Cheadle
2010 Results:
Conservative: 21445 (40.84%)
Labour: 4920 (9.37%)
Liberal Democrat: 24717 (47.07%)
UKIP: 1430 (2.72%)
Majority: 3272 (6.23%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Liberal Democrat: 23640 (48.1%)
Conservative: 19689 (40%)
Labour: 4877 (9.9%)
Other: 988 (2%)
Majority: 3950 (8%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 19169 (40.4%)
Labour: 4169 (8.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 23189 (48.9%)
BNP: 421 (0.9%)
UKIP: 489 (1%)
Majority: 4020 (8.5%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 18444 (42.3%)
Labour: 6086 (14%)
Liberal Democrat: 18477 (42.4%)
UKIP: 599 (1.4%)
Majority: 33 (0.1%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 22944 (43.7%)
Labour: 8253 (15.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 19755 (37.7%)
Referendum: 1511 (2.9%)
Majority: 3189 (6.1%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Mark Hunter(Liberal Democrat) born 1957. Educated at Audenshaw Grammar School for Boys. Marketing executive. Stockport councillor 1996-2005. Leader of Stockport council 2001-2005. Contested Ashton under Lyne 1987, Stockport 2001. MP for Cheadle since 2005 by-election. PPS to Nick Clegg since 2007 (more information at They work for you)
Ben Jeffreys (Conservative) born Yorkshire. Educated at St Andrews University. History and drama teacher.
Martin Miller (Labour) Mark Hunter(Liberal Democrat) born 1957. Educated at Audenshaw Grammar School for Boys. Marketing executive. Stockport councillor 1996-2005. Leader of Stockport council 2001-2005. Contested Ashton under Lyne 1987, Stockport 2001. MP for Cheadle since 2005 by-election. PPS to Nick Clegg since 2007 (more information at They work for you)Tony Moore (UKIP) 2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 91231
Male: 47.9%
Female: 52.1%
Under 18: 22.1%
Over 60: 24%
Born outside UK: 6.3%
White: 94.2%
Black: 0.4%
Asian: 3.3%
Mixed: 1.1%
Other: 1%
Christian: 76.1%
Hindu: 0.9%
Jewish: 1.6%
Muslim: 2.6%
Full time students: 3.2%
Graduates 16-74: 27.9%
No Qualifications 16-74: 20%
Owner-Occupied: 87.1%
Social Housing: 7.1% (Council: 5.2%, Housing Ass.: 1.9%)
Privately Rented: 4.1%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 5.1%
2005 By-election
The Cheadle by-election was held on 14th July 2005, following the death of Patsy Calton shortly after the 2005 general election. The contest was a straight fight between the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives, with the former Conservative MP for the seat, Stephen Day, standing for the Tories. The Tories fought an aggressive campaign and were accused by the Liberal Democrats of dirty tricks and a smear campaign. Eventually the Liberal Democrat candidate Mark Hunter emerged as the victor with a slightly increased majority. The Labour party, who had not seriously contested the seat, lost their deposit.
By-election result
Mark Hunter (Liberal Democrat) 19593 (52.2%)
Stephen Day (Conservative) 15936 (42.4%)
Martin Miller (Labour) 1739 (4.6%)
Leslie Leggett (Veritas) 218 (0.6%)
John Allman (Alliance for Change) 81 (0.2%)
Majority: 3657 (9.7%)
By-election Candidates: Mark Hunter (Liberal Democrat) born 1957. Educated at Audenshaw Grammar School for Boys. Marketing executive. Stockport councillor 1996-2005. Leader of Stockport council 2001-2005. Contested Ashton under Lyne 1987, Stockport 2001.
Stephen Day (Conservative) born 1948. Secretary of the Association of Conservative clubs. Leeds councillor 1975-1980. Contested Bradford West 1983. MP for Cheadle 1987-2001. Contested Cheadle 2001, 2005.
Martin Miller (Labour) born Glasgow. Former Stockport councillor. Contested Hazel Grove 2001, Cheadle 2005.
Leslie Leggett (Veritas) Retired policeman. Former Stockport councillor for the Conservative party.
John Allman (Alliance for Change) Educated at the Open University. Computer programmer. Founder of Christians against mental slavery, an organisation campaigning against mind control weapons. Contested Harrogate and Knaresborough 2005, subsequently contested Livingstone by-election.
Champagne types are always the most hostile to the Tories.
I was canvassing in a by-election in Richmond Park
and had a good laugh with a Labour supporting man from Glasgow
who said he’d never vote Tory in a million years
but met a sneary Liberal type in a very smart house.
Well Edgbaston would effectively become Harbourne on the new boundaries. On paper, it will be among the Tories’ best prospects in Birmingham but we’ve said that before about Edgbaston!
‘I was canvassing in a by-election in Richmond Park
and had a good laugh with a Labour supporting man from Glasgow
who said he’d never vote Tory in a million years
but met a sneary Liberal type in a very smart house.’
For the record Joe I’ve met plenty of sneary Tory and Labour voters up and down the country who live in ‘very smart houses’ – and let’s not get into the type of people who vote for fringe rightist parties like the BNP and English Democrats
I really don’t see the point in your continuous sniping at Lib Dems and the people who vote for them – funnily enough its the tactics your beloved David Shaw adopted in Kingston & Surbiton in 2001 and it didn’t do him much good
It’s hardly shocking news that some people do not respond nicely to having political activists knocking at their door – particularly when those activists are from a party they do not support and indeed may even despise. It’s unfair to judge someone based on their reaction to being rudely interrupted in their home by a political canvassor just as you couldn’t judge their personality based on what they said to a door-to-door double glazing salesman.
Personally I find political canvassing highly irritating, intrusive and a breach of the right to a secret ballot. My own reaction to it could be described as sneary but I would like to think I’m not like that in general as a person.
Canvassing is not everyone’s cup of tea
but
if you don’t do it another party will anyway.
Very few people are personally hostile though,
whatever they think of the party,
but those that are tend to be
middle class liberal types,
not Labour voters.
I don’t know David Shaw,
just wish to put a bit of balance into these discussions
that default to the Lib Dem line that of course he was a thug.
But if I’m a lone voice being a bit battered for gently pointing that
out ,so be it.
Some of the sneary middle class types might well actually be voting for you.
They just do not like people knocking on their door.