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Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1979

(27/9) 31,558 33.6

R.K. Litherland

A.T. Parkinson

A.S. Lea

S. Ala-ud-Din

J.M. Foster

W.G. Boaks Lab

L

C

Ind Lab

EP

Ind 7,494

1,502

1,275

187

129

12

6,992



*

*

*

* 70.7

14.2

12.0

1.8

1.2

0.1

56.5 -0.1

+8.9

-10.1 Swing -5.01: Lab hold

HERTFORDSHIRE, SOUTH WEST [277] (Resignation of Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth on 24th October 1979) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1979

(13/12) 76,776 48.3

R.L. Page

Mrs. S.A. Reeves

D.S.C. Clouston

N.R. Jeskins

D.W. Bundy

N.Q. Ffooks C

Lab

L

EP

ACMFTP

Ind 17,031

10,259

8,752

602

288

143

6,772





*

*

* 45.9

27.7

16.2

1.6

0.8

0.4

18.2 -8.8

-0.1

+7.4 Swing -4.35: C hold Note:- 1979

(13/12): Ffooks sought election as a 'Father Christmas: Support Southampton University Rag' candidate.



SOUTHEND, EAST [437] (Death of Sir Stephen James McAdden on 26th December 1979) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1980

(13/3) 57,016 62.5

E.M. Taylor

C. George

D.E. Evans

T.A. Robertson

W.O. Smedley

J.W.J. Curry

W.G. Boaks C

Lab

L

NBP

ACMFTP

Ind L

Ind 13,117

12,687

8,939

532

207

132

23

430





*

*

*

* 36.8

35.6

25.1

1.5

0.6

0.4

0.0

1.2 -19.3

+6.5

+12.0 Swing -12.87: C hold

GLASGOW, CENTRAL [589] (Death of Thomas McLellan McMillan on 30th April 1980) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1980

(26/6) 18,838 42.8

R. McTaggart

G.M. Paterson

Mrs. A.A. McCurley

J. MacKenzie

G. Watson

D.G. Mellor

D.A. Kean Lab

SNP

C

Ind NF

Ind L

EP

Ind SDP 4,902

2,122

707

148

134

45

10

2,780



*

*

*

*

* 60.8

26.3

8.8

1.8

1.7

0.5

0.1

34.5 -11.7

+15.2

-7.7 Swing +2.02: Lab hold Notes:- 1980: MacKenzie's candidature was repudiated by the National Front.



Kean sought election as a candidate of a Social Democratic Party which he had founded in Manchester in July 1979.



FERMANAGH and SOUTH TYRONE [633] (Death of Meredith Francis Maguire on 5th March 1981) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1981

(9/4) 72,283 82.4

R.G. Sands

H.W. West Anti-H Block

UU 30,492

29,046

1,446

51.2

48.8

2.4

+20.8 No swing calculation: Anti-H Block gain from Ind Rep

WARRINGTON [485] (Resignation of Sir William Thomas Williams on 1st June 1981, on appointment as a Judge of the South-Eastern Circuit) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1981

(16/7) 44,059 67.0

E.D.H. Hoyle

Rt. Hon. R.H. Jenkins

S.J. Sorrell

N.S. Chantrell

D. Hussey

I. Leslie

J.H. Fleming

D.A. Kean

W.G. Boaks

H. Wise

T.L. Keen Lab

SDP

C

EP

Ind Lab

Ind

Ind Lab

Ind SDP

Ind

Ind Dem

CFMPB 14,280

12,521

2,102

219

149

111

53

38

14

11

10

1,759



*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

* 48.4

42.4

7.1

0.8

0.5

0.4

0.2

0.1

0.1

0.0

0.0

6.0 -13.3



-21.7 Swing -4.23: Lab hold Notes:- 1981: Hussey sought election as a candidate of the United Democratic Labour Party.



Leslie sought election as a candidate of the Citizens' Band Radio Party.



Kean sought election as a candidate of a Social Democratic Party which he had founded in Manchester in July 1979.



Wise sought election as a candidate of the English Democratic Party which he had founded.



