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1994 Dagenham by-election
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UK parliamentary by-election
February 2022
May 2012
1994 Dagenham by-election parliamentary United Kingdom Constituency of Dagenham no 1992 United Kingdom general election 1992 1997 United Kingdom general election 1997 9 June 1994 Judith Church Labour Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) 15,474 72.00% 19.74% James Fairrie Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) 2,130 9.91% 26.38% Peter Dunphy Liberal Democrats (UK) LD Liberal Democrats (UK) 1,804 8.39% 3.06% John Tyndall British National Party British National Party 1,511 7.03% black N/A MP Bryan Gould Labour Party (UK) Judith Church Labour Party (UK)
The 1994 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.https://archive.today/20130419211400/http://by-elections.co.uk/dagenham.html Full result
Candidates
Judith Church had unsuccessfully run for Labour in the 1992 general election in Stevenage.
James Fairrie, the candidate for the Conservative Party, had been educated at Downside School, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the University of Exeter. Having served with the Royal Hussars he took a job with an export credit agency whilst also serving as a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1981 to 1986. He unsuccessfully contested Newham South in the 1987 general election.Candidate profile
Peter Dunphy, the candidate for the Liberal Democrats, had run unsuccessfully for the party in the 1992 general election for the Hornsey and Wood Green seat. He went on to serve as a councillor for the London Borough of Waltham Forest.Councillor detailsSeptember 2017 InternetArchiveBot yes
John Tyndall, the British National Party candidate, was party leader at the time and had previously contested a number of general elections for the BNP. His by-election vote share was the BNP's highest score in a Parliamentary by-election which stood until the Sedgefield by-election of July 2007. It was also the first time ever that the party had saved its deposit in a parliamentary election.
Peter Compobassi, the UK Independence Party candidate, went on to run for the party in Thurrock in the 1997 general election. A seller of hot chestnuts on London's Oxford Street,City of Westminster Licensing Sub-Committee No. 4December 2016 InternetArchiveBot yes he has signed up to be one of the 'Metric Martyrs'.http://www.silentmajority.co.uk/eurorealist/ImperialRegister/Imperial-Register.html The Imperial Register 7 January 2008 3 January 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080103122142/http://www.silentmajority.co.uk/Eurorealist/ImperialRegister/Imperial-Register.html dead
Mark Leighton, the Natural Law Party candidate, ran again in Kingston and Surbiton for the 1997 general election.
Result
Dagenham by-election, 1994http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1992.html Results of Byelections in the 1992-97 Parliament Boothroyd David 2015-10-01 United Kingdom Election Results 20 July 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170720031954/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1992.html dead
Labour Party (UK)
Judith Church
15,474 72.00 +19.74
Conservative Party (UK)
James Fairrie
2,130 9.91 -26.38
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Peter Dunphy
1,804 8.39 -3.06
British National Party
John Tyndall
1,511 7.03 New
UK Independence Party
Peter Compobassi
457 2.13 New
Natural Law Party
Mark Leighton
116 0.54 New
13,344
62.09
+46.11
21,492
Labour Party (UK)
+23.1
Previous result
The result for the previous election was:
1992 general election: Dagenham
Labour Party (UK)
Bryan Gould
22,027
52.26
+7.82
Conservative Party (UK)
D Rossiter
15,294
36.29
-2.2
Liberal Democrats (UK)
CNH Marquand
4,824
11.45
-5.62
6,733
15.98
+10.03
42,145
70.66
+3.37
Labour Party (UK)
+5.0
References
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