Newham North East by-election, 1994

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The Newham North East by-election, in London Borough of Newham, on June 9, 1994 was held after long-serving Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Ron Leighton died.^[1] A safe Labour seat, it was won by Stephen Timms, who would go on to retain the East Ham seat which replaced it in 1997.

[edit] Results

Newham North by-election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Timms	14,688	74.97	+16.64
	Conservative	Philip Hammond	2,850	14.55	-15.96
	Liberal Democrats nominee	Alec Kellaway	821	4.19	-7.0
	UK Independence	Anthony Scholefield	509	2.60	N/A
	House Homeless People	Ms Jo Homeless	342	1.75	N/A
	Natural Law	Richard Archer	228	1.15	N/A
	Buy the Daily Sport	Ms Vida Garman	155	0.79	N/A
Turnout			19,593
	Labour hold		Swing

Note: Immediately prior to the election Kellaway announced that he was leaving the Liberal Democrats and joining the Labour Party. Consequently there was no official Liberal Democrat standing in the election.^[2]

The results for the previous election were:

1992 General Election:Newham North East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ron Leighton	20,952	58.30
	Conservative	JH Galbraith	10,966	30.51
	Liberal Democrat	JJ Aves	4020	11.19
Majority			9,986	27.79
Turnout			35,938	60.34
	Labour hold		Swing

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