Workington
2010 Results:
Conservative: 13290 (33.85%)
Labour: 17865 (45.51%)
Liberal Democrat: 5318 (13.55%)
BNP: 1496 (3.81%)
UKIP: 876 (2.23%)
English Democrat: 414 (1.05%)
Majority: 4575 (11.66%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 18486 (48.4%)
Conservative: 12619 (33.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 5450 (14.3%)
Other: 1601 (4.2%)
Majority: 5867 (15.4%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 12659 (31.9%)
Labour: 19554 (49.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 5815 (14.6%)
UKIP: 1328 (3.3%)
Other: 381 (1%)
Majority: 6895 (17.4%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 12359 (29.6%)
Labour: 23209 (55.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 5214 (12.5%)
Other: 1040 (2.5%)
Majority: 10850 (25.9%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 12061 (24.4%)
Labour: 31717 (64.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 3967 (8%)
Referendum: 1412 (2.9%)
Other: 217 (0.4%)
Majority: 19656 (39.8%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Tony Cunningham(Labour) (more information at They work for you)
Judith Pattinson (Conservative) Tony Cunningham(Labour) (more information at They work for you)Stan Collins (Liberal Democrat)Stephen Lee (UKIP) 
Martin Wingfield (BNP) Born 1951. Former member of the National Front and editor of their newspaper, The Flag. Convicted under the Race Relations Act in 1984 and imprisoned for refusing to pay a fine. Joined the BNP in 2001 and has subsequently edited their party newspaper, Freedom. Contested Worthing 1983 for the National Front, Wolverhampton North-East 1997 for the National Democrats. Contested Birmingham East in 1989 European elections for the National Front, North West England in 2004, 2009 European elections for the BNP.Rob Logan (English Democrat)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 76145
Male: 48.8%
Female: 51.2%
Under 18: 21.6%
Over 60: 23.4%
Born outside UK: 1.6%
White: 99.4%
Mixed: 0.2%
Other: 0.2%
Christian: 86%
Full time students: 1.6%
Graduates 16-74: 14.3%
No Qualifications 16-74: 35.3%
Owner-Occupied: 69.2%
Social Housing: 21.9% (Council: 3.5%, Housing Ass.: 18.4%)
Privately Rented: 5.7%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 8.8%
Since the commnts policy now seems to be being enforced in an overbearing and dictatorial manner-as shown by the ridiculous deltion of my comment on North Antrim just because I referred to a loony left (which I accept is a subjective).
In that light, the comment above by Geoff the Green must be deleted also. The comment is just criticising the other parties that Geoff doesn’t like and accusing them of conning people to win electon.
Can we have some balance in the comments policy please?
is there any danger to labour holding this seat?
Lab Hold= 4,000 maj
Lab Hold
Maj 2800
Lab maj 2,000
Tony Cunningham is a really popular local MP. No chance of an upset here. With Keswick moving to Copeland, it might be an increased majority for him.
You can still get 4/6 on a labour win here. I took the odds.
I believe Cockermouth has been in this seat since 1950, prior to which it was in the constituency of Penrith and Cockermouth, and prior to that Cockermouth.
LAB HOLD
Interesting that the result here in 2010 saw the Labour majority lower than what it was in both 83 and 87. I would have put this down to Campbell-Savours’ possible popularity back in that era, but I would have thought the marginality of it now points to changes in Workington’s demographics long-term. There were other seats like this where the Labour majority is now lower than the 80′s elections, such as Stalybridge and Hyde, Rother Valley and North East Derbyshire to name a few, but in those latter two, it is undoubtedly the angry ex-miner having some effect. Here, it’s more the case of those who used to work in the faded industries of Cumbria not liking the look of New Labour.
This seat must have produced one of the Liberal Democrats’ worst results in England at the 1992 General Election. Obviously there were seats in Scotland and Wales where they lost their deposits, but I can’t remember if the 6.5% they managed here was their worst showing in England?
I think they may have done worse in Knowsley North.
Yes they lost their deposit in Knoswley North in 1992 with 4.3%. A Liberal candidate took 3.3%
You think right. The Liberal Democrats there only got 4.3% and therefore lost their deposit. The vote collapsed by 11.9%, not helped by the fact that the continuing Liberal Party stood a candidate. The Lib Dem candidate in Knowsley North in 1992 was James Murray, a Bootle solicitor who later contested Bootle in 2001, Crosby in 2005 and Bootle again in 2010. Ironically, my local knowledge came in very handy indeed for knowing about the particular candidate in this seat.
IIRC the Tory vote actually went up slightly in Knowsley North in 1992.
How did the Tories do overall in Merseyside in 1992?
They had some good results elsewhere such as of course Southport but also in Liverpool Garston and Crosby.
In Wallasey they lost but their total only fell by 69 votes.
Yes they did do particularly well in Crosby, though that was down to the collapse in the Lib Dem vote. My hometown seat may well have produced the first five figure Tory majority for the constituency in 13 years, but the Labour Party who went into second place would go on to storm to victory in 1997.