a> from which to choose candidates. Major sought to rebuild public trust in the Conservatives following a series of scandals, including the events of <a href="/wiki/Black_Wednesday" title="Black Wednesday">Black Wednesday</a> in 1992,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> through campaigning on the strength of the economic recovery following the <a href="/wiki/Early_1990s_recession" title="Early 1990s recession">early 1990s recession</a>, but faced divisions within the party over the UK's membership of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Opinion polls during campaigning showed strong support for Labour due to Blair's personal popularity,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Blair won a personal public endorsement from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)" title="The Sun (United Kingdom)">The Sun</a></i> newspaper two months before the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-Labour_Sun_Endorse_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Labour_Sun_Endorse-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The final result of the election on 2 May 1997 revealed that Labour had won a landslide majority, making a net gain of 146 seats and winning 43.2% of the vote. 150 <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Members of Parliament</a>, including 133 Conservatives, <a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_who_lost_their_seat_in_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs who lost their seat in the 1997 United Kingdom general election">lost their seats</a>. The Conservatives, meanwhile, suffered defeat with a net loss of 178 seats, winning 30.7% of the vote. The <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown" title="Paddy Ashdown">Paddy Ashdown</a> made a net gain of 28 seats, winning 16.8% of the vote. Labour's victory, the largest achieved in its history and by any political party in British politics since the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, brought about the party's first of three consecutive terms in power (lasting a total of 13 years), with Blair as the newly appointed prime minister. The Liberal Democrats' success in the election, in part due to anti-Conservative <a href="/wiki/Tactical_voting" class="mw-redirect" title="Tactical voting">tactical voting</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-LSEtactical_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSEtactical-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> strengthened both Ashdown's leadership and the party's position as a strong <a href="/wiki/Third_party_(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Third party (politics)">third party</a>, having won the highest number of seats by any third party since <a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a>. </p><p>Although the Conservatives lost many ministers such as <a href="/wiki/Michael_Portillo" title="Michael Portillo">Michael Portillo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Newton,_Baron_Newton_of_Braintree" title="Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree">Tony Newton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Rifkind" title="Malcolm Rifkind">Malcolm Rifkind</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ian_Lang" class="mw-redirect" title="Ian Lang">Ian Lang</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Waldegrave,_Baron_Waldegrave_of_North_Hill" title="William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill">William Waldegrave</a> and controversial MPs such as <a href="/wiki/Neil_Hamilton_(politician)" title="Neil Hamilton (politician)">Neil Hamilton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Aitken" title="Jonathan Aitken">Jonathan Aitken</a>, some of the Conservative newcomers in this election were future Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a>, future Chancellor of the Exchequer <a href="/wiki/Philip_Hammond" title="Philip Hammond">Philip Hammond</a>, future Leader of the House <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lansley" title="Andrew Lansley">Andrew Lansley</a>, and future Speaker <a href="/wiki/John_Bercow" title="John Bercow">John Bercow</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, Labour newcomers included future Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet members <a href="/wiki/Hazel_Blears" title="Hazel Blears">Hazel Blears</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ben_Bradshaw" title="Ben Bradshaw">Ben Bradshaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yvette_Cooper" title="Yvette Cooper">Yvette Cooper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Flint" title="Caroline Flint">Caroline Flint</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barry_Gardiner" title="Barry Gardiner">Barry Gardiner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Johnson" title="Alan Johnson">Alan Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Kelly" title="Ruth Kelly">Ruth Kelly</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_McDonnell" title="John McDonnell">John McDonnell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Twigg" title="Stephen Twigg">Stephen Twigg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rosie_Winterton" title="Rosie Winterton">Rosie Winterton</a>, as well as future <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Scottish_Labour_Party" title="Leader of the Scottish Labour Party">Scottish Labour Leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Jim_Murphy" title="Jim Murphy">Jim Murphy</a> and future Speaker <a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Hoyle" title="Lindsay Hoyle">Lindsay Hoyle</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Blair_Babe" title="Blair Babe">election of 120 women, including 101 to the Labour benches</a>, came to be seen as a watershed moment in female political representation in the UK.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The British economy had been in recession at the time of the <a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992 general election</a>, which the governing <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> led by <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> had won. The recession ended within a year, but later events such as <a href="/wiki/Black_Wednesday" title="Black Wednesday">Black Wednesday</a> severely tarnished the Conservative government's reputation for economic management. Meanwhile, the opposition <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> elected <a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)" title="John Smith (Labour Party leader)">John Smith</a> as its leader in <a href="/wiki/1992_Labour_Party_leadership_election" title="1992 Labour Party leadership election">1992</a> to succeed <a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a>; however, Smith's death from a heart attack in 1994 led to <a href="/wiki/1994_Labour_Party_leadership_election" title="1994 Labour Party leadership election">a leadership election</a> which was won by <a href="/wiki/Shadow_home_secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow home secretary">shadow home secretary</a> <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>. </p><p>Blair sought to bring the party closer to the <a href="/wiki/Political_centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Political centre">political centre</a> of the era, including rebranding the party as "<a href="/wiki/New_Labour" title="New Labour">New Labour</a>". He convinced the party's members and affiliated trades unions to support the removal of <a href="/wiki/Clause_IV" title="Clause IV">Clause IV</a> from its constitution, which had committed it to the mass <a href="/wiki/Nationalisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalisation">nationalisation</a> of industry, and the party also reversed its policy on unilateral <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_disarmament" title="Nuclear disarmament">nuclear disarmament</a>. The events of Black Wednesday also meant Labour—and <a href="/wiki/Shadow_chancellor" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow chancellor">shadow chancellor</a> <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a>—were perceived as offering more competent economic management than the Conservatives. </p><p>Labour's manifesto, <i><a href="/wiki/New_Labour,_New_Life_for_Britain" title="New Labour, New Life for Britain">New Labour, New Life for Britain</a></i>, was published in 1996 and outlined five key pledges: </p> <ul><li>Class sizes to be cut to 30 or under for 5-, 6- and 7-year-olds by using money from the assisted places scheme.</li> <li>Fast track punishment for persistent young offenders, by halving the time from arrest to sentencing.</li> <li>Cut <a href="/wiki/NHS" class="mw-redirect" title="NHS">NHS</a> waiting lists by treating an extra 100,000 patients as a first step by releasing £100 million saved from NHS red tape.</li> <li>Get 250,000 under-25-year-olds off benefit and into work by using money from a windfall levy on the privatised utilities.</li> <li>No rise in income tax rates, cut <a href="/wiki/VAT" class="mw-redirect" title="VAT">VAT</a> on heating to 5%, and keeping inflation and interest rates as low as possible.</li></ul> <p>Disputes within the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> government over <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> issues, and a variety of "sleaze" allegations, severely affected the government's popularity. Despite the economic recovery and fall in unemployment in the four years leading up to the election, the rise in Conservative support was only marginal, with all of the major opinion polls showing Labour in a comfortable lead from late 1992 onwards.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the 1992 general election, the Conservatives remained in government with 336 of the 651 House of Commons seats, but through a <a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1992_United_Kingdom_general_election#Progression_of_government_majority_and_party_totals" title="List of MPs elected in the 1992 United Kingdom general election">series of defections and by-election defeats</a> the government gradually lost its absolute majority. By 1997, the Conservatives held only 324 seats and had not won a by-election since <a href="/wiki/1989_Richmond_(Yorks)_by-election" title="1989 Richmond (Yorks) by-election">Richmond in 1989</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Timing">Timing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Timing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The previous Parliament first sat on 29 April 1992. The <a href="/wiki/Parliament_Act_1911" title="Parliament Act 1911">Parliament Act 1911</a> required at the time for each Parliament to be dissolved before the fifth anniversary of its first sitting; therefore, the latest date the dissolution and the summoning of the next parliament could have been held on was 28 April 1997. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1985" title="Representation of the People Act 1985">1985 amendment</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1983" title="Representation of the People Act 1983">Representation of the People Act 1983</a> required that the election must take place on the eleventh <a href="/wiki/Working_day" class="mw-redirect" title="Working day">working day</a> after the deadline for nomination papers, which in turn must be no more than six working days after the next parliament was summoned. </p><p>Therefore, the latest date the election could have been held on was 22 May 1997 (which happened to be a Thursday). British elections (and <a href="/wiki/Referendum" title="Referendum">referendums</a>) have been held on Thursdays by convention since the 1930s, but can be held on other working days. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campaign">Campaign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Major called the election on Monday 17 March 1997, ensuring the formal campaign would be unusually long, at six weeks (Parliament was <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_parliament" title="Dissolution of parliament">dissolved</a> on 8 April).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The election was scheduled for 1 May, to coincide with the <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1997 United Kingdom local elections">local elections</a> on the same day. This set a precedent, as the three subsequent general elections were also held alongside the May local elections. </p><p>The Conservatives argued that a long campaign would expose Labour and allow the Conservative message to be heard. However, Major was accused of arranging an early dissolution to protect <a href="/wiki/Neil_Hamilton_(politician)" title="Neil Hamilton (politician)">Neil Hamilton</a> from a <a href="/wiki/Cash-for-questions_affair" title="Cash-for-questions affair">pending parliamentary report</a> into his conduct: a report that Major had earlier guaranteed would be published before the election.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 1997, soon after the election was called, <a href="/wiki/Asda" title="Asda">Asda</a> introduced a range of election-themed beers, these being "Major's Mild", "Tony's Tipple" and "Ashdown's Ale".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The political backdrop of campaigning focused on public opinion towards a change in government. Blair, as Labour leader, focused on transforming his party through a more <a href="/wiki/Centrist" class="mw-redirect" title="Centrist">centrist</a> policy platform, titled "<a href="/wiki/New_Labour" title="New Labour">New Labour</a>", with promises of <a href="/wiki/Devolution_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Devolution in the United Kingdom">devolution</a> referendums for <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, fiscal responsibility, and a decision to nominate more female politicians for election through the use of <a href="/wiki/All-women_shortlists" class="mw-redirect" title="All-women shortlists">all-women shortlists</a> from which to choose candidates. Major sought to rebuild public trust in the Conservatives following a series of scandals, including the events of <a href="/wiki/Black_Wednesday" title="Black Wednesday">Black Wednesday</a> in 1992,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> through campaigning on the strength of the economic recovery following the <a href="/wiki/Early_1990s_recession" title="Early 1990s recession">early 1990s recession</a>, but faced divisions within the party over the UK's membership of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Opinion polls during campaigning showed strong support for Labour due to Blair's personal popularity,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Blair won a personal public endorsement from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)" title="The Sun (United Kingdom)">The Sun</a></i> newspaper two months before the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-Labour_Sun_Endorse_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Labour_Sun_Endorse-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conservative_campaign">Conservative campaign</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Conservative campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Major hoped that a long campaign would expose Labour's "hollowness" and the Conservative campaign emphasised stability, as did its manifesto title 'You can only be sure with the Conservatives'.