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Tories beat Labour in by-election | Tories beat Labour in by-election |
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The Conservatives have won the Norwich North by-election with a majority of more than 7,000. | The Conservatives have won the Norwich North by-election with a majority of more than 7,000. |
Tory candidate Chloe Smith won with 13,591 - more than twice as many votes as the Labour candidate Chris Ostrowski who had 6,243 votes. | |
The Lib Dems came third with 4,803, narrowly ahead of UKIP on 4,068. | |
The former MP, Labour's Ian Gibson, quit when the party barred him from standing at the next general election over his expenses claims. | The former MP, Labour's Ian Gibson, quit when the party barred him from standing at the next general election over his expenses claims. |
It was the first Westminster election since the MPs' expenses furore. |