2001 United Kingdom general election

none May 2014 September 2020 2001 United Kingdom general election United Kingdom parliamentary no 1997 United Kingdom general election 1997 List of MPs elected in the 1997 United Kingdom general election 2005 United Kingdom general election 2005 List of MPs elected in the 2001 United Kingdom general election All 659 seats to the House of Commons 330The 4 Sinn Féin MPs did not take their seats, so the effective number of seats in the House of Commons was 655, making a majority 328 seats. 7 June 2001 26,367,38359.4% (11.9 pp) 44,403,238 Opinion polling for the United Kingdom general election, 2001 Tony Blair in 2002.jpg 120 120 160 0 0 Tony Blair 21 July 1994 Labour Party (UK) Sedgefield 418 seats, 43.2% 412Does not include the Speaker, Michael Martin, who was included in the Labour totals by some media outlets 6 10,724,953 40.7% 2.5 pp William Hague MP (3156637603) (cropped).jpg 120 120 160 0 0 William Hague 19 June 1997 Conservative Party (UK) Richmond (Yorks) 165 seats, 30.7% 166 1 8,357,615 31.7% 1.0 pp Charles Kennedy MP (cropped).jpg 120 120 160 0 0 Charles Kennedy 9 August 1999 Liberal Democrats (UK) Ross, Skye andInverness West 46 seats, 16.8% 52 6 4,814,321 18.3% 1.5 pp UK General Election, 2001.svg 200px Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results. File:House of Commons elected members, 2001.svg 360px Composition of the House of Commons after the election Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Tony Blair Labour Party (UK) Tony Blair Labour Party (UK) A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the House of Commons. The governing Labour Party led by Prime Minister Tony Blair was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory with a 166-seat majority, returning 412 members of Parliament versus 418 from the previous election, a net loss of six seats, although with a significantly lower turnout than before—59.4%, compared to 71.6% at the previous election.2001-06-08 Turnout 'at 80-year low' en-GB BBC https://news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1376000/1376575.stm 2022-12-07 The number of votes Labour received fell by nearly three million. Blair went on to become the only Labour prime minister to serve two consecutive full terms in office. As Labour retained almost all of their seats won in the 1997 landslide victory, the media dubbed the 2001 election "the quiet landslide".Parkinson Justin The rise and fall of New Labour https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-10518842 BBC News 12 May 2015 3 August 2010 There was little change outside Northern Ireland, with 620 out of the 641 seats in Great Britain electing candidates from the same party as they did in 1997. A strong economy contributed to the Labour victory. The opposition Conservative Party under William Hague's leadership was still deeply divided on the issue of Europe and the party's policy platform had drifted considerably to the right. The party put the issue of European monetary union, in particular the prospect of the UK joining the Eurozone, at the centre of its campaign but failed to resonate with the electorate. The Conservatives briefly had a narrow lead in the polls during the 2000 fuel strikes but Labour successfully resolved them by year end. Furthermore, a series of publicity stunts that backfired also harmed Hague, and he immediately announced his resignation as party leader when the election result was clear, formally stepping down three months later, therefore becoming the first leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons since Austen Chamberlain nearly eighty years prior not to serve as prime minister. The election was largely a repeat of the 1997 general election, with Labour losing only six seats overall and the Conservatives making a net gain of one seat (gaining nine seats but losing eight). The Conservatives gained a seat in Scotland, which ended the party's status as an "England-only" party in the prior parliament, but failed again to win any seats in Wales. The Liberal Democrats, now led by Charles Kennedy, made a net gain of six seats. Exceptionally low voter turnout, which fell below 60% for the first time since 1918, also marked this election.Audickas Lukas Cracknell Richard UK Election Statistics: 1918–2018: 100 Years of Elections https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7529/CBP-7529.pdf https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7529/CBP-7529.pdf 2022-10-09 live 25 13 December 2018 House of Commons Library Briefing Paper Number CBP7529 1 April 2019 The election was broadcast live on BBC One and presented by David Dimbleby, Jeremy Paxman, Andrew Marr, Peter Snow, and Tony King.