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A by-election was held for the United Kingdom Parliament seat of Birmingham Hodge Hill, on 15 July, the same day as the Leicester South by-election. The by-election was called following the resignation of the sitting MP, Terry Davis, on 22 June 2004.〔() Sessional Information Digest 2003-04, Hansard〕 Davis had been appointed as Secretary General of the Council of Europe The area has had a Labour MP since the 1950 general election, the only break being a Conservative Party victory at a 1977 by-election for the Birmingham Stechford constituency. Stechford returned to Labour at the 1979 general election. At the by-election, the seat was won by the Labour Party candidate Liam Byrne with 7,451 votes and a vastly reduced majority. The Liberal Democrat candidate Nicola Davies increased her party's share of the vote by over 26% and was only 460 votes behind. The by-election was heavily contested by Labour and the Liberal Democrats, with both parties alleging "dirty tricks" by the other. ==Results== Turnout was 37.89%. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election, 2004」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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