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2001 United Kingdom general election

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Field	Value
election_name	2001 United Kingdom general election
country	United Kingdom
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1997 United Kingdom general election
previous_year	1997
outgoing_members	List of MPs elected in the 1997 United Kingdom general election
next_election	2005 United Kingdom general election
next_year	2005
elected_members	List of MPs elected in the 2001 United Kingdom general election
seats_for_election	All 659 seats to the House of Commons
majority_seats	330
elected_mps	Members elected
election_date	7 June 2001
turnout	26,367,383
59.4% (11.9 pp)
registered	44,403,238
opinion_polls	Opinion polling for the United Kingdom general election, 2001
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leader1	Tony Blair
leader_since1	[21 July 1994](1994-labour-party-leadership-election)
party1	Labour Party (UK)
leaders_seat1	Sedgefield
last_election1	418 seats, 43.2%
seats1	412
seat_change1	6
popular_vote1	10,724,953
percentage1	40.7%
swing1	2.5 pp
<!-- Conservative -->	image2
leader2	William Hague
leader_since2	[19 June 1997](1997-conservative-party-leadership-election)
party2	Conservative Party (UK)
leaders_seat2	Richmond (Yorks)
last_election2	165 seats, 30.7%
seats2	166
seat_change2	1
popular_vote2	8,357,615
percentage2	31.7%
swing2	1.0 pp
<!-- Liberal Democrats -->	image3
leader3	Charles Kennedy
leader_since3	[9 August 1999](1999-liberal-democrats-leadership-election)
party3	Liberal Democrats (UK)
leaders_seat3	Ross, Skye and
Inverness West
last_election3	46 seats, 16.8%
seats3	52
seat_change3	6
popular_vote3	4,814,321
percentage3	18.3%
swing3	1.5 pp
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map_size	200px
map_caption	Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
map2_image	File:House of Commons elected members, 2001.svg
map2_size	360px
map2_caption	Composition of the House of Commons after the election
<!-- Post election -->	title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Prime Minister after election
before_election	Tony Blair
before_party	Labour Party (UK)
after_election	Tony Blair
after_party	Labour Party (UK)

59.4% (11.9 pp) Inverness West](ross-skye-and-inverness-west-uk-parliament-constituency) 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.

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". 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. Although they did not gain many seats, three of the few new MPs elected were future Conservative Prime Ministers David Cameron and Boris Johnson and future Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne; Osborne would serve in the same Cabinet as Cameron from 2010 to 2016. The Liberal Democrats led by Charles Kennedy made a net gain of six seats.

Change was seen in Northern Ireland, with the moderate unionist Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) losing four seats to the more hardline Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). A similar transition appeared in the nationalist community, with the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) losing votes to the more staunchly republican and abstentionist Sinn Féin.

Exceptionally low voter turnout, which fell below 60% for the first time since 1918, also marked this election. The election was broadcast live on BBC One and presented by David Dimbleby, Jeremy Paxman, Andrew Marr, Peter Snow, and Tony King. 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.

Notable departing MPs included 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. In total, a mere 29 parliamentary seats changed hands at the 2001 Election.

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 unionist Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) losing to the more hardline Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). This polarisation was also seen in the nationalist community, with the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) vote losing out to more left-wing and republican 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.

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. 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. 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." Despite recessions in mainland Europe and the United States, due to the bursting of global tech bubbles, Britain was notably unaffected and Labour however could 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, and 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 his speech, given at the age of 16, 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.

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". 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", in reference 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 returning 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.

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. 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.

Endorsements

Labour received endorsements from The Sun, The Times, and The Daily Express (The Express for the first time in its history), The Daily Mirror, The Financial Times, The Economist, and The Guardian.
The Independent endorsed Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
The Conservatives were endorsed by the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph.

Opinion polling

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2001 United Kingdom general election

Results

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 02:58 on the early morning of 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, as 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 1.3 million, and the Liberal Democrats 428,000. Some suggested this dramatic fall was a sign of the general acceptance of the status quo and the likelihood of Labour's majority remaining unassailable.

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 one even to Labour (South Dorset). William Hague was quick to announce his resignation, doing so at 07:44 outside the Conservative Party headquarters. Some believed that Hague had been unlucky; although most considered him 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 no surprise that little progress was 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 disunited 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 countertactic 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.

The Liberal Democrats could point to steady progress under their new leader, Charles Kennedy, gaining more seats than the main two parties—albeit only six overall—and maintaining the performance of a pleasing 1997 election, where the party had doubled its number of seats from 20 to 46. While they had yet to become electable as a government, they underlined their growing reputation as a worthwhile alternative to Labour and Conservative, offering plenty of debate in Parliament and representing more than a mere protest vote.

The SNP failed to gain any new seats and lost a seat to the Conservatives 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.

Turnout	59.4%

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.

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.

Results by constituent country

LAB	CON	LD	SNP	PC	NI parties	Others	Total
England	323	165	40	–	–	–	1
Wales	34	–	2	–	4	–	–
Scotland	56	1	10	5	–	–	–
Northern Ireland	–	–	–	–	–	18	–
Total	413	166	52	5	4	18	1

Seats changing hands

[1997 election](1997-united-kingdom-general-election)	Constituency result 2001 by party	2001 election	Con	Lab	Lib
4,912	13,540	2,815	16,130		656
17,738	16,753	3,116			1273
18,444	6,086	18,477			599
3,613	18,663	21,249			437
17,974	6,765	18,358			621
18,874	19,027	6,531			913
12,222	7,258	3,698		12,148	588
19,820	6,558	20,358			736
25,223	9,676	22,397			2,106
16,990	5,785	18,620			871
20,983	16,910	5,970
23,495	7,490	23,978			649
24,846	21,361	4,292			704
18,931	12,954	2,869
20,386	3,986	22,756
19,860	11,249	7,685
23,033	8,254	22,798			1,140
23,332	7,366	26,343
15,410	14,169	3,183			1,089
9,350	10,857				28,487
7,653	11,906	2,772	11,106

