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of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a><br />326 seats needed for a majority</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><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 scope="row" class="infobox-label">Turnout</th><td class="infobox-data">75.3% (<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>2.6 <a href="/wiki/Percentage_point" title="Percentage point">pp</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" 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style="width:75px;text-align:center">209 seats, 27.6% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">23 seats, 25.4% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>376</b><sup id="cite_ref-speaker_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-speaker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">229 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">22 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <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, 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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 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>13,760,583</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">10,029,807 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">7,341,633 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>42.2%</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">30.8% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">22.6% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <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" 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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>2.8% </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,_1987.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/UK_General_Election%2C_1987.svg/200px-UK_General_Election%2C_1987.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="316" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/UK_General_Election%2C_1987.svg/300px-UK_General_Election%2C_1987.svg.png 1.5x, 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Minister after election</b> <br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>1987 United Kingdom general election</b> was held on Thursday 11 June 1987, to elect <a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1987 United Kingdom general election">650 members</a> to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a>. The election was the third consecutive general election victory for the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a>, who won a majority of 102 seats and second <a href="/wiki/Landslide_victory" title="Landslide victory">landslide</a> under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>, who became the first Prime Minister since the <a href="/wiki/Robert_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool" title="Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool">Earl of Liverpool</a> in <a href="/wiki/1820_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1820 United Kingdom general election">1820</a> to lead a party into three successive electoral victories. </p><p>The Conservatives ran a campaign focusing on lower taxes, a strong economy and strong defence. They also emphasised that unemployment had just fallen below the 3 million mark for the first time since 1981, and inflation was standing at 4%, its lowest level since the 1960s. National newspapers also continued to largely back the Conservative government, particularly <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)" title="The Sun (United Kingdom)">The Sun</a></i>, which ran anti–<a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> articles with headlines such as "Why I'm backing Kinnock, by <a href="/wiki/Stalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalin">Stalin</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Labour, led by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a> following <a href="/wiki/Michael_Foot" title="Michael Foot">Michael Foot</a>'s resignation in the aftermath of the party's landslide defeat at the <a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983 general election</a>, was slowly moving towards a more <a href="/wiki/Centrist" class="mw-redirect" title="Centrist">centrist</a> policy platform, following the promulgation of a <a href="/wiki/Left-wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Left-wing">left-wing</a> one under Foot's leadership. The main aim of the Labour Party was to re-establish itself as the main progressive <a href="/wiki/Centre-left" class="mw-redirect" title="Centre-left">centre-left</a> alternative to the Conservatives, after the rise of the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">Social Democratic Party</a> (SDP) forced Labour onto the defensive; and Labour succeeded in doing so at this general election. The <a href="/wiki/SDP%E2%80%93Liberal_Alliance" title="SDP–Liberal Alliance">Alliance</a> between the SDP and the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a> was renewed, but co-leaders <a href="/wiki/David_Owen" title="David Owen">David Owen</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Steel" title="David Steel">David Steel</a> could not agree whether to support either major party in the event of a <a href="/wiki/Hung_parliament" title="Hung parliament">hung parliament</a>. </p><p>The Conservatives were returned to government, having suffered a net loss of only 21 seats, which left them with 376 MPs and a reduced but still strong majority of 102 seats. Labour succeeded in resisting the challenge by the SDP–Liberal Alliance to maintain its position as HM Official Opposition. Moreover, Labour managed to increase its vote share in Scotland, Wales and the North of England. Yet Labour still returned only 229 MPs to Westminster; and in certain London constituencies which Labour had held before the election, the Conservatives actually made gains. </p><p>The election was a disappointment for the Alliance, which saw its vote share fall and suffered a net loss of one seat as well as former SDP leader <a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Roy Jenkins</a> losing his seat to Labour. This led to the two Alliance parties merging completely soon afterwards to become the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a>. In Northern Ireland, the main unionist parties maintained their alliance in opposition to the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Agreement" title="Anglo-Irish Agreement">Anglo-Irish Agreement</a>; however, the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">Ulster Unionist Party</a> (UUP) lost two seats to the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party" title="Social Democratic and Labour Party">Social Democratic and Labour Party</a> (SDLP). One of the UUP losses was former Cabinet Minister <a href="/wiki/Enoch_Powell" title="Enoch Powell">Enoch Powell</a>, famous for his stance against immigration, and formerly a Conservative MP. </p><p>To date the Conservatives have not matched or surpassed their 1987 seat total in any general election held subsequently, although they recorded a greater share of the popular vote in the <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 general election</a>. The 50th Parliament was the last time to date that a Conservative government has lasted a full term with an overall majority of seats in Parliament, until the 2019-2024 parliament. </p><p>The election night was covered live on the BBC, presented by <a href="/wiki/David_Dimbleby" title="David Dimbleby">David Dimbleby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Snow" title="Peter Snow">Peter Snow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robin_Day" title="Robin Day">Robin Day</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also broadcast on ITV, presented by Sir <a href="/wiki/Alastair_Burnet" title="Alastair Burnet">Alastair Burnet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sissons" title="Peter Sissons">Peter Sissons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alastair_Stewart" title="Alastair Stewart">Alastair Stewart</a>. </p><p>The 1987 general election saw the election of the first <a href="/wiki/Black_British_people" title="Black British people">Black</a> Members of Parliament: <a href="/wiki/Diane_Abbott" title="Diane Abbott">Diane Abbott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Boateng" title="Paul Boateng">Paul Boateng</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Grant" title="Bernie Grant">Bernie Grant</a>, all as representatives for the Labour Party. Other newcomers included future Cabinet members <a href="/wiki/David_Blunkett" title="David Blunkett">David Blunkett</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Redwood" title="John Redwood">John Redwood</a>, future Shadow Cabinet minister <a href="/wiki/Ann_Widdecombe" title="Ann Widdecombe">Ann Widdecombe</a>, and future <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Scottish_National_Party" title="Leader of the Scottish National Party">SNP Leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a>. MPs who left the House of Commons as a result of this election include former Labour Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">James Callaghan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Keith_Joseph" title="Keith Joseph">Keith Joseph</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Prior" title="Jim Prior">Jim Prior</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ian_Mikardo" title="Ian Mikardo">Ian Mikardo</a>, former SDP leader and Labour Cabinet Minister <a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Roy Jenkins</a>, former Health Minister <a href="/wiki/Enoch_Powell" title="Enoch Powell">Enoch Powell</a> (who had defected to the UUP in Northern Ireland from the Conservatives in 1974) and <a href="/wiki/Clement_Freud" title="Clement Freud">Clement Freud</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campaign_and_policies">Campaign and policies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1987 United Kingdom general election">MPs</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992 election</a></li> <li><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">MPs</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">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></tbody></table><p>The <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> campaign emphasised lower taxes, a strong economy and defence, and also employed rapid-response reactions to take advantage of <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> errors. <a href="/wiki/Norman_Tebbit" title="Norman Tebbit">Norman Tebbit</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saatchi_%26_Saatchi" title="Saatchi & Saatchi">Saatchi & Saatchi</a> spearheaded the Conservative campaign. However, when on "Wobbly Thursday" it was rumoured a Marplan opinion poll showed a narrow 2% Conservative lead, the "exiles" camp of <a href="/wiki/David_Young,_Baron_Young_of_Graffham" title="David Young, Baron Young of Graffham">David Young</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tim_Bell" class="mw-redirect" title="Tim Bell">Tim Bell</a> and the advertising firm <a href="/wiki/Young_%26_Rubicam" class="mw-redirect" title="Young & Rubicam">Young & Rubicam</a> advocated a more aggressively anti-Labour message. This was when, according to Young's memoirs, Young grabbed Tebbit by the lapels and shook him, shouting: "Norman, listen to me, we're about to lose this fucking election."