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HGDplurdMQ https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211123/-HGDplurdMQ 2021-11-23 live BBC Vote 2001 Coverage YouTube 16 March 2019 The 2001 general election was notable for being the first in which pictures of the party logos appeared on the ballot paper. Prior to this, the ballot paper had only displayed the candidate's name, address, and party name.https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/ballot-paper-vote-voting-slip-for-post-posting-postal-vote-news-photo/466659381 General Election 2001 postal vote ballot paper voting slip Overs Jeff 1 June 2001 BBC News & Current Affairs Getty Images 466659381 1 April 2019 May 2025 Source only shows that party logos were on the ballot paper. It does not verify that this was the first election which featured them. Three future Prime Ministers entered parliament at this election: David Cameron and Boris Johnson for the Conservatives, and Andy Burnham for Labour. In addition, future Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was first elected to the Commons in 2001; Osborne would serve in the same Cabinet as Cameron from 2010 to 2016. At the same time, several notable MPs either stood down or retired from their seats, including former Prime Ministers Edward Heath (also Father of the House) and John Major, former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine, former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, former Cabinet ministers Tony Benn, Tom King, John Morris, Mo Mowlam, John MacGregor and Peter Brooke, Teresa Gorman, and then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone. Background The elections were marked by voter apathy, with turnout falling to 59.4%, the lowest (and first under 70%) since the Coupon Election of 1918. Throughout the election the Labour Party had maintained a significant lead in the opinion polls and the result was deemed to be so certain that some bookmakers paid out for a Labour majority before election day. However, the opinion polls the previous autumn had shown the first Tory lead (though only by a narrow margin) in the opinion polls for eight years as they benefited from the public anger towards the government over the fuel protests which had led to a severe shortage of motor fuel. By the end of 2000, however, the dispute had been resolved and Labour were firmly back in the lead of the opinion polls.https://news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1322000/1322211.stm BBC News Tories 'to cut fuel duty' 10 May 2001 26 October 2015 In total, a mere 29 parliamentary seats changed hands at the 2001 Election.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/vote_2005/basics/4393329.stm BBC News 2001: Labour claims second term 5 April 2005 26 May 2010 2001 also saw the rare election of an independent. Richard Taylor of Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern (usually now known simply as "Health Concern") unseated a government MP, David Lock, in Wyre Forest. There was also a high vote for British National Party leader Nick Griffin in Oldham West and Royton, in the wake of recent race riots in the town of Oldham. In Northern Ireland, the election was far more dramatic and marked a move by unionists away from support for the Good Friday Agreement, with the moderate Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) losing four seats to the more hardline Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). This polarisation was also seen in the nationalist community, with the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) losing votes to the more staunchly left-wing, republican and abstentionist Sinn Féin. It also saw a tightening of the parties as the small UK Unionist Party lost its only seat. Campaign The election had been expected on 3 May, to coincide with local elections, but