The Newham North East

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, in

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, on 9 June 1994 was held after long-serving

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(MP)

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died. A safe Labour seat, it was won by

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, who would go on to retain the

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seat which replaced it in 1997.

Candidates

* Richard Archer was the

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candidate. He was also a candidate for the party in the European elections of the same year in the London North East constituency. * Vida Garman, a

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model, ran as a publicity stunt for the ''

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'' newspaper, which wanted to take advantage of free postage for electoral leaflets. *

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was chosen as the

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candidate. He was director of a medical equipment and the chairman of

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/ref> * Jo Homeless had changed her name by deed poll in order to contest the election on a campaign of housing the homeless. * Alec Kellaway was the nominated candidate for the Liberal Democrats however immediately prior to the election Kellaway announced that he was leaving the Liberal Democrats and joining the Labour Party. Consequently, there was no official Liberal Democrat standing in the election.Colin Rallings & David Broughton, ''British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1995'', p. 182 * Anthony Scholefield was the candidate for the

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. * Stephen Timms, the

candidate, had previously served as the leader of the local council for four years.

Results

The results for the previous election were:

References

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