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|
Batley and Spen
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gain
from Conservative
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|
Elizabeth Peacock (a??)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
17,072 (36.4%)
|
|
23,213 (49.4%)
|
|
4,133 ( 8.8%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
2,547 ( 5.4%)
|
|
|
|
64,209
|
|
46,965 (73.1%)
|
|
Elizabeth Peacock (a??)
|
|
Batley and Spen
|
|
845 ( 1.7%)
|
|
22,676 (44.7%)
|
|
21,831 (43.0%)
|
|
5,757 (11.3%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
520 ( 1.0%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
64,754
|
|
50,784 (78.4%)
|
|
|
-8.3%
|
|
+6.4%
|
|
-2.5%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+4.4%
|
|
-0.8%
|
|
-5.3%
|
|
|
|
|
Elizabeth Peacock managed to hold on to Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire for the Tories with no swing at all against her in 1992 - a notable achievement for an active local MP. However, she will indeed be fortunate to repeat this performance in 1997.
The largest town in the constituency, Batley, has always been inclined to Labour and was, before 1983, part of the safe Labour Batley and Morley division. The smaller towns and communities in the Spen Valley are solidly white and possessed of conservative cultural values, but the numbers residing in that section have been reduced by over 12,000 by the removal of the town of Heckmondwike, now in the Dewsbury seat. This effectively halves Mrs Peacock's majority, which was only 1,400 last time, and unless she produces another aberrantly good result for the Conservatives, Labour will now start as favourites to win Batley and Spen at the forthcoming general election.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
602
|
1.66
|
9.03
|
18
|
|
|
1,706
|
4.71
|
11.17
|
42
|
|
|
5,914
|
16.32
|
11.25
|
145
|
|
|
7,135
|
19.69
|
14.70
|
134
|
|
|
5,872
|
16.20
|
10.45
|
155
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
2.81
|
0
|
|
|
2,059
|
5.68
|
8.01
|
71
|
|
|
5,736
|
15.83
|
15.25
|
104
|
|
|
4,545
|
12.54
|
7.13
|
176
|
|
|
2,668
|
7.36
|
10.17
|
72
|
|
|
