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British General Election
South Dorset

Current Prediction:
Election Profile:

Candidates:
Labour Party:
James Knight
Conservative Party:
Ian C. Bruce
Liberal Democratic Party:
Andrew J. Canning

Incumbent:
Ian Bruce

97 Result:
Jim Knight
17,67835.9%
Ian Bruce
17,75536.1%
Michael Plummer
9,93620.2%
Total Vote Count / Turnout
49,18274.16%

92 Result: (Redistributed)
10,80520.8%
26,40550.9%
13,78826.6%
Total Vote Count / Turnout
51,86276.6%

Demographic Profile:
Age:
< 1618.8%
16-2412.2%
25-3920.2%
40-6526.3%
65 <22.5%

Ethnic Origin:
White99.2%
Black0.3%
Indian/Pakistani0.1%
Other non-white0.4%

Employment:
Full Time59.0%
Part Time16.8%
Self Employed14.4%
Government Schemes1.5%
Unemployed8.4%

Household SEG:
I - Professional6.0%
II - Managerial/Technical26.9%
III - Skilled (non-manual)14.1%
IIIM - Skilled (manual)24.2%
IV - Partly Skilled14.7%
V - Unskilled4.7%

Misc:
Own Residence71.4%
Rent Residence24.2%
Own Car(s)72.2%
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22/04/01 JR Email:
Labour are treating this as their number 1 target seat, having only lost by 77 votes in 1997. They have a strong local candidate and will be putting the squeeze on the third placed LibDems (LD voters in the South West tend to be anti-Tory votes)

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