Name the Tory Party chairman who lost his Bath seat at the 1992General Election?
"of the Avon Liberal Democrats and was elected as a Councillor on Avon County Council in 1981 for Cabot Ward, and was the SDP-Liberal Alliance Group Leader from 1981–86. He also served as the county's education committee chairman, and remained a Councillor until 1989. He unsuccessfully contested Bristol East at the 1987 general election where he finished in third place, 11,659 votes behind the Conservative Jonathan Sayeed. He was elected at the 1992 general election when he defeated then-Conservative Party Chairman, Chris Patten, in the constituency of Bath; Foster won the seat with a majority of 3,768. Foster spoke of"
"Act 1990. In 1990, John Major made Patten Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party, with responsibility for organising the Conservative Party's re-election campaign for the upcoming general election. As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory at the 1992 general election. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. Patten's defeat was attributed to factors such as the Poll Tax. If Patten had been re-elected in 1992, sections of the media thought he would"
"Labour presented the main challenge, and came within 800 votes of taking the seat in 1966. The Liberal revival in the 1970s saw the two more left-wing parties swap places, helped by the adoption of a nationally known candidate, Christopher Mayhew, who had defected from the Labour Party. The formation of the SDP–Liberal Alliance made Bath a realistic target. The SDP came 1500 votes from winning in 1987 under Malcolm Dean. In 1992, Conservative Chris Patten was ousted by Liberal Democrat Don Foster in a narrow defeat widely blamed on Patten's strategising, campaign leading and communicating as Conservative Party chairman"
"1992 United Kingdom general election The 1992 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 April 1992, to elect 651 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The election resulted in the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party since 1979 and last time the Conservatives would win a majority at a general election until 2015. This election result took many by surprise, as opinion polling leading up to the election day had shown the Labour Party, under leader Neil Kinnock, consistently, if narrowly, ahead. John Major had won the leadership election in November 1990 following"
"with a wife and three children, Booth is related to the founders of the Salvation Army. Hartley Booth Vernon Edward Hartley Booth (born 17 July 1946) is a former British politician. Having stood unsuccessfully for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1983, Booth succeeded Margaret Thatcher as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Finchley from the 1992 general election until the constituency was abolished in the 1997 general election. Booth resigned in February 1994 as a parliamentary private secretary to Douglas Hogg, then the Foreign Office minister of state, after newspaper reports of a relationship with House of Commons researcher"
"to Appledore, Kent. Thomas Christopher Boyd Thomas Christopher Boyd (14 August 1916 – 15 March 2004) was a British Labour Party politician. Boyd unsuccessfully fought Isle of Thanet in 1950 and Harborough at the 1951 general election. At the 1955 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol North West, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Joseph Gurney Braithwaite. He served in the House of Commons for only four years, losing his seat at the 1959 general election to the Conservative Martin McLaren. After losing his seat at the 1959 general election, Boyd moved to Moffat, Scotland."
