North Cornwall
Notional 2005 Results:
Liberal Democrat: 19729 (46.6%)
Conservative: 14252 (33.7%)
Labour: 4825 (11.4%)
Other: 3526 (8.3%)
Majority: 5477 (12.9%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 20766 (37.1%)
Labour: 6636 (11.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 23842 (42.6%)
UKIP: 3063 (5.5%)
Other: 1675 (3%)
Majority: 3076 (5.5%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 18250 (33.8%)
Labour: 5257 (9.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 28082 (52%)
UKIP: 2394 (4.4%)
Majority: 9832 (18.2%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 17253 (29.5%)
Labour: 5523 (9.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 31186 (53.2%)
Referendum: 3636 (6.2%)
Other: 983 (1.7%)
Majority: 13933 (23.8%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Outgoing MP: Dan Rogerson(Liberal Democrat) born 1975. Educated at Bodmin College and the University of Wales. Former Liberal Democrat researcher and university admissions officer. Bedford councillor 1999-2002. Contested Bedfordshire North East 2001. First elected as MP for North Cornwall in 2005. Lib Dem environment spokesman 2005-6, local government spokesman 2006-7, Lib Dem shadow minister for arts since 2007 (more information at They work for you)
Candidates: Sian Flynn (Conservative) Peter Watson (Labour) Dan Rogerson(Liberal Democrat) born 1975. Educated at Bodmin College and the University of Wales. Former Liberal Democrat researcher and university admissions officer. Bedford councillor 1999-2002. Contested Bedfordshire North East 2001. First elected as MP for North Cornwall in 2005. Lib Dem environment spokesman 2005-6, local government spokesman 2006-7, Lib Dem shadow minister for arts since 2007 (more information at They work for you)Ivor Masters (UKIP) proprietor of a carpet cleaning business.Susan Bowen (BNP)
2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 80509
Male: 48.5%
Female: 51.5%
Under 18: 21.4%
Over 60: 27%
Born outside UK: 3.2%
White: 99.1%
Asian: 0.2%
Mixed: 0.4%
Other: 0.2%
Christian: 75.4%
Full time students: 1.8%
Graduates 16-74: 14.6%
No Qualifications 16-74: 30.4%
Owner-Occupied: 70.8%
Social Housing: 12.8% (Council: 9.7%, Housing Ass.: 3.1%)
Privately Rented: 11.9%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 15.6%
Matt – To my knowledge Sian Flynn will be far more irritated by people like you trying to stir up something over a totally meaningless expression than she will by the person who used the expression in the first place. I called her a maid on another site but so far I don’t see her erectiing the Gallows for me in Bodmin.
I think one of the key election issues will be the proliferation of industrial scale wind farms in North Cornwall. At present there are wind farms at Delabole (ten 50m turbines) and Cold Northcott on the A395 (twenty two 42m turbines). There are also windfarms at St Breock (eleven 53m turbine) and Bears Down (sixteen 57m turbines) – not sure if they fall within the constituency boundary, but they can certainly be seen from inside it.
There is planning permission granted to replace the ten 50m turbines at Delabole with four 110m turbines, and to put three turbines of 81m up at Crimp near Morwenstow. The council was “minded to approve” a windfarm of five 75m turbines at Otterham – the legal agreements are currently being thrashed out for formal approval. Then there is the Davidstow “Community” Windfarm (don’t be fooled by the name, this is not something started by the local community, but by a company with the registered name of Community Windpower Ltd). The Davidstow windfarm would be twenty turbines of 126.5m – and they will stand taller than Roughtor, and nearly as tall as Brown Willy, so dwarfing the highest point in Cornwall. At the moment Davidstow windfarm has conditional approval – the developer has to prove that the turbines won’t interrupt air traffic control voice communications with jumbo jets coming in from the Atlantic, and also to provide effective mitigation for the endangered bird species that would be killed by the turbines. (To save anyone from saying “wind turbines don’t kill birds” the RSPB objected to this one – they only object to wind farms that are sited where they will kill birds – about 7% of applications.)
So that is three new windfarms adding 28 turbines to the North Cornish landscape. But it won’t stop there.
Cornwall Light and Power are working on plans to add on more turbines at Denzell Downs near Bears Down. This could be either five 100m turbines, or eight 70m turbines – so taller than the existing ones.
There are rumours that there will soon be an application to re-power Cold Northcott with taller turbines.
And finally – in planning applications, wind farm companies like to say that the landscape already has man made features in it, such as pylons or an existing wind farm. Community Windpower Ltd have two wind farms in action at Dalry and at Aikengall in Scotland. In both places they have applied for new windfarms next to their existing wind farms.
Joanie Willett is the Mebyon Kernow candidate.
Bodmin, I believe, has been part of this constituency since 1983, before which it was of course in its own eponymous seat for many years.
Michael Foot’s dad, Isaac, was Liberal MP for Bodmin for two non-consecutive tenures, 1922-24 and 1929-35.
Your belief re Bodmin is correct, Harry.
Thanks Barnaby – glad to hear it!