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1984 Stafford (England) by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

Field	Value
election_name	1984 Stafford by-election
type	presidential
country	United Kingdom
seats_for_election	Stafford parliamentary seat
ongoing	no
previous_election	1983 United Kingdom general election
previous_year	1983
next_election	1987 United Kingdom general election
next_year	1987
election_date	3 May 1984
candidate1	Bill Cash
image1
party1	Conservative Party (UK)
popular_vote1	18,713
percentage1	40.4%
candidate2	David Dunn
image2
party2	Social Democratic Party (UK)
popular_vote2	14,733
percentage2	31.8%
candidate3	Michael Poulter
image3
party3	Labour Party (UK)
popular_vote3	12,677
percentage3	27.4%
title	MP
posttitle	Subsequent MP
before_election	Hugh Fraser
before_party	Conservative Party (UK)
after_election	Bill Cash
after_party	Conservative Party (UK)

The 1984 Stafford by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 3 May 1984 for the House of Commons constituency of Stafford.

Previous MP

The seat fell vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Major Sir Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser MBE (23 January 1918 – 6 March 1984) died. Fraser was then one of Parliament's most senior members, having served over 38 years in the House of Commons.

Fraser was educated at Ampleforth College, Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union, and at the Sorbonne. He was commissioned into the Lovat Scouts in 1936 and during World War II saw service in North Africa and Europe; he retired in the 1950s with the rank of Major.

Fraser was elected Member of Parliament for Stone in 1945, later Stafford and Stone following constituency boundary changes, from 1950 until 1983, and then Stafford until his death.

Candidates

Four candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.

The Conservative candidate was William Nigel Paul Cash (born on 10 May 1940), a solicitor.

After winning the by-election, he served continuously in the House of Commons until standing down in 2024, and was the oldest sitting member between 2019 and 2024. Cash represented Stafford until boundary changes took effect in 1997, and then represented the constituency of Stone until his retirement.

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, representing the SDP–Liberal Alliance, was David Joseph Dunn. He was a senior lecturer in International Relations, at the time of the by-election. He was born in 1946 and had contested the seat in the 1983 general election.
Michael John David Poulter was the Labour candidate. He worked as a senior probation officer and was born in 1942. He contested Stafford and Stone in 1979 and this constituency in 1983.
Christopher David Teasdale was an Independent, using the ballot paper label "Soon to be unemployed".

Result

The Conservative Party held the seat with a reduced majority.

|reg. electors = 70,635

Sources

Britain Votes/Europe Votes By-Election Supplement 1983-, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1985)

References

Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1983-87 Parliament".

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