Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party: Paul D. Stinchcombe |
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Conservative Party: Peter W. Bone |
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Liberal Democratic Party: Peter Gaskell |
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UK Independence Party: Anthony R. Ellwood |
Incumbent: |
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Paul Stinchcombe |
97 Result: |
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Paul Stinchcombe
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Peter Fry
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Peter Smith
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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 | 21.1% |
16-24 | 13.5% |
25-39 | 21.5% |
40-65 | 26.4% |
65 < | 17.4% |
Ethnic Origin: |
White | 94.6% |
Black | 1.9% |
Indian/Pakistani | 2.8% |
Other non-white | 0.7% |
Employment: |
Full Time | 67.2% |
Part Time | 14.4% |
Self Employed | 10.7% |
Government Schemes | 0.9% |
Unemployed | 6.9% |
Household SEG: |
I - Professional | 4.4% |
II - Managerial/Technical | 28.9% |
III - Skilled (non-manual) | 12.8% |
IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 34.6% |
IV - Partly Skilled | 13.3% |
V - Unskilled | 4.6% |
Misc: |
Own Residence | 72.4% |
Rent Residence | 26.4% |
Own Car(s) | 72.4% |
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Submissions
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02/05/01 |
JR |
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This seat has the smallest Labour majority in Britain, and it would take a fool to predict which way it will go. The portents are good for Paul Stinchcombe though - Labour gained seats in the 1999 borough elections to take majority control of the Council, and this is one of those rapidly-growing areas with a young, aspirational and politically fluid population, that have looked so favourably on Tony Blair and New Labour. The Tory challenger is Peter Bone, one of four extreme right wingers standing in marginal seats who were profiled in today's Guardian. Bone boasted to the Tory conference in 1995 that he paid trainees in his business just 87 pence an hour, and called for the withdrawal of all state support to single mums and their children. Those quotes were used against him in 1997 when he lost the Tory stronghold of Pudsey, and they will come back to haunt him again. |
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13/05/01 |
Sean Fear |
Email:fear_sean@hotmail.com |
With a tiny Labour majority, and the Conservatives slightly better placed in the polls than they were four years ago, realistically this is too close to call. |
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