Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party: John E. Austin |
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Conservative Party: Mark J. Brooks |
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Liberal Democratic Party: B. James Kempton |
Incumbent: |
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John Austin |
97 Result: |
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John Austin-Walker
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Nadhim Zahawi
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Alex Grigg
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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 | 23.8% |
16-24 | 13.9% |
25-39 | 26.6% |
40-65 | 21.9% |
65 < | 13.8% |
Ethnic Origin: |
White | 84.6% |
Black | 5.3% |
Indian/Pakistani | 6.7% |
Other non-white | 3.4% |
Employment: |
Full Time | 65.9% |
Part Time | 11.6% |
Self Employed | 8.4% |
Government Schemes | 1.1% |
Unemployed | 13.0% |
Household SEG: |
I - Professional | 3.6% |
II - Managerial/Technical | 22.2% |
III - Skilled (non-manual) | 20.2% |
IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 28.6% |
IV - Partly Skilled | 16.2% |
V - Unskilled | 5.2% |
Misc: |
Own Residence | 57.7% |
Rent Residence | 41.5% |
Own Car(s) | 61.5% |
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Submissions
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17/05/01 |
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Erith and Thamesmead was a new creation at the 1997 boundary review. It is a working class area by the Thames in SE London. Thamesmead is a 'New Town' built in the 1960s and 1970s. It was held by Labour MP John Austin on a massive swing in 1997; he benefited from the collapse of the SDP vote in the Woolwich area (John Cartwright had won Woolwich for the SDP in 1983 and 1987 and polled fairly well in 1992). The seat is even safer than it looks on the 1992 figures. |
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