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Loughborough
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gain
from Conservative
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Stephen Dorrell (Contesting different se
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0 ( 0.0%)
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19,736 (37.7%)
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25,448 (48.6%)
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6,190 (11.8%)
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0 ( 0.0%)
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991 ( 1.9%)
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68,945
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52,365 (76.0%)
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Stephen Dorrell (Contesting different se
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Loughborough
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3,492 ( 7.0%)
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23,412 (46.8%)
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19,920 (39.8%)
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5,635 (11.3%)
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0 ( 0.0%)
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1,081 ( 2.2%)
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Conservative
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65,156
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50,048 (76.8%)
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-9.1%
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+8.8%
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+0.6%
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+0.0%
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-0.3%
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+5.8%
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-0.9%
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Loughborough, Leicestershire: Labour held 1945-79; Conservative majority 17,648 in 1987; likely result in 1997: photo-finish. What can account for these changes?
Above all else, boundary changes. Almost the only part of the constituency that has remained constantly present since the war is the town of Loughborough itself, which is an industrial engineering centre and inclines to Labour in local elections. Up to 1979 the seat was completed by the bulk of the old Leicestershire coalfield, now in the Leics NW division. From 1983 to 1992 this was replaced by the middle-class Conservative Leicester commuting villages of the Soar valley, which did so well for the rising Conservative star Stephen Dorrell.
Now in the latest round of boundary changes the bulk of the Soar valley has been taken out again, to form part of the ultra-safe new and additional seat of Charnwood, to which Stephen Dorrell has wisely migrated. In return Loughborough gains the small and marginal town of Shepshed. The outcome of all this is that the Conservatives are starting from a notional majority in the new Loughborough of only about 3,500, well within Labour's reach in a good year.
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3,865
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10.78
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9.03
|
119
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4,391
|
12.25
|
11.17
|
110
|
|
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4,521
|
12.61
|
11.25
|
112
|
|
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6,212
|
17.33
|
14.70
|
118
|
|
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4,327
|
12.07
|
10.45
|
116
|
|
|
262
|
0.73
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2.81
|
26
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1,018
|
2.84
|
8.01
|
35
|
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5,370
|
14.98
|
15.25
|
98
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3,533
|
9.85
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7.13
|
138
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1,537
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4.29
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10.17
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42
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