General Election Results, 11 June 1987
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
HOUSE OF COMMONS PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE FACTSHEET No 47 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS, 11 JUNE 1987 SEE HOUSE OF COMMONS LIBRARY RESEARCH NOTE 353 FOR TEXT This Factsheets presents some analyses of voting in the General Election of June 1987. Further details of the results are published in F W S Craig Britain Votes 4 (Gower 1989). This Factsheet has been compiled by members of the Statistical Section, Research Division, House of Commons Library. The Public Information Office is very grateful for permission to issue it as a Factsheet. Table Contents 1. Summary of voting by party, UK. 2. Votes cast for each party by standard region. 3. Percentage distribution of votes cast by region. 4. Changes since 1983 in parties' share of vote, by region. 5. Percentage distribution of votes cast by county/Scottish region. 6. Seats won by party by region. 7. Changes from 1983 in seats won by region. 8. Gains and losses by party from 1983 election. 9. Gains and losses by party from dissolution. 10. Largest and smallest turnouts, by country. 11. Largest and smallest majorities, by party. 12. Highest and lowest shares of the total vote by party. 13. Largest increases and decreases since 1983 election in parties' share of total vote. 14. First, second and third places. Table 1 SUMMARY OF VOTING % share MPS Lost Party Votes of votes Candidates elected Deposits Speaker 24,188 0.1 1 1 .. Conservative 13,736,395 42.2 632 375 .. Total of above 13,760,583 42.3 633 376 .. Labour 10,029,807 30.8 633 229 .. Liberal/SDP Alliance (a) 7,341,633 22.6 633 22 1 Scottish National 416,473 1.3 71 3 1 Plaid Cymru 123,599 0.4 38 3 25 Green (b) 89,753 0.3 133 .. 133 Northern Ireland parties (c) 730,152 2.2 77 17 23 Other 37,578 0.1 107 .. 106 Total 32,529,578 100.0 2,325 650 289 (a) of which MPS Lost Votes % share Candidates elected Deposits Liberal 4,173,450 12.8 327 17 1 SDP 3,168,183 9.7 306 5 .. (b) Excludes Ecology candidate in Londonderry East who is included in Northern Ireland totals. (c) of which MPS Lost Votes % share Candidates elected Deposits Ulster Unionist 276,230 37.8 12 9 Democratic Unionist 85,642 11.7 4 3 Popular Unionist 18,420 2.5 1 1 SDLP 154,087 21.1 13 3 Sinn Fein 83,389 11.4 14 1 4 Alliance 72,671 10.0 16 .. 5 Workers Party 19,294 2.6 14 .. 13 Others 20,419 2.8 3 .. 1 Table 2 Votes cast for main parties, by standard region CON LAB ALLIANCE SNP/PC Other Total ENGLAND 12,546,186 (a) 8,006,466 6,467,350 .. 113,520 27,133,522 North 578,996 830,785 376,675 .. 4,635 1,791,091 Yorkshire & Humberside 1,040,751 1,128,878 602,709 .. 7,811 2,780,149 East Midlands 1,127,208 696,780 487,164 .. 9,128 2,320,280 East Anglia 601,421 249,894 297,041 .. 5,217 1,153,573 Greater London 1,680,140 (a) 1,136,903 770,117 .. 26,681 3,613,841 Rest of South East 3,382,849 1,023,521 1,653,514 .. 27,603 6,087,487 South West 1,386,857 436,358 906,288 .. 13,048 2,742,551 West Midlands 1,346,505 984,667 615,699 .. 10,401 2,957,272 North West 1,401,459 1,518,680 758,143 .. 8,996 3,687,278 WALES 501,316 765,209 304,230 123,599 3,742 1,698,096 SCOTLAND 713,081 1,258,132 570,053 416,473 10,069 2,967,808 NORTHERN IRELAND .. .. .. .. 730,152 (b) 730,152 (a) Includes the Speaker who was opposed by Labour and SDP candidates (b) See Table 1 for breakdown Table 3 Percentage distribution of votes cast in each region by main party CON LAB ALLIANCE SNP/PC Other Total ENGLAND 46.2 (a) 29.5 23.8 .. 