Election 97

Pendle

Current MP Gordon Prentice
Conservative 97 14,235
Labour 97 25,059
LibDem 97 5,460
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 0
Elected party
Pendle

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Pendle
Conservative 92 21,384
Labour 92 23,497
LibDem 92 7,976
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 263
Elected party Labour

Pendle, high in the northern industrial Pennines, and straddling the former border between Yorkshire and Lancashire (even if the whole area is now nominally under the red Lancastrian rose), has long been marginal. Although essentially industrial, high levels of working-class owner occupation have always led to an independently minded electorate. Labour are the incumbents with a small majority and will expect to hold, but the Conservatives probably view it as a target Labour seat.


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