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= Evening School for Politics =

== Study the 1983 general election ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+Result of the 1983 General Election
!Party
!Votes
!Percentage of Votes
!Candidates
!Seats won
|-
|Con
|13,012,316
|42.4%
|633
|397
|-
|Lab
|8,456,934
|27.6%
|633
|209
|-
|Lib+SDP Alliance
|7,780,949
|25.4%
|633
|23
|-
|Plaid Cymru and SNP
|457,284
|1.5%
|110
|4
|-
|Other<ref>Northern Ireland parties

Ecology

National Front

British National

Communist

Workers' Revolutionary

Others</ref>
|963,654
|3.1%
|569
|17<ref>All won by Northern Ireland parties. Ecology, National Front, British National, Communist, Workers' Revolutionary, and others all won 0 seats</ref>
|-
!Total
|30,671,137
|100
|2578
|650
|}

== Reasons for the Result ==

=== Voting Behaviour ===

* Thatcher
** Falklands War led to a recovery of her popularity.
** Economic growth had begun to resume.
* Labour
** Had been led by Michael Foot since the resignation of James Callaghan
** New policies were considered more left-wing than before
*** Several moderate Labour MPs had defected from the party to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP)
**** Which then formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance with the existing Liberal Party
** Further harmed by its promise to withdraw from the European Economic Community
*** Alienated Pro-European groups.

=== Notable Media Coverage ===
Opinion polls pointed to a Conservative victory

Most national newspapers backed the re-election of the Conservative government. 

=== Effects ===