United Kingdom general election, 2001 (Cornwall)

United Kingdom general election, 2001
Cornwall
All 5 Cornish seats to the House of Commons
  First party Second party
 
Leader Charles Kennedy Tony Blair
Party Liberal Democrat Labour
Leader since 9 August 1999 21 July 1994
Last election 4 Seats 1 Seat
Seats before 4 1
Seats won 4 1
Popular vote 113,000 41,140
Percentage 44.9% 17.2%

Constituency map of Cornwall, coloured by winning party
Prime Minister before election

Tony Blair
Labour

 Subsequent Prime Minister

Tony Blair
Labour

The following are the 2001 United Kingdom general election results in Cornwall.

Overall results

Party MPs +/- Votes % +/-%
Liberal Democrats 4 113,000 44.9
Conservative Party 0 82,227 32.7
Labour Party 1 43,374 17.2
UKIP 0 9,290 3.7
Mebyon Kernow 0 3,199 1.3
Liberal 0 649 0.3
Others 0 78 0.0

Seat by seat

Constituency Party MP Majority Result
Falmouth & Camborne Labour Candy Atherton 4,527 Lab hold
North Cornwall Liberal Democrat Paul Tyler 9,832 LibDem hold
South East Cornwall Liberal Democrat Colin Breed 5,375 LibDem hold
St Ives Liberal Democrat Andrew George 10,053 LibDem hold
Truro and St Austell Liberal Democrat Matthew Taylor 7,403 LibDem hold

See also

References

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