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESnowdon20104_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESnowdon20104-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the campaign was beset by deep-set problems, such as the rise of <a href="/wiki/James_Goldsmith" title="James Goldsmith">James Goldsmith</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Referendum_Party" title="Referendum Party">Referendum Party</a> which advocated a referendum on continued membership of the European Union. The party threatened to take away many right-leaning voters from the Conservatives. Furthermore, about 200 candidates broke with official Conservative policy to oppose British membership of the <a href="/wiki/Single_European_currency" class="mw-redirect" title="Single European currency">single European currency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Single_currency_1997_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Single_currency_1997-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Major fought back, saying: "Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation." The moment is remembered as one of the defining, and most surreal, moments of the election.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESnowdon20104_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESnowdon20104-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Meanwhile, there was also division amongst the Conservative cabinet, with Chancellor <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke" title="Kenneth Clarke">Kenneth Clarke</a> describing the views of Home Secretary <a href="/wiki/Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard">Michael Howard</a> on Europe as "paranoid and xenophobic nonsense". The Conservatives also struggled to come up with a definitive theme to attack Labour, with some strategists arguing for an approach which castigated Labour for "stealing Tory clothes" (copying their positions), with others making the case for a more confrontational approach, stating that "New Labour" was just a façade for "old Labour". </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/New_Labour,_New_Danger" title="New Labour, New Danger">New Labour, New Danger</a> poster, which depicted Tony Blair with demon eyes, was an example of the latter strategy. Major veered between the two approaches, which left <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Central_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Central Office">Conservative Central Office</a> staff frustrated. As <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cooper,_Baron_Cooper_of_Windrush" title="Andrew Cooper, Baron Cooper of Windrush">Andrew Cooper</a> explained: "We repeatedly tried and failed to get him to understand that you couldn't say that they were dangerous and copying you at the same time."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESnowdon201035_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESnowdon201035-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In any case, the campaign failed to gain much traction, and the Conservatives went down to a landslide defeat at the polls. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Labour_campaign">Labour campaign</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Labour campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Labour ran a slick campaign that emphasised the splits within the Conservative government and argued that the country needed a more centrist administration. It thus successfully picked up dissatisfied Conservative voters, particularly moderate and suburban ones. Tony Blair, who was personally highly popular, was very much the centrepiece of the campaign and proved a highly effective campaigner. </p><p>The Labour campaign was reminiscent of those of <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> for the US presidency in <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton_1992_presidential_campaign" title="Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign">1992</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton_1996_presidential_campaign" title="Bill Clinton 1996 presidential campaign">1996</a>, focusing on centrist themes as well as adopting policies more commonly associated with the right, such as cracking down on crime and fiscal responsibility. The influence of political "spin" came into great effect for Labour at this point, as media centric figures such as <a href="/wiki/Alastair_Campbell" title="Alastair Campbell">Alastair Campbell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Mandelson" title="Peter Mandelson">Peter Mandelson</a> provided a clear cut campaign, and establishing a relatively new political brand <a href="/wiki/New_Labour" title="New Labour">New Labour</a> with enviable success. In this election Labour adopted the theme <a href="/wiki/Things_Can_Only_Get_Better_(D:Ream_song)" title="Things Can Only Get Better (D:Ream song)">Things Can Only Get Better</a> in their campaign and advertising.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Liberal_Democrat_campaign">Liberal Democrat campaign</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Liberal Democrat campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Liberal Democrats had suffered a disappointing performance in 1992, but they were very much strengthened in 1997 due in part to potential tactical voting between Labour and Lib Dem supporters in Conservative marginal constituencies, particularly in the south of England – which explains why while given their share of the vote decreased, their number of seats nearly doubled.<sup id="cite_ref-LSEtactical_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSEtactical-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Lib Dems promised to increase education funding paid for by a 1p increase in income tax. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Endorsements">Endorsements</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Endorsements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In a sign of the change of direction which New Labour represented, they were endorsed by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)" title="The Sun (United Kingdom)">The Sun</a></i> (with a famous front page "The Sun Backs Blair"),<sup id="cite_ref-Labour_Sun_Endorse_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Labour_Sun_Endorse-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as the more left-leaning newspapers the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mirror" title="Daily Mirror">Daily Mirror</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Conservatives were endorsed by the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> did not endorse a specific party, but instead encouraged voters to support individual candidates "against the further integration of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Opinion_polling">Opinion polling</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Opinion polling"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1997 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polling for the 1997 United Kingdom general election</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title">Opinion polling for UK general elections</th></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987 election</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1987 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polls</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992 election</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1992 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polls</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">1997 election</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1997 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polls</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001 election</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 2001 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polls</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 election</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 2005 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polls</a></td> </tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Opinion_polls_United_Kingdom_1997.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Opinion_polls_United_Kingdom_1997.svg/1000px-Opinion_polls_United_Kingdom_1997.svg.png" decoding="async" width="1000" height="444" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Opinion_polls_United_Kingdom_1997.svg/1500px-Opinion_polls_United_Kingdom_1997.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Opinion_polls_United_Kingdom_1997.svg/2000px-Opinion_polls_United_Kingdom_1997.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1728" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 18em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-line mw-no-invert" style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 1.67em; height: 0; border-style: none; border-top: 2px dotted black;border-top:#DC241f solid 5px;"> </span> Labour</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-line mw-no-invert" style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 1.67em; height: 0; border-style: none; border-top: 2px dotted black;border-top:#0087DC solid 5px;"> </span> Conservatives</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-line 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class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1997_UK_Election_Notional_Result.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/1997_UK_Election_Notional_Result.png/220px-1997_UK_Election_Notional_Result.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/1997_UK_Election_Notional_Result.png/330px-1997_UK_Election_Notional_Result.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/1997_UK_Election_Notional_Result.png/440px-1997_UK_Election_Notional_Result.png 2x" data-file-width="1744" data-file-height="2116" /></a><figcaption> The notional results of the 1992 election, as shown on a map of the 1997 constituencies.</figcaption></figure> <p>The election was fought under new boundaries, with a net increase of eight seats compared to the 1992 election (651 to 659). Changes listed here are from the notional 1992 result, had it been fought on the boundaries established in 1997. These <a href="/wiki/Notional_results" class="mw-redirect" title="Notional results">notional results</a> were calculated by <a href="/wiki/Colin_Rallings" title="Colin Rallings">Colin Rallings</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Thrasher" title="Michael Thrasher">Michael Thrasher</a> and were used by all media organisations at the time. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption style="background-color:#EAECF0;margin-bottom:-1px;border:1px solid #aaa;padding:.2em .4em">Notional UK General Election 1992 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="width:230px">Party </th> <th style="width:30px">Seats </th> <th style="width:30px">Gains </th> <th style="width:30px">Losses </th> <th style="width:30px">Net gain/loss </th> <th style="width:30px">Seats % </th> <th style="width:30px">Votes % </th> <th style="width:60px">Votes </th> <th style="width:4em">+/− </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 3px;">  </td> <td style="width: 130px;"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">273 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">17 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">41.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">34.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11,560,484 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 3px;">  </td> <td style="width: 130px;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">343 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">28 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">21 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">52.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">41.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14,093,007 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 3px;">  </td> <td style="width: 130px;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">18 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">17.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,999,384 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: white; width: 3px;">  </td> <td style="width: 130px;"><a href="/wiki/Other_parties" class="mw-redirect" title="Other parties">Other parties</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">25 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Results_of_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Results of the 1997 United Kingdom general election">Results of the 1997 United Kingdom general election</a> and <a href="/wiki/Results_of_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_by_constituency" title="Results of the 1997 United Kingdom general election by constituency">Results of the 1997 United Kingdom general election by constituency</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1997_UK_General_Election_Constituencies.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/1997_UK_General_Election_Constituencies.svg/220px-1997_UK_General_Election_Constituencies.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/1997_UK_General_Election_Constituencies.svg/330px-1997_UK_General_Election_Constituencies.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/1997_UK_General_Election_Constituencies.svg/440px-1997_UK_General_Election_Constituencies.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="680" /></a><figcaption>Equal-area projection of constituencies</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1997_UK_general_election,_countries_and_regions.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/1997_UK_general_election%2C_countries_and_regions.svg/400px-1997_UK_general_election%2C_countries_and_regions.svg.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="500" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/1997_UK_general_election%2C_countries_and_regions.svg/600px-1997_UK_general_election%2C_countries_and_regions.