1994 Newham North East by-election

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1994 Newham North East by-election
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  1992 9 June 1994 1997  

Constituency of Newham North East
 First partySecond party
  Stephen Timms portrait (3x4 crop).jpg PhilipHammond2 (3x4 crop).jpg
Candidate Stephen Timms Philip Hammond
Party Labour Conservative
Popular vote14,6882,850
Percentage74.97%14.55%
SwingIncrease2.svg 16.64%Decrease2.svg 15.96%

MP before election

Ron Leighton
Labour

Elected MP

Stephen Timms
Labour

The Newham North East by-election , in London Borough of Newham, on 9 June 1994 was held after long-serving Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Ron Leighton died. [1] A safe Labour seat, it was won by Stephen Timms, who would go on to retain the East Ham seat which replaced it in 1997.

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Candidates

Results

Newham North East by-election, 1994 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stephen Timms 14,68874.97+16.64
Conservative Philip Hammond 2,85014.55−15.96
Liberal Democrats Alec Kellaway8214.19−7.00
UKIP Anthony Scholefield5092.60New
House Homeless PeopleJo Homeless3421.75New
Natural Law Richard Archer2281.15New
Buy the Daily Sport Vida Garman1550.79New
Majority11,83860.42+32.63
Turnout 19,593
Labour hold Swing

The results for the previous election were:

1992 general election:Newham North East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ron Leighton 20,95258.30
Conservative JH Galbraith10,96630.51
Liberal Democrats JJ Aves402011.19
Majority9,98627.79
Turnout 35,93860.34
Labour hold Swing

References

  1. Full results
  2. 1994 European election results
  3. 1 2 3 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.
  4. 1 2 One-horse race for deprived city seat: NEWHAM NORTH-EAST: Labour candidate prepares for victory
  5. Colin Rallings & David Broughton, British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1995, p. 182