INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Londonderry East', '60276', '6.7862248865033', '6.61440706085341', '12.6614407060853', '13.5389788504308', '11.8567914825852', '11.7728687287625', '14.1857285221321', 'As the name suggests, this seat takes in the eastern chunk of County Londonderry, and the area has been represented in the commons since 1974 by Willie Ross. His seat today is largely rural, including parts of the Sperrin Mountains, the Roe Valley, most of the eastern shore of Lough Foyle and part of the northern coast of the province. Much of the Coleraine half of the seat is extremely picturesque and very attractive to tourists. Coleraine is a busy shopping town with a little industry, also site of the University of Ulster, whilst Kilrea and Garvagh are small market towns. The roads linking Coleraine, Portrush and Portstewart are the site of the annual North-West 200 Motorcycle Races. The area covered by Limavady District Council makes up the western, more rural, half of the seat. The town is a former home of William Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1912 to 1925. His statue can be found in the town; it was also home to Jane Ross, who noted down the famous Londonderry Air or Danny Boy from a street fiddler in 1851. Dungiven is a pleasant market town situated where the rivers Roe, Owenreagh and Owenbeg converge at the foot of the 1,535ft Glenshane Pass. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Loughborough', '70077', '5.02508247842003', '6.31505344121466', '17.6315053441215', '15.7888343293086', '16.714749058793', '15.2845600456967', '15.6054070674197', 'Boundary changes have given Loughborough the appearance of a volatile political history. In 1983 the Leicestershire coalfield was transferred from the seat, which had been loyal to Labour, and was replaced by much of the Valley of the Soar. Stephen Dorrells tenure from 1983 to 1997 was firmly rooted in the almost unfailingly Conservative, white, middle class communities of the Soar Valley. In 1995, the Boundary Commission moved the bulk of the Soar Valley again, into the newly created Charnwood constituency. Stephen Dorrell chose to move with these voters, so by 1997 Loughborough constituency had become fairly compact, and focused around the town of Loughborough itself, a small area of Wolds villages and the town of Shepshed. The new constituency is more evenly balanced now, although not immune from future volatility. The middle class areas of Nanpantan and Outwoods in the South West of Loughborough are Conservative on Charnwood Council, but otherwise Loughborough and the two Shepshed wards are held by Labour. Loughborough is an industrial engineering town with many old terraces and council estates. Some hosiery and knitwear industry remains in the area. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Louth and Horncastle', '71556', '5.15452091767881', '6.21331544524568', '8.62133154452457', '8.37933537669896', '7.70675278547329', '9.83343689121525', '9.48311752155202', 'Louth and Horncastle, found in the north east corner of Lincolnshire among the Lincolnshire Wolds, provide a welcome break in the landscape when compared to the flat, monotonous horizons that typify the county elsewhere. Farmland dominates the varied landscape of Horncastle, and in combination with the affluent and elegant Louth, has, historically, made the seat a classic Conservative stronghold. Sir Peter Tapsell, one of three surviving Tory MPs from Harold Macmillans 71-strong intake of 1959, has enjoyed success in this part of the world for four decades, despite boundary changes which have seen him represent three differently named seats. Sir Peter won here in 1997 with a majority of 6,900, helped in part by the equal standing of Labour and the Liberal Democrats, who polled 14,000 and 12,000 votes respectively. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Ludlow', '63053', '5.6822187181152', '6.83932564667819', '12.6839325646678', '10.9615316368149', '12.9485451781643', '11.1726589948145', '13.0732369411575', 'The constituency is physically the largest in Shropshire. It stretches from the border with Wales in the west to just short of Dudley and Wolverhampton in the east. Much of the seat is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and it contains the large Environmentally Sensitive Areas of Clun and the South Shropshire Hills. Ludlow, the largest of the constituencys towns, has been described as one of the most beautiful and distinguished country towns in England. Once the seat of government for the Welsh Marches, its medieval street pattern survives almost intact, along with many ancient properties: Ludlow Castle is 900 years old, featuring examples of architecture from the Norman, Medieval and Tudor periods; and St. Laurences Parish Church - one of the largest in the country - commemorates A.E. Housman, the author of A Shropshire Lad, in its churchyard. Politically, this constituency has tended to be loyal to the Conservatives. The present MP, arch anti-EU campaigner Christopher Gill, who won a majority of 12.8% in 1997 is standing down.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Luton North', '65998', '4.32934621479323', '5.92836146549895', '12.5928361465499', '11.7114558338838', '12.6650719952604', '10.5713714359737', '12.650607633142', 'Prior to the 1995 boundary changes, most of Luton Norths area comprised the villages and hamlets between Luton and the small town of Flitwick. However, these changes converted Luton North into an exclusively urban constituency. The resulting seat is mainly residential, although it also contains Luton town. There is less industry and fewer non-white voters than in the Luton South constituency and there is plenty of new private housing. The seat has good transport links, with the M1 running across the west of the constituency and the Thameslink rail service to London running from Leagrave Station. It contains Lutons usually safest Conservative ward, Icknield, which harbours the towns most up-market housing. The population is relatively young: the seat has the highest percentage of school-age children in the county and a small proportion of pensioners. Luton North also has a significant ethnic minority population. The Conservative MP John Carlisle represented the seat and its predecessor for 18 years, and when he retired at the 1997 election, Labours Kelvin Hopkins was returned with a majority of over 9,000 votes. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Luton South', '68985', '4.48069934690351', '5.70428353989998', '17.57042835399', '15.9419549394228', '15.6422014894828', '18.8626244979526', '19.9760033470705', 'Won by Labour in 1997 with a majority of 11,319, Luton South had voted Conservative in 1992 even though the party did not win a single ward in the constituency in the local elections the year before. The then PPS to John Major, Graham Bright, held on with a majority of 799 and the Liberal Democrats only secured 10% of the vote. The seat is mainly urban but includes a couple of more rural wards to the south. The town was once known as a centre for millinery but few are employed in that industry now. The constituency is dominated by Luton airport and the Vauxhall car plant, and it came as a major blow to the area when Vauxhall announced that they plan to close their plant by mid 2002 with the loss of 2,000 jobs. The closure was announced just before Christmas 2000 and was met with strikes from the workers and intervention from the unions, and a scramble by MPs to put together a rescue package. Margaret Moran, a Londoner, won Luton South in 1997 having been a Lewisham councillor since 1984 and leader of Lewisham council from 1993-95. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Macclesfield', '73123', '5.11154985192498', '6.23401665686583', '17.6234016656866', '17.7452255533802', '19.7597288083731', '16.8686674074963', '19.4604449262728', 'Nicholas Wintertons 1992 winning margin of 22,767 was pared back by more than half in 1997, but considering the carnage suffered by his colleagues in supposedly safe seats, the right-wing Euro-sceptic will not have minded too much. Macclesfield has, in the past, been so Conservative that in 1995, the Tories most disastrous local election year, the party actually increased its majority on the borough council - albeit by just one seat. In the council elections of the following year, Macclesfield was left as one of only two Conservative-controlled local authorities in the north of England. The constituency only covers roughly half of the town of Macclesfield, possibly a good thing for the Tories who have never been the most popular party in the town. With Manchester close to the north, and this seat being set in some delightful countryside, it is easy to see why this area is so attractive to wealthy commuters. Save for textiles and pharmaceuticals there is little industry to be found in this pleasantly residential seat, and professionals and managers make up the greatest proportion of the workers, though few are employed within the seats boundaries. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Maidenhead', '68130', '5.49702202317743', '6.35813885219433', '17.6358138852194', '16.030261706476', '17.3017660423374', '18.4120179282355', '15.8350492932782', 'In 1997, a constituency was based around the town of Maidenhead for the first time: previously, it had shared a constituency with the neighbouring town of Windsor. Even so, although named after the east Berkshire town, the constituency covers much rural ground too, including many picturesque villages. The western edge of the seat reaches the outer suburbs of Reading. The town of Maidenhead itself has a thriving and dynamic economy with businesses ranging from small family firms that have been here for generations to the European headquarters of multinational companies. It is an important shopping centre and in recent times has attracted many hi-tech and pharmaceutical companies. It is close to the motorway and is well linked to London and Heathrow Airport. The town owes its origins to the River Thames, which still attracts tourists who enjoy walks along the riverside. More significant is the fact that the river here plays host to the annual Henley Royal Regatta - although Henley is in Oxfordshire, Berkshire claims the regatta meadows. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Maidstone and the Weald', '74002', '5.03675099282533', '6.1588875976325', '12.6158887597632', '10.9469862097294', '11.6210676342802', '14.3349757920618', '12.2169974636251', 'Many of the seats in Kent are strange mixtures of the rural and the urban; the agricultural and the industrial. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that this constituency includes only part of Maidstone and only part of the Weald, yet takes the name of both. This seat has voted in wildly divergent ways at local and general elections. Ann Widdecombe currently has a large majority where the latter are concerned; at local authority level the Lib Dems have 21 of the Maidstone District Council seats to the Conservatives 6. This seat is home to commuters and light industry at Maidstone, and more agricultural pursuits on The Weald. The exclusive girls school of Benenden is to be found here, as is Sissinghurst Castle - the Tudor house famed for its gardens designed by previous residents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson. Maidstone is Kents county town, and has seen some substantial investment in recent years. In particular, the £8.2m millennium river project in the town centre has had half of the cost paid for by the Millennium Commission. It has seen the river and access improved, and the award-winning Lockmeadow Bridge built. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Makerfield', '68457', '3.14924259811797', '5.09166337993193', '17.5091663379932', '14.7533962754969', '16.1920627185116', '15.7259368714195', '17.1718525296021', 'In 1997, Ian McCartney was returned for his third term as MP for Makerfield on the back of a 26,117 majority, the largest of his parliamentary career so far. Until recently, the small settlement of Ince could claim, albeit briefly, to be the most obscure town in the UK to have a parliamentary seat named after it. Unfortunately, Ince-in-Makerfield is so obscure that even many Lancastrians are unaware of the town and it was moved into the seat of Wigan during the boundary review of 1983 and the scattering of small towns that remained were redrawn to create Makerfield. With the decline in coal mining, new industries have established themselves here, and by far the greatest proportion of the economically active population are employed in skilled manual occupations. The fact that this Lancashire seat has a coal mining heritage rather than links to the textile industry perhaps accounts for its low proportion of non-white residents, with a mere one in 200 voters coming from ethnic minorities. Despite the loss of coal, diversification has kept unemployment below the national average - untypical for a seat of this type.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Maldon and Chelmsford East', '69201', '5.0750566893424', '6.37274027831968', '12.637274027832', '13.8207949731332', '12.9168421270995', '12.345055963378', '13.2437634078563', 'This seat is composed mainly of flat countryside - including the rivers Blackwater and Crouch - bordered by a stretch of North Sea coastline to the east, and includes only two towns of any size - Maldon and Burnham-on-Crouch. The port of Maldon is still trading today and the Old Thames Sailing Barges are still active on the river and can be seen at the Hythe Quay. One slightly unusual event which takes place here is the annual Maldon Mud Race held at New Year, which attracts many competitors and on-lookers from as far away as Japan. Burnham-on-Crouch is a quiet, unspoilt riverside town whose Clock Tower is an ornate landmark which has dominated the old part of the town since 1877. It is a fairly well-known yachting centre, which has held a week long Regatta every August for over 100 years and also holds a music and arts festival every June. With 40% of the seats workforce belonging to the well-paid middle-class management/technical social group, low unemployment, and nearly 80% owner-occupation, it is little surprise that this seat has in the past been safe Tory territory. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Manchester Blackley', '59111', '3.10598348603099', '4.48698211838744', '12.4486982118387', '11.4373553326122', '11.2475243432511', '12.6795793769735', '14.0802404221349', 'Like other northern cities such as Leeds and Liverpool, the population in the centre of Manchester has dwindled in recent decades, a factor which has naturally had a knock-on effect on the citys electorate and parliamentary seats. Prior to 1983, there were a total of eight seats with a prefix of Manchester. Following the most recent boundary review of 1995, that figure has been trimmed down to 4. Labour first won this seat during their landslide victory of 1945, only to lose it again in 1951 when Churchill triumphantly led the Conservatives back to power. The next time Labour wrested the seat from the Tories was in 1964 when the party again formed a new government. Since then, Blackley has ceased to be a weather vane seat which swings with the country and instead has stayed with Labour in every subsequent election. Pronounced Blakely, the seat lies in the north of Manchester and borders the suburbs of Prestwich to the west and Chadderton and Failsworth to the east. It is mainly a residential area of declining suburbs, with deprivation particularly noticeable to the north of the seat. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Manchester Central', '66268', '3.13020672631904', '3.91259733204563', '12.3912597332046', '13.8411871470431', '11.5848784620964', '11.1177678385318', '13.2573270069477', 'Labours overall vote share here stood in 1997 at 71%, demonstrating just how safe this seat has been for the party. Indeed the Central division has never returned an MP other than a Labour member. Manchester Central was first created in 1974 when the citys seats were reduced in number from 10 to 8 to counter the population exodus. Since then the seat has been redrawn through subsequent reviews and now includes much more of Manchesters inner city areas than it did during previous incarnations, including the troubled Moss Side Estate from the old Stretford seat, notorious for its difficulties with guns and drug-related crime. Manchester Central includes much of the commercial, business and retail core of the city, which was devastated by an IRA bomb on 15 June 1996. Companies have successfully rebuilt following this atrocity, and the seat includes heavy engineering, wholesale clothing and toy firms. Central is also home to Strangeways Prison, Manchester University, Boddingtons Brewery, Granada Studios, - which houses Coronation Street and a replica House of Commons chamber - and virtually all the land under the control of the Central Manchester Development Corporation. The new tram system links the Victoria and Piccadilly railway stations across the city centre. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Manchester Gorton', '63834', '3.72029821146572', '4.2655951373876', '12.4265595137388', '12.2097622835735', '13.7909263902344', '12.6373740674532', '13.8560216326395', 'Situated to the south east of Manchester city centre, there is some light engineering industry to be found in Gorton but this mainly residential seat is characterised by low numbers of owner-occupiers. The percentage of homes which are privately rented is twice the national average, and the publicly-rented housing sector is also large. The number of workers employed in the managerial and technical fields is below the national average - 21.4% compared to 30.8%. Perhaps unsurprisingly, unemployment is above the national average, the number of residents with access to a car is low and nearly 40% of parents are raising their children alone. Interestingly, Gorton has the third highest number of residents aged between 16 and 24, (16.3% of the population), a statistic partly explained by the high numbers of students living in cheap, rented accommodation. Asians form 11.6% of Gortons population, and are mostly concentrated in the Longsight district. Gorton provides a classic example of the Liberal Democrats having been unable to transfer local support into parliamentary success. They are the only party currently providing any opposition to Labour on Manchester City Council and made a clean sweep of Gortons North and South wards and Levenshulme at the last round of local elections, but Labours parliamentary grasp has so far proved unshakeable. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Manchester Withington', '67480', '4.51098430813124', '5.19413159454653', '12.5194131594547', '11.5540231581048', '12.0358796665404', '14.2801350598122', '13.3332063902121', 'The Conservatives held Manchester Withington from 1945 to 1987 until Keith Bradley took it for Labour for the first time in the partys history. His winning total of 3,391 votes was boosted up to a shade below five figures in 1992, before doubling to 18,581 votes in 1997. Most observers agree that Mr Bradley owes a debt of thanks for his 1987 breakthrough to an unusual source - Mrs Thatcher, whose policies speeded up the partys exit from many cities. On a local level the Tories do not hold a single seat of the 99 that make-up Manchester Metropolitan Borough Council. Gradual changes of political allegiance in Withington stem from gradual changes to the character of this mainly residential seat, situated to the south of Manchester city centre. The wards of Didsbury, Withington, Barlow Moor and Chorlton, once considered highly desirable for Manchesters middle-aged, middle classes, are dominated nowadays by converted flats and Homes of Multiple Occupancy for students and young professionals. As a result, levels of owner-occupation are very low and the percentage of those renting privately is twice the national average. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Mansfield', '66748', '4.28796266145664', '5.52106430155211', '12.5521064301552', '14.5825616847863', '10.518946351032', '13.2935317594695', '10.5132706102869', 'Mansfield is an interesting ex-mining seat that shares a similar political history to the neighbouring seats of Ashfield and Sherwood. Together these seats formed the Nottinghamshire coalfield, rivalled only in size by Yorkshire. Mansfield was at the core of the field and as such used to be a solid Labour seat, but following the travails of the mid 1980s registered a swing to the Tories. Notts miners created the Union of Democratic Miners (UDM) which supported the working miners in the Notts coalfield against the striking miners of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Notts miners had objected to Arthur Scargills decision to call a national strike without a national ballot in 1984 and so had continued to work. Don Concannon, the Labour MP for the constituency had supported the UDM and the working miners but when he announced his retirement before the 1987 general election following a serious car crash, the leftwing pro NUM Alan Meale was nominated by the local party as his replacement, and their majority was slashed to a mere 56 votes. But having moved from ultra safe to ultra marginal, Mansfield has recently seemed to have reverted to type. Alan Meale increased his majority in 1997 to 20,518. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Medway', '64930', '5.1012691012691', '5.94640381949792', '9.59464038194979', '9.30218586687714', '9.82705976736088', '9.6677666151132', '9.63684409864993', 'Kent had the equal highest number of constituencies of the non-metropolitan counties and all 16 of these were held by the Conservatives before 1997. At that election Labour won eight of them. This is a largely industrial seat, and that industry is not just centred on Rochester. The Isle of Grain, to the far north of the seat, holds a British Gas terminal, a power station, and one of the most modern container ports in the country, on the 160 acre site of an old BP oil terminal. Skilled manual workers continue to make up a significant portion of the working population. BAe Systems, formerly Marconi Avionics, is the seats major employer, and following the merger should go from strength to strength. Rochester does have some interesting history beyond the dark days of industrial closures, though. It is known internationally for its Dickensian connections - there is a Dickens festival held every May - and some tourists come just to see its cathedral, once a site of medieval pilgrimage. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Meirionnydd Nant Conwy', '33175', '5.03559901272071', '6.35056518462698', '17.6350565184627', '20.4380164467827', '18.8498525751298', '17.0728535811461', '17.2640276562257', 'A seat currently held at Westminster by Plaid Cymru this is an enlarged version of the former Merioneth constituency. The seat, which is largely within the Snowdonia National Park, is thinly populated and almost entirely rural, and has a majority of Welsh speakers. The huge, sprawling Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituency has one of the smallest electorates in England and Wales, less than half the average. Plaid Cymru have always felt more threatened by the boundary commission than other parties but have successfully argued in a series of boundary reviews that the constituencys social and linguistic nature make it a special case. The constituency is in many ways the spiritual home of both Welsh Nationalism and Nonconformity. Important towns in the rural South of the constituency are the county town of Dolgellau and the anglicised (and slightly run down) resort of Barmouth. The south of the constituency has few industries other than farming tourism and the depleted workforce employed to de-commission the nuclear power station at Trawsfynydd. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Meriden', '74439', '5.23193967548643', '5.98597509370088', '12.5985975093701', '11.375267625029', '12.8773353629449', '11.133855102383', '12.0951411050731', 'Like the other seats in the band of Conservative blue to the north and east of Birmingham - stretching from Aldridge-Brownhills to Meriden, this seats political character derives from its status as home to the citys wealthy commuters. In this constituency, most of the Conservative vote has tended to come from small affluent towns and villages like Meriden itself, where there are high concentrations of owner-occupiers and non-manual workers. It is unsurprising this constituency is so sought after by the wealthier commuter. In a rural buffer between Coventry and Birmingham the towns and villages are generally picturesque and well-kept, and in Meriden is found the (disputed) centre of England. There is also, in Packwood House, a Jacobean mansion of some splendour to contrast with the modern high rise blocks of Chelmsley Wood a world away to the north. This is a marginal constituency: at the last election the Conservative majority was just 582, and the Conservative and Labour groups on Solihull council now have 13 members each. