Talk:Richmond Park (UK Parliament constituency)

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Swing at the by election ??
Given that the Conservatives did not field a candidate at the by election, how on earth can one talk of a swing from Conservative to LD? Seems like wishful thinking triumphing over reality  87.93.80.0 (talk) 17:02, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Hold by Conservatives
How was this a hold by the Conservatives? The Lib Dems lost the seat? richardwhiuk (talk) 21:07, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

2019 turnout
The turnout figure here of 79% is slightly different to that given in The Times Guide to the House of Commons 2020 which states it was 78.68%. possibly this discrepancy is due to rounding-up, but even if that is the case then is still inaccurate to say that turnout dropped by just 0.1% on the 79.1% figure quoted for 2017. Dunarc (talk) 22:52, 19 July 2020 (UTC) amended by Dunarc (talk) 19:28, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I should also note the figures for registered electors and total number of votes given here would support the 78.68% figure. Dunarc (talk) 20:33, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

"shortest period of time that a defeated MP had been out of office before regaining a seat"
The claim (which does not have a citation to support it) that Goldsmith's victory in June 2017 after losing the December 2016 by-election "marked the shortest period of time that a defeated MP had been out of office before regaining a seat" seems to me to be problematic. He ceased to be an MP when he resigned the seat (or to be strictly accurate when he on 25th October 2016 became Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds and did not become one again until 8th June 2017 - which is a period of over seven months. Even if the date of his defeat is taken we are looking at six months. Neither is the shortest period - for instance Arthur Balfour lost his seat at the 1906 United Kingdom general election, but was re-elected weeks later at the February 1906 City of London by-election. Frederick Banbury was also defeated in 1906 and became Balfour's colleague at the June 1906 City of London by-election. Of course neither of them regained the same seat, so it might be that this could be reworded to say "marked the shortest period of time that a defeated MP had been out of office before regaining the same seat" if a source can be found to support this. Dunarc (talk) 20:47, 19 August 2020 (UTC)