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| previous_year = 1983
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| election_date = 17 July 1986
| election_date = 17 July 1986
| candidate1 = '''[[Llin Golding]]'''
| candidate1 = '''[[Llin Golding, Baroness Golding|Llin Golding]]'''
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The '''1986 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election''' was a [[by-election|parliamentary by-election]] held on 17 July 1986 for the [[British House of Commons]] [[United Kingdom constituencies|constituency]] of [[Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency)|Newcastle-under-Lyme]].
The '''1986 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election''' was a [[by-election|parliamentary by-election]] held on 17 July 1986 for the [House of Commons of the United Kingdom[|House of Commons]] [[United Kingdom constituencies|constituency]] of [[Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency)|Newcastle-under-Lyme]].


== Previous MP ==
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Mrs Golding was the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency)|Newcastle-under-Lyme]] from 1986 to 2001. After stepping down at the [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001 general election]] she was created a [[Life peer]] as '''Baroness Golding''', of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of [[Staffordshire]] in the same year.
Mrs Golding was the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency)|Newcastle-under-Lyme]] from 1986 to 2001. After stepping down at the [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001 general election]] she was created a [[Life peer]] as '''Baroness Golding''', of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of [[Staffordshire]] in the same year.


2. The Liberal Party candidate, representing the [[SDP-Liberal Alliance]], was Alan Lindley Thomas. He was the Alliance group leader on both Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Staffordshire County Council. He was a lecturer in computing and was aged 46 at the time of the by-election. He had contested the seat of [[Stoke-on-Trent Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Stoke-on-Trent Central]] in the October 1974 and 1979 general elections, as well as the Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency in the 1983 general election.
2. The Liberal Party candidate, representing the [[SDP–Liberal Alliance]], was Alan Lindley Thomas. He was the Alliance group leader on both Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Staffordshire County Council. He was a lecturer in computing and was aged 46 at the time of the by-election. He had contested the seat of [[Stoke-on-Trent Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Stoke-on-Trent Central]] in the October 1974 and 1979 general elections, as well as the Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency in the 1983 general election.


3. The Conservative candidate was James Charles Barton Nock, a senior partner in a hotel development in Kent. Nock was aged 51 in 1986. He had been a member of Canterbury City Council since 1978 and was Leader of the Council at the time of the by-election.
3. The Conservative candidate was James Charles Barton Nock, a senior partner in a hotel development in Kent. Nock was aged 51 in 1986. He had been a member of Canterbury City Council since 1978 and was Leader of the Council at the time of the by-election.
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Revision as of 10:21, 28 April 2024

1986 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election
← 1983 17 July 1986 1987 →
Constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme
Turnout62.2% (Decrease 15.1%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Lib
Con
Candidate Llin Golding Alan Thomas James Nock
Party Labour Liberal Conservative
Popular vote 16,819 16,020 7,863
Percentage 40.8% 38.8% 19.0%
Swing Decrease1.2% Increase17.2% Decrease17.4%
MP before election

John Golding
Labour

Subsequent MP

Llin Golding
Labour

The 1986 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 17 July 1986 for the [House of Commons of the United Kingdom[|House of Commons]] constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Previous MP

The seat had become vacant on 24 June 1986. The constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), John Golding (9 March 1931 – 20 January 1999) resigned his seat to become a trade union leader. He did this by being appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, a notional office of profit under the Crown, which is used to permit MPs to vacate their seats.

John Golding had been an MP since the 1969 by-election in the seat. He was appointed as General Secretary of the National Communications Union in 1986 and retained that office until 1988.

Candidates

Seven candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.

1. Representing the Labour Party was the former MPs wife, Llinos Golding (born 21 March 1933). She had worked as a radiographer for twelve years. She then became a member of the North Staffordshire Health Authority. Her father was the late Ness Edwards, who had been a Labour MP and Minister.

Mrs Golding was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1986 to 2001. After stepping down at the 2001 general election she was created a Life peer as Baroness Golding, of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire in the same year.

2. The Liberal Party candidate, representing the SDP–Liberal Alliance, was Alan Lindley Thomas. He was the Alliance group leader on both Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Staffordshire County Council. He was a lecturer in computing and was aged 46 at the time of the by-election. He had contested the seat of Stoke-on-Trent Central in the October 1974 and 1979 general elections, as well as the Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency in the 1983 general election.

3. The Conservative candidate was James Charles Barton Nock, a senior partner in a hotel development in Kent. Nock was aged 51 in 1986. He had been a member of Canterbury City Council since 1978 and was Leader of the Council at the time of the by-election.

5. David Edward Sutch (more commonly known as Screaming Lord Sutch) (10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999), was a pop singer and frequent participant in elections. He represented the Official Monster Raving Loony Party at this by-election. This was the twelfth parliamentary election Sutch had been a candidate at.

5. John Alan Gaskell was an Independent, using the ballot paper label "Rainbow Alliance Prince Charles Appreciation Party".

6. James Parker was an Independent candidate, using the ballot paper description "Referendum on Nuclear Energy".

7. David D'Arcy Brewester was another Independent candidate, using the ballot paper label "Rainbow Alliance Bob Geldof Appreciation Party".

Votes

1986 by-election: Newcastle-under-Lyme[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Llin Golding 16,819 40.8 −1.2
Liberal Alan Thomas 16,020 38.8 +17.2
Conservative James Nock 7,863 19.0 −17.4
Monster Raving Loony David Sutch 277 0.7 New
Independent politics John Gaskell 115 0.3 New
Independent politics James Parker 83 0.2 New
Independent politics David Brewester 70 0.2 New
Majority 799 2.0 −3.6
Turnout 41,247 62.2 −15.1
Labour hold Swing
Registered electors 66,353

See also

Sources

  1. ^ 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.
  • Britain Votes/Europe Votes By-Election Supplement 1983-, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1985)
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