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Rotherham Rotherham () is a large minster and market town in South Yorkshire, England. The town takes its name from the River Rother which then merges with the River Don. The River Don then flows through the town centre. It is the main settlement of ...
by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...
of 24 June 1976 was held after the death of
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(MP) Brian O'Malley. Labour held on to the seat in the by-election.


Results


Aftermath

The result was significant as it meant that the Labour government retained a majority of one in the House of Commons. However although Labour had held the seat, ''
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'' noted that the voters had sent the party a "sour message". In a seat that had been considered safe for Labour, their majority dropped by over 11,000 votes and there was a 13.3% swing to the Conservatives. Moreover, the reduced turnout was taken by the newspaper as suggesting some Labour supporters had failed to come out and vote for their party. The newspaper thought that the Prime Minister James Callaghan, would be "very concerned" by this fall in support and by the size of the National Front candidate's vote.


See also

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1899 Rotherham by-election The 1899 Rotherham by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 23 February 1899 for the House of Commons constituency of Rotherham in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Vacancy The by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Liber ...
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1910 Rotherham by-election The 1910 Rotherham by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Rotherham in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire on 1 March 1910. Vacancy The by-election was caused by the resignation of the sit ...
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1917 Rotherham by-election The 1917 Rotherham by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Rotherham in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 5 February 1917. Vacancy The by-election was caused by the elevation to the peerage of the s ...
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1994 Rotherham by-election The Rotherham by-election was held on 5 May 1994, following the death of Labour Party Member of Parliament for Rotherham Jimmy Boyce. Boyce had won the seat only at the 1992 general election, but it had been continuously held by Labour since 19 ...
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2012 Rotherham by-election The Rotherham by-election was a by-election for the Parliament of the United Kingdom's House of Commons constituency of Rotherham. The by-election was caused by the resignation of its Member of Parliament Denis MacShane after the House of Common ...


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