I was looking through the BBC Constituency guide and thought it was interesting (and perhaps fitting) to compare the only two seats in which I have voted, during a General Election.
New Forest West
2001 Result: Won by CON, majority 29.9%
- the "safer" of the two New Forest seats is about as close to a Tory archetype of middle England as they come
- Most industry is centred in the New Milton, though forestry, farming and market gardening take place in much of the seat
- this is primarily a seat of genteel retirement. Tory MP Desmond Swayne racked up a massive majority of 29.9% in 2001.
Liverpool Riverside
2001 Result: Won by LAB, majority 54.7%
- Riverside is the heart of Liverpool and covers an area... from the boundary with Bootle through to more affluent Aigburth, by way of some of the poorest and most deprived urban areas in Britain.
- The northern wards of Vauxhall and Everton which have an
almost entirely white population suffer some of worst housing
conditions anywhere.
- Toxteth, or L8 as it is known, lies immediately to the south of the city centre and has gained a certain notoriety from the riots of the early 1980s.
- This is a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic constituency with high unemployment.
- Of those who are employed, 16.6% work in health and social work related jobs - the fourth highest nationally.
- Labour have easily won Riverside ever since its creation in 1983, although turn-out here has always been poor.
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