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Lechasseur
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« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2017, 05:29:56 PM »
« edited: September 30, 2017, 04:22:47 AM by Lechasseur »

Conservative Party Leadership Elections:
1965: Enoch Powell
1975: Margaret Thatcher
1989: Margaret Thatcher
1990: Margaret Thatcher/John Major
1995: John Major
1997: Michael Howard/William Hague
2001: Ian Duncan-Smith
2003: Michael Howard
2005: Liam Fox/David Davis
2016: Liam Fox/Michael Gove/Andrea Leadsom
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« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2017, 09:27:46 AM »

Labour:
1976: Jim Callaghan
1980: Denis Healey
1983: Neil Kinnock
1988: Neil Kinnock
1992: John Smith
1994: Tony Blair
2007: Gordon Brown
2010: David Miliband
2015: Yvette Cooper
2016: Owen Smith

Conservatives:
1975: Margaret Thatcher
1989: Margaret Thatcher
1990: Margaret Thatcher/John Major
1995: John Major
1997: William Hague
2001: Ken Clarke
2003: Michael Howard
2005: David Cameron
2016: Theresa May
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« Reply #27 on: February 24, 2017, 05:34:04 AM »
« Edited: March 20, 2017, 09:28:41 AM by Intell »

Labour Party

1922: Ramsay MacDonald
1935: Clement Atlee
1955: Aneurin Bevan
1960: Harold Wilson
1961: Anthony Greenwood
1963: Harold Wilson
1976: 1. Crossland 2. Callaghan
1980: 1. Shore 2. Foot
1983: 1. Shore 2. Kinnock
1988: Neil Kinnock
1992: John Smith
1994: John Prescott
2007: Gordon Brown (For Nomination)
2010: 1. Burnham 2. Balls 3. Ed Millibrand
2015: Andy Burnham
2016: Abstain


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« Reply #28 on: March 05, 2017, 11:17:17 PM »

Doing it again, with brief comments:

1922: Ramsay Mac - the anti-WWI candidate
1935: Attlee, obviously. As if I'd vote for Mandy's grandad or a pre-war George Brown.
1955: Nye, although I quite like Gaitskell in some ways.
1960: Wilson, if mostly for factional reasons
1961: Greenwood, ditto.
1963: Wilson. George Brown as Labour leader...I mean if you think Corbyn is doing a bad job.......
1976: The go-to "look at how there were more heavyweights in the old days of politics!" leadership election. Probably Foot, definitely not Woy.
1980: Shore, then Foot. Quite like Healey though.
1983: Maybe something like 1. Heffer, 2. Shore, 3. Hattersley, 4. Kinnock out of bitterness.
1988: Benn, definitely.
1992: Probably a sympathy vote for the oddball Gould.
1994: Prescott, Beckett, Blair. Quite easy.
2007: Johnny Mac had he been nominated. But I was glad that Blair was finally gone. Meacher actually attempted a run here btw; must be the British equivalent of Gene McCarthy 1992.
2010: Supported Abbott at the time, but in hindsight it would have been 1. Burnham, 2. Balls, 3. E Miliband, 4. Abbott, 5. D Miliband.
2015: Actual vote was 1. Corbyn, 2. Burnham, 3. Cooper, 4. Kendall.
2016: Actual vote went to Corbyn, would rather he'd have stepped aside in favour of Johnny Mac though (but that wasn't really an option).
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