Election 97

Pendle


Result 97 gain
from Labour
Current MP 97 Gordon Prentice
Majority 0 ( 0.0%)
Conservative 97 14,235 (30.3%)
Labour 97 25,059 (53.3%)
LibDem 97 5,460 (11.6%)
Nationalist 97 0 ( 0.0%)
Other 97 2,281 ( 4.8%)
Elected party 97
Electorate 97 63,049
Turnout 97 47,035 (74.6%)



1992 MP Gordon Prentice
Old constituency name Pendle
Majority 92 2,113 ( 4.0%)
Conservative 92 21,384 (40.3%)
Labour 92 23,497 (44.2%)
LibDem 92 7,976 (15.0%)
Nationalist 92 0 ( 0.0%)
Other 92 263 ( 0.5%)
Elected party 92 Labour
Electorate 92 64,590
Turnout 92 53,120 (82.2%)
Pendle



Tory change -10.0%
Labour change +9.0%
Lib Dem change -3.4%
Nationalist change +0.0%
Other change +4.4%
Electorate change -2.4%
Turnout Change -7.6%
Robert Waller wrote

Pendle, high in the northern industrial Pennines, and straddling the former border between Yorkshire and Lancashire (even if the whole area is now nominally under the red Lancastrian rose), has long been marginal. Although essentially industrial, high levels of working-class owner occupation have always led to an independently minded electorate. Labour are the incumbents with a small majority and will expect to hold, but the Conservatives probably view it as a target Labour seat.


Super Profiles

1,687 4.44 9.03 49
1,552 4.08 11.17 37
3,411 8.97 11.25 80
4,738 12.46 14.70 85
6,922 18.21 10.45 174
356 0.94 2.81 33
1,031 2.71 8.01 34
5,909 15.54 15.25 102
11,072 29.13 7.13 409
1,335 3.51 10.17 35