Bradford North by-election, 1990

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A by-election was held for the United Kingdom House of Commons for one Member of Parliament (MP) in the constituency of Bradford North, in West Yorkshire, England, on 9 November 1990. This was due to the death of former MP Pat Wall.

Bradford is a city based on heavy engineering and textile industries. The Bradford North seat had briefly been held by the Conservatives from 1983 to 1987, when the Labour candidate Pat Wall (a member of the Militant Tendency) saw his vote split by a strong SDP challenge and by the sitting Labour MP Ben Ford standing as an Independent. (The successful Conservative, Geoffrey Lawler, had only 34.6% of the vote)

The byelection took place when Margaret Thatcher was highly unpopular and in her last month as Prime Minister. Some amusement was raised when it was spotted that the Conservative candidate, Joy Atkin, had taken her official photograph for her election address in a graveyard. The successful Labour candidate Terry Rooney became the first Mormon to be elected to the House of Commons.

Bradford North by-election 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terry Rooney	18,619	51.7	+8.8
	Liberal Democrats	David Ward	9,105	25.3	-8.3
	Conservative	Joy Atkin	6,048	16.8	-22.7
	Islamic Party	David Pidcock	800	2.2	+1.4
	Green	Michael Knott	447	1.2	-0.1
	National Front	Robert Tenney	305	0.8
	Independent	Joseph Floyd	219	0.6
	Monster Raving Loony	Wild Willi Beckett	210	0.6
	Liberal	Noel Nowosielski	187	0.5
	Independent Conservative	Malcolm Wigglesworth	89	0.2
Majority			9,514	26.4
Turnout			36,029	53.4	-19.3
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] External links

• British Parliamentary By Elections: Campaign literature from the by-election

[edit] See also

• List of United Kingdom by-elections

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

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