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t at the polls labour campaign edit labour ran an effective campaign that emphasised the splits within the conservative government and argued that the country needed a more centrist administration it thus successfully picked up dissatisfied conservative voters particularly moderate and suburban ones tony blair who was personally highly popular was very much the centrepiece of the campaign and proved a highly effective campaigner the labour campaign was reminiscent of those of bill clinton for the us presidency in 1992 and 1996 focusing on centrist themes as well as adopting policies more commonly associated with the right such as cracking down on crime and fiscal responsibility the influence of political spin came into great effect for labour at this point as media centric figures such as alastair campbell and peter mandelson provided a clear cut campaign and establishing a relatively new political brand new labour with enviable success in this election labour adopted the theme things can only get better in their campaign and advertising 18 19 liberal democrat campaign edit the liberal democrats had suffered a disappointing performance in 1992 but they were very much strengthened in 1997 due in part to potential tactical voting between labour and lib dem supporters in conservative marginal constituencies particularly in the south of england which explains why while given their share of the vote decreased their number of seats nearly doubled 2 the lib dems promised to increase education funding paid for by a 1p increase in income tax endorsements edit in a sign of the change of direction which new labour represented they were endorsed by the sun 13 as well as the more left leaning newspapers the daily mirror the independent and the guardian 20 the conservatives were endorsed by the daily mail the daily express and the daily telegraph the times did not endorse a specific party but instead encouraged voters to support individual candidates against the further integration of the european union 21 opinion polling edit main article opinion polling for the 1997 united kingdom general election opinion polling for uk general elections 1987 election opinion polls 1992 election opinion polls 1997 election opinion polls 2001 election opinion polls 2005 election opinion polls labour conservatives liberal democrats notional 1992 results edit see also fourth periodic review of westminster constituencies the notional results of the 1992 election as shown on a map of the 1997 constituencies the election was fought under new boundaries with a net increase of eight seats compared to the 1992 election 651 to 659 changes listed here are from the notional 1992 result had it been fought on the boundaries established in 1997 these notional results were calculated by colin rallings and michael thrasher and were used by all media organisations at the time notional uk general election 1992 party seats gains losses net gain loss seats votes votes labour 273 17 15 2 41 6 34 4 11 560 484 conservative 343 28 21 7 52 1 41 9 14 093 007 liberal democrats 18 0 2 2 2 7 17 8 5 999 384 other parties 25 1 0 1 3 6 5 9 results edit main articles results of the 1997 united kingdom general election and results of the 1997 united kingdom general election by constituency equal area projection of constituencies result by countries and english regions labour won a landslide victory with its largest parliamentary majority 177 to date on the bbc s election night programme professor anthony king described the result of the exit poll which accurately predicted a labour landslide as being akin to an asteroid hitting the planet and destroying practically all life on earth after years of trying labour had convinced the electorate that they would usher in a new age of prosperity their policies organisation and tone of optimism slotting perfectly into place labour s victory was largely credited to the charisma of tony blair 22 as well as a labour public relations machine managed by alastair campbell and peter mandelson between the 1992 election and the 1997 election there had also been major steps to modernise the party including scrapping clause iv that had committed the party to extending public ownership of industry labour had suddenly seized the middle ground of the political spectrum attracting voters much further to the right than their traditional working class or left wing support in the early hours of 2 may 1997 a party was held at the royal festival hall in which blair stated that a new dawn has broken has it not the election was a crushing defeat for the conservatives with the party having its lowest percentage share of the popular vote since 1832 under the duke of wellington s leadership being wiped out in scotland and wales a number of prominent conservative mps lost their seats in the election including michael portillo malcolm rifkind edwina currie david mellor neil hamilton and norman lamont with portillo s defeat in particular being the most symbolic since he was widely anticipated to challenge for the conservatives leadership upon the likely resignation of john major such was the extent of conservative losses at the election that cecil parkinson speaking on the bbc s election night programme joked upon the conservatives winning their second seat that he was pleased that the subsequent election for the leadership would be contested the liberal democrats stood on a more left wing manifesto than labour 22 23 and more than doubled their number of seats thanks to the use of tactical voting against the conservatives 2 although their share of the vote fell slightly their total of 46 mps was the highest for any uk liberal party since david lloyd george led the party to 59 seats in 1929 the referendum party which sought a referendum on the united kingdom s relationship with the european union came fourth in terms of votes with 800 000 votes and won no seats in parliament 24 whose leader james goldsmith unsuccessfully contested the seat of putney against incumbent former minister david mellor who ultimately lost the seat to labour with goldsmith dying two months after the election and the party dissolved