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

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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