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| Affiliation | Labour |
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| Name | Bob Mitchell |
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Southampton, England , United Kingdom |
| Email | None |
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August 22, 1927 |
| Died |
September 18, 2003
(76 years) |
| Contributor | Old LW |
| Last Modifed | Old LW
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| Info | Bob Mitchell, was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom. He represented Southampton Test for Labour from 1966 to 1970, and Southampton Itchen for Labour and then the Social Democratic Party from 1981 to 1983.
In the 1983 general election, Mitchell finished second with 16,647 votes, 5,290 votes behind the Conservative winner, Christopher Chope. Mitchell's strong performance was a tribute to the personal vote he had built up over 18 years serving Southampton as an MP. Once out of parliament, Mitchell served as a lecturer in Business Studies at Eastleigh College of Further Education. He tried for selection as SDP candidate for the 1984 Portsmouth South by-election but lost out to Mike Hancock who went on to win the seat; this setback may have deterred the other ex-MPs from seeking to return to Parliament in subsequent by-elections. He contested Southampton Itchen again in the 1987 election as the Liberal-SDP Alliance candidate, but finished third behind Chope and the Labour candidate, John Denham.
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