British House of Commons by-election
1991 Neath by-election Turnout 64.0% ( 14.8%) First party Second party Third party PC
Con
Candidate Peter Hain Dewi Evans Richard Evans Party Labour Plaid Cymru Conservative Popular vote 17,962 8,132 2,995 Percentage 51.7 23.3 8.6 Swing 11.7% 16.9% 7.5% Fourth party Fifth party LD
SDP
Candidate David Lloyd John Warman Party Liberal Democrats SDP Popular vote 2,000 1,826 Percentage 5.8 5.3 Swing N/A 8.8%
The 1991 Neath by-election was a by-election held on 4 April 1991 for the British House of Commons constituency of Neath in Wales . It was won by the Labour Party candidate Peter Hain .
Vacancy [ edit ] The seat had become vacant when the sitting Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Donald Coleman , died on 14 January 1991. Coleman had already announced his intention to stand down at the next election , so Peter Hain had already been selected to contest the seat.
Peter Hain retained Neath easily for Labour, although there was a 14% swing to Plaid Cymru.
Previous results [ edit ] See also [ edit ] Sources [ edit ] Times Guide to the House of Commons 1992
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