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1991 Neath by-election

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Constituency of Neath

Turnout

64.0% (

14.8%)

	First party	Second party	Third party
		PC	Con
Candidate	Peter Hain	Dewi Evans	Richard Evans
Party	Labour	Plaid Cymru	Conservative
Popular vote	17,962	8,132	2,995
Percentage	51.7	23.3	8.6
Swing	11.7%	16.9%	7.5%

	Fourth party	Fifth party
	LD	SDP
Candidate	David Lloyd	John Warman
Party	Liberal Democrats	SDP
Popular vote	2,000	1,826
Percentage	5.8	5.3
Swing	N/A	8.8%

MP before election

Donald Coleman
Labour

Subsequent MP

Peter Hain
Labour

The 1991 Neath by-election was a by-election held on 4 April 1991 for the British House of Commons constituency of Neath in Wales. It was won by the Labour Party candidate Peter Hain.

Vacancy

The seat had become vacant when the sitting Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Donald Coleman, died on 14 January 1991. Coleman had already announced his intention to stand down at the next election, so Peter Hain had already been selected to contest the seat.

Result

Peter Hain retained Neath easily for Labour, although there was a 14% swing to Plaid Cymru.

1991 Neath by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Hain	17,962	51.7	−11.7
	Plaid Cymru	Dewi Evans	8,132	23.3	+16.9
	Conservative	Richard Evans	2,995	8.6	−7.5
	Liberal Democrats	David Lloyd	2,000	5.8	N/A
	SDP	John Warman	1,826	5.3	−8.8
	Local Independent Labour	Rhys Jeffreys	1,253	3.6	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	David Sutch	263	0.8	N/A
	Captain Beany of the Bean Party	Barry Kirk	262	0.7	N/A
Majority			9,830	28.4	−18.8
Turnout			34,753	64.0	−14.8
Registered electors			54,482
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.0

Previous results

General election 1987: Neath
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Donald Coleman	27,612	63.4	+9.8
	Conservative	Martin Howe	7,034	16.1	−1.3
	SDP	John Warman	6,132	14.1	−7.3
	Plaid Cymru	Huw John	2,792	6.4	−0.8
Majority			20,578	47.3	+15.1
Turnout			43,570	78.8	+2.3
Registered electors			55,261
	Labour hold		Swing

Sources

Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1987-92 Parliament". United Kingdom Election Results. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
"Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

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