1997 Winchester by-election
Results

1997 Winchester by-election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: None

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±

Liberal Democrat	Mark Oaten	37,006	68.0	+26.0

Conservative	Gerry Malone	15,450	28.4	−13.6

Labour	Patrick Davies	944	1.7	−8.8

UKIP	Robin Page	521	1.0	+0.2

Monster Raving Loony	Lord David Sutch	316	0.6	+0.1

"Literal Democrat Mark Here to Win"	Richard Huggett	59	0.1	−0.9

Natural Law	Rosemary Barry	48	0.1

Ind. Conservative	Roger Everest	40	0.1

Majority	21,556	39.6

Turnout	54,384	68.7	9.9

Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative	Swing	19.8

Sentence(s)

Oaten won the seat with a majority of 21,556 over second placed Gerry Malone of Conservative party in the 1997 Winchester by-election.

final_sentence: Oaten won the seat with a majority of 21,556 over second placed Gerry Malone of Conservative party in the 1997 Winchester by-election.