Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party:
Neil Turner |
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Conservative Party:
Mark L. Page |
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Liberal Democratic Party:
Trevor R. Beswick |
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Socialist Alliance:
David Lowe |
Incumbent: |
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Neil Turner |
97 Result: |
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Roger Stott
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Mark Loveday
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Trevor Beswick
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92 Result: (Redistributed) |
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Demographic Profile:
| Age: |
| < 16 | 19.9% |
| 16-24 | 13.6% |
| 25-39 | 21.0% |
| 40-65 | 27.6% |
| 65 < | 17.9% |
Ethnic Origin: |
| White | 99.2% |
| Black | 0.2% |
| Indian/Pakistani | 0.3% |
| Other non-white | 0.3% |
Employment: |
| Full Time | 61.6% |
| Part Time | 15.6% |
| Self Employed | 9.1% |
| Government Schemes | 1.7% |
| Unemployed | 12.0% |
Household SEG: |
| I - Professional | 5.2% |
| II - Managerial/Technical | 24.4% |
| III - Skilled (non-manual) | 13.3% |
| IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 33.3% |
| IV - Partly Skilled | 14.8% |
| V - Unskilled | 5.4% |
Misc: |
| Own Residence | 66.6% |
| Rent Residence | 32.5% |
| Own Car(s) | 62.3% |
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24/04/01 |
JR |
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| An archetypal Northern working class town in culture, economy and politics. Wigan has a top-flight Rugby League team. It was the subject of George Orwell's book, the Road to Wigan Pier, a study of poverty in Depression-era Britain. The inhabitants are nicknamed 'pie-eaters'! Wigan has had uninterrupted Labour representation since the first World War. In a 1999 parliamentary byelection the eighty-year winning streak continued. Labour dropped ten percentage points but most of this went to the minority parties, with the Tories and LibDems making no impression. Labour hold 71 of 72 seats on Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council (which also includes Leigh, Makerfield and part of Worsley). |
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