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney', '55368', '3.82211841939149', '5.72243895390839', '12.5722438953908', '10.5813198318318', '13.2244898162205', '13.5670026153417', '14.3503175222063', 'Labours Ted Rowlands, who has held this seat since 1972, recorded a majority of 27,086 over the Liberal Democrats in 1997. Many parts of the UK claim to be the birthplace of the industrial revolution. Merthyr has as good a claim as any. The town was built first on iron and later coal. Its iron works at Cyfartha were at one time the largest in the world and the town can claim a notable list of other firsts. It had the worlds first steam railway (pre-dating the Stockton and Darlington by some years). It saw the first raising of the red flag during a week long workers uprising in 1832 and it later elected Keir Hardie - one of the founders of the Labour movement - its MP. In the town of Merthyr itself little remains of the old industrial heritage. The town is dominated by a series of large council estates with high levels of unemployment and deprivation. To the south of Merthyr the constituency extends for ten miles along the floor of the Taff Valley, where the 1966 Aberfan disaster, when colliery waste engulfed the local junior school, is still an open wound. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Middlesbrough', '67659', '3.24287451433995', '4.98337250033255', '12.4983372500333', '12.9815570303015', '12.7870884168449', '13.2143791355736', '12.4376530524514', 'The Middlesborough constituency does not take in the whole of the working-class and deprived city nestled between the Tees and the Cleveland Hills, which is too large for one seat and too small for two. Like many other major northern towns and cities, the population in central Middlesbrough has dwindled over the past decade. The massive and massively deprived council estates found to the east of the towns centre are the source of most of the seats social-economic problems, and in the past also provided the majority of Labour support. At the time of the last census, 76% of residents in the Thorntree ward were council tenants, 77% had no car and 14.5% of children aged 16 or under were from single parent families. It is not only Middlesbroughs population that has shrunk in recent times. Many of the industries it built its economic base upon are now also in decline, most notably British Steel and ICI. Scores of redundancies contributed to rates of male unemployment of almost 20% at the time of the last census. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland', '71485', '4.47136914368848', '6.15387843603553', '12.6153878436036', '12.814456422376', '11.9360793306058', '10.7384896793333', '11.8322212477671', 'This election will be the fourth time Ashok Kumar has contested this seat; he took it at the first time of asking in the 1991 by-election following the death of Conservative MP Richard Holt, but he could not stop Conservative Michael Bates taking the seat by just 1,564 votes in 1992. Dr Kumar bounced back in 1997 with a majority above 10,000. The reason behind the small swings usually generated here lies in the divided nature of the seat. The 39,000 voters in the rural East Cleveland half, which includes the Cleveland hills and the seaside resort of Saltburn, have in the past been largely Conservative, whereas the 31,000 voters in the council estate-dominated South Middlesborough portion are largely dyed in the wool Labour supporters. The seat is a mix of rural, suburban and coastal areas and its economy is correspondingly diverse; farming and fishing are key industries and the large ICI chemical works at Wilton continues to be a major employer. Significant population centres are to be found at the coastal resort of Saltburn and in the ancient market town of Guisbrough, both inclined to the Conservatives, but the vast majority of the constituencys electorate remains in the southern suburbs of Middlesbrough. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Midlothian', '48625', '4.72740565380866', '5.90724935732648', '12.5907249357326', '13.9344521866853', '12.81825639768', '11.2899124139789', '13.9109572099488', 'The county of Midlothian is an ancient one and lies just south east of the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh. The main towns are Penicuik, Bonnyrigg, Dalkeith, Loanhead and Gorebridge. This seat contains the heart of the former Midlothian coalfield and although mining is in terminal decline the area is still predominantly industrial and working-class. New industries include precision engineering, electronics, crystal glass manufacture and printing, whilst the longer established paper-making industry is also in decline. Tourists travelling through the seat are rewarded by the presence of Dalkeith Palace, the famously elaborate Rosslyn Chapel and the less ornate Scottish Mining Museum at Newtongrange. This seat has been held by Labour since 1955. Fittingly for a seat where the main industry used to be coal mining, both sitting MP Eric Clarke and MP from 1966 to 1992 Alex Eadie were former miners. All the seats, but one (which is held by the Liberal Democrats) on the conterminous Midlothian Council are currently held by the Labour Party. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Milton Keynes North East', '75526', '5.8039240667601', '6.23546858035643', '12.6235468580356', '12.6240687619186', '10.8955429493664', '11.6613518131313', '10.6212599823779', 'This seat was contested for the first time in the 1992 election, after the Boundary Commission split the town of Milton Keynes into two seats. The Conservatives won it comfortably in 1992 with a majority of almost 14,200 and an increased vote. In 1997, the Labour candidate, Brian White overturned that majority. His majority of 240 makes this Labours third most marginal constituency. This is the more rural of the two Milton Keynes constituencies, containing villages in the northern tip of Buckinghamshire such as Lavendon and Olney. The seat also incorporates the old borough of Newport Pagnell and some affluent commuting and golfing areas at Woburn Sands. However, the constituency also includes the New Town wards of Bradwell, Linford, and Pineham. Here, at local level, the Liberal Democrats have recently performed better than Labour and the Conservatives. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Milton Keynes South West', '76607', '5.04583112991363', '5.92426279582806', '12.5924262795828', '12.8589717593254', '11.7736028681706', '13.9197848900604', '13.3258888399792', 'In 1997, Phyllis Starkey increased the Labour vote here by over 16%, while the Conservative vote fell by 13%. This resulted in a Labour majority of almost 10,300. Unlike Milton Keynes North East, this constituency incorporates very little of the rural area surrounding Milton Keynes. It is the more compact of the two, and contains the long-established communities of Fenny Stratford, Bletchley, Stony Stratford and Wolverton. The parts of the new city in this seat have in the past been less inclined towards the Conservatives than those further east and north. However, Loughton Park, which was almost entirely developed in the 1980s, has always consisted only of private housing and has not usually favoured Labour. Traditionally, Labours strongest ward has been the old railway town of Wolverton, which provided their only county councillor in Buckinghamshire in their disastrous year of 1977. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Mitcham and Morden', '65671', '3.95800953610284', '5.78048149106912', '17.5780481491069', '14.6766386240435', '15.8037540677233', '19.9369870991772', '19.9716297669062', 'The constituency was created in its present form in 1974. It is home to the 474 acres of Mitcham Common, as well as the National Trusts Morden Park. It boasts the oldest cricket green in the world, and also marks the southern end of the Northern tube line. It is a suburban seat where half the population regard themselves as Londoners and the other half still think that they live in Surrey. Labours greatest strength has been found in the west and south of the seat and Tory support has tended to increase towards the east which borders Wimbledon. Labour won the seat in 1974, and narrowly survived here in 1979. The then sitting MP, Bruce Douglas Mann joined the SDP. He was the only defector to seek a new mandate by causing a by-election, which was held in 1982 during the Falklands campaign. The Conservatives won and kept the seat, with diminishing majorities until 1997. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Mole Valley', '67770', '4.94604010876954', '6.94584624465103', '12.6945846244651', '11.8493943347341', '12.4852439315524', '13.0443794890083', '11.4401868600945', 'Situated midway between London and the Sussex coast, Mole Valley is in the county of Surrey. It takes its name from the River Mole which, from its source in Sussex, runs through one of the few natural gaps in the long line of the North Downs and eventually flows into the River Thames at East Molesey. Some of the most beautiful parts of the North Downs are found within the Mole Valley area, including many pleasant villages and the towns of Leatherhead and Dorking, where the bulk of the population live. Since its creation in 1983, Mole Valley has been held by the Conservatives. Former home secretary and Conservative Party Chairman Kenneth Baker represented the seat until 1997, and since 1997 it has been held by Sir Paul Beresford. Despite the Labour landslide in 1997, this seat maintained a Conservative majority of over 10,000. The Liberal Democrats gained few votes in second, with Labour in third. Just outside the M25 corridor, this seat is typical of the London commuter belt, and most of the people who live here are employed at the professional or managerial level. The residential nature of the seat is compounded by the fact that very little industry is based here. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Monmouth', '62202', '5.72196482389456', '7.14800167197196', '8.7148001671972', '9.32354687199198', '9.2243179772843', '7.3361887709231', '9.52368458950363', 'Monmouth was traditional Conservative territory at Westminster until 1991, when Huw Edwards took it for Labour at a by-election. The Tories won it back in 1992, but lost it to Mr Edwards again when the 1997 landslide gave him a majority of 4,178. An English-speaking border constituency thats largely rural and includes the towns of Monmouth, Abergavenny and Usk, Monmouth is easily the most wealthy and most anglicised constituency in Wales. At the southern end many in the towns of Chepstow and Caldicott commute across the Severn to work in Bristol and the surrounding area. The Wye and Usk valleys, hailed by Wordsworth for their beauty, have also seen an influx of good-life refugees from the English Midlands and the south east. Labour support is heavily dependent on the inclusion in the constituency of some - but not most - of the Cwmbran new town development. Despite its lush countryside and striking Castles (Chepstow, Raglan) and Abbies (Tintern, Llanthony) tourism is undeveloped in the area and most major employers are situated outside the constituency boundaries in Newport or the West of England. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Montgomeryshire', '44243', '5.05951764827658', '6.55086680378817', '7.65508668037882', '6.58460376270223', '7.70584876916579', '8.39603834085485', '8.51791800981997', 'A traditional Liberal Democrat stronghold at Westminster, the seat has been held by the party or its predecessors for almost a century, only once passing out of their control - in 1979 when the Tories took it for a single parliament. Lembit Opik held it for the Liberal Democrats at the 1997 general election, with a majority of 19.8% over the Tories. The constituency is part of the Powys local authority, whose electors voted No in the 1997 devolution referendum by a majority of 7,928. In the 1999 National Assembly elections, the Liberal Democrats Mick Bates won the seat with a majority of 25.7%. The Conservatives were in second place, with 23% of the vote. This mid Wales border seat is almost entirely rural, containing the towns of Welshpool and Newtown. Newtown was formerly the headquarters of the Development Board for Rural Wales (DBRW), the functions of which have now been absorbed into the Welsh Development Agency (WDA). As a result, the area, and Newtown in particular, has seen a range of industrial developments. The electorate is largely English-speaking, although Welsh is the main language of many communities in the western portion of the constituency. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Moray', '58008', '6.96716130391596', '5.72731347400359', '12.5727313474004', '12.2716029938578', '13.458077197349', '13.06429453676', '13.7203723397753', 'As one would expect in a rural and coastal seat, the local economy of Moray relies heavily upon farming, forestry and fishing. It is also at the heart of whisky-producing country, with distilleries producing the notable Speyside malts of Glenlivet, Dufftown, Aberlour, Knockando and Balvenie. The largest town in the seat is Elgin, an appealing market town which attracts its fair share of tourists. A more surprising and decidedly less conventional magnet for visitors, however, is the Findhorn Foundation - an holistic community which has drawn the more moneyed hippy and spiritualist types from all over the world to Findhorn since it was established in the 1970s. Mrs Margaret Ewing re-took Moray for the SNP in 1987 after eight years of Tory rule. She was following in her mother-in-laws footsteps; Mrs Winnie Ewing, now an MSP, held the seat for the SNP from 1974 until 1979. Margaret Ewing is standing down from Westminster at this election to focus on the Scottish Parliament. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Morecambe and Lunesdale', '68607', '5.04357220021606', '6.07153788971971', '12.607153788972', '10.5858407357673', '11.8286135242918', '11.2277765716254', '13.0633676670066', 'For many years it seemed as though coastal constituencies and Conservative MPs went hand in hand. Then came 1997; Hove, Brighton Pavilion, Hastings and Rye, Thanet South, Harwich, Scarborough and Whitby, and both Blackpool divisions all fell to Labour from the Conservatives, and in Morecambe and Lunesdale Geraldine Smith overhauled a notional Conservative majority of 10,572 to win by a touch under 6,000 votes. Unlike many coastal constituencies, Morecambe and Lunsdale is reasonably urban in nature, with just a slice of usually rock-solid Conservative countryside nestled between the Lune and Morecambe Bay coast. Elsewhere, the seat is an uneasy blend of tourist traps and industry. Beyond the coastal town of Morecambe, characterised by its amusement arcade and sprawling suburbs, lies Heysham with its ferry terminal and nuclear power station. More than a quarter of the constituencys voters are of pensionable age. Those young enough to work are mainly employed in the service sector posts provided by tourist-dependent resorts and hill-walking areas. Although unemployment across the constituency is around the national average, there are still a few black spots in Morecambe which suffer from the seasonal unemployment inherent in the tourism industry. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Morley and Rothwell', '71815', '4.29816346704126', '5.35292069901831', '12.5352920699018', '11.2105904945422', '14.3670619766962', '12.3861963629219', '13.8508481487699', 'After first winning here in 1992 with a majority of 7,000, sitting MP John Gunnell consolidated his position in 1997 with a 58.5% share of the vote, and a doubling of his majority to almost 15,000. As with the other constituencies in and around the Leeds area, Morley and Rothwell is composed of a small number of large wards, all of which have usually been staunchly Labour. Middleton, on the outskirts of Leeds, has been the most loyal ward, perhaps in part because of the large number of council estates that make up the area. The constituency as a whole is largely working-class and industrial in nature. More than a quarter of homes are council rented, with 35% of the workforce employed in the skilled-manual sector. Unemployment is low. Mr Gunnell, who is stepping down at this election, followed in some illustrious footsteps. Former MPs for this seat and its South Leeds predecessor include Merlyn Rees, (1963-92), Home Secretary in James Callaghans government, and Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 to 1963. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Motherwell and Wishaw', '52418', '4.37839112998349', '5.66084169560075', '12.5660841695601', '14.0495342039224', '14.0421450657544', '12.2172334834111', '11.5064873358493', 'Motherwell and Wishaw is located in the very industrial heart of Scotland and is a seat that has suffered more than most because of the decline in traditional industries. This is the site of the former Ravenscraig steelworks which were closed in 1992 and levelled to the ground in 1996. The closure led directly to the loss of 1500 jobs and the economy has been hit much further afield than just in Motherwell. Jobs have also been lost in this particular seat thanks to the decline of its two other indigenous industries, coal and engineering, making this anything but an employment hot spot. The industrial landscape has been softened in recent years through the development of Strathclyde Country Park, which includes a 200 acre man-made loch. Motherwell has a historical significance for the SNP; it was the scene of the 1945 wartime by-election at which Dr Robert McIntyre was elected as the SNPs first MP. He was only an MP for a few months with Labour winning the seat back at the 1945 general election and holding it ever since.  ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Neath', '56107', '3.93118218161051', '6.24164542748677', '17.6241645427487', '17.557659957672', '15.58460863217', '15.7650982826367', '20.1630100724556', 'A traditional Labour seat, centred on the town of Neath and the Swansea and Neath valleys. It has been in long-term Labour control at Westminster, and since a by-election in 1991 has been held by Peter Hain, currently energy minister. In the 1997 general election, he had a majority of 64.8% over the Conservatives, who polled 3,583. The constituency is part of the Neath and Port Talbot local authority area, which voted Yes in the 1997 referendum by a majority of 18,267, which was 66% of the vote in that area - the biggest single Yes percentage in Wales. Neath was formerly a copper-smelting coal mining centre. Industries that use steel are still important. Richard Burtons childhood home was in this constituency, in the village of Pontrhydyfen. The seat has substantial numbers and percentages of Welsh-speakers in the Neath, Dulais and Swansea valleys. The largest employer in the constituency is Ford but as in many ex-mining communities many people travel out of the constituency to work in the new industrial estates of the coastal belt. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('New Forest East', '66767', '5.75560718858172', '6.31719262509923', '17.6317192625099', '17.1635191912603', '18.3417317850978', '19.7944922530306', '17.55076093276', 'As with many seats in the region, much of the employment in this seat is related to the coast, in this case at the giant Fawley oil refinery on the western shore of Southampton Water. Indeed the population of the constituency is heavily weighted towards the Waterside area on the eastern side, with the towns of Totton, Marchwood, Hythe and Dibden, and Fawley all situated there. Beauty and tradition are concentrated in the western half of the constituency, which contains the beauty spots of Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst. John Prescotts decision to give National Park status to the Forest is also raising local hackles, as some residents fear conservation efforts. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('New Forest West', '67806', '4.42579445187924', '6.50193198242043', '17.650193198242', '16.6733608372112', '15.2857932040903', '19.0654891327733', '17.5040116490937', 'This is a rural seat with many small market towns and small businesses. The forest attracts 7 million annual visits, ensuring that 7% of the areas employment is tourism-related. This seat contains the forests unofficial capital, Ringwood, and proposals to give the forest National Park status are a local concern. But, just as the other New Forest seat looks away from the forest towards the coast, so this seats population is centred in the west and economically looks towards Christchurch and the Bournemouth conurbation. New Milton and Lymington are the two largest centres in the constituency. Most industry is centred in the former town, where there is also an airport, though forestry, farming and market gardening take place in much of the seat. Lymington serves as a ferry port for Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, has good yachting facilities, and is also a centre for those touring the forest. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Newark', '71089', '5.35229361862361', '6.35077156803444', '8.63507715680344', '7.66461565435536', '8.3576447305138', '7.94707257785818', '10.0360738509545', 'Newark was held by Labour from 1950 to 1979, won by the Conservatives from 1979 to 1997, but was then taken by Labours Fiona Jones in 1997. Newark lies on the River Trent to the north east of Nottingham, bordering Sherwood. The A1 passes through the constituency. The main industry in Newark is light engineering, but many people in the constituency also commute into Nottingham. Newark Castle, the remains of which are open to the public, was built in the early twelfth century by Alexander the Magnificent, the Bishop of Lincoln and the Lord of the Manor of Newark. King John is said to have died in the castle in 1216. The seat is fairly high on the Conservatives wish list. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Newbury', '75490', '5.17645206369201', '6.73029540336468', '12.6730295403365', '14.3364575972089', '10.9201884693262', '13.7989028320374', '13.5861218793277', 'Newbury is a busy market town in West Berkshire at the crossroads of the A34 and the M4, 65 miles west of London. The seat also includes the towns of Thatcham and Hungerford, but is largely rural, taking in about half the acreage of Berkshire. The seat has several connections with horseracing: there is the famous course at Newbury itself, and Lambourn is the centre of the Downland racehorse training. The constituency is also no stranger to protests: during the 1980s, there was the famous occupation at Greenham Common by the women opposing the siting of American nuclear weapons at the RAF base of the same name. In the early 1990s, it was environmental protesters who came to the area to campaign against the building of a bypass, the building of which eventually commenced in January 1996. This constituency is one which excites political anoraks on account of the famous Liberal Democrat by-election victory here in 1993, when David Rendel beat the Tory candidate by over 22,000 votes on a swing of 28.4%. At the 1997 Tory massacre, the Liberal Democrats held on with a majority of over 8,500. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Newcastle upon Tyne Central', '65739', '4.50272440493261', '5.30430946622249', '12.5304309466222', '13.8611712857182', '14.3928455363615', '12.404049688759', '14.2001468412497', 'The seat of Newcastle-under-Lyme is one of the most stable constituencies in Staffordshire, having emerged unscathed from the 1995 boundary changes which had so much impact on the rest of the countys seats. This stability has been reflected by the choices of the electorate, who have returned a Labour member at every election since the war. There is no overwhelming reason why the constituency should have favoured Labour so strongly; its traditionally Labour strongholds such as former coal-mining communities in Chesterton and Silverdale are offset by more middle-class residential areas like Thistleberry and Westlands. A wide range of industry, from electronics to textiles, means that there is no reliance on a single large employer. Nonetheless, traditional Potteries Labour support has often seemed strongly embedded here, with the majority not falling below 2,500 even at Labours nadir in the 1983 general election. The closest the seat has come to changing hands in recent history was the by-election in 1986 after long-serving MP John Golding resigned. His wife Llin, herself the daughter of an MP, won the Labour nomination but came within 800 votes of losing the seat to the Liberal Alliance. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend', '67970', '3.68630329724108', '4.81006326320435', '12.4810063263204', '12.8864420792361', '11.3869738895411', '14.4969157338425', '12.7353103143876', 'One would expect Newcastle Central , on the strength of its name, to be rock solid Labour territory; in this case, however, names can be deceptive, since the seat does not in fact cover the true centre of Newcastle, but rather surrounds the large open space of Town Moor. The consequential effects on house prices and employment make this the Newcastle seat which has seemed least firmly tied to Labour. Central has one of the highest proportions of professional workers in the country, and a relatively small number of skilled manual workers. The seats middle-class credentials extend to a high student population, with both of the citys universities within its boundaries. Even the employment is more white-collar than is typical for the area, with the City Council being the largest single employer in a seat lacking any heavy industry. The seat did in fact return a Tory MP, Piers Merchant in 1983 (as a result of vote splitting between Labour and the SDP), although it was won back for Labour in 1987 by Jim Cousins, who has held it ever since. