1993 Newbury by-election
Results
Rendel served as MP until the 2005 general election, when he was defeated by the Conservative candidate Richard Benyon.

1993 Newbury by-election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: Rendel served as MP until the 2005 general election, when he was defeated by the Conservative candidate Richard Benyon.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±

Liberal Democrat	David Rendel	37,590	65.1	+27.8

Conservative	Julian Davidson	15,535	26.9	−29.0

Labour	Steve Billcliffe	1,151	2.0	−4.0

Anti-Federalist League	Alan Sked	601	1.0

Conservative Candidate	Andrew Bannon	561	1.0

Commoners' Party	Stephen Martin	435	0.8

Monster Raving Loony	Lord David Sutch	432	0.7

Green	Jim Wallis	341	0.6	−0.2

Referendum Party	Robin Marlar	338	0.6

Conservative Rebel	John Browne	267	0.5

Corrective Party	Lindi St Clair	170	0.3

Maastricht Referendum for Britain	Bill Board	84	0.1

Natural Law	Michael Grenville	60	0.1

People & Pensioners Party	Johnathon Day	49	0.1

21st Century Independent Foresters	Colin Palmer	40	0.1

Defence of Children's Humanity Bosnia	Mladen Grbin	33	0.1

SDP	Alan Page	33	0.1

Communist (PCC)	Anne Murphy	32	0.1

Give the royal billions to schools	Michael Stone	21	0.1

Majority	22 055	38.2

Turnout	57 399	71.3	−11.46

Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative	Swing	28.4

Sentence(s)

The 1993 Newbury by-election was won by David Rendel of the Liberal Democrat party with a swing of 28.4%.

final_sentence: The 1993 Newbury by-election was won by David Rendel of the Liberal Democrat party with a swing of 28.4%.