Monday, July 19, 2004

Terry Davis: By-election Man

It's fitting that Terry Davis (Lab-Hodge Hill) should have left the Commons via a by-election, as his political career was shaped by them more than any other senior politician over the past 30 odd years.
 
In 1971 Terry Davis was elected M.P for Bromsgrove in a stunning by-election upset. As it was Bromsgrove, he lost his seat in the 1974 (Feb) General Election.
 
In 1977 Terry Davis was defeated in the Birmingham Stechford By-election. He ran again in the 1979 General Election... and won. He held Brum Stechford (from 1983, Brum Hodge Hill) from 1979 to 2004.
 
In 2004 Terry Davis resigned his seat (Birmingham Hodge Hill) to take a job in the Council of Europe. This triggered a by-election and Liam Byrne (Labour) was elected the new M.P for Brum HH.
 
Davis' career in the Commons began with a By-election and ended with one. How many other M.P's over the past 30 odd years can claim that?

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