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Newcastle upon Tyne North', '61494', '3.98537175538935', '5.91407291768303', '12.5914072917683', '11.1577346638412', '10.660633953751', '14.5471632259865', '11.1783554427438', 'The clumsy name of Newcastle-upon-Tyne East and Wallsend suggests that it is something of a hybrid seat, and this is largely true. The bulk of the seat comprises the eastern parts of the city, but the redistribution of its western fringes into the Central constituency meant that its own reach extended further east, beyond the formal limits of the city: it accordingly picked up two wards from North Tyneside. Sitting MP Nick Brown increased his majority to more than 23,000 at the last election. The last time that seat fell out of Labour hands was when Mike Thomas defected to the SDP in the early 1980s, an act which was rewarded by the electorate with his prompt removal in 1983. The area has been for many years largely dependent on heavy industry in the form of shipbuilding, an industry which is still in steep decline. Even now, the seat is best known nationally for being home to a large council estate, the architecturally noteworthy Byker Wall and setting for the long-running childrens drama Byker Grove. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Newcastle-under-Lyme', '63208', '4.66049542328179', '6.1185293000886', '12.6118529300089', '13.1611127565158', '14.1802684401556', '11.0511904782358', '12.390709813404', 'This seat encapsulates the western edge of the city of Newcastle, and covers Woolsington (home of Newcastle Airport), Denton, Lemington and Westerhope and reaches the Tyne at Newburn. Created in 1983, this constituency bears little resemblance to the previous Newcastle North, having been based on the old Newcastle West. A mixed seat, it combines home-owners in suburbia with council estates. While this would not be traditionally described as a shipbuilding seat, as ship assembly has not taken place here for some 100 years, the shipbuilding industry is important to the economic livelihood of the area. This seat is home to many companies which feed into the shipbuilding industry and many constituents are employed by shipyards in neighbouring seats or for subcontractors within the constituency. Other major employers in the seat include Sanofi-Winthrop (medical laboratory), British Bakers and Nestle Rowntree. The seat also contains Newcastle Airport - the busiest airport in the north east of England. This is a mixed seat, which combines owner-occupied suburbia with large council estates. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Newport East', '56118', '4.52720414295761', '5.57432552835098', '12.5574325528351', '13.7195209300993', '13.5798125453563', '12.9249233866065', '14.2764644692575', 'The seat includes part of the town of Newport together with the giant Llanwern steelworks, 450 jobs were cut there in July 2000, with owners Corus blaming the strength of Sterling against the euro. Newport claims to be the fastest growing town in Wales, and has bid for City status. In January 2000, an analysis of Home Office figures by the Independent newspaper suggested that Newport is one of the most violent towns in England in Wales. Created in 1983, this seat has been safe Labour territory at Westminster. This and its predecessor constituency, Newport, have had a succession of Labour members. Alan Howarth, who had famously defected from the Conservatives to Labour in 1995, became its MP at the 1997 general election following the elevation of the previous member, Roy Hughes, to the House of Lords. Mr Howarth had a majority of 36.3% over the Conservatives, who polled 7,958. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Newport West', '59742', '4.72692011522117', '5.86907033577718', '12.5869070335777', '12.8046395214362', '12.4295834975817', '11.3951267113274', '11.9247166542927', 'Since 1987 this seat has been held by Paul Flynn. At the 1997 general election, he had a majority of 14,537 over the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats came third, and Plaid Cymru came fifth behind the Referendum Party. The seat contains part of the town of Newport, and also contains the site of Waless biggest single inward investment, the Korean LG electronics plant. The local council is in almost total Labour control, with 46 of the 47 councillors belonging to Labour. A sole Conservative forms the only opposition. Newport West is a compact constituency comprising Newport Town Centre and suburbs on the west bank of the River Usk. It contains both the poorest and richest parts of the town. Always overshadowed by its neighbours Cardiff and Bristol Newports main claim to fame is as the site of the largest Chartist uprising, an event commemorated by numerous street names and memorials. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Newry and Armagh', '72466', '6.26328185397602', '7.67546159578285', '17.7675461595783', '19.4435079390169', '18.6700103936341', '18.7174064728704', '18.7190994519564', 'This seat is the political home of Seamus Mallon, who is now the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland. It is a rural constituency of small farms and villages which takes in all of the area covered by Armagh District Council and part of Newry and Mourne District Council. The two main population centres are the towns of Newry and Armagh. The latter has been the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland for 1,500 years. On opposite hills in the town stand the Protestant cathedral, where St Patrick built his first stone church, and the Catholic cathedral: both Protestant and Catholic archbishops are based here. It is also the centre for a growing tourist industry, and has an observatory, a planetarium, a heritage centre and the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum. Mallon won this seat from Ulster Unionist Jim Nicholson at a 1986 by-election, and he has consolidated his lead in elections since then. Despite there not being a DUP candidate to split the unionist vote at the last election, the UUP were still nearly 10% behind the SDLP. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Norfolk Mid', '74911', '5.5242825607064', '7.01472413931198', '8.7014724139312', '8.93630329734012', '10.0375103279316', '9.54512944673855', '7.84052346873863', 'This has in the past been a safe Conservative seat. But the partys representatives on Broadland council seem to have stopped attacking their opposition and instead have turned inwards: there are now two Conservative groups on the council, the Broadland Conservative Group (25 councillors) and the Broadland Conservative District Group (7 members). But with just 17 councillors between them the opposition parties hardly pose a threat. Breckland, the other local authority in the constituency, is equally well-stacked with Conservative members, having watched the gradual defeat of the large number of Labour councillors elected at the Conservatives nadir in the mid-1990s. There are few large employers in the constituency, but the most important of these is frozen food giant Bernard Matthews, based at Great Witchingham, which employs 3,600 people. The local turkey industry, important in northern Norfolk, has a strong relationship with this company. Elsewhere, some investment in regeneration is being made. The Gressenhall Project near Dereham is transforming a former workhouse into a rural life museum. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Norfolk North', '80061', '5.73496976165066', '7.02214561396935', '17.7022145613969', '15.9866952754046', '19.0768390003791', '19.6290891609084', '19.3951866256253', 'This seat covers a large area, curling around the top bend of East Anglia. Never extending more than 12 miles inland, the constituency includes agricultural land (although hardly rolling - this is Norfolk), near-unspoilt coastline, the Norfolk Broads, a couple of nature reserves and more than its fair share of country houses. The pace of life is slow, and the inhabitants (of whom a good many are pensioners) have seen little change since the days of Arthur Ransome and his Swallows and Amazons. The main centre of population is Cromer, a seaside resort whose grandeur is now decidedly faded. It boasts a remarkable number of fish and chip shops, but the absence of visitors in the off season can make it seem a rather quiet place. The area also includes some of the famed Norfolk Broads, and the communities of Stalham and Hoveton are popular gateways to these waterways. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Norfolk North West', '77387', '5.14754994824522', '6.61648597309626', '17.6616485973096', '20.3385811421317', '17.0269504852444', '14.7963663570288', '15.1892519638658', 'Labour made surprising breakthroughs in a number of counties in 1997, and Norfolk was not the least of them. This seat was taken from the Conservatives with a 10.4% swing, and will be a prime target for the party if it is to make any sort of a recovery this time. The fight here will be an exact repeat of 1997, with the former MP, Henry Bellingham, unusually choosing to contest the seat again. This constituency is a somewhat mixed bag, containing the port of Kings Lynn, many small farming communities, a sizeable amount of light industry, and the royal familys Norfolk retreat, the Sandringham Estate. Kings Lynn is an industrial town with an affluent past - it was once the countrys third port and that heritage means it boasts two medieval guildhalls, two magnificent market places and 12th century St Margarets Church. The rural nature of the seat, its size, and the strong Tory-voting tradition seem to have counted for little even at local elections. In 1999, the Tories did not quite manage to re-establish control of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk council, and in this constituency they hold just 15 seats to Labours 25. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Norfolk South', '82710', '5.78233116987609', '6.76206021037359', '17.6762060210374', '15.8079906867292', '20.4375881798592', '17.0889660667036', '16.9433276291723', 'At the last election this was a safe parliamentary seat for the Conservatives - the safest in Norfolk - but it was not always like this. Although it has been held by the party since 1950, its majority shrunk as low as 119 in the Labour landslide year of 1966. The Lib Dems have controlled the local authority for the last 6 years, and they currently hold 26 of the 44 council seats which lie within this constituency. This is geographically a very large constituency, consisting of small towns and villages including Wymondham, Diss, Harleston and Loddon. They are invariably full of listed buildings, nature reserves and many of them still have weekly markets. These towns provide attractive residential accommodation for Norwich commuters and there have been many private residential developments over the last 30 years causing an increase in the population. Other than agriculture and tourism, the most notable source of local employment is car manufacturing. Lotus have their headquarters and factory at Hethel, 11 miles south of Norwich, and specialist sports car manufacturer Triking and Racing Technology Norfolk Ltd, who make Audi touring cars, are also based here. The sitting MP, former cabinet minister John MacGregor, is standing down at this election. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Norfolk South West', '83903', '4.78120455532682', '6.31073978284448', '12.6310739782844', '11.1648887559499', '14.3105913523679', '11.3014661831112', '10.564539477019', 'This has traditionally been a safe Conservative seat and the area is predominantly rural and includes a small part of the fens. Not surprisingly, farming is an important part of the local economy, including both crops and turkey-raising. Defence cuts have hit the area with the closure of air bases which still adorn the countryside, and the Ministry of Defence still owns a large tract of land used as a Battle Training Area to which the general public are forbidden entry. The seat has a rich history. Nelson attended school at Downham Market and Tom Paine was born at Thetford in 1737. At Cockley Cley an Iceni village has been recreated on what is believed to be the site of a first century village dating from the time of Boudicca, the East Anglian Iceni Queen who challenged the Roman army. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Normanton', '65392', '4.39262187088274', '5.2231159774896', '12.522311597749', '10.6824306214569', '10.9107086183673', '11.9246996685901', '12.9624864964764', 'Despite being wrapped around one of West Yorkshires larger towns, Wakefield, the kidney-shaped seat of Normanton remains one of the least well known constituency names. Perhaps its obscurity is caused in part by the fact it does not sit on any major routes into the town, that its traditional coal mining industry has all but vanished and that although the seat has been considered safe for Labour, it does not, as a rule, return its MPs with huge majorities. The erosion of Normantons traditional coal mining industry has forced the town into diversification with some encouraging results, particularly in light industries, 25% of the workforce are of a skilled manual background, just under 70% of homes are owner-occupied and unemployment remains fairly low. Despite these factors and an almost totally white population, (99.1%), the seat has not in the past proved very sympathetic to the Conservative cause. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Northampton North', '74124', '5.05783968766569', '5.59791700393934', '12.5597917003939', '11.0761851702417', '11.931185389023', '12.4593883243467', '13.2760394942369', 'Northampton North is (geographically) the smallest constituency in Northamptonshire, at the centre of which it lies: it is the only seat in the county which does not share a border with another county. It is a socially mixed entirely urban seat, basically comprising residential suburbs. A large chunk of the constituency lies in the 1968 new town development of Northampton, which sprawls north east towards Wellingborough, north of the River Nene. Many of the people in this eastern part of the town came originally from the council estates of the inner cities in search of jobs and a better life. The town of Northampton became famous as the centre of Britains boot and shoe industry; however, since that industrys decline, it has become a major distribution centre and something of a centre for financial services. The Weston Favell credit union is here, and is one of the oldest in the country. Also inside the seats boundaries lies part of the headquarters of the Nationwide building society, whose links with the town go back to 1848.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Northampton South', '85271', '5.71185012443904', '5.98433230523859', '8.59843323052386', '9.13275299130343', '9.72492981648641', '8.68818581707646', '8.66873117583496', 'Northampton is a manufacturing town close to the M1, whose population is growing at a rate of something like 2,000 per annum. In 1974, the town was divided into two parliamentary constituencies, with this southern division having been the safer for the Conservatives: outside of the town itself, it takes in the rural and commuter hinterland to the south, including a good deal of green belt land. Northampton was a seat of Parliament many times during the 14th century, and during the civil war the strong parliamentary garrison at Northampton led the assault at Naseby. Traditionally, the towns prime industry has been shoemaking, but there is now a much more diverse range of business interests here: Carlsberg have their UK base here, Barclaycards headquarters are here and MFI have a big distribution centre here too. Northamptonshire could possibly be denoted a swing county, on the grounds that 5 of its 6 seats changed hands in 1997. This time round, it would only require a uniform swing of less than 0.7% from Labour to the Tories for the three unexpected Labour gains here, of which this is one, to return to the Conservatives. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Northavon', '78841', '4.76003443452061', '7.07220862241727', '12.7072208622417', '11.0671213009122', '11.0033650232476', '13.6389656211519', '13.3498786009958', 'The scene of one of the Liberal Democrats most unexpected victories in 1997, This seat runs from the Severn Bridge in the west to Badminton in the east. It takes in towns like Thorbury, Bradley Stoke, Yate and Chipping Sodbury. It also includes more than 50 other villages. The seats position is at a key crossover point in Britains motorway network with direct links to London, the West Midlands, South Wales and the West Country. This, coupled with its proximity to the city of Bristol has brought extensive residential and commercial development. A large proportion of the electorate lives in the growing residential areas which are dominated by modern, affordable private housing and young families. Bradley Stoke, Europes largest privately funded residential development, is partly in the Northavon constituency and partly in Bristol North West near the M4/M5 junction. It contains 8,500 households and a whole range of community facilities. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Norwich North', '74911', '5.25935019950015', '6.0890923896357', '12.6089092389636', '13.6253487120513', '12.447079194459', '12.6902492398501', '11.7992137856868', 'Norwich is represented in the House of Commons by two very different faces of the Labour Party. In Norwich South, Charles Clarke is an arch-moderniser, former chief of staff to Neil Kinnock and now high-flying minister; while this constituency is represented by Ian Gibson, a former member of the Socialist Workers Party and Dean at the University of East Anglia. Most of this seat is not actually in Norwich, and as such it is the more typically Conservative of the two Norwich seats. The number of professional people living in this seat is less than half the national average. Around 70% of homes are owner occupied and the ethnic community here is small at just over one per cent. Norwich has recently become famous for its citizens demand for Viagra - more of the anti-impotence drug is bought here than anywhere else in the country. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Norwich South', '65792', '5.45290195341848', '6.47373540856031', '12.647373540856', '14.2094885605388', '13.564856268155', '13.213779017563', '10.7494308819389', 'At the last election, this seat was Labours safest in Norfolk, although it shouldnt be too much of a surprise in a city with a strong Labour history and relative impoverishment. This seat is the physically smaller of the two Norwich constituencies, and covers the city centre. Norwich was once the second city of England, and until the seventeenth century was the leading manufacturing town, based on the wool industry. The historical trappings of past glories, and evidence of continued industrial development, are found almost exclusively in this division today. Those trappings are impressive and include the beautiful city centre, two cathedrals, the university and castle. Still, major employers in the constituency include the Colmans mustard factory, Norwich Union headquarters and the cattle market. The seat also includes the main depot for Anglia Trains, housing the new Class 170 diesel trains, and the redevelopment of the railway station and the area between it and the Carrow Road football stadium are part of the £500m being spent on a city-wide renaissance. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Nottingham East', '65339', '4.10379738320272', '4.55026859915211', '12.4550268599152', '10.561357254407', '14.4675084949338', '11.9013120785206', '12.6858585019555', 'This constituency varies from the affluent wards of Mapperley and Sherwood to the inexpensive terraced housing of Radford and Forest wards. Most council housing is based in Manvers and Sherwood. Only Greenwood and Basford wards of Nottingham City Council currently have Conservative representation. Even Mapperley is now Labour. The area has received much money from the New Deal for Communities - £55m for Radford over 10 years - and from the neighbourhood renewal fund. The constituency is also covered by a Health Action Zone and by the DfEE initiative, Excellence in Cities. At 7.2%, the constituency has the 52nd highest rate of unemployment in the UK (December 2000 figures). It also has a high proportion of manual workers and at least 15.7% of the population are non-white. The main employment within the constituency is small manufacturing and some textiles, although this has diminished considerably over recent years. Otherwise many people commute out of the constituency borders to work - Boots, Raleigh and two call centres are based nearby. Many people in the constituency used to work in mining. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Nottingham North', '64281', '3.54503694827242', '4.67354272646661', '12.4673542726467', '11.2946369405456', '11.5388015610971', '10.4515289933311', '10.9709217384285', 'The pattern of boundary changes in 1983 and the effect of the 1984-5 miners strike - in which the Notts miners did not participate - on the 1987 general election form a well known pattern in Nottinghamshire electoral history. Unlike Nottingham East and South, Graham Allen in 1987 did manage to recapture the seat for Labour. The seat covers the industrial north of the city and includes many large council estates. Unemployment is fairly high and a high proportion of homes are council owned. The workforce in the constituency is mainly manual. Many constituents travel out of the seat to work in the nearby Boots, Raleigh and Imperial Tobacco (previously John Player) factories. Since the decline of the mining and textiles industries there are no major employers within the constituency, but there are plans for Imperial Tobacco to relocate into the area. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Nottingham South', '73049', '4.55019806037427', '5.01102000027379', '12.5011020000274', '14.3834288890482', '13.610426085312', '10.5741919528079', '10.941823562122', 'Like East but unlike North, Nottingham South was the scene of surprise Tory victories in 1983 and 1987. Alan Simpson regained the seat for Labour in 1992, increasing his majority to 13,000 in 1997. The constituency has the highest proportion of ethnic minorities - mostly Asian and West Indian - of the Nottinghamshire seats. There is also a high proportion of council housing in this seat - especially in the area of Clifton, south of the Trent where despite the council housing sell-offs of recent years close to half of the housing remains council owned. The other main traditional Labour area is based around the city centre. This part includes the industrial and working class Meadows area which runs down to the River Trent, the largely non-white ward of Lenton and the Park estate to the west of the city. To the south west of the constituency is the area where the Conservative vote has usually been concentrated. The wards of Abbey, Wilford and the favoured residential area of Wollaton have Conservative representation on the City Council. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Nuneaton', '72101', '4.78735685260436', '6.00712888864232', '12.6007128888642', '11.4346845502046', '11.3029193695377', '14.5386752715704', '14.1695178942064', 'This is one of many traditionally Labour seats which had a flirtation with the Conservatives in the 1980s, but this returned to the Labour fold a cycle earlier than most, in 1992. In Nuneatons case, it was more the result of a collapse in the third-party vote - which in 1983 had almost pushed Labour to third place - which affected this more rapid about-turn. Labour now dominates on the council, and even though the Conservatives doubled their tally in the 2000 local elections, they still hold only 10 seats to Labours 35. This is a district with some very picturesque parts, and models itself as George Eliot country; Coombe Abbey and Country Park are popular local attractions and there are many much-frequented country house-style hotels in the region. Communication links are excellent, with the M6 passing through here, as well as such ancient routes as the Fosse Way and Watling Street - the latter forming the eastern border of the seat. These major routes have enabled the towns of Nuneaton and Bedworth to expand in terms of both housing and business occupation, and small industries also flourish here, most notably in the form of light engineering works. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Ochil', '57554', '5.46667422032122', '6.13389164958126', '12.6133891649581', '11.000273599085', '13.8118028334203', '13.5382967364864', '11.1060661458009', 'Lying between the river Forth and the Ochil Hills, this constituency is pleasantly rural, but is mostly industrial in character. Brewing, distilling, glass manufacture and bottling are the main industries today, with tourism and agriculture also playing a part in the local economy. The most affluent areas in the seat are unsurprisingly also the Tory-held wards. Bridge of Allan is home to monied commuters to Stirling and further afield, whilst Dollar has, in its Academy, one of Scotlands most renowned private schools. Besides these, the towns in the seat grew up on the wool trade and, in the case of Alva, silver mining. Those industries may now have died out, but the majority of inhabitants remain resolutely working-class. The predecessor seat to this constituency - Clackmannan & East Stirlingshire was held by the SNP between February 1974 and 1979. In February 1974 the party managed to overturn a Labour majority of over 10,000 and won by a margin of over 3,500 votes. It was the largest swing in the whole of the UK. Labour holds this constituency in the Scottish Parliament. