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  Anti-Common Market
POLITICAL PARTY DETAILS
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AbbreviationACMFT
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CountryUnited Kingdom
Established0000-00-00
Disbanded0000-00-00
ContributorRBH
Last EditedRBH - October 15, 2021 04:23pm
DescriptionThe Anti Common Market and Free Trade Party was a British political party that opposed Britain's membership of the European Union and fought a number of by-elections in the 1970s and 1980s. It was also known as the Free Trade Liberal Party and All Party Anti-Common Market. Among its members were Arthur Seldon and Oliver Smedley. It saw itself in the Liberal Party tradition and its members were often involved with the free market Institute of Economic Affairs.

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MOST RECENT RACES
07/14/1988 UK Parliament - Kensington - By-election Thomas McDermott Lost 0.13% (-41.46%)
06/11/1987 UK Parliament - Saffron Walden Oliver Smedley Lost 0.38% (-57.32%)
06/09/1983 UK Parliament - Saffron Walden Oliver Smedley Lost 1.49% (-56.35%)
02/24/1983 UK Parliament - Bermondsey - By-election David Wedgwood Lost 0.05% (-57.66%)
10/22/1981 UK Parliament - Croydon North West - By-Election Stephen Done Lost 0.03% (-39.92%)
03/13/1980 UK Parliament - Southend East - By-election Oliver Smedley Lost 0.58% (-36.23%)
12/13/1979 UK Parliament - Hertfordshire South West - By-election David Bundy Lost 0.78% (-45.16%)
05/03/1979 UK Parliament - Eye Norman Rogers Lost 0.49% (-51.48%)
07/07/1977 UK Parliament - Saffron Walden - By-election Oliver Smedley Lost 4.47% (-51.31%)
02/28/1974 UK Parliament - Kingston-upon-Thames M. J. Christie Lost 0.61% (-47.97%)
12/07/1972 UK Parliament - Sutton & Cheam - By-election Chris Frere-Smith Lost 3.91% (-49.83%)
05/04/1972 UK Parliament - Kingston-upon-Thames - By-election Edgar Scruby Lost 5.35% (-46.97%)
09/30/1971 UK Parliament - Macclesfield - By-election Reginald Simmerson Lost 1.75% (-42.90%)
06/18/1970 UK Parliament - Wallasey John D. Hill Lost 5.46% (-39.53%)
06/18/1970 UK Parliament - Henley Daniel Brunner Lost 1.53% (-51.88%)
06/18/1970 UK Parliament - Hull North Walter Harvey Lost 3.93% (-53.22%)
09/21/1967 UK Parliament - Walthamstow West - By-election Oliver Smedley Lost 3.02% (-34.04%)
03/31/1966 UK Parliament - St Marylebone Chris Frere-Smith Lost 1.45% (-55.22%)
10/15/1964 UK Parliament - Brierley Hill William Brown Lost 2.84% (-49.18%)
10/15/1964 UK Parliament - Bexley John Paul Lost 2.33% (-45.06%)