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)

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.