Islington North
2015 Result:
Conservative: 8465 (17.2%)
Labour: 29659 (60.2%)
Lib Dem: 3984 (8.1%)
Green: 5043 (10.2%)
UKIP: 1971 (4%)
Others: 112 (0.2%)
MAJORITY: 21194 (43%)
Category: Ultra-safe Labour seat
Geography: Greater London. Part of the Islington council area.
Main population centres: Tufnell Park, Archway, Finsbury Park, Highbury.
Profile: A compact, densely-populated inner-city seat in North London, the smallest in the country by area. While there is some gentrification this this seat covers some of the most deprived, troubled and crime-ridden parts of Islington, inclusing the huge Andover Estate. It includes HMP Holloway and Arsenal`s Emirates Stadium. Islington is a particular young area, and has the highest proportion of unmarried people in the country.
Politics: The constituency has been safely Labour since the 1930s, though the then sitting MP Michael O`Halloran defected to the SDP in 1981 and fought the seat as an independent in 1983, having lost the selection for the SDP nomination.
| Con: | 6339 (14%) |
| Lab: | 24276 (54%) |
| LDem: | 11875 (27%) |
| GRN: | 1348 (3%) |
| Oth: | 716 (2%) |
| MAJ: | 12401 (28%) |
| Con: | 3740 (12%) |
| Lab: | 16118 (51%) |
| LDem: | 9402 (30%) |
| GRN: | 2234 (7%) |
| MAJ: | 6716 (21%) |
| Con: | 3249 (11%) |
| Lab: | 18699 (62%) |
| LDem: | 5741 (19%) |
| GRN: | 1876 (6%) |
| Oth: | 651 (2%) |
| MAJ: | 12958 (43%) |
| Con: | 4631 (13%) |
| Lab: | 24834 (69%) |
| LDem: | 4879 (14%) |
| Oth: | 1516 (4%) |
| MAJ: | 19955 (56%) |
‘when Major was PM that it was common knowledge he was having an affair, though she didn’t know with whom’
Didn’t the New Statesmen run a story on this subject in the early 1990’s – and got sued if i remember rightly
Major’s greatest asset was his likeability – which many who actually knew him have testified to being an act – albeit a pretty convincing one
It won him an election afterall
Tristan – my friend, who is actually very attractive herself, actually found Major attractive. We gave her a pretty hard time about that, at the time.