Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party: Margaret E. Hodge |
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Conservative Party: Michael Weatherley |
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Liberal Democratic Party: Anura Keppetipola |
Incumbent: |
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Ms Margaret Hodge MBE |
97 Result: |
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Margaret Hodge
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Keith Langford
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Mark Marsh
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Total Vote Count / Turnout |
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92 Result: (Redistributed) |
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Total Vote Count / Turnout |
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Demographic Profile:
Age: |
< 16 | 21.9% |
16-24 | 13.2% |
25-39 | 22.5% |
40-65 | 22.6% |
65 < | 19.9% |
Ethnic Origin: |
White | 90.7% |
Black | 2.7% |
Indian/Pakistani | 5.1% |
Other non-white | 1.5% |
Employment: |
Full Time | 64.7% |
Part Time | 13.1% |
Self Employed | 8.1% |
Government Schemes | 1.0% |
Unemployed | 13.0% |
Household SEG: |
I - Professional | 1.6% |
II - Managerial/Technical | 19.5% |
III - Skilled (non-manual) | 16.7% |
IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 34.5% |
IV - Partly Skilled | 17.0% |
V - Unskilled | 7.6% |
Misc: |
Own Residence | 45.7% |
Rent Residence | 53.2% |
Own Car(s) | 54.0% |
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Submissions
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30/04/01 |
JR |
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a very similar seat to its next door neighbour, Dagenham. White working class voters in East London swung to the Tories in the eighties, but even then Labour held on here. Barking passed out of the danger zone in the 1994 byelection which Labour won with 77% of the vote. |
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03/06/01 |
Jx |
Email:johannapurdy@hotmail.com |
Agreeable or not, for people in their mid 30's or younger within the borough, a labour controlled office is all they can probably remember. With a 'Blair babe' Margret Hodge proving herself as a compitent member of government it is unlikely that she will be unseated by the untested tory candidate, or obscure LibDem man. I am not regestering my intentions to vote for Margret Hodge, (that is between me and the voting box) but demographics, past elections, and an appreciation of the feelings of those around me leave me in no doubt as to my MP will be come Friday. Perhaps this is why none of the candidates have been doing much door to door work this time round. |
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