1989 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 1989. For these elections the Shadow Cabinet was expanded from 15 to 18 seats and, for the first time, MPs had to cast at least three votes for women.
In July 1989 Labour agreed to increase the number of places on the Shadow Cabinet and introduce positive discrimination to ensure more women were included. After considering several options for increasing the number of women in the Shadow Cabinet, the party voted for Llin Golding's proposal to require all MPs to cast at least three votes for women. As a result of these changes, the Shadow Cabinet elected in 1989 included four women for the first time.
In addition to the 18 members elected, the Leader, [Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Deputy Leader], Labour Chief Whip, Labour Leader in the House of Lords, Chief Whip in the House of Lords, House of Lords Shadow Cabinet representative and Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party were automatically members.
The 18 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	Candidate	Constituency	Votes
1		Dunfermline East	162
2		Monklands East	153
3		Livingston	141
4		Sedgefield	138
5		Manchester Gorton	134
6		Eccles	129
7		Barking	126
8		Copeland	125
9		Dagenham	124
10		Holborn and St Pancras	118
11		Kingston upon Hull East	116
12		Oldham West	115
13†		South Shields	111
13†		Cynon Valley	111
15		Glasgow Garscadden	109
16		Alyn and Deeside	108
17		Derby South	106
18		Blackburn	104
19		Dewsbury	100
20		Clackmannan	86
21		Birmingham Ladywood	83
22		Newcastle-under-Lyme	82
23		Sheffield Brightside	63
24		Newham North West	62
25		Peckham	58
26		Chesterfield	42
27†		Carmarthen	52
27†		Huddersfield	52
29		Birmingham Perry Barr	50
30		Preston	46
31		Bradford South	42
32		Falkirk West	41
33		Norwich South	33

† Multiple candidates tied for position.