The Kensington

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, in Kensington, on 14 July 1988 was held after the death of

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. Normally a relatively safe Conservative seat, it was narrowly won by Dudley Fishburn, who would retain the seat in 1992. It was the first by-election of that parliament, which had begun after the general election of June 1987, and would last until the next election in April 1992.

Candidates

*John Connell was a peace advocate who opposed what he saw as manipulation of the news by ITN. *John Crowley described himself as an 'Anti Yuppie Revolutionary Crowleyist, Vegetarian Visionary'. *John Duignan was a supporter of the

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organisation. *Roy Edey called for equal redistribution of wealth and a policy of social housing construction. * Dudley Fishburn was a former editor of ''

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''. * William Goodhart was a leading

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. *Brian Goodier described himself as an 'Anti-Left Wing Fascist'. *Phylip Hobson was the

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candidate. *Ann Holmes was again a candidate for this seat in the 1992 general election. and subsequently became a councillor in the

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Ann Holmes, Farringdon Within *John Martin was a candidate for the dissident wing of the Social Democratic Party (UK), SDP that had rejected membership of the Social and Liberal Democrats. *Thomas McDermott was the founder of the Free Trade Liberal Party and campaigned on a platform of the UK leaving the

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. *

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, who had been convicted of controlling a brothel, ran under the 'Rainbow Alliance Payne and Pleasure Party' banner. *William Scola represented his own 'Leveller Party'. * Screaming Lord Sutch was the leader and founder of the

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. *Kailash Trivedi ran as candidate for the 'Janata Party' (''Peoples Party'' in

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and the name of a former governing party in

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), his own creation.

Results

The results for the previous election were:

References

External links

Campaign literature from the by-election
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