Electoral history of Boris Johnson

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Boris Johnson was a member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip from 2015 to 2023 and was the prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. He also served as the mayor of London from 2008 to 2016 and the foreign secretary from 2016 to 2018.

Parliamentary elections[edit]

1997 general election, Clwyd South[edit]

General election 1997: Clwyd South[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Martyn Jones 22,901 58.1 N/A
Conservative Boris Johnson 9,091 23.1 N/A
Liberal Democrats Andrew Chadwick 3,684 9.4 N/A
Plaid Cymru Gareth Williams 2,500 6.3 N/A
Referendum Alex Lewis 1,207 3.1 N/A
Majority 13,810 35.0 N/A
Turnout 39,383 73.6 N/A
Registered electors 53,495
Labour win (new seat)

2001 general election, Henley[edit]

General election 2001: Henley[3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Boris Johnson 20,466 46.1 –0.3
Liberal Democrats Catherine Bearder 12,008 27.0 +2.3
Labour Janet Matthews 9,367 21.1 –1.6
UKIP Philip Collings 1,413 3.2 New
Green Oliver Tickell 1,147 2.6 +1.6
Majority 8,458 19.1 –2.6
Turnout 44,401 64.3 –13.3
Conservative hold Swing –1.3

2005 general election, Henley[edit]

General election 2005: Henley[5][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Boris Johnson 24,894 53.5 +7.4
Liberal Democrats David Turner 12,101 26.0 –1.0
Labour Kaleem Saeed 6,862 14.7 –6.4
Green Mark Stevenson 1,518 3.3 +0.7
UKIP Delphine Gray-Fisk 1,162 2.5 –0.7
Majority 12,793 27.5 +8.4
Turnout 46,537 67.9 +3.6
Conservative hold Swing +4.2

2015 general election, Uxbridge and South Ruislip[edit]

General election 2015: Uxbridge and South Ruislip[6][7][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Boris Johnson 22,511 50.2 Increase1.9
Labour Chris Summers[9] 11,816 26.4 Increase3.0
UKIP Jack Duffin 6,346 14.2 Increase11.5
Liberal Democrats Michael Cox 2,215 4.9 Decrease14.9
Green Graham Lee[10] 1,414 3.2 Increase2.1
TUSC Gary Harbord[11] 180 0.4 New
Independent Jenny Thompson[12] 84 0.2 New
Monster Raving Loony Howling Laud Hope[13] 72 0.2 New
Communities United Sabrina Moosun[12] 52 0.1 New
The Eccentric Party of Great Britain (UK) Lord Toby Jug[12] 50 0.1 New
Independent Michael Doherty[12] 39 0.1 New
The Realists' Party Jane Lawrence[12] 18 0.0 New
Independent James Jackson[12] 14 0.0 New
Majority 10,695 23.8 Decrease1.1
Turnout 44,811 63.4 Increase0.1
Registered electors 70,631
Conservative hold Swing Decrease0.5

2017 general election, Uxbridge and South Ruislip[edit]

General election 2017: Uxbridge and South Ruislip[14][15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Boris Johnson 23,716 50.8 Increase0.6
Labour Vincent Lo 18,682 40.0 Increase13.6
Liberal Democrats Rosina Robson 1,835 3.9 Decrease1.0
UKIP Lizzy Kemp 1,577 3.4 Decrease10.8
Green Mark Keir 884 1.9 Decrease1.3
Majority 5,034 10.8 Decrease13.0
Turnout 46,694 66.8 Increase3.4
Registered electors 69,936
Conservative hold Swing Decrease6.5

2019 general election, Uxbridge and South Ruislip[edit]

General election 2019: Uxbridge and South Ruislip[14][16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Boris Johnson 25,351 52.6 Increase1.8
Labour Ali Milani 18,141 37.6 Decrease2.4
Liberal Democrats Joanne Humphreys 3,026 6.3 Increase2.4
Green Mark Keir 1,090 2.2 Increase0.3
UKIP Geoffrey Courtenay 283 0.6 Decrease2.8
Monster Raving Loony Lord Buckethead 125 0.3 New
Independent Count Binface 69 0.1 New
Independent Alfie Utting 44 0.1 New
[17] Yace "Interplanetary Time Lord" Yogenstein 23 0.0 New
Independent Norma Burke 22 0.0 New
[17] Bobby Smith 8 0.0 New
[17] William Tobin[18] 5 0.0 New
Majority 7,210 15.0 Increase4.2
Turnout 48,187 68.5 Increase1.7
Registered electors 70,369
Conservative hold Swing Increase2.1

