Election 97

Hartlepool

Current MP Peter Mandelson
Conservative 97 9,489
Labour 97 26,997
LibDem 97 6,248
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 0
Elected party
Hartlepool

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Hartlepool
Conservative 92 18,034
Labour 92 26,816
LibDem 92 6,860
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 0
Elected party Labour

The controversial Labour MP, Peter Mandelson, won the run-down industrial seat of Hartlepool, on England's north-east coast, in 1992, having served as an apparatchik at Labour headquarters where he was credited as being the driving force behind many of the party's reforming measures. A frighteningly bright intellectual may seem out of place in such a down-to-earth constituency, but this curious marriage now provides a safe Commons seat for one of Labour's most driven front-benchers.


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