Northampton North Tony Marlow 17,247 27,247 6,579 0 625 Northampton North 25,972 21,905 8,630 0 232 Conservative The East Midlands town of Northampton was given two seats rather than one in the boundary changes that came into force in 1974, because its population had grown on its designation as a New or expanded Town in 1968. North has always been the more marginal half of the town, and the better for Labour. They held it in the two 1974 elections, until the elected member Maureen Colquhoun got into trouble with her local party and for her professed lesbianism. Since 1979, North has been held by a very different MP, the vivid Tory right-winger Tony Marlow, the father of nine children by two women, and an ardent anti-European Marketeer. If Labour is going to re-establish its footing in Northampton, it will have to win here. North includes much of the New Town development, hypermodern neighbourhoods such as Lumbertubs, Thorplands and Links and the older council estate of Dallington - King's Heath. There is little in the way of boundary changes for the next election, so Labour can have a clear run at Tony Marlow's majority of 3,908, needing a 4 per cent swing to expel him from the Commons.

	1,148	2.85	9.03	32
	3,974	9.87	11.17	88
	4,719	11.72	11.25	104
	9,457	23.49	14.70	160
	2,155	5.35	10.45	51
	0	0.00	2.81	0
	4,208	10.45	8.01	130
	5,662	14.06	15.25	92
	5,079	12.61	7.13	177
	3,614	8.98	10.17	88