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Ogmore', '52185', '3.79534148189635', '5.81642234358532', '17.5816422343585', '20.3568481064726', '16.9549594449933', '19.8687035915243', '14.8954287000961', 'A traditional south Wales Valleys heartland seat for Labour, who have held it since its creation in 1918 (though there have been major boundary changes). Sir Ray Powell has been the MP since 1979. At the 1997 general election, he had a majority of 64.2% over the Conservatives. It forms part of the Bridgend local authority whose electors voted Yes in the 1997 devolution referendum, by a majority of 4,460, despite Powells opposition. In the 1999 Assembly elections, Sir Ray Powells daughter, Janice Gregory, won the seat for Labour with a smaller - yet significant - majority of 21.2%. Plaid Cymru came second with 27% of the vote. The seat, which contains the town of Maesteg, has the familiar valleys profile of unemployment and social problems in the wake of the decline of the coal industry, problems which have been partly offset by the advent of newer manufacturing industries. The constituency is landlocked. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Old Bexley and Sidcup', '67841', '5.45961597797451', '6.21055114164001', '12.621055114164', '11.2213644431307', '10.6597353419951', '11.2332068254577', '10.7340734144454', 'This seat has been held in its various manifestations by the former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath since 1950, but this election will see a new face in the constituency, as the Father of the House has decided to retire. Old Bexley & Sidcup is located on the south east edge of London in the borough of Bexley, and borders Kent - it is suburbia. This, along with its neighbouring constituencies, have high levels of owner occupiers. The area does not replicate the ethnic diversity of London as a whole, and is home to very few non-white people. This has long been regarded as Tory territory, and in the contest for the nomination, the former MP for Shrewsbury & Atcham, Derek Conway, beat off some 300 hopefuls (including 10 former MPs) to be selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate. Even this seat suffered the effects of the Labour landslide in 1997, with Mr Heaths majority being cut to just over 3,500 votes. One of Sidcups famous daughters is Emma Noble, the one-time model, who is now married to John Majors son James. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Oldham East and Saddleworth', '74511', '6.13892558344342', '6.09574425252647', '12.6095744252526', '11.1213256231478', '12.1660164759426', '13.5452683471181', '14.5211118146858', 'Stability has not been a watchword for Oldham East & Saddleworth in recent times. Over the past five years, this constituency has been held by MPs from all 3 parties. Although Phil Woolas could only manage second place behind the Liberal Democrats Chris Davies in the 1995 by-election following the death of the Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens, the Oldham voters allowed him to win this seat on his second attempt in 1997 and he beat Mr Davies to Westminster by 3,389 votes. As one might expect from an area that has elected members from all 3 parties in such a short space of time, this seat is somewhat eclectic in its social and geographical composition and residents are able to drive from the inner-city Oldham wards of St. James and St. Marys to moorland and farms in the north and east in a matter of minutes. The seat has a mix of traditional manufacturing, food and clothing, and also modern, hi-tech industries, including a plant that assembles electronic components for aircraft. The Saddleworth area is fairly middle class in composition, serving as a commuter dormitory for people who work in nearby Manchester. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Oldham West and Royton', '69409', '4.88489064611381', '5.75746661095823', '8.57574666109582', '7.42803214971405', '8.03912586567453', '7.93366164395744', '8.18129034419752', 'This newly-created seat was contested for the first time in 1997 by Labours Michael Meacher and was not expected to be as safe as the old Labour strongholds it replaced. Fifty-five per cent of this seat comes from the former Oldham Central & Royton with the other 45% coming from Mr Meachers old seat of Oldham West which he represented from 1970 to 1997. In fact, he was able to eclipse his notional majority of 5,794 and win by 16,201 votes. Most of this constituency has a history of Labour representation since 1950 with the exception of Royton which was Tory until 1964 and Oldham West which was briefly represented by a Tory after a by-election win in 1968. Mr Meacher began his political career by losing this by-election contest before winning it back for Labour in 1970. Despite the Liberal Democrats taking control of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council in the local elections of May 2000, Labour continues to dominate in the local authority wards that make up Oldham West & Royton. They hold 18 of the 27 seats with the Liberal Democrats holding five and the remainder shared between the Tories and the Greens. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Orkney and Shetland', '31909', '5.86505707285006', '5.24397505405998', '17.524397505406', '15.1724625429105', '16.7293714756866', '20.2327521538864', '18.4567789596236', 'This is the UKs most northerly seat. The Orkney Islands are separated from the Scottish mainland by a seven-mile stretch of the Pentland Firth, and consist of 70 islands of which only 20 are inhabited. There are two main towns, Kirkwall, the capital and administrative centre, and Stromness, both of which are situated on the largest island, which is known as the mainland. Apart from the oil terminal at Flotta, the main industry in Orkney is beef production. The Shetland Islands are nearer to Norway than England, and their Viking heritage is celebrated in the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival. The main town of Lerwick is a centre for the oil industry and further to the north is Sullom Voe oil terminal. Due to the declining oil industry, there has been a return to traditional industries such as fishing where new boats are being purchased and knitwear factories have been developed. The Liberal Democrats and their forebears have held the seat of Orkney and Shetland since 1950. The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Jim Wallace, is the sitting Westminster MP for Orkney and Shetland. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Orpington', '74423', '5.61321495914519', '6.84089595958239', '12.6840895959582', '11.1693657334359', '12.6899935669734', '11.7638298447483', '14.5628179293305', 'In 1962 the seat was the scene of a by-election shock for the Conservatives. They lost it on that occasion to the Liberal candidate Eric Lubbock, now Lord Avebury, on a 26.8% swing. The result gave rise to the political phenomenon Orpington Man, who symbolised the rebellion of traditional Tory voters against the Macmillan government. Although such by-elections with massive swings are more commonplace now, the 1962 result was an astonishing for its time. Historically, Orpington was a part of the county of Kent, but for the past 25 years it has been part of the London borough of Bromley. It includes rural wards such as Biggin Hill ( the site of the Battle of Britain Aerodrome) and Darwin. It is one of the few places in Greater London where farming takes place and open country can be seen. Many of the constituents here earn their living by commuting into central London and in particular to the City. Unemployment is low at 1.8%. There is a very small non-white population here by London standards - standing at just under 3%. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Oxford East', '74421', '5.06098173057619', '5.35440265516454', '8.53544026551645', '9.09319858287709', '8.94798719296045', '8.76341874979178', '8.84779436210006', 'The constituency comprises two thirds of the city of Oxford, including Cowley, Headington and South Oxford. It is made up of mixed residential areas, large social housing estates, with areas of multi-occupation, and some affluent suburbs. The constituency also contains significant ethnic minority communities. Major employers in Oxford are the new BMW Mini factory, Oxford teaching hospitals, Oxford Brookes University, high tech, pharmaceutical and bio-tech companies; light engineering, printing and publishing companies. The pre-1997 boundary changes took out a couple of rural polling districts on the edge of Oxford, and added the Labour leaning council seat of Oxford South. Labour has the most councillors in the wards in this seat with 16, but the LibDems have a strong presence with 10 councillors, the Greens have five, the Tories one and one independent. Oxford ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Oxford West and Abingdon', '79915', '5.21602544213466', '6.45285615966965', '12.645285615967', '11.5226412209613', '13.7702639608699', '12.7180453711354', '14.6044817644752', 'As the name suggests, this is a seat of two halves. The Oxford half contains the bulk of the University, the main shopping centre and the up-market residential areas of north Oxford. It is here that a radical tendency has begun to show itself: Oxford is governed by a Green-Lib Dem administration. It is the suburban and rural areas on the outskirts of the city which might be expected to provide a different political complexion. Containing a large number of commuters both to Oxford itself and London, it has instead voted consistently Lib Dem. Aside from the University it is also home to the John Radcliffe Hospital and to the largest immigration detention centre in the country, at Campsfield, near Oxford. Hundreds of asylum seekers have passed through it since it opened in 1993, and it has been the subject of condemnation by human rights organisations. There were disturbances at Campsfield in August 1997, but the nine African asylum seekers accused of rioting were acquitted when the trial collapsed due to the contradictory statements of Group 4 security staff.  ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Paisley North', '47994', '4.45438809707951', '5.65758219777472', '12.5657582197775', '14.6142072147939', '12.1972851434872', '11.100924644176', '14.0632684528818', 'Paisley North is an industrial seat, it also includes the towns of Renfrew and Linwood, as well as Glasgow Airport. It is bordered to the north east by the river Clyde. There is a high proportion of council housing, with unemployment being as much of a problem here as it is in any other depressed Clydeside constituency. The Hillington industrial estate takes up a large area in the west of the seat, and provides many inhabitants with places of work, but non-manual, white-collar, jobs are thin on the ground. Labour holds this seat in the Scottish Parliament, with the SNP coming second to Labour in the elections in 1997 and 1999.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Paisley South', '53351', '4.16099030652345', '5.7236040561564', '12.5723604056156', '13.3328984410246', '13.5164129671074', '14.4557608486099', '11.439116744948', 'Considering its location in industrial Clydeside, it is no surprise that Labour should, in the past, have found such success in both of the Paisley seats. The town grew up on the linen trade, and textiles is still an important, if declining, industry today. The spectre of unemployment, however, has blighted the lives of many of Paisleys inhabitants in recent years. This seat includes just over half of the city centre, as well as the smaller town of Johnstone, but apart from Johnstone Castle there is little that might attract a tourist to this part of Scotland. Paisley South was the scene of a by-election on 6 November 1997 caused by the suicide of MP Gordon McMaster. The by-election campaign was dominated by allegations of misconduct in Renfrewshire Council. Douglas Alexander succeeded in holding the seat for Labour, albeit with a substantially reduced majority. Renfrewshire councillor Hugh Henry won the seat for Labour in the Scottish Parliament with a majority of more than 4,000 votes over his SNP challenger.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Pendle', '62870', '5.53785361924897', '6.31970733259106', '17.6319707332591', '15.2606396869206', '14.8257703597145', '17.1590894904309', '16.9593135907538', 'Labours famous capital punishment reformer Sidney Silverman held the seat from 1934 until his death in 1968. Since then, Pendle has become far more marginal and has alternated between Labour and the Conservatives with the 3 elections between 1974 and 1979 failing to produce a majority greater than 700. Junior Minister John Lee seemed to break the trend in 1983 with a majority above 6,000, but this advantage was steadily eroded by rekindled support for Labour, culminating in Gordon Prentices 1992 victory with a majority of 2,000. Although composed of working-class towns and villages which grew up during the 19th century textile industry, Pendle is far from the gritty, northern Labour enclave one might expect and the seat offers some hope for all three parties. In recent years, the towns ethnic population has grown, with more than half of residents in the central Nelson Ward of Whitefield being non-white. In fact, Pendles Asian population makes up almost 10% of the electorate.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Penrith and The Border', '67776', '4.50789848358155', '6.52871222851747', '7.65287122285175', '7.36102789517', '7.53109194071894', '8.23702728496157', '8.82771169375511', 'Penrith and the Border is the largest constituency in England in terms of acreage. With an electorate of around 67,000, it is also one of the most sparsely populated, and its rural character has served the Conservatives well over the years. Although Penrith and the Border has usually backed the Tories at general elections, when it comes to local politics, allegiance to mainstream parties goes out of the window. Apart from a handful of wards in Carlisle and Allerdale, most local election contests are fought in the District of Eden wards where 30 Independents currently serve, compared to just 3 councillors each for the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and 2 for Labour. Completely encircling the seat of Carlisle and stretching from just short of Gretna Green in the north to the Yorkshire Dales in the south, Penrith and the Border deals mainly in agriculture but is also home to a good many well-off white-collar commuters - a potent mix for the Conservatives. Lakes, forests and fells combine to offer some of the countrys most beautiful scenery and tourism is a major industry.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Perth', '61497', '7.02850645229532', '6.14924305250663', '12.6149243052507', '11.902125859195', '12.2515283980606', '13.5091415030019', '12.8799857575569', 'This is a relatively prosperous, largely rural, lowland constituency on the fringe of the Highlands with successful livestock and fruit-growing sectors reliant on its good soil quality. The beautiful scenery also aids tourism, and the constituency as a whole enjoys relatively low unemployment. This combination of small prosperous towns and rich agricultural land would seem like natural Conservative territory and in the past it was. The Tories held Perths predecessor seats for most of the post-war period with the exception of the period between October 1974 and 1979, when Douglas Crawford held Perth & East Perthshire for the SNP. At the by-election following the death of the flamboyant Conservative MP for Perth & Kinross, Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, in 1995, the SNPs Roseanna Cunningham won with an 11.5% swing from the Conservatives. She held the seat at the 1997 general election, making Perth the first SNP by-election win that has not been reversed at the following general election.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Peterborough', '64918', '5.48502963930473', '6.13265966295943', '12.6132659662959', '11.3237193608348', '12.9200418879809', '11.0887123664928', '14.3118715431271', 'Peterborough lies halfway between the East Anglian coast and the Midlands; the East Coast mainline which links Peterborough with London in 50 minutes has increased Peterboroughs attraction as a commuter town. Peterborough was designated a New Town in 1968, and the Peterborough Development Corporation was established with the task of doubling the citys population in conjunction with the city council. Three new townships - Bretton, Orton and Werrington - were built from scratch. Peterborough is also an Environmental City. The town has a significant Asian population; at the last census 10.3% of the population classed themselves as non-white. The seat has a history of close finishes. In 1966, Peterborough produced jointly the closest contest of any post war election - Sir Harmar Nicholls (the sitting MP) defeated Labour by three votes.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Plymouth Devonport', '73666', '4.17004242671205', '5.66326392094046', '12.566326392094', '14.4239144638286', '13.5585475787007', '11.3945549071776', '14.5947877509613', 'Devonport is, of course, the name given to the area of the dockyards in Plymouth, now almost 300 years old. Along with the docks there is also the naval base and great swathes of council housing built on the hills of Plymouths northern fringe, in wards like Budshead and Southway, all working-class territory. Michael Foot was the Labour MP from 1945 to 1955, when he was ousted by Dame Joan Vickers who represented Devonport for the Conservatives until 1974 when she was beaten by a Labour candidate - Dr David Owen. He had been member for the neighbouring Sutton seat since 1966 and did very well to hold onto Devonport for Labour in 1979, by 1,001 votes against the national tide. Owen - a former Labour foreign secretary - then became a founding member then Leader of the Social Democratic Party and twice again held Devonport. After the demise of the SDP, Owen retired rather than fight Devonport again. His departure after nearly 20 years led to another remarkable result in his old constituency - in 1992 Labour increased their share of the vote by no less than 20%, to win by over 7,000 votes from the Tories.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Plymouth Sutton', '68438', '4.9256519847465', '5.70925509220024', '12.57092550922', '11.2632599976588', '12.9304638143588', '12.0866466740245', '11.4508668007839', 'Sutton is a densely populated constituency located in the centre of Plymouth but despite its name, only 25% of the new Plymouth Suttons voters come from the seat that previously bore that name and had been represented by the former Conservative Minister Alan Clark from February 1974 until 1992. Called Sudtone in the Domesday book, Plymouths original harbour is still called Sutton harbour. A developing trade and the shipment of armies to France led to its early growth, and by the 16th century it was flourishing and the home port to many Elizabethan adventurers, including Sir Walter Raleigh, who set off for Virginia from Plymouth, and Sir Francis Drake, who sailed with the English fleet from Plymouth to defend England against attack from the Spanish armada in 1588. Sutton harbour is now flourishing and is home to the fastest-growing fish market in Europe. The Hoe, on its southern waterfront, is dominated by the citadel, built by Charles II, and the 29th Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery is now based there. The east of the constituency is bounded by the royal dockyard, which was started in the late 17th century and became the focus for the town of Plymouth Dock, renamed Plymouth Devonport in 1824.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Pontefract and Castleford', '63181', '3.02666369341531', '4.96842405153448', '12.4968424051534', '13.6486411355192', '12.5354036901013', '12.6263937135428', '10.9026583715368', 'The demise of the coal mining industry here has not in recent elections affected Labours hold on this constituency: some individual wards returned Labour candidates with a 90% or greater share of the vote. The constituency is tucked away in the far north west corner of West Yorkshire, and its two eponymous towns - combined with Knottingly - have provided Labour with an historically loyal seat. Castleford, with 30,000 voters, holds the largest influence in the constituency, and in each of its three wards, Labour received over 80% of the vote even in May 1992 - when the party was reeling from its fourth general election defeat. Despite the disappearance of coalfields from the heavily industrial landscape, unemployment has been kept in check in Pontefract and Castleford by massive power stations such as Ferrybridge, near Knottingly, which tap water from the two great local rivers - the Aire and the Ouse. Despite the rise of the energy industry in this area, many workers are only partly-skilled and correspondingly lowly-paid.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Pontypridd', '66105', '4.00584718995536', '5.79517434384691', '17.5795174343847', '14.7318404904948', '20.2093697617897', '20.2592380869243', '18.496082258813', 'The seat is centred on the market town of Pontypridd which has a population of around 33,500 people. The constituency includes former mining communities on the periphery of the Rhondda as well as more affluent areas on the outskirts of Cardiff. The economic profile of the area is characterised by new industry and it has benefited from inward investment with the presence of companies such as LOreal and Bosch. The Royal Mint is also a major employer. It contains a sizeable commuter population for Cardiff and has a substantial student population due to the presence of the University of Glamorgan in the constituency. The singer Tom Jones is amongst Pontypridds most notable sons. It has been a traditionally safe south Wales Valleys Labour seat, and is predominantly English speaking.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Poole', '64644', '5.48594295618484', '6.06908607140647', '12.6069086071406', '12.5363151859364', '12.2828775807929', '13.0466103217915', '10.8379984917991', 'Poole has had a significant increase in its population in recent times, with an influx of people seeking either retirement homes or employment. Those who are retiring here may well be attracted by the resort feel of the town, whereas those coming for jobs have benefited from Pooles recent industrial development. Once the town was known only for fishing, boat-building and pottery, but now chemical, pharmaceutical, electronic and engineering industries have sprouted. Tourists are drawn to the four miles of sandy beaches, given European Blue Flag status all too rare in this country, and Poole Harbour itself - the second largest natural harbour in the world. Poole has a tendency to support the Liberal Democrats in borough and county elections but at the last general election, Robert Syms, one of the Conservatives new intake, was elected with a majority of just over 5,000 votes, down from 13,000 in 1997. Indeed, Labours share increased by 9.9% whereas the Lib Dem share rose by only 1.5%.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Poplar and Canning Town', '75173', '3.88354638208045', '4.53726736993335', '12.4537267369933', '11.5482357724343', '13.9354536516618', '11.9198352428893', '11.6249784957897', 'This constituency has a history of industrial and community activity which reads like a history of the Labour movement, stretching back beyond the great dock strike of 1889. Keir Hardie, George Lansbury, Elwyn Jones, Ian Mikardo and Clement Attlee have all represented this area. It was heavily bombed during the blitz, and more recently - following the closure of the docks in London - it saw the arrival of the London Docklands Development Corporation, which heralded a new era for the area. The Millwall ward of the constituency elected the British National Partys Derek Beackon in a 1993 by-election. The victory of the far-right party came in an area where the arrival of Bangladeshis had caused resentment, especially over the issue of housing allocation. Derek Beackon failed to get re-elected in the 1994 local elections but the BNP did well in other wards within the seat and remains active in the area. It was, however, the Labour candidate - Jim Fitzpatrick - who won the new seat in 1997 with 63.2% of the vote.