2007 Sedgefield by-election 2007 Sedgefield by-election The Sedgefield by-election, 2007 was a by-election held on 19 July 2007 for the British House of Commons constituency of Sedgefield in County Durham. The Ealing Southall by-election was also held on 19 July. The by-election was triggered when Tony Blair, the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield and former Prime Minister, "resigned" to become envoy for the international diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East. To resign as an MP, Blair accepted the office of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern, thereby deliberately disqualifying himself from Parliament and causing the by-election. Blair
Dunfermline East (UK Parliament constituency) South, and the Kirkcaldy District electoral division of Cardenden and Kinglassie. The constituency's only MP was Gordon Brown of the Labour Party, who was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1992 to 1997 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007, when he became Prime Minister. <section begin="General Election 1983"/> <section end="General Election 1983"/> <section begin="General Election 1987"/> <section end="General Election 1987"/> <section begin="General Election 1992"/> <section end="General Election 1992"/> <section begin="General Election 1997"/> <section end="General Election 1997"/> <section begin="General Election 2001"/> <section end="General Election 2001"/> Dunfermline East (UK Parliament constituency) Dunfermline East was a burgh constituency represented in