1994 Dagenham by-election

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1994 Dagenham by-election
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  1992 9 June 1994 1997  

Constituency of Dagenham
 First partySecond party
 
Lab
Con
Candidate Judith Church James Fairrie
Party Labour Conservative
Popular vote15,4742,130
Percentage72.00%9.91%
SwingIncrease2.svg 19.74%Decrease2.svg 26.38%

 Third partyFourth party
 
LD
BNP
Candidate Peter Dunphy John Tyndall
Party Liberal Democrats BNP
Popular vote1,8041,511
Percentage8.39%7.03%
SwingDecrease2.svg 3.06%N/A

MP before election

Bryan Gould
Labour

Elected MP

Judith Church
Labour

The Dagenham by-election, for the Dagenham constituency, was held on 9 June 1994 after Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Bryan Gould resigned the seat. A safe Labour seat, it was won by Judith Church, who retained the seat in 1997. [1]

Contents

Candidates

Results

Dagenham by-election, 1994 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Judith Church 15,47472.00+19.74
Conservative James Fairrie2,1309.91−26.38
Liberal Democrats Peter Dunphy 1,8048.39−3.06
BNP John Tyndall 1,5117.03New
UKIP Peter Compobassi4572.13New
Natural Law Mark Leighton1160.54New
Majority13,34462.09+46.11
Turnout 21,492
Labour hold Swing

The results for the previous election were:

1992 general election: Dagenham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Bryan Gould 22,02752.26+7.82
Conservative D Rossiter15,29436.29−2.2
Liberal Democrats CNH Marquand4,82411.45−5.62
Majority6,73315.98+10.03
Turnout 42,14570.66+3.37
Labour hold Swing

References

  1. Full result
  2. Candidate profile
  3. Councillor details [ permanent dead link ]
  4. City of Westminster Licensing Sub-Committee No. 4 [ permanent dead link ]
  5. "The Imperial Register". Archived from the original on 3 January 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2008.
  6. Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1992-97 Parliament". United Kingdom Election Results. Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2015.