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Portsmouth North', '64256', '4.93408560733467', '5.73736304780876', '8.57373630478088', '8.25158653756351', '7.64712605947371', '9.67081675231624', '8.39014454744721', 'Portsmouth is the home of the Royal Navy, but it is also the second most densely populated city in Europe, after London. With no spare land for industrial expansion, planners have turned to reclaiming it from the sea to aid development - it was by this means that the ferry port was developed to become second only to Dover. The naval base has been here since the sixteenth century, but has been trimmed through defence cuts causing job losses directly in the dockyards, and indirectly in the defence industries of the region, such as at Marconi. Other major employers in the seat include various insurance companies, and IBM. In addition to the large areas of middle-class housing there are areas of council housing of Paulsgrove, Much of the housing is of poor quality, car ownership is below average and about half the workforce is employed in manual work. The seat was won by Labour at the last election on a swing of 13.5%.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Portsmouth South', '77095', '5.53997194950912', '5.08658149036903', '12.5086581490369', '12.1605905943048', '13.3796642817602', '12.5902673668677', '10.4987678363171', 'Portsmouth South covers the city centre and the seaside resort of Southsea. Portsmouth Football Clubs famous old Fratton Park ground is situated in the constituency. Densely populated, the constituency is home to many students attending the university (one of the largest in the country) and other colleges of higher education. Portsmouth South also has a Category B prison. Unemployment is above average. The Lib Dems took the seat in 1997, despite seeing their share of the vote fall.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Preseli Pembrokeshire', '54283', '5.86535062675041', '6.77504927877973', '12.677504927878', '13.5067633658092', '11.1099201832854', '11.2514144310617', '13.2458936989049', 'A predominantly rural seat, Preseli Pembrokeshire comprises parts of English-speaking south Pembrokeshire including much of the port town of Milford Haven, combined with the Welsh-speaking northern part of the county. The constituencys spectacular coastline lies within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and the Preseli Mountains are in the north. It also includes Fishguard which serves as a major sea ferry port to Ireland. Tourism is an important local employer and is recovering following the impact of the Sea Empress oil spillage disaster of 1995. The oil refining industry has also been a big employer, but has been in decline in recent years, a factor which has contributed to relatively high rates of unemployment, particularly in the south of the constituency. Employment in the area has also been hit by the closure of local defence installations. According to the 1991 census, 18.4% of the population of the Pembrokeshire County Council area could speak Welsh but within the Preseli Pembrokeshire constituency, Welsh speaking is more prevalent in its northernmost part. St Davids, the smallest city in Great Britain, is one of the areas major tourist attractions.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Preston', '72077', '4.30093504619739', '5.00034685128404', '12.5000346851284', '10.9574531316251', '11.3559014910664', '12.5124781237438', '13.1083522502372', 'The late Audrey Wise held this seat for Labour in 1997, but her death in 2000 caused a by-election, which Labour duly won. Classed as Lancashires market town, (although the council continues to press for city status), Preston is an old industrial centre originally based on cotton but now reliant on engineering, light industry and its proximity to the M6. The towns docks, once council-owned but closed down in 1981, have recently been redeveloped as housing, aiding the towns reputation as a growing shopping and administrative centre. There has also been a growth of affluent residential areas around Bamber Bridge and Walton-le-Dale. But nearly 30% of workers are partly skilled or unskilled and 23% of the towns huge swathes of cheap terraced housing is owned by the council - a figure high above the national average.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Pudsey', '71405', '5.19269507470946', '6.32658777396541', '12.6326587773965', '11.4241743105577', '12.1879413337654', '12.949010870011', '13.0107500189158', 'Sandwiched neatly between the two largest cities in West Yorkshire, Leeds and Bradford, Pudsey provides a dormitory role for skilled commuters who use the seat as a launch pad for their daily journeys to work, making the area affluent and middle-class in nature. Tory candidate Peter Bones 1997 loss to Labours Paul Truswell, signalled an end to Conservative rule in this seat dating back to 1922. Much of the housing in Pudsey is made up of rugged Pennine stone terraces, built prior to the First World War, which are scattered around functional semi-detached homes thrown up between the two world wars. Despite this somewhat misleading appearance, Pudsey remains an affluent and exclusive area, with hardly any non-white residents at all. It boasts being the birthplace of cricketing heroes Sir Len Hutton, Brian Close and Ray Illingworth, as well as the fish and chip magnate Harry Ramsden.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Putney', '60643', '5.35607962173837', '5.64978645515558', '17.5649786455156', '19.7069145189503', '19.408111281101', '20.3476314532775', '20.3977516115404', 'After Michael Portillo in Enfield Southgate, Putney was one of the most publicised and televised results of 1997 election night. This was one of the key embarrassments for the Conservatives: the colourful, pro European David Mellor faced a challenge from the founder and leader of the Referendum Party, Sir James Goldsmith, whose 3.5% of the vote Mellow described as derisory. In the event, Labour won by 6.8%. The constituency is nestled comfortably between Barnes Common, Putney Heath, Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park. Like its neighbour, Richmond Upon Thames, it is a strongly middle class and affluent constituency. But unlike Richmond, where the Lib Dem Jenny Tonge broke former Tory Party Chairman Jeremy Hanleys reign in 1997, anti-Tory tactical voting in Putney favoured Labour. But the Tories have benefited here in the past, as in most of Wandsworth - with the exception of Tooting, due to the very low council tax of Margaret Thatchers flagship Wandsworth Council. All wards in Putney are held by the Conservatives on Wandsworth Council.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Rayleigh', '70073', '4.98889486358217', '6.10406290582678', '12.6104062905827', '12.9465586076836', '12.6837407772915', '13.816521816345', '10.9143479523435', 'The Rayleigh constituency lies in south east Essex, to the north of Southend and to the east of Billericay. It takes in ground covered by the Chelmsford and Rochford local authorities. Before the Second World War, the seat was mainly rural villages and picturesque countryside, but has seen rapid population growth since then. Rayleigh itself is an ancient market town 38 miles from London and 7 miles from Southend. It has a well preserved windmill built around 1798, the mound of a Norman Castle now owned by the National Trust and a circular 17th century Dutch cottage. Today it has developed into a modern shopping area, but retains an old world charm. With so many owner occupiers, and so few council-rented properties, it comes as no surprise that this seat has historically tended to be loyal to the Conservatives, although it could not be described as super-prosperous.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Reading East', '74637', '5.52226145169425', '5.84401838230368', '12.5844018382304', '11.2993456329855', '14.1533350520901', '13.3213780347197', '13.4627702789421', 'In the 19th century Reading became know for its production of beer, biscuits and bulbs. Simonds brewed the beer, Suttons manufactured the bulbs and Huntley and Palmers made the biscuits. In recent years, in the affluent Thames corridor and by the M4, the area has expanded its light and service industries greatly, and has also become a home to many London commuters. Reading is now seen as the capital of the Thames Valley and was disappointed recently to have had its application for city status rejected. This seat contains most of Reading town centre and the more commercial and business-orientated parts. The town claims to be the 13th top shopping centre in the UK, not least because of the recent £200m Oracle shopping development. Amongst the businesses based here are BG (formerly British Gas), Thames Water, Microsoft, Prudential, and Yellow Pages. The seat also takes in about half of the campus of Reading University and - more importantly in terms of the election - about three quarters of the student population.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Reading West', '71688', '4.68870575906254', '5.85676821783283', '12.5856768217833', '11.6137624932439', '14.2343464060121', '13.5082553316803', '12.6662505132131', 'This seat is larger than its eastern counterpart, covering more territory out to the west, a lot of which is semi rural. There is much history to the town: the Domesday Book recorded that Reading boasted six mills, five fisheries and a nunnery, whilst in 1121, Henry I founded an abbey here. Furthermore, in the Middle Ages, it was a regular venue when Parliament had to assemble outside London, because of plagues in the capital. Today, this seat takes in several council estates, including those at Southcote and Whitley, which is on the southern edge of the town. However, further to the west of the town in the Newbury district are the more affluent and rural residential areas. These include Calcot and Theale by the River Kennet and Purley and Pangbourne by the Thames. Pangbourne is home to a Royal Naval College.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Redcar', '66179', '3.97193570343997', '5.77192160655193', '12.5771921606552', '12.109469157197', '11.4687267241147', '10.5916384596457', '11.2862853860261', 'This coastal constituency, sandwiched between Middlesbrough to the south and Hartlepool to the north, is characterised by its urban, heavily industrial nature. Dr Mo Mowlam, MP for Redcar since 1987, won the seat for the third time a decade later with a majority above 21,000 whilst the Torys majority share fell to 23%. However, Mowlam is stepping down, and is replaced as Labour candidate by Vera Baird, a London barrister. The small coastal resort of Redcar is untypical of the seat that bares its name. This seaside town on the North Sea is the only ward that regularly returns Conservative councillors, but away from this rural and tourist friendly area, the wider constituency is far more representative of the north east. ICI Chemical and British Steel plants at Wilton and Redcar respectively saddle the seat with a heavily industrial landscape and vast swathes of council housing. Such estates provide Labour with rock solid wards such as Grangetown, Dormanstown and Eston. Some relief to this Orwellian landscape is provided by the greenery of Redcar racecourse, but elsewhere a large oil terminal, part of Britains third largest docks complex further blights the rugged landscape.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Redditch', '62543', '5.43664938431627', '5.92104632013175', '12.5921046320132', '12.6157803991627', '10.8775304949816', '13.0129302246397', '13.8357816482751', 'At the most recent local elections Conservatives picked up three seats in this constituency from Labour, and one from the Lib Dems. Although Labour still runs the council, its control has narrowed considerably since 1997, when Labour had 22 councillors, sitting with just four Conservatives and a single Lib Dem. Redditch was designated a new town in 1964, and was developed largely to cope with the overspill from the West Midlands conurbation. The new town project was completed and the development corporation wound up in 1985, but further development is still planned and it is expected the population will reach 90,000 in the near future. Nearly 30% of homes in the seat remain council-rented, and there is a diverse mix of industry. Halfords and Shakespeare (fishing tackle manufacturers) have their headquarters here, the latter drawing upon the history of needle-making in the constituency. Indeed one of the few points of regional interest is the National Needle Museum at Forge Mill. Another is the Kingfisher Shopping Centre, currently undergoing a £60m investment programme which will make it one of the 10 largest in the country.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Regents Park and Kensington North', '75886', '4.53551765086905', '4.88258703845242', '17.4882587038452', '15.8548133617524', '19.7500746534988', '18.2584749570623', '15.2069711240473', 'In terms of the area this seat contains, one might describe it as the epitome of cool. It includes the hip Portobello area which houses some of the liveliest bars and shopping areas in London. It is the venue for the annual Notting Hill carnival. It also includes the wealthy St. Johns Wood area, Lords Cricket Ground, Madame Tussauds, and London Zoo. A stark contrast to some of Londons most famous attractions and most sought after residential areas is provided by the more deprived areas of this constituency. Roughly a quarter of the population come from ethnic minorities - from or with roots in the Caribbean, Morocco and Bangladesh, among many other places. Members of the ethnic community here experience unemployment disproportionately, at levels two or three times higher than the general population. The overall unemployment rate in this constituency is high too - 5.9% - higher than the national average.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Reigate', '65023', '5.21837158636064', '6.07077495655384', '12.6070774956554', '10.5158712888977', '10.9774727118073', '12.7246258095554', '13.4969728771557', 'Reigate is situated at the foot of Colley Hill and Reigate Hill on the North Downs in Surrey. It is a market town, with a long and distinguished history, which was once used as a stopover for travellers on the Pilgrims Way. The town itself is surrounded by pleasant countryside and a number of pretty rural villages, such as Brockham, Betchworth, Charlwood and Buckland. Some of the local streets have retained their historic facades to this day, but in recent years, a number of modern offices have sprung up around the station area. The electorate has tended to vote Conservative in both general and local elections. In fact the Tories hold all the parliamentary seats in the county of Surrey. Prior to the last election, the sitting MP, Sir George Gardiner, failed to win his partys nomination, but stood under the banner of the Referendum party. He obtained 7% of the vote, the fourth best result for the Referendum party in Britain. Nontheless, Conservative candidate Crispin Blunt was still elected with a 7,741 vote majority.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Renfrewshire West', '52889', '5.30704242170941', '6.33345308098092', '12.6333453080981', '11.9771370653264', '11.9748874618375', '12.0396532300502', '13.0394029776157', 'As well as Port Glasgow, this constituency comprises small towns and villages on the Firth of Clyde, west of Glasgow. These include Bishopton, Ranfurly, Lochwinnoch, Erskine and Kilmacolm - the latter being one of the finest residential areas in the west of Scotland. Much of the housing in the seat is owner-occupied - about 70%. The military industry in Renfrewshire West and its neighbouring constituencies provides a major source of employment for people who live here. The Bishopton munitions manufacturing complex, as well as new offices for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, are located in this seat, whilst Faslane, home to Trident, and the Govan Shipyards are within commuting distance. This seat was created in 1983, and was held for one term by Anna McCurley for the Conservatives. Tommy Graham won it for Labour in 1987, and has held it ever since. However, he was expelled from the Labour Party in 1998 for bringing the party into disrepute, and he has since operated as a Scottish Labour MP.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Rhondda', '56059', '3.16804893829775', '6.06539538700298', '17.6065395387003', '17.8337757619485', '19.705682102945', '17.968714635091', '16.3173915144081', 'Traditionally, the Rhondda has been one of Labours safest seats in Wales. Consequently, the Labour Party has been regarded as an entrenched part of the Rhonddas working class, radical culture. Plaid Cymru have traditionally been the second party in Westminster and local council elections. Plaid Cymrus victory here in the 1999 National Assembly Elections powerfully undermined this accepted wisdom of Labours predominance. Similarly in the local government election, Plaid Cymru gained control of Rhondda/Cynon/Taff local authority, mainly due to the support it gained in the Rhondda. Although the coal mines which gained the Rhondda world renown at the turn of the century have now closed, the area retains the character of a mining community. The Rhondda suffers relatively high levels of unemployment and poverty and there are pockets of serious social deprivation such as the Penrhys housing estate. Just over 8% of the population speak Welsh, and this area heavily supported the creation of the Welsh Assembly in the 1997 devolution referendum. Owner-occupation levels here are among the highest in the country at 84% - a huge figure even by Lancashires standards and due in no small part to the countys long-deceased 19th century textile industry which bequeathed its trademark terraced housing. There are low levels of unemployment and an overwhelmingly white population - unusual for Lancashire - and its textile heritage which saw so many Asian workers gravitate to the county. South Ribble is at the heart of central Lancashire and is immediately to the south of the River Ribble. It has excellent communication links sitting as it does astride the north-south M6 motorway. Both Manchester and Liverpools airports are located within 30 minutes of the seat.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Ribble Valley', '74319', '4.85306379776698', '6.61620850657302', '17.6616208506573', '19.1837240783103', '18.7222961683847', '18.7111679258599', '17.5429937305084', 'Noted for its high levels of owner occupancy, unspoilt countryside and pretty small towns and villages, Ribble Valley certainly has the appearance of a traditional safe Conservative seat - although the Liberal Democrats have experienced some success here at by-elections. Most of the constituencys population is concentrated near the River Ribble in affluent settlements such as Whalley, Longridge and Clitheroe, the largest urban centre and bearer of the seats name prior to 1983. The rest of the seat is sparsely populated and includes plenty of attractive countryside, notably the Forest of Bowland. Tourism is a growing industry although farming is in decline as many farmers diversify. There is some manufacturing industry here, including Castle Cement, the stationary company 3M and British Aerospace which has a factory at Samesbury');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Richmond (Yorkshire)', '65360', '4.10659944588273', '6.73714810281518', '8.67371481028152', '10.0982016842035', '8.17514040143742', '7.55398765072198', '8.36635471682629', 'The huge seat of Richmond, set in the far north of North Yorkshire and encompassing two small-ish towns, (Northallerton and Richmond), also covers hundreds of isolated villages and farms and thousands of acres of unspoilt countryside. Conservative leader William Hague was elected here in a 1989 by-election. It was to be the last by-election the Conservatives would win until Uxbridge in 1997. Richmond is the wild rambling chunk of North Yorkshire that James Herriot described so lovingly in his world-famous vet stories, and is one of the four largest constituencies in the country. It sprawls across the untamed northern part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, as well as the valleys of Swaledale and Wensleydale.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Richmond Park', '72663', '5.23020894793595', '6.76424039745125', '12.6764240397451', '13.8925881640888', '11.331631193267', '12.1298903751698', '12.1704118768343', 'This was one of the five Lib Dem gains in south west London in 1997. A very middle class constituency, it has the fifth highest proportion of non manual workers in the country (78.9% of its workforce) and over a third of its adult population possess higher educational qualifications, compared with a national average of 13% (according to the 1991 census). Richmond was the top Local Education Authority (after the Isles of Scilly and the City of London which have very small numbers of schools) for primary school performance in 1999. The constituency contains wards from both the London boroughs of Richmond Upon Thames and Kingston Upon Thames, all of which border onto Richmond Park- the largest open space in London and home to the lower school of the Royal Ballet. In the May 1998 borough elections, 20 of the 35 councillors representing wards in the constituency were Lib Dem, 10 were Conservative and 5 Labour. The Conservatives performed strongest in the Kingston wards.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Rochdale', '69506', '5.07611894854359', '5.67030184444508', '17.5670301844445', '17.4991801818857', '15.7220361589409', '15.0273528682157', '19.1027432324366', 'Labour/Liberal Democrat marginals are a rare breed of seat. Mirroring the only other example of this type in Greater Manchester, Oldham East & Saddleworth, Rochdale is a reasonably diverse constituency featuring industry, residential housing and a swathe countryside which includes the Pennine Hills. Rochdale is a manufacturing centre where engineering and textiles are the most important sectors. The M62 passes through the constituency on the northern edge of the Manchester conurbation, so there are many distribution companies here. The Co-opeartive movement was born here. Littleborough is an attractive town surrounded by hills with some manufacturing companies. Rochdale has many old terraced streets and in some the towns large Asian minority is concentrated. There are some newer residential developments in Wardle and Littleborough but the council house sector is still large. The proportion of skilled and partly skilled manual workers is above the national average. Gracie Fields and Lisa Stansfield were born here.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Rochford and Southend East', '69991', '4.64434476129446', '5.35097369661814', '17.5350973696618', '18.6858909528137', '18.956606211702', '16.633777799407', '18.0100939260378', 'Southend East is more working class than its sister constituency of Southend West, and it is here that the town centre and main offices of this coastal resort are located. The towns most famous landmark is its pier, which is in this constituency: it is the worlds longest pleasure pier at 1.33 miles long and was opened in 1889, and over the years has suffered two fires and two boat crashes. The section added to the old Southend East seat is to the east and north of the town. There is Rochford itself, and Great Wakering, along with the generally flat and sparsely populated area between the River Roach and the mouth of the Thames. This includes the unpalatable-sounding Foulness Island, which is where Londons third airport - Maplin Airport - was originally due to have been built. Over two thirds of homes are owner occupied, although there are some council estates in Southend.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Romford', '59893', '4.69734741323772', '5.96079675421168', '8.59607967542117', '8.01230424078723', '8.71584072619991', '8.52412468677465', '9.74815617533147', 'Spiritually, Romford is very much part of Essex, although it is placed within the boundaries of Greater London, and is home to the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Havering. Romford is an old market town which celebrated its 750th anniversary in 1997, although the coaches that used to pass through in centuries past have now been replaced by the commuter trains which regularly go to and from London Liverpool Street station. The town is an important office and retail centre for north-east London and Essex and boasts one of the largest open air markets in the country: in 2000, when the local council refused to fly the Union Jack from the Town Hall, virtually all the market traders flew the flag from their stalls in protest. The seat is comprised of largely owner-occupied homes for middle-class, white collar workers. Many families moved out to this area from east London in the aftermath of the Second World War. With the exception of Gidea Park, most of the housing is not of the highest quality, being mainly older terrace and semi-detached houses.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Romsey', '70584', '5.30407148310943', '6.86543692621557', '8.68654369262156', '10.0713451598654', '9.7127777135382', '8.07232828703314', '9.33208137264494', 'This seat is traditionally a Tory heartland, and centres on the medieval town after which it is named. The area is basically prosperous shire territory with unemployment at below 2%, less than half the national average. It extends as far to the south as the Bassett area of Southampton, an affluent but nevertheless totally urban suburb; and to the north up the Test Valley, taking in many rustic sounding villages such as Nether Wallop, Over Wallop and Harewood. A landmark in the area is the extensive park and Palladian house of Broadlands, once the home of the Victorian Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, and later of Lord Louis Mountbatten. Romsey was a sensational by-election gain for the Liberal Democrats in May 2000, when Sandra Gidley obtained a 12.6% swing from the Conservatives to put herself in the House of Commons, after the death of the sitting Conservative MP in a fire at his home.