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Showing posts with label Gillingham and Rainham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gillingham and Rainham. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Labour's Most Vulnerable

Labour's most vulnerable seats are all in the south east of the country - they are

Battersea (London, not far from Westminster) - MP (1997-2010) Martin Linton restanding

Crawley (close to Gatwick Airport) - MP (1997-2010) Laura Moffatt restanding

Croydon Central (Outer London, to the South of the centre) - no incumbent (old Croydon Central was Tory held - but boundary changes make this a nominal Labour seat)

Gillingham & Rainham (Kent commuter towns near the River Medway) - MP (1997-2010) Paul Clark restanding

Harlow (Essex) - MP (1997-2010) Bill Rammell restanding

Hove (next to Brighton on the south coast) - MP (2005-2010) Celia Barlow restanding

Portsmouth North (Naval town) - MP (2005-2010) Sarah McCarthy-Fry restanding

A swing of just 0.5% from Labour to the Conservatives would lead to a change of party in all of these constituencies. Of course in real-life swing is not uniform.

The train map for the are can be accessed here.