"long way behind in terms of seats. Despite this, Foot was very critical of the Alliance, accusing them of ""siphoning"" Labour support and enabling the Tories to win more seats. Foot resigned days after the bitter election defeat, and was succeeded as leader on 2 October by Neil Kinnock; who had been tipped from the outset to be Labour's choice of new leader. Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories (led by John Major) for the fourth election in"
"the by-election. The Conservative Party had taken second place in 1992. John Kennedy, the candidate in 1992, went on to contest (and lose) Halesowen and Rowley Regis in the 1997 general election, but was not selected to fight the 1994 by-election, the Conservative nomination going instead to Theresa May. She had been a councillor in the London Borough of Merton from 1986 to 1994, and had stood (and lost) in the safe Labour seat of North West Durham in 1992. Having lost two of the three previous by-elections of the Parliament to the Liberal Democrats, and failing to challenge Labour"
"Hartley Booth Vernon Edward Hartley Booth (born 17 July 1946) is a former British politician. Having stood unsuccessfully for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1983, Booth succeeded Margaret Thatcher as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Finchley from the 1992 general election until the constituency was abolished in the 1997 general election. Booth resigned in February 1994 as a parliamentary private secretary to Douglas Hogg, then the Foreign Office minister of state, after newspaper reports of a relationship with House of Commons researcher Emily Barr. Despite his resignation, Booth insists that ""there was no sexual impropriety"" between himself and"
"the party's magazine ""Marxism Today"", formed the Democratic Left In the run-up to the 1992 general election, polling showed that there might be a hung parliament, but possibly a small Labour majority – the party's lead on the opinion polls had shrunk and some polls had even seen the Tories creep ahead in spite of the deepening recession. In the event, the Conservatives led by John Major; won a fourth consecutive election with a majority of 21 seats. This has been attributed to both the Labour Party's premature triumphalism (in particular at the Sheffield Rally) and the Tories' ""Tax Bombshell"""
"the resignation of Margaret Thatcher. During his term leading up to the 1992 election he oversaw the British involvement in the Gulf War, introduced legislation to replace the unpopular Community Charge with Council Tax, and signed the Maastricht Treaty. The economy was facing a recession around the time of Major's appointment, along with most of the other industrialised nations. Because it confounded the opinion polls, the 1992 election was one of the most dramatic elections in the UK since the end of the Second World War. The BBC's live television broadcast of the election results was presented by David Dimbleby"
"This result reflected the overall trend in the south-west, led by the electoral performance of party leader Nick Clegg, and reflected a loss of the aforementioned villages in boundary changes. In the 2015 general election, following the national Liberal Democrat collapse and Foster standing down, the seat was regained by the Conservatives under Ben Howlett with a 3,833-vote majority. Bath is estimated to have voted to remain in the European Union by 68.3% in the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. In the 2017 general election, the constituency was regained by the Liberal Democrats' Wera Hobhouse, with"
"the Labour Party and stood as independents, were all defeated, although in Nellist's case only very narrowly. Tommy Sheridan, fighting the election from prison, polled 19%. <section begin=""UK General Election 1992""/> ""All parties with more than 500 votes shown. Plaid Cymru result includes votes for Green/Plaid Cymru Alliance."" <section end=""UK General Election 1992""/> 1992 United Kingdom general election The 1992 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 April 1992, to elect 651 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The election resulted in the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party since 1979 and last"
"its abolition in 1983. It was replaced by the Vale of Glamorgan constituency which Sir Herbert Raymond Gower (Conservative) won at the 1983 general election. He remained as MP until his death in 1989. At the subsequent by-election the seat was won by John Smith (Labour). At the 1992 general election Walter Sweeney (Conservative) won it by only 19 votes. That made it the most marginal seat in Britain. John Smith won it back at the 1997 general election. In the 2010 General election there was a 6.1% swing from labour to conservative. This has now handed the seat to"
"were significant boundary changes, creating the new seat of West Tyrone. This had a huge knock on effect on Mid Ulster, which lost all its areas in Omagh and Strabane district councils, and gained the Torrent LGD in Dungannon from Fermanagh and South Tyrone, and the parts of Magherafelt District Council previously in East Londonderry. Therefore the implied 1992 election results are very different from the actual ones and are displayed above. The seat was awarded to Beattie on petition on the grounds that Mitchell's conviction as a felon made him ineligible to sit in Parliament. However, Beattie in turn"
"2015 when the Tories regained the seat. Cheltenham borough constituency was created in the Great Reform Act of 1832 and has returned nine Liberals (or Liberal Democrats) and nine Conservatives to Parliament since that time, along with one independent. A Conservative served the constituency from 1950 until 1992. The Conservatives' campaign in the 1992 general election following the Poll Tax riots saw a local party member's racist remarks about their own candidate, John Taylor, of Afro-Caribbean descent. Taylor lost the election to Nigel Jones of the Liberal Democrats. In 2000, Jones was nearly murdered in a horrific incident at one"
"The couple had four daughters (and one son, deceased), one granddaughter and one grandson. On Boxing Day 2009, whilst walking with his family at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, Taylor suffered a massive heart attack. He was taken by ambulance to Queens Hospital in Burton-on-Trent hospital, but paramedics were unable to save him. The event occurred during his day off while spending time with his family; he had previously announced that he would not run for reelection due to the high workload. He was first contested his seat in 1992 achieving a 5.9% swing compared to the national 3.6% swing to Labour."
