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Stratford-on-Avon
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gain
from Conservative
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|
Alan Howarth
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|
0 ( 0.0%)
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|
29,967 (48.3%)
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|
12,754 (20.5%)
|
|
15,861 (25.5%)
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|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
3,517 ( 5.7%)
|
|
|
|
81,434
|
|
62,099 (76.3%)
|
|
Alan Howarth
|
|
Stratford-on-Avon
|
|
21,005 (33.2%)
|
|
37,252 (58.8%)
|
|
8,512 (13.4%)
|
|
16,247 (25.6%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,337 ( 2.1%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
77,443
|
|
63,348 (81.8%)
|
|
|
-10.5%
|
|
+7.1%
|
|
-0.1%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+3.6%
|
|
+5.2%
|
|
-5.5%
|
|
|
|
|
It might be thought that Stratford with its world-renowned Shakespearean associations would be as urbane as they come. Urbanity apart, it certainly is not urban. This is the only truly rural seat in Warwickshire - deep and mysterious countryside, where it is said that the last witch-lynching in Britain took place in the 1940s. It is solidly Conservative country, where rural Tory voters are bolstered by the homes of long-distance commuters to Birmingham. The incumbent, Alan Howarth, is, however, an unusual Tory who defected to Labour in 1995, dissatisfied with the current government's residual Thatcherism. His successor can expect to hold this rock-solid Tory seat in 1997.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,002
|
19.90
|
9.03
|
220
|
|
|
7,616
|
16.84
|
11.17
|
151
|
|
|
5,398
|
11.93
|
11.25
|
106
|
|
|
4,268
|
9.44
|
14.70
|
64
|
|
|
756
|
1.67
|
10.45
|
16
|
|
|
3,772
|
8.34
|
2.81
|
296
|
|
|
5,069
|
11.21
|
8.01
|
140
|
|
|
8,259
|
18.26
|
15.25
|
120
|
|
|
242
|
0.54
|
7.13
|
8
|
|
|
317
|
0.70
|
10.17
|
7
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