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Ross, Skye and Inverness West', '56522', '4.59037113638975', '6.15901772761049', '12.615901772761', '12.6919625388084', '14.6327925743214', '14.5855742376488', '13.4006941625427', 'This is the UKs largest constituency, covering an enormous 2 million acres over the sparsely populated Highlands and Islands. Topographically it has all the details one would expect of a remote Highland region. It has lochs, glens, islands and mountains a-plenty, facilitating healthy tourism, farming and fishing industries. Oil also plays an important part in the local economy, as does whisky distilling and bottling. The farms, especially in the Black Isle area, are generally very prosperous and many of the seats inhabitants are comfortably off. There is a substantial number of Gaelic speakers. The current Westminster MP here is Charles Kennedy, Liberal Democrat Leader since August 1999. Party political allegiances are not strong here: as with most of the Highland seats the contest here has much to do with the personalities of the candidates. Highland Councillor John Munro won the seat for the Liberal Democrats in the Scottish Parliament with a narrow majority of 4.3% (1,539 votes).');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Rossendale and Darwen', '70280', '5.10348662894724', '5.88474672737621', '12.5884746727376', '14.5621087824505', '14.3493996272954', '13.8954517855121', '10.9904919635921', 'Located to the north of Greater Manchester, the seats main towns of Darwen, Rawtenstall, Bacup and Whitworth grew up at the time of the industrial revolution. However, traditional employment in the textiles industry has now virtually disappeared and the south of the constituency in particular has become a commuting base for Manchester. Darwen, a former mining town in the north eastern corner of the seat, still has an industrial base with jobs provided in engineering and in the manufacture of paint, plastics and wallpaper. Pleasant countryside outside the towns attracts visitors who provide employment in tourism. In common with most of Lancashire, home ownership is high. However, unlike most of the old Lancashire mill areas, the Asian population is small, at just over 1% of constituents.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Rother Valley', '69174', '3.79099529929625', '5.32035157718218', '12.5320351577182', '10.7958452960421', '14.0658930625642', '11.9884228499329', '10.9470042348603', 'The Rother Valley seat is an equal mix of countryside and small towns, wrapped around the edges of industrial Rotherham. Owner occupation of homes is high, unemployment runs below the national average and the seat enjoys a fair blend of managerial and skilled-manual workers. Coal mining was a key industry in this area, but the industry declined massively in the 1980s and 1990s. An unusual aspect of Rother Valley is its above average levels of owner occupation, 70%, and its correspondingly low level of council-rented homes - a statistical glitch for a constituency supposedly crippled by the disappearance of its primary industry. The seat has pulled through the hard times with a series of regeneration and reclamation projects, as well as re-inventing itself as a dormitory for managerial and skilled manual workers who commute into bordering Rotherham.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Rotherham', '57931', '3.60938883968113', '5.06706253991818', '8.50670625399182', '8.32725415827195', '7.77555279110811', '9.80030699808277', '8.37039973752045', 'The industrial heritage of Rotherham, built on coal and steel, and the subsequent decline of those industries have combined to keep this constituency in Labours grasp since 1933. The town of Rotherham was once surrounded by coal-mines, but almost all have been closed over the past couple of decades. This led to a landscape of industrial graveyards and urban decay, with high levels of unemployment and council house occupancy. However, efforts are being made to transform the town. The Manvers site is a business park and leisure area, and the Magna science and education centre is housed in a converted steel plant. It was visited by 130,000 people between opening in April 2001 and June. Unemployment has fallen as a result to a 25-year low.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Roxburgh and Berwickshire', '47059', '5.12310310101747', '6.11933955247668', '12.6119339552477', '13.5517156557049', '13.2366560662048', '12.429704992177', '10.5154893671978', 'Although the landscape of this seat is mainly rural, it does include the sizeable market towns of Hawick, Kelso and Jedburghy. Hawick is the largest of all the Borders towns, and like the others grew up on the textile trade, with tweed cloth being the prime export, and has been the home of the Lyle & Scott and Pringle knitwear companies since the nineteenth century. The decline in the textile industry has hit this seat and the neighbouring seat of Tweedale, Ettrick and Lauderdale hard. Kelso has a certain Georgian elegance about it, and this together with a famous ruined abbey brings a fair number of tourists to the area. Tourism is also helped by the presence of parts of the Kielder Forest and the Cheviot hills. The historic tradition of holding an annual Common Riding is a feature of many Scottish Borders towns, Hawick is no different, but has hit the headlines in recent years due to growing protests at its ban on female horse-riders taking part in the event.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Rugby and Kenilworth', '79764', '5.49762064093985', '6.74439596810591', '17.6744395968106', '19.6978864045', '18.8586779588396', '19.381523309852', '20.6119103910564', 'Rugby and Kenilworth is a most incongruous constituency. Its a mix of working-class Rugby and decidedly middle-class Kenilworth, towns which have shown decidedly different political preferences. Industry in the seat is centred around Rugby, with its better communication links. GEC-Alsthom are big employers, as are Peugeot-Talbot whose main factory is in Ryton-on-Dunsmore. Dairy farming is widespread too, there are many rural communities as well as prosperous commuter towns and villages. High-Tory Dr. Thomas Arnold was the famous headmaster of Rugby School, where William Webb Ellis first took up the ball in his arms and ran with it to invent the game of rugby. Kenilworth is most famous for its twelfth century castle, which has interesting parliamentary associations. Simon de Montforts son held it after his fathers death at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, before being starved out six months later. Nearly 400 years later, Cromwell gave it to Colonel Hawkesmoor and his regiment to meet their unpaid wages and they promptly tore down the walls to sell as building materials.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Ruislip-Northwood', '60788', '5.12264074742199', '6.10992301112062', '17.6109923011121', '16.0457063361386', '15.5486697853016', '17.2987691407039', '18.165770436714', 'This seat is one of three that lie in the borough of Hillingdon, situated on the north western edge of London. The seat, which borders the South West Hertfordshire constituency, shares more characteristics with its neighbouring seat, than with other Greater London seats. The only real variation in this constituency is between the comfortable middle classes and more wealthy neighbourhoods and private estates especially in Eastcote, Ruislip and Northwood wards. There is some local authority housing - just over 11% - but unemployment is very low, at 1.3% and falling. An issue of present contention here is the governments plans to close down Harefield Hospital which lies in the seat. A campaign has been set up to block this- MATCH (Movement against the closure of Harefield Hospital).');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Runnymede and Weybridge', '75569', '5.13364446330081', '5.61420688377509', '17.5614206883775', '15.5968710143397', '16.1021914909478', '16.2902841992658', '19.4732354944098', 'This constituency, despite being in the commuter belt ringing London, is essentially rural in character. The borough of Runnymede is named after the meadows where King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215. The meadows have changed little in the intervening years. There is hardly any indigenous industry, and most of the seats workforce are in professional or management positions. Unemployment is low at around 3% and 76% of homes are owner-occupied. The region contains part of Windsor Great Park, as well as Wentworth golf course. With the benefits of royal association, social advantage, and a landscape untainted by industrial grime, this part of Surrey has long shown a Conservative allegiance.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Rushcliffe', '81839', '5.24868677221467', '6.652818338445', '17.6652818338445', '14.8479028639524', '16.2969293354167', '19.0180203922133', '20.5240839818528', 'The current seat of former Chancellor Ken Clarkes is predominantly rural, sitting on the southern edge of Nottingham, Rushcliffes electorate are mainly owner occupiers, 98% white and this was the only Nottinghamshire seat to remain Tory in 1997. The middle class commuter suburb of West Bridgford lying across the Trent Bridge from the centre of Nottingham is the largest community in the constituency. Forest football ground, the Test cricket ground and the Nottinghamshire County Council headquarters are all situated within West Bridgford. There is often a strip of Labour support around the North East of the West Bridgford area concentrated in the Abbey, Musters and Lady Bay wards. The other usually Labour inclined community is that of Cotgrave (Ash Lea ward) where the first coal mine south of the Trent was sunk in the 1960s: its closure after thirty years has left Cotsgrave with many of the social and economic problems characteristic of ex-mining communities.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Rutland and Melton', '72448', '5.1927490649439', '6.49514134275618', '17.6495141342756', '18.127100949038', '20.2916293612344', '20.456068276885', '17.1312178476647', 'The seat covers the Borough of Melton, District of Rutland and part of Harborough Council. The Conservatives are not overwhelmingly strong at the local government level - in fact Independents have formed some interesting alliances. Rutland Council is run by the 17 strong Majority Partnership which is a mixture of Labour, Green, Conservative, Independent Conservative, Lib Dems and Independents. The market town of Melton Mowbray, associated with pork pies, stilton and fox hunting is at the centre of the Borough of Melton. One of the countrys largest cattle fairs is still held in Melton Mowbray every Tuesday. It also contains Anne of Cleves house - a gift from Henry VIII to his divorced wife. From the twelfth century onwards it was renowned for sheep farming, wool merchants and the knitting trade. A large iron foundry was also set up in the 1870s although ironstone is no longer worked. Textiles, shoe and engineering factories were established in the 1920s and in 1950 Pedigree petfoods and PERA moved here.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Ryedale', '66543', '5.28212487755985', '6.59708759749335', '17.6597087597493', '18.2968723475311', '15.6652897215452', '19.2921863296106', '15.2176969457067', 'Like other North Yorkshire constituencies such as Richmond, Vale of York and Skipton and Ripon, Ryedale is a huge, rural and picturesque seat which has usually, but not always, remained loyal to the Conservatives. The size of the constituency cannot be overstated. Ryedale stretches out over a huge chunk of North Yorkshire, from the northern suburbs of York, past Malton and Pickering to reach the countys east coast, a distance of some 40 miles. The North York Moors National Park also falls within Ryedales boundaries, and the seat boasts some of the most impressive and unspoilt scenery in the whole country. Industries here are primarily agricultural and tourism orientated, as well as a thoroughbred racehorse training centre in Malton and the stately home of Castle Howard - the real star of the TV production of Brideshead Revisited.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Saffron Walden', '76724', '5.10691446842526', '6.52207914081643', '12.6522079140816', '12.1309455662067', '13.8852369203994', '13.0650337894404', '13.3991935221837', 'This constituency covers the largest acreage of any seat in Essex and is also the most rural and agricultural. The town after which the seat is named has the largest population, and then is only about 14,000. The only other towns of note are Halstead, Great Dunmow, Stansted Mountfitchet and Thaxted. The rest of the constituency is made up of over 100 villages covered by Uttlesford District Council and part of Braintree District Council. Saffron Walden is a quintessential English market town, which bypassed the Industrial Revolution. With its narrow streets and ancient houses, it has retained much of its mediaeval street pattern. Originally known as Walden, the Saffron prefix was added because the town traded so successfully in the commodity. The remains of Walden Castle can still be seen today, near the Saffron Walden Museum. This seat was held for many years by Rab Butler. Prosperous and comfortable, levels of unemployment and single parenthood are very low.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Salford', '54152', '3.49338189570934', '4.15755650760821', '17.4157556507608', '18.3068057737774', '17.0686900462642', '14.8326154721739', '18.1991020073873', 'Although Salford is situated close to the heart of Manchester, it is technically a city in its own right. The slums of the past have been replaced by blocks of flats - about 50% of accommodation is rented, either from the councils or housing associations. Salfords most famous son is the world-renowned artist LS Lowry, and he is commemorated by the recently opened Lowry Centre, a £60m major arts, education and entertainment complex located in the Salford Quays development. The old docks have been renovated to encompass a four-star hotel, 112 houses, business park and cinema complex. The on-going development within the seat should improve its economic prospects, but unemployment is still above average in the area. Salford has had its own university since 1967.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Salisbury', '80538', '5.33733817462882', '6.53145099207827', '12.6531450992078', '13.416063585047', '13.5194392726164', '11.8878497432674', '13.5895174521244', 'Salisbury is an ancient city with a grand cathedral, which is separated from Wiltshires growth corridor around the M4 motorway by Salisbury Plain. The cathedral in Salisbury is one of the finest medieval cathedrals in Britain. It is the mother church of the Salisbury Diocese, an area which covers most of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset. Started in 1220 it was completed by 1258, with the Spire, the tallest in England (404ft) added a generation later. This seat also takes in territory extending to the towns of Amesbury and Wilton, west to Tisbury and also includes some large army camps. Salisbury has one of the largest concentrations of military personnel in the country. On the Plain there are large camps at Bulford and Durrington and large parts are marked as Danger Areas on maps, because they are used for military training. Salisbury District Council, like North Wiltshire and West Wiltshire has fallen into the hands of the Liberal Democrats in recent years. Sir Edward Heath lives in Salisburys Cathedral Close.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Scarborough and Whitby', '75213', '5.28102182101298', '6.31845558613538', '12.6318455586135', '11.5118105735587', '11.5292965571406', '11.3851362540134', '12.8468375528514', 'Like many coastal constituencies that depend on farming and tourism, Scarborough was once considered safe Tory territory. But just as Hove, Hastings, Thanet North, Blackpool, Morcambe and Crosby all succumbed to Labour in 1997, so did Scarborough and Whitby, for the first time since the seats creation in 1918. The seat has experienced economic decline and demographic change which has affected so many of the UKs seaside areas. Scarborough is Yorkshires premier resort, and features a certain amount of light industry, not to mention a busy port which provides the town with its main economy - fishing. Outside the two eponymous towns, the rugged countryside is home to dozens of farms and a large chunk of the North York Moors National Park. The once-famous giant golf balls at Fylingdale Early Warning station have been replaced by an equally giant pyramid that monitors satellites.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Scunthorpe', '59689', '4.02349442379182', '5.63336628189449', '12.5633366281894', '13.8997662000467', '10.6113873052055', '13.6710917487006', '10.5785638134548', '1997 was a breakthrough year for Scunthorpe, as it saw the first ever election when the town enjoyed sole ownership of its constituency title. Previously the town had been paired with both Brigg and Glanford and on some occasions had even failed to receive any kind of mention at all. Scunthorpe, with its reserves of ironstone, grew up as a steel town and the industry continues to survive today, although to a much lesser extent. The town underwent considerable industrial and commercial expansion in the late 1980s with firms like Citizen, Hygena, and McKeys Foods moving in, along with companies also associated with food and electronics. Because of the seats industrial character it has one of the largest proportions of skilled manual workers in the country, at over 40% of the workforce.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sedgefield', '64925', '3.51433255502012', '6.20069310743165', '12.6200693107432', '12.3533716718534', '10.847522701281', '11.3144822077633', '12.374862129772', 'Sedgefield, the town after which the seat is named, is home to 5,000 souls and forms the basis of Conservative support in the constituency. But Labour leader Tony Blair is compensated for this by the votes he receives from the former coal field surrounding the town. Once heavily reliant on its traditional industrial heritage, Sedgefields economy continues to recover and adapt following the decline of staple north east industries such as coal and steel. Diversification into light engineering, distributive trades and the service sector have all played a part here, as has inward investment from Japanese companies such as Fujitsu and Nippon Silica Glass. The seat lies in the south east of County Durham, almost surrounding the Darlington seat on its south border. Aside from the town of Sedgefield major population centres include the Newton Aycliffe and larger former pit villages such as Chilton, Ferryhill and Trimdon.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Selby', '77924', '5.49411203055379', '6.45141419844977', '17.645141419845', '15.5428951661108', '20.5342646019138', '18.7443932166313', '16.4088687988299', 'Although the constituency of Selby contains the largest worked coal field in Britain, the late arrival of the industry means this seat is not a typical of its kind as the seat had a history of returning Conservative MPs. As coal has played a comparatively small part in Selbys history. The constituencys mainstay industries are agriculture and brewing, with many mineworkers commuting into the seat from outside. The flat farm land south of the city of York that characterises this constituency is prone to some of the worst flooding in England, and is punctuated by huge and modern power stations such as Drax near the A1(M) trunk road. Other than the seats burgeoning power industry, there are other points of interest in the Selby seat. The town has a 900-year-old abbey, Samuel Smiths brewery in Tadcaster, the University of York in Heslington and the Archbishop of Yorks palace at Bishopthorpe.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sevenoaks', '66648', '5.05983948936969', '6.393890289281', '12.6393890289281', '12.1404277541801', '11.5547105665666', '11.8149190510316', '11.1660366661425', 'Just to the south of London, and with the M20 and M25 running through the division, Sevenoaks has fast become commuter country, although it can still lay claim to being the Garden of England. Over 50% of the population come from the top social classes, with one of the highest proportions of professional workers in the country. There is some light industry, and an element of farming, but the majority of inhabitants are white owner-occupying middle-class commuters. The town of Sevenoaks was originally named after seven oaks in the town centre, but in the 1987 storm, six of them were blown over. They have since been replaced by young trees. The scenery is picturesque, undulating and often wooded countryside home to many country houses and small towns with great historical associations. Jack Cades rebels (protesting against corrupt government and officials) won a famous battle at Sevenoaks over the royal army of Henry VI. The seat is also the home of Brands Hatch racing track, whose impending expansion is the source of considerable anger amongst local residents.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sheffield Attercliffe', '68386', '3.22046672621706', '5.23849910800456', '12.5238499108005', '13.4133562350594', '13.3768348419448', '14.4012944719079', '11.4748900438724', 'This long, thin but heavily-populated strip of a constituency that winds its way down the south east edge of Sheffield, offers some of the most bleak post-industrial vistas in England. Once the citys world-famous steelworks stood in this constituency but now there is only flattened ground and rubble. The seats reliance on the steel industry was made all too apparent as it suffered economic catastrophe as the industry crumbled around it during the 1980s and 1990s. Despite the loss of steel, residents in Sheffield Attercliffe may not have suffered as badly as first feared. As the old great buildings have been demolished and swept away, a new fresh image of the constituency has emerged beneath. The giant out-of-town Meadowhall shopping centre attracts literally thousands of visitors to the seat every day, as well as providing as great a source of employment as the old British Steel works at Tinsley did during the industrys heyday. The seat contains four wards, once of which – Darnall - contains some of the citys few residents from ethnic minorities, in this case mostly Pakistani. Sheffield');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sheffield Brightside', '54711', '2.30979962429555', '4.67035879439235', '12.4670358794392', '12.2764682541759', '10.6972769448616', '11.8192467584067', '13.6113940332621', 'Brightside is the most working class of Sheffields six seats and is held by the Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett. At the time of the 1991 census, more than half the housing in this seat was still owned by the local authority - the highest figure in Sheffield, and indeed in the entire Yorkshire/Humberside region. The make-up of the seat is predominantly urban residential, although the blandness of the housing is relieved somewhat by the impressive views afforded from some of the citys seven hills. There is a little industry located on the eastern side of the seat, but unemployment here is twice above the national average. Sheffield Wednesdays famous Hillsborough Football Stadium, (the scene of the 1989 tragedy), is located within this seat, rather than nearby Sheffield Hillsborough.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sheffield Central', '62018', '3.85513319365459', '4.8484311006482', '8.48484311006482', '9.16869893001974', '8.50832684344435', '8.53817500317374', '7.2108039809277', 'The centre of Sheffield was heavily bombed during the war, and this in tandem with the councils slum clearance programmes have completely transformed the centre of the city with massive new developments of commerce and working-class accommodation. Much of the high-rise housing has won praise for its striking and original design, enhanced in no small part by the hilly geography of the city. The seat benefits from a state of the art sports centre constructed for the 1992 World Student Games - an event which lost money for Sheffield - as well as the Crucible Theatre, venue for the World Snooker Championships. Sheffield Central is also home to Bramall Lane football stadium - the ground of Sheffield United FC. Boundary changes before the last election saw the seat take in over 14,000 voters from Sheffield Hallam.