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1988 Kensington by-election

Election in the UK

Field	Value
election_name	1988 Kensington by-election
type	parliamentary
country	United Kingdom
seats_for_election	Constituency of Kensington
ongoing	no
previous_election	1987 United Kingdom general election
previous_year	1987
election_date	14 July 1988
candidate1	Dudley Fishburn
image1	[[File:Dudley Fishburn (3x4 crop).jpg	x160px]]
party1	Conservative Party (UK)
popular_vote1	9,829
percentage1	41.59%
swing1	5.9%
candidate2	Patricia Holmes
image2	Lab
party2	Labour Party (UK)
popular_vote2	9,014
percentage2	38.14%
swing2	4.9%
candidate4	William Goodhart
image4	SLD
party4	Social and Liberal Democrats
popular_vote4	2,546
percentage4	10.77%
swing4	6.5%
candidate5	John Martin
image5	SDP
party5	Social Democratic Party (UK, 1988)
popular_vote5	1,190
percentage5	5.04%
swing5
title	MP
posttitle	Subsequent MP
before_election	Brandon Rhys-Williams
before_party	Conservative Party (UK)
after_election	Dudley Fishburn
after_party	Conservative Party (UK)
turnout	51.6% ( 13.1%)
next_election	1992 United Kingdom general election
next_year	1992

The 1988 Kensington by-election, in Kensington, on 14 July 1988 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Brandon Rhys-Williams. Normally a relatively safe Conservative seat, it was narrowly won by Dudley Fishburn, who would retain the seat in 1992.

It was the first by-election of that parliament, which had begun after the general election of June 1987, and would last until the next election in April 1992.

Candidates

John Connell was a peace advocate who opposed what he saw as manipulation of the news by ITN.
John Crowley described himself as an 'Anti Yuppie Revolutionary Crowleyist, Vegetarian Visionary'.
John Duignan was a supporter of the Class War organisation.
Roy Edey called for equal redistribution of wealth and a policy of social housing construction.
Dudley Fishburn was a former editor of The Economist.
William Goodhart was a leading human rights lawyer who has since taken a seat in the House of Lords.
Brian Goodier described himself as an 'Anti-Left Wing Fascist'.
Phylip Hobson was the Green Party candidate.
Ann Holmes was again a candidate for this seat in the 1992 general election. and subsequently became a councillor in the City of London.
John Martin was a candidate for the dissident wing of the SDP that had rejected membership of the Social and Liberal Democrats.
Thomas McDermott was the founder of the Free Trade Liberal Party and campaigned on a platform of the UK leaving the European Community.
Cynthia Payne, who had been convicted of controlling a brothel, ran under the 'Rainbow Alliance Payne and Pleasure Party' banner.
William Scola represented his own 'Leveller Party'.
Screaming Lord Sutch was the leader and founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.
Kailash Trivedi ran as candidate for the 'Janata Party' (Peoples Party in Hindi and the name of a former governing party in India), his own creation.

Result

|reg. electors = 45,830

Previous result

|reg. electors = 48,212

References

Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1983–87 Parliament".
[http://www.apcoworldwide.com/uk/content/keystaff/Dudley_Fishburn.cfm Dudley Fishburn]
"Lord William Goodhart".
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071219093522/http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,,-2484,00.html Ann Holmes]
[https://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=1230] Ann Holmes, Farringdon Within
"Election Data 1987". [[Electoral Calculus]].

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