The 1993 United Kingdom general election was held on 6 May 1993, alongside local elections. The result was a landslide defeat for the incumbent Conservative Party. The alliance between the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party won a landslide victory, winning a 101-seat majority in the House of Commons.
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| - United Kingdom general election, 1993 (No Falklands)
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| - The 1993 United Kingdom general election was held on 6 May 1993, alongside local elections. The result was a landslide defeat for the incumbent Conservative Party. The alliance between the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party won a landslide victory, winning a 101-seat majority in the House of Commons.
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| popular vote
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- 9869994(xsd:integer)
- 14165581(xsd:integer)
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| Leader
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| last election
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- 392(xsd:integer)
- 112 seats, 20.2%
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| election date
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| election name
| - United Kingdom general election, 1993
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| majority seats
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| map caption
| - Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
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| ongoing
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| Country
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| seats for election
| - All 651 seats in the House of Commons
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| Seats
| - 93(xsd:integer)
- 158(xsd:integer)
- 376(xsd:integer)
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| Party
| - Labour Party
- Conservative Party
- SDP–Liberal_Alliance
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| before election
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| party name
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| previous mps
| - MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1988
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| leaders seat
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| Percentage
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| previous election
| - United Kingdom general election, 1988
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| next mps
| - MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1997
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| next election
| - United Kingdom general election, 1997
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| Previous Year
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| leader since
| - 1983-06-21(xsd:date)
- 1988-10-02(xsd:date)
- 1991-07-10(xsd:date)
- 1991-10-14(xsd:date)
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| seat change
| - 19(xsd:integer)
- 234(xsd:integer)
- 253(xsd:integer)
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| abstract
| - The 1993 United Kingdom general election was held on 6 May 1993, alongside local elections. The result was a landslide defeat for the incumbent Conservative Party. The alliance between the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party won a landslide victory, winning a 101-seat majority in the House of Commons. Although the Conservatives had won a landslide victory in the previous general election, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher became unpopular soon after due to an economic recession and the SDP-Liberal Alliance began to lead in the polls by up to 20 percentage points. Thatcher resigned in October 1991 after being challenged for the party leadership by Ken Clarke and was replaced by John Major. Major's appointment as Prime Minister temporarily gave the Conservatives a boost in the polls and Major had plans to call an election in October 1992. However, September 1992 saw the Black Monday crisis in which the United Kingdom was ejected from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and hit by devaluation. The Conservatives went on to lose over 200 seats to the Alliance, their heaviest losses since 1906. The Conservatives lost several high-ranked members such as Malcolm Rifkind, Chris Patten and Ian Lang, along with Thatcher's former constituency. This was the last British general election to be conducted under the first past the post voting system; the new government had pledged to abolish the system and this was carried out after a 1994 referendum. It was also the first to produce a coalition government, though this soon became the norm after the conversion of the voting system.
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