Mayoral elections[edit]

2008 London mayoral election[edit]

Mayor of London election 1 May 2008 [19]
Party Candidate 1st round 2nd round
 First round votes  Transfer votes 
Total Of round Transfers Total Of round
Conservative Boris Johnson 1,043,761 43.2% 124,977 1,168,738 53.2%
Labour Ken Livingstone 893,887 37.0% 134,089 1,027,976 46.8%
Liberal Democrats Brian Paddick 235,585 9.8%
Green Siân Berry 77,347 3.2%
BNP Richard Barnbrook 69,710 3.2%
CPA Alan Craig 39,249 1.6%
UKIP Gerard Batten 22,422 1.2%
Left List Lindsey German 16,796 0.7%
English Democrat Matt O'Connor 10,695 0.4%
Independent Winston McKenzie 5,389 0.2%
Conservative gain from Labour

2012 London mayoral election[edit]

Mayor of London election 3 May 2012 [20]
Party Candidate 1st round 2nd round
 First round votes  Transfer votes 
Total Of round Transfers Total Of round
Conservative Boris Johnson 971,931 44.0% 82,880 1,054,811 51.5%
Labour Ken Livingstone 889,918 40.3% 102,355 992,273 48.5%
Green Jenny Jones 98,913 4.5%
Liberal Democrats Brian Paddick 91,774 4.2%
Independent Siobhan Benita 83,914 3.8%
UKIP Lawrence Webb 43,274 2.0%
BNP Carlos Gerardo Cortiglia 28,751 1.3%
Conservative hold

2019 Conservative Party leadership election[edit]

Candidate First ballot:
13 June 2019
Second ballot:
18 June 2019
Third ballot:
19 June 2019
Fourth ballot:
20 June 2019
Fifth ballot:
20 June 2019
Members' vote
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Boris Johnson 114 36.4 126 40.3 143 45.7 157 50.2 160 51.1 92,153 66.4
Jeremy Hunt 43 13.7 46 14.7 54 17.3 59 18.8 77 24.6 46,656 33.6
Michael Gove 37 11.8 41 13.1 51 16.3 61 19.5 75 24.0 Eliminated
Sajid Javid 23 7.3 33 10.5 38 12.1 34 10.9 Eliminated
Rory Stewart 19 6.1 37 11.8 27 8.6 Eliminated
Dominic Raab 27 8.6 30 9.6 Eliminated
Matt Hancock 20 6.4 Withdrew
Andrea Leadsom 11 3.5 Eliminated
Mark Harper 10 3.2 Eliminated
Esther McVey 9 2.9 Eliminated
Spoilt ballots 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 2 0.6 1 0.3 509 0.4
Turnout 313 100.0 313 100.0 313 100.0 313 100.0 313 100.0 139,318 87.4


2019 United Kingdom general election[edit]

e • d Results of the December 2019 general election to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom[21][22]
Political party Leader Candidates MPs[23] Votes
Total Gained Lost Net Of total
(%)
Total Of total
(%)
Change
(%)
Conservative Boris Johnson 635 365 58 10 Increase48 56.2 13,966,454 43.63 +1.2
Labour Jeremy Corbyn 631 202 1 61 Decrease60 31.1 10,269,051 32.08 −7.9
Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson 611 11 3 4 Decrease1 1.7 3,696,419 11.55 +4.2
Scottish National Party Nicola Sturgeon 59 48 14 1 Increase13 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 Decrease2 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 Increase1 0.2 134,115 0.42 +0.2
SDLP Colum Eastwood 15 2 2 0 Increase2 0.3 118,737 0.37 +0.1
Ulster Unionist 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
Veterans and People's 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
Justice & Anti-Corruption 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 Decrease1 206,486 0.64
Blank and invalid votes 117,919
Total 3320 650 0 100 32,014,110[24] 100 0.0
Registered voters, and turnout 47,587,254 67.52 −1.3


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