The

Ryedale Ryedale is a non-metropolitan district in North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Vale of Pickering, a low-lying flat area of land drained by the River Derwent. The Vale's landscape is rural with scattered villages and towns. It has been inh ...

by-election took place on 8 May 1986. The election was held on the same day as the 1986 local elections and the West Derbyshire by-election It is the latest by-election to have just three candidates standing. The seat was regained by the Conservatives the next year 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 (according to

Nigel Lawson Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, (born 11 March 1932) is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. He was a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Blaby from 1974 to 1992, and served in the cabinet of Margaret ...

) 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

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Result

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