Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party:
Simon Charleton |
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Conservative Party:
Crispin J.R. Blunt |
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Liberal Democratic Party:
Jane Kulka |
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UK Independence Party:
Stephen P. Smith |
Incumbent: |
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Crispin Blunt |
97 Result: |
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Andrew Howard
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Crispin Blunt
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Peter Samuel
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92 Result: (Redistributed) |
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Demographic Profile:
| Age: |
| < 16 | 18.4% |
| 16-24 | 11.6% |
| 25-39 | 21.3% |
| 40-65 | 28.1% |
| 65 < | 20.5% |
Ethnic Origin: |
| White | 97.2% |
| Black | 0.4% |
| Indian/Pakistani | 1.2% |
| Other non-white | 1.2% |
Employment: |
| Full Time | 65.7% |
| Part Time | 14.7% |
| Self Employed | 13.4% |
| Government Schemes | 0.6% |
| Unemployed | 5.6% |
Household SEG: |
| I - Professional | 10.6% |
| II - Managerial/Technical | 44.8% |
| III - Skilled (non-manual) | 15.7% |
| IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 17.6% |
| IV - Partly Skilled | 7.5% |
| V - Unskilled | 3.2% |
Misc: |
| Own Residence | 76.3% |
| Rent Residence | 21.7% |
| Own Car(s) | 80.9% |
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Submissions
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14/05/01 |
LB |
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| If Reigate was ever going to defect from the Conservatives, it would have happened in 1997. The sitting Tory MP George Gardiner had been deselected and left the party for the anti-EU Referendum Party, in whose cause he stood in Reigate in 1997 and won 7% of the vote. More of this vote than usual can be expected to go Tory in 2001. Despite Gardiner's defection the new candidate Crispin Blunt won comfortably. Although there are some Labour areas of Reigate it would take a massive swing to unseat Blunt now. |
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15/05/01 |
NG |
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| The Tories will probably hold on here, if only because the opposition is pretty divided (the Lib Dems and Labour swopped 2nd and 3rd place in 1997) and neither challenger is in a very strong position. |
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