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7 Things You May Not Have Known About The Newark By-Election

7 Things You May Not Have Known About The Newark By-Election
The Huffington Post UK

The Tories won the Newark by-election on Thursday and Ukip came second, more of a tremor than an earthquake. We all know that now. But here are seven things about the Newark constituency you may not know.

7 Things We Learned From Newark
18th by-election since 2010 general election(01 of07)
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Ukip won Newark in the Euros(02 of07)
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First Tory by-election win while in government since William Hague in 1989(03 of07)
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Labour won the seat in 1997(04 of07)
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MP Fiona Jones won the seat for Labour in Tony Blair's landslide (credit:PA)
The Lib Dems lost their deposit for ninth time(05 of07)
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Ukip did not do as well as Diane James did in Eastleigh(06 of07)
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The Commons will miss out on Helmer's homophobic, climate-change-denying and rape-apologising views(07 of07)
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