ANALYSIS Analysis: post-election statistics

Turnout = 71.3%

Labour majority = 179

Swing = 10% Conservative to Labour

Share of the Vote

The Parliamentary labour Party's 419 members

Occupation

Age

Majorities under 1,000

Rank Member (Party, Constituency)    Majority

1  M.J. Oaten (L Dem, Hampshire, Winchester)  2
2  A.M. Sanders (L Dem, Torbay)    12
3  E. Davey (L Dem, Kingston-upon-Thames, Kingston
  and Surbiton)       56
4  I.C. Bruce (C, Dorset, South Dorset)   77
5  D. Heath (L Dem, Somerset, Somerton and Frome) 130
6  Sir W.D. Madel (C, Bedfordshire, South West
  Bedfordshire)      132
7  P.D. Stinchcombe (Lab, Northamptonshire,
  Wellingborough)      187
8  P.A. Sawford (Lab, Northamptonshire, Kettering) 189
9  P.L. Atkinson (C, Northumberland, Hexham)  222
10 M.L.D. Fabricant (C, Staffordshire, Lichfield) 238
11 B. White (Lab, Buckinghamshire, North East
  Milton Keynes)      240
12 P.C.M. Nicholls (C, Devon, Teignbridge)  281
13 D. Ruffley (C, Suffolk, Bury St. Edmunds)  368
14 A. King (Lab, Warwickshire, Rugby and
  Kenilworth)      495
15 Hon. D.P. Heathcoat-Amory (C, Somerset, Wells) 528
16 Mrs. C.A. Spelman (C, West Midlands, Meriden) 582
17 Sir R.B.F.S. Body (C, Lincolnshire, Boston and
  Skegness)       647
18 Mrs. E. Gordon (Lab, Havering, Romford)  649
19 C.J. Fraser (C, Dorset, Mid Dorset and Poole
  North)        681
20 Sir J.M. Shersby (C, Hillingdon, Uxbridge) 724
21 T. Clark (Lab, Northampton, South)   744
22 D.W.G. Chidgey (L Dem, Eastleigh)   754
23 J.D. Cran (C, Humberside, Beverley and
  Holderness)      811
24 Sir A.D. Steen (C, Devon, Totnes)   877

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