1999 Eddisbury by-election

1999 Eddisbury by-election

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First party Second party Third party   Candidate Stephen O'Brien Margaret Hanson Paul Roberts Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Popular vote 15,465 13,859 4,757 Percentage 44.8% 40.2% 13.8% Swing 2.3pp 0.1pp 0.6pp

MP before election Alastair Goodlad Conservative Elected MP Stephen O'Brien Conservative

The 1999 Eddisbury by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 22 July 1999 for the British House of Commons constituency of Eddisbury in Cheshire.

On 25 May 1999 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced the appointment of Eddisbury's Member of Parliament (MP), the Rt. Hon. Sir Alastair Goodlad, as High Commissioner to the Commonwealth of Australia. This created a vacancy in the seat which Sir Alastair had retained as the Conservative candidate in the 1997 general election. Goodlad resigned from the House of Commons by accepting the office of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern on 28 June 1999 to formally vacate his seat.

The 1999 British cabinet reshuffle was delayed by a week following Labour's unexpected success in the by-election.^[1]