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  DATE:       26th November 1981
 CAUSE:     Death of Sir Graham Page on 1st October 1981.

Shirley Williams

SDP-Liberal Alliance

28,118

John Butcher

Conservative

22,829

John Backhouse

Labour

5,450

Richard Small

Ecology Party

480

Tarquin Biscuit-Barrel

Cambridge Raving Loony 

223

Thomas Keen

Conservative-Liberal Alliance

99

William Boaks Democratic Monarchist 36
John Kennedy Middlesex Suspended Students 31
Donald Potter Humanitarian 31

Majority 5,289

SDP-Liberal Alliance gain from Conservative
 
Tarquin Biscuit-Barrel stood as 'Cambridge University Raving Loony Society' having changed his name by Deed Poll from John Desmond Lewis to Tarquin Fintim-Limbim-Whimbim-Lim Bus Stop-F'Tang-F'Tang-OlĂ©-Biscuit-Barrel.  (This name originates from a Monty Python sketch "Election Night Special".)
 
Boaks stood as 'Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident'. 
John Kennedy stood as 'Middlesex Polytechnic Suspended Students'.