Talk:South Staffordshire (constituency)/South Staffordshire postponed poll, 2005

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Staffordshire South constituency shown within Staffordshire, and the county within England

A Parliamentary Election will be held in the constituency of of South Staffordshire, on 23 June, 2005. This poll is strictly not a by-election, but rather a part of the UK General Election, 2005 which was postponed due to the death of the Liberal Democrat candidate, Josephine Harrison, after nominations for the poll had closed. As such it is run under General Election regulations, for instance it does not qualify for the massively inflated Election Expense limits applicable to by-elections. With the seat being apparently safely Conservative, and the UK media satiated by coverage of the General Election, it is unlikely to attract as much attention as recent by-elections where seats held by the governing Labour Party were under threat.

2001 result

General Election 2001: Staffordshire South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Cormack	21,295	50.5	+0.5
	Labour	Paul Kalinauckas	14,414	34.2	−0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Josephine Harrison	4,891	11.6	+0.3
	UKIP	Mike Lynch	1,580	3.7	N/A
Majority			6,881	16.3
Turnout			42,180	60.3	−13.9
	Conservative hold		Swing