1986 West Derbyshire by-election

UK parliamentary by-election 1986 West Derbyshire by-election parliamentary United Kingdom Constituency of West Derbyshire no 1983 United Kingdom general election 1983 8 May 1986 Patrick McLoughlin x160px Conservative Party (UK) 19,896 39.5% 16.3% Christopher Walmsley Lib Liberal Party (UK) 19,796 39.4% 12.3% William Moore Lab Labour Party (UK) 9,952 19.8% 2.7% MP Subsequent MP Matthew Parris Conservative Party (UK) Patrick McLoughlin Conservative Party (UK) 71.9% (5.5%) 1987 United Kingdom general election 1987 April 2022 The 1986 West Derbyshire by-election was held on 8 May 1986 when the sitting Conservative Party Member of Parliament, Matthew Parris, took the Chiltern Hundreds and resigned, in order to become the presenter of Weekend World for ITV. The election was held on the same day as the 1986 local elections and the Ryedale by-election. During the campaign, Parris told Vincent Hanna on Newsnight that he thought Labour could gain the seat from the Conservatives.Chris Rennard Winning Here: My Campaigning Life 84 Biteback Publishing 2018 1785903373 In his memoirs, he admitted that he deliberately misled both Hanna and the audience to prevent a Liberal victory.Matthew Parris Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics Penguin 2003 348 0140297731 "had I not lied in an interview with the late Vincent Hanna, a BBC pollster carrying out a poll which most improbably suggested that Labour and not the Liberal Democrats [sic] were the challengers in this by-election, [the Liberals] would have won. I knew what I said was false." Despite a large swing away from him, 28-year-old Patrick McLoughlin of the Conservative Party (who went on to serve in The Cabinet from 2010 to 2018) beat the Liberal Party candidate by 100 votes, and he remained the MP for the seat until his retirement in 2019. West Derbyshire by-election, 1986http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1983.html Results of Byelections in the 1983-87 Parliament Boothroyd David 2015-09-19 United Kingdom Election Results 2018-04-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20180405203844/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1983.html dead Conservative Party (UK) Patrick McLoughlin 19,896 39.5 -16.4 Liberal Party (UK) Christopher Walmsley 19,796 39.4 +12.4 Labour Party (UK) William Moore 9,952 19.8 +2.7 Rainbow Alliance Loony Crocodile Tears Christopher Sidwell 348 0.7 New Independent politician Robert Goodall 289 0.6 New 100 0.1 -28.8 50,281 71.9 -5.5 Conservative Party (UK) See also 1891 West Derbyshire by-election 1900 West Derbyshire by-election 1967 West Derbyshire by-election References Category:1986 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1986 in England Category:May 1986 in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Derbyshire constituencies Category:1980s in Derbyshire