Ryedale by-election, 1986
- Ryedale by-election, 1986
The Ryedale by-election took place on 8 May, 1986. It is the latest by-election to have just three candidates standing. The seat was regained by the Conservatives at the 1987 general election by John Greenway.
Background
In the spring of 1986 unemployment began rising at a greater rate than in previous years and the Conservative loss at Ryedale was a factor in "even committed supporters of the Government's economic strategy...insisting that reducing unemployment should now have priority". [Nigel Lawson, "The View from No. 11. Memoirs of a Tory Radical" (Bantam, 1992), p. 641.]
Result
Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Elizabeth Shields
votes = 27,612
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Neil Balfour
votes = 22,672
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Shirley Haines
votes = 4,633
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 4,940
percentage =
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage =
change = Election box gain with party link
winner = Liberal Party (UK)
loser = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = 19% [Chris Cook and John Ramsden (eds.), "By-elections in British Politics" (Routledge, 1997), p. 11.]
Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = John Spence
votes = 33,312
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Elizabeth Shields
votes = 17,170
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = P Bloom
votes =
percentage =
change = Election box majority
votes = 16,142
percentage =
change = -Election box turnout
votes =
percentage =
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =
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