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Bermondsey 


  DATE:       24th February 1983
 CAUSE:     Resignation of Mr Robert Mellish on 1st November 1982.

Simon Hughes

Liberal-SDP Alliance 

17,017

Peter Tatchell

Labour

7,698

John O'Grady

Real Bermondsey Labour

2,243

Robert Hughes

Conservative

1,631

James Sneath

National Front

426

David Sutch

Official Monster Raving Loony Party

97

Lady Jane Birdwood Independent Patriot 69
Michael Keulemans New Britain 62
Bill Giddings Independent Labour 50
Robert Gordon Communist 50

George Hannah

Ecology Party

45

Fran Eden Revolutionary Communist Party  38
Ann King National Labour 25
Alan Baker United Democratic Party 15
David Wedgwood Free Trade - Anti-Common Market 15
Esmond Bevan Independent 8

Majority   9,319

Liberal-SDP Alliance gain from Labour
 
John O'Grady was a Southwark Labour councillor and a former leader of the Borough Council. He was supported by the former MP Robert Mellish and was opposed to the selection of Peter Tatchell as the Labour candidate.