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List of Social Democratic Party (UK) MPs

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This is a list of Social Democratic Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing the Social Democratic Party. Members of the European Parliament are not listed.

Bruce Douglas-Mann, Labour Party MP for Mitcham and Morden, is not included as immediately on his change of allegiance he stood down, forcing a by-election, which he lost.

Member Constituency Years served
Rosie Barnes Greenwich 19871988 1
Tom Bradley Leicester East 19811983 2
Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler North West Norfolk 19811983 3
Ronald Brown Hackney South and Shoreditch 19811983 2
John Cartwright Woolwich East 19811983 2
Woolwich 19831988 1
Richard Crawshaw Liverpool Toxteth 19811983 2
George Cunningham Islington South and Finsbury 19811983 2
Ednyfed Hudson Davies Caerphilly 19811983 2
James Dunn Liverpool Kirkdale 19811983 2
Tom Ellis Wrexham 19811983 2
David Ginsburg Dewsbury 19811983 2
John Grant Islington Central 19811983 2
Mike Hancock Portsmouth South 19841987 4
John Horam Gateshead West 19811983 2, 5
Roy Jenkins Glasgow Hillhead 19821987 6
Charles Kennedy Ross, Cromarty and Skye 19831988 7
Edward Lyons Bradford West 19811983 2
Dickson Mabon Greenock and Port Glasgow 19811983 2
Robert Maclennan Caithness and Sutherland 1981 ––1988 2, 7
Bryan Magee Leyton 19821983 2
Thomas McNally Stockport South 19811983 2
Bob Mitchell Southampton Itchen 19811983 2
Michael O'Halloran Islington North 1981 –1983 2, 8
Eric Ogden Liverpool West Derby 19811983 2
David Owen Plymouth Devonport 19811988 1, 2
William Rodgers Stockton-on-Tees 19811983 2
John Roper Farnworth 19811983 2
Neville Sandelson Hayes and Harlington 19811983 2
Jeffrey Thomas Abertillery 19811983 2
Mike Thomas Newcastle upon Tyne East 19811983 2
James Wellbeloved Erith and Crayford 19811983 2
Shirley Williams Crosby 19811983 6
Ian Wrigglesworth Thornaby 19811983
Stockton South 19831987 2
1 Joined David Owen's Social Democratic Party in 1988, then became an Independent Social Democrat MP from 1990 - 92.
2 Sitting Labour Party MP who joined the SDP.
3 Sitting Conservative Party MP who joined the SDP.
4 Later elected as a Liberal Democrat MP.
5 Later elected as a Conservative MP.
6 Previously elected as a Labour MP.
7 Joined the Liberal Democrats on their formation in 1988.
8 Subsequently left the SDP to sit as an independent Labour MP.

