Electoral history of Theresa May

This is a summary of the electoral history of Theresa May, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She was the member of parliament (MP) for Maidenhead from 1997 to 2024.

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Council elections

1986 Merton London Borough Council election, Durnsford

Durnsford (2)[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Geoffrey Gill 857 36.7%
Conservative Theresa May 818
Labour Arthur Kennedy 734 32.1%
Liberal Susan Knibbs 731 31.2%
Labour Anthony J. Colman 730
Liberal Richard Barraclough 692
Turnout 4,562
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

1990 Merton London Borough Council election, Durnsford

Durnsford (2)[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative Theresa May* 1,063 43.87
Conservative Barry Edwards 1,049
Labour Arthur Kennedy 913 36.64
Labour Nina Scowen 852
Liberal Democrats Susan Knibbs 317 11.72
Liberal Democrats Philip Rumney 246
Green Keith Parke 187 7.77
Registered electors 4,065
Turnout 2,424 59.63
Rejected ballots 3 0.12
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Parliamentary elections

1992 general election, North West Durham

General election 1992: North West Durham[4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hilary Armstrong 26,734 57.8 +6.9
Conservative Theresa May 12,747 27.6 −0.8
Liberal Democrats Tim Farron 6,728 14.6 −6.1
Majority 13,987 30.2 +7.7
Turnout 46,209 75.5 +2.0
Labour hold Swing +3.4

1994 by-election, Barking

1994 Barking by-election[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Margaret Hodge 13,704 72.1 +20.5
Liberal Democrats Gary White 2,290 12.0 −2.5
Conservative Theresa May 1,976 10.4 −23.5
National Front Gary Needs 551 2.9 N/A
UKIP Gerard Batten 406 2.1 N/A
Natural Law Heather Butensky[7] 90 0.5 N/A
Majority 11,414 60.0 +42.3
Turnout 19,017 38.3 −31.7
Registered electors 49,635
Labour hold Swing +11.5

1997 general election, Maidenhead

General election 1997: Maidenhead[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Theresa May 25,344 49.8 −11.8
Liberal Democrats Andrew Ketteringham 13,363 26.3 −3.5
Labour Denise Robson 9,205 18.1 +9.5
Referendum Charles Taverner 1,638 3.2 N/A
Liberal David Munkley 896 1.8 N/A
UKIP Neil Spiers 277 0.5 N/A
Glow Bowling Party Kristian Ardley 166 0.3 N/A
Majority 11,981 23.5 N/A
Turnout 50,889 75.6
Conservative win (new seat)

2001 general election, Maidenhead

General election 2001: Maidenhead[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Theresa May 19,506 45.0 −4.8
Liberal Democrats Kathryn Newbound 16,222 37.4 +11.1
Labour John O'Farrell 6,577 15.2 −2.9
UKIP Dennis Cooper 741 1.7 +1.2
Monster Raving Loony Lloyd Clarke 272 0.6 N/A
Majority 3,284 7.6 −15.9
Turnout 43,318 62.0 −13.6
Conservative hold Swing −8.0

2005 general election, Maidenhead

General election 2005: Maidenhead[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Theresa May 23,312 50.8 +5.8
Liberal Democrats Kathryn Newbound 17,081 37.3 −0.1
Labour Janet Pritchard 4,144 9.0 −6.2
BNP Tim Rait 704 1.5 N/A
UKIP Douglas Lewis 609 1.3 −0.4
Majority 6,231 13.5 +5.9
Turnout 45,850 71.7 +9.7
Conservative hold Swing +3.0

2010 general election, Maidenhead

General election 2010: Maidenhead[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Theresa May 31,937 59.5 +7.6
Liberal Democrats Tony Hill 15,168 28.2 −8.0
Labour Patrick McDonald 3,795 7.1 −2.1
UKIP Kenneth Wright 1,243 2.3 +0.9
BNP Tim Rait 825 1.5 +0.1
Green Peter Forbes 482 0.9 N/A
Freedom and Responsibility Peter Prior 270 0.5 N/A
Majority 16,769 31.3 +18.6
Turnout 53,720 73.7 +3.4
Conservative hold Swing +7.8

2015 general election, Maidenhead

General election 2015: Maidenhead[13][14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Theresa May 35,453 65.8 +6.3
Labour Charlie Smith 6,394 11.9 +4.8
Liberal Democrats Tony Hill 5,337 9.9 −18.3
UKIP Herbie Crossman[15] 4,539 8.4 +6.1
Green Emily Blyth 1,915 3.6 +2.7
Independent Ian Taplin 162 0.3 N/A
Class War Joe Wilcox 55 0.1 N/A
Majority 29,059 53.9 +22.6
Turnout 53,855 72.6 −1.1
Conservative hold Swing

2017 general election, Maidenhead

General election 2017: Maidenhead[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Theresa May 37,718 64.8 −1.0
Labour Patrick McDonald 11,261 19.3 +7.4
Liberal Democrats Tony Hill 6,540 11.2 +1.3
Green Derek Wall 907 1.6 −2.0
UKIP Gerard Batten 871 1.5 −6.9
Animal Welfare Andrew Knight 282 0.5 N/A
No label Lord Buckethead 249 0.4 N/A
Independent Grant Smith 152 0.3 N/A
Monster Raving Loony Howling Laud Hope 119 0.2 N/A
CPA Edmonds Victor 69 0.1 N/A
The Just Political Party Julian Reid 52 0.1 N/A
Independent Yemi Hailemariam 16 0.0 N/A
No label Bobby Smith 3 0.0 N/A
Majority 26,457 45.5 −8.6
Turnout 58,239 76.4 +3.8
Conservative hold Swing −4.2