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/1997_UK_general_election%2C_countries_and_regions.svg/800px-1997_UK_general_election%2C_countries_and_regions.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Result by countries and English regions</figcaption></figure> <p>Labour won a <a href="/wiki/Landslide_victory" title="Landslide victory">landslide victory</a> with its largest parliamentary majority (179) to date. On the BBC's election night programme <a href="/wiki/Anthony_King_(political_scientist)" title="Anthony King (political scientist)">Professor Anthony King</a> described the result of the exit poll, which accurately predicted a Labour landslide, as being akin to "an asteroid hitting the planet and destroying practically all life on Earth". After years of trying, Labour had convinced the electorate that they would usher in a new age of prosperity—their policies, organisation and tone of optimism slotting perfectly into place. </p><p>Labour's victory was largely credited to the charisma of <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-BP_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BP-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as a Labour public relations machine managed by <a href="/wiki/Alastair_Campbell" title="Alastair Campbell">Alastair Campbell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Mandelson" title="Peter Mandelson">Peter Mandelson</a>. Between the <a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992 election</a> and the 1997 election there had also been major steps to "modernise" the party, including scrapping <a href="/wiki/Clause_IV" title="Clause IV">Clause IV</a> that had committed the party to extending public ownership of industry. Labour had suddenly seized the middle ground of the political spectrum, attracting voters much further to the right than their traditional working class or left wing support. In the early hours of 2 May 1997 a party was held at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Festival_Hall" title="Royal Festival Hall">Royal Festival Hall</a>, in which Blair stated that "a new dawn has broken, has it not?" </p><p>The election was a crushing defeat for the Conservatives, with the party having its lowest percentage share of the popular vote since <a href="/wiki/1832_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1832 United Kingdom general election">1832</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Wellington" class="mw-redirect" title="Duke of Wellington">Duke of Wellington</a>'s leadership, being <a href="/wiki/Wipeout_(elections)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wipeout (elections)">wiped out</a> in Scotland and <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>. A number of prominent Conservative MPs <a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_who_lost_their_seat_in_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs who lost their seat in the 1997 United Kingdom general election">lost their seats</a> in the election, including <a href="/wiki/Michael_Portillo" title="Michael Portillo">Michael Portillo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Rifkind" title="Malcolm Rifkind">Malcolm Rifkind</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edwina_Currie" title="Edwina Currie">Edwina Currie</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Mellor" title="David Mellor">David Mellor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neil_Hamilton_(politician)" title="Neil Hamilton (politician)">Neil Hamilton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Norman_Lamont" title="Norman Lamont">Norman Lamont</a>. Such was the extent of Conservative losses at the election that <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Parkinson" title="Cecil Parkinson">Cecil Parkinson</a>, speaking on the BBC's election night programme, joked upon the Conservatives winning their second seat that he was pleased that the subsequent election for the leadership would be contested. </p><p>The Liberal Democrats stood on a more left-wing manifesto than Labour,<sup id="cite_ref-BP_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BP-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and more than doubled their number of seats thanks to the use of tactical voting against the Conservatives.<sup id="cite_ref-LSEtactical_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSEtactical-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although their share of the vote fell slightly, their total of 46 MPs was the highest for any UK Liberal party since <a href="/wiki/David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">David Lloyd George</a> led the party to 59 seats in <a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a>. </p><p>The Referendum Party, which sought a <a href="/wiki/Referendum" title="Referendum">referendum</a> on the United Kingdom's relationship with the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, came fourth in terms of votes with 800,000 votes and won no seats in parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-1997-factsheet_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1997-factsheet-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The six parties with the next highest votes stood only in either <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, Northern Ireland or <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>; in order, they were the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">Ulster Unionist Party</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party" title="Social Democratic and Labour Party">Social Democratic and Labour Party</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plaid_Cymru" title="Plaid Cymru">Plaid Cymru</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party" title="Democratic Unionist Party">Democratic Unionist Party</a>. </p><p>In the previously safe seat of <a href="/wiki/Tatton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tatton (UK Parliament constituency)">Tatton</a>, where incumbent Conservative MP <a href="/wiki/Neil_Hamilton_(politician)" title="Neil Hamilton (politician)">Neil Hamilton</a> was facing charges of having taken <a href="/wiki/Cash_for_questions" class="mw-redirect" title="Cash for questions">cash for questions</a>, the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties decided not to field candidates in order that an independent candidate, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Bell" title="Martin Bell">Martin Bell</a>, would have a better chance of winning the seat, which he did with a <a href="/wiki/Tatton_in_the_1997_general_election" title="Tatton in the 1997 general election">comfortable margin</a>. </p><p>The result declared for the constituency of <a href="/wiki/Winchester_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Winchester (UK Parliament constituency)">Winchester</a> showed a margin of victory of just two votes for the Liberal Democrats. The defeated Conservative candidate mounted a successful legal challenge to the result on the grounds that errors by election officials (failures to stamp certain votes) had changed the result; the court ruled the result invalid and ordered a <a href="/wiki/1997_Winchester_by-election" title="1997 Winchester by-election">by-election</a> on 20 November which was won by the Liberal Democrats with a much larger majority, causing much recrimination in the Conservative Party about the decision to challenge the original result in the first place. </p><p>This election saw a doubling of the number of women in parliament, from 60 elected in 1992 to 120 elected in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 101 of them (controversially described as <a href="/wiki/Blair_Babe" title="Blair Babe">Blair Babes</a>) were on the Labour benches,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a number driven by the Labour Party's 1993 policy (ruled illegally discriminatory in 1996) of <a href="/wiki/All-women_shortlist" title="All-women shortlist">all-women shortlists</a>. This election has therefore been widely seen as a watershed moment for representation of women in the UK.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This election marked the start of Labour government for the next 13 years, lasting until the formation of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative-Liberal_Democrat_coalition" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition">Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition</a> in 2010. </p> <figure 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colspan="3"> </th> <th colspan="6" style="width:30px">Candidates </th> <th colspan="3" style="width:30px">Votes </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Party </th> <th>Leader </th> <th>Stood </th> <th>Elected </th> <th>Gained </th> <th>Unseated </th> <th style="width:45px">Net </th> <th>% of total </th> <th>% </th> <th>No. </th> <th>Net % </th></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#E4003B; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">639 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">418 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">146 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">+145 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">63.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">43.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">13,518,167 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">+8.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#0087DC; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">648 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">165 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">178 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–178 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">25.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">30.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,591,085 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–11.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FAA61A; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown" title="Paddy Ashdown">Paddy Ashdown</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">639 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">46 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">30 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+28 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,242,947 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–1.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#bf475c; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Referendum_Party" title="Referendum Party">Referendum</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Goldsmith" title="James Goldsmith">James Goldsmith</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">547 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">811,849 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FDF38E; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">72 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">621,550 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#48A5EE; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">UUP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">David Trimble</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/West_Tyrone_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">258,349 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#2AA82C; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party" title="Social Democratic and Labour Party">SDLP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Hume" title="John Hume">John Hume</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">18 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Belfast_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">190,814 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#005B54; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Plaid_Cymru" title="Plaid Cymru">Plaid Cymru</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dafydd_Wigley" title="Dafydd Wigley">Dafydd Wigley</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">40 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">161,030 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#326760; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gerry_Adams" title="Gerry Adams">Gerry Adams</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">17 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">126,921 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#D46A4C; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party" title="Democratic Unionist Party">DUP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ian_Paisley" title="Ian Paisley">Ian Paisley</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Mid_Ulster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">107,348 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#6D3177; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alan_Sked" title="Alan Sked">Alan Sked</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">193 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">105,722 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DCDCDC; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">25 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Tatton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tatton (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Tatton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tatton (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">64,482 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#F6CB2F; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_Party_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland">Alliance</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Alderdice" class="mw-redirect" title="John Alderdice">John Alderdice</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">17 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">62,972 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#02A95B; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peg_Alexander" title="Peg Alexander">Peg Alexander</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Taylor_(Green_politician)" title="David Taylor (Green politician)">David Taylor</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">89 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">61,731 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#EE1C25; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Socialist Labour Party (UK)">Socialist Labour</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Scargill" title="Arthur Scargill">Arthur Scargill</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">64 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">52,109 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#EB7A43; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK,_1989)" title="Liberal