Election
On Thursday 11 June 1987, the 1987 United Kingdom general election was held in England, to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons, with 523 constituencies being in England.
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On Thursday 11 June 1987, the 1987 United Kingdom general election was held in England, to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons, with 523 constituencies being in England.
Below is a table summarising the candidates of the 1987 general election in England.
The Conservative Party won an overall majority of English seats for the third successive election and enough seats to seal a UK-wide majority already within England's borders. 326 was the UK-wide threshold and the Conservatives won 358 in the English constituencies.
The 1987 general election saw the election of the first Black Members of Parliament: Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant, all as representatives in Greater London for the Labour Party. Future Cabinet members David Blunkett, John Redwood and Andrew Smith and future Shadow Cabinet minister Ann Widdecombe also entered the House of Commons in English constituencies. MPs who left the House of Commons as a result of this election included Keith Joseph, Jim Prior, Ian Mikardo and Clement Freud.
Note: these results are based on the previously-used standard statistical regions, not the current regions of England established in 1994.
This region included Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and constituencies in the defunct county of Cleveland in the current English region of North East England, as well as Cumbria.
Like the current statistical region, this region included North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire constituencies in Humberside.
Like the current statistical region, this region included Derbyshire, Lincolnshire (excluding North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire), Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland.
This region included Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
This consisted of the constituencies within the county and region of Greater London.
This region included Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Surrey, East Sussex and West Sussex within the current South East England. It also included Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex within the current East of England region.
However, it excluded Greater London, which was otherwise part of the standard statistical region at the time.
Like the current statistical region, this region included Cornwall, Dorset, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, and the defunct county of Avon.
Like the current statistical region, this region included Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, the county of West Midlands, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
This region included Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire.
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