1988 Kensington by-election in UK
1988 Kensington by-election
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Constituency of Kensington |
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| Turnout | 51.6% ( 13.1%) |
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| | First party | Second party | | |  | Lab | | Candidate | Dudley Fishburn | Patricia Holmes | | Party | Conservative | Labour | | Popular vote | 9,829 | 9,014 | | Percentage | 41.59% | 38.14% | | Swing | 5.9% |  4.9% |
| | | Third party | Fourth party | | | SLD | SDP | | Candidate | William Goodhart | John Martin | | Party | SLD | SDP | | Popular vote | 2,546 | 1,190 | | Percentage | 10.77% | 5.04% | | Swing | 6.5% | N/A | |
MP before election
Brandon Rhys-Williams
Conservative | Subsequent MP
Dudley Fishburn
Conservative | |
The 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.[1]
- John Crowley described himself as an 'Anti Yuppie Revolutionary Crowleyist, Vegetarian Visionary'.[1]
- John Duignan was a supporter of the Class War organisation.[1]
- Roy Edey called for equal redistribution of wealth and a policy of social housing construction.[1]
- Dudley Fishburn was a former editor of The Economist.[2]
- William Goodhart was a leading human rights lawyer who has since taken a seat in the House of Lords.[3]
- Brian Goodier described himself as an 'Anti-Left Wing Fascist'.[1]
- Phylip Hobson was the Green Party candidate.
- Ann Holmes was again a candidate for this seat in the 1992 general election.[4] and subsequently became a councillor in the City of London.[5]
- 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.[1]
- Cynthia Payne, who had been convicted of controlling a brothel, ran under the 'Rainbow Alliance Payne and Pleasure Party' banner.[1]
- William Scola represented his own 'Leveller Party'.[1]
- 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.[1]
Results
The results for the previous election were:
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1983–87 Parliament". United Kingdom Election Results. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ Dudley Fishburn
- ^ "Lord William Goodhart". Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
- ^ Ann Holmes
- ^ [1] Ann Holmes, Farringdon Within
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
External links
- Campaign literature from the by-election
- Full results
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