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This page details the results of the 1983 United Kingdom general election.

Essex

Conservative Labour Party Liberal Social Democratic Other
15 1 0 0 0
51.9% 17.8% 18.1% 11.6% 0.5%
Constituency Party MP Majority Result
Basildon Conservative David Amess 1,379 Con hold
Billericay Conservative Harvey Proctor 14,615 Con hold
Braintree Conservative Tony Newton 13,441 Con hold
Brentwood and Ongar Conservative Robert McCrindle 9,387 Con hold
Castle Point Conservative Bernard Braine 15,417 Con hold
Chelmsford Conservative Norman St John-Stevas 378 Con hold
Colchester North Conservative Antony Buck 15,048 Con hold
Colchester South and Maldon Conservative John Wakeham 12,165 Con hold
Epping Forest Conservative John Biggs-Davison 15,378 Con hold
Harlow Conservative Jerry Hayes 3,674 Con hold
Harwich Conservative Julian Ridsdale 12,502 Con hold
Rochford Conservative Michael Clark 13,102 Con hold
Saffron Walden Conservative Alan Haselhurst 15,249 Con hold
Southend East Conservative Teddy Taylor 10,691 Con hold
Southend West Conservative Paul Channon 8,033 Con hold
Thurrock Labour Oonagh McDonald 1,722 Lab hold

Northern Scotland

Constituency Party MP Majority Result
Aberdeen North Labour 9,144 Lab
Aberdeen South Conservative 3,581 Con
Argyll and Bute Conservative 3,844 Con
Angus East Conservative 3,527 Con
Banff & Buchan Conservative A. McQuirrie 937 Con
Caithness and Sutherland Social Democrat Robert Maclennan 6,843 SDP
Dundee East SNP 13,104 SNP
Dundee West Labour 10,150 Lab

Scotland

Constituency Party MP Majority Result
Ayr Conservative George Younger 7,978 Con
Carrick Cumnock & Doon Valley Labour 11,370 Lab
Clackmannan Labour 9,639 Lab
Clydebank and Milngavie Labour 9,436 Lab
Clydesdale Labour 4,866 Lab
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Labour 9,928 Lab
Cunninghame North Conservative 1,637 Con
Cunninghame South Labour 11,768 Lab
Dumbarton Labour 2,115 Lab
Dumfries Conservative 8,694 Con
Dunfermline East Labour Gordon Brown 11,301 Lab
Dunfermline West Labour 2,474 Lab
East Kilbride Labour 4,336 Lab
East Lothian Labour 6,241 Lab
Eastwood Conservative Party 8,595 Con
Edinburgh Central Conservative Party 2,566 Con
Edinburgh East Labour 5,866 Lab
Edinburgh Leith Labour 4,973 Lab
Edinburgh Pentlands Conservative Party Malcolm Rifkind 4,309 Con
Edinburgh South Conservative Party 3,655 Con
Edinburgh West Labour 498 Lab
Falkirk East Labour 10,061 Lab
Falkirk West Labour 8,978 Lab
Fife Central Labour 7,794 Lab
Fife North East Conservative 2,185 Con
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Conservative Ian Lang 5,461 Con
Glasgow Cathcart Conservative 4,230 Lab
Glasgow Central Conservative 10,962 Lab
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