Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party: Vernon R. Coaker |
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Conservative Party: Jonathan Bullock |
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Liberal Democratic Party: Anthony Gillam |
Incumbent: |
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Vernon Coaker |
97 Result: |
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Vernon Coaker
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Andrew Mitchell
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Ray Poynter
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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 | 18.9% |
16-24 | 12.2% |
25-39 | 21.9% |
40-65 | 28.5% |
65 < | 18.4% |
Ethnic Origin: |
White | 97.4% |
Black | 1.0% |
Indian/Pakistani | 0.9% |
Other non-white | 0.7% |
Employment: |
Full Time | 64.4% |
Part Time | 17.1% |
Self Employed | 10.7% |
Government Schemes | 0.9% |
Unemployed | 6.8% |
Household SEG: |
I - Professional | 5.3% |
II - Managerial/Technical | 32.1% |
III - Skilled (non-manual) | 14.2% |
IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 30.8% |
IV - Partly Skilled | 12.3% |
V - Unskilled | 3.7% |
Misc: |
Own Residence | 80.2% |
Rent Residence | 19.0% |
Own Car(s) | 71.2% |
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Submissions
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14/05/01 |
Sean Fear |
Email:fear_sean@hotmail.com |
Prior to 1997, this seat (or its predecessor) had only been won by Labour in 1945. Since then, the Conservatives have won back the local council and were ahead in the European elections. They have also picked a very strong candidate, with local roots, in Jonathan Bullock. The Conservatives will get this seat back with a small majority. |
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02/06/01 |
s stevens |
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Gedling has a good MP in Vernon Coaker. He is popular and has been a good constituency MP since 1997. The Tory candidate is an unsavoury and self seeking individual. |
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03/06/01 |
A.S. |
Email:adma@interlog.com |
It is fundamentally middle-class seats like this which'll determine, even if in little blibs and blabs, whether the Tories are on the road back in the Midlands & North. (Of course, it certainly might have helped if neighbour Kenneth Clarke was Tory leader... |
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