Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party: Jon Cruddas |
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Conservative Party: Michael J. White |
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Liberal Democratic Party: Adrian J. Gee-Turner |
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UK Independence Party: Peter Compobassi |
Incumbent: |
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Ms Judith Church |
97 Result: |
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Judith Church
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James Fairrie
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Tom Dobrashian
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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 | 20.3% |
16-24 | 12.2% |
25-39 | 22.7% |
40-65 | 23.7% |
65 < | 21.1% |
Ethnic Origin: |
White | 95.3% |
Black | 2.0% |
Indian/Pakistani | 1.7% |
Other non-white | 1.0% |
Employment: |
Full Time | 65.4% |
Part Time | 13.6% |
Self Employed | 9.1% |
Government Schemes | 0.8% |
Unemployed | 11.1% |
Household SEG: |
I - Professional | 1.7% |
II - Managerial/Technical | 15.8% |
III - Skilled (non-manual) | 18.8% |
IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 36.2% |
IV - Partly Skilled | 18.8% |
V - Unskilled | 7.1% |
Misc: |
Own Residence | 57.0% |
Rent Residence | 42.0% |
Own Car(s) | 59.7% |
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30/04/01 |
JR |
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One of Labour's traditional strongholds - site of the biggest public housing estate in Western Europe and a Ford car factory (although that's closing next year - look for a drop in Labour's majority.) John Parker, Labour MP for Dagenham from 1945 to 1983, once ran on the slogan "give me a forty thousand majority". The seat swung to the Tories in the eighties as part of a protest against the hard left in London Labour, but while nearby seats like Thurrock and Walthamstow fell, Labour held Dagenham in 1987 (though only by about 3500), which was a little red island in a deep blue Tory sea. |
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