Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party:
J. Donnelly Touhig |
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Conservative Party:
Philip Howells |
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Liberal Democratic Party:
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Plaid Cymru:
Leigh Thomas |
Incumbent: |
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Don Touhig |
97 Result: |
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Don Touhig
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Russell Walters
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Chris Worker
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Darren Jones
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92 Result: (Redistributed) |
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Demographic Profile:
| Age: |
| < 16 | 20.6% |
| 16-24 | 13.0% |
| 25-39 | 20.8% |
| 40-65 | 27.3% |
| 65 < | 18.2% |
Ethnic Origin: |
| White | 99.3% |
| Black | 0.1% |
| Indian/Pakistani | 0.3% |
| Other non-white | 0.3% |
Employment: |
| Full Time | 65.7% |
| Part Time | 14.6% |
| Self Employed | 8.0% |
| Government Schemes | 1.8% |
| Unemployed | 9.8% |
Household SEG: |
| I - Professional | 3.8% |
| II - Managerial/Technical | 21.8% |
| III - Skilled (non-manual) | 11.7% |
| IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 35.5% |
| IV - Partly Skilled | 17.2% |
| V - Unskilled | 7.7% |
Misc: |
| Own Residence | 71.6% |
| Rent Residence | 27.4% |
| Own Car(s) | 65.9% |
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Submissions
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21/04/01 |
JR |
Email:robertsat13@cwcom.net |
| This seat was held by former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock from 1970 until he became a European Commissioner in 1995. It is a rock-hard Labour seat - but Plaid Cymru astonished everyone by increasing their vote from 6% to about 45% in the Assembly election and winning the seat. PC are marketing themselves as a 'socialist' party which should appeal to the heartland Labour voters in a seat like this. I think the PC victory in 99 was a combination of understandable Labour complacency and a protest vote (PC ran Labour very close in byelections in similar Welsh Valley seats to this in the late 60s, without ever putting down any real roots). Seats like this will stay Labour but cannot and should not be taken for granted |
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