Wellingborough Peter Fry 24,667 24,854 5,279 0 1,489 Wellingborough 32,302 20,486 7,714 0 0 Conservative An old industrial area in Northamptonshire that has enjoyed renewed prosperity in recent decades, Wellingborough is now solidly Tory. Yet it was held by Labour for all but five years between 1945 and 1969 - solidly throughout the Tory 1950s. In 1969, Peter Fry won it for the Conservatives at a by-election and Labour has never won it back. Since then, Wellingborough's long-term swing to the right has continued and, in spite of the loss of 25,000 mainly rural Tory voters to the division in 1983, Labour is unlikely to ever regain the seat - this time it would take a swing of 10 per cent, which is unprecedented at a general election.

	1,931	4.43	9.03	49
	3,096	7.10	11.17	64
	7,147	16.39	11.25	146
	7,674	17.60	14.70	120
	2,508	5.75	10.45	55
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	3,641	8.35	8.01	104
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