Wessex
Winchester By-Election
Constituency gets NLP candidate for first time
Announcement 4th November 1997
The Wessex Natural Law Party is delighted to announce that Rosemary Barry from Chandlers Ford is standing as the official NLP candidate in the Winchester By-Election on the 20th November. This is the first time Winchester has had an NLP candidate in an election for a seat at Westminster.
Rosemary Barry - personal profile
The by-election candidates
and what they stand for (Hampshire Chronicle)
Rosemary's campaign launch: press conference 11.30 am Tuesday November 11th at the Royal Hotel (tel: 01962 840840), St Peter's St, Winchester.
Rosemary Barry's campaign launch statement
By-Election call for stronger line against genetically engineered
foods
Winchester "EXTRA" press report
Hampshire Chronicle press report
Hampshire Chronicle platform statement
email the Natural Law Party in Wessex - click here
The By-Election in Winchester arises under highly unusual circumstances with the result of the previous contest held in May's general election having been declared null-and-void following procedural errors.
Before being declared invalid the previous contest at the general election was won by the lowest margin in the country, and almost the lowest margin in history. The Liberal Democrat candidate, Mark Oaten, beat former Conservative Health Minister Gerald Malone by a mere two votes.
With such a tight result last time around the election re-run is generating intense local and national interest despite the Labour Party's immense majority in the House of Commons which is unlikely to be affected by the outcome of the By-Election. Bookmakers give Labour little prospect of winning the re-run in Winchester.
For more
information on the Winchester By-Election click here and visit the Winchester City Council
By-Election Web site
For press coverage of the Winchester
By-Election click here and visit the Hampshire Chronicle Web site
King Alfred the Great
of Winchester - "The Education King"
"Accordingly, I sought the resources with which to exercise the authority, in order that my skills and power would not be forgotten and concealed: because every skill and every authority is soon obsolete and passed over, if it is without wisdom; because no man may bring to bear any skill without wisdom."
Winchester through the
ages - former capital of Wessex and England