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This is a summary of the electoral history of Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom from 2015 to 2020 and Member of Parliament for Islington North since 1983.
Council elections
1974 Haringey Borough Council election
Haringey Borough Council Election 1974: South Hornsey[1] Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 1,190 | | |
| Labour | D.H. Billingsley | 1,169 | | |
| Labour | F. Neuner | 1,041 | | |
| Conservative | B.C. Greaves | 879 | | |
| Conservative | P.R. Haselwood | 838 | | |
| Conservative | C. Kavallares | 824 | | |
| Liberal | D.A. Arnold | 198 | | |
| Communist | J.A. Luckett | 116 | | |
1978 Haringey Borough Council election
Haringey Borough Council Election 1978: Harringay[2] Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Charles L. Silverstone | 1,776 | | |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 1,729 | | |
| Labour | Ronald H. Blanchard | 1,651 | | |
| Conservative | Timothy W.A. Easton | 1,064 | | |
| Conservative | Gerald J.Y. Murphy | 1,056 | | |
| Conservative | Christakis Kavallares | 1,048 | | |
| Communist | Francis W. Carr | 231 | | |
| National Front | Leslie Butler | 112 | | |
| National Front | John H. Green | 86 | | |
| National Front | Barbara A. Green | 78 | | |
1982 Haringey Borough Council election
Parliamentary elections
General election 1983: Islington North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 14,951 | 40.4 | −12.2 |
| Conservative | David A. Coleman | 9,344 | 25.3 | −8.3 |
| SDP | John Grant | 8,268 | 22.4 | +13.5 |
| Independent Labour | Michael O'Halloran | 4,091 | 11.1 | N/A |
| BNP | L. A. D. Bearsford-Walker | 176 | 0.5 | N/A |
| Independent | Roy A. J. Lincoln | 134 | 0.4 | N/A |
Majority | 5,607 | 24.7 | |
Turnout | 36,964 | 66.5 | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
General election 1987: Islington North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 19,577 | 50.0 | +9.6 |
| Conservative | Ernest George Noad | 9,920 | 25.3 | 0.0 |
| SDP | Alan Whelan | 8,560 | 21.8 | −0.6 |
| Green | Christopher Michael Ashby | 1,131 | 2.9 | N/A |
Majority | 9,657 | 24.7 | |
Turnout | 38,488 | 66.5 | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
General election 1997: Islington North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 24,834 | 69.3 | +11.9 |
| Liberal Democrats | James Kempton | 4,879 | 13.6 | −1.5 |
| Conservative | Simon Fawthrop | 4,631 | 12.9 | −10.8 |
| Green | Christopher Michael Ashby | 1,516 | 4.2 | +0.4 |
Majority | 19,955 | 55.6 | |
Turnout | 35,860 | 62.5 | |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
General election 2001: Islington North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 18,699 | 61.9 | −7.4 |
| Liberal Democrats | Laura Willoughby | 5,741 | 19.0 | +5.4 |
| Conservative | Neil Rands | 3,249 | 10.8 | −2.2 |
| Green | Christopher Michael Ashby | 1,876 | 6.2 | +2.0 |
| Socialist Labour | Stephen Cook | 512 | 1.7 | N/A |
| Reform 2000 Party | Emine Hassan | 139 | 0.5 | N/A |
Majority | 12,958 | 42.9 | |
Turnout | 30,216 | 48.8 | −13.7 |
| Labour hold | Swing | | |
General election 2005: Islington North Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 16,118 | 51.2 | −10.7 |
| Liberal Democrats | Laura Willoughby | 9,402 | 29.9 | +10.9 |
| Conservative | Nicola Talbot | 3,740 | 11.9 | +1.1 |
| Green | Jon Nott | 2,234 | 7.1 | +0.9 |
Majority | 6,716 | 21.3 | |
Turnout | 31,494 | 53.9 | +5.1 |
| Labour hold | Swing | −10.8 | |
General election 2010: Islington North[4] Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 24,276 | 54.5 | +3.3 |
| Liberal Democrats | Rhodri Jamieson-Ball | 11,875 | 26.7 | −3.2 |
| Conservative | Adrian Berrill-Cox | 6,339 | 14.2 | +2.4 |
| Green | Emma Dixon | 1,348 | 3.0 | −4.1 |
| UKIP | Dominic Lennon | 716 | 1.6 | N/A |
Majority | 12,401 | 27.8 | |
Turnout | 44,554 | 65.4 | +11.5 |
| Labour hold | Swing | +3.3 | |
General election 2017: Islington North[10] Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 40,086 | 73.0 | +12.7 |
| Conservative | James Clark | 6,871 | 12.5 | −4.7 |
| Liberal Democrats | Keith Angus | 4,946 | 9.0 | +0.9 |
| Green | Caroline Russell | 2,229 | 4.1 | −6.2 |
| UKIP | Keith Fraser | 413 | 0.8 | −3.3 |
| No label | Michael Foster | 208 | 0.4 | '"`UNIQ−−templatestyles−0000002E−QINU`"'N/A |
| Monster Raving Loony | Knigel Knapp | 106 | 0.2 | '"`UNIQ−−templatestyles−0000002F−QINU`"'N/A |
