Title: United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, 1975 - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Headings: United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, 1975
United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, 1975
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Contents
Background
Party support
Yes campaign
No campaign
Official party positions
The campaign, funding and media support
Counting areas
Nationwide Result
Results by Counting areas
England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
TV coverage
Reactions and consequences
See also
References
External links

Content: Denis Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer; James Callaghan, the Foreign Secretary; and Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary. It was also supported by the majority of the Conservative Party including its newly elected leader Margaret Thatcher, the Liberal Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party. No campaign
Tony Benn, Secretary of State for Industry, was one of the senior figures in the No campaign. The "No" campaign included the left wing of the Labour Party, including the cabinet ministers Michael Foot, Tony Benn, Peter Shore, Eric Varley, and Barbara Castle. Some Labour "No" supporters, including Varley, were on the right wing of the party, but most were from the left. The No campaign also included a large number of Labour backbenchers; upon the division on a pro-EEC White Paper about the renegotiation, 148 Labour MPs opposed their own government's measure, whereas only 138 supported it and 32 abstained. Some members of t