David Davis by-election campaign, 2008 David Davis by-election campaign, 2008 The David Davis by-election campaign of 2008 was a political campaign against the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom, led by the former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), David Davis, labelled by Davis as the David Davis For Freedom campaign. The campaign was initiated in June 2008, following Davis's surprise resignation as an MP and from his position as the Shadow Home Secretary, and was the platform he used in standing for re-election to his seat in the subsequent Haltemprice and Howden by-election. Davis subsequently won his seat back with 72% of the
1946 Combined English Universities by-election 1946 Combined English Universities by-election The Combined English Universities by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 March 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Combined English Universities. There was no Labour Party candidate, which did not occur again in a Great Britain by-election in the UK until the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008. It was the penultimate election in a university constituency to the British Parliament and the final one to occur in England, with all university constituencies abolished in 1950. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Independent Member of Parliament (MP), Eleanor Rathbone,