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1990 Bradford North by-election

A 1990 by-election was held for the United Kingdom House of Commons for one Member of Parliament (MP) in the constituency of Bradford North, in West Yorkshire, England, on 8 November 1990 owing to the death of the sitting MP Pat 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 the Labour candidate Pat Wall (a member of the Militant tendency) saw his vote split by a strong SDP challenge and by the sitting Labour MP Ben Ford standing as an Independent. (The successful Conservative, Geoffrey Lawler, had only 34.3% of the vote.)

The by-election took place when Margaret Thatcher was highly unpopular and in her last month as Prime Minister. Declining support for the Conservative government (which improved after John 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 candidate Terry Rooney became the first Mormon to be elected to the House of Commons.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Labour	18,619	51.7	+8.9
	Liberal Democrats	9,105	25.3	+7.6
	Conservative	6,048	16.8	−22.7
	Islamic Party	800	2.2	New
	Green	447	1.2	New
	National Front	305	0.8	New
	Independent	219	0.6	New
	Monster Raving Loony	210	0.6	New
	Liberal	187	0.5	N/A
	Ind. Conservative	89	0.2	New
9,514	26.4	+23.1
36,029	53.4	−19.3
	Labour hold

List of United Kingdom by-elections
List of parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire
British Parliamentary By Elections: Campaign literature from the by-election

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