Some demographic info on constituencies

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I'll post stuff here whenever I see something interesting.

Social Class in the Northwest[/i]

AB: professional/managerial

Top 5 constituencies:

1. Altrincham & Sale West (Con)
2. Cheadle (LD/vacant)
3. Macclesfield (Con)
4. Ribble Valley (Con)
5. Tatton (Con)

Bottom 5 constituences:

1. Bootle (Lab)
2. Liverpool, Walton (Lab)
3. Manchester, Blackley (Lab)
4. Salford (Lab)
5. Manchester, Gorton (Lab)

C1: White collar middle class/lower middle class

Top 5 constituencies:

1. Lancaster & Wyre (Con)
2. Blackpool North & Fleetwood (Lab)
3. Fylde (Con)
4. Cheadle (LD/vacant)
5. Blackpool South (Lab)

Bottom 5 constituencies:

1. Copeland (Lab)
2. Manchester, Blackley (Lab)
3. Salford (Lab)
4. Manchester, Central (Lab)
5. Bootle (Lab)

C1: Skilled working class

Top five constituencies:

1. Makerfield (Lab)
2. Penrith & The Border (Con)
3. Ashton under Lyne (Lab)
4. Leigh (Lab)
5. Oldham West & Royton

Bottom five constituencies:

1. Manchester, Withington (LD)
2. Crosby (Lab)
3. Tatton (Con)
4. Liverpool, Riverside
5. Cheadle (LD/vacant)

D: Semi-skilled working class

Top five constituencies:

1. Blackburn (Lab)
2. Preston (Lab)
3. Ashton under Lyne (Lab)
4. Bolton South East (Lab)
5. Rochdale (LD)

Bottom five constituencies:

1. Cheadle (LD/vacant)
2. Crosby (Lab)
3. Tatton (Con)
4. Wirral West (Lab)
5. Altrincham & Sale West (Con)

E: Unskilled working class, unemployed, on benefit etc.

Top five constituencies:

1. Liverpool, Riverside (Lab)
2. Knowsley South (Lab)
3. Liverpool, West Derby (Lab)
4. Knowsley North & Sefton East (Lab)
5. Liverpool Walton (Lab)

Bottom five constituencies:

1. Crosby (Lab)
2. Cheadle (LD/vacant)
3. Tatton (Con)
4. Bolton West (Lab)
5. Altrincham & Sale West

[Rural Radical]

Amazed at Penrith & the Border. A working class Tory seat !

[Democratic Hawk]

Amazed at Penrith & the Border. A working class Tory seat !

Very amazed

Dave

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Amazed at Penrith & the Border. A working class Tory seat !

Not really; it has fairly (but not very) high amounts of AB's and C1's and low amounts of DE's. More a diverse rural seat than anything else.
The above list is just one measure of class though; there might be different results using different measures.

[A18]

Amazed at Penrith & the Border. A working class Tory seat !

What's so amazing about that? There are plenty of working class GOP seats here in the states.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What's so amazing about that? There are plenty of working class GOP seats here in the states.

The main voting indicator in the U.K is class. There are currently no working class seats with Tory M.P's, although there are a couple with large-ish working class populations that were outvoted by a larger middle class (which means something different to the U.S) population (eg: Gravesham).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Northeast

AB

Top 5:

1. Stockton South (Lab)
2. Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Lab)
3. Hexham (Con)
4. Tynemouth (Lab)
5. City of Durham (Lab)

Bottom 5:

1. Tyne Bridge (Lab)
2. Easington (Lab)
3. Sunderland North (Lab)
4. South Shields (Lab)
5. Middlesbrough (Lab)

C1

1. Tynemouth (Lab)
2. Stockton South (Lab)
3. Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Lab)
4. Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland (Lab)
5. City of Durham (Lab)

Bottom 5:

1. Easington (Lab)
2. Tyne Bridge (Lab)
3. Sunderland North (Lab)
4. South Shields (Lab)
5. Berwick upon Tweed (LD)

C2

Top 5:

1. Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland (Lab)
2. Hartlepool (Lab)
3. Bishop Auckland (Lab)
4. Houghton & Washington East (Lab)
5. Stockton South (Lab)

Bottom 5:

1. Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Lab)
2. Hexham (Con)
3. Tynemouth (Lab)
4. City of Durham (Lab)
5. Wansbeck (Lab)

D

Top 5:

1. Middlesbrough (Lab)
2. Easington (Lab)
3. Houghton & Washington East (Lab)
4. Hartlepool (Lab)
5. Bishop Auckland (Lab)

Bottom 5:

1. Hexham (Con)
2. Tynemouth (Lab)
3. Berwick upon Tweed (LD)
4. Newcastle upon Tyne North (Lab)
5. Stockton South (Lab)

E

Top 5:

1. South Shields (Lab)
2. Middlesbrough (Lab)
3. Sunderland South (Lab)
4. Tyne Bridge (Lab)
5. Redcar (Lab)

Bottom 5:

1. Hexham (Con)
2. Berwick upon Tweed (LD)
3. Stockton South (Lab)
4. Blyth Valley (Lab)
5. City of Durham (Lab)