Tiverton and Honiton
2010 Results:
Conservative: 27614 (50.3%)
Labour: 4907 (8.94%)
Liberal Democrat: 18294 (33.33%)
UKIP: 3277 (5.97%)
Green: 802 (1.46%)
Majority: 9320 (16.97%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Conservative: 23895 (47.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 14702 (29.5%)
Labour: 6692 (13.4%)
Other: 4569 (9.2%)
Majority: 9193 (18.4%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 27838 (47.9%)
Labour: 7944 (13.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 16787 (28.9%)
Green: 1399 (2.4%)
UKIP: 2499 (4.3%)
Other: 1701 (2.9%)
Majority: 11051 (19%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 26258 (47.1%)
Labour: 6647 (11.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 19974 (35.8%)
UKIP: 1281 (2.3%)
Green: 1030 (1.8%)
Other: 594 (1.1%)
Majority: 6284 (11.3%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 24438 (41.3%)
Labour: 7598 (12.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 22785 (38.5%)
Referendum: 2952 (5%)
Other: 1356 (2.3%)
Majority: 1653 (2.8%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Neil Parish (Conservative) born 1956. Farmer and MEP. Former district councillor and Somerset county councillor. Contested Pontypool in 1997. First elected as MEP for the South West in 1999. Currently Conservative spokesman on agriculture and fisheries in the European Parliament.
Neil Parish (Conservative) born 1956. Farmer and MEP. Former district councillor and Somerset county councillor. Contested Pontypool in 1997. First elected as MEP for the South West in 1999. Currently Conservative spokesman on agriculture and fisheries in the European Parliament.Vernon Whitlock (Labour) Fomer Policeman. Mayor of Honiton.Jonathan Underwood (Liberal Democrat) Educated at Oxford University. Financial trader and former academic physicist. Contested Exeter 2005.Cathy Connor (Green) Daryl Stanbury (UKIP)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 92036
Male: 48.2%
Female: 51.8%
Under 18: 20.5%
Over 60: 29.5%
Born outside UK: 3.6%
White: 61.3%
Mixed: 0.2%
Christian: 77.1%
Full time students: 1.7%
Graduates 16-74: 15.8%
No Qualifications 16-74: 29.6%
Owner-Occupied: 74.6%
Social Housing: 12.6% (Council: 9.7%, Housing Ass.: 3%)
Privately Rented: 8.8%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 11.5%
Indeed – for instance up in Yorkshire East there was, officially, a tiny Con -> LD swing (0.1%). In reality the Labour vote collapsed utterly, leaving them in 3rd, with the Lib Dems benefitting marginally more than the Tories.
I agree with HH.
I also like Alan Clarke. He wasn’t a bad man really, and quite civilised – as well as sharp – in a lot of ways.
In those diaries, he particularly seemed to fear an elderly couple called the Eastons who I think ran his Association, and openly seemed to boast about how he dreaded heading west rather than south on a Friday afternoon.
Plymouth is not my favourite place either, but the fact is it was his constituency and he should have been committed to it if that’s where he wants to represent.
I actually think seeing policy work on the ground, in practice, and solving casework could be the most rewarding thing of all.
It’s not social work.
Clarke is irreplaceable, but that kind of attitude is something the public does pick up on.
Tory MPs like Alan Clark who neglected their middle England seats are partly the reason we have so many Lib Dems in parliament today.
Clark tried hard to jump seats to Folkestone in 1983, with no success. He was made to be MP for Kensington & Chelsea, and it was a great tragedy his illness came too quickly for him to make much of a mark there.
I am intending to post replies on both Plymouth Sutton and Torbay threads to points made here about those areas.