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United Kingdom general election, 2001 (Cornwall)

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United Kingdom general election, 2001

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All 5 Cornish seats to the House of Commons
  First party Second party
 
Leader Charles Kennedy Tony Blair
Party Liberal Democrats 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 % +/-%
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats 4 113,000 44.9
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Party 0 82,227 32.7
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Party 1 43,374 17.2
bgcolor="Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color" | UKIP 0 9,290 3.7
bgcolor="Template:Mebyon Kernow/meta/color" | Mebyon Kernow 0 3,199 1.3
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal 0 649 0.3
Others 0 78 0.0

Seat by seat

Constituency Party MP Majority Result
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Falmouth & Camborne Labour Candy Atherton 4,527 Lab hold
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | North Cornwall Liberal Democrat Paul Tyler 9,832 LibDem hold
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | South East Cornwall Liberal Democrat Colin Breed 5,375 LibDem hold
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | St Ives Liberal Democrat Andrew George 10,053 LibDem hold
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Truro and St Austell Liberal Democrat Matthew Taylor 7,403 LibDem hold

See also

References

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