Clacton
2010 Results:
Conservative: 22867 (53.03%)
Labour: 10799 (25.04%)
Liberal Democrat: 5577 (12.93%)
BNP: 1975 (4.58%)
Green: 535 (1.24%)
Independent: 292 (0.68%)
Others: 1078 (2.5%)
Majority: 12068 (27.99%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Conservative: 19266 (45.9%)
Labour: 14742 (35.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 5377 (12.8%)
Other: 2555 (6.1%)
Majority: 4524 (10.8%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 21235 (42.1%)
Labour: 20315 (40.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 5913 (11.7%)
UKIP: 2314 (4.6%)
Other: 631 (1.3%)
Majority: 920 (1.8%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 19355 (40.2%)
Labour: 21951 (45.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 4099 (8.5%)
UKIP: 2463 (5.1%)
Other: 247 (0.5%)
Majority: 2596 (5.4%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 19524 (36.5%)
Labour: 20740 (38.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 7037 (13.1%)
Referendum: 4923 (9.2%)
Other: 1290 (2.4%)
Majority: 1216 (2.3%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Douglas Carswell(Conservative) (more information at They work for you)
Douglas Carswell(Conservative) (more information at They work for you)Ivan Henderson (Labour) born 1958, Harwich. Educated at Sir Anthony Dean Comprehensive. Former dock operator at Harwich international port. Former Tendring councillor. MP for Harwich between 1997 and 2005.Matthew Green (Liberal Democrat)
Chris Southall (Green) Engineer, smallholder and national childbirth trust researcher.James Taylor (BNP)Terry Allen (Tendring First)Christopher Humphrey (Independent)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 86118
Male: 47%
Female: 53%
Under 18: 18.5%
Over 60: 37.1%
Born outside UK: 3.6%
White: 98.7%
Black: 0.2%
Asian: 0.3%
Mixed: 0.6%
Other: 0.3%
Christian: 76.2%
Full time students: 1.7%
Graduates 16-74: 9.5%
No Qualifications 16-74: 42.4%
Owner-Occupied: 80.3%
Social Housing: 8.2% (Council: 4.5%, Housing Ass.: 3.7%)
Privately Rented: 8.8%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 7%
sorry it didn’t – Clacton was in that seat.
But I think its as Matt said that many people who were educated in the 1950s or earlier (ie today’s pensioners) would have left school without qualifications and certainly a small minority would have got degrees. It doesn;t necessarily imply that theya re the very bottom of society. I guess Dagenham car workers then largely learned on the job.
You aren’t wrong to point out the nature of employment in seaside towns generally as being those that don’t usually require high levels of formal qualifications. My objection was that you were cmoparing the figures here with the town of Harwich but basing that on figures for the much larger constituency in which harwich finds itself. The figures for education and social class are no better in the town of Harwich than they are for this seat, but the constituecncy is much nbetter due to extraneous wards notably those in Colchester borough
I thought things like apprenticeships would count as qualifications but maybe they don’t.
They will do now.
Joe’s right. In fact, Census % re graduates can be a pretty poor weigh to judge an area from afar, ie Kensington in Lpool has one of the higher % of grads but that’s simply as lots of students/post-grads live there. Although I as surprised to see that Clacton has more with no qualifications than Bootle!
Pete you can’t use the word “ilk” like that. It can only be correctly used in certain Scottish contexts.
Andy, I don’t think Clacton is necessarily more downmarket than Harwich. The 2 towns do differ substantially however, as you will know.
I don;t know where I used the word ‘ilk’, though looking through my last couple of posts it may well have been a typo
I think it was me who used it when describing my mother and ‘her ilk’. I don’t think it’s necessarily true you can’t use it outside certain Scottish contexts. I had a look and the online dictionary gave me this:
World English Dictionary
ilk 1 (?lk)
— n
1. a type; class; sort (esp in the phrase of that, his, her, etc, ilk ): people of that ilk should not be allowed here
2. ( Scot ) of that ilk of the place of the same name: used to indicate that the person named is proprietor or laird of the place named: Moncrieff of that ilk
I evidently was using it in the first meaning of the word. If that’s what you mean by questioning its use?
I agree with Lancs Observer.
Especially in the south east, % of graduates in a seat increasingly means nothing with respect to how prosperous the population in that seat is.
A good, experienced, self-employed plumber, electrician or builder in the south east can easily make a six-figure income, whilst paying less tax than a salaried employee through doing shady cash jobs and maximising their deductibles.
Whilst in these days of mass-market dumbed-down higher education, a “graduate” with a 3rd in media studies from Pontefract University can struggle to get off the dole onto the minimum wage.
Ivan Henderson is standing for Tendring Council as the Labour Candidate in the Harwich East Ward.
What are his chances of being elected?
Labour won the ward in 2007. The main challenger was Community Representatives Party (they were very close)
There seem to be a few cases of defeated MPs standing for local council this year, I believe. As well as the Shadow Leader of the House of Lords of course.
Lowestoft isn’t particularly nice (or at least it wasn’t when i visited days after the 2001 election incidentally) but it’s nowhere near as bad as Yarmouth – which i would argue is almost up there (should that be down there) with Margate, Hastings and Rhyl
I’m sure that’s true, but that isn’t in this constituency…..
St Osyth was in Essex North 1997-2010, most of that seat of course was in Colchester North before then but I am not aware of that settlement’s constituency history before 1997
St Osyth as in Harwich before 1997
Thanks