Roy Jenkins 1983 general election, when Owen succeeded him unopposed. Jenkins was disappointed with Owen's move to the right, and his acceptance and backing of some of Thatcher's policies. At heart, Jenkins remained a Keynesian. He continued to serve as SDP Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead until his defeat at the 1987 general election by the Labour candidate George Galloway, after boundary changes in 1983 had changed the character of the constituency. From 1987, Jenkins remained in politics as a member of the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, of Pontypool in the
Samuel Jenkins Jr. which he formerly held. That position was vacated by Representative Patrick Williams. In the 2015 primary, Jenkins defeated fellow Democrat Terence Vinson for the right to succeed Representative Burrell. Jenkins polled 3,505 votes (60.6 percent) to Vinson's 2,282 (39.4 percent). Burrell himself won the District 5 seat on the Caddo Parish Commission in that same election without opposition. Samuel Jenkins Jr. Samuel Lee Jenkins Jr. (born February 1956), known as Sam Jenkins, is a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 2 in Caddo and Bossier parishes in northwestern Louisiana. Jenkins succeeded Roy A. Burrell, who was