FERMANAGH and SOUTH TYRONE [633] (Death of Robert George Sands on 5th May 1981) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1981

(20/8) 72,834 87.5

O.G. Carron

K.W. Maginnis

S.A. Close

T.O. Moore

M.P. Green

S. Hall-Raleigh Anti-H Block

UU

APNI

Rep C/TWP

Ind

Ind 31,278

29,048

1,930

1,132

249

90

2,230



*

*

*

* 49.1

45.6

3.0

1.8

0.4

0.1

3.5

+17.6

+1.3 No swing calculation: Anti-H Block gain from Ind Rep Notes:- 1981: Green sought election as 'The Peace Lover' candidate.



Hall-Raleigh sought election as the 'General amnesty' candidate.



CROYDON, NORTH WEST [21] (Death of Robert George Taylor on 18th June 1981) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1981

(22/10) 55,009 62.8

W.H. Pitt

J.V. Butterfill

S.J. Boden

N.J. Griffin

Mrs. M. Gillies-Carr

J.M. Foster

Miss S.C. McKenzie

L. Brooks

W.G. Boaks

G. Major

J. Joseph

S.E. Done L

C

Lab

NF

Ind

EP

NFCM

Ind

Ind

Ind

Ind

ACMFTP 13,800

10,546

8,967

429

340

155

111

81

51

31

20

11

3,254





*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

* 40.0

30.5

26.0

1.2

1.0

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.2

0.1

0.1

0.0

9.5 +29.4

-18.9

-14.1 Swing -2.39: L gain from C Notes:- 1981: Gillies-Carr sought election as an 'Independent Pro-Life' candidate on an anti-abortion policy.



Brooks sought election on a policy of support for the disabled.



Major sought election on a policy advocating reforms in family law.



Joseph sought election as the nominee of the London Federation of the Self-Employed.



CROSBY [200] (Death of Rt. Hon. Sir Rodney Graham Page on 1st October 1981) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1981

(26/11) 82,687 69.3

Rt. Hon. Mrs. S.V.T.B.

Williams

J.V.C. Butcher

J. Backhouse

R.W. Small

T.F.B. Stop F'Tang-F'Tang-

Olé-Biscuit-Barrel

T.L. Keen

W.G. Boaks

J. Kennedy

D.S. Potter SDP

C

Lab

EP



Ind MRLP

Ind

Ind

Ind

Ind

28,118

22,829

5,450

480



223

99

36

31

31

5,289





*

*



*

*

*

*

*

49.0

39.8

9.5

0.8



0.4

0.2

0.1

0.1

0.1

9.2

+33.8

-17.1

-15.9

-1.6 Swing -0.62: SDP gain from C Notes:- 1981: Biscuit-Barrel's real name was John Desmond Lewis, a 22-year-old student from Hayes in Middlesex who changed his name by deed poll to that of a character from the television series 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'. He was President of the Cambridge University Raving Loony Society.



Keen sought election as a 'Conservative/Liberal Alliance' candidate.



Kennedy, a student at Middlesex Polytechnic, campaigned to draw attention to seven fellow students who had been suspended after a sit-in over demands for a college nursery.



Potter described himself as the 'Humanitarian Candidate' and was the founder and organiser of a 'lonely hearts' club.



BELFAST, SOUTH [629] (Murder of Rev. Robert John Bradford on 14th November 1981) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1982

(4/3) 66,219 65.7

Rev. W.M. Smyth

D.S. Cook

Rev. R.T.W. McCrea

Dr. A. McDonnell

J. McMichael

B.P. Caul

J. Narain

S. Hall-Raleigh UU

APNI

UDUP

SDLP

ULDP

ULP

Ind

Ind 17,123

11,726

9,818

3,839

576

303

137

12

5,397





*

*

*

*

* 39.3

27.0

22.6

8.8

1.3

0.7

0.3

0.0

12.3 -22.4

+1.8



+0.9 No swing calculation: UU hold Notes:- 1982: Narain sought election as a 'Peace State' candidate. He withdrew from the election before polling day.



Hall-Raleigh sought election as a 'One Human Family' candidate.



