Bassetlaw
2010 Results:
Conservative: 16803 (33.89%)
Labour: 25018 (50.46%)
Liberal Democrat: 5570 (11.24%)
UKIP: 1779 (3.59%)
Independent: 407 (0.82%)
Majority: 8215 (16.57%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 25057 (51%)
Conservative: 16932 (34.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 6828 (13.9%)
Other: 304 (0.6%)
Majority: 8126 (16.5%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 12010 (29.8%)
Labour: 22847 (56.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 5485 (13.6%)
Majority: 10837 (26.9%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 11758 (30.2%)
Labour: 21506 (55.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 4942 (12.7%)
Other: 689 (1.8%)
Majority: 9748 (25.1%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 11838 (24.7%)
Labour: 29298 (61.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 4950 (10.3%)
Referendum: 1838 (3.8%)
Majority: 17460 (36.4%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: John Mann(Labour) Born 1960, Leeds. Educated at Bradford Grammar School and Manchester University. Former trade union officer. Former Lambeth councillor. MP for Bassetlaw since 2001 (more information at They work for you)
Keith Girling (Conservative) Born 1959, Nottingham. Educated at Manvers Pierrepont Comprehensive. Former non-commissioned officer in the Grenadier Guards. Nottinghamshire county councillor.John Mann(Labour) Born 1960, Leeds. Educated at Bradford Grammar School and Manchester University. Former trade union officer. Former Lambeth councillor. MP for Bassetlaw since 2001 (more information at They work for you)
David Dobbie (Liberal Democrat) Supply teacher. Contested Bassetlaw 2005.
Andrea Hamilton (UKIP) Grahame Whitehurst (Independent)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 98891
Male: 49.2%
Female: 50.8%
Under 18: 22.7%
Over 60: 21.6%
Born outside UK: 2.5%
White: 98.7%
Black: 0.2%
Asian: 0.4%
Mixed: 0.5%
Other: 0.2%
Christian: 81.7%
Full time students: 2.2%
Graduates 16-74: 13.6%
No Qualifications 16-74: 35.4%
Owner-Occupied: 70.7%
Social Housing: 20.3% (Council: 18.3%, Housing Ass.: 1.9%)
Privately Rented: 6.2%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 4.5%
well it was another convincing win for Labour. No sign of the progress the demography implied.
A spectacularly poor Tory performance. Adjacent Labour held seats showed swings to Tories of between 8 and 10%. Here, less than 1%. Just to prove it wasn’t a fluke, Labour took 4 Tory council seats and the Tories also lost a seat to Independent leaving them with a majority of just two. That was as good as it will ever get for Bassetlaw Tories. It’s downhill from here.
I’ve only just got round to seeing the result here and assumed Labour had held by a thousand or two, given good swings to the Tories in seats like Sherwood and Amber Valley and Derbyshire NE etc. This is an excellent Labour result with a higher Labour share than in Bolsover and a majority not hugely lower. I take it this is mostly down to John Manns incumbency and personal popularity. It seems we will have to wait a few more elections before the demographic changes deliver this to the Tories
It astonished me as well Pete.
Big swings in Don Valley, Rother Valley and Bolsover as well.
This must have been Labour’s best performance in any mining area in the whole country.
Labour also did very well in the local elections.
I think that John Mann is perhaps underestimated by Conservatives as he is such a mouthshite however he has done good work in this constituency and his highlighting of anti-semitism does him credit (especially as Jews are about as common as eskimos in Bassetlaw).
Dreadful result for the Tories here. I also expected a significant swing, but suspected John Mann was popular and would hold on.
The LD vote fell, and at under 12.5% would have lost their deposit under the rules which existed before 1987.
Swing in Mansfield was 9.5% compared to just 0.7% here.
John Mann has proved himself to be a bit of a maverick character within the Labour party! He’s called for tighter immigation controls, which im sure wouldn’t have damaged his chances here ! Some of his views strike me as quite populist, rather than partisan, hence the good result !
There was a substantial swing here in 2001 from Lab to Con.
But since then, the position has remained almost exactly the same.
hi i think the 2010 notional figs gave the cons some false hope as i think they gave us too many votes
e.g losing rampton ward (700 con votes at a guess) and meden(600)=10700 in return we got retford(4200 con votes) and a 1000 rural voters (which includes a ex pit village which still learns labour so iam guessing about 300 con votes) which comes to 15200. also there was no ukip in 2005 which could added a 1000 con votes to 2005 result.
as for the labour vote one word outstanding
“This is an excellent Labour result with a higher Labour share than in Bolsover and a majority not hugely lower.”
It’s a higher Labour share of the vote than in any other Notts or Derbys constituency.
It’s also higher than in Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley.
This is rather amusing to me as there is a certain sort of South Yorkshire person who when they come into some money move to a Bassetlaw village at top speed and have a rather superior attitude to their brethren in Don and Rother Valleys.
They are commonly to be found in the posh restaurants in Bawtry.