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2003522_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2003522-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his memoirs, Tebbit defends the Conservative campaign: "We finished exactly as planned on the ground where Labour was weak and we were strong—defence, taxation, and the economy."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETebbit1988336_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETebbit1988336-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the election campaign, however, Tebbit and party leader <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> argued.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThatcher1993584_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThatcher1993584-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bell and Saatchi & Saatchi produced memorable posters for the Conservatives, such as a picture of a British soldier's arms raised in surrender with the caption "Labour's Policy On Arms"—a reference to Labour's policy of <a href="/wiki/Unilateral_nuclear_disarmament" class="mw-redirect" title="Unilateral nuclear disarmament">unilateral nuclear disarmament</a>. The first Conservative <a href="/wiki/Party_political_broadcast" title="Party political broadcast">party political broadcast</a> played on the theme of "Freedom" and ended with a fluttering Union Jack, the hymn <i><a href="/wiki/I_Vow_to_Thee,_My_Country" title="I Vow to Thee, My Country">I Vow to Thee, My Country</a></i> (which Thatcher would later quote in her "<a href="/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mound" title="Sermon on the Mound">Sermon on the Mound</a>") and the slogan "It's Great To Be Great Again". </p><p>The Labour campaign was a marked change from previous efforts; professionally directed by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Mandelson" title="Peter Mandelson">Peter Mandelson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Gould" title="Bryan Gould">Bryan Gould</a>, it concentrated on presenting and improving <a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a>'s image to the electorate. Labour's first party political broadcast, dubbed <i>Kinnock: The Movie</i>, was directed by <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Hudson" title="Hugh Hudson">Hugh Hudson</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Chariots_of_Fire" title="Chariots of Fire">Chariots of Fire</a></i> fame, and concentrated on portraying Kinnock as a caring, compassionate family man. It was filmed at the Great Orme in Wales and had "<a href="/wiki/Ode_to_Joy" title="Ode to Joy">Ode to Joy</a>" as its music.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was particularly critical of the high unemployment that the government's economic policies had resulted in, as well as condemning the wait for treatment that many patients had endured on the <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service" title="National Health Service">National Health Service</a>. Kinnock's personal popularity jumped 16 points overnight following the initial broadcast.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEButlerKavanagh1988154_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEButlerKavanagh1988154-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 24 May, Kinnock was interviewed by <a href="/wiki/David_Frost" title="David Frost">David Frost</a> and claimed that Labour's alternative defence strategy in the event of a Soviet attack would be "using the resources you've got to make any occupation totally untenable".<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. (April 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In a speech two days later Thatcher attacked Labour's defence policy as a programme for "defeat, surrender, occupation, and finally, prolonged guerrilla fighting ... I do not understand how anyone who aspires to Government can treat the defence of our country so lightly".<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> </p><p>During the 1987 election campaign the Conservative Party issued attack posters which claimed that the Labour Party wanted the book <i><a href="/wiki/Young,_Gay_and_Proud" title="Young, Gay and Proud">Young, Gay and Proud</a></i> to be read in schools, as well as <i>Police: Out of School</i>, <i>The Playbook for Kids about Sex</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>The Milkman's on his Way</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which, according to the <a href="/wiki/Monday_Club" title="Monday Club">Monday Club</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Jill_Knight" title="Jill Knight">Jill Knight</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_parliament" title="Member of parliament">MP</a> – who introduced <a href="/wiki/Section_28" title="Section 28">Section 28</a> and later campaigned against <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – were being taught to "little children as young as five and six", which contained "brightly coloured pictures of little stick men showed all about homosexuality and how it was done", and "explicitly described homosexual intercourse and, indeed, glorified it, encouraging youngsters to believe that it was better than any other sexual way of life".<sup id="cite_ref-Hansard1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hansard1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </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=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Endorsements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspapers</a> endorsed political parties running in the election in the following ways:<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Newspaper </th> <th colspan="2">Party/ies endorsed </th></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)" title="The Sun (United Kingdom)">The Sun</a></i> </td> <td style="background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mirror" title="Daily Mirror">Daily Mirror</a></i> </td> <td style="background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a></i> </td> <td style="background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a></i> </td> <td style="background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Telegraph">Daily Telegraph</a></i> </td> <td style="background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> </td> <td style="background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> </td> <td style="background-color:black"> </td> <td>None </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> </td> <td style="background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <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=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=3" 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_1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1987 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polling for the 1987 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/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979 election</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1979 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polls</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983 election</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1983 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polls</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">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 href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">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></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:UK_opinion_polling_1983-1987.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/UK_opinion_polling_1983-1987.svg/613px-UK_opinion_polling_1983-1987.svg.png" decoding="async" width="613" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/UK_opinion_polling_1983-1987.svg/920px-UK_opinion_polling_1983-1987.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/UK_opinion_polling_1983-1987.svg/1226px-UK_opinion_polling_1983-1987.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1728" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption><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><span class="legend" style="padding-right:5px;"><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> Conservative</span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend" style="padding-right:5px;"><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:#E4003B solid 5px;"> </span> Labour</span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend" style="padding-right:5px;"><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:#FFD700 solid 5px;"> </span> SDP–Liberal Alliance</span></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Timeline">Timeline</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Timeline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> visited <a href="/wiki/Buckingham_Palace" title="Buckingham Palace">Buckingham Palace</a> on 11 May and asked the Queen to <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">dissolve Parliament</a> on 18 May, announcing that the election would be held on 11 June. The key dates were as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:25%;">Monday 18 May</td> <td>Dissolution of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1983 United Kingdom general election">49th Parliament</a> and campaigning officially begins </td></tr> <tr> <td>Wednesday 10 June</td> <td>Campaigning officially ends </td></tr> <tr> <td>Thursday 11 June</td> <td>Polling day </td></tr> <tr> <td>Friday 12 June</td> <td>The Conservative Party wins with a majority of 102 to retain power </td></tr> <tr> <td>Wednesday 17 June</td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1987 United Kingdom general election">50th Parliament</a> assembles </td></tr> <tr> <td>Thursday 25 June</td> <td><a href="/wiki/State_Opening_of_Parliament" title="State Opening of Parliament">State Opening of Parliament</a> </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=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Conservatives were returned by a second <a href="/wiki/Landslide_victory" title="Landslide victory">landslide victory</a> after their first in 1983,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with a comfortable majority, down slightly on 1983 with a swing of 1.5% towards Labour. This marked the first time since the passing of the <a href="/wiki/Reform_Act_1832" title="Reform Act 1832">Great Reform Act in 1832</a> that a party leader had won three consecutive elections, although the Conservative Party had won three consecutive contests in the 1950s under different leaders (<a href="/wiki/Churchill" class="mw-redirect" title="Churchill">Churchill</a> in <a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">1951</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sir_Anthony_Eden" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Anthony Eden">Eden</a> in <a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">1955</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Macmillan</a> in 1959) and early in the century, the Liberals also had three successive wins under two leaders (<a href="/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman" title="Henry Campbell-Bannerman">Henry Campbell-Bannerman</a> in 1906 and <a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. Asquith">H. H. Asquith</a> twice in 1910). The Conservative lead over Labour of 11.4% was the second-greatest for any governing party since the Second World War; only being bettered by the previous 1983 result.