1994 Barking by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 May 2019 1994 Barking by-election parliamentary United Kingdom Barking parliamentary seat no 1992 United Kingdom general election 1992 1997 United Kingdom general election 1997 9 June 1994 Margaret Hodge Margaret Hodge.jpg Labour Party (UK) 13,704 72.06% 20.46 pp Gary White Liberal Democrats (UK) LD Liberal Democrats (UK) 2,290 12.04% 2.50 pp MP Subsequent MP Jo Richardson Labour Party (UK) Margaret Hodge Labour Party (UK) Theresa May Conservative Party (UK) 1,976 23.47 pp 10.39% Theresa May (28235949166).jpg The 1994 Barking by-election was held on 9 June 1994, following the death of Labour Party Member of Parliament for Barking Jo Richardson. Richardson had represented the seat since the February 1974 general election, following Tom Driberg. The seat had been continuously held by Labour since it was created in 1945, and Richardson had retained her seat comfortably at the 1992 general election with an increased majority of over 6,000.Election Data 1992 http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1992ob.txt Electoral Calculus 18 October 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054418/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1992ob.txt 15 October 2011http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm Politics Resources 9 April 1992 Election 1992 Politics Resources 6 Dec 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110724020412/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm 24 July 2011 dead Margaret Hodge, leader of Islington London Borough Council from 1982 to 1992, was selected as the Labour candidate and was the clear favourite to hold the seat at the by-election.May 2019 The Conservative Party had taken second place in 1992. John Kennedy, the candidate in 1992, was not selected to fight the 1994 by-election, the Conservative nomination going instead to Theresa May. She had been a councillor in the London Borough of Merton from 1986 to 1994,https://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2016/07/theresa-may-the-merton-years.html Welcome to Downing Street, Cllr May of Durnsford Ward Harry Phibbs 13 July 2016 Conservative Home live https://archive.today/20210602133400/https://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2016/07/theresa-may-the-merton-years.html 2 June 2021 4 June 2020 and had stood (and lost) in the safe Labour seat of North West Durham in 1992.https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/opinion/leader/14612264.theresa-may-north-west-durham-no-10/ Theresa May: From North West Durham to No 10 Chris Lloyd The Northern Echo 11 July 2016 live https://archive.today/20210602132237/https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/opinion/leader/14612264.theresa-may-north-west-durham-no-10/ 2 June 2021 4 June 2020 Having lost two of the three previous by-elections of the Parliament to the Liberal Democrats, and failing to challenge Labour in the third, the Conservatives were not hopeful of gaining ground. The Liberal Democrat candidate, Steve Churchman, had taken little more than a tenth of the votes cast in 1992, continuing a downward track since 1983. A new candidate, Garry White, at 21 the youngest parliamentary by-election candidate chosen by a British political party since universal suffrage,May 2019 was chosen for the by-election. Three other candidates stood: Gary Needs of the National Front, Gerard Batten of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and HR Butensky of the Natural Law Party. Result As expected, Hodge won the seat easily, with the Labour majority almost doubling, despite a turnout below 40%. The Liberal Democrats share of the votes declined slightly, but they still managed to push the Conservatives into third place, as they had a month before in Rotherham. The other three candidates all lost their deposits. Barking by-election, 1994http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1992.html Results of Byelections in the 1992–97 Parliament Boothroyd David 1 October 2015 Election Demon 20 July 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170720031954/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1992.html dead Labour Party (UK) Margaret Hodge 13,704 72.1 +20.5 Liberal Democrats (UK) Gary White 2,290 12.0 −2.5 Conservative Party (UK) Theresa May 1,976 10.4 −23.5 National Front (UK) Gary Needs 551 2.9 New UK Independence Party Gerard Batten 406 2.1 New Natural Law Party HR Butensky 90 0.5 New 11,414 60.1 +42.4 19,017 38.3 -31.7 49,635 Labour Party (UK) +22.0 Previous result General election 1992: Barkinghttp://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm General Election 1992 9 April 1992 Political Science Resources 6 December 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110724020412/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm 24 July 2011 dead Labour Party (UK) Jo Richardson 18,224 51.6 +7.3 Conservative Party (UK) John G. Kennedy 11,956 33.9 −0.6 Liberal Democrats (UK) Stephen W. Churchman 5,133 14.5 −6.7 6,268 17.7 +7.9 35,313 70.0 +3.1 50,454 Labour Party (UK) +3.9 Legacy May 2019 At the 1997 UK general election, Hodge retained the seat with an increased majority. May went on to be elected as MP for Maidenhead in 1997 and then became Prime Minister in 2016. Two other candidates in Barking in 1994 also stood in 1997: Needs contested Devon East for the National Democrats, and Batten contested Harlow for UKIP: both again secured only a few hundred votes. Batten was elected as a UKIP Member of the European Parliament for London in 2004. Batten and May both appeared on a ballot paper together again, 23 years later, when Batten stood against her in Maidenhead at the 2017 general election. Batten later became the Leader of the UK Independence Party in 2018. See also Barking (constituency) Barking Lists of United Kingdom by-elections By-election References External links United Kingdom Election Results – London Borough, 1983–97 https://web.archive.org/web/20160805135618/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/1983LB.html 2016-08-05 Election Demon Barking by-election Barking by-election Barking,1994 Category:Politics of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Category:Barking, London Barking by-election Category:Theresa May