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Preston By-election, 2000The Member of Parliament for Preston, Audrey Wise, (Labour) died on September 2, 2000. A by-election to fill the seat was held on November 23. The Labour vote share declined, but with the main beneficiaries being fringe parties they held the seat comfortably. Results The turnout was 29.4%. Candidate> | b>Party | Votes | Share | Change | | a href="/encyclopedia/Mark-Hendrick" title="Mark Hendrick">Mark Hendrick | Labour/Co-op | align=right|9,765 | align=right|45.7% | align=right|-15.1% | | raham O'Hare | Conservative | align=right|5,339 | align=right|25.0% | align=right|+3.1% | | ill Chadwick | Liberal Democrat | align=right|3,454 | align=right|16.2% | align=right|+1.5% | | erry Cartwright | Socialist Alliance | align=right|1,210 | align=right|5.7% | | regg Beaman | UK Independence Party | align=right|458 | align=right|2.1% | | ichard Merrick | Green Party | align=right|441 | align=right|2.1% | | eter Garrett | Independent | align=right|416 | align=right|2.0% | | hris Jackson | British National Party | align=right|229 | align=right|1.1% | | avid Franklin-Braid | Independent | align=right|51 | align=right|0.2% | General Election result, 1997 Candidate> | b>Party | Votes | Share | | a href="/encyclopedia/Audrey-Wise" title="Audrey Wise">Audrey Wise | (Lab) | align=right|29,220 | align=right|60.8% | | aul Gray | (C) | align=right|10,540 | align=right|21.9% | | illiam Chadwick | (L Dem) | align=right|7,045 | align=right|14.7% | | ohn Porter | (RP) | align=right|924 | align=right|1.9% | | ohn Ashforth | (NLP) | align=right|345 | align=right|0.7% |
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