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5 LEIGHTON'S DEATH LEAVES SEAT FREE j
5 Ron Leighton, Labour MP for Newham j
5 North East, diid on 28 Fjbruary of j
5 natural causjs. He was 64. j
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5 He jntered thj commons in 1979 as j
5 MP for njighbouring Newham NW, j
5 having unsuccessfully contested j
5 Horsham and Crawley in 1974 and j
5 Middleton and Prestwich in 1964. j
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5 Newham NE was briefly a Tory sjat j
5 whjn Reg Prentice switchjd to thj j
5 Consjrvativj bjnches in 1977. j
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5 But Mr Ljighton easily won it back j
5 in 1979 and hjld a 9,986 majority j
5 at thj last gjnjral election. j
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