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Sutton Coldfield
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|
gain
from Conservative
|
|
Sir Norman Fowler
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
27,373 (52.2%)
|
|
12,488 (23.8%)
|
|
10,139 (19.3%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
2,401 ( 4.6%)
|
|
|
|
71,864
|
|
52,401 (72.9%)
|
|
Sir Norman Fowler
|
|
Sutton Coldfield
|
|
26,036 (45.9%)
|
|
37,001 (65.2%)
|
|
8,490 (15.0%)
|
|
10,965 (19.3%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
324 ( 0.6%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
72,487
|
|
56,780 (78.3%)
|
|
|
-12.9%
|
|
+8.9%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+4.0%
|
|
-0.9%
|
|
-5.4%
|
|
|
|
|
Held by former Conservative Party chairman Sir Norman Fowler, this ultra-middle-class suburb of Birmingham probably ranks only just behind Kensington and Chelsea in the current list of safe Tory seats. Three-quarters of Sutton Coldfield's employees are non-manual, 97 per cent are white and there are virtually no council estates. This has in the past been the ultimate safe seat. Fowler likes to quote a swing in a past by-election which, if projected on to the country as a whole, would have left him the only Conservative in the Commons, showing how nonsensical such calculations can be. We cannot expect such a result this time - even in the worst case, Fowler should have more than a few colleagues to hob-nob with in the division lobbies.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,739
|
26.21
|
9.03
|
290
|
|
|
8,585
|
23.10
|
11.17
|
207
|
|
|
4,285
|
11.53
|
11.25
|
103
|
|
|
5,943
|
15.99
|
14.70
|
109
|
|
|
792
|
2.13
|
10.45
|
20
|
|
|
180
|
0.48
|
2.81
|
17
|
|
|
2,664
|
7.17
|
8.01
|
89
|
|
|
3,354
|
9.02
|
15.25
|
59
|
|
|
327
|
0.88
|
7.13
|
12
|
|
|
1,215
|
3.27
|
10.17
|
32
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