Labour Party (UK) deputy leadership election, 1983

Labour Party (UK) deputy leadership election

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Candidate Roy Hattersley Michael Meacher Affiliated 35.3% 4.7% Constituency 15.3% 14.4% Parliamentary 16.7% 8.8% Total 67.3% 27.9%   Candidate Denzil Davies Gwyneth Dunwoody Affiliated 0.0% 0.0% Constituency 0.2% 0.1% Parliamentary 3.3% 1.2% Total 3.5% 1.3%
Deputy Leader before election Denis Healey Elected Deputy Leader Roy Hattersley

Denis Healey

Roy Hattersley

A Labour party deputy leadership election took place on 2 October 1983 to replace incumbent Deputy Leader Denis Healey. Healey had served in the position since 1980, becoming deputy leader at the same time that Michael Foot became party leader. Foot and Healey had both announced their resignations after the general election on 9 June 1983, in which a disastrous performance left the Labour Party with just 209 seats in parliament.

The election was conducted using the Labour party's electoral college. It was won by Roy Hattersley, who won more than two-thirds of the votes. On the same day, Neil Kinnock won the leadership election. A young Peter Mandelson was employed in Hattersley's campaign team for the deputy leadership contest.

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