shortly afterwards the six parties with the next highest votes stood only in either scotland northern ireland or wales in order they were the scottish national party the ulster unionist party the social democratic and labour party plaid cymru sinn féin and the democratic unionist party in the previously safe seat of tatton where incumbent conservative mp neil hamilton was facing charges of having taken cash for questions the labour and liberal democrat parties decided not to field candidates in order that an independent candidate martin bell would have a better chance of winning the seat which he did with a comfortable margin the result declared for the constituency of winchester showed a margin of victory of just two votes for the liberal democrats the defeated conservative candidate mounted a successful legal challenge to the result on the grounds that errors by election officials failures to stamp certain votes had changed the result the court ruled the result invalid and ordered a by election on 20 november which was won by the liberal democrats with a much larger majority causing much recrimination in the conservative party about the decision to challenge the original result in the first place this election saw a doubling of the number of women in parliament from 60 elected in 1992 to 120 elected in 1997 25 101 of them controversially described as blair babes were on the labour benches 26 a number driven by the labour party s 1993 policy ruled illegally discriminatory in 1996 of all women shortlists this election has therefore been widely seen as a watershed moment for representation of women in the uk 27 28 29 30 this election marked the start of labour government for the next 13 years lasting until the formation of the conservative liberal democrat coalition in 2010 1997 united kingdom general election 24 candidates votes party leader stood elected gained unseated net of total no net labour tony blair 639 d 418 e 146 0 145 f 63 4 g 43 2 h 13 518 167 i 8 8 j conservative john major 648 165 0 178 178 25 0 30 7 9 591 085 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 uup 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 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 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 177 total votes cast 31 286 284 turnout 71 3 seats won in the election outer ring against number of votes inner ring popular vote labour 43 2 conservative 30 7 liberal democrat 16 8 referendum 2 6 scottish national 2 0 others 1 9 parliamentary seats labour 63 4 conservative 25 0 liberal democrat 7 0 scottish national 0 9 ulster unionist 1 5 others 2 1 the disproportionality of the house of parliament in the 1997 election was 16 71 according to the gallagher index mainly between labour and the liberal democrats results by constituent country edit lab con ld snp pc ni parties others total england 328 165 34 2 529 wales 34 2 4 40 scotland 56 10 6 72 northern ireland 18 18 total 418 165 46 6 4 18 2 inc speaker 659 results by voter characteristics edit ethnic group voting intention 31 ethnic group party labour conservative sdp lib other ethnic minority non white 78 17 n a 5 asian 32 70 25 4 1 afro caribbean 32 86 8 4 1 defeated mps edit mps who lost their seats edit main article list of mps who lost their seat in the 1997 united kingdom general election post election events edit the poor results for the conservative party led to infighting with the one nation group tory reform group and right wing maastricht rebels blaming each other for the defeat party chairman brian mawhinney said on the night of the election that defeat was due to disillusionment with 18 years of conservative rule john major resigned as party leader saying when the curtain falls it is time to get off the stage 33 despite his well publicised defeat michael portillo returned to parliament in a by election two and a half years later following the defeat the conservatives began their longest continuous spell in opposition in the history of the present day post tamworth manifesto conservative party and indeed the longest such spell for any incarnation of the tories conservatives since the 1760s and the end of the whig supremacy under kings george i and george ii lasting 13 years including the whole of the 2000s 34 throughout this period their representation in the commons remained consistently below 200 mps meanwhile paddy ashdown s continued leadership of the liberal democrats was assured and they were felt to be in a position to build positively as a strong third party into the new millennium 35 culminating in their sharing power in the 2010 coalition with the conservatives internet coverage edit with the huge rise in internet use since the previous general election bbc news created a special website bbc politics 97 covering the election 36 this site was an experiment for the efficiency of an online news service which was due for launch later in the year 37 see also edit list of mps elected in the 1997 united kingdom general election 1997 united kingdom general election in england 1997 united kingdom general election in scotland 1997 united kingdom general election in wales 1997 united kingdom general election in northern ireland 1997 united kingdom local elections 1990s in political history footnotes edit the 2 sinn féin mps did not take their seats so the effective number of seats in the house of commons was 657 making a majority 329 seats major resigned as leader of the conservative party on 22 june 1995 to face critics in his party and government and was re elected as leader on 4 july 1995 does not include the speaker betty boothroyd who was included in the labour totals by some media outlets includes 26 co operative party candidates as part of the labour co op alliance includes 26 co operative party mps as part of the labour co op alliance includes 12 co operative party mps as part of the labour co op alliance includes 3 9 for the co operative party as part of the labour co op alliance includes 2 1 for the co operative party as part of the labour co op alliance includes 654 203 for the co operative party as part of the labour co op alliance includes 0 6 for the 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