MPs who lost their seats

Party	Name	Constituency	Office held whilst in power	Year elected	Defeated by	Party	Labour Party (UK)}}"
Labour Party	Alan Williams	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr		1987	Adam Price		Plaid Cymru
Christine Butler	Castle Point		1997	Dr. Bob Spink		Conservative Party
Fiona Jones	Newark		1997	Colonel
Patrick Mercer		Conservative Party
George Turner	Norfolk North West		1997	Henry Bellingham		Conservative Party
Eileen Gordon	Romford		1997	Andrew Rosindell		Conservative Party
Keith Darvill	Upminster		1997	Angela Watkinson		Conservative Party
David Lock	Wyre Forest		1997	Dr. Richard Taylor		Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern
Conservative Party	Stephen Day	Cheadle		1987	Patsy Calton		Liberal Democrats
Christopher Fraser	Mid Dorset and North Poole		1997	Annette Brooke		Liberal Democrats
Ian Bruce	South Dorset		1987	Jim Knight		Labour Party
Nick St Aubyn	Guildford		1997	Sue Doughty		Liberal Democrats
The Hon.
David Prior	Norfolk North		1997	Norman Lamb		Liberal Democrats
Patrick Nicholls	Teignbridge		1983	Richard Younger-Ross		Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats	Dr. Peter Brand	Isle of Wight		1997	Andrew Turner		Conservative Party
Jackie Ballard	Taunton		1997	Adrian Flook		Conservative Party
Ulster Unionist Party	Willie Ross	East Londonderry		1974	Gregory Campbell		Democratic Unionist Party
Cecil Walker	North Belfast		1983	Nigel Dodds		Democratic Unionist Party
William Thompson	West Tyrone		1997	Pat Doherty		Sinn Féin
	Democratic Unionist Party	William McCrea	Antrim South		2000	David Burnside		Ulster Unionist Party
	UK Unionist Party	Robert McCartney	North Down		1995	Sylvia Hermon		Ulster Unionist Party
	Independent	Martin Bell	Tatton contesting Brentwood and Ongar		1997	Eric Pickles		Conservative Party

Voter demographics

MORI interviewed 18,657 adults in Great Britain after the election which suggested the following demographic breakdown:

The 2001 UK general election vote in Great Britain (in per cent)	Social Group	Lab	Con	Lib Dem	Others	Lead	Turnout
Total	42	33	19	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	9	59
Men	42	32	18	8	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	10	61
Women	42	33	19	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	9	58
18–24	41	27	24	8	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	14	39
25–34	51	24	19	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	27	46
35–44	45	28	19	8	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	17	59
45–54	41	32	20	7	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	9	65
55–64	37	39	17	7	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	2	69
65+	39	40	17	4	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	1	70
AB	30	39	25	6	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	9	68
C1	38	36	20	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	2	60
C2	49	29	15	7	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	20	56
DE	55	24	13	8	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	31	53
Full time	43	30	20	7	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	13	57
Part time	43	29	21	7	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	14	56
Not working	41	36	18	5	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	5	63
Unemployed	54	23	11	12	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	31	44
Self-employed	32	39	18	11	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	7	60
Owner	32	43	19	6	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	11	68
Mortgage	42	31	20	7	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	11	59
Council/HA	60	18	14	8	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	42	52
Private rent	40	28	25	7	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	12	46
18–24	38	29	26	7	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	9	43
25–34	52	24	19	5	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	28	47
35–54	43	29	19	9	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	14	64
55+	39	39	16	6	Tie	73
AB	31	38	25	6	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	7	68
C1	39	36	14	11	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	3	62
C2	49	28	14	9	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	21	56
DE	55	23	14	8	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	32	56
18–24	45	24	23	8	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	21	36
25–34	49	25	19	7	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	24	46
35–54	43	31	20	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	12	60
55+	38	40	18	4	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	2	67
AB	28	41	26	5	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	13	68
C1	37	37	20	6	Tie	59
C2	48	30	17	5	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	18	56
DE	56	25	13	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	31	50
Daily Express	33	43	19	5	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	10	63
Daily Mail	24	55	17	4	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	31	65
Daily Mirror	71	11	13	5	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	58	62
Daily Record	59	8	10	23	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	36	57
The Daily Telegraph	16	65	14	5	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	49	71
Financial Times	30	48	21	1	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	18	64
The Guardian	52	6	34	8	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	18	68
The Independent	38	12	44	6	Liberal Democrats (UK)}};"	6	69
Daily Star	56	21	17	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	35	48
The Sun	52	29	11	8	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	23	50
The Times	28	40	26	6	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	12	66
No daily paper	45	27	22	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	18	56
Evening Standard	42	29	21	8	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	13	51
News of the World	55	27	12	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	28	52
Sunday Express	29	47	20	4	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	18	67
Sunday Mail	53	14	13	20	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	33	59
Sunday Mirror	72	16	9	3	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	56	62
The Sunday Post	43	22	18	17	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	21	64
The Sunday Telegraph	17	63	13	7	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	46	71
The Mail on Sunday	25	53	17	5	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	28	65
The Observer	53	4	34	9	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	19	71
Sunday People	65	19	13	3	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	46	60
The Sunday Times	29	40	24	7	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	11	67
Independent on Sunday	47	10	37	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	10	70
No Sunday paper	42	30	22	6	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	12	55

Notes

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