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, in

, on 9 June 1994 was held after

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(MP)

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resigned the seat. A safe Labour seat, it was won by Judith Church, who retained the seat in

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Candidates

* Judith Church had unsuccessfully run for Labour in the 1992 general election in

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. *James Fairrie, the candidate for the

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, had been educated at

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and the

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. Having served with the Royal Hussars he took a job with an

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whilst also serving as a councillor in the

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from 1981 to 1986. He unsuccessfully contested Newham South in the 1987 general election. *

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, the candidate for the Liberal Democrats, had run unsuccessfully for the party in the 1992 general election for the

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seat. He went on to serve as a councillor for the

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. *

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, the British National Party candidate, was party leader at the time and had previously contested a number of general elections for the BNP. His by-election vote share was the BNP's highest score in a Parliamentary by-election which stood until the Sedgefield by-election of July 2007. It was also the first time ever that the party had saved its deposit in a parliamentary election. *Peter Compobassi, the United Kingdom Independence Party candidate, went on to run for the party in Thurrock in the 1997 general election. A seller of hot

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s on

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's Oxford Street, he has signed up to be one of the '

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'. *Mark Leighton, the

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candidate, ran again in Kingston and Surbiton for the 1997 general election.

Results

The results for the previous election were:

References

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