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The Mitcham and Morden by-election was held on 3 June 1982. ==Overview== The British by-election was caused by the resignation of Bruce Douglas-Mann, the Member of Parliament for Mitcham and Morden. Douglas-Mann had retained the seat for the Labour Party since its creation for the February 1974 general election. The constituency had been created from parts of Merton and Morden and Mitcham, both of which had usually generally returned Conservative Party MPs. At the 1979 UK general election, Douglas-Mann had held the seat with a majority of only 618 votes over the Conservatives.〔(UK general election results: May 1979 ) Political Science Resources〕 Douglas-Mann decided in early 1982 to join the recently formed Social Democratic Party (SDP); several other MPs had already joined the party. Although there was no requirement to do so, he decided to resign his seat and stand in the resulting by-election in order to gain a mandate for his change of allegiance.〔"Obituary: Bruce Douglas-Mann", ''The Independent''〕 With a Conservative government in power, their share of the vote might have been expected to decline, but with the Falklands War underway, their approval ratings were high, and the party hoped to make a decent showing. The party stood Angela Rumbold, a councillor in Kingston-upon-Thames. The Labour Party was suffering from defections to the SDP, and thought it unlikely that they would hold the seat. They stood David Nicholas. The Liberal Party had agreed an electoral pact with the SDP the previous autumn, and as a result, did not stand a candidate against Douglas-Mann. However, Edward Larkin stood as an independent Liberal candidate. Several other candidates stood. The far right British National Front stood Joseph Pearce. Veteran by-election candidate Bill Boaks stood as a "Democratic Monarchist". Roy Sawh, a long-term campaigner for equal rights, stood as the "Ethnic Minority Candidate". Jitendra Bardwaj, who had been convicted of assaulting a police officer outside the House of Commons, stood as "COPS", in an attempt to highlight what he held was his unjust treatment, and Christopher Farnsworth stood as a "Computer Democrat". 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「Mitcham and Morden by-election, 1982」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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