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1986 West Derbyshire by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

FieldValue
election_name1986 West Derbyshire by-election
typeparliamentary
countryUnited Kingdom
seats_for_electionConstituency of West Derbyshire
ongoingno
previous_election1983 United Kingdom general election
previous_year1983
election_date8 May 1986
candidate1Patrick McLoughlin
image1[[File:Official portrait of Lord McLoughlin, 2022.jpgx160px]]
party1Conservative Party (UK)
popular_vote119,896
percentage139.5%
swing116.3%
candidate2Christopher Walmsley
image2Lib
party2Liberal Party (UK)
popular_vote219,796
percentage239.4%
swing212.3%
candidate3William Moore
image3Lab
party3Labour Party (UK)
popular_vote39,952
percentage319.8%
swing32.7%
titleMP
posttitleSubsequent MP
before_electionMatthew Parris
before_partyConservative Party (UK)
after_electionPatrick McLoughlin
after_partyConservative Party (UK)
turnout71.9% (5.5%)
next_election1987 United Kingdom general election
next_year1987

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, the seat's former MP, Matthew Parris, told Vincent Hanna on Newsnight that he thought Labour could gain the seat from the Conservatives.

In his memoirs, he admitted that he deliberately misled both Hanna and the audience to prevent a Liberal victory.

'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.

References

References

  1. Chris Rennard, Winning Here, p.84
  2. Matthew Parris, Chance Witness, p.348
  3. Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1983-87 Parliament".
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