Election 97

Saffron Walden

Current MP Alan Haselhurst
Conservative 97 25,871
Labour 97 12,275
LibDem 97 15,298
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 1,298
Elected party
Saffron Walden

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Saffron Walden
Conservative 92 33,378
Labour 92 8,468
LibDem 92 16,885
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 246
Elected party Conservative

In area the largest seat in Essex, and with some of the most pleasant scenery, this is an intensely rural constituency. As such, it is predictably Tory, but tends to prefer a gentler strain of Conservativism than Mrs Thatcher's - for long it was the seat of welfare state Conservative R A Butler. Saffron Walden's latest - and very secure - incumbent, Sir Alan Haselhurst, follows the same civilised tradition.


Super Profiles

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5,979 14.85 11.17 133
6,189 15.37 11.25 137
7,200 17.88 14.70 122
571 1.42 10.45 14
4,538 11.27 2.81 400
2,934 7.29 8.01 91
1,863 4.63 15.25 30
243 0.60 7.13 8
230 0.57 10.17 6