2000 West Bromwich West by-election

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2000 West Bromwich West by-election

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Turnout

27.3%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Candidate	Adrian Bailey	Karen Bissell	Sadie Smith
Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrats
Popular vote	9,460	6,408	1,791
Percentage	50.6%	34.3%	9.6%

MP before election

Betty Boothroyd
Speaker

Elected MP

Adrian Bailey
Labour

The 2000 West Bromwich West by-election was a by-election held on 23 November 2000 for the British House of Commons constituency of West Bromwich West.

The constituency's Member of Parliament (MP) was the Rt. Hon. Betty Boothroyd, the Speaker. She resigned from the House of Commons as an MP and as Speaker on 23 October 2000, triggering a writ to move the by-election.

In 1997 the major parties had observed a recent tradition by not opposing the Speaker seeking re-election. On its return to partisan politics the seat reverted to Labour, in a similar result to that seen in 1992.

Results

**2000 West Bromwich West by-election**^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adrian Bailey	9,460	50.6	*N/A*
	Conservative	Karen Bissell	6,408	34.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Sadie Smith	1,791	9.6	N/A
	BNP	Nick Griffin^[2]	794	4.2	N/A
	UKIP	Jonathan Oakton	246	1.3	N/A
Majority			3,052	16.3	N/A
Turnout			18,699	27.3
	Labour gain from Speaker		Swing

General election result, 1997

General election 1997: West Bromwich West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Speaker	Betty Boothroyd	23,969	65.3
	Independent Labour	Richard Silvester	8,546	23.3
	National Democrats	Steve Edwards	4,181	11.4
Majority			15,423	40.0
Turnout			36,696
	Speaker hold		Swing

References

^ Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1997-2002 Parliament". United Kingdom Election Results. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
^ "WEST BROMWICH WEST (23rd November 2000) - British National Party - Nicholas Griffin". by-elections.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012.

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