 Ultimately Kinnock won the contest, formally replacing Foot as party leader in October of that year.In a by-election, Benn was elected as the MP for Chesterfield, the next Labour seat to fall vacant, after Eric Varley had left the Commons to head Coalite.On the day of the by-election, 1 March 1984, "The Sun" newspaper ran a hostile feature article, "Benn on the Couch", which purported to be the opinions of an American psychiatrist.