Calder Valley Sir Donald Thompson 19,795 26,050 8,322 0 919 Calder Valley 27,753 22,875 9,842 0 622 Conservative Created in 1983 from parts of Labour-voting Sowerby together with a chunk of the super-marginal Brighouse and Spenborough seat, Calder Valley was expected to give rise to some close contests in general elections, but these have never materialised, the Tories always taking the seat with a reasonable majority. In fact, this seat, in both 1987 and 1992, replicated the national share of the vote fairly closely, so the decision by Channel 4 in 1987 to select it as being a typical marginal was justified. Labour's disappointment at not taking the seat in 1992 reflected the party's national failure. Calder Valley will be high on Labour's target list this time and, if they take it, it will reflect the party's success in the country as a whole, but its canny and thrifty electors will not easily be won over.

	2,843	6.58	9.03	73
	2,591	6.00	11.17	54
	5,755	13.33	11.25	119
	11,032	25.55	14.70	174
	402	0.93	10.45	9
	100	0.23	2.81	8
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