0.4 100.0 North 32.3 46.4 21.0 .. 0.3 100.0 Yorks & Humberside 37.4 40.6 21.7 .. 0.3 100.0 East Midlands 48.6 30.0 21.0 .. 0.4 100.0 East Anglia 52.1 21.7 25.7 .. 0.5 100.0 Greater London 46.5 (a) 31.5 21.3 .. 0.7 100.0 Rest of South East 55.6 16.8 27.2 .. 0.5 100.0 South West 50.6 15.9 33.0 .. 0.5 100.0 West Midlands 45.5 33.3 20.8 .. 0.4 100.0 North West 38.0 41.2 20.6 .. 0.2 100.0 WALES 29.5 45.1 17.9 7.3 0.2 100.0 SCOTLAND 24.0 42.4 19.2 14.0 0.3 100.0 NORTHERN IRELAND .. .. .. .. 100.0 (b) 100.0 (a) Includes the Speaker who was opposed by Labour and SDP candidates (b) See Table 1 for breakdown Table 4 Changes since June 1983 in major parties' share of vote by region (percent) CON LAB ALLIANCE OTHER ENGLAND +0.3 (a) +2.6 -2.5 -0.3 North -2.3 +6.2 -4.0 +0.1 Yorks & Humberside -1.2 +5.3 -3.9 -0.2 East Midlands +1.4 +2.1 -3.1 -0.4 East Anglia +1.1 +1.2 -2.5 +0.2 Greater London +2.6 (a) +1.6 -3.4 -0.9 Rest of South East +1.1 +0.9 -1.8 -0.2 South West -0.8 +1.2 -0.1 -0.3 West Midlands +0.5 +2.1 -2.6 -0.1 North West -2.0 +5.2 -2.8 -0.4 WALES -1.5 +7.5 -5.3 -0.7 (b) SCOTLAND -4.4 +7.3 -5.3 +2.4 (c) NORTHERN IRELAND .. .. .. .. UNITED KINGDOM -0.1 +3.3 -2.8 -0.3 (a) 1987 vote includes the Speaker who was opposed by Labour and SDP candidates (b) The Plaid Cymru share fell by 0.5 per cent (c) The SNP share rose by 2.3 per cent. Table 5 Shares of vote in English & Welsh counties and Scottish regions Con Lab All SNP/PC Green Other Turnout English counties Avon 47.9% 24.0% 27.0% .. 1.0% 0.1% 78.3% Bedfordshire 54.2% 24.2% 21.1% .. 0.3% 0.1% 77.5% Berkshire 56.7% 17.3% 25.0% .. 0.5% 0.6% 74.9% Buckinghamshire 57.0% 15.5% 27.0% .. 0.5% 0.0% 75.7% Cambridgeshire 53.1% 18.5% 27.9% .. 0.6% 0.0% 76.1% Cheshire 44.8% 34.4% 20.6% .. 0.2% 0.1% 75.7% Cleveland 33.8% 44.7% 20.9% .. 0.0% 0.6% 79.1% Cornwall 47.3% 12.6% 40.0% .. 0.0% 0.1% 78.5% Cumbria 48.1% 33.1% 18.7% .. 0.1% 0.0% 78.5% Derbyshire 43.2% 36.2% 20.5% .. 0.1% 0.0% 78.3% Devon 49.5% 13.1% 36.6% .. 0.6% 0.3% 78.6% Dorset 57.8% 11.3% 30.8% .. 0.0% 0.1% 75.7% Durham 58.3% 52.0% 19.7% .. 0.0% 0.0% 76.0% East Sussex 57.8% 15.2% 26.3% .. 0.0% 0.2% 74.1% Essex 54.1% 18.9% 26.6% .. 0.3% 0.0% 76.3% Gloucestershire 50.4% 18.2% 31.4% .. 0.0% 0.1% 79.3% Greater London 46.5% 31.5% 21.3% .. 0.6% 0.2% 70.7% of which Inner London 36.9% 41.0% 21.0% .. 0.8% 0.3% 66.9% Outer London 50.9% 27.0% 21.5% .. 0.4% 0.1% 72.6% Greater Manchester 35.9% 44.0% 19.9% .. 0.1% 0.0% 75.3% Hampshire 55.3% 14.5% 30.0% .. 0.1% 0.1% 76.5% Hereford & Worcester 51.8% 17.9% 29.7% .. 0.6% 0.0% 77.0% Hertfordshire 52.0% 19.8% 27.8% .. 0.3% 0.1% 78.8% Humberside 41.9% 34.8% 23.1% .. 0.2% 0.0% 73.9% Isle of Wight 51.2% 5.9% 43.0% .. 0.0% 0.0% 79.6% Kent 54.0% 19.3% 26.1% .. 0.5% 0.1% 75.9% Lancashire 46.3% 34.4% 18.9% .. 0.3% 0.0% 77.4% Leicestershire 52.0% 27.3% 20.2% .. 0.4% 0.1% 78.9% Lincolnshire 53.8% 18.5% 27.4% .. 0.2% 0.2% 75.5% Merseyside 28.9% 47.4% 23.3% .. 0.2% 0.1% 75.1% Norfolk 51.0% 22.9% 25.8% .. 0.2% 0.0% 78.2% North Yorkshire 53.1% 19.0% 27.5% .. 0.4% 0.0% 76.1% Con Lab All SNP/PC Green Other Turnout Northamptonshire 51.7% 27.1% 20.8% .. 0.3% 0.0% 77.4% Northumberland 28.6% 34.7% 36.4% .. 0.4% 0.0% 78.4% Nottinghamshire 46.0% 34.7% 18.7% .. 0.2% 0.5% 76.9% Oxfordshire 52.7% 20.3% 26.6% .. 0.4% 0.0% 77.3% Shropshire 48.2% 25.4% 26.0% .. 0.3% 0.0% 77.0% Somerset 50.2% 11.8% 37.9% .. 0.0% 0.0% 79.3% South Yorkshire 24.9% 56.0% 18.9% .. 0.1% 0.1% 72.5% Staffordshire 44.8% 33.9% 21.1% .. 0.0% 0.2% 77.5% Suffolk 52.5% 23.2% 23.6% .