Election 97

Darlington

Current MP Alan Milburn
Conservative 97 13,633
Labour 97 29,658
LibDem 97 3,483
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 0
Elected party
Darlington

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Darlington
Conservative 92 23,758
Labour 92 26,556
LibDem 92 4,586
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 355
Elected party Labour

Darlington is a self-contained and comfortable town in the south of County Durham. A former railway town with a mixed industrial base and the air of a moderately affluent market town, Darlington is more redolent of market towns to the south in North Yorkshire than the rest of County Durham which, with its coalmining heritage, is more traditionally industrial and therefore Labour inclined. Darlington has a more mixed profile and has been something of a Labour/Conservative marginal at recent elections. The seat was won by Labour's Alan Milburn in 1992, and they will expect to hold on the basis of current predictions for 1997.


Super Profiles

1,700 4.37 9.03 48
4,330 11.12 11.17 100
3,728 9.57 11.25 85
7,385 18.96 14.70 129
18 0.05 10.45 0
0 0.00 2.81 0
5,728 14.71 8.01 184
7,060 18.13 15.25 119
4,883 12.54 7.13 176
3,957 10.16 10.17 100