2016 Witney by-election
20 October 2016
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| Turnout | 46.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Witney was held on 20 October 2016, triggered by the resignation of the incumbent Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) and recently-departed Prime Minister David Cameron. It was won by the Conservative candidate Robert Courts with a reduced vote share, and the Liberal Democrats came in second with an increase in vote share of 23.4 percentage points.
The 2016 Batley and Spen by-election, held following the murder of Jo Cox, took place on the same day.