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British General Election
Bolton West

Current Prediction:
Election Profile:

Candidates:
Labour Party:
Ruth M. Kelly
Conservative Party:
James Stevens
Liberal Democratic Party:
Barbara O. Ronson

Incumbent:
Ms Ruth Kelly

97 Result:
Ruth Kelly
24,34249.5%
Tom Sackville
17,27035.1%
Barbara Ronson
5,30910.8%
Total Vote Count / Turnout
49,16077.37%

92 Result: (Redistributed)
20,33839.1%
24,61947.3%
6,86213.2%
Total Vote Count / Turnout
52,02782.5%

Demographic Profile:
Age:
< 1620.4%
16-2412.2%
25-3921.5%
40-6527.9%
65 <18.0%

Ethnic Origin:
White97.6%
Black0.3%
Indian/Pakistani1.6%
Other non-white0.6%

Employment:
Full Time64.1%
Part Time15.6%
Self Employed12.1%
Government Schemes1.0%
Unemployed7.2%

Household SEG:
I - Professional7.8%
II - Managerial/Technical35.2%
III - Skilled (non-manual)13.7%
IIIM - Skilled (manual)25.2%
IV - Partly Skilled13.0%
V - Unskilled3.5%

Misc:
Own Residence78.6%
Rent Residence20.5%
Own Car(s)71.7%
Submissions
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10/05/01 Peter T Email:
Prior to Election, Conservative candidate openly criticised shadow home secretary's position on zero tolerance on drugs. article can be found on the Bolton Evening News website in the archive, search words James Steven's and Shadow home secretary. This has beem exposed in national and local media during the campaign and has damaged him
05/06/01 A.S. Email:adma@interlog.com
Labour's resident fertility goddess, Ruth Kelly has, in her term of office, produced a Stills, Nash, and Young to go with Bolton NE's David Crausby. The most marginal of the Bolton seats--but in 2001, not marginal enough. Here's to another term (and I mean the 4-year, not the 9-month, variety).

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