Enfield Southgate by-election, 1984

Enfield Southgate by-election

← 1983 13 December 1984 1987 →
Candidate Michael Portillo Timothy Slack Peter Hamid Party Conservative Liberal Labour Popular vote 16,684 11,973 4,000 Percentage 49.6% 35.6% 11.9%
MP before election Anthony Berry Conservative Subsequent MP Michael Portillo Conservative

Anthony Berry
Conservative

Michael Portillo
Conservative

The Enfield Southgate by-election, 1984 was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 December 1984 for the British House of Commons constituency of Enfield Southgate.

The seat had become vacant on 12 October 1984 in sudden and tragic circumstances, when the constituency's Member of Parliament (MP) was killed by the Irish Republican Army in the Brighton hotel bombing.

Sir Anthony George Berry (12 February 1925 – 12 October 1984) was a Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate, and a Whip in Margaret Thatcher's government.

Sir Anthony Berry had been Southgate's MP since the 1964 general election. The constituency had been renamed Enfield Southgate in 1983.

Given the reason for the by-election, there was some discussion about the Labour Party and the Alliance not contesting the poll. However, in the end both opposition forces were represented in the list of candidates.

Nine candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.

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