United Kingdom 1992 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Conservative Party won 336 of 651 seats with 41.9% of the vote; 77.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.3 points on 1987.
- United Kingdom
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party | 336 | −40 | 41.9 | −0.4 | 14,093,007 |
| Labour Party | 271 | +42 | 34.9 | +4.1 | 11,560,484 |
| Liberal Democrats | 20 | +3 | 17.8 | −4.8 | 5,999,606 |
| Scottish National Party | 3 | 0 | 1.9 | +0.6 | 629,564 |
| Ulster Unionist Party | 9 | 0 | 0.8 | −0.1 | 271,049 |
| Social Democratic and Labour Party | 4 | +1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 184,445 |
| Green Party of England and Wales | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | +0.2 | 171,927 |
| Plaid Cymru | 4 | +1 | 0.5 | +0.1 | 154,947 |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 3 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 103,039 |
| Ulster Popular Unionist Party | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 19,305 |
± is the change against the United Kingdom 1987 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Conservative Party 14,093,007
- Labour Party 11,560,484
- Liberal Democrats 5,999,606
- Scottish National Party 629,564
- Ulster Unionist Party 271,049
- Social Democratic and Labour Party 184,445
- Green Party of England and Wales 171,927
- Plaid Cymru 154,947
- Democratic Unionist Party 103,039
- Ulster Popular Unionist Party 19,305
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
77.8% of the 43,275,316 registered voters cast a ballot (33,653,800 ballots), up 2.3 points on 1987. 33,614,074 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1974 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Conservative Party41.9% of votes51.6% of seats
- Labour Party34.9% of votes41.6% of seats
- Liberal Democrats17.8% of votes3.1% of seats
- Ulster Unionist Party0.8% of votes1.4% of seats
- Plaid Cymru0.5% of votes0.6% of seats
- Social Democratic and Labour Party0.5% of votes0.6% of seats
- Scottish National Party1.9% of votes0.5% of seats
- Democratic Unionist Party0.3% of votes0.5% of seats
- Ulster Popular Unionist Party0.1% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 13.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Conservative Party led Labour Party by 7.0 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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