2004 Leicester South by-election
15 July 2004
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A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Leicester South was held on 15 July 2004, triggered by the death of incumbent Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Jim Marshall. It was won by Parmjit Singh Gill of the Liberal Democrats, overturning a Labour majority of 13,243 votes at the 2001 general election.
The by-election was widely considered to effectively be a referendum on the Labour government's policies—most notably its involvement in the ongoing Iraq War. It was the held on the same day as the 2004 Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election, where Labour narrowly fended off a challenge from the Liberal Democrats.