Cambridgeshire North West
2010 Results:
Conservative: 29425 (50.49%)
Labour: 9877 (16.95%)
Liberal Democrat: 12748 (21.87%)
UKIP: 4826 (8.28%)
English Democrat: 1407 (2.41%)
Majority: 16677 (28.62%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Conservative: 23891 (45.7%)
Labour: 13165 (25.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 12405 (23.7%)
Other: 2803 (5.4%)
Majority: 10726 (20.5%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 22504 (45.8%)
Labour: 12671 (25.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 11232 (22.9%)
UKIP: 2685 (5.5%)
Majority: 9833 (20%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 21895 (49.8%)
Labour: 13794 (31.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 6957 (15.8%)
UKIP: 881 (2%)
Other: 429 (1%)
Majority: 8101 (18.4%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 23488 (48.1%)
Labour: 15734 (32.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 7388 (15.1%)
Referendum: 1939 (4%)
Other: 269 (0.6%)
Majority: 7754 (15.9%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Shailesh Vara(Conservative) (more information at They work for you)
Shailesh Vara(Conservative) (more information at They work for you)Chris York (Labour) Kevin Wilkins (Liberal Democrat)Robert Brown (UKIP) Contested Cambridgeshire North West 2005Stephen Goldspink (English Democrat)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 107092
Male: 49.4%
Female: 50.6%
Under 18: 24.5%
Over 60: 17.6%
Born outside UK: 6.7%
White: 96.8%
Black: 0.7%
Asian: 1.1%
Mixed: 1%
Other: 0.4%
Christian: 75.5%
Muslim: 0.7%
Full time students: 1.8%
Graduates 16-74: 17.6%
No Qualifications 16-74: 25.8%
Owner-Occupied: 73.6%
Social Housing: 14.8% (Council: 8.7%, Housing Ass.: 6.1%)
Privately Rented: 7.5%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 3.8%
Despite Labour and Lib Dem votes, this looks like a pretty
safe seat for Shailesh Vara who took over as Conservative
MP in May 2005, and an increased majority is likely.
Labour’s candidate Ayfer Orhan did very well here in 2005 to restrict the pro-Tory swing to 0.8%.
More of what was John Major’s Huntingdon until 1997, forms this seat instead of the new seat created in 1997 named Huntingdon- though it also included parts of Huntingdonshire lost in 1983.
This is a classic “overspill” seat, whose creation & continued existence has in effect created another Tory stronghold, without in any way damaging Labour in neighbouring Peterborough.
sorry I meant without damaging the Tories, not Labour.
This seat includes the area of Peterborough that is to the West of the River Nene, which is (roughly) a mixture of Victorian Housing in Fletton, old villages like Orton Waterville, which were incorporated into Peterborough in the 70s and a lot of ex-Developement Corporation housing also from the 1970s. Surrounding this are a number of rural villages and the new developement of Hampton. Labour have no major authority councillors in this area and their vote continues to dwindle. Shailesh Vara is a rising star of the Conservative Party and a cracking local MP who will probably hold this seat for as long as he seeks re-election.
Why is this seat called ‘NW Cambridgeshire’ when it is actually ‘North Huntingdonshire’.
In 1983 the Southern part of Huntingdonshire was removed and paired with Cambridgeshire SW, what remained became ‘Huntingdon’.
In 1997, Huntingdon was divided and the southern part was re-united with the part of Huntingdonshire lost to Cambridgeshire SW in 1983.
The northern part of the seat was also re-united with parts of the old county associated with Peterborough form 1983 – 1997.
So why were the Huntingdonshire seats not named ‘Huntingdonshire North’ and ‘Huntingdon & Huntingdonshire South’???
I agree it should be Huntingdonshire North (or to revive the pre-1918 situation, Huntingdonshire, Ramsay). I thought i’d made the same case myself but it must have bene on one of the other threads. Im surprised tos ee I havent already commented on this thread but I know i’ve commented on this constituency.
If I’m understanding this thread right and part of this seat covers part of the Peterborough UA then the name is even more inappropriate since part of this constituency is in Northamptonshire
True though only a few thousand voters in Barnack, Wittering etc were ever in Northants. Most of the parts of Pereborough UA which are included here are the wards south of the Nene – Fletton, the Ortons etc and this area was historically part of Huntingdonshire.
C 30,000
Lab 13,500
LD 10,000
UKIP 2,000
LibDems could hope to overtake Labour. Has happened before. The unknown is UKIP. 2000 seems a bit low in the present climate, though very volatile.
The Greens have selected Di Newman here
Electorate of this new seat in December 2008: 82,722.
There are a lot of Neanderthals in Huntingdon town.
They have put up misleading boundary signs (HUNTINGDONSHIRE district) but the folk who see these signs most regularly are not the slightest bit interested in Huntingdon (and in many cases have never been there). Many think they live in Peterborough and are surprised at election time (local and General) to find that they don’t !
Cons Hold= 12,000 maj
Con Hold
Maj 14200
C hold maj 16000. LDs second.
Con maj 16,500
On labourDOTorgDOTuk they have Chris York as the PPC for labour.
CON HOLD
Con hold, with a much reduced majoirty of 2500, because of the probable large UKIP vote.
If the BBC turnout figures are correct, the electorate of this seat has already reached 88,846 voters, about 20,000 more than average.
I think this one should be named ‘Huntingdonshire North’ and ‘Huntingdon’ be ‘Huntingdonshire South’
Perhaps Iain but it does include a lot of Peterborough.
The parts of Peterborough town which are included are all those areas south of the river Nene which were historically part of Huntingdonshire. The only parts of this seat which were not are a few thousand voters in the rural wards of Peterborough which together with that town (north of the Nene) were in Northants.
I would call this seat Ramsey as it is similar to the seat of that name which existed from 1885-1918. The other Cambridgeshire seats could be similarly renamed: Wisbech (NE), Ely (SE) and Chesterton (S)
Jack – UKIP’s increase didn’t seem to hurt the Conservatives much here, unlike in other seats