<sup id="cite_ref-TimesGuide1987p253_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimesGuide1987p253-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The BBC announced the result at 02:35. Increasing <a href="/wiki/Political_polarization" title="Political polarization">polarisation</a> marked divisions across the country; the Conservatives dominated <a href="/wiki/Southern_England" title="Southern England">Southern England</a> and took additional seats from Labour in London and the rest of the South, but performed less well in <a href="/wiki/Northern_England" title="Northern England">Northern England</a>, Scotland and Wales, losing many of the seats they had won there at previous elections. Yet the overall result of this election proved that the policies of <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> retained significant support, with the Conservatives given a third convincing majority. </p><p>Despite initial optimism and the professional campaign run by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a>, the election brought only twenty additional seats for Labour from the 1983 Conservative landslide. In many southern areas, the Labour vote actually fell, with the party losing seats in London. However, it represented a decisive victory against the SDP–Liberal Alliance and marked out the Labour Party as the main contender to the Conservative Party. This was in stark contrast to 1983, when the Alliance almost matched Labour in terms of votes; although Labour had almost 10 times as many seats as the Alliance due to the structure of the First-Past-The-Post voting system. </p><p>The result for the Alliance was a disappointment, in that they had hoped to overtake Labour as the Official Opposition in the UK in terms of vote share. Instead, they lost <a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Roy Jenkins</a>' seat and saw their vote share drop by almost 3%, with a widening gap of 8% between them and the Labour Party (compared to a 2% gap four years before). These results would eventually lead to the end of the Alliance and the birth of the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a>. </p><p>Most of the prominent MPs retained their seats. Notable losses included: <a href="/wiki/Enoch_Powell" title="Enoch Powell">Enoch Powell</a> (the controversial former Conservative Cabinet Minister who had defected to the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">Ulster Unionist Party</a>), <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Wilson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician)">Gordon Wilson</a> (leader of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a>) and two Alliance members: Liberal <a href="/wiki/Clement_Freud" title="Clement Freud">Clement Freud</a> and former SDP leader <a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Roy Jenkins</a> (a former Labour Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer). <a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a> increased his share of the vote in <a href="/wiki/Islwyn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islwyn (UK Parliament constituency)">Islwyn</a> by almost 12%. <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> increased her share of the vote in her own seat in <a href="/wiki/Finchley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Finchley (UK Parliament constituency)">Finchley</a>, but the Labour vote increased in the Prime Minister's constituency; thereby slightly reducing her majority. </p><p>In Northern Ireland, the various unionist parties maintained an <a href="/wiki/Electoral_pact" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral pact">electoral pact</a> (with few dissenters) in opposition to the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Agreement" title="Anglo-Irish Agreement">Anglo-Irish Agreement</a>. However, the Ulster Unionists lost two seats to the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party" title="Social Democratic and Labour Party">Social Democratic and Labour Party</a>. </p><p> The election victory won by the Conservatives could also arguably be attributed to the rise in average <a href="/wiki/Living_standards" class="mw-redirect" title="Living standards">living standards</a> that had taken place during their time in office. As noted by <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Kavanagh" title="Dennis Kavanagh">Dennis Kavanagh</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Butler_(psephologist)" title="David Butler (psephologist)">David Butler</a> in their study on the 1987 general election:<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Since 1987 the Conservatives had located a large constituency of "winners", people who have an interest in the return of a Conservative government. It includes much of the affluent South, home-owners, share-owners, and most of those in work, whose standard of living, measured in post-tax incomes, has risen appreciably since 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEButlerKavanagh1988277_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEButlerKavanagh1988277-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1987_UK_parliament.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/1987_UK_parliament.svg/300px-1987_UK_parliament.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/1987_UK_parliament.svg/450px-1987_UK_parliament.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/1987_UK_parliament.svg/600px-1987_UK_parliament.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" 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.sticky-header-multi.wikitable{background-color:#101418}}</style> <table class="wikitable sortable sticky-header-multi" style="font-size:95%"> <caption>UK general election 1987 </caption> <tbody><tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9;vertical-align:top;"> <th 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:#0087DC; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">633 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">376<sup id="cite_ref-speaker_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-speaker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">30 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">−21 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">57.85 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">42.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">13,760,583 </td> <td style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold">−0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#E4003B; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">633 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">229 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+20 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">35.23 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">30.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10,029,807 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+3.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FFD700; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/SDP%E2%80%93Liberal_Alliance" title="SDP–Liberal Alliance">Alliance</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_Owen" title="David Owen">David Owen</a> & <a href="/wiki/David_Steel" title="David Steel">David Steel</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">633 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">22 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.38 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">22.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,341,633 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−2.8 </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/Gordon_Wilson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician)">Gordon Wilson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">72 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.46 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">416,473 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.2 </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/James_Molyneaux" class="mw-redirect" title="James Molyneaux">James Molyneaux</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9 </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;">1.38 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">276,230 </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;">13 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </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;">0.46 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">154,067 </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_Elis-Thomas" title="Dafydd Elis-Thomas">Dafydd Elis-Thomas</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">38 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Ynys_M%C3%B4n_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ynys Môn (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;">0.46 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">123,599 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#528D6B; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_(UK)" title="Green Party (UK)">Green</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">133 </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;">89,753 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.1 </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;">4 </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;">0.46 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">85,642 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.2 </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;">14 </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;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.15 