Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party: D.A. Reg Race |
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Conservative Party: Simon Hitchcock |
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Liberal Democratic Party: Paul Holmes |
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Socialist Alliance: Jeannie Robinson |
Incumbent: |
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Rt Hon Tony Benn |
97 Result: |
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Tony Benn
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Martin Potter
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Tony Rogers
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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 | 18.6% |
16-24 | 12.1% |
25-39 | 21.6% |
40-65 | 27.2% |
65 < | 20.5% |
Ethnic Origin: |
White | 98.7% |
Black | 0.5% |
Indian/Pakistani | 0.4% |
Other non-white | 0.4% |
Employment: |
Full Time | 61.7% |
Part Time | 17.8% |
Self Employed | 8.6% |
Government Schemes | 1.9% |
Unemployed | 10.0% |
Household SEG: |
I - Professional | 4.8% |
II - Managerial/Technical | 24.8% |
III - Skilled (non-manual) | 12.7% |
IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 34.1% |
IV - Partly Skilled | 15.4% |
V - Unskilled | 5.4% |
Misc: |
Own Residence | 64.5% |
Rent Residence | 34.4% |
Own Car(s) | 62.6% |
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Submissions
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18/04/01 |
NG |
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This will be a very interesting contest. After years of having his majority slowly eroded, Tony Benn is retiring and it is not quite clear what will happen. Will his successor lose Labour votes or not? The chance are that Benn's successor will certainly not command the same amount of respect and this leaves the way open for a challenger. The Lib Dems are quite strong locally while the Tories seem to be firmly fixed in third place. Only a small swing from Labour would see a narrow Lib Dem victory this time round. It will certainly be one to watch. |
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27/05/01 |
A.S. |
Email:adma@interlog.com |
Electorally bizarre. Chesterfield *should* be strong for Labour, even "Old Labour" (cf. Dennis Skinner in neighbouring Bolsover); yet it could never really cotton up to having Old Labour icon Tony Benn thrust upon it in '84--and it "acted out" its rejection with, of all things, an hyperthyroid bubble of Lib Dem support. In fact, in Blair's banner year of 1997, Chesterfield swung *against* Benn and hoisted LD ominously toward the 40% stratosphere. And it gets stranger still; now Benn's been controversially replaced by yet *another* Labour dinosaur, former Wood Green MP Reg Race. (And there's Socialist Labour *and* Socialist Alliance running, as well.) What next, in this citadel of inverted voting patterns? My instincts *should* say Labour again, but they make things so difficult... |
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