Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party:
Angela E. Smith |
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Conservative Party:
Dominic Schofield |
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Liberal Democratic Party:
Jane C.G. Smithard |
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UK Independence Party:
Frank Mallon |
Incumbent: |
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Angela Smith |
97 Result: |
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Angela Smith
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John Baron
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Terry Marsh
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92 Result: (Redistributed) |
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Demographic Profile:
| Age: |
| < 16 | 21.8% |
| 16-24 | 13.9% |
| 25-39 | 22.6% |
| 40-65 | 27.2% |
| 65 < | 14.5% |
Ethnic Origin: |
| White | 97.9% |
| Black | 0.6% |
| Indian/Pakistani | 0.7% |
| Other non-white | 0.8% |
Employment: |
| Full Time | 64.5% |
| Part Time | 14.6% |
| Self Employed | 10.6% |
| Government Schemes | 0.9% |
| Unemployed | 9.4% |
Household SEG: |
| I - Professional | 3.9% |
| II - Managerial/Technical | 24.0% |
| III - Skilled (non-manual) | 16.0% |
| IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 32.2% |
| IV - Partly Skilled | 17.8% |
| V - Unskilled | 4.6% |
Misc: |
| Own Residence | 65.7% |
| Rent Residence | 33.3% |
| Own Car(s) | 72.3% |
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Submissions
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25/04/01 |
JR |
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| The capital of 'Sun Country' (highest Sun readership in Britain), and home of Essex Man, will stay Labour. Angela Smith's 13500 majority is larger than several long-established Labour seats. BBC2's Newsnight programme visited swing voters in Basildon during the party conference season, and found no movement back towards the Tories except for a lone refugee from the Referendum Party. |
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23/05/01 |
A.S. |
Email:adma@interlog.com |
| The eternal belwether to beat all belwethers. At this point, because guessing the winner's pretty well a no-brainer, it's more worthwhile to preoccupy oneself with swottier stuff, like the direction and degree of the swing... |
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28/05/01 |
SG |
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| Dick Duane (Socialist Alliance) is also standing and the Lib Dem candidate in 97 was eventually Lindsay Granshaw, not Terry Marsh who withdrew amid news reports which disappeared after the election. |
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