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1999 Eddisbury by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

Field	Value
election_name	1999 Eddisbury by-election
country	United Kingdom
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1997 United Kingdom general election
previous_year	1997
next_election	2001 United Kingdom general election
next_year	2001
election_date	22 July 1999
candidate1	Stephen O'Brien
image1	[[File:Stephen O'Brien, October 2009 6 cropped.jpg	150x150px]]
party1	Conservative Party (UK)
popular_vote1	15,465
percentage1	44.8%
swing1	2.3pp
candidate2	Margaret Hanson
party2	Labour Party (UK)
popular_vote2	13,859
percentage2	40.2%
swing2	0.1pp
candidate3	Paul Roberts
party3	Liberal Democrats (UK)
popular_vote3	4,757
percentage3	13.8%
swing3	0.6pp
title	MP
before_election	Alastair Goodlad
after_election	Stephen O'Brien
before_party	Conservative Party (UK)
after_party	Conservative Party (UK)

The 1999 Eddisbury by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 22 July 1999 for the British House of Commons constituency of Eddisbury in Cheshire.

On 25 May 1999 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced the appointment of Eddisbury's Member of Parliament (MP), the Rt. Hon. Sir Alastair Goodlad, as High Commissioner to the Commonwealth of Australia. This created a vacancy in the seat which Sir Alastair had retained as the Conservative candidate in the 1997 general election. Goodlad resigned from the House of Commons by accepting the office of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern on 28 June 1999 to formally vacate his seat.

The 1999 British cabinet reshuffle was delayed by a week following Labour's unexpected success in the by-election.

Candidates

The Conservatives selected Stephen O'Brien, a former SDP member who lived in Chichester, to defend the seat. Labour nominated Margaret Hanson, wife of David Hanson (Labour MP for Delyn), who had also fought the seat at the 1997 election. Labour had been only just over 1,000 votes behind the Conservatives in 1997 and ran an energetic campaign, raising the issue of fox hunting which she pledged to ban. Prime Minister Tony Blair went to the constituency to campaign for her, an unusual move as it is convention for incumbent Prime Ministers not to visit byelection campaigns.

Polling day was 22 July and the result was a virtual carbon copy of that in 1997; each party had fought to a standstill.

Opinion polling

Date(s)
conducted	Pollster	Client	Sample
size	Con	Lab	Lib Dem	Others	Lead	Conservative Party (UK)}};"		Labour Party (UK)}};"		Liberal Democrats (UK)}};"
{{opdrts	22	Jul	1999	year}}	1999 by-election	–	44.8%	40.2%	13.8%	1.2%	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	4.6%
{{opdrts	13	Jul	1999	year}}	[Ipsos](https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/eddisbury-election-hunting-wild-mammals-dogs)	N/A	500	38%	42%	17%	3%	Labour Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	4%
{{opdrts	1	May	1997	year}}	1997 general election	–	42.5%	40.1%	13.2%	4.2%	Conservative Party (UK)}};color:#FFFFFF;"	2.4%

Result

Previous election

References

Ward, Lucy. (1999-07-17). "Mowlam key figure in reshuffle". The Guardian.
Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1997–2001 Parliament".

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