Twickenham
2005 Results:
Liberal Democrat: 26696 (51.6%)
Conservative: 16731 (32.4%)
Labour: 5868 (11.4%)
Other: 2392 (4.6%)
Majority: 9965 (19.3%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 16689 (33.4%)
Labour: 6903 (13.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 24344 (48.7%)
UKIP: 579 (1.2%)
Green: 1423 (2.8%)
Majority: 7655 (15.3%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 21956 (37.8%)
Labour: 9065 (15.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 26237 (45.1%)
Other: 886 (1.5%)
Majority: 4281 (7.4%)
No Boundary Changes
Current MP: Vincent Cable (Lib Dem) born 1943, York. Educated at Nunthorpe Grammar and Cambridge University, with a doctorate in Economics from Glasgow University. Former Chief Economist for Shell. A former Labour party member, councillor and special advisor to John Smith, he joined the SDP in the 1980s. Glasgow councillor 1971-1974. Contested York 1983, 1987, Twickenham 1992. MP for Twickenham since 1997. Lib Dem shadow chancellor since 2003 and Deputy leader since 2006, he served as acting leader of the party following Ming Campbell’s resignation in 2007 (more information at They work for you)
Candidates:
Deborah Thomas (Conservative) born Kew. Educated at Cambridge University. Chartered Accountant, working as as project consultant for AMV. Contested Birmingham Hodge Hill in 2005.
Brian Tomlinson (Labour) lawyer. Young Fabians Labour Party and Trade Union Liaison Officer.
Steve Roest (Green) Runs a green car company and is UK Director for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 103675
Male: 48.4%
Female: 51.6%
Under 18: 21%
Over 60: 17.3%
Born outside UK: 16.3%
White: 90.8%
Black: 0.9%
Asian: 4.4%
Mixed: 2.1%
Other: 1.8%
Christian: 66.2%
Hindu: 1.6%
Jewish: 0.6%
Muslim: 2.2%
Sikh: 0.9%
Full time students: 4.9%
Graduates 16-74: 41%
No Qualifications 16-74: 14.9%
Owner-Occupied: 73.1%
Social Housing: 10.4% (Council: 3.9%, Housing Ass.: 6.4%)
Privately Rented: 13.3%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 7.6%
Despite losing Richmond Upon Thames LBC the Conservatives still returned more councillors than they had in the 1980’s or 1990’s.
I think the notion of having to chose a real government will give the Tories Richmond Park and the two Sutton LBC seats, and also allow them to come very close in Kingston & Surbiton. Were it not for VC, I would also be confident about Twickenham to.
Well known politicians have been defeated when the government has changed - even without a landslide.
I watched the 1979 election on the May Bank Holiday.
Was that on the History Channel or Yesterday (once UK History)?
Not sure - was it?
Decision 79 ran for 15 hours on the Bank Holiday
9am to 12 midnight.
I thought it was an excellent program.
People in the studio who knew their stuff, and lots of good technical analysis of facts and figures. The interviews were amusing and sharper aswell.
They had a break from 4.00 to 7.00 am but it didn’t seem to disrupt too much because a lot of seats came in on the Friday daytime, and they kept going until around what must have been 3pm.
The show was broadcast on BBC Parliament. They show election replays every so often.
The might be another one on the May bank holiday next week then.
Did they have Teddy Taylors and Shirley Williams declarations?
Teddy Taylor’s was declared yes.
Shirley Williams’ declaration was not shown.
She was interviewed standing by a river bank just before when they had an inkling of it, and then again about an hour or so later afterwards. It was a very late declaration - about the time Mrs Thatcher left for the Palace, and although David Butler mentioned it as a possibility earlier in the morning (only a possibility), no-one seriously thought she was in trouble until very late.
Peter, I notice quite a lot of it has been put on U-tube.
Unfortunately the I-player recordings have now gone.
Why on earth they don’t put the whole thing out on a DVD I don’t know. I must make some enquiries about it once and for all, and let everyone know.
I’ll put a separate post up with a few U tube links, although it will need moderating because of links.
1979 election - Decision 79
various extracts from it now on U-tube
Quite early on in the program -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6seL-SsPV90
The morning after (when it came back on at 7am)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hS1AxXIrG0&feature=related
The rituals -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebj1vT7CMyk&feature=related
There’s more of it on there aswell.
2009 Euro election
London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames
(so Twickenham constituency, and most of
Richmond Park constituency).
Con 17,779 33.4%
LD 16,446 30.9%
Green 6,473 12.2%
UKIP 4,846 9.1%
Lab 3,595 6.8%
BNP 1,413 2.7%
Turnout 41.7%
Slightly disappointing result for the Tories. Their share stayed about the same (+0.5%) while the LD share rose by 4.7%. It looks like LD/Lab tactical voting isn’t completely dead in Richmond since the Labour vote fell by 7.5%. The Greens also benefited.
Is there any way I could get ward information for London, 2009 Euro elections?
I have a feeling this is going to be difficult as we only had the Euro election, whereas in 2004 it was counted in the computerised way with the Mayor and GLA, and the data was flagged in that way.
Perhaps Pete Whitehead, or someone else will be along to advise.
Bright ideas would be much appreciated.
Is there any way I could get ward information for London, 2009 Euro elections?
I have a feeling this is going to be difficult as we only had the Euro election, whereas in 2004 it was counted in the computerised way with the Mayor and GLA, and the data was flagged in that way.
Perhaps Pete Whitehead, or someone else will be along to advise.
Bright ideas would be much appreciated.
I can advise only that as far as I know there is no ward level data available for London. As you say it was because the previous European elections coincided with the Mayoral and GLA elections and there was therefore some kind of computerised counting system used. A great shame we dont have this extra data available which would not be really difficult to do - I feel it should be compulsory in all areas, for all elections.
Thanks Pete - it’s what I suspected.