Table 3.
Labour Party leadership successions 1963–2010
| Year | Electorate | Winner | Criteria | Key | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acceptability | Electability | Competence | Criteria | |||
| 1963 | MPs | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | All |
| 1976 | MPs | Callaghan | Callaghan | Callaghan | Callaghan | All |
| 1980 | MPs | Foot | Foot | Healey | Healey | Acceptability |
| 1983 | Electoral College* | Kinnock | Kinnock | Hattersley | Hattersley | Acceptability |
| 1988 | Electoral College* | Kinnock | Kinnock | Kinnock | Kinnock | All |
| 1992 | Electoral College* | Smith | Smith | Smith | Smith | All |
| 1994 | Electoral College** | Blair | Blair | Blair | Blair | All |
| 2007 | Uncontested *** | Brown | - | - | - | - |
| 2010 | Electoral College** | E Miliband | E Miliband | D Miliband | D Miliband | Acceptability |
*Electoral College Block Vote Rules 1981–1993
**Electoral College OMOV Rules 1993–2014
***Gordon Brown was the only candidate to pass the nomination thresholds for entry and thus he was automatically elected leader of the Labour Party without activating the Electoral College
Sources Adapted from Stark (1996), Quinn (2012), Denham and Dorey (2018)