1999 Wigan by-election
Result of the by-election

1999 Wigan by-election

Section Title: Result of the by-election
Table Section Text: None

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±

Labour	Neil Turner	9,641	59.6	9.0

Conservative	Tom Peet	2,912	18.0	1.1

Liberal Democrat	Jonathan Rule	2,148	13.3	3.3

UKIP	John Whittaker	834	5.2	N/A

Socialist Labour	William Kelly	240	1.5	N/A

Green	Chris Maile	190	1.2	0.2

National Democrats	Stephen Ebbs	100	0.6	N/A

Natural Law	Paul Davis	64	0.4	0.2

Independent	David Braid	58	0.4	N/A

Majority	6,729	41.6	10.1

Turnout	16,187	25.0

Labour hold	Swing	5.0

Sentence(s)

The result was a hold for the Labour Party with 5% of swing, while Turner gained 59.6% of the vote.

final_sentence: The result was a hold for the Labour Party with 5% of swing, while Turner gained 59.6% of the vote.