|
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|
Worthing West
|
|
gain
from Conservative
|
|
Sir Terence Higgins (Retiring)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
23,733 (46.1%)
|
|
8,347 (16.2%)
|
|
16,020 (31.1%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
3,342 ( 6.5%)
|
|
|
|
71,329
|
|
51,442 (72.1%)
|
|
Sir Terence Higgins (Retiring)
|
|
Worthing
|
|
19,279 (34.2%)
|
|
34,762 (61.7%)
|
|
4,883 ( 8.7%)
|
|
15,483 (27.5%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,175 ( 2.1%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
71,764
|
|
56,303 (78.5%)
|
|
|
-15.6%
|
|
+7.6%
|
|
+3.6%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+4.4%
|
|
-0.6%
|
|
-6.3%
|
|
|
|
|
The seaside town of Worthing in West Sussex is a centre of 'grey power' - 30 per cent of all residents and an even higher percentage of voters are pensioners. The recent boundary changes, which have sectioned Worthing into two seats, have intensified this, and Worthing West may well be the seat with the highest quota of pensioners anywhere. Any industry, however light, has gone to Worthing East, and more elderly communities have been transferred in from the old Shoreham seat. The effect is predictable - Worthing West is now an overwhelmingly Tory seat, and Sir Terence Higgins, who has represented Worthing since 1964, need not fear much of a contest from the second-placed Liberal Democrats.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,361
|
3.12
|
9.03
|
35
|
|
|
9,435
|
21.64
|
11.17
|
194
|
|
|
3,073
|
7.05
|
11.25
|
63
|
|
|
3,305
|
7.58
|
14.70
|
52
|
|
|
1,041
|
2.39
|
10.45
|
23
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
2.81
|
0
|
|
|
19,893
|
45.62
|
8.01
|
569
|
|
|
4,493
|
10.30
|
15.25
|
68
|
|
|
708
|
1.62
|
7.13
|
23
|
|
|
115
|
0.26
|
10.17
|
3
|
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|