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">83,389 </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;">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;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">72,671 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </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%C3%A1s_Mac_Giolla" title="Tomás Mac Giolla">Tomás Mac Giolla</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14 </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;">19,294 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#ffdead; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Popular_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Popular Unionist Party">UPUP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Kilfedder" title="James Kilfedder">James Kilfedder</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;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.15 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">18,420 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Robert_McCartney_(Northern_Irish_politician)" title="Robert McCartney (Northern Irish politician)">Real 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;">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;">14,467 </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/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gordon_McLennan_(politician)" title="Gordon McLennan (politician)">Gordon McLennan</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19 </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;">6,078 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/George_Seawright" title="George Seawright">Protestant Unionist</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Seawright" title="George Seawright">George Seawright</a> </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;">5,671 </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"><a href="/wiki/Red_Front_(UK)" title="Red Front (UK)">Red Front</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14 </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;">3,177 </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"><a href="/wiki/Orkney_and_Shetland_Movement" title="Orkney and Shetland Movement">Orkney and Shetland Movement</a> </td> <td>John Goodlad </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Orkney_and_Shetland_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Orkney and Shetland (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;">3,095 </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"><a href="/wiki/Moderate_Labour_Party" title="Moderate Labour Party">Moderate Labour</a> </td> <td>Brian Marshall </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;">2,269 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </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;">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;">1,951 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </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;">10 </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;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit; background-color:#FFFFAA; width:3px">  </th> <td style="min-width:190px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Liberal" title="Independent Liberal">Independent Liberal</a> </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Caithness_and_Sutherland_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Caithness and Sutherland (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;">686 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </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_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Tyndall (politician)">John Tyndall</a> </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;">553 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9;width: 3px">  </th> <td style="width: 130px">Spare the Earth </td> <td><i>N/A</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Hove_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hove (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;">522 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> </tbody><caption style="caption-side: bottom; font-weight:normal">All parties gaining over 500 votes listed. </caption></table> <table class="wikitable" style="width:70%"> <tbody><tr> <td><b>Government's new majority</b> </td> <td><b>102</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Total votes cast </td> <td>32,529,578 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Turnout </td> <td>75.3% </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Votes_summary">Votes summary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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-webkit-transform: rotate(360deg); border-style: solid inset; border-width: 9.5px 5.5px 0 5.5px; border-color: #ff0080 transparent transparent transparent;"></div></div><div style="padding-left: 20px">Seats won in the election (outer ring) against number of votes (inner ring) </div> </div><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Results_of_the_UK_General_Election,_1987.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Seats won in the election (outer ring) against number of votes (inner ring)"><img alt="Seats won in the election (outer ring) against number of votes (inner ring)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Results_of_the_UK_General_Election%2C_1987.svg/250px-Results_of_the_UK_General_Election%2C_1987.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Results_of_the_UK_General_Election%2C_1987.svg/375px-Results_of_the_UK_General_Election%2C_1987.svg.png 1.5x, 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8em;"><b>Conservative</b></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#0087DC; width:42.3%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">42.3%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Labour</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#E4003B; width:30.8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">30.8%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">SDP–Liberal</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FFD700; width:22.6%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">22.6%</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:1.3%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.3%</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: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;">Others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#777777; width:2.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.2%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seats_summary">Seats summary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Seats summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <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>Conservative</b></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#0087DC; width:57.9%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">57.9%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Labour</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#E4003B; width:35.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">35.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">SDP–Liberal</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FFD700; width:3.4%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">3.4%</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:1.4%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.4%</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:2.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.2%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1062633282"> <div class="thumb tleft"> <div style="display:table;"> <span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:1987_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png" class="mw-file-description" title="The disproportionality of the house of parliament in the 1987 election was "17.82" according to the Gallagher Index, mainly between the Conservatives and the Alliance."><img alt="The disproportionality of the house of parliament in the 1987 election was "17.82" according to the Gallagher Index, mainly between the Conservatives and the Alliance." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/1987_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png/450px-1987_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png" decoding="async" width="450" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/1987_UK_General_Election_Gallagher_Index.png 1.5x" data-file-width="533" data-file-height="295" /></a></span><div class="thumbcaption" style="display:table-caption;caption-side:bottom;box-sizing:border-box;"><div style="float: left; margin-top: 0.25em; width: 11px; height: 9.5px;"><div style="position: relative; width: 0px; height: 0px; border-style: solid inset; border-width: 0 5.5px 9.5px 5.5px; border-color: transparent transparent #ff0080 transparent;"></div></div><div style="padding-left: 20px">The disproportionality of the house of parliament in the 1987 election was "17.82" according to the <a href="/wiki/Gallagher_Index" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallagher Index">Gallagher Index</a>, mainly between the Conservatives and the Alliance. </div> </div> </div> </div><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Incumbents_defeated">Incumbents defeated</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Incumbents defeated"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Party </th> <th>Name </th> <th>Constituency </th> <th>Office held whilst in power </th> <th>Year elected </th> <th>Defeated by </th> <th colspan="2">Party </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="27" style="background-color: #0087DC"> </th> <td rowspan="27"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gerry_Malone" title="Gerry Malone">Gerry Malone</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Aberdeen South (UK Parliament constituency)">Aberdeen South</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frank_Doran_(British_politician)" title="Frank Doran (British politician)">Frank Doran</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Rt Hon <a href="/wiki/Peter_Fraser,_Baron_Fraser_of_Carmyllie" title="Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie">Peter Fraser</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Angus_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Angus (UK Parliament constituency)">East Angus</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Solicitor_General_for_Scotland" title="Solicitor General for Scotland">Solicitor General for Scotland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Welsh_(politician)" title="Andrew Welsh (politician)">Andrew Welsh</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/John_MacKay,_Baron_MacKay_of_Ardbrecknish" title="John MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish">John