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Bedfordshire North East
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gain
from Conservative
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Sir Nicholas Lyell
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0 ( 0.0%)
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22,311 (44.3%)
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16,428 (32.6%)
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7,179 (14.2%)
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0 ( 0.0%)
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4,470 ( 8.9%)
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|
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64,743
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50,388 (77.8%)
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Sir Nicholas Lyell
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Bedfordshire Mid
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20,603 (39.3%)
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31,081 (59.3%)
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|
10,478 (20.0%)
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9,706 (18.5%)
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0 ( 0.0%)
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1,127 ( 2.2%)
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Conservative
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62,068
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52,392 (84.4%)
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-15.0%
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+12.6%
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-4.3%
|
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+0.0%
|
|
+6.7%
|
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+4.3%
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-6.6%
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|
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This new seat will be one of the safest Conservative constituencies in Britain. Yet Labour will be leaping up and down with glee at its creation. This paradox arises because the huge Tory majority in Bedfordshire North East has to have come from somewhere. In fact the creation of the seat has siphoned off Tory voters from the town of Bedford, slimmed down to its urban core, and from marginal Luton North. Both of these neighbouring seats are now highly vulnerable to Labour. The lucky Conservative candidate who stands in Bedfordshire North East can start celebrating now, but some of his neighbours have cause to be very afraid.
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6,779
|
18.87
|
9.03
|
209
|
|
|
4,436
|
12.35
|
11.17
|
111
|
|
|
5,365
|
14.93
|
11.25
|
133
|
|
|
9,292
|
25.87
|
14.70
|
176
|
|
|
1,725
|
4.80
|
10.45
|
46
|
|
|
2,292
|
6.38
|
2.81
|
227
|
|
|
631
|
1.76
|
8.01
|
22
|
|
|
4,512
|
12.56
|
15.25
|
82
|
|
|
297
|
0.83
|
7.13
|
12
|
|
|
317
|
0.88
|
10.17
|
9
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