Haltemprice and Howden (UK Parliament constituency) Conservative David Davis, who had previously been the member for Boothferry; he was re-elected in the 2001, 2005 and 2010 general elections. The area was placed as 10th most affluent in the country in the 2003 Barclays Private Clients survey. On 12 June 2008, a day after a vote on the extension of detention of terror suspects without charge, in an unexpected move, Davis took the Chiltern Hundreds, effectively resigning his seat as the constituency's MP. He stated this was to force a by-election, in which he intended to provoke a wider public debate on the single issue of the
UK Parliamentary by-elections the 1967 Hamilton by-election. In some cases, an MP or MPs may deliberately trigger a by-election to make a political point, as when all the sitting Unionist MPs in Northern Ireland resigned together in 1986 or as occurred in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008. For a list of by-election results since 2010, see: List of United Kingdom by-elections For a list of exceptional results and records in the history of by-elections in the United Kingdom, see: United Kingdom by-election records UK Parliamentary by-elections A parliamentary by-election occurs in the United Kingdom following a vacancy arising in the House of