MacKay</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Argyll_and_Bute_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Argyll and Bute (UK Parliament constituency)">Argyll and Bute</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Under-Secretary_of_State_for_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Under-Secretary of State for Scotland">Under-Secretary of State for Scotland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ray_Michie" title="Ray Michie">Ray Michie</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Albert_McQuarrie" title="Albert McQuarrie">Sir Albert McQuarrie</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Banff_and_Buchan_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Banff and Buchan (UK Parliament constituency)">Banff and Buchan</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Lawler" title="Geoffrey Lawler">Geoffrey Lawler</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bradford_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Bradford North">Bradford North</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pat_Wall" title="Pat Wall">Pat Wall</a> </td> <th rowspan="8" style="background-color: #E4003B"> </th> <td rowspan="8"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hubbard-Miles" title="Peter Hubbard-Miles">Peter Hubbard-Miles</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bridgend_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bridgend (UK Parliament constituency)">Bridgend</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Private_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Private Secretary">Parliamentary Private Secretary</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Wales" title="Secretary of State for Wales">Secretary of State for Wales</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Win_Griffiths" title="Win Griffiths">Win Griffiths</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Stefan_Terlezki" title="Stefan Terlezki">Stefan Terlezki</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cardiff_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cardiff West (UK Parliament constituency)">Cardiff West</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rhodri_Morgan" title="Rhodri Morgan">Rhodri Morgan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Harvey_(Clwyd_politician)" title="Robert Harvey (Clwyd politician)">Robert Harvey</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Clwyd_South-West" class="mw-redirect" title="Clwyd South-West">Clwyd South-West</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Martyn_Jones" title="Martyn Jones">Martyn Jones</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Corrie" title="John Corrie">John Corrie</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cunninghame_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cunninghame North (UK Parliament constituency)">Cunninghame North</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election"><span class="nowrap">February 1974</span></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brian_Wilson_(Labour_politician)" title="Brian Wilson (Labour politician)">Brian Wilson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Whitfield_(politician)" title="John Whitfield (politician)">John Whitfield</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dewsbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dewsbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Dewsbury</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ann_Taylor,_Baroness_Taylor_of_Bolton" title="Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton">Ann Taylor</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_MacPherson_Fletcher" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander MacPherson Fletcher">Alexander MacPherson Fletcher</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh Central</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1973_Edinburgh_North_by-election" title="1973 Edinburgh North by-election">1973</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alistair_Darling" title="Alistair Darling">Alistair Darling</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Steven_Norris" title="Steven Norris">Steven Norris</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oxford_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford East">Oxford East</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Smith_(British_politician)" title="Andrew Smith (British politician)">Andrew Smith</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Barry_Henderson" title="Barry Henderson">Barry Henderson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_East_Fife_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency)">North East Fife</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Menzies_Campbell" title="Menzies Campbell">Menzies Campbell</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hickmet" title="Richard Hickmet">Richard Hickmet</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Glanford_and_Scunthorpe" class="mw-redirect" title="Glanford and Scunthorpe">Glanford and Scunthorpe</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Elliot_Morley" title="Elliot Morley">Elliot Morley</a> </td> <th rowspan="5" style="background-color: #E4003B"> </th> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Roy_Galley" title="Roy Galley">Roy Galley</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Halifax_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Halifax (UK Parliament constituency)">Halifax</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alice_Mahon" title="Alice Mahon">Alice Mahon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Bruinvels" title="Peter Bruinvels">Peter Bruinvels</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leicester_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Leicester East">Leicester East</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Keith_Vaz" title="Keith Vaz">Keith Vaz</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Derek_Spencer" title="Derek Spencer">Derek Spencer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leicester_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Leicester South">Leicester South</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jim_Marshall_(British_politician)" title="Jim Marshall (British politician)">Jim Marshall</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fred_Silvester" title="Fred Silvester">Fred Silvester</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Withington" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester Withington">Manchester Withington</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">February 1974</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Keith_Bradley,_Baron_Bradley" title="Keith Bradley, Baron Bradley">Keith Bradley</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Fletcher_(British_politician)" title="Alexander Fletcher (British politician)">Alexander Pollock</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moray_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Moray (UK Parliament constituency)">Moray</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Private_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Private Secretary">Parliamentary Private Secretary</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Defence" title="Secretary of State for Defence">Secretary of State for Defence</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Ewing" title="Margaret Ewing">Margaret Ewing</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Piers_Merchant" title="Piers Merchant">Piers Merchant</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne_Central" class="mw-redirect" title="Newcastle upon Tyne Central">Newcastle upon Tyne Central</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jim_Cousins" title="Jim Cousins">Jim Cousins</a> </td> <th rowspan="8" style="background-color: #E4003B"> </th> <td rowspan="8"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mark_Robinson_(English_politician)" title="Mark Robinson (English politician)">Mark Robinson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Newport_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Newport West (UK Parliament constituency)">Newport West</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_Flynn_(politician)" title="Paul Flynn (politician)">Paul Flynn</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Ottaway" title="Richard Ottaway">Richard Ottaway</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nottingham_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottingham North">Nottingham North</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Graham_Allen_(politician)" title="Graham Allen (politician)">Graham Allen</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Anna_McCurley" title="Anna McCurley">Anna McCurley</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Renfrew_West_and_Inverclyde" class="mw-redirect" title="Renfrew West and Inverclyde">Renfrew West and Inverclyde</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Graham_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tommy Graham (politician)">Tommy Graham</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Michael_Hirst_(politician)" title="Michael Hirst (politician)">Michael Hirst</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Strathkelvin_and_Bearsden_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Strathkelvin and Bearsden (UK Parliament constituency)">Strathkelvin and Bearsden</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sam_Galbraith" title="Sam Galbraith">Sam Galbraith</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Warren_Hawksley" title="Warren Hawksley">Warren Hawksley</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Wrekin_(historic_UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Wrekin (historic UK Parliament constituency)">The Wrekin</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Grocott" class="mw-redirect" title="Bruce Grocott">Bruce Grocott</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Powley" title="John Powley">John Powley</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norwich_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwich South">Norwich South</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Garrett_(British_politician)" title="John Garrett (British politician)">John Garrett</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Rt Hon <a href="/wiki/Michael_Ancram" title="Michael Ancram">Michael Ancram, Earl of Ancram</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh South (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh South</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Griffiths" title="Nigel Griffiths">Nigel Griffiths</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="6" style="background-color: #E4003B"> </th> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Dubs" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Dubs">Alfred