The 1983 Election
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- The 1983 Election
- why did Lab. lose so heavily?
- the 1983 manifesto was very left-wing
- it was dubbed the 'longest suicide note in history'
- it included nuclear disarmament,nationalising the banks (no private enterprise) withdrawal from Europe
- more popular elements, however, were a ban on fox-hunting & national minimum wage
- many anti-thatcher voters switched their vote to the Lib / SDP
- the 1983 manifesto was very left-wing
- the 1983 election was Lab's worst performance since the war
- they were almost beaten into third place by the Liberal / SDP alliance
- Lab. polled 28% & Lib/SDP polled 25%
- Cons. polled just 42% (down 2% from 1979) but won a massive landslide
- therefore, Thatcher was not massively popular but the SDP split the anti-Thatcher vote
- the SDP probably did more than the Falklands War to help Thacther win the 1983
- in 1983 Thatcher actually won fewer votes nationally than she did in 1979, suggesting her popularity had gone down despite the Falklands War
- however, as the SDP took several million votes away from Lab. this helped Thatcher & the Cons. to win the win election by a. bigger majority
- had Lab. presented a more moderate manifesto then the SDP would have won fewer votes & Thatcher may only have won a small minority
- why did Lab. lose so heavily?
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