Party (UK, 1989)">Liberal</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Michael_Meadowcroft" title="Michael Meadowcroft">Michael Meadowcroft</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">53 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">45,166 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#2e3b74; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/British_National_Party" title="British National Party">BNP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Tyndall_(far-right_activist)" title="John Tyndall (far-right activist)">John Tyndall</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">57 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">35,832 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#ffe4e1; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Natural_Law_Party" title="Natural Law Party">Natural Law</a> </td> <td>Geoffrey Clements </td> <td style="text-align:right;">197 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">30,604 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:black; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Betty_Boothroyd" title="Betty Boothroyd">Betty Boothroyd</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/West_Bromwich_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Bromwich West (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/West_Bromwich_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Bromwich West (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/West_Bromwich_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Bromwich West (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">23,969 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#333333; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/ProLife_Alliance" title="ProLife Alliance">ProLife Alliance</a> </td> <td>Bruno Quintavalle </td> <td style="text-align:right;">56 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19,332 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#660066; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Unionist_Party" title="UK Unionist Party">UK Unionist</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_McCartney_(Northern_Irish_politician)" title="Robert McCartney (Northern Irish politician)">Robert McCartney</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/North_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Down (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/North_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Down (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/North_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Down (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12,817 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#2B45A2; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Unionist_Party" title="Progressive Unionist Party">PUP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Smyth" title="Hugh Smyth">Hugh Smyth</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10,928 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#2F4F4F; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/National_Democrats_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Democrats (UK)">National Democrats</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ian_Anderson_(British_politician)" title="Ian Anderson (British politician)">Ian Anderson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">21 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10,829 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#ED1941; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_(England_and_Wales)" title="Socialist Party (England and Wales)">Socialist Alternative</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Taaffe" title="Peter Taaffe">Peter Taaffe</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,906 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#990033; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Socialist_Alliance" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Socialist Alliance">Scottish Socialist</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Sheridan" title="Tommy Sheridan">Tommy Sheridan</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,740 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DCDCDC; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,233 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">– 0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DDEEFF; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Conservative">Ind. Conservative</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,608 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FFF000; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_Party" title="Official Monster Raving Loony Party">Monster Raving Loony</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Screaming_Lord_Sutch" title="Screaming Lord Sutch">Screaming Lord Sutch</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">24 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,906 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FFC0CB; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Make_Politicians_History" title="Make Politicians History">Make Politicians History</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rainbow_George_Weiss" title="Rainbow George Weiss">Rainbow George Weiss</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">29 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,745 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:aqua; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Women%27s_Coalition" title="Northern Ireland Women's Coalition">NI Women's Coalition</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Monica_McWilliams" title="Monica McWilliams">Monica McWilliams</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Sagar" title="Pearl Sagar">Pearl Sagar</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,024 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#930C1A; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_(Ireland)" title="Workers' Party (Ireland)">Workers' Party</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tom_French_(politician)" title="Tom French (politician)">Tom French</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,766 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:MidnightBlue; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/National_Front_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Front (United Kingdom)">National Front</a> </td> <td>John McAuley </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,716 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#556B2F; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Cannabis_Law_Reform" title="Cannabis Law Reform">Cannabis Law Reform</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Howard_Marks" title="Howard Marks">Howard Marks</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,085 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:red; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_People%27s_Party_(Furness)" title="Socialist People's Party (Furness)">Socialist People's Party</a> </td> <td>Jim Hamezian </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Barrow_and_Furness_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,995 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#d5c229; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Mebyon_Kernow" title="Mebyon Kernow">Mebyon Kernow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Loveday_Jenkin" title="Loveday Jenkin">Loveday Jenkin</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,906 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#00B140; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Greens" title="Scottish Greens">Scottish Green</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robin_Harper" title="Robin Harper">Robin Harper</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,721 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Conservatives_Against_the_Single_Currency&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservatives Against the Single Currency (page does not exist)">Conservative Anti-Euro</a> </td> <td>Christopher Story </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Beaconsfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Beaconsfield (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,434 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DC241f; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Socialist Party of Great Britain">Socialist (GB)</a> </td> <td><i>None</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,359 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px">Community Representative </td> <td>Ralph Knight </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Harwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Harwich (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,290 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#F8F9FA; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Neighborhood_association" title="Neighborhood association">Neighborhood association</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Welwyn_Hatfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Welwyn Hatfield (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,263 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#D25469; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK,_1990%E2%80%93present)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990–present)">SDP</a> </td> <td>John Bates </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,246 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#AA0000; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Workers_Revolutionary_Party_(UK)" title="Workers Revolutionary Party (UK)">Workers Revolutionary</a> </td> <td>Sheila Torrance </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,178 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px">Real Labour </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Bethnal_Green_and_Bow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bethnal Green and Bow (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,117 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#6699CC; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Democrat" title="Independent Democrat">Independent Democrat</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">982 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DCDCDC; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">890 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#F93822; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Britain" title="Communist Party of Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Hicks_(trade_unionist)" title="Mike Hicks (trade unionist)">Mike Hicks</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">639 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#DCDCDC; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/West_Derbyshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">593 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#8dc63f; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_Northern_Ireland" title="Green Party Northern Ireland">Green (NI)</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Belfast_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Belfast North (UK Parliament constituency)">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">539 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#960018; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Equality_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist Equality Party (UK)">Socialist Equality</a> </td> <td>Davy Hyland </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">505 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="font-style:italic;">All parties with more than 500 votes shown. Labour total includes <a href="/wiki/New_Labour" title="New Labour">New Labour</a> and "Labour Time for Change" candidates; Conservative total includes candidates in Northern Ireland (excluded in some lists) and "Loyal Conservative" candidate.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Popular_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Popular Unionist Party">Popular Unionist</a> MP elected in 1992 died in 1995, and the party folded shortly afterwards. </p> There was no incumbent Speaker in the 1992 election.</div> <table class="wikitable" style="width:630px"> <tbody><tr> <th>Government's new majority </th> <th>179 </th></tr> <tr> <td>Total votes cast </td> <td>31,286,284 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Turnout </td> <td>71.3% </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Results_of_the_UK_General_Election,_1997.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Ring charts of the election results showing popular vote against seats won, coloured in party colours" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Results_of_the_UK_General_Election%2C_1997.svg/200px-Results_of_the_UK_General_Election%2C_1997.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Results_of_the_UK_General_Election%2C_1997.svg/300px-Results_of_the_UK_General_Election%2C_1997.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Results_of_the_UK_General_Election%2C_1997.svg/400px-Results_of_the_UK_General_Election%2C_1997.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Seats won in the election (outer ring) against number of votes (inner ring).</figcaption></figure> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="notheme barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:600px; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Popular vote</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:410px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><b>Labour</b></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#E4003B; width:43.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">43.