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1994 Dagenham by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

FieldValue
election_name1994 Dagenham by-election
typeparliamentary
countryUnited Kingdom
seats_for_electionConstituency of Dagenham
ongoingno
previous_election1992 United Kingdom general election
previous_year1992
next_election1997 United Kingdom general election
next_year1997
election_date9 June 1994
candidate1**Judith Church**
image1
party1Labour Party (UK)
popular_vote1**15,474**
percentage1**72.00%**
swing1**19.74%**
candidate2James Fairrie
image2
party2Conservative Party (UK)
popular_vote22,130
percentage29.91%
swing226.38%
candidate4Peter Dunphy
image4
party4Liberal Democrats (UK)
popular_vote41,804
percentage48.39%
swing43.06%
candidate5John Tyndall
image5
party5British National Party
popular_vote51,511
percentage57.03%
swing5
titleMP
before_electionBryan Gould
before_partyLabour Party (UK)
after_electionJudith Church
after_partyLabour Party (UK)

The 1994 Dagenham by-election, for the Dagenham constituency, was held on 9 June 1994 after Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Bryan Gould resigned the seat. A safe Labour seat, it was won by Judith Church, who retained the seat in 1997.

Candidates

  • Judith Church had unsuccessfully run for Labour in the 1992 general election in Stevenage.
  • James Fairrie, the candidate for the Conservative Party, had been educated at Downside School, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the University of Exeter. Having served with the Royal Hussars he took a job with an export credit agency whilst also serving as a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1981 to 1986. He unsuccessfully contested Newham South in the 1987 general election.
  • Peter Dunphy, the candidate for the Liberal Democrats, had run unsuccessfully for the party in the 1992 general election for the Hornsey and Wood Green seat. He went on to serve as a councillor for the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
  • John Tyndall, the British National Party candidate, was party leader at the time and had previously contested a number of general elections for the BNP. His by-election vote share was the BNP's highest score in a Parliamentary by-election which stood until the Sedgefield by-election of July 2007. It was also the first time ever that the party had saved its deposit in a parliamentary election.
  • Peter Compobassi, the UK Independence Party candidate, went on to run for the party in Thurrock in the 1997 general election. A seller of hot chestnuts on London's Oxford Street, he has signed up to be one of the 'Metric Martyrs'.
  • Mark Leighton, the Natural Law Party candidate, ran again in Kingston and Surbiton for the 1997 general election.

Result

Previous result

The result for the previous election was:

References

References

  1. [https://archive.today/20130419211400/http://by-elections.co.uk/dagenham.html Full result]
  2. [https://web.archive.org/web/19970429111557/http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/candidates/1034.htm Candidate profile]
  3. (September 2017)
  4. [https://www3.westminster.gov.uk/csu/Licensing_Sub-Committee/2003_Sub-Committee_Meetings/04-April/08Apr03/Minutes080403.doc City of Westminster Licensing Sub-Committee No. 4]{{dead link. (December 2016)
  5. "The Imperial Register".
  6. Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1992-97 Parliament".
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