Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party:
Stephen J. Ladyman |
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Conservative Party:
Mark C. MacGregor |
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Liberal Democratic Party:
Guy Voizey |
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UK Independence Party:
Terence Ecott |
Incumbent: |
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Dr Stephen Ladyman |
97 Result: |
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Stephen Ladyman
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Jonathan Aitken
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Barbara Hewett-Si
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92 Result: (Redistributed) |
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Demographic Profile:
| Age: |
| < 16 | 18.7% |
| 16-24 | 10.8% |
| 25-39 | 18.3% |
| 40-65 | 26.4% |
| 65 < | 25.9% |
Ethnic Origin: |
| White | 99.0% |
| Black | 0.2% |
| Indian/Pakistani | 0.3% |
| Other non-white | 0.6% |
Employment: |
| Full Time | 57.9% |
| Part Time | 15.9% |
| Self Employed | 14.8% |
| Government Schemes | 1.1% |
| Unemployed | 10.3% |
Household SEG: |
| I - Professional | 5.5% |
| II - Managerial/Technical | 28.6% |
| III - Skilled (non-manual) | 15.4% |
| IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 27.0% |
| IV - Partly Skilled | 14.7% |
| V - Unskilled | 6.0% |
Misc: |
| Own Residence | 74.3% |
| Rent Residence | 23.8% |
| Own Car(s) | 64.4% |
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Submissions
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11/05/01 |
Robbie |
Email: |
| I believe that Thanet South will return to the Conservative fold this year because the issue of assylum seakers is a very strong issue in East Kent and will cause many voters in traditional tory seats in east kent, such as this one, to vote Conservative again. Also, Thanet South will not have Jonathan Aitkin standing as the Conservative party candidate and there were probably several voters who would have not voted Conservative thanks to him being the candidate but will be happy to again now that they have a candidate who does not have any conections with anything sleazy. |
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18/05/01 |
Paul R Davis |
Email:pdavis1@vtown.com.au |
| I very much agree with Robbie's succinct summary of the two main reasons why this seat will return to the Conservatives. Even with the problems of Jonathan Aitken, this was still an astonishing seat for Labour to have ever won. Friends in the area speak much as Robbie suggests locals will. A definite gain. |
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20/05/01 |
Daniel Hamilton |
Email:daniel@hamiltonholdings.co.uk |
| Mark MacGregor, the Conservative candidate for this seat should have no problems taking it off the incumbent, Dr Steve Ladyman. Ladyman is deeply unpopular with the residents of SThanet as well as some of his own Labour MPs. The downgrading of hospitals across the county of Kent has been largely attributed to Ladyman. Over the past few months the SThanet Labour Party has been doing nothing in the local area to try and save this seat, whilst the Conservatives have been working 24/7 to regain control. Mark MacGregor can expect a comfortable majority. |
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22/05/01 |
Daniel Hamilton |
Email:daniel@hamiltonholdings.co.uk |
| I must say that I disagree with the fact that Aitken lost this seat for the Tories. I have been campaigning in this seat for a certain party and the Aitken issue has not been mentioned once. Aylum is the reason the Tories will take this seat off Labour. Another issue, mainly for the South of the consitituency is the downgrading of the Canterbury hospital by the Labour govt. |
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29/05/01 |
A.S. |
Email:adma@interlog.com |
| At the risk of stretching things, one wonders if an event like the Oldham race riots might have oh-so-distant reverb here, in giving the asylum hot potato a Timothy McVeighish distasteful aura. Anyway, if Ladyman's reelected, it'll be by default--and neither asylum nor Aitken's the full reason for the default... |
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30/05/01 |
William Ian Wessels |
Email: |
| Thanet North is statistically the most winnable Conservative seat for Labour in Kent. The present British General Election prediction (30/5/01)puts Canterbury - the second most winnable seat for the Labour Party as presently too close to call. This surely is even more true of Thanet North, which has less than 3000 between Labour and the Tories. The only less favourable aspect of Thanet North for Labour (in comparison to Canterbury), is that it lacks a pool of Liberal voters to vote tactically. |
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31/05/01 |
Marcus da Costa |
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| Mark Macgregor Will win this seat back from Dr Ladyman for several reasons: 1)The policy on asylum has proven to be a mess and the tories offer a real solution to the problem 2)The ridiculous and unfounded attacks on the local grammar schools by Dr Ladyman 3)Public opinion despite what the opinion polls show has turned against labour |
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