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Conservative</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#0087DC; width:30.7%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">30.7%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Liberal Democrat</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FAA61A; width:16.8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">16.8%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Referendum</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#bf475c; width:2.6%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.6%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Scottish National</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FDF38E; width:2.0%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.0%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#777777; width:1.9%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.9%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="notheme barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:600px; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Parliamentary seats</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:410px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><b>Labour</b></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#E4003B; width:63.4%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">63.4%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Conservative</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#0087DC; width:25.0%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">25.0%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Liberal Democrat</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FAA61A; width:7.0%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">7.0%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Scottish National</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FDF38E; width:0.9%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.9%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Ulster Unionist</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#48A5EE; width:1.5%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.5%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#777777; width:2.1%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.1%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1997_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/1997_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png/220px-1997_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/1997_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png/330px-1997_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/1997_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png/440px-1997_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png 2x" data-file-width="533" data-file-height="329" /></a><figcaption>The disproportionality of the house of parliament in the 1997 election was 16.71 according to the <a href="/wiki/Gallagher_Index" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallagher Index">Gallagher Index</a>, mainly between Labour and the Liberal Democrats.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Results_by_constituent_country">Results by constituent country</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Results by constituent country"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>LAB </th> <th>CON </th> <th>LD </th> <th>SNP </th> <th>PC </th> <th>NI parties </th> <th>Others </th> <th>Total </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in England">England</a> </td> <td>328 </td> <td>165 </td> <td>34 </td> <td>- </td> <td>- </td> <td>- </td> <td>2 </td> <td>529 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Wales" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in Wales">Wales</a> </td> <td>34 </td> <td>- </td> <td>2 </td> <td>- </td> <td>4 </td> <td>- </td> <td>- </td> <td>40 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">Scotland</a> </td> <td>56 </td> <td>- </td> <td>10 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>- </td> <td>- </td> <td>- </td> <td>72 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Northern_Ireland" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> </td> <td>- </td> <td>- </td> <td>- </td> <td>- </td> <td>- </td> <td>18 </td> <td>- </td> <td>18 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Total </td> <td>419 </td> <td>165 </td> <td>46 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>4 </td> <td>18 </td> <td>2 (inc Speaker) </td> <td>659 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Defeated_MPs">Defeated MPs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Defeated MPs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MPs_who_lost_their_seats">MPs who lost their seats</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: MPs who lost their seats"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_who_lost_their_seat_in_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs who lost their seat in the 1997 United Kingdom general election">List of MPs who lost their seat in the 1997 United Kingdom general election</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-election_events">Post-election events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Post-election events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The poor results for the Conservative Party led to infighting, with the <a href="/wiki/One-nation_conservatism" title="One-nation conservatism">One Nation</a> group, <a href="/wiki/Tory_Reform_Group" title="Tory Reform Group">Tory Reform Group</a>, and right-wing <a href="/wiki/Maastricht_Rebels" title="Maastricht Rebels">Maastricht Rebels</a> blaming each other for the defeat. Party chairman <a href="/wiki/Brian_Mawhinney" title="Brian Mawhinney">Brian Mawhinney</a> said on the night of the election that defeat was due to disillusionment with 18 years of Conservative rule. <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> resigned as party leader, saying "When the curtain falls, it is time to get off the stage".<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the defeat, the Conservatives began their longest continuous spell in <a href="/wiki/His_Majesty%27s_Most_Loyal_Opposition" title="His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition">opposition</a> in the history of the present day (post–<a href="/wiki/Tamworth_Manifesto" title="Tamworth Manifesto">Tamworth Manifesto</a>) Conservative Party – and indeed the longest such spell for any incarnation of the <a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tories</a>/Conservatives since the 1760s and the end of the <a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)#Whig_Supremacy" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig Supremacy</a> under Kings <a href="/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain" title="George I of Great Britain">George I</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">George II</a> – lasting 13 years, including the whole of the 2000s.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout this period, their representation in the Commons remained consistently below 200 MPs. </p><p>Meanwhile, <a href="/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown" title="Paddy Ashdown">Paddy Ashdown's</a> continued leadership of the Liberal Democrats was assured, and they were felt to be in a position to build positively as a strong third party into the new millennium,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> culminating in their sharing power in the <a href="/wiki/Conservative%E2%80%93Liberal_Democrat_coalition_agreement" title="Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement">2010 coalition with the Conservatives</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Internet_coverage">Internet coverage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Internet coverage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the huge rise in internet use since the previous general election, <a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC News</a> created a special website – BBC Politics 97 – covering the election.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcPolitics97_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcPolitics97-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This site was an experiment for the efficiency of <a href="/wiki/BBC_News_Online" title="BBC News Online">an online news service</a> which was due for launch later in the year.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1997 United Kingdom general election">List of MPs elected in the 1997 United Kingdom general election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in England">1997 United Kingdom general election in England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">1997 United Kingdom general election in Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Northern_Ireland" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland">1997 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Wales" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in Wales">1997 United Kingdom general election in Wales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1997 United Kingdom local elections">1997 United Kingdom local elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990s_in_political_history" class="mw-redirect" title="1990s in political history">1990s in political history</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">9 February</span> 2024</span>. <q>In keeping with the New Labour message, the party's 1997 campaign attacked the economic record of the Tories following 1992's Black Wednesday and promised national renewal, memorably using D:Ream's song Things Can Only Get Better.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=campaignlive.co.uk&rft.atitle=The+New+Labour+brand+10+years+on&rft.date=2007-05-01&rft.aulast=Tiltman&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.campaignlive.co.uk%2Farticle%2Fnew-labour-brand-10-years%2F653501&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1997+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGillett2023" class="citation news cs1">Gillett, Ed (22 July 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/21/new-labour-1997-rave-culture-ed-gillett-book-extract">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'From the dancefloor to the ballot box': how house music helped Labour win a landslide in 1997"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240209115505/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/21/new-labour-1997-rave-culture-ed-gillett-book-extract">Archived</a> from the original on 9 February 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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London: <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-00-730884-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-00-730884-2"><bdi>978-0-00-730884-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Back+from+the+Brink%3A+The+Extraordinary+Fall+and+Rise+of+the+Conservative+Party&rft.place=London&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-00-730884-2&rft.aulast=Snowdon&rft.aufirst=Peter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1997+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manifestos">Manifestos</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000618072231/http://www.bnp.net/policy.html">British National Party (British Nationalism- An Idea whose time has come)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120314155214/http://www.libparty.demon.co.uk/ge97/manifest.htm">Liberal Party (Radical ideas – not the dead centre)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120425084821/http://politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/ukip97.htm">UK Independence Party</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110915011413/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/3way97.htm">Third Way</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120425084836/http://politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/prolif97.htm">The ProLife Alliance</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110926100427/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/sinnf97.htm">Sinn Féin (A New Opportunity for Peace)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110916150021/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/dup97.htm">Democratic Unionist Party</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120425084952/http://politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/niall97.htm">Alliance of Liberty (Agenda for Change)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110916204739/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/pup97.htm">Progressive Unionist Party</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120425085022/http://politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/uu97.htm">Ulster Unionist Party</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120425085032/http://politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/pcymru97.htm">Plaid Cymru (The Best for Wales)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110913024908/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge97/man/snp97.pdf">Scottish National Party (Yes We Can Win the Best for Scotland)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120425085153/http://politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/scgrn97.htm">Scottish Green Party</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120425085201/http://politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/seq97.htm">Socialist Equality Party (A strategy for a workers' government!)