on 2 April 2001, the local elections were postponed to 7 June because of rural movement restrictions imposed in response to the foot-and-mouth outbreak that had started in February.2001-04-02 Blair confirms election delay http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/1255703.stm 2024-12-02 BBC News en-GB On 8 May, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that the general election would be held on the 7 June as expected, on the same day as the local elections.2001-05-08 June election called https://news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1319000/1319644.stm 2024-12-02 BBC News en-GB Blair made the announcement in a speech at St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School in Bermondsey, London rather than on the steps of Downing Street. For Labour, the last four years had run relatively smoothly.Harrop Martin An Apathetic Landslide: The British Election of 2001 Government and Opposition 2001 36 3 Cambridge University Press 295–313 10.1111/1477-7053.00067 44484398 https://www.jstor.org/stable/44484398 subscription The party had successfully defended all their by election seats, and many suspected a Labour win was inevitable from the start. Many in the party, however, were afraid of voter apathy, which was epitomised in a poster of "Hague with Margaret Thatcher's hair", captioned "Get out and vote. Or they get in."https://www.theguardian.com/politics/election2001/poster/0,,498578,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170420050156/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/election2001/poster/0,,498578,00.html 20 April 2017 London The Guardian 'Get out and vote. Or they get in.' – Election 2001 Despite recessions in mainland Europe and the United States, due to the bursting of global tech bubbles, Britain was notably unaffected, and Labour could therefore rely on a strong economy as unemployment continued to decline toward election day, putting to rest any fears of a Labour government putting the economic situation at risk. For William Hague, however, the Conservative Party had still not fully recovered from the loss in 1997. The party was still divided over Europe, and talk of a referendum on joining the Eurozone was rife; as a result, 'Save The Pound' was one of the key slogans deployed in the Conservatives' campaign. As Labour remained at the political centre, the Conservatives moved to the right. A policy gaffe by Oliver Letwin over public spending cuts left the party with an own goal that Labour soon exploited. Thatcher gave a speech to the Conservative Election Rally in Plymouth on 22 May 2001, calling New Labour 'rootless, empty and artificial'. She also added to Hague's troubles when speaking out strongly against the Euro to applause. Hague himself, although a witty performer at Prime Minister's Questions, was dogged in the press and reminded of a speech he gave at the 1977 Conservative Conference. The Sun newspaper only added to the Conservatives' woes by backing Labour for a second consecutive election, calling Hague a 'dead parrot' during the Conservative Party's conference in October 1998.https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ThhguC97EdA/STaU-tJdVzI/AAAAAAAAASA/GVBGsJaLKAI/s400/PARROT-HAGUE.jpg Sun newspaper front page live https://web.archive.org/web/20210603054401/https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ThhguC97EdA/STaU-tJdVzI/AAAAAAAAASA/GVBGsJaLKAI/s400/PARROT-HAGUE.jpg 3 June 2021 Sun prints Tories' obituary http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/187130.stm BBC News Online London 7 October 1998 1 April 2019McElvoy Anne Anne McElvoy 7 October 1998 Hague's parrot is not dead, he's just resting – with the odd squawk https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hagues-parrot-is-not-dead-hes-just-resting-with-the-odd-squawk-1176592.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hagues-parrot-is-not-dead-hes-just-resting-with-the-odd-squawk-1176592.