|
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|
Truro and St Austell
|
|
gain
from LibDem
|
|
Matthew Taylor
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
15,001 (26.4%)
|
|
8,697 (15.3%)
|
|
27,502 (48.5%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
5,547 ( 9.8%)
|
|
|
|
76,824
|
|
56,747 (73.9%)
|
|
Matthew Taylor
|
|
Truro
|
|
7,570 (12.2%)
|
|
23,660 (38.3%)
|
|
6,078 ( 9.8%)
|
|
31,230 (50.5%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
885 ( 1.4%)
|
|
|
LibDem
|
|
75,799
|
|
61,853 (81.6%)
|
|
|
-11.8%
|
|
+5.5%
|
|
-2.0%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+8.3%
|
|
+1.4%
|
|
-7.7%
|
|
|
|
|
Central Cornwall's old china clay mining belt contains both the county town, Truro, and its largest population centre, St Austell. This is classic South Western Liberal Democrat country, and has been since 1979, when the Truro division was won by David Penhaligon from a rather inactive Tory MP. Penhaligon made the seat a personal fiefdom, and his untimely death in a car crash in 1986 gleaned a huge sympathy vote for Lib Dem candidate Matthew Taylor. Taylor, the youngest member of the house, saw his lead dip in the 1987 by-election, but has built it back up, and he now seems comfortably at home here.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,611
|
3.72
|
9.03
|
41
|
|
|
13,791
|
31.87
|
11.17
|
285
|
|
|
3,319
|
7.67
|
11.25
|
68
|
|
|
4,248
|
9.82
|
14.70
|
67
|
|
|
1,237
|
2.86
|
10.45
|
27
|
|
|
2,434
|
5.63
|
2.81
|
200
|
|
|
3,894
|
9.00
|
8.01
|
112
|
|
|
10,530
|
24.34
|
15.25
|
160
|
|
|
601
|
1.39
|
7.13
|
19
|
|
|
1,131
|
2.61
|
10.17
|
26
|
|
|