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110602193652/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/comm97.htm">Communist Party of Great Britain</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading 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href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_for_constituencies_in_Scotland_(1997%E2%80%932001)#List" title="List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1997–2001)">Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_for_constituencies_in_Wales_(1997%E2%80%932001)" title="List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1997–2001)">Wales</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_who_lost_their_seat_in_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs who lost their seat in the 1997 United Kingdom general election">MPs who lost their seat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1997 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Results_of_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Results of the 1997 United Kingdom general election">Results</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Results_of_the_1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_by_constituency" title="Results of the 1997 United Kingdom general election by constituency">by constituency</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background: #ddddff;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Incumbent <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">prime minister</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> (<a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a>)</li> <li>Appointed prime minister: <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> (<a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parties elected to<br /> the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> (<a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> (<a href="/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown" title="Paddy Ashdown">Paddy Ashdown</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">Ulster Unionist Party</a> (<a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">David Trimble</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a> (<a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plaid_Cymru" title="Plaid Cymru">Plaid Cymru</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dafydd_Wigley" title="Dafydd Wigley">Dafydd Wigley</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party" title="Social Democratic and Labour Party">Social Democratic and Labour Party</a> (<a href="/wiki/John_Hume" title="John Hume">John Hume</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gerry_Adams" title="Gerry Adams">Gerry Adams</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party" title="Democratic Unionist Party">Democratic Unionist Party</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ian_Paisley" title="Ian Paisley">Ian Paisley</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/UK_Unionist_Party" title="UK Unionist Party">UK Unionist Party</a> (<a href="/wiki/Robert_McCartney_(Northern_Irish_politician)" title="Robert McCartney (Northern Irish politician)">Robert McCartney</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Results by area</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in England">England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Northern_Ireland" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Wales" title="1997 United Kingdom general election in Wales">Wales</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Things_Can_Only_Get_Better_(D:Ream_song)" title="Things Can Only Get Better (D:Ream song)">Things Can Only Get Better</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blair_Babe" title="Blair Babe">Blair Babe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Bell" title="Martin Bell">Martin Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatton_in_the_1997_general_election" title="Tatton in the 1997 general election">Tatton in the general election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enfield_Southgate_in_the_1997_general_election" title="Enfield Southgate in the 1997 general election">Enfield Southgate in the election</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portillo_moment" title="Portillo moment">Portillo moment</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Labour,_New_Danger" title="New Labour, New Danger">New Labour, New Danger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Referendum_Party" title="Referendum Party">Referendum Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Queen_(2006_film)" title="The Queen (2006 film)"><i>The Queen</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1997 United Kingdom local elections">1997 United Kingdom local elections</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="23x15px&#124;border_&#124;alt=United_Kingdom&#124;link=United_Kingdom_Elections_and_referendums_in_the_United_Kingdom" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:United_Kingdom_elections" title="Template:United Kingdom elections"><abbr 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<li><a href="/wiki/1806_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1806 United Kingdom general election">1806</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1807_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1807 United Kingdom general election">1807</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1812_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1812 United Kingdom general election">1812</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1818_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1818 United Kingdom general election">1818</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1820_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1820 United Kingdom general election">1820</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1826_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1826 United Kingdom general election">1826</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1830_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1830 United Kingdom general election">1830</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1831_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1831 United Kingdom general election">1831</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1832_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1832 United Kingdom general election">1832</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1835_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1835 United Kingdom general election">1835</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1837_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1837 United Kingdom general election">1837</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1841_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1841 United Kingdom general election">1841</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1847_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1847 United Kingdom general election">1847</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1852_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1852 United Kingdom general election">1852</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1857_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1857 United Kingdom general election">1857</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1859_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1859 United Kingdom general election">1859</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1865 United Kingdom general election">1865</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1868 United Kingdom general election">1868</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1874 United Kingdom general election">1874</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1880_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1880 United Kingdom general election">1880</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1886 United Kingdom general election">1886</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1892 United Kingdom general election">1892</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1895_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1895 United Kingdom general election">1895</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1900 United Kingdom general election">1900</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1906 United Kingdom general election">1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="January 1910 United Kingdom general election">1910 (Jan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="December 1910 United Kingdom general election">1910 (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1923 United Kingdom general election">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1935 United Kingdom general election">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">1974 (Feb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">1974 (Oct)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Next_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Next United Kingdom general election">Next</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Local government in the United Kingdom">Local elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1889_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1889 United Kingdom local elections">1889</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1890_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1890 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1890</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1892 United Kingdom local elections">1892</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1894_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1894 United Kingdom local elections">1894</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1895_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1895 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1895</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1896_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1896 United Kingdom local elections">1896</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1897_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1897 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1897</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1898_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1898 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1898</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1899_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1899 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1899</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1900_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1900 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1900</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1901_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1901 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1901</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1902_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1902 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1902</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1903_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1903 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1903</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1904_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1904 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1904</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1905_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1905 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1905</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1906_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1906 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1906</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1907_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1907 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1907</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1908_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1908 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1908</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1909 United Kingdom local elections">1909</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1910_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1910 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1910</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1911_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1911 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1911</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1912_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1912 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1912</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1913_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1913 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1913</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1914_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1914 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1914</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1915_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1915 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1915</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1919_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1919 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1919</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1920_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1920 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1920</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1921_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1921 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1921</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1922_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1922 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1923_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1923 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1924_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1924 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1925_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1925 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1925</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1926_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1926 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1926</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1927_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1927 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1927</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1928_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1928 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1929_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1929 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1930_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1930 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1931_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1931 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1932_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1932 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1932</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1933_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1933 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1934 United Kingdom local elections">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1935_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1935 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1936_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1936 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1937_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1937 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1937</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1938 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1945 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1946_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1946 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1947_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1947 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1948_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1948 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1949 United Kingdom local elections">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1950_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1950 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1951_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1951 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1952 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1953_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1953 