stb12
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Post by stb12 on Mar 13, 2024 21:12:53 GMT
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
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Post by markgoodair on Apr 17, 2024 12:46:48 GMT
Reform have selected Harry Palmer as their PPC.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Apr 17, 2024 13:37:02 GMT
Does he have a Billion Dollar Brain?
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 17, 2024 17:34:06 GMT
Reform have selected Harry Palmer as their PPC. The Ipcress candidate. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 29, 2024 6:14:46 GMT
| | Con | Lab | Lib/LD | Grn | NF |
| | | | | | | | | | 1974 | 36.7% | 33.1% | 30.3% | | | | | 1974 | 38.1% | 35.8% | 26.0% | | | | | 1979 | 53.4% | 31.2% | 14.3% | | 1.1% | | | 1983 | 53.2% | 18.2% | 28.6% | | | | | 1987 | 56.4% | 19.5% | 22.8% | 1.3% | | | | 1992 | 55.2% | 26.4% | 17.1% | 1.0% | | |
| | Con | Lab | LD | Ref/UKIP/
BXP | Grn | BNP | | | | | | | | | | 1997 | 39.1% | 41.9% | 14.6% | 4.1% | | | | 2001 | 40.5% | 41.5% | 15.2% | 2.7% | | | | 2005 | 47.0% | 31.1% | 17.3% | 4.2% | | | | 2010 | 51.7% | 19.9% | 20.7% | 4.2% | | 3.4% | | 2015 | 54.3% | 20.5% | 5.3% | 15.7% | 4.1% | | | 2017 | 58.5% | 34.4% | 4.9% | | 1.7% | | | 2019 | 59.4% | 26.4% | 10.4% | | 3.8% | |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on May 30, 2024 11:39:46 GMT
Former MEP Alex Mayer is the Labour candidate here.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 8, 2024 6:41:47 GMT
SOPNFive main parties plus 'Patriotic Alliance' (joint UKIP and English Democrat)
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Post by heslingtonian on Jun 18, 2024 17:59:25 GMT
I spend a fair amount of time in this constituency and other than Andrew Selous's office in Dunstable I'm yet to see a single election poster. You'd really not know there was a General Election on here.
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Post by bsjmcr on Jul 8, 2024 10:17:26 GMT
I spend a fair amount of time in this constituency and other than Andrew Selous's office in Dunstable I'm yet to see a single election poster. You'd really not know there was a General Election on here. The tables were finally turned on Andrew Selous who had beaten Andrew Date of Labour by just 700 or so in 2001 (the Tory majority in ‘97 was just 132), only to lose by about 600 this time. Would the equivalent of SW Beds 1997 this time be Basildon with a Tory majority of just 20, down from at least 20,000?! |
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Post by heslingtonian on Jul 15, 2024 16:47:24 GMT
This would presumably have remained Conservative had Caddington and Eaton Bray wards not been moved into Luton South. The boundary changes definitely hurt the Conservatives here.
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Post by batman on Jul 15, 2024 16:54:03 GMT
The converse is that Labour probably would have won this seat in at least one of the Blair landslides if they had been able to contest the seat on its current boundaries.
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Post by mattbewilson on Jul 15, 2024 17:44:20 GMT
The converse is that Labour probably would have won this seat in at least one of the Blair landslides if they had been able to contest the seat on its current boundaries. there's been a fair bit of demographic change since then though. In the same way Worthing seats are now labour, the movement of young professionals into this area has been very helpful |
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Post by batman on Jul 15, 2024 18:15:23 GMT
Basically the dividing line between Luton & its surrounds is not as total as it used to be
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