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|
Darlington
|
|
gain
from Labour
|
|
Alan Milburn
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
13,633 (28.3%)
|
|
29,658 (61.6%)
|
|
3,483 ( 7.2%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,399 ( 2.9%)
|
|
|
|
65,140
|
|
48,173 (74.0%)
|
|
Alan Milburn
|
|
Darlington
|
|
2,798 ( 5.1%)
|
|
23,758 (43.0%)
|
|
26,556 (48.1%)
|
|
4,586 ( 8.3%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
355 ( 0.6%)
|
|
|
Labour
|
|
66,879
|
|
55,255 (82.6%)
|
|
|
-14.7%
|
|
+13.5%
|
|
-1.1%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+2.3%
|
|
-2.6%
|
|
-8.7%
|
|
|
|
|
Darlington is a self-contained and comfortable town in the south of County Durham. A former railway town with a mixed industrial base and the air of a moderately affluent market town, Darlington is more redolent of market towns to the south in North Yorkshire than the rest of County Durham which, with its coalmining heritage, is more traditionally industrial and therefore Labour inclined. Darlington has a more mixed profile and has been something of a Labour/Conservative marginal at recent elections. The seat was won by Labour's Alan Milburn in 1992, and they will expect to hold on the basis of current predictions for 1997.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,700
|
4.37
|
9.03
|
48
|
|
|
4,330
|
11.12
|
11.17
|
100
|
|
|
3,728
|
9.57
|
11.25
|
85
|
|
|
7,385
|
18.96
|
14.70
|
129
|
|
|
18
|
0.05
|
10.45
|
0
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
2.81
|
0
|
|
|
5,728
|
14.71
|
8.01
|
184
|
|
|
7,060
|
18.13
|
15.25
|
119
|
|
|
4,883
|
12.54
|
7.13
|
176
|
|
|
3,957
|
10.16
|
10.17
|
100
|
|
|
