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| Kate Hoey |
A new constituency - Battersea & Vauxhall - would be created comprising four Lambeth and four Wandsworth wards:
- From Lambeth: Clapham Town, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell (our South Lambeth area is covered by the Stockwell or Oval wards)
- From Wandsworth: Latchmere, Queenstown, St Mary's Park, Shaftesbury
According to The Guardian's analysis, had the 2010 elections taken place with the new boundaries in place the result would still have been a victory for Labour, albeit a far less convincing one, putting the Conservatives in with a real chance. It's bad news for the Lib Dems though...
| 2010 Election Results for Vauxhall constituency | Estimated results for new Battersea & Vauxhall constituency | |||
| Votes | % of vote | Votes | % of vote | |
| Lab | 21,498 | 50% | 20,132 | 42% |
| Con | 9,301 | 22% | 17,932 | 37% |
| Lib Dems | 10,847 | 25% | 9,347 | 19% |
| Green | 708 | 2% | 660 | 1% |
| Other | 837 | 2% | ||
| Total | 43,191 | 48,071 | ||
I wonder if the new boundary changes have taken into account the extra 30,000 people who will be living in the VNEB regeneration area.
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Ha! Good point. It's going to be true blue in 10 years' time.
ReplyDeleteMeh - being Labour didn't seem to get Lambeth relatively better public services under a Labour government, and it's not saving us being steamrolled by developers under a Conservative government. Ok, these are issues more for the Council than the Parliament, and that won't change, but were it less of a safe seat, our representatives might work more to earn our votes.
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