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Cleethorpes
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gain
from Conservative
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Michael Brown
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|
0 ( 0.0%)
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|
16,882 (33.4%)
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|
26,058 (51.6%)
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|
5,746 (11.4%)
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|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,787 ( 3.5%)
|
|
|
|
68,763
|
|
50,473 (73.4%)
|
|
Michael Brown
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|
Brigg and Cleethorpes
|
|
6,413 (12.0%)
|
|
25,582 (48.0%)
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|
19,169 (35.9%)
|
|
7,833 (14.7%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
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751 ( 1.4%)
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|
|
Conservative
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|
68,355
|
|
53,335 (78.0%)
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|
|
-14.5%
|
|
+15.7%
|
|
-3.3%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+2.1%
|
|
+0.6%
|
|
-4.6%
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|
|
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|
This might seem an unlikely marginal. It is based on the seaside resort of Cleethorpes, which also acts as a favoured residential area for neighbouring Grimsby, and also includes some very affluent Tory villages on the Lincolnshire Wolds. There is an industrial presence too, centred on the deep sea port of Immingham, but overall it does not look - or sound - like a Labour prospect.
Yet Labour did better in this area than almost anywhere else in England in 1992. They advanced their share of the vote by over 12 per cent as the Liberal Democrat share was halved, this being when the seat was known as Brigg and Cleethorpes. Labour surged forward into second place, and as the name implies, the small and very Conservative market town of Brigg has now been removed, to be paired with Goole. This effectively reduces Michael Brown's majority further, from 9,000 to nearer 6,000. Cleethorpes is an outside bet for Labour, but watch out for another spectacular advance here if there should be a Labour landslide.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,775
|
10.09
|
9.03
|
112
|
|
|
5,952
|
15.91
|
11.17
|
142
|
|
|
6,540
|
17.49
|
11.25
|
155
|
|
|
4,680
|
12.51
|
14.70
|
85
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
10.45
|
0
|
|
|
718
|
1.92
|
2.81
|
68
|
|
|
2,225
|
5.95
|
8.01
|
74
|
|
|
6,482
|
17.33
|
15.25
|
114
|
|
|
3,888
|
10.40
|
7.13
|
146
|
|
|
3,118
|
8.34
|
10.17
|
82
|
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