Southampton Itchen John Denham 15,289 29,498 6,289 0 1,122 Southampton Itchen 24,065 25,118 7,924 0 0 Labour Both the constituencies - named after the two rivers that flow into Southampton Water - in Hampshire's biggest city are marginals. Itchen is slightly the more working-class of the two and had the highest proportion of non-white voters in 1992, although it is far from poor. In 1992, Labour gained Itchen but not Southampton Test, with a 6.6 per cent swing from the Tories. If this had been repeated across the South, Labour would have been the biggest single party in parliament. The slender Labour majority of 551 in 1992 has been bolstered up by boundary changes, but MP John Denham may still have to fight hard for this knife-edge marginal in a fascinating (electorally speaking) city.

	187	0.44	9.03	5
	3,808	8.93	11.17	80
	7,808	18.32	11.25	163
	6,871	16.12	14.70	110
	3,059	7.18	10.45	69
	0	0.00	2.81	0
	4,111	9.65	8.01	120
	7,850	18.42	15.25	121
	1,933	4.54	7.13	64
	6,890	16.17	10.17	159