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sheffield Hallam', '60288', '4.45615227736234', '6.34388269639066', '12.6343882696391', '12.3308603424582', '10.8698382026193', '11.9396225043166', '11.8402758955945', 'Like Hillsborough, its neighbour to the north, Sheffield Hallam includes little territory actually contained within the city of Sheffield. Instead, over half its area consists of rural land, much of it spreading into the picturesque Peak District. The seat also contains the plushest of all Sheffields suburbs, and boasts the highest proportion of professional workers in England and Wales, with, correspondingly, an almost complete lack of manual workers. Nearly 80% of those who work here are in middle-class occupations, 78% of homes are owner-occupied and unemployment is by far the lowest of the six Sheffield seats. This south western Sheffield seat also plays home to the leafy university areas of Broomhill, Ecclesal and Fulwood, which consist of dark stone mansions that punctuate rows of ultra-modern semi-detached housing. Liberal Democrat success here in 1997 was the first time since its creation that the seat was not held by the Conservatives.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sheffield Heeley', '62758', '4.30211781247254', '5.43978456929794', '12.5439784569298', '10.739466053572', '11.3925055705586', '12.1328544396086', '14.2868762821151', 'Sheffield Heeley, immediately south of the city centre, has been described as the least remarkable of the six Sheffield constituencies. The seat is a combination of council-rented Victorian terraces and new-ish council estates, and includes high rise accommodations that rise up spectacularly from the Gleadless valley to provide sweeping views of the Seven Hills City. As with the citys other five constituencies, Sheffield Heeley was hit hard by the decimation of the citys steel industry during the 1980s and 1990s and unemployment remains above the national average. The 1991 census put owner occupiers at 52.1% of the population while just over 2% of the electorate was from ethnic minority backgrounds. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sheffield Hillsborough', '75097', '4.3177543727666', '5.66414104424944', '12.5664141044249', '11.8981247600969', '12.2336435437278', '13.2143980467367', '13.3256165339578', 'Sheffield Hillsborough is a highly diverse seat, which includes large stretches of moor land, some farmland, villages, small towns and residential areas that become more concentrated towards the citys centre. Principally it is a residential seat from which people commute to other parts of the city. Confusingly, Sheffield Wednesdays Hillborough Football Stadium, (scene of the 1989 tragedy), is not in this seat but actually in neighbouring Brightside. The largest employer here is one of the citys few remaining steel works, Stocksbridge, where around 1,400 workers produce specialist steels. Many are also employed on the Thorncliff Industrial Estate which straddles the M1 near Chapel Town. The seat is mixed geographically and stretches into the countryside of the Peak District.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sherwood', '75670', '4.57516339869281', '6.06581207876305', '12.6065812078763', '11.5274118377849', '13.4758001238687', '14.1805966583368', '12.9913916198581', 'Sherwood was perhaps the most anomalous of the 1983 General Election results in Nottinghamshire. The constituency was new for 1983 and forged from parts of the constituencies of Ashfield, Gedling and Newark creating one of the top five constituencies in the country dominated by employment in mining, but its inaugural election was startlingly won by a Conservative farmer, Andrew Stewart, who also held on in 1987, aided by the Notts miners working through the 1984-5 miners strike. With the subsequent spectre of pit closures hanging over the region, Paddy Tipping was elected as Labour MP for Sherwood in 1992. He increased his majority to 16,812 in 1997. The Dukeries coalfield opened in the 1920s, fundamentally changing an area that until then had been known for its large aristocratic estates in what was left of Sherwood Forest. As in other parts of Nottinghamshire the decline of the knitwear industry has been quite important here, with one factory closure in Ollerton before Christmas and other factories struggling. Since the closure of mines many people from former mining villages travel out of the constituency to work.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Shipley', '69577', '5.6012603215993', '6.61425471060839', '12.6614254710608', '14.7030861002559', '10.9990026476094', '12.7659017803537', '13.2941583693272', 'The constituency is mainly residential, but a sprinkling of industry includes textiles and light engineering along with a reasonable agricultural economy. Owner-occupation levels are well above the national average at 78%, and the proportion of those employed in the white-collar sector is also higher than the norm. Like the rest of West Yorkshire Shipley returned a Labour MP in 1997. It was the first time that the Tories had not represented the seat since 1950.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Shrewsbury and Atcham', '74964', '5.54128513895289', '6.65772904327411', '17.6657729043274', '15.1533824160478', '18.4922119763056', '14.7752066721024', '15.3565672501854', 'Shrewsbury is in the county of Shropshire and also an important market town. In addition, it is home to the headquarters of the borough council, the county council and the local health authority, all of which provide much employment. It is dominated by 15th Century black and white Tudor housing and narrow cobbled streets. In 1083 an Abbey church was founded by the Normans here, which is still a place of worship today. It is also famous for its annual flower show; and in the summer, the towns streets are bedecked with flowers - for 28 years, the late Percy Thrower of Blue Peter fame was the Parks Superintendent. Atcham is a large village south east of Shrewsbury and is included in the constituencys name to recognise that its borders mirror that of the local authority of the same name. There are many jobs in tourism here, as well as in the service sector. Agriculture used to be more important than it is now, although there is still a large cattle market in Shrewsbury.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Shropshire North', '73716', '5.13521066208082', '6.31070595257475', '12.6310705952575', '12.600034530846', '14.660511313407', '12.6835905136313', '14.2116103397119', 'This is a large rural constituency of small towns and villages stretching from around the Welsh border in the west across to Market Drayton in the east, close to the M6 and Newcastle-under-Lyme. The major centre is Oswestry, with other small towns including Ellesmere, Whitchurch and Wem. Market Drayton has had a street market for over 750 years and is most famous for its gingerbread; Ellesmere is a pretty market town with buildings from the Tudor, Georgian and Victorian periods, not far from its spectacular Mere (lake) complete with a Visitor Centre; Whitchurch is known as Home of the Tower Clocks, with J.B. Joyce having made magnificent tower clocks - seen on palaces and cathedrals worldwide - for over 300 years here; whilst Wems claim to fame is as the home of the modern Sweet Pea, developed by Henry Eckford, the 19th Century nurseryman. The main economic activities here are agriculture and associated industries, tourism and some light industry.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sittingbourne and Sheppey', '65825', '5.41972634581859', '5.75131029244208', '17.5751310292442', '14.923331723486', '16.1323762155473', '20.1431488918093', '19.8591523081028', 'To the far north east of Kent, this is one of the less well-known regions in that county. Sittingbourne is a fairly small, fairly modern town, whilst Sheppey refers to the Isle of Sheppey, a flat area cut off from the Kent mainland by the Swale. The divide between the island and the mainland is sharp: the island accommodates much of the constituencys industry and less attractive businesses, it is poorer and house prices are lower. The port of Sheerness has a deep harbour and much of the fruit and vegetables imported into the UK, as well as large numbers of cars, pass through here. Predictably, packaging plants proliferate, but offer only poorly-paid work. There is a great deal of construction work going on here, partially the result of Single Regeneration Budget money, but plans for a new bridge and hospital have also been agreed. The constituency includes the historic town of Queenborough and the eastern end of the Isle of Sheppey is a popular holiday resort for many Londoners.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Skipton and Ripon', '75201', '4.76122623458047', '6.53262589593223', '17.6532625895932', '20.2294991120021', '19.5932236509103', '15.1524618609603', '15.6244041012297', 'Typical of North Yorkshires constituencies, Skipton and Ripon is a sprawling rural seat, set amid beautiful countryside, with an economy largely dependent on tourism and farming. Forming the southern portion of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and containing such attractions as Fountains Abbey, Malham Tarn, and its eponymous market towns, Skipton and Ripon pulls in tourists from all over the country. The income thus earned goes a long way to up-holding an economy that would otherwise be largely based upon sheep farming, although there is some light industry centred around Skipton. The residents here are typically white middle class owner occupiers, unemployment is low and only 10% of housing is rented from the council.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sleaford and North Hykeham', '74561', '5.03479135450235', '6.53411300814098', '12.6534113008141', '11.8687012766611', '13.2229270099176', '10.7430117463203', '14.3062816900257', 'Much of the land on which this seat lies was reclaimed from the marshes and consists of rich, alluvial soil, making it ideal for farming. Cereal, root and market garden crops are all cultivated here, and agriculture remains the regions main industry. The market town of Sleaford has always held a market since earliest recorded times, and more recently hosted bull baiting contests until the practise was banned in 1807. Its attractive stone-built houses are typical of those found in small villages sprinkled all over the seat, such as Heckington, the home of the only eight-sailed windmill in the country. There is a strong tradition of independent representation here in local elections.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Slough', '72429', '4.17457305502846', '5.38430739068605', '17.5384307390686', '16.708815429974', '19.5097003588769', '16.931066780191', '16.3645646772148', 'About 20 miles west of London on the M4, Slough is Britains very own silicon valley without the sunshine. Immortalised by Betjamins poem Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough this both prosperous and poor constituency has had a hard time living down its unenviable reputation of mile after mile of concrete housing estates and office blocks. Often considered little more than a suburb of Heathrow Airport, this hasnt stopped Mars, Black and Decker and Smith Kline Beecham, amongst others, from making this constituency their home. Sloughs business sector is undeniably one of the most lively in the country, with approximately 3,000 businesses operating within its boundaries.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Solihull', '77094', '5.45586376913675', '6.26131735284198', '8.6261317352842', '9.95252974495279', '8.48323258882559', '8.30563519669284', '8.17564065235385', 'This seat is overwhelmingly residential, white and middle-class - in the 1991 census 51% were classed as professional or managerial/technical. It had one of the highest levels of owner-occupation (85%) and only nearby Sutton Coldfield had a lower level of unskilled people in England and Wales. In the west it borders Birmingham near the International Airport. Despite its residential character, the seat is home to a number of large companies. The most important of these is Land Rover - until recently a division of BMW but now owned by Ford. It was the only consistently profitable part of the old Rover Group and unlike the other parts is in no danger of closure. It employs about 10,000 people in the constituency at its Lode Lane plant. Conservatives took control of the council in the local elections last year.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Somerton and Frome', '74991', '5.63757497532458', '7.02537637849875', '17.7025376378499', '16.6896245250512', '18.8423837809582', '15.0307447557648', '15.2939280170362', 'Frome, the largest community in this seat, is a market town which once had a booming wool trade; as a result, it was much despised by a former parliamentarian, William Cobbett, as the Manchester of the south. Today it acts as a small commercial centre for the surrounding area and tourists. Aside from agriculture, industries in the constituency include some high-tech defence-related industries and the quarrying of stone and road building materials. RNAS Yeovilton is in the constituency, a large multi-role air base which is home to the Royal Navy Sea Harriers, Support Helicopter Force and Commando Helicopter Force. This was a tight fight in 1997, with the votes having to be counted three times before a Liberal Democrat victory was declared.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('South Holland and the Deepings', '73880', '4.45673347474135', '6.25365457498646', '12.6253654574986', '12.4089422646702', '11.2932674617808', '12.1331741678049', '12.7138585578739', 'South Holland & The DeepingsThe Holland part of this seats name comes from a large rural district in this constituency, so-named because of its striking likeness to that flat, low-land country across the North Sea. Deepings is derived from Market Deeping, West Deeping and Deeping St Nicholas; a small town and two villages which are all situated within the seat. The local council described this area as once a vast tract of fever-infested swamps, but extensive land reclamation from the sixteenth century onwards has led to the region, with its hugely fertile alluvial soil, becoming one of the prime areas of crop production in the UK. Dutch engineers and scientists had their part to play in the reclamation schemes, and the result of their work has been to make the seat truly reminiscent of its namesake in the low countries. Another similarity with the Netherlands is the cultivation of tulips, particularly around Spalding, as well as many other types of bulb and root vegetables. Most of the occupants of this seat are white middle class owner occupiers.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('South Ribble', '73794', '5.36397138521569', '6.25118573325745', '12.6251185733257', '12.0769752849109', '14.0384947637427', '10.8222774114922', '11.3240329720336', 'Owner-occupation levels here are among the highest in the country at 84% - a huge figure even by Lancashires standards and due in no small part to the countys long-deceased 19th century textile industry which bequeathed its trademark terraced housing. There are low levels of unemployment and an overwhelmingly white population - unusual for Lancashire - and its textile heritage which saw so many Asian workers gravitate to the county. South Ribble is at the heart of central Lancashire and is immediately to the south of the River Ribble. It has excellent communication links sitting as it does astride the north-south M6 motorway. Both Manchester and Liverpools airports are located within 30 minutes of the seat. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('South Shields', '61802', '3.68431424067262', '4.92670140124915', '12.4926701401249', '10.5895303470457', '12.038798895085', '10.4688824345593', '11.1277114608163', 'This seat encapsulates the town of South Shields, and has been home to various industries over the years, traditionally shipbuilding and coal-mining, although it has also fostered tourism as a holiday resort. It has turned to various light industries following the decline of its traditional economy. A proposed new ferry service across the Tyne to South Shields, which would be a considerable boost for the economic development of the area, depends on whether passenger trains can be restored in South East Northumberland. There are plans to restore this rail link after an absence of 37 years, but it will require government subsidy - which is yet to be secured. Labour dominates the local council and the Conservatives have been known not to stand in some municipal elections.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Southampton Itchen', '76603', '4.54886036787277', '5.40096340874378', '12.5400963408744', '12.182885125766', '11.7959119156752', '11.1720635071715', '12.9666964687402', 'The Southampton constituencies are named after the two rivers flowing through the City, and Itchen is the citys eastern side. It contains the town centre, most of the docks, marina, and inner-city council estates. The port has been important since roman times, though it now has less to do with the military in its role as a ferry terminal and merchant navy base. The parts of the docks that became redundant in the last couple of decades have been undergoing re-development and are now put to retail and business uses. The constituency includes the impoverished Thornhill area in the east of the city. On the basis of a whole range of measures of social exclusion, it was recently given the go-ahead to bid for up to £50m of government money under the New Deal for communities programme. Itchen was one of the narrowest Labour gains in 1992 and was then one of the partys few southern seats.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Southampton Test', '73893', '4.75069152134696', '5.62637868268984', '17.562637868269', '14.7021820585367', '18.0629144705233', '17.9787558469731', '16.5852423730941', 'At the 2000 local elections, Labour lost its majority on Southampton City Council. This is the more middle-class of Southamptons two seats - just. It contains Southamptons leafy northern suburbs, although that is not to say this is the more affluent or picturesque half. There are a number of council estates here, and Test includes the council estate-dominated Redbridge ward on the edge of the city. Southamptons livelihood has largely come from its position as a thriving seaport, but this half of the city contains little of the dockyards. And while there are many more professional workers here than in Itchen, there is also a higher proportion of only partly skilled workers. The Ford Transit factory is based here, as is the Ordnance Survey Office, but other famous names are scarce. This seat has changed hands frequently in the last 50 years, swinging between governments regularly since 1955. At the 2000 local elections, Labour lost its majority on Southampton City Council.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Southend West', '64116', '5.36775919732442', '5.82927818329278', '8.58292781832928', '9.92707801172536', '7.2259543754575', '9.01367614223668', '7.55313621471221', 'This seat was represented for decades by the Former Conservative Cabinet Minister Paul (now Lord) Channon, but was taken on at the 1997 election by David Amess, who had served as MP for Basildon from 1983. He sought a safer haven elsewhere in Essex and won the nomination for this historically solid Tory seat. The town of Southend is now a major office and retailing centre and this plus the effect of London commuters is reflected in the high level of skilled non-manual groups in the constituency. There is also a large number of pensioners - approximately a quarter of the population - and a high level of owner occupation. The town centre and main offices are actually located in the neighbouring constituency of Rochford and Southend East. This seat is a more up-market tourist area with some attractive residential suburbs. Particularly picturesque is Leigh-on-Sea: originally a small fishing village surrounded by farmland, it has expanded over the years to become a thriving community of about 25,000 people. Today the active cockling fleet and boat building industry are balanced with tourism.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Southport', '70785', '5.6234053410444', '5.8138023592569', '8.58138023592569', '7.98470791623986', '8.04588632901905', '9.01257745441529', '9.3706660704295', 'Situated on the north west coast of England, Southport was transferred from Lancashire to Merseyside after boundary changes in the 1970s - much to the chagrin of many of its inhabitants. The town is about 17 miles south west of Preston, 40 miles west and slightly north of Manchester and 20 miles north of Liverpool. The surrounding area is fairly flat with attractive villages and mostly arable farms. The town has kept its genteel image and proudly guards its Victorian heritage - not least the statue of Queen Victoria in the middle of the promenade, facing out to sea. Flanking Southports main street, Lord Street, are classical municipal buildings including the Art Gallery, together with gardens, mature trees and fountains and an interesting array of shops complete with Victorian wrought iron canopies. An upmarket seaside town with relatively low unemployment of 3.7% in December 2000, the constituency has swung between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems. The seat is currently held by Lib Dem Ronnie Fearn who regained the constituency in 1997 after his first tenure was brought to an abrupt end in 1992.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Southwark North and Bermondsey', '73527', '4.30551787748901', '5.01339643940321', '12.5013396439403', '10.5455505734679', '13.804949960369', '13.0372577110026', '13.8205572492425', 'This is one of Londons poorest inner-city constituencies, and includes the deprived and run down Elephant and Castle neighbourhoods and defunct Bermondsey docklands. However, the development of some of the docklands area into luxury flats is breathing some new economic life into the seat. The main landmarks contained in the seat are Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge Station, Guys Hospital and the Elephant and Castle shopping centre. One of the most pressing local issues in the seat is secondary education. There are six secondary schools - three are local authority, two are Roman Catholic and one is a Church of England technology college. All the Church schools are oversubscribed and the local authority schools are much less popular. The sitting MP Simon Hughes is campaigning for a City Academy school to alleviate the problem - and give parents extra choice. This seat has been held for the Liberal Democrats (the only true inner city seat held by the party) by Simon Hughes since a by-election in February 1983, which was caused the resignation of the Labour MP Bob Mellish.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sparkbrook and Small Heath', '74358', '4.24591371735749', '4.92845423491756', '17.4928454234918', '18.9068427048651', '19.5975657652765', '16.8656207592917', '16.2503633210554', 'There is no data on this constituency');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Spelthorne', '68731', '5.48954395367756', '6.08080778687928', '12.6080807786879', '11.3465866256547', '12.6044863369997', '14.57459572588', '11.2434740002051', 'Until 1997, Spelthorne was a typical Surrey constituency with a formidable Conservative majority of over 19,000 votes. However, at the last general election it saw this reduced to just 3,473 votes and Labours vote increase substantially. Just south of Heathrow airport and north of the Thames, Spelthorne is a very built-up area and has far fewer open green spaces, private roads and woodlands than are commonly found further south in the county. However, the area is still very affluent. Most residents can afford to buy their own homes, council housing accounting for only 10% of the total, and the proportion of professionals and managerial workers is high. The are several working class areas, most notably Stanwell, which was the only county council ward to give Labour a majority on the same day as the 1997 general election. Unemployment is low and there are very few manual workers. Commercially, the area is one of the most active in Surrey. About 20% of all commercial or industrial property in the County is located here, including the headquarters of many national and international companies, such as BP Amoco, Courage, the Ian Allen Group, McVities, Del Monte, Samsung Electronics and Shepperton Film Studios.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('St. Albans', '66040', '5.45508557848312', '6.62643852210781', '12.6626438522108', '13.3441167117891', '12.5186761197216', '13.1511845330857', '13.7623493746243', 'This seat is named after the cathedral city of St. Albans, which is in the north of the constituency, about 20 miles from central London. The city has notable theological connections, given that is named after the first English martyr, it provided the only English pope, Adrian IV, and a number of the citys bishops have gone on to be Archbishop of Canterbury, including the late Lord Runcie. Today, tourism plays an important part in the citys economy, but apart from the historic streets and churches, splendid parklands and gardens, St. Albans is also a thriving shopping and business centre. PricewaterhouseCoopers have an office here to serve businesses in the northern home counties, whilst Post Office Counters Head Office for the North Thames and East Anglia Region is here. The constituency is also home to many who commute into London both by rail and road: three motorways dissect the constituency - the M25, M10 and M1. This was a relatively unexpected Labour gain, given that they had been in third place before 1997.