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Tory leadership contest |
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On 29th October
2003, Iain Duncan Smith lost a confidence motion of Conservative
MPs, 90 votes to 75. Nominations for party leader closed
on November 6th and Michael Howard, as sole nominee,
was confirmed as leader by the 1922 backbench committee.
The Conservative party membership were not given the opportunity
of a ballot.
The table below shows how Mr Duncan Smith was himself
elected, in September 2001. |
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1st Ballot |
2nd Ballot |
3rd Ballot |
Final Ballot |
| Kenneth Clarke |
36 |
39 |
59 |
100,864 |
| Iain Duncan-Smith |
39 |
42 |
54 |
155,933 |
| Michael Portillo |
49 |
50 |
53 |
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| David Davis |
21 |
18 |
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| Michael Ancram |
21 |
17 |
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| The final ballot closed on
11th September 2001. |
| Of the 328,000 Conservative
party members, 79% voted. |
| In an announcement delayed
by the attacks on the US, Iain Duncan Smith
was declared winner of the contest on 13/9/01. He received
61% and Kenneth Clarke 39% of the final ballot of Conservative
party members. Only Tory MPs voted in the first three
ballots. |
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