Election 97

Workington

Current MP Dale Campbell-Savours
Conservative 97 12,061
Labour 97 31,717
LibDem 97 3,967
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 217
Elected party
Workington

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Workington
Conservative 92 19,626
Labour 92 29,296
LibDem 92 4,028
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 1,018
Elected party Labour

This Cumbrian constituency is one of the longest running Labour safe seats - with the single exception of a shock by-election in 1976, when the seat was lost to Tory Richard Page. It was regained by Labour's Dale Campbell-Savours in 1979, however, and he has held it ever since. Labour's safety lies in depressed working-class Workington itself with its council estates and grimy steelworks. The scenic, Tory-voting rural parts of the constituency, including parts of the Lake District, are easily outgunned, even with recent boundary changes that add more rural voters. Campbell-Savours should maintain a comfortable lead.


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