Truro and Falmouth
2010 Results:
Conservative: 20349 (41.73%)
Labour: 4697 (9.63%)
Liberal Democrat: 19914 (40.83%)
UKIP: 1911 (3.92%)
Green: 858 (1.76%)
Others: 1039 (2.13%)
Majority: 435 (0.9%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Liberal Democrat: 17613 (45.5%)
Conservative: 12482 (32.3%)
Labour: 5954 (15.4%)
Other: 2640 (6.8%)
Majority: 5131 (13.3%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 16686 (32.4%)
Labour: 6991 (13.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 24089 (46.7%)
UKIP: 2736 (5.3%)
Other: 1062 (2.1%)
Majority: 7403 (14.4%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 16231 (32.3%)
Labour: 6889 (13.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 24296 (48.3%)
UKIP: 1664 (3.3%)
Other: 1215 (2.4%)
Majority: 8065 (16%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 15001 (26.4%)
Labour: 8697 (15.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 27502 (48.5%)
Referendum: 3682 (6.5%)
Other: 1865 (3.3%)
Majority: 12501 (22%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Sarah Newton (Conservative) Educated at Clare Terrace, Falmouth School and King`s College, London. Formerly worked for Citibank, American Express and as Director of Age Concern. Director of the International Longevity Centre. Former Merton councillor.
Sarah Newton (Conservative) Educated at Clare Terrace, Falmouth School and King`s College, London. Formerly worked for Citibank, American Express and as Director of Age Concern. Director of the International Longevity Centre. Former Merton councillor.
Charlotte MacKenzie (Labour) Educated at Cambridge University, with a doctorate from University College London. Researcher and consultant. Former associate director of HEFCE and QAA, and previously a senior lecturer. Formerly chaired the Board of Directors and Trustees of the community-based regeneration charity Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change. Truro councillor since May 2007. Contested Truro and St Austell 2005. 
Terrye Teverson (Liberal Democrat) born 1952. Educated at Helston Grammar School. Runs a printing company. Kerrier disrict councillor 1987-1999. Contested Falmouth and Camborne 1992, 1997. Contested South West region in 1999 European elections. Married to Lord Teverson, a Liberal Democrat whip in the Lords.
Ian Wright (Green)
Harry Blakeley (UKIP) Mechanical engineer.Loic Rich (Mebyon Kernow)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 84317
Male: 47.7%
Female: 52.3%
Under 18: 20.2%
Over 60: 27.1%
Born outside UK: 4.2%
White: 98.7%
Black: 0.2%
Asian: 0.3%
Mixed: 0.5%
Other: 0.3%
Christian: 73.7%
Full time students: 4.3%
Graduates 16-74: 20.2%
No Qualifications 16-74: 25%
Owner-Occupied: 71.6%
Social Housing: 12.4% (Council: 9.9%, Housing Ass.: 2.5%)
Privately Rented: 12%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 18.2%
Its a very small electorate though.
I believe in the local elections last year there was 13 candidates for 12 places (or something similar).
Must be rather embarrassing being the one to lose.
You’ve raised the issue, Pete! How does Gibraltar vote in the Euroelections?
Presumably voting Mebyon Kernow in the Scillies is akin to voting SNP in Shetland.
Scillonians don’t necessarily think of themselves as Cornish, so the comparison with Shetland is quite appropriate.I’ve always been under the impression that the islands’ inhabitants tend slightly towards the Conservatives. Of course the population increases quite sharply in the summer months because of seasonal work.
I wonder whether if the electorate of the Scilly Isles was 16,000 they’d have a seat of their own in the same way as the Western Isles does.
“How does Gibraltar vote in the Euroelections?”
At the last European elections it was the most Conservative electorate of any in the UK, giving the Tories 52% which was 4% more than they got in Kensington & Chelsea, the next highest. Still this was a bit of a come down from the elections of 2004 when 71% voted Conservative!
Elections to the Gibraltar parliament are a battle between the Gibraltar Social Democrats and the Gibraltar Socialist Labour party, but as in Portugal, the ‘Social Democrats’ are a centre right party and there was probably some correlation between their support and those who voted Conservative in the more recent European election. Obviously in 2004 the Conservatives appealed well beyond this base, because the Labour UK government was seen by Gibraltarians as unsound on the question of sovereignty.
Indeed, I recall the leader of the Gibraltan Labour Party urging people to vote Tory in the 2004 Euros because of the “shared sovereignty” discussions