United Kingdom 2001 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 412 of 659 seats with 40.7% of the vote; 59.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 11.9 points on 1997.
- United Kingdom
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 412 | −7 | 40.7 | −2.5 | 10,724,953 |
| Conservative Party | 166 | +1 | 31.7 | +1.0 | 8,357,615 |
| Liberal Democrats | 52 | +6 | 18.3 | +1.5 | 4,814,321 |
| Scottish National Party | 5 | −1 | 1.8 | −0.2 | 464,314 |
| UK Independence Party | 0 | 1.5 | 390,563 | ||
| Ulster Unionist Party | 6 | −4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 216,839 |
| Plaid Cymru | 4 | 0 | 0.7 | +0.2 | 195,893 |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 5 | +3 | 0.7 | +0.4 | 181,999 |
| Sinn Féin | 4 | +2 | 0.7 | +0.3 | 175,933 |
| Social Democratic and Labour Party | 3 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 169,865 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 2 | +1 |
± is the change against the United Kingdom 1997 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 10,724,953
- Conservative Party 8,357,615
- Liberal Democrats 4,814,321
- Scottish National Party 464,314
- UK Independence Party 390,563
- Ulster Unionist Party 216,839
- Plaid Cymru 195,893
- Democratic Unionist Party 181,999
- Sinn Féin 175,933
- Social Democratic and Labour Party 169,865
- Other parties (seats only)
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
59.6% of the 44,403,238 registered voters cast a ballot (26,467,388 ballots), down 11.9 points on 1997. 26,367,383 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1964. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party40.7% of votes62.5% of seats
- Conservative Party31.7% of votes25.2% of seats
- Liberal Democrats18.3% of votes7.9% of seats
- Ulster Unionist Party0.8% of votes0.9% of seats
- Scottish National Party1.8% of votes0.8% of seats
- Democratic Unionist Party0.7% of votes0.8% of seats
- Plaid Cymru0.7% of votes0.6% of seats
- Sinn Féin0.7% of votes0.6% of seats
- Social Democratic and Labour Party0.6% of votes0.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 17.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.3 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Labour Party led Conservative Party by 9.0 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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