|
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|
Saffron Walden
|
|
gain
from Conservative
|
|
Alan Haselhurst
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
25,871 (45.3%)
|
|
12,275 (21.5%)
|
|
15,298 (26.8%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
3,606 ( 6.3%)
|
|
|
|
74,097
|
|
57,050 (77.0%)
|
|
Alan Haselhurst
|
|
Saffron Walden
|
|
16,493 (28.0%)
|
|
33,378 (56.6%)
|
|
8,468 (14.4%)
|
|
16,885 (28.6%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
246 ( 0.4%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
70,475
|
|
58,977 (83.7%)
|
|
|
-11.2%
|
|
+7.2%
|
|
-1.8%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+5.9%
|
|
+5.1%
|
|
-6.7%
|
|
|
|
In area the largest seat in Essex, and with some of the most pleasant scenery, this is an intensely rural constituency. As such, it is predictably Tory, but tends to prefer a gentler strain of Conservativism than Mrs Thatcher's - for long it was the seat of welfare state Conservative R A Butler. Saffron Walden's latest - and very secure - incumbent, Sir Alan Haselhurst, follows the same civilised tradition.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,502
|
23.59
|
9.03
|
261
|
|
|
5,979
|
14.85
|
11.17
|
133
|
|
|
6,189
|
15.37
|
11.25
|
137
|
|
|
7,200
|
17.88
|
14.70
|
122
|
|
|
571
|
1.42
|
10.45
|
14
|
|
|
4,538
|
11.27
|
2.81
|
400
|
|
|
2,934
|
7.29
|
8.01
|
91
|
|
|
1,863
|
4.63
|
15.25
|
30
|
|
|
243
|
0.60
|
7.13
|
8
|
|
|
230
|
0.57
|
10.17
|
6
|
|
|
