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His first and last by-election victories were 33 years and 3 months apart. Former cabinet minister and European Commissioner Roy Jenkins fought two different by-elections for the Social Democratic Party only eight months apart. He narrowly failed in the 1981 Warrington by-election before winning the 1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election.
This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom since 2010, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party at the election, the result is highlighted: blue for a Conservative gain, red for a Labour gain, orange for a Liberal Democrat gain, purple for a UKIP gain and other colours for any other gains.
This is a list of close election results on the national level and within administrative divisions.It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1,000 (a margin of less than 0.1 percentage points): single-winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0.1% ahead of the second-placed candidate, as well as party-list elections where a party was less than ...
To win the seat, Labour needed a swing in the share of the vote of 17.9 percentage points: the equivalent of a net change of 18 in every 100 people who voted Conservative at the 2019 general ...
A by-election must take place between 21 and 27 working days from the issuing of the writs; thus the by-election for Uxbridge would have had to occur between 13 and 21 July. [4] Hillingdon Council later confirmed that the by-election would take place on 20 July. [5] On the same day, the Selby and Ainsty and Somerton and Frome by-elections were ...
At the last general election, in December 2019, the exit poll overestimated the Conservatives’ win by three seats. It underestimated them by four seats in 2017, and by 15 seats in 2015.
This was the last by-election held under a Labour government until 1997. The by-election saw the Liberal Party candidate, David Alton gain the seat from Labour (which it had been continuously winning since 1945) whose incumbent MP Arthur Irvine had passed away in December 1978. Birmingham Stechford: 31 March 1977
The UK Unionist Party gained North Down from the Ulster Popular Unionists. 16 by-elections were a result of the death of the incumbent MP - eight Conservatives died, along with seven Labour MPs and the Ulster Popular Unionist MP Sir James Kilfedder.