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent London 1 April 2019 The Conservatives campaigned on a strongly right-wing platform, emphasising the issues of Europe, immigration and tax, the fabled 'Tebbit Trinity'. They also released a poster showing a heavily pregnant Tony Blair, stating: 'Four years of Labour and he still hasn't delivered.'https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/7582239/Memorable-Conservative-Labour-and-Liberal-Democrat-posters-from-previous-election-campaigns.html?image=14 Memorable Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat posters from previous election campaigns 12 April 2010 The Daily Telegraph However, Labour countered by asking where the proposed tax cuts were going to come from, and decried the Tory policy as 'cut here, cut there, cut everywhere', playing to the widespread belief that the Conservatives would make major cuts to public services in order to fund tax cuts. Labour also capitalised on the strong economic conditions of the time, and another major line of attack (primarily directed towards Michael Portillo, now Shadow Chancellor after having returned to Parliament via a by-election) was to warn of a return to 'Tory Boom and Bust' under a Conservative administration. Charles Kennedy contested his first election as leader of the Liberal Democrats.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/basics/4393329.stm BBC News 2001: Labour claims second term 5 April 2005 During the election Sharron Storer, a resident of Birmingham, criticised Prime Minister Tony Blair in front of television cameras about conditions in the National Health Service. The widely televised incident happened on 16 May during a campaign visit by Blair to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. Sharron Storer's partner, Keith Sedgewick, a cancer patient with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and therefore highly susceptible to infection, was being treated at the time in the bone marrow unit, but no bed could be found for him and he was transferred to the casualty unit for his first 24 hours.British Government and Politics: A Comparative Guide Duncan Watts 2006 Edinburgh University https://books.google.com/books?id=MiTDykvtbEkC&pg=PA320 978-0-7486-2323-5http://news.bbc.co.uk/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1334000/1334131.stm BBC NEWS – VOTE2001 – Ambush upset Blair's day 16 May 2001http://news.bbc.co.uk/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1334000/1334903.stm BBC NEWS – VOTE2001 – Cancer patient's partner confronts Blair 17 May 2001 On the evening of the same day Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott punched a protestor after being hit by an egg on his way to an election rally in Rhyl, North Wales.2001: Prescott punches protester http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/16/newsid_4098000/4098929.stm 6 May 2021 BBC On This Day 16 May 2001 Endorsements Labour received endorsements from The Sun, The Times, and The Daily Express (The Express for the first time in its history),http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8282189.stm The politics of UK newspapers 30 September 2009 news.bbc.co.uk The Daily Mirror, The Financial Times, The Economist, and The Guardian. Final verdicts of the editorials 7 June 2001 The Independent Chu Ben 19http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/04/general-election-newspaper-support Newspaper support in UK general elections Katy Stoddard 4 May 2010 The Guardian 12 November 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231112104816/https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/04/general-election-newspaper-support live The Independent endorsed Labour and the Liberal Democrats. The Conservatives were endorsed by the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph. Opinion polling Opinion polling for the 2001 United Kingdom general election 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 thumb|1000px|centre|18em #E4003B solid 5px Labour #0087DC solid 5px Conservatives #FAA61A solid 5px Liberal Democrats Results right horizontal 2001 UK General Election Constituencies.svg Equal-area projection of constituency results 2001 UK General Election Constituencies Gains.svg Equal-area projection of constituency gains Constituency results by party thumb|400px|Result by countries and English regions The election result was effectively a repeat of 1997, as the Labour Party retained an overwhelming majority, with the BBC announcing the victory at 2:58 am, Friday 8 June. Having presided over relatively