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TIL The 1984 UK parliamentary by election in Chesterfield was contested by 17 parties as diverse as the acne party, the Elvisly yours party, the I am not a number party, the Welshman party, the monster raving looney party and the reclassify the Sun newspaper as a comic party.

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