John Major This is a summary of the electoral history of John Major , who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon from 1979 to 2001.
Council elections [ edit ] 1964 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Larkhall [ edit ] 1968 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Ferndale [ edit ] 1971 Lambeth London Borough Council election, Thornton [ edit ] Parliamentary elections [ edit ] February 1974 general election, St Pancras North [ edit ] October 1974 general election, St Pancras North [ edit ] 1979 general election, Huntingdonshire [ edit ] 1983 general election, Huntingdon [ edit ] 1987 general election, Huntingdon [ edit ] 1992 general election, Huntingdon [ edit ] 1997 general election, Huntingdon [ edit ] The constituency underwent boundary changes prior to the 1997 election and the changes are not based on the 1992 result.
Conservative Party leadership elections [ edit ] 1990 leadership election [ edit ] 1995 leadership election [ edit ] Only ballot: 4 July 1995 Candidate Votes % John Major 218 66.3 John Redwood 89 27.1 Abstentions 10 3.0 Spoilt 12 3.6 Majority 129 39.2 Turnout 329 N/A John Major re-elected
United Kingdom general elections [ edit ] 1992 general election [ edit ] UK general election 1992[6] Candidates Votes Party Leader Stood Elected Gained Unseated Net % of total % No. Net % Conservative John Major 645 336 3 44 −41 51.69 41.9 14,093,007 −0.3 Labour Neil Kinnock 634 271 43 1 +42 41.62 34.4 11,560,484 +3.6 Liberal Democrats Paddy Ashdown 632 20 4 6 −2 3.07 17.8 5,999,606 −4.8 SNP Alex Salmond 72 3 0 0 0 0.46 1.9 629,564 +0.6 Ulster Unionist James Molyneaux 13 9 0 0 0 1.38 0.8 271,049 0.0 SDLP John Hume 13 4 1 0 +1 0.61 0.5 184,445 0.0 Green Jean Lambert and Richard Lawson 253 0 0 0 0 0.5 170,047 +0.2 Plaid Cymru Dafydd Wigley 38 4 1 0 +1 0.61 0.5 156,796 +0.1 DUP Ian Paisley 7 3 0 0 0 0.46 0.3 103,039 0.0 Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 14 0 0 1 −1 0.2 78,291 −0.1 Alliance John Alderdice 16 0 0 0 0 0.2 68,665 0.0 Liberal Michael Meadowcroft 73 0 0 0 0 0.2 64,744 N/A Natural Law Geoffrey Clements 309 0 0 0 0 0.2 62,888 N/A Ind. Social Democrat N/A 2 0 0 0 0 0.1 28,599 N/A Independent N/A 6 0 0 0 0 0.1 22,844 N/A UPUP James Kilfedder 1 1 0 0 0 0.15 0.1 19,305 0.0 Ind. Conservative N/A 12 0 0 0 0 0.1 11,356 N/A Monster Raving Loony Screaming Lord Sutch 25 0 0 0 0 0.1 7,929 +0.1 Independent N/A 23 0 0 0 0 0.1 7,631 N/A BNP John Tyndall 13 0 0 0 0 0.1 7,631 N/A SDP John Bates 8 0 0 0 0 0.1 6,649 N/A Scottish Militant Labour Tommy Sheridan 1 0 0 0 0 0.1 6,287 N/A National Front John McAuley 14 0 0 0 0 0.1 4,816 N/A True Labour Sydney Bidwell 1 0 0 0 0 0.1 4,665 N/A Anti-Federalist Alan Sked 17 0 0 0 0 0.1 4,383 N/A Workers' Party Marian Donnelly 8 0 0 0 0 0.1 4,359 0.0 Official Conservative Hove Party Nigel Furness 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 2,658 N/A Loony Green Stuart Hughes 5 0 0 0 0 0.0 2,538 N/A Ind. Unionist N/A 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 2,256 N/A New Agenda Proinsias De Rossa 2 0 0 0 0 0.0 2,133 N/A Independent Progressive Socialist N/A 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,094 N/A Islamic Party David Pidcock 4 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,085 N/A Revolutionary Communist Frank Furedi 8 0 0 0 0 0.0 745 N/A Independent Nationalist N/A 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 649 N/A Communist (PCC) Jack Conrad 4 0 0 0 0 0.0 603 N/A
All parties with more than 500 votes shown. Plaid Cymru result includes votes for Green/Plaid Cymru Alliance.
