1986 Ryedale by-election
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The 1986 Ryedale by-election took place on 8 May 1986. The election was held on the same day as the 1986 local elections and the West Derbyshire by-election
It is the latest by-election to have just three candidates standing.
The seat was regained by the Conservatives the next year at the 1987 general election by John Greenway.
Background[edit]
In the spring of 1986 unemployment began rising at a greater rate than in previous years and the Conservative loss at Ryedale was a factor (according to Nigel Lawson) in "even committed supporters of the Government's economic strategy...insisting that reducing unemployment should now have priority".[1]
Result[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal (Alliance) | Elizabeth Shields | 27,612 | 50.28 | +19.8 | |
| Conservative | Neil Balfour | 22,672 | 41.28 | -17.9 | |
| Labour | Shirley Haines | 4,633 | 8.44 | -1.9 | |
| Majority | 4,940 | 9.00 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 54,917 | 67.3 | -4.5 | ||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +19.0[3] | |||
Previous General election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Spence | 33,312 | 59.2 | ||
| Alliance (Liberal) | Elizabeth Shields | 17,170 | 30.5 | ||
| Labour | P Bloom | 5,816 | 10.3 | ||
| Majority | 16,142 | 28.7 | |||
| Turnout | 56,838 | ||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
See also[edit]
- Ryedale (UK Parliament constituency)
- Thirsk and Malton (UK Parliament constituency)
- List of United Kingdom by-elections
Notes[edit]
- ^ Nigel Lawson, The View from No. 11. Memoirs of a Tory Radical (Bantam, 1992), p. 641.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Chris Cook and John Ramsden (eds.), By-elections in British Politics (Routledge, 1997), p. 11.