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Tamworth
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gain
from Conservative
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|
Brian Jenkins (Lab)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
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|
18,312 (36.7%)
|
|
25,808 (51.8%)
|
|
4,025 ( 8.1%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,709 ( 3.4%)
|
|
|
|
67,205
|
|
49,854 (74.2%)
|
|
Brian Jenkins (Lab)
|
|
Staffordshire South East
|
|
5,405 (10.2%)
|
|
26,209 (49.3%)
|
|
20,804 (39.2%)
|
|
5,275 ( 9.9%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
825 ( 1.6%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
65,089
|
|
53,113 (81.6%)
|
|
|
-12.6%
|
|
+12.6%
|
|
-1.9%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+1.9%
|
|
+3.3%
|
|
-7.4%
|
|
|
|
|
The seat of Tamworth, though renamed, is in fact a very close successor to the South East Staffordshire seat, which gave the Conservative Government one of its many savage mid-term blows in 1996, when the by-election caused by the death of Sir David Lightbown resulted in a heavy win for Labour's Brian Jenkins.
There are minor boundary changes which slightly reduce the rural element of the seat that tops up the electorate; Tamworth itself has grown from 25,000 in 1951 to 69,000 in 1991, but it is not quite big enough yet to sustain a whole constituency - although its renaming acknowledges its greater size and greater influence.
Brian Jenkins is probably a narrow favourite to retain Tamworth in the general election.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,830
|
8.11
|
9.03
|
90
|
|
|
2,133
|
6.11
|
11.17
|
55
|
|
|
2,589
|
7.42
|
11.25
|
66
|
|
|
10,884
|
31.17
|
14.70
|
212
|
|
|
606
|
1.74
|
10.45
|
17
|
|
|
450
|
1.29
|
2.81
|
46
|
|
|
1,258
|
3.60
|
8.01
|
45
|
|
|
7,748
|
22.19
|
15.25
|
146
|
|
|
4,653
|
13.33
|
7.13
|
187
|
|
|
1,565
|
4.48
|
10.17
|
44
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