 Colquhoun was deselected due to her sexuality and her feminist views; in late September 1977, members of her constituency party's General Management Committee voted by 23 votes to 18, with one abstention, to deselect her.citing her "obsession with trivialities such as women's rights".The local party chairman Norman Ashby said at the time that "She was elected as a working wife and mother ... this business has blackened her image irredeemably".