The annual election to the
Labour Party's
Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its "Parliamentary Committee") was conducted in October 1986.
[''Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Volume 33'', p.xxxiii] In addition to the 16 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,
David Clark and Bryan Gould joined the cabinet, while Robin Cook and Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside, Robert Hughes lost their places.
Top 19 candidates are listed.
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Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet elections, 1986
1986 elections in the United Kingdom
October 1986 events in the United Kingdom