Government's new majority 21 Total votes cast[6] 33,614,074 Turnout 77.7%
1997 general election [ edit ] 1997 United Kingdom general election[7] Candidates Votes Party Leader Stood Elected Gained Unseated Net % of total % No. Net % Labour Tony Blair 639 418 146 0 +146 63.4 43.2 13,518,167 +8.8 Conservative John Major 648 165 0 178 –178 25.0 30.7 9,600,943 –11.2 Liberal Democrats Paddy Ashdown 639 46 30 2 +28 7.0 16.8 5,242,947 –1.0 Referendum James Goldsmith 547 0 0 0 0 2.6 811,849 N/A SNP Alex Salmond 72 6 3 0 +3 0.9 2.0 621,550 +0.1 Ulster Unionist David Trimble 16 10 1 0 +1 1.5 0.8 258,349 0.0 SDLP John Hume 18 3 0 1 –1 0.5 0.6 190,814 +0.1 Plaid Cymru Dafydd Wigley 40 4 0 0 0 0.6 0.5 161,030 0.0 Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 17 2 2 0 +2 0.3 0.4 126,921 0.0 DUP Ian Paisley 9 2 0 1 –1 0.3 0.3 107,348 0.0 UKIP Alan Sked 193 0 0 0 0 0.3 105,722 N/A Independent N/A 25 1 1 0 +1 0.2 0.2 64,482 0.0 Alliance John Alderdice 17 0 0 0 0 0.2 62,972 0.0 Green Peg Alexander and David Taylor 89 0 0 0 0 0.2 61,731 –0.2 Socialist Labour Arthur Scargill 64 0 0 0 0 0.2 52,109 N/A Liberal Michael Meadowcroft 53 0 0 0 0 0.1 45,166 –0.1 BNP John Tyndall 57 0 0 0 0 0.1 35,832 0.0 Natural Law Geoffrey Clements 197 0 0 0 0 0.1 30,604 –0.1 Speaker Betty Boothroyd 1 1 1 0 0 0.1 23,969 ProLife Alliance Bruno Quintavalle 56 0 0 0 0 0.1 19,332 N/A UK Unionist Robert McCartney 1 1 1 0 +1 0.2 0.0 12,817 N/A PUP Hugh Smyth 3 0 0 0 0 0.0 10,928 N/A National Democrats Ian Anderson 21 0 0 0 0 0.0 10,829 N/A Socialist Alternative Peter Taaffe 0 0 0 0 0.0 9,906 N/A Scottish Socialist Tommy Sheridan 16 0 0 0 0 0.0 9,740 N/A Independent N/A 4 0 0 0 0 0.0 9,233 – 0.1 Ind. Conservative N/A 4 0 0 0 0 0.0 8,608 –0.1 Monster Raving Loony Screaming Lord Sutch 24 0 0 0 0 0.0 7,906 –0.1 Make Politicians History Rainbow George Weiss 29 0 0 0 0 0.0 3,745 N/A NI Women's Coalition Monica McWilliams and Pearl Sagar 3 0 0 0 0 0.0 3,024 N/A Workers' Party Tom French 8 0 0 0 0 0.0 2,766 –0.1 National Front John McAuley 6 0 0 0 0 0.0 2,716 N/A Cannabis Law Reform Howard Marks 4 0 0 0 0 0.0 2,085 N/A Socialist People's Party Jim Hamezian 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,995 N/A Mebyon Kernow Loveday Jenkin 4 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,906 N/A Scottish Green Robin Harper 5 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,721 Conservative Anti-Euro Christopher Story 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,434 N/A Socialist (GB) None 5 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,359 N/A Community Representative Ralph Knight 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,290 N/A Neighborhood association 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,263 N/A SDP John Bates 2 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,246 –0.1 Workers Revolutionary Sheila Torrance 9 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,178 N/A Real Labour N/A 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 1,117 N/A Independent Democrat N/A 0 0 0 0 0.0 982 Independent N/A 0 0 0 0 0.0 890 Communist Mike Hicks 3 0 0 0 0 0.0 639 Independent N/A 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 593 Green (NI) 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 539 Socialist Equality Davy Hyland 3 0 0 0 0 0.0 505
All parties with more than 500 votes shown. Labour total includes
New Labour and "Labour Time for Change" candidates; Conservative total includes candidates in Northern Ireland (excluded in some lists) and "Loyal Conservative" candidate.
[citation needed ] The Popular Unionist MP elected in 1992 died in 1995, and the party folded shortly afterwards.
There was no incumbent Speaker in the 1992 election.
Government's new majority 179 Total votes cast 31,286,284 Turnout 71.3%
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