Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party: M. Ann Coffey |
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Conservative Party: John Allen |
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Liberal Democratic Party: Mark Hunter |
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UK Independence Party: Gerald Price |
Incumbent: |
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Ms Ann Coffey |
97 Result: |
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Ann Coffey
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Stephen Fitzsimmons
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Sylvia Roberts
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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 | 20.6% |
16-24 | 12.5% |
25-39 | 24.8% |
40-65 | 24.2% |
65 < | 17.9% |
Ethnic Origin: |
White | 96.8% |
Black | 0.5% |
Indian/Pakistani | 1.6% |
Other non-white | 1.0% |
Employment: |
Full Time | 65.4% |
Part Time | 14.2% |
Self Employed | 10.2% |
Government Schemes | 1.0% |
Unemployed | 9.1% |
Household SEG: |
I - Professional | 8.0% |
II - Managerial/Technical | 31.2% |
III - Skilled (non-manual) | 14.0% |
IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 26.5% |
IV - Partly Skilled | 13.1% |
V - Unskilled | 4.8% |
Misc: |
Own Residence | 70.0% |
Rent Residence | 29.0% |
Own Car(s) | 62.9% |
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Submissions
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01/06/01 |
JR |
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The Tories held this seat between 1983 and 1992, but it seems now to have passed beyond their grasp. Boundary changes before the 1997 election were thought to have increased Labour's cushion over the Conservatives by about 4,000 votes, and that combined with the national swing gave Ann Coffey a stunning 18000 majority in a seat she had won by just 1400 votes five years beforehand. Labour have struggled in local elections in Stockport but the beneficiaries have been the LibDems, who now control the Borough Council (where the Tories are the third party). Given that LibDem support at local level is very rarely transformed into parliamentary victories another easy Labour win can be expected here. The only question is just how easy. |
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