Cornwall South East Robert Hicks (Retiring) 20,564 7,358 27,044 0 2,466 Cornwall South East 30,565 5,536 22,861 0 1,026 Conservative After the 1992 election, South East Cornwall was the only Tory seat in that westernmost English county that could remotely be regarded as safe. However, this fact may have had much to do with the relative liberalism - with a small 'l' - of the MP here for over 20 years, Robert Hicks. The main challengers in all the remaining three Conservative seats in Cornwall are Liberal Democrats, members of the party that has already taken both Truro and North Cornwall. However, Hicks is retiring at the next election, and has been replaced by a more right-wing and inexperienced figure, Kensington and Chelsea councillor Warwick Lightfoot. Although the Tory majority last time of 7,704 hardly places this at the top of the national or indeed regional Lib Dem target list, the replacement of the Conservative candidate may actually make SE Cornwall a more winnable prospect than the raw figures imply.

	3,357	7.79	9.03	86
	11,468	26.62	11.17	238
	4,550	10.56	11.25	94
	7,526	17.47	14.70	119
	790	1.83	10.45	18
	2,636	6.12	2.81	217
	3,495	8.11	8.01	101
	8,498	19.72	15.25	129
	601	1.39	7.13	20
	140	0.32	10.17	3