1982 Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election

1982 Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election
← 1979 24 June 1982 1983 →
Constituency of Coatbridge and Airdrie
Turnout56.3% Decrease19.0%
  First party Second party
 
Con
Candidate Tom Clarke Hugo de Burgh
Party Labour Conservative
Popular vote 19,208 9,118
Percentage 55.1% 26.2%
Swing Decrease5.8% Decrease1.3%
  Third party Fourth party
 
SNP
Lib
Candidate Ron Wyllie Sandy Henderson
Party SNP Liberal
Popular vote 3,652 2,873
Percentage 10.5% 8.2%
Swing Decrease1.1% New
MP before election

James Dempsey
Labour

Subsequent MP

Tom Clarke
Labour

The 1982 Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 24 June 1982 for the House of Commons constituency of Coatbridge and Airdrie.

Previous MP

The seat fell vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), James Dempsey (6 February 1917 – 12 May 1982) died.

He was a clerk with a haulage firm and a councillor on Lanarkshire County Council from 1945. He later worked as a lecturer on political economy and a writer on local government.

Dempsey was Member of Parliament for Coatbridge and Airdrie from 1959.

Candidates

Four candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.

1. Representing the Labour Party was Tom Clarke, born in Coatbridge on 10 January 1941.

He had been assistant director of the Scottish Council for Education Technology. He had become a deputy director of the Scottish Film Council, where he had written the synopses for the film library catalogue. He had also been president of the British Amateur Cinematographers Central Council (based in Epsom) and organised the Scottish International Amateur Film Festival. He became a councillor on the Coatbridge Town Council aged 23 in 1964 where he served until it was abolished in 1974, and then became a member for its replacement the Monklands District Council until he was elected to parliament in 1982.

As a result of a series of boundary changes Clarke was MP for Coatbridge and Airdrie 1982 – 1983, for Monklands West 1983 – 1997, for Coatbridge and Chryston 1997 – 2005 and for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill from 2005 until 2015.

2. The Conservative nominee was Hugo de Burgh.

3. The Scottish National Party candidate was Ron Wyllie. He also contested Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley in the 1983 general election.

4. The Liberal Party candidate, representing the SDP–Liberal Alliance, was Sandy Henderson.

Previous election

General election 1979: Coatbridge and Airdrie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour James Dempsey 27,598 60.9 +9.3
Conservative J. Love 12,442 27.5 +10.3
SNP M. Johnston 3,652 11.6 −16.3
Majority 15,156 33.4 +9.7
Turnout 43,692 75.3
Labour hold Swing
Registered electors 60,133
  • Death of James Dempsey

Result

By-Election 24 June 1982: Coatbridge and Airdrie[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Clarke 19,208 55.1 −5.8
Conservative Hugo de Burgh 9,118 26.2 −1.3
SNP Ron Wyllie 3,652 10.5 −1.1
Liberal Sandy Henderson 2,873 8.2 New
Majority 10,090 28.9 −4.5
Turnout 34,951 56.3 −19.0
Labour hold Swing
Registered electors 61,876

Aftermath

Scottish political journalist William Clark, writing in the following day's edition of the Glasgow Herald, stated that the "major upset from the poll" was the fact that the SNP and Liberal candidates both lost their deposits. In the same article Clark called the result "a disastrous blow" for the SDP–Liberal Alliance, particular as it came soon after Roy Jenkins victory for the SDP in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election. He predicted that the result would "guarantee an uphill struggle" in Scotland for the Alliance for some time to come.[2]

This was the SNP's second lost deposit in two by-elections, following a similar result in Hillhead earlier in the year. Clark considered it a poor result and predicted it could lead to divisions between the Party's right and left-wings. He cited in evidence the fact that senior vice-president of the party Jim Sillars had said the bill for the lost deposit should be sent to party rival, the former MP and serving MEP, Winnie Ewing.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1979–83 Parliament". United Kingdom Election Results. Archived from the original on 9 June 2000. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  2. ^ a b Clark, William (25 June 1982). "Sweeping victory for Labour". The Glasgow Herald. p. 1. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  • British Parliamentary Election Results 1974–1983, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1984).
  • Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1979 and 1983 editions

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