1973 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election
Elections to the
Baron Champion.[1]
The 12 winners of the election are listed below:[1]
| Colour key |
Retained in the Shadow Cabinet |
|---|---|
| Joined the Shadow Cabinet | |
| Voted out of the Shadow Cabinet |
| Rank |
Prior rank |
Candidate |
Constituency |
Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Jim Callaghan
|
Cardiff South East
|
150 |
| 2 | 4 | Michael Foot | Ebbw Vale | 147 |
| 3 | 1 | Reg Prentice | Daventry | 146 |
| 4 | 3 | Anthony Crosland | Great Grimsby | 145 |
| 5 | N/A | Roy Jenkins | Birmingham Stechford | 144 |
| 6 | 2 | Shirley Williams | Hitchin | 138 |
| 7 | 6 | Denis Healey | Leeds East
|
129 |
| 8= | 11 | Tony Benn | Bristol South East
|
110 |
| 8= | 9 | Harold Lever
|
Manchester Cheetham | 110 |
| 10 | 10 | Merlyn Rees | Leeds South | 108 |
| 11 | 12 | Peter Shore | Stepney | 104 |
| 12 | 7 | Willie Ross | Kilmarnock | 99 |
| 13 | 13 | John Silkin | Deptford | 97 |
| 14 | 8 | Fred Peart
|
Workington | 90 |
| 15 | N/A | Eric Varley | Chesterfield | 83 |
| 16 | 14 | Cledwyn Hughes
|
Anglesey
|
76 |
| 17 | 20 | Bill Rodgers | Stockton-on-Tees | 67 |
| 18 | 15 | Eric Heffer | Liverpool Walton
|
66 |
| 19 | 22 | Stan Orme | Salford West | 57 |
| 20= | 18 | Dick Mabon
|
Greenock | 56 |
| 20= | 24 | Norman Atkinson | Tottenham | 56 |
| 22 | 26 | Brian O'Malley | Rotherham | 54 |
| 23 | N/A | Frank Allaun | Salford East | 52 |
| 24 | 21 | Roy Hattersley | Birmingham Sparkbrook
|
50 |
| 25 | N/A | Edmund Dell | Birkenhead | 46 |
| 26= | 19 | Roy Mason | Barnsley | 37 |
| 26= | 27 | John Mendelson | Penistone | 37 |
| 28 | N/A | Norman Buchan | West Renfrewshire | 36 |
| 29 | 25 | Denis Howell | Birmingham Small Heath
|
31 |
| 30 | 23 | Willie Hamilton | West Fife
|
23 |
| 31 | 29 | Ivor Richard | Barons Court | 25 |
| 32 | N/A | Fred Mulley | Sheffield Park | 24 |
| 33 | N/A | Robert Sheldon
|
Ashton under Lyne
|
19 |