Wigan Roger Stott 7,400 30,043 4,390 0 536 Wigan 12,538 30,028 5,787 0 1,173 Labour Wigan, in Southern Lancashire, has been stereotyped as a pit of working-class and industrial poverty since the 1930s when George Orwell immortalised it in The Road to Wigan Pier. But much has changed since then, and a historic dependence on coal mining has been replaced by a variety of new industries. Wigan may have blossomed, but it remembers old allegiances and remains a Labour stronghold - a conservative outlook, but never, ever, a Conservative one. The only change here is that Labour's Roger Stott may see his large five-figure majority (over the Tories - the Lib Dems come a poor third) ever so slightly reduced by boundary changes.

	1,981	5.39	9.03	60
	1,854	5.04	11.17	45
	5,313	14.45	11.25	128
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