| 词条 | 1999 Eddisbury by-election |
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The Eddisbury by-election, 1999 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. Sir Alastair 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. CandidatesThe 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 in 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. Results{{Election box begin | title=Eddisbury by-election, 1999[1]}}{{Election box candidate with party link||party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Stephen O'Brien |votes = 15,465 |percentage = 44.8 |change = +2.3 }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Margaret Hanson |votes = 13,859 |percentage = 40.2 |change = +0.1 }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Democrats (UK) |candidate = Paul Roberts |votes = 4,757 |percentage = 13.8 |change = +0.6 }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Official Monster Raving Loony Party |candidate = Alan Hope |votes = 238 |percentage = 0.7 |change = N/A }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Independent Conservative |candidate = Roger Everest |votes = 98 |percentage = 0.3 |change = N/A }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Natural Law Party |candidate = Dinah Grice |votes = 80 |percentage = 0.2 |change = N/A }}{{Election box majority| |votes = 1,606 |percentage = 4.6 |change = +2.2 }}{{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = 51.4 |change = -24.4 }}{{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Conservative Party (UK) |swing = }}{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin | title=General Election 1997: Eddisbury}}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Alastair Goodlad |votes = 21,027 |percentage = 42.5 |change = }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Margaret Hanson |votes = 19,842 |percentage = 40.1 |change = }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Democrats (UK) |candidate = David Reaper |votes = 6,540 |percentage = 13.2 |change = }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Referendum Party |candidate = Norine Napier |votes = 2,041 |percentage = 4.2 |change = N/A }}{{Election box majority| |votes = 1,185 |percentage = 2.4 |change = }}{{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = 75.8 |change = }}{{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Conservative Party (UK) |swing = }}{{Election box end}} References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1997.html|title=Results of Byelections in the 1997-2002 Parliament|last=Boothroyd|first=David|access-date=2015-10-05|website=United Kingdom Election Results}} External links
See also
5 : By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Cheshire constituencies|1999 elections in the United Kingdom|1999 in England|July 1999 events in Europe|20th century in Cheshire |
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