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Bedfordshire South West
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|
gain
from Conservative
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|
Sir David Madel
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
21,534 (40.7%)
|
|
21,402 (40.5%)
|
|
7,559 (14.3%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
2,369 ( 4.5%)
|
|
|
|
69,781
|
|
52,864 (75.8%)
|
|
Sir David Madel
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|
Bedfordshire South West
|
|
17,340 (30.4%)
|
|
32,000 (56.2%)
|
|
14,660 (25.7%)
|
|
9,475 (16.6%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
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|
818 ( 1.4%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
69,727
|
|
56,953 (81.7%)
|
|
|
-15.5%
|
|
+14.7%
|
|
-2.3%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+3.0%
|
|
+0.1%
|
|
-5.9%
|
|
|
|
|
Eighty-five per cent of this seat came from the old South Bedfordshire seat which Labour held from 1966-70. Yet now it looks like another south-eastern identikit Tory constituency. Why? Boundary changes, which moved strongly Labour wards to Luton, provide part of the answer. More important, however, was the historic shift in the political preferences of the skilled manual class - C2s - particularly in the south-east. This voters of affluent working-class and three-quarter owner-occupied seat felt that Thatcherism really delivered the goods - and, judging from 1992, it seems they haven't changed their minds. They will surely return Tory MP Sir David Madel this time.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,230
|
5.72
|
9.03
|
63
|
|
|
2,712
|
6.96
|
11.17
|
62
|
|
|
4,511
|
11.58
|
11.25
|
103
|
|
|
15,097
|
38.75
|
14.70
|
264
|
|
|
2,509
|
6.44
|
10.45
|
62
|
|
|
589
|
1.51
|
2.81
|
54
|
|
|
2,987
|
7.67
|
8.01
|
96
|
|
|
4,660
|
11.96
|
15.25
|
78
|
|
|
2,423
|
6.22
|
7.13
|
87
|
|
|
1,017
|
2.61
|
10.17
|
26
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