Voters go to the polls in Peterborough by-election
Written by News on 06/06/2019
Voters are going to the polls in a by-election in the marginal seat of Peterborough.
The seat had been held for Labour by Fiona Onasanya with a majority of just 607.
The by-election was triggered after she was jailed for lying about a speeding offence.
She was suspended by the Labour Party, then forced out as MP after more than 19,000 Peterborough voters signed a petition to instigate a by-election (27%), smashing the required 6,967 signatures.
It made her the first MP to be forced out of her seat as a result of the measures brought in in 2016, whereby a by-election will be triggered if 10% of registered voters in a constituency sign an organised petition.
The candidates standing in the by-election are:
– Brexit Party: Mike Greene
– Christian Peoples Alliance: Tom Rogers
– Common Good: Remain In The EU: Dick Rodgers
– Conservatives: Paul Bristow
– English Democrats: Stephen Goldspink
– Greens: Joseph Wells
– Independent: Andrew Moore
– Independent: Bobby Smith
– Labour: Lisa Forbes
– Liberal Democrats: Beki Sellick
– Monster Raving Loony: Alan “Howling Laud” Hope
– Renew: Peter Ward
– SDP: Patrick O’Flynn
– UK European Union Party: Pierre Kirk
– Ukip: John Whitby
:: Watch Sky News’ special live programme on the Peterborough By-Election, hosted by Sophy Ridge, from midnight on Thursday.
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