Dubs</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Battersea_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Battersea (UK Parliament constituency)">Battersea</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Bowis" title="John Bowis">John Bowis</a> </td> <th rowspan="7" style="background-color: #0087DC"> </th> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Willie_Hamilton" title="Willie Hamilton">Willie Hamilton</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Central_Fife_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Central Fife (UK Parliament constituency)">Central Fife</a> (stood in <a href="/wiki/South_Hams_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Hams (UK Parliament constituency)">South Hams</a>) </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Steen" title="Anthony Steen">Anthony Steen</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nick_Raynsford" title="Nick Raynsford">Nick Raynsford</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fulham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Fulham (UK Parliament constituency)">Fulham</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1986_Fulham_by-election" title="1986 Fulham by-election">1986</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Carrington,_Baron_Carrington_of_Fulham" title="Matthew Carrington, Baron Carrington of Fulham">Matthew Carrington</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ken_Weetch" title="Ken Weetch">Ken Weetch</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ipswich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency)">Ipswich</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">October 1974</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Michael_Irvine" title="Michael Irvine">Michael Irvine</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Oonagh_McDonald" title="Oonagh McDonald">Oonagh McDonald</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thurrock_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Thurrock (UK Parliament constituency)">Thurrock</a> </td> <td>Opposition Spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1976_Thurrock_by-election" title="1976 Thurrock by-election">1976</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tim_Janman" title="Tim Janman">Tim Janman</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eric_Deakins" title="Eric Deakins">Eric Deakins</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Walthamstow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Walthamstow (UK Parliament constituency)">Walthamstow</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">1970</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Summerson" title="Hugo Summerson">Hugo Summerson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3" style="background-color: #FFD700"> </th> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sir_Clement_Freud" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Clement Freud">Sir Clement Freud</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_East_Cambridgeshire" class="mw-redirect" title="North East Cambridgeshire">North East Cambridgeshire</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1973_Isle_of_Ely_by-election" title="1973 Isle of Ely by-election">1973</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Moss" title="Malcolm Moss">Malcolm Moss</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Michael_Meadowcroft" title="Michael Meadowcroft">Michael Meadowcroft</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leeds_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Leeds West">Leeds West</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Battle_(politician)" title="John Battle (politician)">John Battle</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Shields" title="Elizabeth Shields">Elizabeth Shields</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ryedale_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ryedale (UK Parliament constituency)">Ryedale</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1986_Ryedale_by-election" title="1986 Ryedale by-election">1986</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Greenway_(British_politician)" title="John Greenway (British politician)">John Greenway</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3" style="background-color: #6C2f56"> </th> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">SDP</a> </td> <td>The Rt Hon <a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Roy Jenkins</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Hillhead" class="mw-redirect" title="Glasgow Hillhead">Glasgow Hillhead</a> </td> <td>Former Leader of the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">Social Democratic Party</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1982_Glasgow_Hillhead_by-election" title="1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election">1982</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Galloway" title="George Galloway">George Galloway</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Hancock_(British_politician)" title="Mike Hancock (British politician)">Mike Hancock</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Portsmouth South">Portsmouth South</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1984_Portsmouth_South_by-election" title="1984 Portsmouth South by-election">1984</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_Martin_(English_politician)" title="David Martin (English politician)">David Martin</a> </td> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color: #0087DC"> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ian_Wrigglesworth" title="Ian Wrigglesworth">Ian Wrigglesworth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stockton_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Stockton South">Stockton South</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">February 1974</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tim_Devlin" title="Tim Devlin">Tim Devlin</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Wilson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician)">Gordon Wilson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dundee_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dundee East (UK Parliament constituency)">Dundee East</a> </td> <td>Leader of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">February 1974</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_McAllion" title="John McAllion">John McAllion</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">UUP</a> </td> <td>The Rt Hon Brig <a href="/wiki/Enoch_Powell" title="Enoch Powell">Enoch Powell</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Down (UK Parliament constituency)">South Down</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eddie_McGrady" title="Eddie McGrady">Eddie McGrady</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party" title="Social Democratic and Labour Party">SDLP</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <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=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=9" 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_1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="List of MPs elected in the 1987 United Kingdom general election">List of MPs elected in the 1987 United Kingdom general election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="1987 United Kingdom general election in England">1987 United Kingdom general election in England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="1987 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">1987 United Kingdom general election in Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Wales" title="1987 United Kingdom general election in Wales">1987 United Kingdom general election in Wales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Northern_Ireland" title="1987 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland">1987 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1987 United Kingdom local elections">1987 United Kingdom local elections</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 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</ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Biographies">Biographies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Biographies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output 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title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Margaret+Thatcher%3A+The+Iron+Lady&rft.pub=Pimlico&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-7126-6781-4&rft.aulast=Campbell&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1987+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTebbit1988" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Norman_Tebbit" title="Norman Tebbit">Tebbit, Norman</a> (1988), <i>Upwardly Mobile</i>, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-297-79427-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-297-79427-1"><bdi>978-0-297-79427-1</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Upwardly+Mobile&rft.pub=Weidenfeld+%26+Nicolson&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=978-0-297-79427-1&rft.aulast=Tebbit&rft.aufirst=Norman&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1987+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThatcher1993" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Thatcher, Margaret</a> (1993), <a href="/wiki/The_Downing_Street_Years" title="The Downing Street Years"><i>The Downing Street Years</i></a>, HarperCollins, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-00-255354-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-00-255354-4"><bdi>978-0-00-255354-4</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Downing+Street+Years&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=978-0-00-255354-4&rft.aulast=Thatcher&rft.aufirst=Margaret&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1987+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scholarly_sources">Scholarly sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Scholarly sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFButlerKavanagh1988" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/David_Butler_(psephologist)" title="David Butler (psephologist)">Butler, David E.</a>; <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Kavanagh" title="Dennis Kavanagh">Kavanagh, Dennis</a> (1988), <i>The British General Election of 1987</i>,</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+British+General+Election+of+1987&rft.date=1988&rft.aulast=Butler&rft.aufirst=David+E.&rft.au=Kavanagh%2C+Dennis&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1987+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span> the standard scholarly study.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCraig1989" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/F._W._S._Craig" title="F. W. S. Craig">Craig, F. W. S.