"having people there who will do just that."" Don Foster, Baron Foster of Bath Donald Michael Ellison Foster, Baron Foster of Bath, (born 31 March 1947) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented Bath, Somerset as its constituency MP from 1992 until 2015. From October 2013 to May 2015 he held the ""ex officio"" title of Comptroller of the Household as Liberal Democrat Chief Whip. He was created Baron Foster of Bath, of Bath in the County of Somerset in the 2015 Dissolution Honours, becoming a member of the House of Lords. Foster was born in Preston, Lancashire, and"
"1992 general election Baker left the government rather than accept demotion to the job of Welsh Secretary. He was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) on 13 April 1992. He proposed the Loyal Address in the Queen's Speech debate on 6 May 1992, following the general election. He chose not to stand for re-election to the House of Commons in 1997, and on 16 June was created a Lord Temporal as Baron Baker of Dorking, ""of Iford in the County of East Sussex"". He was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of"
"he was deselected. The nomination was subsequently secured by Alan Clark, the former minister and diarist who was seeking to return to the Commons after standing down at the 1992 general election. Clark was elected, but died of brain cancer in 1999 after only two years in office. As a safe Conservative seat in London there was much speculation that former Defence Secretary and widely predicted future Conservative leader Michael Portillo would seek to return to the Commons after losing the Enfield Southgate constituency in the 1997 election. Portillo was elected in the subsequent by-election and became Shadow Chancellor but"
"signifying ""Jesus Christ"" in Welsh), and remained in the position until he was sacked by John Major in 1990. In the 1992 general election he lost Cardiff Central to Labour Co-operative candidate Jon Owen Jones. After losing his seat Grist was made the chairman of South Glamorgan Health Authority, a post he held until 1996, when he retired due to ill health. His appointment was regarded as controversial. While in opposition, Grist attacked Welsh devolution, unions, pop festivals and Neil Kinnock, whom he described as ""neo-Marxist"". Under Thatcher he opposed the poll tax and the privatisation of water companies. He"
"parishioner of ""St Mary's RC Church"", in Oswaldtwistle. Ken Hargreaves Joseph Kenneth Hargreaves, MBE, KSG (1 March 1939 – 23 June 2012) was the Conservative Member of Parliament, for Hyndburn, Lancashire, between 1983 and 1992, when he lost his seat to Greg Pope from Labour. A chartered secretary and company administrator by profession, he served as a local councillor, and mayor, before his election to Parliament. In 1990, Hargreaves founded the ""Movement for Christian Democracy"", with Liberal Democrat MP David Alton (now Lord Alton of Liverpool), and served as Vice Chairman. After his defeat at the 1992 General Election, he"
"Thomas Christopher Boyd Thomas Christopher Boyd (14 August 1916 – 15 March 2004) was a British Labour Party politician. Boyd unsuccessfully fought Isle of Thanet in 1950 and Harborough at the 1951 general election. At the 1955 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol North West, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Joseph Gurney Braithwaite. He served in the House of Commons for only four years, losing his seat at the 1959 general election to the Conservative Martin McLaren. After losing his seat at the 1959 general election, Boyd moved to Moffat, Scotland. He then retired"
"inflation had remained low for several years. However, the Tories were re-elected for a third successive term, although Labour did cut the Tory majority slightly. For the 1992 general election, the ""Daily Mirror"" continued to support Labour, still led by Neil Kinnock. By this stage Margaret Thatcher had stepped down and the Tory government was now led by John Major. The election was won by the Tories, although Labour managed to significantly cut the Tory majority to 21 seats compared to the triple-digit figure of the previous two elections, which led to a difficult term for Major. The outcome of"
"Don Foster, Baron Foster of Bath Donald Michael Ellison Foster, Baron Foster of Bath, (born 31 March 1947) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented Bath, Somerset as its constituency MP from 1992 until 2015. From October 2013 to May 2015 he held the ""ex officio"" title of Comptroller of the Household as Liberal Democrat Chief Whip. He was created Baron Foster of Bath, of Bath in the County of Somerset in the 2015 Dissolution Honours, becoming a member of the House of Lords. Foster was born in Preston, Lancashire, and attended the Lancaster Royal Grammar School before Keele"
