Pity. If ever there was a time for the Monster Raving Loony Party this was it. Perhaps they will now retire having exhausted the possibilities of British democracy.

Henry Percy, London, UK

£80000 is a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of a useless ID card system.

Neelkumar Patel, Peterborough,

Brilliant and amazing principled leader. Witty, sharp and an amazing clarity of thought. Deserves to win. Deserve to be the next Tory Leader?

Jagadish, Bromley, UK

A brave stand by Mr Davis but I fear he is but a single candle in the wind.

James, Winchester, UK

C onservatives have absolutely no chance in the Glasgow East by election but they have still put up a candidate.Shame on gutless Labour.They were on a hiding to nothing and backed off.Democracy Labour are more of a joke day by day.

R.Hart, sutton coldfield, uk

Did Mr Davis make any money from this election other than the snouts in the trough MP's pay and fiddles.

Kenneth O'Boyle, Perth, UK

D D is just playing games, I just don’t believe all his utterances. He wants Cameron’s Job. That’s what it was all about.
Do we want a party leader/Premier, who is soft on terrorism, immigration, knife crime, immigration, etc? All in the name of the criminals rights. And not the rights of the law abiding indigenous population.

gordon, plancoet, france

Of course it was waste of money! The money has not been spent for raising awareness with regard to human rights but for selfish political move of Mr Davis.

Pawel, Dynow,

The only way for Cameron to circumvent a "Thatcher Knife" attack from the back benches is to appoint Davis as Minister for Hugging Hoodies & Zero Tolerance, NOW !

Peter Hughes, Burnham, England

Again we see how absurdities can easily seen from afar.
This by-election was an expensive farce that shows how ridiculous british democracy has become. 65%+ of the electorate seem to agree. Events like this make the uk political system a global joke. I'm sure £80,000 could have been better spent.

ade, Aberdeen, scotland

I wonder how many of the more trivial candidates were mere labour stooges - encouraged to stand simply as a means of belittling the by-election. Cynical but entirely in keeping with the methods Labour party.

Tony, Buckingham,

A disgraceful waste of public money in these difficult times. Davis should be ashamed, I'm glad he's not my MP, if he was I would have to change my vote.

Viv, London, England

BY denouncing this byelection as a farce, those politicians are alienating and directly insulting the 17,113 voters that decided that civil liberties were worth voting for, and everyone else in the country that believes in them too. Democracy is symetric, you can't choose which votes count.

Matt , London,

So how do you like your democracy?

Ignore the whips, the threats and the promises and vote by conscience?

or

Take the money, the peerage, the silver pieces and abandon your morality, your ethics and your integrity?

Roger Bingham, Lauzun, France

"They turned out for the cause — the erosion of freedom in this country."

Apparently only 34.5% of the popuation care about the erosion of freedom...therefore 65.5% do not!!!!!

P Flannery, Glasgow,

What else could £200,000 have been spent on? Resigns only after ensuring that his main rivals, the Lib Dems, won't stand and then calls GB gutless!

Two thirds of his own constituents couldn't have cared less - they stayed at home

Arthur Neil, Northwich, UK

In the three recent by-elections the greens have polled approximately the same number of votes as the flying brick, the BNP and now the English Democrats.
Why are they still afforded TV time when the others are not?

michael, london,

The miniscule turnout shows how little we care about the stuff that concerns Davis so much. The Tories should have chucked him out and made him run as an independent. Then he would not have won.

Roger Tilbury, Worthing,

Was David Davis ever in doubt that he could lose his seat? Is he really doing it based on principles?

Is it really a case of civil liberties or is it a PR stunt that can cement his opportunity to take on Cameron as the leader of the Tories again if Cameron begins to lose his charm?

DT, London,

I have just arrived in my space ship from Mars. I picked up the post-election address by Mr Davis on my wireless. I also heard the very long list of candidates.The reception was very bad but do I assume that Mr Davis won the election on behalf of the Monster Raving Loonies?

Charles Brown, Poole, England

When an attention seeking clown has his day on top of the pile at vast expense to the taxpayer, he is right that:
"a stunning message had been delivered "
We have all noted the message, the grotesque performance and the man's unsuitability for office.

Sean, Coventry, UK

After the farce of the resignation and re-election of David Davis with its waste of public money and time, should we not assume that resign means to stand down to make room for some-one else . We need legislation to prevent "resignation on moral grounds" with the assumption of re-election.

Karilyn Collins, Hereford, UK

A total waste of time and money. Half the turnout compared to last time, and he had a large majority then so could hardly fail to be re-elected by the same people anyway!

Note: You only have a mandate from those who voted for you. He now has a mandate from just 17,113 people, fewer than before!

Jon, Winchester, UK

Those who consider Mr Davis's 'election' a stunt are missing the point. As opinion polls are often manipulated and inaccurate the only way he could get a clear indication of his constituents views was to hold a 'referendum'. Those supporting the 42 day rule could also have put up their own candidate

pete, Banstead, uk

65% of the electorate don't care enough about their personal freedom to bother to vote so don't need rights is the message for Britain's rulers. Davis is a principled man but the English get the politicians they deserve. They deserve useless Gordon and next they'll have Dave 'Blair II' Cameron.

ian, cheltenham,

It's ironic we're being compared to the DDR again, Marcus Saw - in 1979 Callaghan compared our living standards with theirs...and Labour lost, lost, lost and lost again. May history repeat itself!

dave, slough,

Well I does show that if Davis is willing to sqaunder taxpayers money on a futile gesture such as this then he is quite unsuitable ever to be a minister in charge of a large budget.

Chris, Ashford, Middx, England

Cometh the moment, cometh the man! And it seems like David Davis MP may be the one. The state of law and order in this country is shamboilic thanks to a government who never seem able to identify or rest upon firm strategies. Our Police Service should be allowed to be harder than the hardmen.

Robert El-Cid., Hull., East Yorks.,

I think it was a farce resigning and then being re elected. People like Lord John Stevens gave his backing to the 42 day detention, and unlike Davis, Lord John has been at the frontline of Policing now for over 30 years and is surely the best person to advise. What a joke!

Kevin Ashurst, Consett,

unfortunately the government will still not get the message that the public do not to see their civil liberties erroded by what is fast becoming a fascist state. This country is no better than the DDR was 20 years ago.

Marcus Saw, horndon on the hill, uk

Good to have you back, David. Cameron would be a fool to leave you out of the shadow cabinet.

Dr Ian Burgess, Bristol,

The whole country needs an election not just Haltemprice & Howden.

Ian Payne, walsall,

This result demonstrates that the Political Class are completely disconnected from the citizen.

jumper, windsor,

Well done Mr Davis.

You now have the moral authority to speak for all of us to stop the rot and decay in our civil liberties. We look to you to defend this country's freedoms.

Martin, Brighouse,

Ultimately a hollow gesture that fails to strike at the real root of the problem. The thought of voting for either the Tories or Labour at this point is thoroughly repellent. When Mr Davis focuses on the true source of the problem it may become possible to take him seriously.

emmett, London, England

There were serious candidates in that by-election, yet even combined, they came nowhere close to defeating Davis. I don't think anyone can reasonably deny he now has the democratic mandate he claims.

Simon, Brentwood, UK

From where I sit, it is clear that the whole by-election spurred by Davis appears to be nothing but a total farce of manipulated politics and news media. Shame.

Wendy, Alberta, Canada