</a> (1989), <i>British Electoral Facts: 1832–1987</i>, Dartmouth: Gower, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0900178302" title="Special:BookSources/0900178302"><bdi>0900178302</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Electoral+Facts%3A+1832%E2%80%931987&rft.place=Dartmouth&rft.pub=Gower&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0900178302&rft.aulast=Craig&rft.aufirst=F.+W.+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1987+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCraig1990" class="citation cs2">Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1990), <i>British General Election Manifestos, 1959–1987</i></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+General+Election+Manifestos%2C+1959%E2%80%931987&rft.date=1990&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1987+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCreweHarrop1989" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Ivor_Crewe" title="Ivor Crewe">Crewe, Ivor</a>; Harrop, Martin (1989), <i>Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1987</i>, p. 316</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Political+Communications%3A+The+General+Election+Campaign+of+1987&rft.pages=316&rft.date=1989&rft.aulast=Crewe&rft.aufirst=Ivor&rft.au=Harrop%2C+Martin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1987+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGalbraithRae1989" class="citation cs2">Galbraith, John W.; Rae, Nicol C. (1989), "A Test of the Importance of Tactical Voting: Great Britain, 1987", <i>British Journal of Political Science</i>, <b>19</b> (1): 126–136, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0007123400005366">10.1017/S0007123400005366</a>, <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/193792">193792</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154797699">154797699</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=British+Journal+of+Political+Science&rft.atitle=A+Test+of+the+Importance+of+Tactical+Voting%3A+Great+Britain%2C+1987&rft.volume=19&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=126-136&rft.date=1989&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A154797699%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F193792%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0007123400005366&rft.aulast=Galbraith&rft.aufirst=John+W.&rft.au=Rae%2C+Nicol+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1987+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFScott2012" class="citation cs2">Scott, Len (2012), "Selling or Selling Out Nuclear Disarmament? Labour, the Bomb, and the 1987 General Election", <i>International History Review</i>, <b>34</b> (1): 115–137, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F07075332.2012.620242">10.1080/07075332.2012.620242</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154319694">154319694</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=International+History+Review&rft.atitle=Selling+or+Selling+Out+Nuclear+Disarmament%3F+Labour%2C+the+Bomb%2C+and+the+1987+General+Election&rft.volume=34&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=115-137&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F07075332.2012.620242&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A154319694%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Scott&rft.aufirst=Len&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1987+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStewartClarke1992" class="citation cs2">Stewart, Marianne C.; Clarke, Harold D. (1992), "The (un)importance of party leaders: Leader images and party choice in the 1987 British election", <i>Journal of Politics</i>, <b>54</b> (2): 447–470, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2132034">10.2307/2132034</a>, <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2132034">2132034</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154890477">154890477</a>,</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Politics&rft.atitle=The+%28un%29importance+of+party+leaders%3A+Leader+images+and+party+choice+in+the+1987+British+election&rft.volume=54&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=447-470&rft.date=1992&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A154890477%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2132034%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F2132034&rft.aulast=Stewart&rft.aufirst=Marianne+C.&rft.au=Clarke%2C+Harold+D.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1987+United+Kingdom+general+election" class="Z3988"></span> says the well-organised, media-wise Labour campaign helped Kinnock, but he was hurt by Conservative momentum and Thatcher's image as a decisive leader. Leadership images proved more important in voters' choices than did party identification, economic concerns, etc.</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Manifestos">Manifestos</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1987_United_Kingdom_general_election&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Manifestos"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111206085517/http://politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/con87.htm"><i>The Next Moves Forward</i></a>, 1987 Conservative Party manifesto</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111206085214/http://politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/lab87.htm"><i>Britain will win with Labour</i></a>, 1987 Labour Party manifesto</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111206060134/http://politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/lib87.htm"><i>Britain United: The Time Has Come</i></a>, 1987 SDP–Liberal Alliance manifesto</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output 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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 class="mw-selflink selflink">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">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 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="1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" 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 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_for_constituencies_in_Northern_Ireland_(1987%E2%80%931992)" title="List of MPs for constituencies in Northern Ireland (1987–1992)">Northern Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_for_constituencies_in_Scotland_(1987-1992)#List" class="mw-redirect" title="List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1987-1992)">Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_for_constituencies_in_Wales_(1987%E2%80%931992)" title="List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1987–1992)">Wales</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1987 United Kingdom general election">Opinion polling</a></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/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> (<a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a>)</li> <li>Appointed prime minister: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)</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/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> (<a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> (<a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SDP%E2%80%93Liberal_Alliance" title="SDP–Liberal Alliance">SDP–Liberal Alliance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Steel" title="David Steel">David Steel</a> – <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Owen" title="David Owen">David Owen</a> – <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">SDP</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">Ulster Unionist Party</a> (<a href="/wiki/James_Molyneaux,_Baron_Molyneaux_of_Killead" title="James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead">James Molyneaux</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/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gordon_Wilson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician)">Gordon Wilson</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plaid_Cymru" title="Plaid Cymru">Plaid Cymru</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dafydd_Elis-Thomas" title="Dafydd Elis-Thomas">Dafydd Elis-Thomas</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/Ulster_Popular_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Popular Unionist Party">Ulster Popular Unionist Party</a> (<a href="/wiki/James_Kilfedder" title="James Kilfedder">James Kilfedder</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/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="1987 United Kingdom general election in England">England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Northern_Ireland" title="1987 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Scotland" title="1987 United Kingdom general election in Scotland">Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Wales" title="1987 United Kingdom general election in Wales">Wales</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="Margaret_Thatcher" 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:Margaret_Thatcher" title="Template:Margaret Thatcher"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Margaret_Thatcher" title="Template talk:Margaret Thatcher"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Margaret_Thatcher" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Margaret Thatcher"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Margaret_Thatcher" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> (1979–1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)">Leader of the Conservative Party</a> (1975–1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">MP for <a href="/wiki/Finchley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Finchley (UK Parliament constituency)">Finchley</a> (1959–1992)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Member of Parliament</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/Public_Bodies_(Admission_to_Meetings)_Act_1960" title="Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960">Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act (1960)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circular_10/70" title="Circular 10/70">Circular 10/70</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Shadow Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher">Shadow Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Britain_Awake" title="Britain Awake">"Britain Awake" (1976)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_vote_of_no_confidence_in_the_Callaghan_ministry" title="1979 vote of no confidence in the Callaghan ministry">Vote of no confidence in the Callaghan ministry (1979)</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="9" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Margaret_Thatcher_(1983).