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Southwark North and Bermondsey
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Simon Hughes
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2,835
|
|
16,444
|
|
19,831
|
|
0
|
|
1,140
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|
|
|
|
|
|
Southwark and Bermondsey
|
|
5,170
|
|
14,889
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|
22,158
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|
0
|
|
909
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|
|
LibDem
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|
One of the poorest of London's inner-city seats, this constituency has had an extraordinary electoral history. It includes such run-down neighbourhoods as the Elephant and Castle and the extinct docklands of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, yet this is not a Labour seat, but a Lib Dem stronghold that was retained by Simon Hughes in 1992 with an increased majority of 10,000 - their largest anywhere. The Liberals took the seat in a controversial 1983 by-election caused by the resignation of veteran Labour right-winger Bob Mellish. Official Labour candidate Peter Tatchell - now of the gay activist group Outrage - was portrayed as a gay Australian draft-dodger by the right-wing press, and he was opposed by John O'Grady, a local Labour right-winger who stood as Independent Labour. Faced with all this, the traditional working-class electorate flocked to the Lib Dems. Simon Hughes has made the seat a personal fiefdom, and he faces no real threat in 1997.
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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0
|
0.00
|
9.03
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0
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
11.17
|
0
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
11.25
|
0
|
|
|
80
|
0.17
|
14.70
|
1
|
|
|
7,760
|
16.12
|
10.45
|
154
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
2.81
|
0
|
|
|
3,343
|
6.94
|
8.01
|
87
|
|
|
529
|
1.10
|
15.25
|
7
|
|
|
1,656
|
3.44
|
7.13
|
48
|
|
|
34,272
|
71.19
|
10.17
|
700
|
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