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
2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election in the previous general election of 2005. A small number of previous by-elections have been initiated when the sitting MP resigned on a point of principle and stood for immediate re-election. This has occurred three times since the Second World War, the Lincoln by-election in 1973 and the Mitcham and Morden by-election in 1982 when the sitting MPs changed parties, and in 1986 when fifteen Northern Irish MPs resigned in protest against the Anglo-Irish Agreement. In addition in 1955 Sir Richard Acland resigned with the intention to re-contest Gravesend as an independent in protest against the Labour Party's support for