Salisbury
2010 Results:
Conservative: 23859 (49.21%)
Labour: 3690 (7.61%)
Liberal Democrat: 17893 (36.91%)
BNP: 765 (1.58%)
UKIP: 1392 (2.87%)
Green: 506 (1.04%)
Independent: 376 (0.78%)
Majority: 5966 (12.3%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Conservative: 21695 (47.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 12403 (27%)
Labour: 8406 (18.3%)
Other: 3360 (7.3%)
Majority: 9292 (20.3%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 25961 (47.8%)
Labour: 9457 (17.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 14819 (27.3%)
Green: 1555 (2.9%)
UKIP: 2290 (4.2%)
Other: 240 (0.4%)
Majority: 11142 (20.5%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 24527 (46.6%)
Labour: 9199 (17.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 15824 (30.1%)
UKIP: 1958 (3.7%)
Green: 1095 (2.1%)
Majority: 8703 (16.5%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 25012 (42.9%)
Labour: 10242 (17.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 18736 (32.2%)
Other: 4249 (7.3%)
Majority: 6276 (10.8%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: John Glen (Conservative) Educated at King Edward School, Bath and Oxford University. Strategy consultant and former director of the Conservative research department. Contested Plymouth Devonport 2001.
John Glen (Conservative) Educated at King Edward School, Bath and Oxford University. Strategy consultant and former director of the Conservative research department. Contested Plymouth Devonport 2001.
Tom Gann (Labour) Born Odstock. Educated at Bishop Wordsworth School and Warwick University. English teacher.
Nick Radford (Liberal Democrat) Works for a renewable energy company.
Nick Startin (Green)
Frances Howard (UKIP) Teacher. Contested Salisbury 2005Sean Witheridge (BNP)John Holme (Independent)King Arthur (Independent)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 87369
Male: 48.3%
Female: 51.7%
Under 18: 21.3%
Over 60: 24%
Born outside UK: 6.4%
White: 98.6%
Asian: 0.3%
Mixed: 0.6%
Other: 0.3%
Christian: 77.6%
Full time students: 2%
Graduates 16-74: 22.6%
No Qualifications 16-74: 24.2%
Owner-Occupied: 69.5%
Social Housing: 15.9% (Council: 11.9%, Housing Ass.: 4%)
Privately Rented: 9.7%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 6.1%
LD maj of 7 votes!
Absolutely no way there will be an LD gain here. They’ve flattered to deceive in the past & the Tories are too far ahead. CON HOLD
“Absolutely no way there will be an LD gain here. They’ve flattered to deceive in the past & the Tories are too far ahead. CON HOLD”…….
by how many?
7,500
Keep going south Mr.W….
Totally safe seat here. No way this is going anyway other than Conservative.
Way too many parties/candidates this election which would split any anti-Tory vote. Even if LibDem sucked 50% of Labour vote, he would still be short. Green candidate also a drag on LibDems.
Probably the easiest conservative hold in the SW.
Interesting to see if UKIP could get deposit back (4.2% in 2005). Tories know it is safe, so UKIP might get a few votes over Lisbon.
Sad thing is this Glen fellow has been parachuted in by Central Office as reward for work as Hague assistant. Oh well.
A fun campaign and well done to Mr Glen and the conservatives. It wasn’t the easiest hold and I missed judged quite a few elements – I thought the Conservative vote wouldn’t hold – it did to just under 50% – whilst our (LD) vote also rose, but sadly by nowhere near enough. The LD vote rose 10% and in essence halved the majority, so 6k instead of 10k. I thought it would be less.
Like a lot of seats in the surrounding area the Labour vote vanished from roughly 10k to 3.5k – which is not a good sign to be honest – I got that bit right….!
Anyway to next time.
misjudged not missed judged…you pillock Cogload….
John Glen is not to be confused with the astronaut of (almost) the same name
Apparently,the astronault was also a Democrat politician.
He was the Senator from Ohio from 1974 to 1999.
Yes indeed he was – I’d forgotten that! Of course, every US state has two senators, so he was one of them.
and he ran for President too, but failed to gain the Democrat nomination. He was generally regarded as on the conservative wing of the party.