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Islington South and Finsbury
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gain
from Labour
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|
Chris Smith
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
4,587 (13.0%)
|
|
22,079 (62.5%)
|
|
7,516 (21.3%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,134 ( 3.2%)
|
|
|
|
55,468
|
|
35,316 (63.7%)
|
|
Chris Smith
|
|
Islington South and Finsbury
|
|
10,551 (26.5%)
|
|
9,818 (24.7%)
|
|
20,369 (51.2%)
|
|
9,232 (23.2%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
369 ( 0.9%)
|
|
|
Labour
|
|
54,443
|
|
39,788 (73.1%)
|
|
|
-11.7%
|
|
+11.3%
|
|
-1.9%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+2.3%
|
|
+1.9%
|
|
-9.4%
|
|
|
|
|
Islington South and Finsbury is represented by Britain's most famous self-declared gay MP and member of Labour's shadow cabinet, Chris Smith. During the 1980s his majorities were severely restricted due to significant interventions by the SDP and the Alliance grouping, and there was speculation that the reputed gentrification of this part of London, coupled with anti-gay prejudice, would mean that Labour could no longer consider this a safe seat. Smith disproved this in 1992 with one of the largest pro-Labour swings in the country. The constituency is very mixed with local authority housing estates interspersed with fashionable and chic residential streets. However, the overall population profile is weighted to the bottom of the social scale which favours Labour, and the Conservatives cannot even be sure of a professional and managerial vote which contains a large sprinkling of 'the chattering classes', that part of the liberal intelligentsia with which Islington has become synonymous.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
9.03
|
0
|
|
|
392
|
1.11
|
11.17
|
10
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
11.25
|
0
|
|
|
207
|
0.59
|
14.70
|
4
|
|
|
8,731
|
24.77
|
10.45
|
237
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
2.81
|
0
|
|
|
1,432
|
4.06
|
8.01
|
51
|
|
|
205
|
0.58
|
15.25
|
4
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
7.13
|
0
|
|
|
22,718
|
64.45
|
10.17
|
634
|
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