2019 general election, Maidenhead

General election 2019: Maidenhead[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Theresa May 32,620 57.7 −6.9
Liberal Democrats Joshua Reynolds 13,774 24.4 +13.2
Labour Patrick McDonald 7,882 14.0 −5.3
Green Emily Tomalin 2,216 3.9 +2.3
Majority 18,846 33.3 −12.2
Turnout 56,492 73.7 −2.7
Conservative hold Swing −10.1

2016 Conservative Party leadership election

Candidate First ballot:
5 July 2016 		Second ballot:
7 July 2016 		Members' vote
(Cancelled)
Votes % Votes % Votes %
Theresa May 165 50.2 199 60.5 Unopposed
Andrea Leadsom 66 20.1 84 25.5 Withdrew
Michael Gove 48 14.6 46 14.0 Eliminated
Stephen Crabb 34 10.3 Withdrew, endorsed May
Liam Fox 16 4.9 Eliminated, endorsed May
Turnout 329 99.7 329 99.7 —
Theresa May unopposed

2017 United Kingdom general election

 Results of the June 2017 House of Commons of the United Kingdom results
Political party Leader MPs Votes
Candidates[18] Total Gained Lost Net Of total (%) Total Of total (%) Change (%)
Conservative[19] Theresa May 638 317 20 33 −13 48.8 13,636,684 42.3 +5.5
Labour Jeremy Corbyn 631 262 36 6 +30 40.3 12,877,918 40.0 +9.6
Liberal Democrats Tim Farron 629 12 8 4 +4 1.8 2,371,861 7.4 −0.5
SNP Nicola Sturgeon 59 35 0 21 −21 5.4 977,568 3.0 −1.7
UKIP Paul Nuttall 378 0 0 1 −1 0 594,068 1.8 −10.8
Green Party of England and Wales Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley 457 1 0 0 0 0.2 512,327 1.6 −2.0
DUP Arlene Foster 17 10 2 0 +2 1.5 292,316 0.9 +0.3
Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 18 7 3 0 +3 1.1 238,915 0.7 +0.1
Plaid Cymru Leanne Wood 40 4 1 0 +1 0.6 164,466 0.5 −0.1
Independent 187 1 0 0 0 0.2 151,471 0.5 +0.2
SDLP Colum Eastwood 18 0 0 3 −3 0 95,419 0.3 0.0
UUP Robin Swann 14 0 0 2 −2 0 83,280 0.3 −0.1
Alliance Naomi Long 18 0 0 0 0 0 64,553 0.2 0.0
Speaker John Bercow 1 1 0 0 0 0.2 34,299 0.1 0.0
Yorkshire Stewart Arnold 21 0 0 0 0 0 20,958 0.1 +0.1
NHA Alex Ashman 5 0 0 0 0 0 16,119 0.1 −0.1
Green Party Northern Ireland Steven Agnew 7 0 0 0 0 0 7,452 0.0 0.0
Scottish Green Party Patrick Harvie and Maggie Chapman 3 0 0 0 0 0 5,886 0.0 −0.1
CPA Sidney Cordle 31 0 0 0 0 0 5,869 0.0 0.0
People Before Profit Eamonn McCann 2 0 0 0 0 0 5,509 0.0 0.0
Ashfield Independents 1 0 0 0 0 0 4,612 0.0 0.0
BNP Adam Walker 10 0 0 0 0 0 4,580 0.0 0.0
Monster Raving Loony Alan Hope 12 0 0 0 0 0 3,890 0.0 0.0
Liberal Steve Radford 4 0 0 0 0 0 3,672 0.0 0.0
Women's Equality Sophie Walker 7 0 0 0 0 0 3,580 0.0 0.0
TUV Jim Allister 1 0 0 0 0 0 3,282 0.0 −0.1
North East Party Mary Cartwright 1 0 0 0 0 0 2,355 0.0 0.0
Pirate David A Elston 10 0 0 0 0 0 2,321 0.0 0.0
English Democrat Robin Tilbrook 7 0 0 0 0 0 1,913 0.0 0.0
Christian Jeff Green 2 0 0 0 0 0 1,720 0.0 0.0
Independent Save Withybush Save Lives 1 0 0 0 0 0 1,209 0.0 0.0
Socialist Labour Arthur Scargill 3 0 0 0 0 0 1,154 0.0 0.0
Animal Welfare Vanessa Hudson 4 0 0 0 0 0 955 0.0 0.0
JAC 2 0 0 0 0 0 842 0.0 0.0
Southampton Independents 1 0 0 0 0 0 816 0.0 0.0
Workers Revolutionary Sheila Torrance 5 0 0 0 0 0 771 0.0 0.0
Workers' Party 2 0 0 0 0 0 708 0.0 0.0
Something New 2 0 0 0 0 0 552 0.0 0.0
Demos Direct Initiative Party 1 0 0 0 0 0 551 0.0 0.0
Libertarian Adam Brown 4 0 0 0 0 0 524 0.0 0.0
SDP Peter Johnson 6 0 0 0 0 0 469 0.0 0.0
Peace John Morris 2 0 0 0 0 0 468 0.0 0.0
Friends Party 3 0 0 0 0 0 435 0.0 0.0
Better for Bradford 1 0 0 0 0 0 420 0.0 0.0
All other parties 38 0 0 0 0 0 5,447 0.0 0.0
Total 3,304 650 32,204,184

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