Blackpool South Nicholas Hawkins (Not reselected) 17,666 29,282 4,392 0 0 Blackpool South 25,957 25,563 7,148 0 233 Conservative Labour must be held as favourites to win their first ever parliamentary contest in the bustling Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool at the next General Election. Blackpool has been moving to the left for some years now, and Labour have a comfortable majority on the town council. However, despite Blackpool's reputation as a Mecca for the northern working classes to go on holidays and day trips, they have never held either of the two constituencies. Blackpool North has now been placed with Fleetwood in a fairly safe Conservative seat, but South, which now includes the town centre and 15 of the borough's 22 wards, is now an even better bet for a Labour gain than it was in 1992, when the Tories held on by just 1,667 votes. Certainly the sitting Conservative MP thinks so; he is Nick Hawkins, who prefers to contest a safe seat in Surrey next time. The likely winner, a slightly unusual figure here among the seaside landladies, is a Labour intellectual, Gordon Marsden, the editor of History Today magazine.

	132	0.30	9.03	3
	1,594	3.68	11.17	33
	5,406	12.49	11.25	111
	8,686	20.06	14.70	136
	484	1.12	10.45	11
	264	0.61	2.81	22
	10,516	24.29	8.01	303
	11,599	26.79	15.25	176
	2,026	4.68	7.13	66
	2,457	5.67	10.17	56