serene political, economic and social conditions, the feeling of prosperity in the United Kingdom had been maintained into the new millennium, and Labour would have a free hand to assert its ideals in the subsequent parliament. Despite the victory, voter apathy was a major issue: turnout fell below 60%, 12 percentage points down on 1997. All three of the main parties saw their total votes fall, with Labour's total vote dropping by 2.8 million on 1997, the Conservatives' by 1.3 million, and the Liberal Democrats' by 428,000. This dramatic fall was widely attributed to the general acceptance of the status quo and the likelihood of Labour's majority remaining unassailable.https://news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1383000/1383403.stm BBC News The poll that never was 11 June 2001 For the Conservatives, the huge loss they had sustained in 1997 was repeated. Despite gaining nine seats, they lost seven to the Liberal Democrats, and even one to Labour (South Dorset). William Hague was quick to announce his resignation, doing so at 7:44 am outside the Conservative Party headquarters. Some believed that Hague had been unlucky – although considered by most to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the peak of his political career, and it was inevitable that little progress would be made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament. Staying at what they considered rock bottom, however, showed that the Conservatives had failed to improve their negative public image, had remained somewhat divided over Europe and had not regained the trust that they had lost in the 1990s. Hague's focus on the 'Save The Pound' campaign narrative had failed to gain any traction; Labour's successful counter-tactic was to be repeatedly vague over the issue of future monetary union – and said that the UK would only consider joining the Eurozone 'when conditions were right'. But in Scotland, despite flipping one seat from the Scottish National Party, their vote collapse continued. They failed to retake former strongholds in Scotland as the Nationalists consolidated their grip on the Northeastern portion of the country.https://news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1377000/1377378.stm BBC News Labour romps home again 8 June 2001 The Liberal Democrats, under their new leader, Charles Kennedy, gained six seats – marking a continuation in their recent increase in popularity as per the 1997 election, where the party had more than doubled its parliamentary representation from 20 to 46 seats.February 2011 The SNP failed to gain any new seats and lost a seat to the Conservatives, though by just 79 votes. In Wales, Plaid Cymru both gained a seat from Labour and lost one to them. In Northern Ireland, the Ulster Unionists, despite gaining North Down, lost five other seats. Summary of seats returned + centre|420px PartyBritish Electoral Facts Colin Rallings Micheal Thrasher 57 Total Politics 978-1-907278-03-7 2006 Leader MPs Aggregate votes Of total Of total Labour Party Tony Blair 412Includes 30 Co-operative Party MP, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance. 412 659 1 yes Labour Party (UK) 10,724,953 40.7% 40.7 Labour Party (UK) Conservative and Unionist Party William Hague 166 166 659 1 yes Conservative Party (UK) 8,357,615 31.7% 31.7 Conservative Party (UK) Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy 52 52 659 1 yes Liberal Democrats (UK) 4,814,321 18.3% 18.3 Liberal Democrats (UK) Ulster Unionist Party David Trimble 6 6 659 1 yes Ulster Unionist Party 216,839 0.8% 0.8 Ulster Unionist Party Scottish National Party John Swinney 5 5 659 1 yes Scottish National Party 464,314 1.8% 1.8 Scottish National Party Democratic Unionist Party Ian Paisley 5 5 659 1 yes Democratic Unionist Party 181,999 0.7% 0.7 Democratic Unionist Party Plaid Cymru Ieuan Wyn Jones 4 4 659 1 yes Plaid Cymru 195,893 0.7% 0.7 Plaid Cymru Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 4 4 659 1 yes Sinn Féin 175,933 0.7% 0.7 Sinn Féin Social Democratic and Labour Party John Hume 3 3 659 1 yes Social Democratic and Labour Party 169,865 0.6% 0.6 Social Democratic and Labour Party Health Concern Richard Taylor 1 1 659 1 yes Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern 28,487 0.0% 0.0 Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern Speaker Michael Martin 1 1 659 1 yes Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) 16,053 0.1% 0.1 Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) Full results centre|500x500px : UK General Election 2001https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP01-54/RP01-54.pdf General Election Results, 7 June 2001 [Revised Edition] Research Paper 01/54 Morgan Bryn 18 June 2001 House of Commons Library 1 April 2019 11 Labour Party (UK) Tony Blair 640 Includes 30 Co-operative Party candidates, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance 412 Includes 30 Co-operative Party MPs, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance 2 8 −6 Includes +2 Co-operative Party MPs, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance 10,724,953 Includes 601,197 for the Co-operative Party, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance 40.7 Includes 2.3% for the Co-operative Party, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance 62.5 Includes 4.6% for the Co-operative Party, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance −2.5 Includes +0.2% for the Co-operative Party, as part of the Labour-Co-op alliance yes Conservative Party (UK) William Hague 643 166 9 8 +1 8,357,615 31.6 25.2 +1.0 Liberal Democrats (UK) Charles Kennedy 639 52 8 2 +6 4,814,321 18.3 7.9 +1.5 Scottish National Party John Swinney 72 5 0 1 −1 464,314 1.8 0.8 −0.2 UK Independence Party Jeffrey Titford 428 0 0 0 0 390,563 1.5 0.0 +1.2 Ulster Unionist Party David Trimble 17 6 1 5 −4 216,839 0.8 0.9 0.0 Plaid Cymru Ieuan Wyn Jones 40 4 1 1 0 195,893 0.7 0.6 +0.2 Democratic Unionist Party Ian Paisley 14 5 3 0 +3 181,999 0.7 0.8 +0.4 Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 18 4 2 0 +2 175,933 0.7 0.6 +0.3 Social Democratic and Labour Party John Hume 18 3 0 0 0 169,865 0.6 0.5 0.0 Green Party of England and Wales Margaret Wright and Mike Woodin 145 0 0 0 0 166,477 0.6 0.0 +0.3 Independent politician N/A 137 0 0 1 −1 98,917 0.4 0.0 +0.3 Scottish Socialist Party Tommy Sheridan 72 0 0 0 0 72,516 0.3 0.0 N/A Socialist Alliance (England) N/A 98 0 0 0 0 57,553 0.2 0.0 N/A Socialist Labour Party (UK) Arthur Scargill 114 0 0 0 0 57,288 0.2 0.0 0.0 British National Party Nick Griffin 33 0 0 0 0 47,129 0.2 0.0 +0.1 Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Seán Neeson 10 0 0 0 0 28,999 0.1 0.0 −0.1 Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern Richard Taylor 1 1 1 0 +1 28,487 0.1 0.2 N/A Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) N/A 1 1 1 0 +1 16,053 0.1 0.2 N/A Liberal Party (UK, 1989) Michael Meadowcroft 13 0 0 0 0 13,685 0.1 0.0 0.0 UK Unionist Party Robert McCartney 1 0 0 1 −1 13,509 0.1 0.0 +0.1 ProLife Alliance Bruno Quintavalle 37 0 0 0 0 9,453 0.0 0.0 −0.1 Legalise Cannabis Alliance Alun Buffry 13 0 0 0 0 8,677 0.0 0.0 N/A People's Justice Party (UK) Shaukat Ali Khan 3 0 0 0 0 7,443 0.0 0.0 N/A Official Monster Raving Loony Party Howling Laud Hope and Catmando 15 0 0 0 0 6,655 0.0 0.0 0.0 Progressive Unionist Party Hugh Smyth 2 0 0 0 0 4,781 0.0 0.0 0.0 Mebyon Kernow Dick Cole 3 0 0 0 0 3,199 0.0 0.0 0.0 Northern Ireland Women's Coalition Monica McWilliams and Pearl Sagar 1 0 0 0 0 2,968 0.0 0.0 0.0 Scottish Unionist Party (1986) Danny Houston 2 0 0 0 0 2,728 0.0 0.0 N/A Rock 'n' Roll Loony Party Chris Driver 7 0 0 0 0 2,634 0.0 0.0 N/A National Front (UK) Tom Holmes 5 0 0 0 0 2,484 0.0 0.0 0.0 Workers' Party (Ireland) Seán Garland 6 0 0 0 0 2,352 0.0 0.0 0.0 Neath Port Talbot Ratepayers Paul Evans 1 0 0 0 0 1,960 0.0 0.0 N/A Northern Ireland Unionist Party Cedric Wilson 6 0 0 0 0 1,794 0.0 0.0 N/A Socialist Party (England and Wales) Peter Taaffe 2 0 0 0 0 1,454 0.0 0.0 0.0 Reform 2000 Erol Basarik 5 0 0 0 0 1,418 0.0 0.0 N/A Isle of Wight Philip Murray 1 0 0 0 0 1,164 0.0 0.0 N/A Muslim 4 0 0 0 0 1,150 0.0 0.0 N/A Communist Party of Britain Robert Griffiths 6 0 0 0 0 1,003 0.0 0.0 0.0 New Britain Party Dennis Delderfield 1 0 0 0 0 888 0.0 0.0 0.0 Free Party Bob Dobbs 3 0 0 0 0 832 0.0 0.0 N/A Leeds Left Alliance Mike Davies 1 0 0 0 0 770 0.0 0.0 N/A New Millennium Bean Party Captain Beany 1 0 0 0 0 727 0.0 0.0 N/A Workers Revolutionary Party (UK) Sheila Torrance 6 0 0 0 0 607 0.0 0.0 0.0 Tatton Paul Williams 1 0 0 0 