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg/85px-Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="85" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg/128px-Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg/170px-Margaret_Thatcher_%281983%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2444" data-file-height="3259" /></a></span></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/Thatcherism" title="Thatcherism">Thatcherism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">Conservatism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_market" title="Free market">Free market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_democracy" title="Union democracy">Union democracy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Premiership of Margaret Thatcher">Premiership</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/List_of_ministers_under_Margaret_Thatcher" title="List of ministers under Margaret Thatcher">Ministers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wets_and_dries" title="Wets and dries">wets and dries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War_(1979%E2%80%931985)" title="Cold War (1979–1985)">1st term</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War_(1985%E2%80%931991)" title="Cold War (1985–1991)">2nd–3rd term</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal"><a href="/wiki/First_Thatcher_ministry" title="First Thatcher ministry">1st ministry<br />(1979–1983)</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/June_1979_United_Kingdom_budget" title="June 1979 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1979)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1980 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1980)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_lady%27s_not_for_turning" title="The lady's not for turning">"The lady's not for turning" (1980)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1981 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1981)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gang_of_25" title="Gang of 25">Gang of 25</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strike" title="1981 Irish hunger strike">Irish hunger strike (1981)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1982 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1982)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falklands_War" title="Falklands War">Falklands War</a> (1982) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rejoice_(Margaret_Thatcher)" title="Rejoice (Margaret Thatcher)">"Rejoice"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Gould%E2%80%93Margaret_Thatcher_exchange" title="Diana Gould–Margaret Thatcher exchange">Diana Gould exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_flags_over_Port_Stanley" title="White flags over Port Stanley">"White flags over Port Stanley"</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1983 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1983)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal"><a href="/wiki/Second_Thatcher_ministry" title="Second Thatcher ministry">2nd ministry<br />(1983–1987)</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/1984_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1984 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1984)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing" title="Brighton hotel bombing">Brighton hotel bombing</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GCHQ_trade_union_ban" title="GCHQ trade union ban">GCHQ trade union ban</a> (1984) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Civil_Service_Unions_v_Minister_for_the_Civil_Service" title="Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service">CCSU case</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984%E2%80%931985_United_Kingdom_miners%27_strike" title="1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike">Miners' strike (1984–85)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1985 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1985)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Agreement" title="Anglo-Irish Agreement">Anglo-Irish Agreement</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1985" title="Local Government Act 1985">Local Government Act (1985)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rate-capping_rebellion" title="Rate-capping rebellion">rate-capping rebellion</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westland_affair" title="Westland affair">Westland affair</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1986 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1986)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1987 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1987)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal"><a href="/wiki/Third_Thatcher_ministry" title="Third Thatcher ministry">3rd ministry<br />(1987–1990)</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/1988_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1988 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1988)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988%E2%80%931994_British_broadcasting_voice_restrictions" title="1988–1994 British broadcasting voice restrictions">Broadcasting restrictions (1988)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mound" title="Sermon on the Mound">"Sermon on the Mound" (1988)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruges_speech" title="Bruges speech">Bruges speech</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1989 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1989)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poll_tax_(Great_Britain)" title="Poll tax (Great Britain)">Community Charge (1989–90)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Poll_tax_riots" title="Poll tax riots">Poll tax riots</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_United_Kingdom_budget" title="1990 United Kingdom budget">Budget (1990)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/No._No._No._(Margaret_Thatcher)" title="No. No. No. (Margaret Thatcher)">"No. No. No." (1990)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Prime_Minister%27s_Resignation_Honours" title="1990 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours">Resignation Honours (1990)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Margaret_Thatcher#Conservative_Party_leadership_elections" title="Electoral history of Margaret Thatcher">Party 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/1975_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1975 Conservative Party leadership election">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1989 Conservative Party leadership election">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="1990 Conservative Party leadership election">1990</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Margaret_Thatcher#United_Kingdom_general_elections" title="Electoral history of Margaret Thatcher">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/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 class="mw-selflink selflink">1987</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Bibliography of Margaret Thatcher">Books</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><i><a href="/wiki/The_Downing_Street_Years" title="The Downing Street Years">The Downing Street Years</a></i> (1993 autobiography)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Path_to_Power_(Thatcher_book)" title="The Path to Power (Thatcher book)">The Path to Power</a></i> (1995 memoir)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Statecraft:_Strategies_for_a_Changing_World" title="Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World">Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World</a></i> (2003)</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/Denis_Thatcher" title="Denis Thatcher">Denis Thatcher</a> (husband) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thatcher_baronets" title="Thatcher baronets">baronetcy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Thatcher" title="Mark Thatcher">Mark Thatcher</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carol_Thatcher" title="Carol Thatcher">Carol Thatcher</a> (daughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Roberts" title="Alfred Roberts">Alfred Roberts</a> (father)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/We_have_become_a_grandmother" title="We have become a grandmother">We have become a grandmother</a>" (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Cultural depictions of Margaret Thatcher">Cultural depictions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Film and<br />television</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/Anyone_for_Denis%3F_(video)" title="Anyone for Denis? (video)">Anyone for Denis?</a></i> (1982 TV play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Spitting_Image" title="Spitting Image">Spitting Image</a></i> (1984–1996 & 2020 TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Statesman_(1987_TV_series)" title="The New Statesman (1987 TV series)">The New Statesman</a></i> (1987–1991 TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thatcher:_The_Final_Days" title="Thatcher: The Final Days">Thatcher: The Final Days</a></i> (1991 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Falklands_Play" title="The Falklands Play">The Falklands Play</a></i> (2002 play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Archer:_The_Truth" title="Jeffrey Archer: The Truth">Jeffrey Archer: The Truth</a></i> (2002 TV film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Alan_Clark_Diaries" title="The Alan Clark Diaries">The Alan Clark Diaries</a></i> (2004 TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pinochet_in_Suburbia" title="Pinochet in Suburbia">Pinochet in Suburbia</a></i> (2006 docudrama)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Walk_to_Finchley" title="The Long Walk to Finchley">The Long Walk to Finchley</a></i> (2008 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Margaret_(2009_film)" title="Margaret (2009 film)">Margaret</a></i> (2009 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Queen_(British_TV_serial)" title="The Queen (British TV serial)">The Queen</a></i> (2009 TV serial)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Iron_Lady_(film)" title="The Iron Lady (film)">The Iron Lady</a></i> (2011 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Tony_Blair" title="The Hunt for Tony Blair">The Hunt for Tony Blair</a></i> (2011 episode)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Search_of_La_Che" title="In Search of La Che">In Search of La Che</a></i> (2011 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Crown_season_4" title="The Crown season 4">The Crown</a></i> (2020 TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reagan_(2024_film)" title="Reagan (2024 film)">Reagan</a></i> (2024 film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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