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Post by stb12 on Mar 13, 2024 21:55:40 GMT
Old Bexley and Sidcup
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 1, 2024 17:04:36 GMT
Notional results since 1945. The 2019 result is the 'official' (Thrasher & Rallings) notional - the others are my own work | | Con | Lab | Lib | Com | | | | | | | | 1945 | 36.3% | 49.5% | 14.2% | | | 1950 | 49.0% | 40.9% | 9.7% | 0.4% | | 1951 | 55.1% | 44.9% | | | | 1955 | 55.2% | 40.3% | 4.5% | | | 1959 | 57.2% | 36.3% | 6.5% | | | 1964 | 48.6% | 36.6% | 13.7% | | | 1966 | 48.6% | 41.1% | 10.3% | |
| | Con | Lab | Lib/LD | NF/BNP | | | | | | | | 1970 | 54.3% | 36.3% | 7.7% | | | 1974 | 46.3% | 28.4% | 24.2% | | | 1974 | 47.4% | 33.1% | 19.1% | | | 1979 | 57.0% | 27.8% | 13.3% | 1.9% | | 1983 | 55.5% | 15.3% | 29.2% | | | 1987 | 56.6% | 17.4% | 26.0% | | | 1992 | 55.6% | 22.1% | 20.8% | |
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BXP | BNP | Grn | | | | | | | | | | 1997 | 40.8% | 36.1% | 16.5% | 5.5% | 0.8% | | | 2001 | 44.2% | 38.0% | 14.3% | 3.3% | | | | 2005 | 48.8% | 28.1% | 15.3% | 4.3% | 2.8% | | | 2010 | 53.8% | 19.7% | 15.5% | 3.4% | 4.7% | | | 2015 | 52.4% | 19.5% | 3.5% | 18.7% | | 2.8% | | 2017 | 61.0% | 29.8% | 3.2% | 3.5% | | 1.6% | | 2019 | 63.9% | 23.9% | 8.3% | | | 3.4% |
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Post by Clark on May 1, 2024 20:58:24 GMT
Why is this seat called 'Old Bexley & Sidcup' and not just 'Bexley & Sidcup'
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Post by stb12 on May 1, 2024 21:26:08 GMT
Why is this seat called 'Old Bexley & Sidcup' and not just 'Bexley & Sidcup' Wikipedia mentions this (on the page about Bexley generally not about the constituency) ‘It is sometimes known as Bexley Village or Old Bexley[1] to differentiate the area from the wider borough’ |
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Post by swanarcadian on May 1, 2024 21:28:54 GMT
Why is this seat called 'Old Bexley & Sidcup' and not just 'Bexley & Sidcup' In my youth I thought it was something to do with Ted Heath, who was Father of the House for nine years. |
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Post by Clark on May 1, 2024 21:32:44 GMT
Why is this seat called 'Old Bexley & Sidcup' and not just 'Bexley & Sidcup' In my youth I thought it was something to do with Ted Heath, who was Father of the House for nine years. Haha, yeah me too. Funny how the mind works. Old Bexley for an old man! |
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Post by No Offence Alan on May 1, 2024 21:45:25 GMT
Why is this seat called 'Old Bexley & Sidcup' and not just 'Bexley & Sidcup' In my youth I thought it was something to do with Ted Heath, who was Father of the House for nine years. I remember a Sun editorial when Thatcher was PM, saying something like "Heath is MP for the ridiculously-named seat of Old Bexley and Sidcup .." Of course, Ted Heath didn't choose the name, it was just a means of getting "Heath" and "ridiculous" in close proximity in the same sentence. |
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Post by john07 on May 2, 2024 0:01:43 GMT
Why is this seat called 'Old Bexley & Sidcup' and not just 'Bexley & Sidcup' The constituency was known as Bexley from 1945-70. Edward Heath took the seat in 1950, from Labour, and remained there until it was replaced by Sidcup in 1974. Another redistribution in 1983 saw this become Old Bexley and Sidcup. |
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Post by batman on May 2, 2024 4:23:48 GMT
In fact in 1983 there was no boundary change, only a name change. Boundary changes followed in 1997.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 2, 2024 5:00:57 GMT
Why is this seat called 'Old Bexley & Sidcup' and not just 'Bexley & Sidcup' The constituency was known as Bexley from 1945-70. Edward Heath took the seat in 1950, from Labour, and remained there until it was replaced by Sidcup in 1974. Another redistribution in 1983 saw this become Old Bexley and Sidcup. When Sidcup was created in 1974 it only took one ward from the previous Bexley seat (St Marys - 'Old Bexley') with the bulk of the seat coming from Chislehurst. Most of the old Bexley seat became Bexleyheath which was felt to be marginal, hence Heath switched to Sidcup, forcing Dame Patricia Hornsby Smith to go off to fight and lose in Aldridge Brownhills (although I'm not sure why she couldn't have fought the 'new' Chislehurst seat). As batman says the boundaries were unchanged in 1983 but the name was changed*. Since 1997, when Bexley borough was reduced to two and a half seats, the seat has expanded North of the A2 to include more territory (various wards in and around Welling) which were in Heath's original seat. * I assume local parties then as now had input into the boundary commission recommendations. In recent reviews, the Conservatives have had a particular penchant for adding extra names to constituencies, so I should have though it possible that the local association did suggest adding 'Old Bexley' to the constituency name, perhaps with the support of the local MP. So perhaps Heath did choose the name (this is in response to No Offence Alan ) |
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Post by mondialito on Jun 8, 2024 19:37:22 GMT
Brad DAVIES - Green Party Maxine Patricia FOTHERGILL - Reform UK Louie Thomas FRENCH - Conservative Party Adrian James HYYRYLAINEN-TRETT - Liberal Democrats Edward John Charles JONES - Labour Party Andrew STILL - Independent Laurent WILLIAMS - Rejoin EU
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Post by batman on Jun 8, 2024 19:38:29 GMT
I didn't realise Edward Jones was standing here. He was my CLP Secretary for some time before moving to SE London.
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Jun 23, 2024 18:25:30 GMT
Brad DAVIES - Green Party Maxine Patricia FOTHERGILL - Reform UK Louie Thomas FRENCH - Conservative Party Adrian James HYYRYLAINEN-TRETT - Liberal Democrats Edward John Charles JONES - Labour Party Andrew STILL - Independent Laurent WILLIAMS - Rejoin EU
I have been attending a living history festival this weekend in Abbot's Bromley, Staffordshire (Lichfield constituency) and one of the stands was a society promoting the rebellion against Franco from 1936 to 1939 where one of the people representing the Basque people was the Rejoin EU candidate from Old Bexley and Sidcup who suggested that the returning officer had given him an estimate of a 3.00am declaration |
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Post by iainbhx on Jul 19, 2024 22:43:30 GMT
Either the electorate or the turnout are incorrect on Bexley's web page and therefore the information they have given to the HoC Library, |
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Post by Andrew_S on Jul 20, 2024 0:01:43 GMT
Either the electorate or the turnout are incorrect on Bexley's web page and therefore the information they have given to the HoC Library, Looks like the electorate figures are wrong. |
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