Hyndburn Greg Pope 15,383 26,831 4,141 0 290 Hyndburn 23,995 26,026 5,314 0 219 Labour The Hyndburn constituency is one of Lancashire's classic Labour - Conservative marginals, and it is one of the four seats in the county that Labour gained from the Tories at the 1992 general election. It has a history of very close and sometimes surprising results. In its first contest in 1983 (essentially it is very similar to the former Accrington seat) the Conservative Kenneth Hargreaves won by just 21 votes. Against the national swing, he increased his majority to over 2,000 in 1987, relying on the advantages of incumbency, then lost to Labour's Greg Pope by a similar amount in 1992. The impact of the unpopular poll tax will not have helped in the densely packed but neat terraces of small owner occupied houses in the east Lancashire ex-mill communities around Accrington - places like Oswaldtwistle and Church and Rishton. Next time this issue will not be salient, and although Labour should win again, Hyndburn has shown before that its result cannot be taken for granted.

	214	0.54	9.03	6
	1,506	3.78	11.17	34
	4,004	10.05	11.25	89
	6,156	15.45	14.70	105
	4,921	12.35	10.45	118
	0	0.00	2.81	0
	2,936	7.37	8.01	92
	6,952	17.45	15.25	114
	11,793	29.59	7.13	415
	1,177	2.95	10.17	29