| Independent | Susanne Cameron-Blackie | 41 | 0.1 | '"`UNIQ−−templatestyles−00000030−QINU`"'N/A |
| Socialist (GB) | Bill Martin | 21 | 0.0 | −0.2 |
| Communist League | Andres Mendoza | 7 | 0.0 | '"`UNIQ−−templatestyles−00000031−QINU`"'N/A |
Majority | 33,215 | 60.5 | +17.5 |
Turnout | 54,515 | 73.3 | +6.2 |
| Labour hold | Swing | +11.7 | |
2019 general election, Islington North
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Labour Party leadership election, 2015
Following the resignation of Ed Miliband as Labour Party leader on 8 May 2015, Jeremy Corbyn announced his candidacy for the position on 3 June 2015. The new leader would be decided by a ballot of party members, supporters and affiliates, where the candidate securing over 50% would be elected.
First preference votes, result announced 12 September 2015
Candidate | Party members | Registered supporters | Affiliated supporters | Total |
Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % |
| Jeremy Corbyn | 121,751 | 49.59% | 88,449 | 83.76% | 41,217 | 57.61% | 251,417 | | 59.5% |
| Andy Burnham | 55,698 | 22.69% | 6,160 | 5.83% | 18,604 | 26.00% | 80,462 | | 19.0% |
| Yvette Cooper | 54,470 | 22.18% | 8,415 | 7.97% | 9,043 | 12.64% | 71,928 | | 17.0% |
| Liz Kendall | 13,601 | 5.54% | 2,574 | 2.44% | 2,682 | 3.75% | 18,857 | | 4.5% |
Labour Party leadership election, 2016
The British Labour Party leadership election of 2016 was called when a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party arose following criticism of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign in the referendum on membership of the European Union and questions about his leadership of the party.[14]
First preference votes, result announced 24 September 2016
Candidate | Party members | Registered supporters | Affiliated supporters | Total[15] |
Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % |
| Jeremy Corbyn | 168,216 | 59.0% | 84,918 | 69.9% | 60,075 | 60.2% | 313,209 | | 61.8% |
| Owen Smith | 116,960 | 41.0% | 36,599 | 30.1% | 39,670 | 39.8% | 193,229 | | 38.2% |
2017 United Kingdom general election
e • d Results of the June 2017 House of Commons of the United Kingdom results |
Political party | Leader | MPs | Votes |
Candidates[16] | Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Of total (%) | Total | Of total (%) | Change (%) |
| Conservative[17] | Theresa May | 638 | 317 | 20 | 33 | −13 | 48.8 | 13,636,684 | 42.3 | +5.5 |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 631 | 262 | 36 | 6 | +30 | 40.3 | 12,877,918 | 40.0 | +9.6 |
| Liberal Democrats | Tim Farron | 629 | 12 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 1.8 | 2,371,861 | 7.4 | −0.5 |
| SNP | Nicola Sturgeon | 59 | 35 | 0 | 21 | −21 | 5.4 | 977,568 | 3.0 | −1.7 |
| UKIP | Paul Nuttall | 378 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 594,068 | 1.8 | −10.8 |
| Green Party of England and Wales | Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley | 457 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 512,327 | 1.6 | −2.0 |
| DUP | Arlene Foster | 17 | 10 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 1.5 | 292,316 | 0.9 | +0.3 |
| Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 18 | 7 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 1.1 | 238,915 | 0.7 | +0.1 |
| Plaid Cymru | Leanne Wood | 40 | 4 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.6 | 164,466 | 0.5 | −0.1 |
| Independent | | 187 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 151,471 | 0.5 | +0.2 |
| SDLP | Colum Eastwood | 18 | 0 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0 | 95,419 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| UUP | Robin Swann | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 0 | 83,280 | 0.3 | −0.1 |
| Alliance | Naomi Long | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64,553 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Speaker | John Bercow | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 34,299 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Yorkshire | Stewart Arnold | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20,958 | 0.1 | +0.1 |
| NHA | Alex Ashman | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16,119 | 0.1 | −0.1 |
| Green Party Northern Ireland | Steven Agnew | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7,452 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Scottish Green Party | Patrick Harvie and Maggie Chapman | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,886 | 0.0 | −0.1 |
