2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election website he stands for liberating "ourselves from the governing classes, those lords of misrule" The Miss Great Britain Party candidate was Gemma Garrett, following her last place, as an Independent, at the earlier Crewe and Nantwich by-election. The party registered with the Electoral Commission after that election. Garrett expressed opposition to David Davis, declaring herself "happy to be locked up for 42 days if I am a suspect". Tess Culnane was the National Front candidate; she was a 2004 London Assembly election candidate for the British National Party. and a London Assembly election, 2008 candidate for the NF. David Pinder
Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency) Democrat candidate. Notably, the Labour candidate in said election was activist and comedy writer John O'Farrell, whose campaign was the subject of a BBC documentary entitled "Losing My Maidenhead". Due to their strong performance in 2001, the seat was one of several targeted by the Liberal Democrats in 2005 as part of a 'decapitation strategy' to deprive senior Conservatives of their seats; as with similar efforts in Haltemprice and Howden and West Dorset, however, this strategy was unsuccessful, as May retained her seat with almost double her 2001 majority. Since this election, she has held it by majorities of at