Английская Википедия:1981 Labour Party deputy leadership election

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox election The 1981 Labour Party deputy leadership election took place on 27 September 1981 when Tony Benn unsuccessfully challenged the incumbent deputy leader Denis Healey at the party conference. Healey had been elected unopposed as deputy leader in the previous year.

The election took place at the Labour Party conference, with affiliated trade unions holding 40% of the votes, delegates from Constituency Labour Parties holding 30% of the votes, and the Parliamentary Labour Party holding the final 30% of the votes.

Candidates

It was the first election to take place using the party's electoral college. At this time 40% of the votes were given to affiliated unions and societies, and 30% each to the Parliamentary Labour Party and the individual members and activists of the party. When this plurality in favour of the unions was first introduced, it received considerable criticism from the more social democratic wing of the party. It transpired that if the unions had had an equal share to the PLP and the membership then Healey's narrow majority would have been wiped out and the more left-wing Benn would have won the contest. The challenge for the deputy leadership of the party came a year after the election of Michael Foot as leader, which had seen the party shift to the left and resulted in a split which had created the SDP, who in turn had formed an alliance with the Liberal Party to appeal to centrist voters.

Results

First round[1]
Candidate Affiliated block
votes (40%)[2] 		CLP block votes (30%) PLP votes
(30%) 		Overall result
Votes % Votes % Votes % %
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" | Denis Healey 3,968 61.7 112 17.9 125 51.0 45.4
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" | Tony Benn 1,030 16.0 490 78.3 55 22.4 36.6
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" | John Silkin Шаблон:N 1,429 22.2 24 3.8 65 26.5 18.0
Second round[1]
Candidate Affiliated block
votes (40%) 		CLP block votes (30%) PLP votes
(30%) 		Overall result
Votes % Votes % Votes % %
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" | Denis Healey Шаблон:Y 3,969 62.5 118 18.9 137 65.9 50.4
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" | Tony Benn 2,383 37.5 506 81.1 71 34.1 49.6

In popular culture

A documentary, This Week: Benn's Bandwagon was first shown on 28 April 1981, in the second month of the contest and at the point when it began to dawn on the pundits that Tony Benn was going to come close to winning.Шаблон:Citation needed

Outcome

Healey's victory has been seen as a significant moment in the history of the Labour Party. Future Labour leader and Prime Minister Tony Blair said after Healey's death that "in winning the deputy leadership of the Labour Party in 1981, he probably saved the Labour Party as an instrument of government and social change".[3] Steve Richards notes that in the event of a Benn victory the SDP hoped to attract a number of significant defectors from the Labour Party and argues that while not obvious in 1981 the victory of Healey "marked the beginning of the end for the SDP".[4]

References

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Sources

Шаблон:Labour Party (UK) deputy leadership elections Шаблон:Labour Party deputy leadership election, 1981


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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ Under the rules at the time of the contest, block votes were cast by delegates and the Parliamentary Party at the Labour Party Conference. Affiliated Unions held 40% of the votes, CLPs 30% and the PLP 30%.
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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