Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election, 2004

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Hodge Hill constituency shown within Birmingham
Hodge Hill constituency shown within Birmingham

A by-election was held for the United Kingdom Parliament seat of Birmingham Hodge Hill, on July 15, the same day as the Leicester South by-election. The by-election was called following the resignation of the sitting MP, Terry Davis, on June 22 2004.[1] Davies had been appointed as Secretary General of the Council of Europe

The area has had a Labour MP since the 1950 general election, the only break being a Conservative Party victory at a 1977 by-election for the Birmingham Stechford constituency. Stechford returned to Labour at the 1979 general election.

At the by-election, the seat was won by the Labour Party candidate Liam Byrne with 7,451 votes and a vastly reduced majority. The Liberal Democrat candidate Nicola Davies increased her party's share of the vote by over 26% and was only 460 votes behind.

The by-election was heavily contested by Labour and the Liberal Democrats, with both parties alleging "dirty tricks" by the other.[2]


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[edit] Results

Turnout was 37.89%.

2004 by-election: Birmingham Hodge Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Liam Byrne 7,451 36.5 -27.4
Liberal Democrat Nicola Davies 6,991 34.2 +26.1
Conservative Stephen Eyre 3,543 17.3 -2.7
Respect John Rees 1,282 6.3
National Front Jim Starkey 805 3.9
English Democrats Mark Wheatley 277 1.4
Christian Vote Rev. George Hargreaves 90 0.4
Majority
Turnout

[edit] 2001 result

From the 2001 general election.

2001 General Election: Birmingham, Hodge Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Terry Davis 16,901 63.9 -1.7
Conservative Debbie Lewis 5,283 20.0 -4.0
Liberal Democrat Charles Dow 2,147 8.1 -0.4
British National Party Lee Windridge 889 3.3
People's Justice Perwaz Hussain 561 2.1
Socialist Labour Dennis Cridge 284 1.1
UK Independence Harvey Vivian 275 1.0 -0.9
Muslim Party Ayub Khan 125 0.5
Majority 11,618 43.9
Turnout 26,465 47.9

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1] Sessional Information Digest 2003-04, Hansard
  2. ^ [2] "The Ghost of Enoch", The Observer, 22 August 2004

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