Preston
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 14767 (51.3%)
Conservative: 6306 (21.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 4964 (17.2%)
Other: 2772 (9.6%)
Majority: 8461 (29.4%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 7803 (22.9%)
Labour: 17210 (50.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 5701 (16.7%)
UKIP: 1049 (3.1%)
Other: 2318 (6.8%)
Majority: 9407 (27.6%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 8272 (23%)
Labour: 20540 (57%)
Liberal Democrat: 4746 (13.2%)
Green: 1019 (2.8%)
Other: 1464 (4.1%)
Majority: 12268 (34%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 10540 (21.9%)
Labour: 29220 (60.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 7045 (14.7%)
Referendum: 924 (1.9%)
Other: 345 (0.7%)
Majority: 18680 (38.9%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Outgoing MP: Mark Hendrick(Labour) (more information at They work for you)
Candidates: Nerissa Warner-O`Neill (Conservative) born 1977, The Hague. Educated at Durham University. Solicitor. Waverley councillor since 2007.Mark Hendrick(Labour) (more information at They work for you)Mark Jewell (Liberal Democrat) Educated at Thames Polytechnic. Preston councillor. Project manager in the aerospace industry.Peter Ball (UKIP) Valerie Wise (Independent) Daughter of former Preston MP Audrey Wise, she unsuccessfully sought the Labour nomination for the by-election following her mother`s death in 2000. Director of Preston Women`s Refuge. Former leader of Preston council. Greater London councillor for Battersea South 1981-1986.
2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 84661
Male: 48.9%
Female: 51.1%
Under 18: 24%
Over 60: 17.8%
Born outside UK: 10.8%
White: 81.2%
Black: 1.2%
Asian: 15.3%
Mixed: 1.6%
Other: 0.7%
Christian: 65.7%
Hindu: 3.1%
Muslim: 11.2%
Sikh: 0.6%
Full time students: 10%
Graduates 16-74: 14.3%
No Qualifications 16-74: 36.4%
Owner-Occupied: 60.2%
Social Housing: 26% (Council: 15.8%, Housing Ass.: 10.2%)
Privately Rented: 10%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 20.3%
Only three candidates for Fishwick
Luke BOSMAN (LibDem)
Jennifer MEIN (Labour)
Sharon RILEY (Conservative)
Polling – 1 October
No Green in Fishwick, according to Doktorb. They may only have got 36 votes in Tulketh in 2008, but Peter Crane reported they got a new member (hope he or she is happy and active, by the way!). Every little helps.
I am slightly surprised that Respect are not standing, but perhaps they (and indeed the Greens) do not want to split the left vote.
I was brought up on the Labour tradition that you always try to put up a candidate everywhere, even if only on paper. After all, it does not cost anything in local elections. But I do not know what views people have this days as to whether such a policy is in the long-term a vote winner.
Very safe Labour hold, in the end.
With the local Respect party on, er, “hold”, I guess a candidate here would have been unlikely anyway, regardless of any vote-split fears.
Not sure how easy it is for the Greens to get candidates shipped in from Lancaster for a by-election Frederick
Pat Gakell is not standing in Preston- it is Peter Ball and Valerie Wise is standing as an Independent.
Kirsty, do you have a source for Peter Ball please?
On Valerie Wise, I understand from the Socialist Unity website, and Vote-UK, that she has support from Respect although may not be standing underneath that title. Her mother, of course, was the late Audrey Wise MP. And Val is **very much** her mother’s daughter, if you get what I mean…
Dear Mr —–
Thank you for your e-mail. We will be announcing our full list of PPC’s on 9 January 2010. Please contact me again after that date should you require further details.
Regards
Dr Fred McGlade North West Regional Organiser.
It’s taken me until….just about now….to realise I hadn’t made totally clear that the above email was a response from the UKIP North-West branch.
It’s past January 9th! Have UKIP issued their list of candidates?
Not to me they haven’t! I have been on the website, can’t find anything….
Mark Hendrick is flooding Ministers with endless “what have we actually achieved” questions in time for the election.
http://bit.ly/7ytXhQ
And while I’m here, still nothing from UKIP, new candidates or not. Kirsty – any info?
And me again. Heard from Fred McGlade, the UKIP canddiate for Preston is now Richard Muirhead .
He also says….
“….Please note that our list of candidates in the North West is only being announced on 23 Jan.”
Ladbrokes’ odds for this seat:
Labour 1/50
Cons 10/1
Valerie Wise 100/1
Lib Dems 100/1
UKIP 100/1
Valerie Wise is to stand under the label “Trade Union and Socialist Coalition”
Just been told by one of our candidates that BNP leaflets have been delivered in some parts of central Preston. Very likely to see a BNP candidate here, then.
Which will be a shame. But we will defeat them! No extremist nonsense in Preston, ta all the same…