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Norfolk South West
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gain
from Conservative
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Gillian Shephard
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0 ( 0.0%)
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24,694 (42.0%)
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22,230 (37.8%)
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|
8,178 (13.9%)
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0 ( 0.0%)
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3,694 ( 6.3%)
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|
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80,236
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58,796 (73.3%)
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|
Gillian Shephard
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Norfolk South West
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17,250 (27.7%)
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34,098 (54.7%)
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|
16,848 (27.0%)
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11,343 (18.2%)
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0 ( 0.0%)
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0 ( 0.0%)
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|
Conservative
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78,711
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62,289 (79.1%)
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-12.7%
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|
+10.8%
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|
-4.3%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+6.3%
|
|
+1.9%
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|
-5.9%
|
|
|
|
|
This used to be the most contrary seat in the UK. Seven times between 1945 and 1966, the majority of the winning candidate in South West Norfolk was less than 1,000, and four times the seat swung against the national trend. However, after winning the seat by a slender 123 votes in 1964, the Tories have held it ever since, with steadily increasing majorities - showing the death of rural radicalism in Norfolk (the seat's boundaries did not change between 1950 and 1983). Boundary changes in 1983 have boosted the Conservative majority well beyond the range of the other parties, and Education and Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard is sitting on a super-safe stonghold.
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|
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2,191
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4.61
|
9.03
|
51
|
|
|
15,429
|
32.44
|
11.17
|
290
|
|
|
2,628
|
5.52
|
11.25
|
49
|
|
|
4,775
|
10.04
|
14.70
|
68
|
|
|
848
|
1.78
|
10.45
|
17
|
|
|
2,604
|
5.47
|
2.81
|
195
|
|
|
3,696
|
7.77
|
8.01
|
97
|
|
|
10,661
|
22.41
|
15.25
|
147
|
|
|
3,584
|
7.53
|
7.13
|
106
|
|
|
823
|
1.73
|
10.17
|
17
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