The results of elections to the
Labour Party's
Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its "Parliamentary Committee") were announced on 30 October 1985.
[''Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Volume 32''] In addition to the 15 members elected, the Leader (
Neil Kinnock), Deputy Leader (
Roy Hattersley),
Labour Chief Whip (
Derek Foster), Labour Leader in the House of Lords (
Cledwyn Hughes), and Chairman of the
Parliamentary Labour Party (
Jack Dormand
John Donkin Dormand, Baron Dormand of Easington (27 August 1919 – 18 December 2003) was a British educationist and Labour Party politician from the coal mining area of Easington in County Durham, in the north-east of England. He was Memb ...
) were automatically members.
As a result of the election,
Gwyneth Dunwoody lost her place in the cabinet. Hughes and Dobson tied for 15th place, so a
run-off election was conducted, in which Hughes beat Dobson by 102 votes to 75.
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