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1954_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1954 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1955 United Kingdom local elections">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1956_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1956 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1957_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1957 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1958_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1958 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1959 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1960_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1960 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1961_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1961 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1962_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1962 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1963_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1963 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1964 United Kingdom local elections">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1965 United Kingdom local elections">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1966_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1966 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1967_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1967 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_United_Kingdom_local_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1968 United Kingdom local elections (page does not exist)">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1969 United Kingdom local elections">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1970 United Kingdom local elections">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1971 United Kingdom local elections">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1972 United Kingdom local elections">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1973 United Kingdom local elections">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1974 United Kingdom local elections">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1975 United Kingdom local elections">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1976 United Kingdom local elections">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1977 United Kingdom local elections">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1978 United Kingdom local elections">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1979 United Kingdom local elections">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1980 United Kingdom local elections">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1981 United Kingdom local elections">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1982 United Kingdom local elections">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1983 United Kingdom local elections">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1984 United Kingdom local elections">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1985 United Kingdom local elections">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1986 United Kingdom local elections">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1987 United Kingdom local elections">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1988 United Kingdom local elections">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1989 United Kingdom local elections">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1990 United Kingdom local elections">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1991 United Kingdom local elections">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1992 United Kingdom local elections">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1993 United Kingdom local elections">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1994 United Kingdom local elections">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1995 United Kingdom local elections">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1996 United Kingdom local elections">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1997 United Kingdom local elections">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1998 United Kingdom local elections">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1999 United Kingdom local elections">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2000 United Kingdom local elections">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2001 United Kingdom local elections">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2002 United Kingdom local elections">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2003 United Kingdom local elections">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2004 United Kingdom local elections">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2005 United Kingdom local elections">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2006 United Kingdom local elections">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2007 United Kingdom local elections">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2008 United Kingdom local elections">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2009 United Kingdom local elections">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2010 United Kingdom local elections">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2011 United Kingdom local elections">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2012 United Kingdom local elections">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2013 United Kingdom local elections">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2014 United Kingdom local elections">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2015 United Kingdom local elections">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2016 United Kingdom local elections">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2017 United Kingdom local elections">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2018 United Kingdom local elections">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2019 United Kingdom local elections">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2021 United Kingdom local elections">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2022 United Kingdom local elections">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2023 United Kingdom local elections">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2024 United Kingdom local elections">2024</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2025_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2025 United Kingdom local elections">2025</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Elections_to_the_European_Parliament" title="Elections to the European Parliament">European elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1979 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1984 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1989 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1999 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2014 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2019</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Referendums_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Referendums in the United Kingdom">Referendums</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1975_United_Kingdom_European_Communities_membership_referendum" title="1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum" title="2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">2016</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="hlist"><div> <dl><dt>See also</dt> <dd>Elections in <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_England" title="Elections in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Northern_Ireland" title="Elections in Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Scotland" title="Elections in Scotland">Scotland</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Wales" title="Elections in Wales">Wales</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_the_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Elections in the Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a> (1989–1990)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Politics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_John_Major" title="Premiership of John Major">Premiership</a></li> <li>Major ministry <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Major_ministry" title="First Major ministry">First</a>, 1990–1992</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Major_ministry" title="Second Major ministry">Second</a>, 1992–1997</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet_of_John_Major" title="Shadow Cabinet of John Major">Shadow Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One-nation_conservatism" title="One-nation conservatism">One-nation conservatism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huntingdonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Huntingdonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Huntingdonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huntingdon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)">Huntingdon</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="9" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Major_1993_(3).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/John_Major_1993_%283%29.jpg/100px-John_Major_1993_%283%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/John_Major_1993_%283%29.jpg/150px-John_Major_1993_%283%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/John_Major_1993_%283%29.jpg/200px-John_Major_1993_%283%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1099" data-file-height="1529" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Budgets <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1991_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1991 United Kingdom budget">1991 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1992 United Kingdom budget">1992 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_1993_United_Kingdom_budget" title="March 1993 United Kingdom budget">March 1993 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_1993_United_Kingdom_budget" title="November 1993 United Kingdom budget">November 1993 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1994 United Kingdom budget">1994 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1995 United Kingdom budget">1995 budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1996 United Kingdom budget">1996 budget</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citizen%27s_Charter" title="Citizen's Charter">Citizen's Charter</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charter_Mark" class="mw-redirect" title="Charter Mark">Charter Mark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cones_Hotline" title="Cones Hotline">Cones Hotline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_1990s_recession" title="Early 1990s recession">Early 1990s recession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Wednesday" title="Black Wednesday">Black Wednesday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Lottery_(United_Kingdom)" title="National Lottery (United Kingdom)">National Lottery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Further_and_Higher_Education_Act_1992" title="Further and Higher Education Act 1992">Further and Higher Education Act 1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant-maintained_schools" class="mw-redirect" title="Grant-maintained schools">Grant-maintained schools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maastricht_Rebels" title="Maastricht Rebels">Maastricht Rebels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Newbury_by-election" title="1993 Newbury by-election">1993 Newbury by-election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_peace_process" title="Northern Ireland peace process">Northern Ireland peace process</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack" title="Downing Street mortar attack">Downing Street mortar attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downing_Street_Declaration" title="Downing Street Declaration">Downing Street Declaration</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_reviews_of_the_British_honours_system" title="1993 reviews of the British honours system">1993 reviews of the British honours system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council_Tax" title="Council Tax">Council Tax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Child_Support_Agency" title="Child Support Agency">Child Support Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_vote_of_confidence_in_the_Major_ministry" title="1993 vote of confidence in the Major ministry">1993 vote of confidence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Back_to_Basics_(campaign)" title="Back to Basics (campaign)">Back to Basics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail" title="Privatisation of British Rail">Privatisation of British Rail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_Order_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminal Justice and Public Order Act">Criminal Justice and Public Order Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1995 Conservative Party leadership election">1995 Conservative Party leadership election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Cullen_Reports" title="The Cullen Reports">Cullen Report (Dunblane massacre)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cash-for-questions_affair" title="Cash-for-questions affair">Cash for Questions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Committee_on_Standards_in_Public_Life" title="Committee on Standards in Public Life">Committee on Standards in Public Life</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arms-to-Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Arms-to-Iraq">Arms-to-Iraq affair</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Report" title="Scott Report">Scott Report</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_BSE_outbreak" title="United Kingdom BSE outbreak">United Kingdom BSE outbreak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_Wirral_South_by-election" title="1997 Wirral South by-election">Wirral South by-election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_Prime_Minister%27s_Resignation_Honours" title="1997 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours">Resignation Honours</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">International</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi no-fly zones">Iraqi no-fly zones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctions against Iraq">Sanctions against