0 505 0.0 0.0 N/A Government's new majority165Total votes cast26,367,383Turnout59.4% All parties with more than 500 votes shown. The seat gains reflect changes on the 1997 general election result. Two seats had changed hands in by-elections in the intervening period. These were as follows: Romsey from Conservative to Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats held this seat in 2001. South Antrim from Ulster Unionists to Democratic Unionists. The Ulster Unionists won this seat back in 2001. thumb|right|200px|alt=Ring charts of the election results showing popular vote against seats won, coloured in party colours|Seats won in the election (outer ring) against number of votes (inner ring). The results of the election give a Gallagher index of dis-proportionality of 17.74. Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px Labour Labour Party (UK) 40.7 Conservative Conservative Party (UK) 31.7 Liberal Democrat Liberal Democrats (UK) 18.3 Scottish National Scottish National Party 1.8 UK Independence UKIP 1.5 Others #777777 6.1 Parliamentary seats #ddd 600px 410px Labour Labour Party (UK) 62.7 Conservative Conservative Party (UK) 25.2 Liberal Democrat Liberal Democrats (UK) 7.9 Ulster Unionist Ulster Unionist Party 0.9 Scottish National Scottish National Party 0.8 Democratic Unionist Democratic Unionist Party 0.8 Others #777777 1.8 Results by constituent country LABCONLDSNPPCNI partiesOthersTotalEngland32316540 – – –1529Wales34 –2 –4 – –40Scotland561105 – – –72Northern Ireland – – – – –18 –18Total4131665254181659 Seats changing hands Seat 1997 electionConstituency result 2001 by party 2001 electionConLabLibPCSNPOthers Belfast North Ulster Unionist Party Democratic Unionist Party Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Labour Party (UK)4,91213,5402,81516,130656 Plaid Cymru Castle Point Labour Party (UK)17,73816,7533,1161273 Conservative Party (UK) Cheadle Conservative Party (UK)18,4446,08618,477599 Liberal Democrats (UK) Chesterfield Labour Party (UK)3,61318,66321,249437 Liberal Democrats (UK) Dorset Mid and Poole North Conservative Party (UK)17,9746,76518,358621 Liberal Democrats (UK) South Dorset Conservative Party (UK)18,87419,0276,531913 Labour Party (UK) Fermanagh and South Tyrone Ulster Unionist Party Sinn Féin Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Scottish National Party12,2227,2583,69812,148588 Conservative Party (UK) Guildford Conservative Party (UK)19,8206,55820,358736 Liberal Democrats (UK) Isle of Wight Liberal Democrats (UK)25,2239,67622,3972,106 Conservative Party (UK) Londonderry East Ulster Unionist Party Democratic Unionist Party Ludlow Conservative Party (UK)16,9905,78518,620871 Liberal Democrats (UK) Newark Labour Party (UK)20,98316,9105,970 Conservative Party (UK) Norfolk North Conservative Party (UK)23,4957,49023,978649 Liberal Democrats (UK) Norfolk North West Labour Party (UK)24,84621,3614,292704 Conservative Party (UK) North Down UK Unionist Party Ulster Unionist Party Romford Labour Party (UK)18,93112,9542,869 Conservative Party (UK) Romsey Conservative Party (UK)20,3863,98622,756 Liberal Democrats (UK) Strangford Ulster Unionist Party Democratic Unionist Party Tatton Independent politician19,86011,2497,685 Conservative Party (UK) Taunton Liberal Democrats (UK)23,0338,25422,7981,140 Conservative Party (UK) Teignbridge Conservative Party (UK)23,3327,36626,343 Liberal Democrats (UK) Tyrone West Ulster Unionist Party Sinn Féin Upminster Labour Party (UK)15,41014,1693,1831,089 Conservative Party (UK) Wyre Forest Labour Party (UK)9,35010,85728,487 Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern Ynys Mon Plaid Cymru7,65311,9062,77211,106 Labour Party (UK) MPs who lost their seats PartyNameConstituencyOffice held whilst in powerYear electedDefeated byPartyLabour PartyAlan WilliamsCarmarthen East and Dinefwr1987Adam PricePlaid CymruChristine ButlerCastle Point1997Dr. Bob SpinkConservative PartyFiona JonesNewark1997Colonel Patrick MercerConservative PartyGeorge TurnerNorfolk North West1997Henry BellinghamConservative PartyEileen GordonRomford1997Andrew RosindellConservative PartyKeith DarvillUpminster1997Angela WatkinsonConservative PartyDavid LockWyre Forest1997Dr. Richard TaylorIndependent Kidderminster Hospital and Health ConcernConservative PartyStephen