Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party:
Russell L. Brown |
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Conservative Party:
John Charteris |
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Liberal Democratic Party:
John Ross Scot |
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Scottish Nationalist Party:
Robert Fairbairn |
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Scottish Socialist Party:
John Dennis |
Incumbent: |
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Russell Brown |
97 Result: |
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Russell Brown
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Struan Stevenson
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Neil Wallace
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Robert Higgins
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92 Result: (Redistributed) |
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Demographic Profile:
Employment: |
| Unemployed | 9.0% |
Household SEG: |
| I - Professional | 3.2% |
| II - Managerial/Technical | 25.3% |
| III - Skilled (non-manual) | 19.6% |
| IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 24.6% |
| IV - Partly Skilled | 18.7% |
| V - Unskilled | 7.4% |
Misc: |
| Own Residence | 58.6% |
| Rent Residence | 41.5% |
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Submissions
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27/05/01 |
Alastair Matlock |
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| Dumfries was the Conservative's longest held Scottish seat prior to 1997. If the Tories are to make gains anywhere in Scotland, this is likely it. |
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30/05/01 |
A.S. |
Email:adma@interlog.com |
| Unlike its equally ex-Tory neighbour Galloway&c, Dumfries has never been exceptionally SNP-compatible--in effect, it works like Cumbria's northern spillover (Scotland's Monmouth?). (If it weren't Scottish, it might have stayed Tory.) The especially dramatic C-Lab swing in '97 can be explained by Sir Hector Monro's retirement--but it's foot-and-mouth country today, so the swing may be even more interesting this time... |
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