1973 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election


Elections to the Labour Party's [Official Opposition Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)|Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)|Shadow Cabinet] occurred in November 1973. In addition to the 12 members elected, the Leader, [Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Deputy Leader], Labour Chief Whip, Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Labour Leader in the House of Lords, and Labour Chief Whip in the Lords were automatically members. The Labour Lords elected one further member, Baron Champion.
The 12 winners of the election are listed below:
Colour
key
Retained in the Shadow Cabinet
Colour
key
Joined the Shadow Cabinet
Colour
key
Voted out of the Shadow Cabinet

Rank
Prior
rank
Candidate
Constituency
Votes
15Jim CallaghanCardiff South East150
24Michael FootEbbw Vale147
31Reg PrenticeDaventry146
43Anthony CroslandGreat Grimsby145
5N/ARoy JenkinsBirmingham Stechford144
62Shirley WilliamsHitchin138
76Denis HealeyLeeds East129
8=11Tony BennBristol South East110
8=9Harold LeverManchester Cheetham110
1010Merlyn ReesLeeds South108
1112Peter ShoreStepney104
127Willie RossKilmarnock99
1313John SilkinDeptford97
148Fred PeartWorkington90
15N/AEric VarleyChesterfield83
1614Cledwyn HughesAnglesey76
1720Bill RodgersStockton-on-Tees67
1815Eric HefferLiverpool Walton66
1922Stan OrmeSalford West57
20=18Dick MabonGreenock56
20=24Norman AtkinsonTottenham56
2226Brian O'MalleyRotherham54
23N/AFrank AllaunSalford East52
2421Roy HattersleyBirmingham Sparkbrook50
25N/AEdmund DellBirkenhead46
26=19Roy MasonBarnsley37
26=27John MendelsonPenistone37
28N/ANorman BuchanWest Renfrewshire36
2925Denis HowellBirmingham Small Heath31
3023Willie HamiltonWest Fife23
3129Ivor RichardBarons Court25
32N/AFred MulleySheffield Park24
33N/ARobert SheldonAshton under Lyne19