DayCheadle1987Patsy CaltonLiberal DemocratsChristopher FraserMid Dorset and North Poole1997Annette BrookeLiberal DemocratsIan BruceSouth Dorset1987Jim KnightLabour PartyNick St AubynGuildford1997Sue DoughtyLiberal DemocratsThe Hon. David PriorNorfolk North1997Norman LambLiberal DemocratsPatrick NichollsTeignbridge1983Richard Younger-RossLiberal DemocratsLiberal DemocratsDr. Peter BrandIsle of Wight1997Andrew TurnerConservative PartyJackie BallardTaunton1997Adrian FlookConservative PartyUlster Unionist PartyWillie RossEast Londonderry1974Gregory CampbellDemocratic Unionist PartyCecil WalkerNorth Belfast1983Nigel DoddsDemocratic Unionist PartyWilliam ThompsonWest Tyrone1997Pat DohertySinn FéinDemocratic Unionist PartyWilliam McCreaAntrim South2000David BurnsideUlster Unionist PartyUK Unionist PartyRobert McCartneyNorth Down1995Sylvia HermonUlster Unionist PartyIndependentMartin BellTatton contesting Brentwood and Ongar1997Eric PicklesConservative Party Voter demographics MORI interviewed 18,657 adults in Great Britain after the election which suggested the following demographic breakdown:20 July 2001 How Britain Voted in 2001 https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/how-britain-voted-2001 Ipsos The 2001 UK general election vote in Great Britain (in per cent)Social GroupLabConLib DemOthersLeadTurnoutTotal4233196959GenderMen42321881061Women4233196958Age18–244127248143925–345124196274635–444528198175945–54413220796555–64373917726965+3940174170Social classAB3039256968C13836206260C249291572056DE55241383153Work statusFull time43302071357Part time43292171456Not working4136185563Unemployed542311123144Self-employed32391811760Housing tenureOwner32431961168Mortgage42312071159Council/HA60181484252Private rent40282571246Men by age18–24382926794325–345224195284735–544329199146455+3939166Tie73Men by social classAB3138256768C139361411362C249281492156DE55231483256Women by age18–244524238213625–344925197244635–544331206126055+3840184267Women by social classAB28412651368C13737206Tie59C248301751856DE56251363150ReadershipDaily Express33431951063Daily Mail24551743165Daily Mirror71111355862Daily Record59810233657The Daily Telegraph16651454971Financial Times30482111864The Guardian5263481868The Independent3812446669Daily Star56211763548The Sun52291182350The Times28402661266No daily paper45272261856Evening Standard42292181351Sunday ReadershipNews of the World55271262852Sunday Express29472041867Sunday Mail531413203359Sunday Mirror7216935662The Sunday Post432218172164The Sunday Telegraph17631374671The Mail on Sunday25531752865The Observer5343491971Sunday People65191334660The Sunday Times29402471167Independent on Sunday47103761070No Sunday paper42302261255 right|thumb|The disproportionality of the house of parliament in the 2001 election was 18.03 according to the Gallagher index, mainly between Labour and the Liberal Democrats. See also List of MPs elected in the 2001 United Kingdom general election Results of the 2001 United Kingdom general election 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak 2001 United Kingdom general election in England 2001 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 2001 United Kingdom general election in Wales 2001 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (2001–2005) List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (2001–2005) 2001 United Kingdom local elections Notes References 30em Bibliography Butler, David and Dennis Kavanagh. The British General Election of 2001 (2002), the standard scholarly study https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP01-54/RP01-54.pdf General Election Results, 7 June 2001 [Revised Edition] Research Paper 01/54 Morgan Bryn 18 June 2001 House of Commons Library External links BBC News: Vote 2001 – in depth coverage. Catalogue of 2001 general election ephemera https://web.archive.org/web/20220928160312/https://archives.lse.ac.uk/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=GENERAL%20ELECTION%202001 28 September 2022 at the Archives Division of the London School of Economics. collapsed Category:2001 elections in the United Kingdom 2001 Category:June 2001 in the United Kingdom Category:Premiership of Tony Blair Category:Gordon Brown Category:Peter Mandelson Category:New Labour Category:History of the Labour Party (UK)