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The Kensington by-election, in Kensington, on 14 July 1988 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Brandon Rhys-Williams. Normally a relatively safe Tory seat, it was narrowly won by Dudley Fishburn, who would go on to retain the seat in 1992. It was the first by-election of that parliament, which had begun after the general election of June 1987, and would last until the next election in April 1992. ==Candidates== *John Connell was a peace advocate who opposed what he saw as manipulation of the news by ITN. *John Crowley described himself as an 'Anti Yuppie Revolutionary Crowleyist, Vegetarian Visionary'.〔 *John Duignan was a supporter of the Class War organisation.〔 *Roy Edey called for equal redistribution of wealth and a policy of social housing construction.〔 *Dudley Fishburn was a former editor of ''The Economist''.〔(Dudley Fishburn )〕 *William Goodhart was a leading human rights lawyer who has since taken a seat in the House of Lords.〔(Lord William Goodhart )〕 *Brian Goodier described himself as an 'Anti-Left Wing Fascist'.〔 *Phylip Hobson was the Green Party candidate. *Ann Holmes was again a candidate for this seat in the 1992 general election.〔(Ann Holmes )〕 *John Martin was a candidate for the dissident wing of the SDP that had rejected membership of the Social and Liberal Democrats. *Thomas McDermott was the founder of the Free Trade Liberal Party and campaigned on a platform of the UK leaving the European Community.〔 *Cynthia Payne, who had been convicted of controlling a brothel, ran under the 'Rainbow Alliance Payne and Pleasure Party' banner.〔 *William Scola represented his own 'Leveller Party'.〔 *Screaming Lord Sutch was the leader and founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. *Kailash Trivedi ran as candidate for the 'Janata Party' (''Peoples Party'' in Hindi and the name of a former governing party in India), his own creation.〔 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「Kensington by-election, 1988」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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