Suffolk Central and Ipswich North
2010 Results:
Conservative: 27125 (50.78%)
Labour: 8636 (16.17%)
Liberal Democrat: 13339 (24.97%)
UKIP: 2361 (4.42%)
Green: 1452 (2.72%)
Independent: 389 (0.73%)
Others: 118 (0.22%)
Majority: 13786 (25.81%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Conservative: 21574 (44.3%)
Labour: 13765 (28.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 10168 (20.9%)
Other: 3165 (6.5%)
Majority: 7809 (16%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 22333 (43.9%)
Labour: 14477 (28.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 10709 (21.1%)
Green: 1593 (3.1%)
UKIP: 1754 (3.4%)
Majority: 7856 (15.4%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 20924 (44.4%)
Labour: 17455 (37.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 7593 (16.1%)
UKIP: 1132 (2.4%)
Majority: 3469 (7.4%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 22493 (42.6%)
Labour: 18955 (35.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 10886 (20.6%)
Other: 489 (0.9%)
Majority: 3538 (6.7%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Daniel Poulter (Conservative) Educated at Bristol university. Doctor. Former Hastings councillor. Former Reigate and Banstead councillor.
Daniel Poulter (Conservative) Educated at Bristol university. Doctor. Former Hastings councillor. Former Reigate and Banstead councillor.
Bhavna Joshi (Labour) Born Huddersfield. Educated at Kings College London. Solicitor. Former Wandsworth councillor.
Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne (Liberal Democrat) born 1969, Norwich. Educated at Bowthorpe High School and University of East Anglia. Teacher. Former Norwich councillor. Contested Norwich South 1997, 2001, 2005.
Andrew Stringer (Green) Mid Suffolk councillor.
Roy Philpot (UKIP)Richard Vass (New Party)Mark Trevitt (Independent)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 88970
Male: 49.1%
Female: 50.9%
Under 18: 22.8%
Over 60: 24%
Born outside UK: 4%
White: 97.6%
Black: 0.6%
Asian: 0.5%
Mixed: 1%
Other: 0.4%
Christian: 75.8%
Full time students: 1.8%
Graduates 16-74: 18.3%
No Qualifications 16-74: 29.4%
Owner-Occupied: 76.8%
Social Housing: 13.1% (Council: 8.6%, Housing Ass.: 4.5%)
Privately Rented: 6.4%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 7.6%
Presumably he’ll do what John Gummer has done.
Instead of being Lord Gummer of Winston in the County of Suffolk, he is Lord Deben of Winston in the County of Suffolk (Deben apparently being a river).
Not a bad result for the Conservatives here.
I think the Tory vote share is about 3% below the 1992 notionals, Labour is about 10% lower than in the ’92 notionals, and the Lib Dems are a couple of % higher.
Labour and the Lib Dems have swapped places for 2nd and 3rd compared to then.
The Tory majority is I think just under 3% smaller than in the ’92 notionals, and numerically just under 3,000 votes less.
Michael Lord entered the House of Lords a few days ago.
His is now Lord Framlingham (Framlingham being a market town in Suffolk).
Interestingly, none of the three former Suffolk MPs who have now become peers have used their surname for their titles (John Gummer being Lord Deben as mentioned in the post above, and Richard Spring now being Lord Risby… Risby being a village).
This new MP looks young. Does anyone know when he was a Hastings Cllr and then a Reigate Cllr and when selected here?
I *think* he was a Hastings councillor 2006-07 and a Reigate councillor either from 2007 or 2008, until 2010.
He was selected here in late 2009.
He was born in 1978. In fact he’s one of three Suffolk MPs born that year (along with Ben Gummer and Matthew Hancock).
Hastings (Gensing ward)….elected in 2006. There was a by-election on 3 May 2007 in that ward
Reigate (Redhill East wardrd) …elected in 2007.
The LD PPC could have been an MP if he’d tried one more time.
Maybe he did try, but didn’t get selected?
Sorry, who are we talking about?
It can’t be a Lib Dem PPC for this seat.
The LD candidate for this seat had contested Norwich South in 1997, 2001 and 2005
Ah I see. Thanks for the clarification. I was a bit confused.
The MP was on TV yesterday talking about the scandal at Ipswich Hospital where a number of nurses seem to have given poor care to their patients. I think you’ll hear a lot from professional men in the Tory Party highlighting failings by women teachers nurses and social workers in the future. The Labour women NCO’s have been overpromoted and now it’s time for the true officer class to take control.
A slightly sexist observation there
Interesting character from the past – Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye, who was MP for Eye from 1929 to 1951. He was a Liberal, then a National Liberal and then a Liberal again, before contested the seat for Labour in 1955, losing only by 898 votes despite the fact that Labour had been in third place before.
He died in 1998 two days after his 100th birthday.
Wikipedia entry:
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Conservative District & Town Cllr David Whittle has defected to UKIP here.
Have Framlingham, Kesgrave, and Mendlesham been in Eye until 1983 and Suffolk Central since?
Kesgrave and Framlingham were in Suffolk Coastal from 1983 to 1997. The Suffolk Coastal seat at that time had exactly the same boundaries as the LA