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In this period, the Conservative government lost three seats in by-elections where the former Conservative incumbent stood for a different party (2014 Clacton by-election and 2014 Rochester and Strood by-election, both lost to UKIP) or as an independent (2016 Richmond Park by-election, lost to the Liberal Democrats).
Following the by-election defeats, Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden quit and opposition parties sought to pile on the pressure. Speaking from the Royal Highland Show on Friday, Scottish ...
A record number of Conservative MPs lost their seats at the election. Three Cabinet members stood down; eight full members and four who attended Cabinet lost their seats, the highest number of sitting cabinet seat losses in history.
Britain’s governing Conservative Party has suffered heavy losses in local elections, a sign that they could be in real trouble when the country holds a general election at some point later this ...
The by-election was caused by the death of the town's Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Ian Gow, who was killed on 30 July 1990 by a bomb placed under his car by the Provisional IRA. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democrat candidate David Bellotti , who defeated former Conservative MP Richard Hickmet by a majority of 4,550 ...
Britain's governing Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in local election results Friday, further cementing expectations that the Labour Party will return to power after 14 years in a U.K ...
Rishi Sunak has called on British conservatives to ‘come together’, after a bruising set of by-election defeats in Wellingborough and Kingswood.
In Australia, a by-election in 1996 in the Queensland state electoral district of Mundingburra overturned the results of the 1995 state election. In that election, held in July 1995, Wayne Goss and his Labor Party had won by a slim 45-seat majority in a 89-seat parliament. The seat of Mundingburra had been awarded to the Labor Party on the ...