An Entity of Type: societal event, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Ribble Valley by-election, in Lancashire, England, took place on 7 March 1991 following the elevation of MP David Waddington to the House of Lords. Michael Carr of the Liberal Democrats won election at his third attempt. The seat, based largely on the market town of Clitheroe, had previously been safely Conservative but at the time the controversial Margaret Thatcher's "Poll Tax" policy was used by opposition parties against the Conservative candidate. The tax was abolished soon afterwards by Thatcher's successor John Major, who had succeeded Thatcher on her resignation in November 1990.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Ribble Valley by-election, in Lancashire, England, took place on 7 March 1991 following the elevation of MP David Waddington to the House of Lords. Michael Carr of the Liberal Democrats won election at his third attempt. The seat, based largely on the market town of Clitheroe, had previously been safely Conservative but at the time the controversial Margaret Thatcher's "Poll Tax" policy was used by opposition parties against the Conservative candidate. The tax was abolished soon afterwards by Thatcher's successor John Major, who had succeeded Thatcher on her resignation in November 1990. The then-young Liberal Democrats maintained the record of their parent parties at often scoring by-election "scalps" by winning apparently-safe seats, although rarely holding them at subsequent general elections. Indeed, despite their victory at Ribble Valley, the Lib Dems lost the seat a little over a year later at the 1992 general election to the Conservative Nigel Evans who has held the seat ever since. (en)
dbo:startDate
  • 1991-03-07 (xsd:date)
dbo:title
  • 1991 Ribble Valley by-election (en)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 3924509 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 7591 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1114657054 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:afterElection
dbp:afterParty
  • Liberal Democrats (en)
dbp:beforeElection
dbp:beforeParty
  • Conservative Party (en)
dbp:candidate
dbp:change
  • -22.300000 (xsd:double)
  • -8.300000 (xsd:double)
  • N/A (en)
  • +4.2 (en)
  • +27.1 (en)
  • ―1.7 (en)
  • ―2.5 (en)
dbp:country
  • United Kingdom (en)
dbp:electionDate
  • 1991-03-07 (xsd:date)
dbp:electionName
  • 1991 (xsd:integer)
dbp:image
  • Con (en)
  • Lab (en)
  • LD (en)
dbp:nextElection
  • 1992 (xsd:integer)
dbp:nextYear
  • 1992 (xsd:integer)
dbp:ongoing
  • no (en)
dbp:party
  • Conservative Party (en)
  • Green Party of England and Wales (en)
  • Labour Party (en)
  • Liberal Democrats (en)
  • Liberal Party (en)
  • Official Monster Raving Loony Party (en)
  • Social Democratic Party (en)
  • Independent Conservative (en)
  • Corrective Party (en)
  • Raving Loony Green Giant Clitheroe Kid (en)
dbp:percentage
  • 0.100000 (xsd:double)
  • 0.200000 (xsd:double)
  • 0.300000 (xsd:double)
  • 0.600000 (xsd:double)
  • 1 (xsd:integer)
  • 1.300000 (xsd:double)
  • 9.500000 (xsd:double)
  • 17.700000 (xsd:double)
  • 21.400000 (xsd:double)
  • 38.500000 (xsd:double)
  • 48.500000 (xsd:double)
  • 60.900000 (xsd:double)
  • 48.5
  • 38.5
  • 9.5
dbp:popularVote
  • 4356 (xsd:integer)
  • 17776 (xsd:integer)
  • 22377 (xsd:integer)
dbp:posttitle
  • Subsequent MP (en)
dbp:previousElection
  • 1987 (xsd:integer)
dbp:previousYear
  • 1987 (xsd:integer)
dbp:seatsForElection
  • Constituency of Ribble Valley (en)
dbp:swing
  • 22.3
  • 27.1
  • 8.3
dbp:title
  • MP (en)
dbp:turnout
  • 71.1
dbp:type
  • parliamentary (en)
dbp:votes
  • 60 (xsd:integer)
  • 72 (xsd:integer)
  • 133 (xsd:integer)
  • 278 (xsd:integer)
  • 466 (xsd:integer)
  • 611 (xsd:integer)
  • 4356 (xsd:integer)
  • 8781 (xsd:integer)
  • 10608 (xsd:integer)
  • 17776 (xsd:integer)
  • 22377 (xsd:integer)
  • 30136 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Ribble Valley by-election, in Lancashire, England, took place on 7 March 1991 following the elevation of MP David Waddington to the House of Lords. Michael Carr of the Liberal Democrats won election at his third attempt. The seat, based largely on the market town of Clitheroe, had previously been safely Conservative but at the time the controversial Margaret Thatcher's "Poll Tax" policy was used by opposition parties against the Conservative candidate. The tax was abolished soon afterwards by Thatcher's successor John Major, who had succeeded Thatcher on her resignation in November 1990. (en)
rdfs:label
  • 1991 Ribble Valley by-election (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License