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1994 Dagenham by-election
The Dagenham by-election , for the Dagenham constituency , was held on 9 June 1994 after Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Bryan Gould resigned the seat. A safe Labour seat, it was won by Judith Church , who retained the seat in 1997 .[ 1]
Judith Church had unsuccessfully run for Labour in the 1992 general election in Stevenage .James Fairrie, the candidate for the Conservative Party , had been educated at Downside School , Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the University of Exeter . Having served with the Royal Hussars he took a job with an export credit agency whilst also serving as a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1981 to 1986. He unsuccessfully contested Newham South in the 1987 general election .[ 2]
Peter Dunphy , the candidate for the Liberal Democrats , had run unsuccessfully for the party in the 1992 general election for the Hornsey and Wood Green seat. He went on to serve as a councillor for the London Borough of Waltham Forest .[ 3] John Tyndall , 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 chestnuts on London 's Oxford Street ,[ 4] Metric Martyrs '.[ 5]
Mark Leighton, the Natural Law Party candidate, ran again in Kingston and Surbiton for the 1997 general election . The results for the previous election were:
