On Thursday 1 May 1997, the 1997 United Kingdom general election was held in England, to elect all 659 members of the House of Commons, with 529 constituencies being in England. Under Tony Blair, the Labour Party won a landslide majority of English seats, the first time since 1966 that Labour had won an overall majority of English seats. The England result, together with even larger landslide Labour results in Scotland and Wales, gave Labour the biggest majority for any single party since 1931. Blair subsequently formed the first Labour government since 1979, beginning 13 years of Labour government.

Results

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 328 133 1 132 62.0 11,347,882 43.5 9.6 165 0 159 159 31.2 8,780,881 33.7 11.8 34 26 1 25 6.4 4,677,565 18.0 1.3 0 colspan=3 — 746,624 2.9 0 colspan=3 — 103,521 0.4 1 1 0 1 0.2 69,464 0.3 0.2 0 0 0 — 60,013 0.2 0.4 0 0 0 — 44,516 0.2 0 colspan=3 — 44,114 0.2 0 0 0 — 35,181 0.1 0.1 0 0 0 — 25,958 0.1 0.1 0 0 0 — 24,447 0.1 1 1 0 1 0.2 24,447 0.1 0 0 0 — 18,667 0.1 Prolife Alliance 0 colspan=3 — 13,890 0.1   Others 0 0 0 — 42,020 0.2 Total 529 26,058,712 71.4 6.6

By region

Regional vote shares and changes are sourced from the House of Commons Library. The results are based on the regions of England established in 1994; however, the results in Merseyside were recorded separately from North West England, despite being part of the region.

The number of seats for each region that were changed under the fourth periodic review of Westminster constituencies are indicated respectively.

North East England

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 28 3 0 3 93.3 862,262 64.0 10.7 1 0 3 3 3.3 266,294 19.8 11.0 1 0 0 3.3 169,270 12.6 2.9   Others 0 0 0 0.0 48,764 3.6 3.2 Total 30 1,346,590

North West England

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 49 13 0 13 81.7 1,499,518 51.5 9.0 9 0 14 14 15.0 859,436 29.5 11.3 1 0 0 1.7 421,025 14.5 1.0   Others 1 1 0 1 1.7 130,730 4.5 3.3 Total 60 4 2,910,709

Merseyside

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 15 3 0 3 93.8 442,366 64.0 10.4 0 0 4 4 0.0 141,120 19.8 9.3 1 1 0 1 6.2 103,152 12.6 2.4   Others 0 0 0 0.0 28,158 3.6 1.3 Total 16 1 714,796

Yorkshire and the Humber

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 47 13 0 13 83.9 1,339,170 51.9 7.6 7 0 15 15 12.5 720,771 28.0 10.0 2 2 0 2 3.6 412,216 16.0 0.8   Others 0 0 0 0.0 106,016 4.1 3.2 Total 56 2 2,578,173

East Midlands

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 30 15 0 15 68.2 1,097,639 47.8 10.4 14 0 14 15 31.8 800,958 34.9 11.7 0 0 0 0.0 311,264 13.6 1.7   Others 0 0 0 0.0 84,889 3.7 3.0 Total 44 2 2,294,750

West Midlands

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 43 15 0 15 72.9 1,326,822 47.0 8.2 14 0 17 17 23.7 953,465 33.7 11.0 1 1 0 1 1.7 388,807 13.8 1.3   Others 1 1 0 1 1.7 156,731 5.5 4.1 Total 59 1 2,825,825

East of England

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 33 0 19 19 58.9 1,164,777 39.5 13.0 22 18 0 18 39.3 1,137,637 38.6 12.2 1 1 0 1 1.8 504,416 17.1 2.7   Others 0 0 0 0.0 140,337 4.8 3.5 Total 56 5 2,947,167

Greater London

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 57 25 0 25 77.0 1,643,329 49.5 12.4 11 0 30 30 14.9 1,036,082 31.2 14.1 6 5 0 5 8.1 485,511 14.6 1.3   Others 0 0 0 0.0 156,126 4.7 3.0 Total 74 10 3,321,048

South East England

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 54 0 25 25 65.1 1,817,343 41.9 13.1 22 18 0 18 26.5 1,264,778 29.1 10.2 7 7 0 7 8.4 1,012,418 23.3 1.4   Others 0 0 0 0.0 247,069 5.7 4.2 Total 83 5 4,341,608

South West England

+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference 22 0 17 17 43.1 1,020,635 36.7 10.8 14 8 0 8 27.5 869,486 31.3 0.1 15 9 0 9 29.4 734,361 26.4 7.2   Others 0 0 0 0.0 153,564 5.5 3.7 Total 51 3 2,778,046

See also 1997 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland 1997 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 1997 United Kingdom general election in Wales

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