Iraq</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harare_Declaration" title="Harare Declaration">Harare Declaration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty" title="Maastricht Treaty">Maastricht Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War">Bosnian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Gabriel" title="Operation Gabriel">Operation Gabriel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_John_Major" title="Electoral history of John Major">General elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1997</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">European Parliament Election</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1994_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">1994</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Party elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1990_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1990 Conservative Party leadership election">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1995 Conservative Party leadership election">1995</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/John_Major:_The_Autobiography" title="John Major: The Autobiography">John Major: The Autobiography</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/More_Than_a_Game:_The_Story_of_Cricket%27s_Early_Years" title="More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years">More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Old_Man:_A_Personal_History_of_Music_Hall" title="My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall">My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall</a></i> (2012)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norma_Major" title="Norma Major">Norma Major</a> (wife)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Major-Ball" title="Terry Major-Ball">Terry Major-Ball</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Major-Ball" title="Tom Major-Ball">Tom Major-Ball</a> (father)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cultural depictions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Thatcher:_The_Final_Days" title="Thatcher: The Final Days">Thatcher: The Final Days</a></i> (TV, 1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Independence_Day_UK" title="Independence Day UK">Independence Day UK</a></i> (Radio, 1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Margaret_(2009_film)" title="Margaret (2009 film)">Margaret</a></i> (TV, 2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Iron_Lady_(film)" title="The Iron Lady (film)">The Iron Lady </a></i> (Film, 2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Audience_(2013_play)" title="The Audience (2013 play)">The Audience</a></i> (Play, 2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Crown_season_5" title="The Crown season 5"><i>The Crown</i> season 5</a> (TV, 2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li>← <b><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></b> →</li></ul> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:John_Major" title="Category:John Major">Category</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Tony_Blair" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Tony_Blair" title="Template:Tony Blair"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Tony_Blair" title="Template talk:Tony Blair"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Tony_Blair" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Tony Blair"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Tony_Blair" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> (1997–2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Leader of the Labour Party (UK)">Leader of the Labour Party</a> (1994–2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of the Opposition (UK)">Leader of the Opposition</a> (1994–1997)</li> <li>MP for <a href="/wiki/Sedgefield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Sedgefield (UK Parliament constituency)">Sedgefield</a> (1983–2007)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Politics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Labour,_New_Life_for_Britain" title="New Labour, New Life for Britain">New Labour, New Life for Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Tony_Blair" title="Premiership of Tony Blair">Premiership</a></li> <li>Blair ministry <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Blair_ministry" title="First Blair ministry">First</a>, 1997–2001</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Blair_ministry" title="Second Blair ministry">Second</a>, 2001–2005</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Blair_ministry" title="Third Blair ministry">Third</a>, 2005–2007</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blair%E2%80%93Brown_deal" title="Blair–Brown deal">Blair–Brown deal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Tony_Blair" title="Electoral history of Tony Blair">Electoral history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet_of_Tony_Blair" title="Shadow Cabinet of Tony Blair">Shadow Cabinet of Tony Blair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_British_cabinet_reshuffle" title="1999 British cabinet reshuffle">1999 British cabinet reshuffle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bush%E2%80%93Blair_2003_Iraq_memo" title="Bush–Blair 2003 Iraq memo">Bush–Blair 2003 Iraq memo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_British_cabinet_reshuffle" title="2006 British cabinet reshuffle">2006 cabinet reshuffle</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="9" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tony_Blair_in_2002_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Tony_Blair_in_2002_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Tony_Blair_in_2002_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Tony_Blair_in_2002_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Tony_Blair_in_2002_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Tony_Blair_in_2002_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-Tony_Blair_in_2002_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="799" data-file-height="1065" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ideology</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blairism" title="Blairism">Blairism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Labour" title="New Labour">New Labour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Way" title="Third Way">Third Way</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Party election</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1994_Labour_Party_leadership_election" title="1994 Labour Party leadership election">1994</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Shadow Cabinet elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1987_Labour_Party_(UK)_Shadow_Cabinet_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1987 Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet election">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Labour_Party_(UK)_Shadow_Cabinet_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1988 Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet election">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Labour_Party_(UK)_Shadow_Cabinet_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1989 Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet election">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Labour_Party_(UK)_Shadow_Cabinet_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1990 Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet election">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Labour_Party_(UK)_Shadow_Cabinet_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1991 Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet election">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Labour_Party_(UK)_Shadow_Cabinet_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1992 Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet election">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Labour_Party_(UK)_Shadow_Cabinet_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1993 Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet election">1993</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-premiership</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2007_Sedgefield_by-election" title="2007 Sedgefield by-election">2007 Sedgefield by-election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair_Institute_for_Global_Change" title="Tony Blair Institute for Global Change">Tony Blair Institute for Global Change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quartet_on_the_Middle_East" title="Quartet on the Middle East">Quartet on the Middle East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Africa_Progress_Panel" title="Africa Progress Panel">Africa Progress Panel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair_Faith_Foundation" title="Tony Blair Faith Foundation">Tony Blair Faith Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commission_for_Africa" title="Commission for Africa">Commission for Africa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Journey" title="A Journey">A Journey</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related topics</th><td 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style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherie_Blair" title="Cherie Blair">Cherie Blair</a> (wife)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euan_Blair" title="Euan Blair">Euan Blair</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Blair" title="Leo Blair">Leo Blair</a> (father)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicky_Blair_(football_agent)" title="Nicky Blair (football agent)">Nicky Blair</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blair_(judge)" title="William Blair (judge)">William Blair</a> (brother)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">← John Major</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown →</a></b></li></ul> <ul><li> <span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Category:Tony_Blair" title="Category:Tony Blair">Category</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="New_Labour" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#E4003B; color:white;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:New_Labour" title="Template:New Labour"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:white">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:New_Labour" title="Template talk:New Labour"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:white">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:New_Labour" title="Special:EditPage/Template:New Labour"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color:white">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="New_Labour" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/New_Labour" title="New Labour"><span style="color:white;">New Labour</span></a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#E4003B; color:white;;width:1%">Key figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Mandelson" title="Peter Mandelson">Peter Mandelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alastair_Campbell" title="Alastair Campbell">Alastair Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Prescott" title="John Prescott">John Prescott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Giddens" title="Anthony Giddens">Anthony Giddens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Crosland" title="Anthony Crosland">Anthony Crosland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Gould,_Baron_Gould_of_Brookwood" title="Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood">Philip Gould</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Sainsbury,_Baron_Sainsbury_of_Turville" title="David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville">David Sainsbury</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#E4003B; color:white;;width:1%">Political ethos</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blairism" title="Blairism">Blairism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Third_Way" title="Third Way">Third Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blatcherism" title="Blatcherism">Blatcherism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brownism" title="Brownism">Brownism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#E4003B; color:white;;width:1%">General elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_government_formation" title="2010 United Kingdom government formation">Post-election events</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#E4003B; color:white;;width:1%">Leadership elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1994_Labour_Party_leadership_election" title="1994 Labour Party leadership election">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Labour_Party_leadership_election_(UK)" title="2007 Labour Party leadership election (UK)">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Labour_Party_leadership_election_(UK)" title="2010 Labour Party leadership election (UK)">2010</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#E4003B; color:white;;width:1%">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Tony_Blair" title="Premiership of Tony Blair">Premiership of Tony Blair</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Blair_ministry" title="First Blair ministry">Blair I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Blair_ministry" title="Second Blair ministry">Blair II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Blair_ministry" title="Third Blair ministry">Blair III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chancellorship_of_Gordon_Brown" title="Chancellorship of Gordon Brown">Chancellorship of Gordon Brown</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Gordon_Brown" title="Premiership of Gordon Brown">Premiership of Gordon Brown</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brown_ministry" title="Brown ministry">Brown</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#E4003B; color:white;;width:1%">Publications</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Future_of_Socialism" title="The Future of Socialism">The Future of Socialism</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Journey" title="A Journey">A Journey</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Third_Man:_Life_at_the_Heart_of_New_Labour" title="The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour">The Third Man</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Blair_Years" title="The Blair Years">The Blair Years</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Purple_Book_(Labour_Party)" title="The Purple Book (Labour Party)">The Purple Book</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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