| CPA | Sidney Cordle | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,869 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| People Before Profit | Eamonn McCann | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,509 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Ashfield Independents | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,612 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| BNP | Adam Walker | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,580 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Monster Raving Loony | Alan Hope | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,890 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Liberal | Steve Radford | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,672 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Women's Equality | Sophie Walker | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,580 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| TUV | Jim Allister | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,282 | 0.0 | −0.1 |
| North East Party | Mary Cartwright | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,355 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Pirate | David A Elston | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,321 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| English Democrat | Robin Tilbrook | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,913 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Christian | Jeff Green | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,720 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Independent Save Withybush Save Lives | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,209 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Socialist Labour | Arthur Scargill | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,154 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Animal Welfare | Vanessa Hudson | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 955 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| JAC | | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 842 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Southampton Independents | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 816 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Workers Revolutionary | Sheila Torrance | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 771 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Workers' Party | | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 708 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Something New | | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 552 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Demos Direct Initiative Party | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 551 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Libertarian | Adam Brown | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 524 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| SDP | Peter Johnson | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 469 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Peace | John Morris | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 468 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Friends Party | | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 435 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Better for Bradford | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 420 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| All other parties | | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,447 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Total | 3,304 | 650 | | | | | 32,204,184 | | |
2019 United Kingdom general election
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Results of the December 2019 general election to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom[18][19] Political party | Leader | Candidates | MPs[20] | Votes |
Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Of total (%) | Total | Of total (%) | Change (%) |
| Conservative | Boris Johnson | 635 | 365 | 58 | 10 | 48 | 56.2 | 13,966,454 | 43.63 | +1.2 |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 631 | 202 | 1 | 61 | 60 | 31.1 | 10,269,051 | 32.08 | −7.9 |