GLASGOW, HILLHEAD [593] (Death of Hon. Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith on 2nd January 1982) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1982

(25/3) 39,626 76.4

Rt. Hon. R.H. Jenkins

G.P. Malone

D.P. Wiseman

G.A. Leslie

Rev. J.T.A. Glass

R.H. Jenkins

Dr. Nicollette A. Carlaw

W.G. Boaks SDP

C

Lab

SNP

Ind

Ind SDP

EP

Ind 10,106

8,068

7,846

3,416

388

282

178

5

2,038





*

*

*

*

* 33.4

26.6

25.9

11.3

1.3

0.9

0.6

0.0

6.8 +18.9

-14.4

-8.5

+1.2 Swing -2.96: SDP gain from C Notes:- 1982: Glass sought election as a 'Protestant Crusade against the Papal Visit' candidate.



R.H. Jenkins had changed his name by deed poll from Douglas Parkin and was the nominee of a Social Democratic Party founded by D.A. Kean in Manchester in July 1979. He had chosen the name Roy Harold Jenkins in order to confuse electors intending to vote for the Social Democratic Party candidate; SDP canvassers were permitted to draw attention to the position of their candidate on the ballot paper.



BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, BEACONSFIELD [112] (Death of Sir Ronald McMillan Bell on 26th February 1982) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1982

(27/5) 69,206 53.9

T.J. Smith

P.A. Tyler

A.C.L. Blair

M.F. Byrne

W.G. Boaks

T.L. Keen C

L

Lab

Ind C

Ind

CFMPB 23,049

9,996

3,886

225

99

51

13,053



*

*

*

* 61.8

26.8

10.4

0.6

0.3

0.1

35.0 +0.1

+9.7

-9.7 Swing +4.91: C hold

MERTON, MITCHAM and MORDEN [59] (Decision of Bruce Leslie Home Douglas-Mann to seek re-election on 5th May 1982) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1982

(3/6) 63,255 48.5

Mrs. A.C.R. Rumbold

B.L.H. Douglas-Mann

D.G. Nicholas

J.A. Pearce

E.D. Larkin

R. Sawh

W.G. Boaks

J.J.N. Bardwaj

C.D. Farnsworth C

SDP

Lab

NF

Ind L

Ind

Ind

Ind

Ind Dem 13,306

9,032

7,475

547

123

84

66

22

18

4,274





*

*

*

*

*

* 43.4

29.4

24.4

1.8

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.0

14.0 -0.5

+20.6

-20.8

-0.2 Swing +10.15: C gain from Lab Notes:- 1982: Sawh sought election as an 'Ethnic Minority' candidate.



Farnsworth sought election as a 'Computer Democrat' candidate.



COATBRIDGE and AIRDRIE [569] (Death of James Demspey on 12th May 1982) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1982

(24/6) 61,876 56.3

T. Clarke

H. de Burgh

R. Wyllie

A. Henderson Lab

C

SNP

L 19.208

9,118

3,652

2,873

10,090



*

* 55.1

26.2

10.5

8.2

28.9 -5.8

-1.3

-1.1 Swing +2.25: Lab hold

GLAMORGANSHIRE, GOWER [537] (Death of Ifor Davies on 6th June 1982) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1982

(16/9) 60,123 65.4

G.L. Wardell

G.G. Jones

T.W. Llewellyn

D.I. Owen

J. Donovan

D.F. Burns Lab

SDP

C

PC

Ind Dem

Ind 17,095

9,875

8,690

3,431

125

103

7,220





*

*

* 43.5

25.1

22.1

8.7

0.3

0.3

18.4 -9.8

+16.1

-8.4

+1.6 Swing +0.66: Lab hold Notes:- 1982: Donovan sought election as a 'Computer Democrat' candidate.



Burns, who claimed to be a member of an organisation called Worker's Army for a Welsh Republic sought election as a Civil Rights/Welsh Political Prisoner candidate. At the time of the election he was in prison on remand from Cardiff Magistrates Court on two charges relating to a bomb explosion at an Army recruitment office in Pontypridd. In December 1982 he was sent for trial at Cardiff Crown Court and the trial commenced on September 13, 1983 and lasted two months. He was found not guilty on one charge and acquitted on the other.



