United Kingdom 1987 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Conservative Party won 376 of 650 seats with 42.3% of the vote; 75.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.6 points on 1983.
- United Kingdom
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party | 376 | −21 | 42.3 | −0.1 | 13,760,583 |
| Labour Party | 229 | +20 | 30.8 | +3.2 | 10,029,807 |
| Liberal Party | 17 | 0 | 22.6 | −2.8 | 7,341,633 |
| Scottish National Party | 3 | +1 | 1.3 | +0.2 | 416,473 |
| Ulster Unionist Party | 9 | −2 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 276,230 |
| Plaid Cymru | 3 | +1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 123,599 |
| Green Party of England and Wales | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | +0.1 | 89,753 |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 3 | 0 | 0.3 | −0.2 | 85,642 |
| Sinn Féin | 1 | 0 | 0.3 | −0.1 | 83,389 |
| Social Democratic and Labour Party | 3 | +2 | 0.5 | +0.1 | 72,671 |
| Ulster Popular Unionist Party | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 18,420 |
| Social Democratic Party | 5 | −1 |
± is the change against the United Kingdom 1983 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Conservative Party 13,760,583
- Labour Party 10,029,807
- Liberal Party 7,341,633
- Scottish National Party 416,473
- Ulster Unionist Party 276,230
- Plaid Cymru 123,599
- Green Party of England and Wales 89,753
- Democratic Unionist Party 85,642
- Sinn Féin 83,389
- Social Democratic and Labour Party 72,671
- Ulster Popular Unionist Party 18,420
- Social Democratic Party
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
75.4% of the 43,180,573 registered voters cast a ballot (32,566,523 ballots), up 2.6 points on 1983. 32,529,578 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Conservative Party42.3% of votes57.8% of seats
- Labour Party30.8% of votes35.2% of seats
- Liberal Party22.6% of votes2.6% of seats
- Ulster Unionist Party0.8% of votes1.4% of seats
- Scottish National Party1.3% of votes0.5% of seats
- Social Democratic and Labour Party0.5% of votes0.5% of seats
- Plaid Cymru0.4% of votes0.5% of seats
- Democratic Unionist Party0.3% of votes0.5% of seats
- Sinn Féin0.3% of votes0.2% of seats
- Ulster Popular Unionist Party0.1% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 18.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.1 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Conservative Party led Labour Party by 11.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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