2001 General Election

7 June 2001 · New Labour · 659 seats

A near-exact rerun of 1997 on a sharply lower turnout of 59%, the lowest since 1918. Hague resigned immediately; the quiet campaign was punctured only by Prescott's punch.

Prime Minister before

Tony Blair

Labour

Prime Minister (continued)

Tony Blair

Labour

Government formed

Labour

majority of 166

Turnout

59.4%

electorate 44,403,238

The result

Labour
Tony Blair · 40.7%
412
seats
Conservative
William Hague · 31.7%
166
seats
Liberal Democrats
Charles Kennedy · 18.3%
52
seats

29 further seats went to parties and independents outside the main contenders listed above.

Turnout by nation

England

59.2%

Wales

61.6%

Scotland

58.2%

N. Ireland

68.0%

United Kingdom

59.4%

The result by constituency

All 659 constituencies on the 1997-2001 boundaries, from the House of Commons Library dataset. Search, filter by country or region, and click any column heading to sort.

Highest turnout

81.3%

Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland

Lowest turnout

34.1%

Liverpool Riverside, North West

Biggest single-party share

77.8%

Labour, Liverpool Walton

Tightest main-family margin

0.1 pts

Perth, Scotland

South East
Conservative 42.9% · most votes in 53Liberal / Lib Dem 23.7% · most votes in 8Labour 29.4% · most votes in 22Other 4.1%
83
seats · turnout 61.6%
North West
Conservative 29.3% · most votes in 9Liberal / Lib Dem 16.7% · most votes in 3Labour 50.7% · most votes in 64Other 3.3%
76
seats · turnout 55.9%
London
Conservative 30.5% · most votes in 13Liberal / Lib Dem 17.5% · most votes in 6Labour 47.4% · most votes in 55Other 4.7%
74
seats · turnout 55.3%
Scotland
Conservative 15.6% · most votes in 1Liberal / Lib Dem 16.3% · most votes in 10Labour 43.3% · most votes in 55SNP / Plaid Cymru 20.1% · most votes in 5Other 4.7% · most votes in 1
72
seats · turnout 58.1%
West Midlands
Conservative 35.0% · most votes in 13Liberal / Lib Dem 14.7% · most votes in 2Labour 44.8% · most votes in 43Other 5.5% · most votes in 1
59
seats · turnout 58.6%
East of England
Conservative 41.8% · most votes in 34Liberal / Lib Dem 17.5% · most votes in 2Labour 36.8% · most votes in 20Other 3.9%
56
seats · turnout 61.7%
Yorkshire and the Humber
Conservative 30.2% · most votes in 7Liberal / Lib Dem 17.1% · most votes in 2Labour 48.6% · most votes in 47Other 4.0%
56
seats · turnout 56.8%
South West
Conservative 38.5% · most votes in 20Liberal / Lib Dem 31.2% · most votes in 15Labour 26.3% · most votes in 16Other 4.0%
51
seats · turnout 64.9%
East Midlands
Conservative 37.3% · most votes in 15Liberal / Lib Dem 15.4% · most votes in 1Labour 45.1% · most votes in 28Other 2.2%
44
seats · turnout 60.8%
Wales
Conservative 21.0%Liberal / Lib Dem 13.8% · most votes in 2Labour 48.6% · most votes in 34SNP / Plaid Cymru 14.3% · most votes in 4Other 2.3%
40
seats · turnout 61.4%
North East
Conservative 21.3% · most votes in 1Liberal / Lib Dem 16.7% · most votes in 1Labour 59.4% · most votes in 28Other 2.6%
30
seats · turnout 56.4%
Northern Ireland
Conservative 0.3%Other 99.7% · most votes in 18
18
seats · turnout 68.0%
659 of 659 constituencies
Aberavon
Labour
63.1%
Aberdeen Central
Labour
45.5%
Aberdeen North
Labour
43.3%
Aberdeen South
Labour
39.8%
Airdrie & Shotts
Labour
58.2%
Aldershot
Conservative
42.2%
Aldridge-Brownhills
Conservative
50.2%
Altrincham & Sale West
Conservative
46.2%
Alyn & Deeside
Labour
52.3%
Amber Valley
Labour
51.9%
Angus
SNP / Plaid Cymru
35.3%
Argyll & Bute
Liberal / Lib Dem
29.9%

The dataset groups candidates into five party families: Conservative (including Ulster Unionists before February 1974), the Liberal family (Liberal, SDP–Liberal Alliance, Liberal Democrats), Labour, SNP and Plaid Cymru, and all others combined. “Most votes” marks the family with the largest vote in each constituency, not necessarily the seat's winner: the Other column aggregates many parties.