Electoral history of William Hague

This is a summary of the electoral history of William Hague, who was leader of the Conservative Party from 19 June 1997 to 13 September 2001 and has been an MP since 1989.

Parliamentary Elections

1987 General Election, Wentworth

General Election 1987: Wentworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Hardy 30,205 65.2
Conservative William Hague 10,113 21.8
SDP D. M. Elgin 6,031 13.0
Majority 20,092 43.4
Turnout 72.6

By Election 1989, Richmond (Yorks)

Richmond by-election, 1989
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Hague 19,543 37.2 −24.0
SDP Mike Potter 16,909 32.2
SLD Barbara Pearce 11,589 22.1 −4.9
Labour Frank Robson 2,591 4.9 −6.9
Green Dr. Robert Upshall 1,473 2.8
Monster Raving Loony David "Lord" Sutch 167 0.3
Independent (politician) Anthony Millns1 113 0.2
Corrective Party Lindi St Clair 106 0.2
Liberal Nicholas Watkins 70 0.1
Majority 2,634 5.0
Turnout 52,561 64.4
Conservative hold Swing

1992 General Election, Richmond (Yorks)

General Election 1992: Richmond (Yorks)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Hague 40,202 61.86
Liberal Democrats G. Irwin 16,698 25.69
Labour R. Cranston 7,523 11.58
Independent M. Barr 570 0.88
Majority 23,504 36.16
Turnout 78.42
Conservative hold Swing

1997 General Election, Richmond (Yorks)

General Election 1997: Richmond (Yorks)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Hague 23,326 48.86 −13.00
Labour Co-op Steven Merritt 13,275 27.81 +16.23
Liberal Democrats Jane Harvey 8,773 18.38 −7.31
Referendum Alex Bentley 2,367 4.96 N/A
Majority 10,051 21.05 −15.11
Turnout 47,741 73.38 −5.04
Conservative hold Swing -13.90

2001 General Election, Richmond (Yorks)

General Election 2001: Richmond (Yorks)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Hague 25,951 58.9 +10.1
Labour Co-op Fay Tinnion 9,632 21.9 −5.9
Liberal Democrats Edward Forth 7,890 17.9 −0.5
Monster Raving Loony Boney Maronie Steniforth 561 1.3 N/A
Majority 16,319 37.0
Turnout 44,034 67.4 −6.0
Conservative hold Swing

2005 General Election, Richmond (Yorks)

General Election 2005: Richmond (Yorks)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Hague 26,722 59.1 +0.2
Labour Neil Foster 8,915 19.7 −2.2
Liberal Democrats Jacquie Bell 7,982 17.7 −0.2
Green Leslie Rowe 1,581 3.5 N/A
Majority 17,807 39.4
Turnout 45,200 65.0 −2.5
Conservative hold Swing

2010 General Election, Richmond (Yorks)

General Election 2010: Richmond (Yorks)[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Hague * 33,541 62.8 +3.5
Liberal Democrats Lawrence Meredith 10,205 19.1 +2.2
Labour Eileen Driver 8,150 15.3 −5.3
Green Leslie Rowe 1,516 2.8 −0.3
Majority 23,336 43.7
Turnout 53,412 67.2 +2.6
Conservative hold Swing

1997 Conservative Party leadership election

First Ballot: 4 May 1997
Candidate Votes %
Kenneth Clarke 49 29.9
William Hague 41 25.0
John Redwood 27 16.5
Peter Lilley 24 14.6
Michael Howard 23 14.0
Turnout 164 100
Michael Howard eliminated.
Second Ballot: 5 May 1997
Candidate Votes %
Kenneth Clarke 64 39.0
William Hague 62 37.8
John Redwood 38 23.2
Turnout 164 100
John Redwood eliminated
Second Ballot: 6 May 1997
Candidate Votes %
William Hague 90 55.2
Kenneth Clarke 72 44.2
Abstentions 1 0.6
Turnout 163 99.4
Kenneth Clarke eliminated, William Hague elected

United Kingdom general election, 2001

UK General Election 2001
Party Candidates Votes
Stood Elected Gained Unseated Net % of total % No. Net %
  Labour 640 413 2 8 −6 62.5 40.7 10,724,953 −2.5%
  Conservative 643 166 9 8 +1 25.2 31.7 8,357,615 +1.0%
  Liberal Democrats 639 52 8 2 +6 7.9 18.3 4,814,321 +1.5%
  SNP 72 5 0 1 −1 0.8 1.8 464,314 −0.2%
  UKIP 428 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.5 390,563 1.2%
  UUP 17 6 1 5 −4 0.9 0.8 216,839 0.0%
  Plaid Cymru 40 4 1 1 0 0.6 0.7 195,893 +0.2%
  DUP 14 5 3 0 +3 0.8 0.7 181,999 +0.4%
  Sinn Féin 18 4 2 0 +2 0.6 0.7 175,933 +0.3%
  SDLP 18 3 0 0 0 0.5 0.6 169,865 0.0%
  Green 145 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.6 166,477 +0.3%
  Independent 136 0 0 1 −1 0.0 0.4 97,070 +0.3%
  Scottish Socialist 72 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.3 72,516 N/A
  Socialist Alliance 98 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.2 57,553 N/A
  Socialist Labour 114 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.2 57,288 0.0%
  BNP 33 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.2 47,129 +0.1%
  Alliance 10 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.1 28,999 −0.1%
  Health Concern 1 1 1 0 +1 0.2 0.1 28,487 N/A
  Liberal 13 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.1 13,685 0.0%
  UK Unionist 1 0 0 1 −1 0.0 0.1 13,509 +0.1%
  ProLife Alliance 37 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 9,453 −0.1%
  Legalise Cannabis 13 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 8,677 N/A
  People's Justice 3 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 7,443 N/A
  Monster Raving Loony 15 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 6,655 0.0%
  PUP 2 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 4,781 0.0%
  Mebyon Kernow 3 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 3,199 0.0%
  NI Women's Coalition 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 2,968 0.0%
  Scottish Unionist Party (modern) 2 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 2,728 N/A
  Rock 'n' Roll Loony 7 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 2,634 N/A
  National Front 5 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 2,484 0.0%
  Workers' Party 6 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 2,352 0.0%
  Neath Port Talbot Ratepayers 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 1,960 N/A
  NI Unionist 6 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 1,794 N/A
  Socialist Alternative 2 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 1,454 0.0%
  Reform 2000 5 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 1,418 N/A
  Isle of Wight 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 1,164 N/A
  Muslim 4 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 1,150 N/A
  Communist 6 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 1,003 0.0%
  New Britain 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 888 0.0%
  Free Party 3 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 832 N/A
  Leeds Left Alliance 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 770 N/A
  New Millennium Bean Party 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 727 N/A
  Workers Revolutionary 6 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 607 0.0%
  Tatton 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 505 N/A
Government's new majority 167
Total votes cast 26,368,204
Turnout 59.4%

All parties with more than 500 votes shown.

References

  1. ^ "Richmond [Yorks]". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
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