SOUTHWARK, PECKHAM [66] (Death of Henry George [Harry] Lamborn on 21st August 1982) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1982

(28/10) 59,260 38.0

Miss H.R. Harman

D. Taverne

J.A. Redwood

M.G.A. Webster

W.G. Boaks Lab

SDP

C

NF

Ind 11,349

7,418

2,800

874

102

3,931



*

*

* 50.3

32.9

12.4

3.9

0.5

17.4 -9.5

+25.2

-15.7

-0.5 Swing -3.08: Lab hold

BIRMINGHAM, NORTHFIELD [126] (Suicide of Jocelyn Benedict Laurence Cadbury on 31st July 1982) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1982

(28/10) 79,732 55.0

J.F. Spellar

R.J. Gale

S.J. Ridley

I.H.M. Anderson

P.R. Sheppard

R.J. Taylor

W.G. Boaks Lab

C

L

NF

Com

Ind Prog

Ind 15,904

15,615

11,453

411

349

63

60

289





*

*

*

* 36.3

35.6

26.1

0.9

0.8

0.2

0.1

0.7 -8.8

-9.8

+18.0

-0.2 Swing -0.51: Lab gain from C Note:- 1982: Taylor sought election as a People's Progressive Party candidate.



GLASGOW, QUEENS PARK [598] (Death of Francis Patrick McElhone on 22nd September 1982) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1982

(2/12) 33,641 47.0

Mrs. H.M. McElhone

P. Mallan

D.J. Carlaw

G. Watson

J.R. Kay

J. Connell

A.H. Tennent Lab

SNP

C

L

Com

Ind Soc

SRSP 8,851

3,157

1,888

1,487

339

40

39

5,694



*

*

*

*

* 56.0

20.0

12.0

9.4

2.1

0.3

0.2

36.0 -8.3

+10.3

-12.1



+1.0 Swing -1.86: Lab hold Note:- 1982: Connell sought election as a 'Peace and Socialist' candidate.



SOUTHWARK, BERMONDSEY [6] (Resignation of Rt. Hon. Robert Joseph Mellish on 1st November 1982) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1983

(24/2) 51,096 57.7

S.H.W. Hughes

P.G. Tatchell

J.H. O'Grady

R.G. Hughes

J.S. Sneath

D.E. Sutch

Dowager Lady Birdwood

M.D. Keulemans

B. Giddings

R. Gordon

G.B. Hannah

Miss F. Eden

Mrs. A.C. King

A.R. Baker

D.D. Wedgwood

E.L. Bevan L

Lab

Ind Lab

C

NF

MRLP

Ind

NBP

Ind Lab

Com

EP

Rev CP

N Lab P

UDP

ACMFTP

Ind Lab 17,017

7,698

2,243

1,631

426

97

69

62

50

50

45

38

25

15

15

8

9,319



*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

* 57.7

26.1

7.6

5.5

1.4

0.3

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.0

31.6 +50.9

-37.5



-19.4

-2.4 Swing +9.04: L gain from Lab Notes:- 1983: O'Grady was a Southwark Labour councillor and the former Leader of Southwark Borough Council. He was a supporter of the former MP Robert Mellish and was opposed to the selection of Tatchell as Labour candidate. He was subsequently expelled from the Labour Party.



Birdwood opposed multiracialism.



DARLINGTON [201] (Death of Edward Joseph Fletcher on 13th February 1983) Election Electors T'out

Candidate Party Votes

% Ch.% 1983

(24/3) 64,969 80.0

O. O'Brien

M.C. Fallon

A.P. Cook

D.E. Sutch

A.H. Clark

T.L. Keen

J.J.N. Bardwaj

P.R. Smith Lab

C

SDP

MRLP

Ind

Ind

Ind

Ind 20,544

18,132

12,735

374

164

27

15

10

2,412





*

*

*

*

* 39.5

34.9

24.5

0.7

0.3

0.1

0.0

0.0

4.6 -6.0

-8.5

+14.3 Swing -1.26: Lab hold Note:- 1983: Smith sought election as a 'Republican' candidate.



CARDIFF, NORTH-WEST [527] (Death of Michael Hilary Arthur Roberts on 10th February 1983) Seat vacant at dissolution (C)

RHONDDA [549] (Death of Rt. Hon. Trevor Alec Jones on 20th March 1983) Seat vacant at dissolution (Lab)





