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Kensington and Chelsea
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|
gain
from Conservative
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|
Sir Nicholas Scott
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
19,887 (53.6%)
|
|
10,368 (28.0%)
|
|
5,668 (15.3%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,165 ( 3.1%)
|
|
|
|
67,786
|
|
37,088 (54.7%)
|
|
Sir Nicholas Scott
|
|
Chelsea
|
|
21,899 (51.5%)
|
|
28,979 (68.2%)
|
|
7,080 (16.7%)
|
|
5,590 (13.2%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
855 ( 2.0%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
64,046
|
|
42,504 (66.4%)
|
|
|
-14.6%
|
|
+11.3%
|
|
+2.1%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+1.1%
|
|
+5.8%
|
|
-11.7%
|
|
|
|
|
It is a reasonable contention that if there were just one seat in the whole of Britain to survive a general election landslide, or one which would be least likely to be lost in a by-election, it would be the newly drawn seat of Kensington and Chelsea in the most affluent part of west London. This amalgamation of the undersized Chelsea and South Kensington is, quite simply, the safest Conservative seat in the country.
No wonder, then, that there was so much publicity in early 1997 when the local Conservative party voted to de-select the current Chelsea MP, Sir Nicholas Scott, after a series of drink-related incidents. From a large and strong field of candidates, the activists picked a surprise winner: Alan Clark, the former member for Plymouth Sutton, who left the House of Commons voluntarily in 1992, and is now certain to return. As he turns 69 in April 1997, he will be the oldest entrant - or returnee - to the House in decades.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,510
|
11.02
|
9.03
|
122
|
|
|
132
|
0.26
|
11.17
|
2
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
11.25
|
0
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
14.70
|
0
|
|
|
36,593
|
73.20
|
10.45
|
701
|
|
|
196
|
0.39
|
2.81
|
14
|
|
|
77
|
0.15
|
8.01
|
2
|
|
|
292
|
0.58
|
15.25
|
4
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
7.13
|
0
|
|
|
3,245
|
6.49
|
10.17
|
64
|
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