The election was contested by a record ten candidates, beating the nine who had contested the
1976 Walsall North by-election. This total was topped at the
1978 Lambeth Central by-election. The candidates were: •
Bill Boaks stood under the title "Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident". Boaks was a road safety campaigner and serial by-election candidate. •
Peter Brooke, a graduate of
Harvard Business School was the
Conservative Party candidate. • Dennis Delderfield was the candidate for the
New Britain Party, of which he was founder and leader. Delderfield was also a common councilman of the
Corporation of London. • Ralph Herbert was an
independent who stood under the title "Christ, Crown, Country, Commonwealth, Christian Constitution". • Paul Kavanagh was the candidate for the
National Front. • Michael Lobb was the candidate for the
National Party, a splinter group of the National Front. He was candidate for the National Front in
Newham South in the
February 1974 general election and the
subsequent by-election in the same seat. • Peter Mitchell stood under the banner "Pro-Homosexual Civil Rights". He was involved in the
Campaign for Homosexual Equality pressure group. • Malcolm Noble was the
Labour Party candidate. • Angus Scrimgeour was the
Liberal Party candidate. • William Thompson was an independent who stood under the title "Christian Outreach to Britain, Anti-Pornography". ==Aftermath==