The 1979 United Kingdom general election saw the Conservative Party win the most votes and seats in England. They received 12.26 million English votes, a record at the time.
|- |- style="background-color:#F2F2F2;" ! colspan="2"| Party ! Leader ! Seats won ! colspan="2"|Aggregate votes |- | | | Margaret Thatcher | 306 | 12,256,134 | 47.18% |- | | | James Callaghan | 203 | 9,524,960 | 36.66% |- | | | David Steel | 7 | 3,877,089 | 14.92% |- | | colspan="2"|Others and independents | 0 | 321,768 | 1.24% |- style="background-color:#F2F2F2;" ! colspan="3"| Total ! 516 ! 25,979,951 ! 100%