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| popular_vote1 = '''13,748'''
| percentage1 = '''44.2%'''
| swing1 = {{increase}}'''8.5%'''
| candidate2 = Gillian Troughton
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There was a '''[[by-election]]''' in the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British parliamentary constituency]] of '''[[Copeland (UK Parliament constituency)|Copeland]]''' on 23 February 2017 (the same day as the [[2017 Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election|Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election]]), following the resignation of [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) [[Jamie Reed]]. [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] candidate [[Trudy Harrison]] gained the seat from [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]], the first gain for a governing party in a by-election since 1982.
 
== Result ==
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|votes = 2,147
|percentage = 6.9
|change = ''N/A''
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