"at the 1992 general election. Having governed in coalition with the Liberal Democrats since 2010, the Conservatives won 330 seats and 36.9% of the vote, this time winning a working majority of twelve seats. The British Polling Council began an inquiry into the substantial variance between opinion polls and the actual result. Forming the first Conservative majority government since 1992, David Cameron became the first Prime Minister to continue in office immediately after a term of at least four years with a larger popular vote share since 1900, and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to continue in"
"BBC Trust from 2011–2014. Currently, he is the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, a post he has held since 2003. Patten served various junior ministerial posts under Margaret Thatcher, including at the Department of Education and Science, before joining the Cabinet in 1989 as Environment Secretary. On the succession of John Major as Prime Minister in 1990, Patten was promoted to become Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He orchestrated the Conservatives' unexpected fourth consecutive general election victory in 1992, but unexpectedly lost his own seat. He then accepted the final (28th) Governorship"
"became active in his local council. He contested Birmingham Perry Barr for the Conservative Party at the 1987 general election, losing by 6,933 votes. He was selected by Conservative Party's Central Office to become the Conservative candidate for Cheltenham at the 1992 general election. The campaign was seen as having been influenced by race, with Taylor's Caribbean background reportedly causing concern to some members of the local Conservative Party constituency association, which was completely split by the issue. Conservative Central Office expelled association members over the issue. John Major, then Prime Minister, campaigned for Taylor in Cheltenham, but he lost"
"and other political freedoms, and the fight eventually spread to other college campuses across the United States. In the 1992 UK General Election, the Conservative Party were widely expected to be defeated by Neil Kinnock's Labour Party. Tory leader John Major took his campaign into the streets, delivering many addresses from an upturned soapbox. This approach stood in contrast to the Labour Party's seemingly slicker campaign and it chimed with the electorate, along with hard-hitting negative campaign advertising focusing on the issue of Labour's approach to taxation. Major won in excess of 14 million votes, the highest popular vote for"
"in the party and the unpopular Community Charge (also known as the 'Poll tax'). Labour began to lead the Conservatives in the opinion polls by as much as 20 percentage points. Thatcher resigned after the party leadership ballot in November 1990 and was replaced by John Major. This was well received by the public; Labour lost some momentum as it reduced the impact of their calls for ""Time for a Change"". As 1992 dawned, the recession deepened and the election loomed, most opinion polls suggested that Labour were still favourites to win the election, although the lead in the polls"
"1982 Beaconsfield by-election The Beaconsfield by-election, 1982 was a parliamentary by-election held on 27 May 1982 for the British House of Commons constituency of Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. It is notable for being the only election Tony Blair lost in his 25-year political career. He was elected to parliament for Sedgefield, County Durham in the following year's general election, became party leader in 1994 and went on to become prime minister with three consecutive general election wins. The seat had become vacant on 27 February 1982, when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Ronald Bell, died at the age"
"Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (born 6 May 1932), styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, is an English politician, artist and author. He was ranked 359th in the ""Sunday Times Rich List 2009"" with an estimated wealth of £157 million. Although born in London, he grew up at his family's seat, Longleat, a great Elizabethan house set in Wiltshire parkland landscaped in the 18th century by Capability Brown. After attending Ludgrove School and Eton College he was commissioned into the Life Guards as a lieutenant in 1951. He was then educated"
"but progressed no further due to lack of time. In the run up to the 1992 general election his Constituency Labour Party had shifted to the right, and it de-selected him in favour of Bob Ainsworth. He fought the election as Independent Labour, polling 4,008 votes (8.5% of total votes cast). ""Times Guide to the House of Commons 1992"" John Hughes (Coventry North East MP) John Hughes (29 May 1925 – 14 August 2009) was Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North East in the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1992. Born in Tanfield Lea, County Durham, he served"