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British General Election
Blackburn

Current Prediction:
Election Profile:

Candidates:
Labour Party:
Rt. Hon. John W. Straw
 Conservative Party:
John Cotton
 Liberal Democratic Party:
Imtiaz Patel
Socialist Alliance:
Mark Tebbutt

Incumbent:
 Rt Hon Jack Straw

97 Result:
 Jack Straw
26,14155.0%
 Sangeeta Sidhu
11,69024.6%
 Stephen Fenn
4,99010.5%
Total Vote Count / Turnout
47,49765.01%

92 Result: (Redistributed)
26,63348.4%
20,60637.5%
6,33211.5%
Total Vote Count / Turnout
54,97874.8%

Demographic Profile:
Age:
< 1625.2%
16-2413.8%
25-3920.7%
40-6523.2%
65 <17.1%

Ethnic Origin:
White79.8%
Black0.5%
Indian/Pakistani18.2%
Other non-white1.5%

Employment:
Full Time61.9%
Part Time13.5%
Self Employed9.3%
Government Schemes1.8%
Unemployed13.5%

Household SEG:
I - Professional4.8%
II - Managerial/Technical22.5%
III - Skilled (non-manual)10.4%
IIIM - Skilled (manual)32.1%
IV - Partly Skilled19.2%
V - Unskilled5.9%

Misc:
Own Residence65.4%
Rent Residence33.3%
Own Car(s)56.1%
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15/05/01 NG Email:
With a comfortable 14,000 majority and a strong national profile, there seems little chance of Jack Straw losing his seat this time.
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