Electoral history of Boris Johnson

This is a summary of the electoral history of Boris Johnson, the Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015 and incumbent Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 24 July 2019. He has previously served as Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016 and Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018.

Parliamentary elections

1997 general election, Clwyd South

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 V. 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

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	N/A
	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

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

General election 2015: Uxbridge and South Ruislip[6][7][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Boris Johnson	22,511	50.2	1.9
	Labour	Chris Summers[9]	11,816	26.4	3.0
	UKIP	Jack Duffin	6,346	14.2	11.5
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Cox	2,215	4.9	14.9
	Green	Graham Lee[10]	1,414	3.2	2.1
	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	1.1
Turnout			44,811	63.4	0.1
Registered electors			70,631
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.5

2017 general election, Uxbridge and South Ruislip

General election 2017: Uxbridge and South Ruislip[14][15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Boris Johnson	23,716	50.8	0.6
	Labour	Vincent Lo	18,682	40.0	13.6
	Liberal Democrats	Rosina Robson	1,835	3.9	1.0
	UKIP	Lizzy Kemp	1,577	3.4	10.8
	Green	Mark Keir	884	1.9	1.3
Majority			5,034	10.8	13.0
Turnout			46,694	66.8	3.4
Registered electors			69,936
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.5

2019 general election, Uxbridge and South Ruislip

General election 2019: Uxbridge and South Ruislip[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Boris Johnson	25,351	52.6	1.8
	Labour	Ali Milani	18,141	37.6	2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Joanne Humphreys	3,026	6.3	2.4
	Green	Mark Keir	1,090	2.3	0.4
	UKIP	Geoffrey Courtenay	283	0.6	2.8
	Monster Raving Loony	Lord Buckethead	125	0.3	New
	Independent	Count Binface	69	0.1	New
	Independent	Alfie Utting	44	0.1	New
	[16]	Yace "Interplanetary Time Lord" Yogenstein	23	0.0	New
	Independent	Norma Burke	22	0.0	New
	[16]	Bobby Smith	8	0.0	New
	[16]	William Tobin	5	0.0	New
Majority			7,210	15.0	4.2
Turnout			48,187	68.5	1.7
Registered electors			70,369
	Conservative hold		Swing	2.1

Mayoral elections

2008 London mayoral election

Mayor of London election 1 May 2008 [17]
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

Mayor of London election 3 May 2012 [18]
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

MPs' vote

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
	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
Boris Johnson	114	36.4	126	40.3	143	45.7	157	50.2	160	51.1
Jeremy Hunt	43	13.7	46	14.7	54	17.3	59	18.8	77	24.6
Michael Gove	37	11.8	41	13.1	51	16.3	61	19.5	75	24.0
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
Turnout	313	100.0	313	100.0	313	100.0	313	100.0	313	100.0

Members' vote

Candidate	Members' vote
	Votes	%
Boris Johnson	92,153	66.4
Jeremy Hunt	46,656	33.6
Spoilt ballots	509	0.4
Turnout	139,318	87.4

2019 United Kingdom general election

 Results of the December 2019 general election to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom[19][20]

Political party		Leader	Candidates	MPs[21]					Votes
				Total	Gained	Lost	Net	Of total (%)	Total	Of total (%)	Change (%)
	Conservative	Boris Johnson	635	365	58	10	48	56.2	13,966,454	43.6	+1.2
	Labour	Jeremy Corbyn	631	202	1	61	60	31.1	10,269,051	32.1	−7.9
	Liberal Democrats	Jo Swinson	611	11	3	4	1	1.7	3,696,419	11.5	+4.2
	SNP	Nicola Sturgeon	59	48	14	1	13	7.4	1,242,380	3.9	+0.8
	Green	Siân Berry and Jonathan Bartley	472	1	0	0	0	0.2	835,579	2.7	+1.1
	Brexit Party	Nigel Farage	275						644,257	2.0
	DUP	Arlene Foster	17	8	0	2	2	1.2	244,128	0.8	−0.1
	Sinn Féin	Mary Lou McDonald	15	7	1	1	0	1.1	181,853	0.6	−0.2
	Plaid Cymru	Adam Price	36	4	0	0	0	0.6	153,265	0.5	0.0
	Alliance	Naomi Long	18	1	1	0	1	0.2	134,115	0.4	+0.2
	SDLP	Colum Eastwood	15	2	2	0	2	0.3	118,737	0.4	+0.1
	UUP	Steve Aiken	16						93,123	0.3	0.0
	Yorkshire	Christopher Whitwood	28						29,201	0.1	0.0
	Scottish Green	Patrick Harvie & Lorna Slater	22						28,122	0.1
	Speaker	Lindsay Hoyle	1	1				0.2	26,831	0.1	0.0
	UKIP	Patricia Mountain (interim)	44						22,817	0.1	−1.8
	Ashfield Independents	Jason Zadrozny	1						13,498	0.0	0.0
	Liberal	Steve Radford	19						10,876	0.0	0.0
	The Independent Group for Change	Anna Soubry	3						10,006	0.0
	Aontú	Peadar Tóibín	7						9,814	0.0
	Monster Raving Loony	Howling Laud Hope	24						9,739	0.0	0.0
	People Before Profit	Collective	2						7,526	0.0
	Birkenhead Social Justice	Frank Field	1						7,285	0.0
	CPA	Sidney Cordle	27						6,486	0.0	0.0
	Heavy Woollen Independents	Aleksandar Lukic	1						6,423	0.0
	SDP	William Clouston	20						3,295	0.0	0.0
	Animal Welfare	Vanessa Hudson	6						3,086	0.0	0.0
	North East Party	Mark Burdon	2						2,637	0.0
	Lincolnshire Independent	Marianne Overton	1						1,999	0.0
	Green (NI)	Clare Bailey	3						1,996	0.0
	English Democrat	Robin Tilbrook	4						1,987	0.0	0.0
	Libertarian	Adam Brown	5						1,780	0.0	0.0
	Mebyon Kernow	Dick Cole	1						1,660	0.0	0.0
	Proud of Oldham and Saddleworth	Paul Errock	2						1,606	0.0
	Independent Network	Ian Stephens	1						1,542	0.0
	Gwlad Gwlad	Gwyn Wigley Evans	3						1,515	0.0
	Cynon Valley	Andrew Chainey	1						1,322	0.0
	Veterans and People's	Robin Horsfall	2						1,219	0.0
	Burnley and Padiham Party	Mark Payne	1						1,162	0.0
	Shropshire Party	Robert Jones	1						1,141	0.0
	Putting Cumbria First	Jonathan Davies	1						1,070	0.0
	Peace	John Morris	2						960	0.0
	Wycombe Independents	Matt Knight	1						926	0.0
	Justice & Anti-Corruption	Donald Jerrard	3						728	0.0
	Christian	Jeff Green	2						705	0.0	0.0
	Renew	Julie Girling	4						545	0.0	0.0
	Workers Revolutionary	Joshua Ogunleye	5						524	0.0	0.0
	BNP	Adam Walker	1						510	0.0	0.0
Parties with less than 500 votes each						1	1
Blank and invalid votes										—	—
Total			3429	650			0	100	32,014,110	100	0.0
Registered voters, and turnout									47,587,254	67.3	−1.5

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