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A 1990by-election was held for theUnited KingdomHouse of Commons for oneMember of Parliament (MP) in theconstituency ofBradford North, inWest Yorkshire,England, on 8 November 1990 owing to the death of the sitting MPPat Wall.
Bradford is a city based on heavy engineering and textile industries. The Bradford North seat had been held for one Parliament by the Conservatives from 1983 to 1987, when theLabour candidate Pat Wall (a member of theMilitant tendency) saw his vote split by a strongSDP challenge and by the sitting Labour MPBen Ford standing as an Independent. (The successful Conservative,Geoffrey Lawler, had only 34.3% of the vote.)
The by-election took place whenMargaret Thatcher was highly unpopular and in her last month as Prime Minister. Declining support for the Conservative government (which improved afterJohn Major succeeded Thatcher near the end of November 1990) was reflected by the fact that the Conservative candidate in this by-election only attracted just over one in six of the total votes cast.
The successful Labour candidateTerry Rooney became the firstMormon to be elected to the House of Commons.[1]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour | Terry Rooney | 18,619 | 51.7 | +8.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | David Ward | 9,105 | 25.3 | +7.6 | |
| Conservative | Joy Atkin | 6,048 | 16.8 | −22.7 | |
| Islamic Party | David Pidcock | 800 | 2.2 | New | |
| Green | Michael Knott | 447 | 1.2 | New | |
| National Front | Robert Tenney | 305 | 0.8 | New | |
| Independent | Joseph Floyd | 219 | 0.6 | New | |
| Monster Raving Loony | Wild Willi Beckett | 210 | 0.6 | New | |
| Liberal | Noel Nowosielski | 187 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Ind. Conservative | Malcolm Wigglesworth | 89 | 0.2 | New | |
| Majority | 9,514 | 26.4 | +23.1 | ||
| Turnout | 36,029 | 53.4 | −19.3 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
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