Election 97

Hartlepool


Result 97 gain
from Labour
Current MP 97 Peter Mandelson
Majority 0 ( 0.0%)
Conservative 97 9,489 (21.3%)
Labour 97 26,997 (60.7%)
LibDem 97 6,248 (14.1%)
Nationalist 97 0 ( 0.0%)
Other 97 1,718 ( 3.9%)
Elected party 97
Electorate 97 67,712
Turnout 97 44,452 (65.6%)



1992 MP Peter Mandelson
Old constituency name Hartlepool
Majority 92 8,782 (17.0%)
Conservative 92 18,034 (34.9%)
Labour 92 26,816 (51.9%)
LibDem 92 6,860 (13.3%)
Nationalist 92 0 ( 0.0%)
Other 92 0 ( 0.0%)
Elected party 92 Labour
Electorate 92 68,761
Turnout 92 51,710 (75.2%)
Hartlepool



Tory change -13.5%
Labour change +8.9%
Lib Dem change +0.8%
Nationalist change +0.0%
Other change +3.9%
Electorate change -1.5%
Turnout Change -9.6%
Robert Waller wrote

The controversial Labour MP, Peter Mandelson, won the run-down industrial seat of Hartlepool, on England's north-east coast, in 1992, having served as an apparatchik at Labour headquarters where he was credited as being the driving force behind many of the party's reforming measures. A frighteningly bright intellectual may seem out of place in such a down-to-earth constituency, but this curious marriage now provides a safe Commons seat for one of Labour's most driven front-benchers.


Super Profiles

1,362 3.50 9.03 39
918 2.36 11.17 21
5,939 15.25 11.25 136
5,211 13.38 14.70 91
693 1.78 10.45 17
28 0.07 2.81 3
1,894 4.86 8.01 61
7,911 20.31 15.25 133
6,185 15.88 7.13 223
8,781 22.54 10.17 222