Kensington by-election, 1988

The Kensington by-election, in Kensington, on July 14, 1988 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Brandon Rhys-Williams. A safe Tory seat, it was won by Dudley Fishburn, who would go on to retain the seat in 1992.

[edit] Results

Kensington by-election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dudley Fishburn	9,829	41.59	-5.92
	Labour	Ann Holmes	9,014	38.14	+4.89
	Liberal Democrat	William Goodhart	2,546	10.77	-6.48
	Social Democrat	John Martin	1,190	5.04	N/A
	Green	Phylip Hobson	572	2.42	+0.73
	Rainbow Alliance - Payne & Pleasure	Cynthia Payne	193	0.82	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	Screaming Lord Sutch	61	0.26	N/A
	London Class War Candidate	John Duignan	60	0.25	N/A
	Anti Left-Wing Fascist	Brian Goodier	31	0.13	N/A
	Free Trade Liberal - Europe Out!	Thomas McDermott	31	0.13	N/A
	Fair Wealth & Health	Roy Edey	30	0.13	N/A
	Leveller Party	William Scola	27	0.11	N/A
	Anti-Yuppie	John Crowley	24	0.10	N/A
	Peace - Stop ITN Manipulation	John Connell	20	0.08	N/A
	Independent Janata Party	Kailash Trivedi	5	0.02	N/A
Turnout			23,633	51.6	-13.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

The results for the previous election were:

1987 General Election:Kensington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Brandon Rhys-Williams	14,818	47.51
	Labour	Ben Bousquet	10,371	33.25
	SDP-Liberal Alliance	William Goodhart	5,379	17.25
	Green	R. Shorter	528	1.69
	Humanist Party	L. Carrick	65	0.21
	Public Independent Plaintiff Party	M Hughes	30	0.10
Majority			4,447	14.26
Turnout			48,212	64.70
	Conservative hold		Swing

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1988	July: Kensington • November: Glasgow Govan • December: Epping Forest

1989	February: Pontypridd • Richmond • May: Vale of Glamorgan • June: Glasgow Central • Vauxhall

1990	March: Mid Staffordshire • May: Bootle • Upper Bann • September: Knowsley South • October: Eastbourne • November: Bootle • Bradford North • Paisley North • Paisley South

1991	March: Ribble Valley • April: Neath • May: Monmouth • July: Liverpool Walton • November: Hemsworth • Kincardine and Deeside • Langbaurgh

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