Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party: Ivan J. Henderson |
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Conservative Party: Iain M. Sproat |
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Liberal Democratic Party: Peter Wilcock |
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UK Independence Party: Anthony Finegan-Butler |
Incumbent: |
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Ivan Henderson |
97 Result: |
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Ivan Henderson
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Iain Sproat
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Ann Elvin
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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 | 16.3% |
16-24 | 9.8% |
25-39 | 15.5% |
40-65 | 24.6% |
65 < | 33.7% |
Ethnic Origin: |
White | 99.3% |
Black | 0.2% |
Indian/Pakistani | 0.2% |
Other non-white | 0.4% |
Employment: |
Full Time | 56.5% |
Part Time | 17.1% |
Self Employed | 14.0% |
Government Schemes | 1.2% |
Unemployed | 11.2% |
Household SEG: |
I - Professional | 3.5% |
II - Managerial/Technical | 27.7% |
III - Skilled (non-manual) | 15.2% |
IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 28.0% |
IV - Partly Skilled | 16.4% |
V - Unskilled | 6.5% |
Misc: |
Own Residence | 83.2% |
Rent Residence | 15.8% |
Own Car(s) | 65.8% |
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Submissions
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12/05/01 |
J Smith |
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Conservatives lost this seat in Labour route last time, but is a traditional Tory seat. Though they are way ahead in the polls, Labour will have a hard time keeping those Conservatives that voted for them out of protest last time. Conservatives pull off a win in Harwich. |
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13/05/01 |
Sean Fear |
Email:fear_sean@hotmail.com |
One of the seats where one can say unequivocally that the large vote for the Referendum Party (almost 5,000) cost the Tories the seat. The Tories will recover most of that vote and win this seat. |
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15/05/01 |
LB |
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I don't share the assumption that the very high 1997 Referendum share will go automatically to the Tories. The UKIP is active in Harwich and the 1997 Referendum candidate Jeffrey Titford is now an MEP for that party. The UKIP could frustrate the Tories this time. Ivan Henderson has a fairly good local profile. |
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23/05/01 |
A.S. |
Email:adma@interlog.com |
At 9.2%, in fact, this was the best Referendum result of all in '97. And now that Basildon has been, for now, permanently etched Labour, it'll be to Harwich, together with Braintree and Castle Point, where people will look to see whether Labour's freak "Essex Man" gains were one-trick ponies or not. But Labour can still sustain a solid, if more orthodox, majority even if it lost all three--on the other hand, if Iain Sproat's seemingly well-justified Harwich comeback bid tanks, then the Tories'll feel like taking that next ferryboat to Hook of Holland in order to escape the humiliation... |
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