Plymouth Moor View
2010 Results:
Conservative: 13845 (33.34%)
Labour: 15433 (37.16%)
Liberal Democrat: 7016 (16.9%)
BNP: 1438 (3.46%)
UKIP: 3188 (7.68%)
Green: 398 (0.96%)
Socialist Labour: 208 (0.5%)
Majority: 1588 (3.82%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 17895 (44.7%)
Conservative: 9988 (25%)
Liberal Democrat: 7656 (19.1%)
Other: 4483 (11.2%)
Majority: 7907 (19.8%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 10509 (25%)
Labour: 18612 (44.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 8000 (19%)
UKIP: 3324 (7.9%)
Other: 1568 (3.7%)
Majority: 8103 (19.3%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 11289 (27.1%)
Labour: 24322 (58.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 4513 (10.8%)
UKIP: 958 (2.3%)
Other: 637 (1.5%)
Majority: 13033 (31.2%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 12562 (24.2%)
Labour: 31629 (60.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 5570 (10.7%)
Referendum: 1486 (2.9%)
Other: 716 (1.4%)
Majority: 19067 (36.7%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Alison Seabeck(Labour) (more information at They work for you)
Matthew Groves (Conservative) Educated at St Bedes Secondary School. Lawyer. Tandridge councillor.Alison Seabeck(Labour) (more information at They work for you)Stuart Bonar (Liberal Democrat)Wendy Miller (Green)Bill Wakeham (UKIP) Roy Cook (BNP)David Marchesi (Socialist Labour) 2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 89752
Male: 47.9%
Female: 52.1%
Under 18: 24.3%
Over 60: 21.5%
Born outside UK: 3.2%
White: 99%
Asian: 0.2%
Mixed: 0.5%
Other: 0.2%
Christian: 75.7%
Full time students: 2.7%
Graduates 16-74: 9%
No Qualifications 16-74: 36.1%
Owner-Occupied: 61.6%
Social Housing: 30.2% (Council: 24.7%, Housing Ass.: 5.5%)
Privately Rented: 3.9%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 11.8%
Why haven’t you mentioned Dorset?
‘Why haven’t you mentioned Dorset?’
I was mainky focussing pon counties in the far west (the wesat country) and those which boarder Wales.
Dorset is neither although I’m the first to say it’s one of the most unspoilt and picturesque counties in the whole country
I quite like flat areas of the country like Cambridgeshire and Suffolk so I’m not going to be in complete agreement with Tim on this.
I’m not keen on the flat areas like in Cambridgeshire and particularly Norfolk but in general Tim is talking rubbish about the East/South East. There are every bit as many chavvy towns in the south west, places like Taunton and Yeovil and Weymouth and if there are poor and rundown small towns in Norfolk there are every bit as much in Cornwall. Of course all this is sort of irrelevant since all these counties are on the ‘right’ side of the Severn/Wash line – perhaps Tim is confused about where the Severn is. The only part of the South West region which is to the ‘left’ of it is the Forest of Dean (‘delapidated, run-down small towns’). The line generally refers to the division between the southern regions (SE, SW, East and London) and the rest so all those areas he refers to with the exception of the Welsh Marches are south of that line
Regardless of which side of the Severn/Wash line they are on, any objective observer would rate the South West streets ahead of East Anglia and South East England in terms of desirability. Why else would so many people from the South East chose to retire in the south West – even now when property prices aren’t so contrasting as they once were? Its proximity to London will always make the South East a more densely populated and expensive part of the country to live in
Parts of Cornwall might well be run-down – I remember Cambourne and Bodmin seeming particularly down at the hell, but its landscape more than makes up for it whereas the likes of Norfolk and Lincolnshire have no such redeeming features.
The South West may indeed have some chavvy towns – and you could add Plymouth, Bristol even Paignton to those you mention, but these are vastly outnumbered by those in the home counties alone – Stevenage, Hemel Hempsted, Harlow, Grays, Stains, Bracknell, Basildon, Slough, Welwyn, Watford, Southend, Pitsea, Braintree, Reading, Dartford, Gravesend, Maidstone, Margate, Ramsgate, Chatham, Strood, Sheppey, Dover, Ashford I could go on
There seems to be an assumption that the Tory-voting habits of the voters from such towns makes them less chav – a rather bizarre conclusion
First comment here for over a year! Looks like Labour have improved on last year’s already good results, when the Tories won only 4 wards apart from those in the SW Devon constituency; this time Labour managed to take Eggbuckland too, making if I’m not mistaken only one Tory victory in this constituency and 2 in Plymouth Sutton & Devonport.
It looks like it was quite a “battering” – disguised by the fact that this council is now only up in thirds.
I could be wrong but I got a clean sweep for Labour in this constituency this year (winning all 7 wards – with Eggbuckland the closest)
This seat did see one of the more dramatic drops in Conservative support between 2011 and 2012 (from 38% to 26%). However the biggest impact on that will be UKIP, who polled 21% across this constituency. Labour support was little changed, increasing from 50% to 51%.
The decline for the Conservatives in the Sutton & Devonport seat was less dramatic at 7% (36% to 29%), UKIP polled well again, though a little lower at 15%. Labour increased from 43% to 45%. That 16% lead for Labour overall will make the Conservatives even more grateful for the proposed boundary changes in this area.