2016 Witney by-election 2016 Witney by-election The Witney by-election was a UK parliamentary by-election held on 20 October 2016 in the constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire. It took place on the same day as the Batley and Spen by-election. They were the fifth and sixth by-elections of the 56th UK Parliament. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the sitting Member of Parliament (MP) David Cameron on 12 September 2016. The election was won by Conservative Robert Courts with a reduced majority, and the Liberal Democrats came in second with an increase in vote share of 23.4 percentage points. David Cameron had
David S. Mao David S. Mao David Mao (Chinese: 茅以森; pinyin: Máo Yǐsen) is an American law librarian. Mao served as acting Librarian of Congress from September 30, 2015, until the confirmation of Carla Hayden in 2016. He is the first Asian-American to hold the position. David S. Mao was born in New York City and grew up in Lawrenceville, New Jersey where he attended the Lawrenceville School. He completed his undergraduate studies at The George Washington University, and went on to earn first a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and then a library and information sciences master's degree from The