1996 South East Staffordshire by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 1996 South East Staffordshire by-election United Kingdom parliamentary no 1992 United Kingdom general election 1992 1997 United Kingdom general election 1997 11 April 1996 62.0% ( 20.0 pp) Brian Jenkins Brian Jenkins 2009.jpg Labour Party (UK) 26,155 60.1% 22.0 pp Timothy James Conservative Party (UK) 12,393 28.5% 22.2 pp MP David Lightbown Brian Jenkins Conservative Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of South East Staffordshire on 11 April 1996, following the death the previous December of the sitting Conservative MP Sir David Lightbown. Labour's Brian Jenkins gained the seat from the Conservatives with a large swing.Ibrahim Youssef M. 1996-04-13 Labor Deals Major's Tories A New Blow In Local Vote en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/13/world/labor-deals-major-s-tories-a-new-blow-in-local-vote.html 2023-09-11 0362-4331 Result South East Staffordshire by-election, 1996http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1992.html Results of Byelections in the 1992-97 Parliament Boothroyd David 2015-10-01 United Kingdom Election Results 2017-07-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20170720031954/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1992.html dead Labour Party (UK) Brian Jenkins 26,155 60.1 +22.0 Conservative Party (UK) Timothy James 12,393 28.5 –22.2 Liberal Democrats (UK) Janette Davy 2,042 4.7 –4.9 UK Independence Party Andrew Smith 1,272 2.9 New Official Monster Raving Loony Party David Sutch 506 1.2 New National Democrats (UK) Sharron Edwards 358 0.8 New Liberal Party (UK, 1989) Steven Mountford 332 0.8 New Churchill Conservative Leslie Tucker 123 0.3 New L!VE TV News Bunny 85 0.2 New Daily Loonylugs Earring Up the World Tony Samuelson 80 0.2 New Natural Law Party David Lucas 53 0.1 New Action Against Crime Frederick Sandy 53 0.1 New Restoration of Death Penalty Alan Wood 45 0.1 New 13,762 31.6 N/A 43,497 62.0 -20.0 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +22.1 Notes on candidates News Bunny was a character on the cable channel Live TV. The candidate was an employee of the channel who changed his name for the purposes of the election. The ballot paper description of the candidate N Samuelson was "Daily Loonylugs Earing Up the World". See also 2023 Tamworth by-election (another by-election in the successor constituency) List of United Kingdom by-elections parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire References External links Campaign literature from the by-election Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Staffordshire constituencies Category:1996 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1996 in England Category:1990s in Staffordshire Category:April 1996 in the United Kingdom