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Hello Internet The UK had an election we need to talk about because after the debates finished, the people voted and the ballots tallied the results were this: But parliament ended up looking like this: Which isn't, exactly, representative. And by not exactly, I mean at all. Red earned 30% of the vote and 36% of the seats, which is sort of close, but the rest is madness: Orange earned 8% of the vote but got one eighth of that while Yellow's 5% just about doubled, and purple earned 13% and got squat. Meanwhile blue's 37% of the people booted to 51% of the seats in parliament. The blue boost is even bigger when you consider that 51% of the seats gives basically 100% the control. How'd this happen? In the UK -- national elections aren't really national, they're a bunch of local elections. The UK is divided into constituencies, each of which elects one member of parliament (M.P.) to represent them. This local / national divide is where the trouble begins. Imagine a parliament with just three constituencies, and it's easy to see how it wouldn't always align with citizens. Some people think this sort of result is fine -- “it's all *about* winning local elections,” they’ll say. “Each M.P. represents their constituency.” And while the imbalance in this example is dumb, but it's the same problem in the real election and this same argument is given, but there are two more problems with it in reality land. 1) Few citizens have any idea who their MP is, they just know what party they voted for -- what party they want to represent their views on the national level. And pretending like it's a local election is a bit disingenuous. -- in practice it's an election for now the nation will run -- not really for who is going to represent a tiny part of it. and even if it were 2) The individual constituencies are worse at representing their citizens than parliament. Indulge this spreadsheet-loving nerd for a moment, will you? The difference between what a party earned at the polls and what they got in parliament is the amount of misrepresentation error. If we calculate all the errors for all the parties and add them up we can say the Parliament as a whole has 47% percentage points of misrepresentation error. That sounds bad looks like a utopian rainbow of diversity compared to any local election because the local elections have *one* winner. Out of the 650 constituencies 647 have a higher representation error than parliament. These are the only three that don't and they're really unusual for having so many of a single kind of voter in one place. Most places look the The Wrekin which is dead in the middle a mere one-hundred and one points off. Note that the winning candidate didn't reach a majority here. Which means more than half of constituencies elected their MP with a minority of voters. The worst is Belfast South at the bottom of the list. Hilariously unrepresentative. Less than a quarter of the voters get to speak for the entire place in parliament. This is the the lowest percentage an M.P. has ever been elected by. So when people argue that the UK election is a bunch of local elections 1) people don't act like it, and 2) It's even more of an argument that the elections are broken because they're worse on this level. These local elections are unrepresentative because of the terrible 'First Past the Post' voting system -- which I have complained mightily about and won't repeat everything here -- go watch the video -- but TL;DR it only 'works' when citizens are limited to two choices. Voting for any party except the biggest makes it more likely the biggest will win by a minority -- which is exactly what happened. That citizens keep voting for smaller parties despite knowing the result is against their strategic interests demonstrates the citizenry wants diverse representation -- but that successes is the very thing that's made this the most unrepresentative parliament in the history of the UK. People happy with the results argue the system is working fine -- of course they do. Their team won. Government isn't a sport where a singular 'winner' must be determined. It's a system to make rules that everyone follows and so, we need a system where everyone can agree the process is fair even if the results don't go in their favor. If you support a system that disenfranchises people you don't like and turbo-franchises people you do -- then it doesn't look like you sport representative democracy, it looks like you support a kind of dictatorship light. Where a small group of people (including you) makes the rules for everyone. But as it is now, on election day the more people express what they want the worse the system looks which makes them disengaged at best or angry at worst and GEE I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY. This is fixable, there are many, many better ways the UK could vote -- here are two that even keep local representatives. And fixing voting really matters, because this is a kind of government illegitimacy score -- and it's been going up and may continue to do so unless this fundamentally broken voting system is changed.

Graphical representation (1981-88)

Also includes the continuing SDP from 1988.

Constituency 1981 81 82 83 1983 84 87 1987 88
Plymouth Devonport Owen
Woolwich East / Woolwich (1983) Cartwright
Caithness and Sutherland Maclennan
Thornaby / Stockton South (1983) Wrigglesworth
Greenock & Port Glasgow Mabon
Stockport South McNally
Gateshead West Horam
Stockton-on-Tees Rodgers
Southampton Itchen Mitchell
Farnworth Roper
Liverpool Kirkdale Dunn
Liverpool Toxteth Crawshaw
Liverpool West Derby Ogden
Leicester East Bradley
Hayes and Harlington Sandelson
Hackney S & Shoreditch Brown
Islington Central Grant
Erith and Crayford Wellbeloved
North West Norfolk Brocklebank-Fowler
Newcastle upon Tyne East M. Thomas
Bradford W Lyons
Dewsbury Ginsburg
Wrexham Ellis
Abertillery J. Thomas
Caerphilly Davies
Islington North O'Halloran
Crosby Williams
Islington S & Finsbury Cunningham
Leyton Magee
Glasgow Hillhead Jenkins
Ross, Cromarty and Skye Kennedy
Portsmouth South Hancock
Greenwich Barnes
Constituency 1981 81 82 83 1983 84 87 1987 88
No. of SDP MPs 26 27 30 29 6 7 8 5 3

See also

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