| Liberal Democrats | Jo Swinson | 611 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1.7 | 3,696,419 | 11.55 | +4.2 |
| Scottish National Party | Nicola Sturgeon | 59 | 48 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 7.4 | 1,242,380 | 3.88 | +0.8 |
| Green Party of England and Wales | Siân Berry and Jonathan Bartley | 472 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 835,597 | 2.61 | +1.1 |
| Brexit Party | Nigel Farage | 275 | | | | | | 644,257 | 2.01 | |
| DUP | Arlene Foster | 17 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.2 | 244,128 | 0.76 | −0.1 |
| Sinn Féin | Mary Lou McDonald | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.1 | 181,853 | 0.57 | −0.2 |
| Plaid Cymru | Adam Price | 36 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 153,265 | 0.48 | 0.0 |
| Alliance | Naomi Long | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.2 | 134,115 | 0.42 | +0.2 |
| SDLP | Colum Eastwood | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.3 | 118,737 | 0.37 | +0.1 |
| UUP | Steve Aiken | 16 | | | | | | 93,123 | 0.29 | 0.0 |
| Yorkshire | Christopher Whitwood | 28 | | | | | | 29,201 | 0.09 | 0.0 |
| Scottish Greens | Patrick Harvie & Lorna Slater | 22 | | | | | | 28,122 | 0.09 | |
| Speaker | Lindsay Hoyle | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 26,831 | 0.08 | 0.0 |
| UKIP | Patricia Mountain (interim) | 44 | | | | | | 22,817 | 0.07 | −1.8 |
| Ashfield Ind. | Jason Zadrozny | 1 | | | | | | 13,498 | 0.04 | 0.0 |
| Liberal | Steve Radford | 19 | | | | | | 10,876 | 0.03 | 0.0 |
| The Independent Group for Change | Anna Soubry | 3 | | | | | | 10,006 | 0.03 | |
| Aontú | Peadar Tóibín | 7 | | | | | | 9,814 | 0.03 | |
| Monster Raving Loony | Howling Laud Hope | 24 | | | | | | 9,739 | 0.03 | 0.0 |
| People Before Profit | Collective | 2 | | | | | | 7,526 | 0.02 | |
| Birkenhead Social Justice | Frank Field | 1 | | | | | | 7,285 | 0.02 | |
| CPA | Sidney Cordle | 29 | | | | | | 6,486 | 0.02 | 0.0 |
| Heavy Woollen Independents | Aleksandar Lukic | 1 | | | | | | 6,432 | 0.02 | |
| SDP | William Clouston | 20 | | | | | | 3,295 | 0.01 | 0.0 |
| Animal Welfare | Vanessa Hudson | 6 | | | | | | 3,086 | 0.01 | 0.0 |
| North East | Mark Burdon | 2 | | | | | | 2,637 | 0.01 | |
| Lincolnshire Independent | Marianne Overton | 1 | | | | | | 1,999 | 0.01 | |
| Green Party Northern Ireland | Clare Bailey | 3 | | | | | | 1,996 | 0.01 | |
| English Democrat | Robin Tilbrook | 5 | | | | | | 1,987 | 0.01 | 0.0 |
| Libertarian | Adam Brown | 6 | | | | | | 1,780 | 0.01 | 0.0 |
| Mebyon Kernow | Dick Cole | 1 | | | | | | 1,660 | 0.01 | 0.0 |
| Proud of Oldham and Saddleworth | Paul Errock | 2 | | | | | | 1,606 | 0.01 | |
| Independent Network | Ian Stephens | 1 | | | | | | 1,542 | 0.0 | |
| Gwlad | Gwyn Wigley Evans | 3 | | | | | | 1,515 | 0.00 | |
| Cynon Valley | Andrew Chainey | 1 | | | | | | 1,322 | 0.00 | |
| VPP | Robin Horsfall | 2 | | | | | | 1,219 | 0.00 | |
| Burnley and Padiham Party | Mark Payne | 1 | | | | | | 1,162 | 0.00 | |
| Shropshire Party | Robert Jones | 1 | | | | | | 1,141 | 0.00 | |
| Putting Cumbria First | Jonathan Davies | 1 | | | | | | 1,070 | 0.00 | |
| Peace | John Morris | 2 | | | | | | 960 | 0.00 | |
| Wycombe Independents | Matt Knight | 1 | | | | | | 926 | 0.00 | |
| JAC | Donald Jerrard | 3 | | | | | | 728 | 0.00 | |
| Christian | Jeff Green | 2 | | | | | | 705 | 0.00 | 0.0 |
| Renew | Julie Girling | 4 | | | | | | 545 | 0.00 | 0.0 |
| Workers Revolutionary | Joshua Ogunleye | 5 | | | | | | 524 | 0.00 | 0.0 |
| BNP | Adam Walker | 1 | | | | | | 510 | 0.00 | 0.0 |
Parties with fewer than 500 votes each | 40 | | | | | | 5,697 | 0.02 | |
Independent (non-party) candidates | 224 | | | 1 | 1 | | 206,486 | 0.64 | |
Blank and invalid votes | | 117,919 | — | — |
Total | 3320 | 650 | | | 0 | 100 | 32,014,110[21] | 100 | 0.0 |
Registered voters, and turnout | | 47,587,254 | 67.52 | −1.3 |
Notes
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- ^ BBC News includes the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, in the MP tally and the vote tally for the Conservatives. In this table, however, the speaker (who usually does not vote in the Commons) is listed separately, and has been removed from the Conservative tally.
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- ^ All valid votes excluding spoiled votes. The official 32,014,110 valid votes is per the HoC Research Briefing
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