Election 97

Enfield Southgate

Current MP Michael Portillo
Conservative 97 19,137
Labour 97 20,570
LibDem 97 4,966
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 518
Elected party
Enfield Southgate

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Enfield Southgate
Conservative 92 28,390
Labour 92 12,845
LibDem 92 7,072
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 695
Elected party Conservative

Prominent Conservative front-bencher, Michael Portillo, is the comfortable incumbent in this middle-class suburban constituency. The south of the constituency does contain areas of immigrant settlement where Labour has some success, but overall Enfield Southgate is the safest Tory seat in the north London borough, and should return Portillo again in 1997.


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