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('St. Helens North', '70545', '3.88925826440786', '5.3300730030477', '12.5330073003048', '14.0381508518022', '10.7345323693131', '13.7482823137527', '10.9470879798366', 'An industrial town, built on the back of the coal, glass and chemical industries and famous for its glass technology, its Beechams powders and, of course, its rugby team, St Helens was left untouched by the Boundary Commission in 1995 and boasts two parliamentary seats. St Helens North has tended towards Labour. Slightly more affluent and middle class than its southern neighbour, two of the wards in St Helens North often return Tory councillors in borough elections, namely Windle - one of St Helens most desirable residential districts - and Rainford - popular with commuters for St Helens and Liverpool. The Lib Dems are often elected in municipal contests in Newton-le-Willows, an old railway town. St Helens industrial past has left it with its share of problems, namely large areas of derelict land and a low skills base. Like many towns in this area, St Helens has its share of substandard housing that is often cold, damp and lacking in basic facilities. Local residents are said to be particularly alert to what they regard as the inequities in regional funding.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('St. Helens South', '65122', '5.03046976689149', '5.19087251620036', '8.51908725162004', '8.60033171668343', '8.85937196164334', '8.99980106725351', '9.23030743126719', 'Lying about halfway between Manchester and Liverpool, St. Helens is a working-class town which came into its own during the Industrial Revolution thanks to the abundance of black gold - coal - in the area. The Sankey Canal that runs into the heart of the town was the first canal in Britain and canals and roads have played an important part in the development of St Helens ever since. The glass industry proved eager to exploit this abundant source of energy. One of the first businesses to utilise coal and the most modern transport system of its time, was the British Cast Plate Glass Company at Ravenhead. This was soon followed by many other firms, including William Pilkington who founded the now world-famous glass manufacturers. The town has two seats although most of it falls within the boundaries of the St Helens South constituency which has been a slightly stronger Labour seat than its northern neighbour. Unusually for an urban constituency the electorate here is over 99% white. Originally part of Lancashire, St Helens became a Merseyside Metropolitan district in 1974, although its residents have tenaciously held onto their Lancashire accents and Cheshire postcodes.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('St. Ives', '74256', '4.84167580075508', '6.63461538461538', '12.6634615384615', '12.8618430355968', '14.2743933829475', '14.5956823314569', '12.6326551240453', 'The seat is at the very south western tip of the mainland of Britain (including the Scilly Isles) - and includes Lands End, Lizards Point and the towns of Penzance, St Ives, Helston and St Just. St Ives itself is a small Cornish resort with wide sandy beaches. It is also home to a branch of the Tate gallery. Penzance is the commercial capital of West Cornwall. Beyond Penzance is Penwith with its mysterious stone circles on dark moors, and Lands End. There is a large elderly population here - the place is popular with retirees and there are many second homes here. The main local authority of the seat is Penwith District Council, which is currently hung, having strong Independent, Liberal Democrat, and Conservative support.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stafford', '67934', '5.20240724879412', '6.530750434245', '12.6530750434245', '12.2268736231081', '12.3188043690788', '12.5003911066716', '10.7642619015629', 'The 1995 boundary changes saw Stafford change from a safe Conservative seat to something more marginal. The historic town of Stafford, remains the heart of the constituency, and is usually fairly evenly split between Labour and the Conservatives, but the shape of the constituency changed with a number of smaller rural communities such as Eccleshall and Gnosall being lost to the new seat of Stone. This removed swathes of Tory-leaning voters and the constituencys profile became more urban. It undoubtedly helped David Kidney become the constituencys first Labour MP since 1945. Stafford as currently constituted is a mix of the historical, with a Gothic castle standing on a Norman site, and the modern: a major technology park has recently been completed just outside the town. It has been the epicentre of much transport development, with several major roads, including the M6, cutting a swathe through the constituency, as well as the West Coast Mainline railway.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Staffordshire Moorlands', '66760', '5.09962961226499', '6.38975434391851', '17.6389754343919', '18.8771858769268', '16.3765375852994', '17.3789063021593', '19.8894435575562', 'The vagaries of 1995 boundary changes produced few greater shocks than the redrawing of Staffordshire Moorlands. The seat then held by Conservative Sir David Knox with a healthy majority was originally earmarked simply to lose two wards to the new seat of Stone. But after the public inquiry, the Assistant Commissioner decided that the heavily Labour supporting community of Kidsgrove, to the west of Moorlands, should not be split in half as had been proposed. Kidsgrove, with its 19,000 voters was instead transferred whole into Moorlands. Compounding Tory woes was the loss of the rural wards of Alton and Kingsley from the south-eastern edge of the old seat. The result was that the formerly safe Tory seat yielded an easy win for Labours Charlotte Atkins in 1997, a victory which would most likely have been achievable in the new constituency even without the great pro-Labour swing of that election. The seat is centred around the market town of Leek, which contains picturesque reminders of the areas industrial past, but extends much further to incorporate Biddulph and Kidsgrove whose mining history and present industry provide a modern bedrock of traditional Labour support. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Staffordshire South', '69925', '4.95139876718824', '6.03217733285663', '12.6032177332857', '12.2298663730381', '14.3910463998148', '12.8874888395361', '12.9693978495924', 'Throughout the political changes which swept the country in 1997, and the boundary changes which shook up Staffordshire in 1995, some things remained constant, of which the Staffordshire South constituency is a prime example. The local member, Sir Patrick Cormack, has represented the seat since its creation (as Staffordshire South West) in 1974, and has become something of a Westminster institution in the process. The boundary changes transferred some 13,000 voters to Stafford constituency but even so the Conservative majority in 1997 was more than 7,000, confirming it as the Tories safest seat in Staffordshire. It is not hard to see why the seat should have proved so loyal to the party; it is something of a hybrid without a clear centre of gravity to provide a Labour-friendly urban core. Instead, it combines tracts of agricultural land with the fringes of commuter-filled dormitory suburbs of the West Midlands, such as Wombourne and Perton. The workers in the indigenous aggregates industry, mainly serving Birmingham, are thus heavily outnumbered by an unusually high proportion of people in managerial or technical employment.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stalybridge and Hyde', '66265', '4.45141359296012', '4.83603712367011', '12.483603712367', '14.5266437206851', '11.4630345445278', '11.4319836108056', '13.7195209318801', 'The 1997 general election was the second running in which Labour took all three seats in the Greater Manchester borough of Tameside. Also for the second general election running, Stalybridge & Hyde produced the smallest majority of the three. Stalybridge & Hyde has not been taken from Labour since before the Second World War, although it did undergo a period of marginality during the 1950s when Fred Blackburn won three tight contests, including majorities of 298 in 1951 and 155 in 1955. This constituency lies right on the eastern outskirts of Manchester, at the foot of the Pennines and even includes some areas of barren moorland. It comprises overspill communities, and retains a number of post-war council estates. There is a small Asian population, but most residents are white and working class, with only a small proportion in non-manual jobs, indeed Stalybridge & Hyde has a higher percentage of employment in the manufacturing industry than any other seat in the North West.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stevenage', '69203', '4.81190964125032', '6.13456064043466', '12.6134560640435', '10.5788848858548', '14.0970089711946', '13.7747779028797', '12.9961741172868', 'This constituency is based around the town of Stevenage, which was Britains first post war new town, with some notable examples of modern architecture. One previous MP, Shirley (now Baroness) Williams described it in 1964 as a microcosm of the new Britain. There had, however, been a settlement here for many centuries, with modern day Stevenage growing out of a small Anglo-Saxon settlement known as Stithenaece. The town was the first in Britain to have a traffic free shopping zone, and the main shopping area, Queensway, was officially named by the Queen in 1959. Companies in the constituency include ICL, Glaxo Wellcome, Du Pont and the Dynamics Division of British Aerospace, although the latter has seen severe downsizing over the past decade. The town has good transport links, situated as it is on the main line going north from Kings Cross, and on the A1(M). Aside from Ken Follett, husband of the incumbent MP, the town has a literary connection in the novelist EM Forster, who lived in Stevenage as a child. His most famous work, Howards End, was based on Rooks Nest farm, in the old town.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stirling', '53097', '5.77650988032285', '6.7668606512609', '12.6766860651261', '12.6065635709039', '11.6507473138132', '10.8975270248233', '12.9064336024512', 'The constituency is at the very heart of Scotland. It includes the town of Stirling itself, the ancient capital of Scotland with its historic castle. This is Braveheart country: Stirling is close to the site of the battles of Bannockburn and Stirling Bridge and is, of course, associated as a consequence with William Wallace. Stirling is also a university town with an important student vote. Roughly half the electorate lives in the town of Stirling itself with the other half living in the rural areas and smaller towns. The Tory vote has mainly been found in the rural areas, whilst the town of Stirling has usually inclined towards Labour. The upshot of this is that Stirling has been the scene of many close fought battles between Labour and the Conservatives in the last 15 years. Labours Anne McGuire finally succeeded in unseating arch-Thatcherite Scottish Secretary Michael Forsyth at the 1997 General Election.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stockport', '66397', '4.14097165305373', '5.32900582857659', '12.5329005828577', '13.0463721033631', '12.255442560926', '10.6452060193447', '11.0085716869847', 'A mixture of declining industry and residential housing, Stockport gives the impression of being a Conservative/Labour marginal, and indeed the seat has been shared between them over the last four parliaments. Incumbent MP Ann Coffeys position in Stockport has been greatly strengthened by the return of the Brinnington ward in 1995. A massive, hilltop, post-war council estate, Brinnington was undoubtedly a major factor in tripling Ms Coffeys 1992 majority of 5,468 votes to 18,912 on a 15.2% swing - which was above the regional average and enough to produce the greatest majority ever seen in Stockport. Stockport is a largely residential seat, though it has grown recently as a preferred site for many firms regional offices and it also has a good reputation amongst the shoppers of Greater Manchester. Industry in the town has declined sharply alongside the decline in textiles in the region, but some light engineering plants still remain. A good proportion of professional and management workers live in the seat, partly explaining why the Tories did so well here in the 1980s. The seat also has a high rate of owner-occupation, 70%, and has little council housing.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stockton North', '65192', '3.65737996443391', '5.43425573690023', '12.54342557369', '13.8241385708609', '10.8361000750809', '12.4273038408563', '13.664030692866', 'Stockton was split into two seats, North and South, in 1983 and Labours Frank Cook has held North ever since. After defeating William Rodgers, one of the SDPs Gang of Four by just 1,870 votes in the seats inaugural contest, he has gradually increased his majority to more than 20,000 in 1997. The last Conservative to sit here was Harold Macmillan, (Prime Minister from 1957-63), who was MP from 1924 until his defeat in 1945, save for a two year break. MacMillan later took the name of his earldom from this seat. If Stockton North has recently voted in the fashion of a safe Labour seat, it has certainly looked the part for a number of years. The massive ICI plant at Billingham dominates an industrial skyline and the large housing estates to the north west of the seat are fiercely Labour. Unemployment is high and much of the workforce is employed in partly skilled jobs, whilst nearly one third of homes are council-rented. Teeside airport is also located within this seat.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stockton South', '71026', '4.70379334524644', '6.22434038239518', '12.6224340382395', '12.0354033459238', '13.9181470443487', '11.7568350195825', '13.02590706444', 'Labours Dari Taylor took Stockton South with a majority above 10,000 and a swing of 16% in 1997, the first time her party had taken the seat since its creation in 1983. Formerly known as Thornaby, the SDP and the Conservatives have been represented here during the 1980s and 90s, but the demise of the former was followed by fading support for the Liberal Democrats. Unlike the majority of seats in the North East, Stockton South is mainly middle-class in nature and owner occupation is high. The seats refined and rural nature has not held back its development, however; the Ingleby Barwick ward grew by 177.7% in the decade before the 1991 census. The wildcard recent electoral history of Stockton South should not be forgotten. In the 1992 general election, the Conservatives saw their Commons majority slashed from nearly 100 to just 21, yet the Tory MP Tim Devlin saw his majority shoot up from 774 to 3,369.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stoke-on-Trent Central', '59750', '3.93286219081272', '4.73640167364017', '12.473640167364', '12.0501527578876', '10.834290201787', '11.890506571965', '13.4491328090779', 'Stoke-on-Trent has tended to be very loyal to the Labour Party; its three seats have all returned Labour MPs at every single election since 1945. The city of Stoke-on-Trent has its administrative headquarters in the Central constituency, although the whole town is an amalgamation of several distinct communities, each of which grew up as a discrete entity due to the pottery industry. The constituency is somewhat short of beauty spots, the modern day focal point being the shopping district of Hanley, and it includes the ward of Shelton, the poorest in the area. The proportions of professional and managerial workers are among the lowest in the country, while skilled manual workers make up 40% of the active workforce. Ironically for a constituency that is so resolutely working class, Central has been represented since 1983 by one of Labours very few Old Etonian MPs, Mark Fisher. Mr Fisher is part of a diverse political dynasty; his father sat for more than 30 years as a Conservative MP.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stoke-on-Trent North', '57998', '4.20222480491449', '5.19242042829063', '12.5192420428291', '13.9179132176685', '14.1495786093527', '11.7086031155786', '14.4443714099074', 'Like its neighbours in the city, Stoke-on-Trent North has not deviated from supporting Labour for many years. Indeed, the biggest shock it has recently provided was when, in 1997, it returned the smallest majority of the three Labour seats - having had the largest at the previous election. The constituency has a long industrial history, and is home to Chatterley Whitfield, a disused colliery which is now a heritage site. The seats locus is the two working class Pottery districts of Burslem and Tunstall. Josiah Wedgewood was born in Burslem, and the industry which he did so much to create provides the major employment in the area. However, in the 1995 boundary changes the heavily Labour supporting area of Kidsgrove was moved to Staffordshire Moorlands and the more middle class suburbs of Brown Edge and Endon and Stanley were gained in exchange. This broke Labours local election monopoly within the seat, but Labours Joan Walley still managed to amass a majority exceeding 17,000 in 1997.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stoke-on-Trent South', '70032', '4.62473631619851', '5.14450536897418', '17.5144505368974', '18.7000943062372', '15.156158953885', '18.3073641798787', '16.5580875508633', 'Stoke-on-Trent South was the parliamentary home of Jack Ashley, the veteran campaigner for the rights of the disabled, for 26 years. As with all the Potteries seats it has a background of heavy industry - dominated by ceramics but augmented in the South constituency by coalmining and tyre-making - which has made it traditionally fertile ground for Labour. Nonetheless, Stoke-on-Trent South is the only one of the citys three seats where the Conservatives can presently claim to have a credible foothold, a fact almost entirely due to the more affluent ward of Trentham Park, tucked away in the south west. Even this bastion was lost to the Tories in the local elections of 1995, but has since been reclaimed. The present incumbent, former MEP (and himself a former Pottery worker) George Stevenson, got off to what passes in Stoke South for a shaky start in 1992 when he managed a majority of just under 7,000. This was generally attributed to disappointment at Mr Ashleys retirement, but Stevenson recovered with a 13% swing and a near 40% majority in 1997.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stone', '68847', '5.0933350861049', '6.6294827661336', '12.6629482766134', '10.5826746933177', '12.8135214849994', '13.0228156532531', '10.6287930813346', 'Stone is Staffordshires newest constituency, having been created as the countys twelfth seat in 1995. It has no clear predecessor, having been created from roughly equal parts of Stafford, Staffordshire Mid and Staffordshire Moorlands, but acquired the most conservative parts of each. The seat is geographically one of the largest in the county, stretching away to the town of Stone in its north-eastern corner while running along the border with Shropshire at its western perimeter. However, this size is achieved because most of the constituency is sparsely populated, without a single area of dense population. Many of the inhabitants are professionals, attracted by the good transport links, who work outside the constituency, and the seat has a very high proportion of technical and managerial workers. Stones lack of a real urban centre, having instead a large number of villages and suburban fringes, is complemented by the lack of heavy industry in the seat: the biggest employer is the Alton Towers leisure park.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stourbridge', '64610', '5.28529205490432', '6.17922922148274', '13.6179229221483', '12.6488141206661', '11.7951201439374', '13.032691888724', '15.0939180810604', 'The town of Stourbridge, whilst relatively well-off, offers affordable accommodation, mainly to aspirational middle-management. Its centre is circumnavigated by a ring-road, although some of the difficulties of pedestrian access should be tackled by a regeneration scheme realigning the ring road and constructing a bus station in the town centre. Angel Passage is also undergoing a major development, building a Tesco superstore and improving the River Stour valley. Glass is the main industry, with a large works at Amblecote, which is also home to much new private housing. However, the largest employer is Sunrise Medical, which builds mobility vehicles for the disabled. There is a low proportion of council-rented accommodation and below average unemployment (just), suggesting reasons for the previous Tory election successes.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Strangford', '72192', '5.71554075923614', '5.99152260638298', '17.5991522606383', '16.2018779451966', '16.9251694868793', '19.3166143212748', '17.2122947584787', 'This seat, which has been held since 1983 by Ulster Unionist deputy leader John Taylor, forms a horseshoe shape around Strangford Lough, taking in most of the Ards peninsula. The area is a mixture of sparsely populated rural territory and relatively middle-class residential areas including many people who commute into Belfast to work. The main town in the constituency is Newtownards, 10 miles from Belfast. Along with Comber, this is where most industry in the seat is to be found. There are also several big suburbs in the constituency just on the outskirts of Belfast: Dundonald to the east and Carrryduff to the south. For those not commuting in to work in the city, the main economic activities here are farming, fishing and tourism. This seat has traditionally demonstrated a huge Protestant and unionist majority: only 10% or so of the population is Catholic and so the fight has tended to be between the unionist parties.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stratford-on-Avon', '85241', '4.97286666423863', '6.44220504217454', '12.6442205042175', '14.0849335985702', '12.8321127818562', '12.6655413006844', '11.6566847698265', 'This is a seat which has tended to be safe for the Conservatives, but one whose incumbents have shown a great propensity for causing the party trouble in other ways. In 1995 Alan Howarth defected to Labour, and in 1963 was the seat of disgraced War Secretary John Profumo. This is a rural constituency, Stratford-on-Avon being the only big town in a seat that covers almost half of Warwickshire. Stratford is one of the worlds greatest tourist attractions, marketing its Shakespeare connections for all their considerable worth. Almost 4 million visitors come here every year, bringing £135 million to the local economy. Tourism is the seats most important industry, employing 17% of the population. Outside the town itself, a number of country homes - both inhabited and National Trust managed - contribute to the stately feel of the seat. The landscape is beautiful and the feeling sedate, partially the result of an elderly population - in the 1991 census a large 50% of the population were over 40.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Strathkelvin and Bearsden', '62729', '5.35988044159476', '6.61352803328604', '12.6613528033286', '13.0123947590489', '13.6697929306596', '11.3799270208852', '11.4358928912953', 'Bearsden is an affluent middle class commuter town serving Glasgow, which explains why levels of owner-occupation are so high (76.8%) and professionals and managers so numerous (44.6%) within the constituency. But the political heart of this seat is in the Labour-friendly towns of Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch. These were once centres for coal mining and metal founding industries, but most of those heavy industries have been gone since the 1930s. The main industries now are book publishing, construction, transport and agriculture with a growing number of firms in the light industrial sector. Dr Sam Galbraith won the seat for Labour from Conservative Sir Michael Hirst in 1987 and it remained a Labour/Conservative marginal at the 1992 general election. However, boundary changes in 1997 made this seat safer for Labour. There is some history of SNP representation - its predecessor seat East Dunbartonshire was held by Margaret Bain (now Margaret Ewing) from October 1974 to 1979, but the SNP was in third place behind the Conservatives in 1997.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Streatham', '76021', '4.31293583436943', '4.86681311742808', '12.4866813117428', '11.7589720501538', '13.441285148665', '11.6467163274608', '13.6625581106395', 'In 1992, Keith Hill ousted Sir William Shelton, who had represented the constituency for over 22 years, to become the first Labour MP for Streatham since the seats creation in 1918. Meaning hamlet on the street, Streatham, lies on the A23 London to Brighton Road. Increasingly inner-city in nature, the constituency extends well beyond Streatham to embrace communities in Balham, Brixton and Clapham. It is a constituency of great variety, ranging from the inner city to the tree-lined streets of the suburbs - pluralist, multi-ethnic, in considerable demographic flux. Streatham Hill and Streatham High road, once known as the West End of south London, were particular casualties of economic recession and became known for their particularly dilapidated appearances. The core of deprivation lies in the Brixton area of the constituency. In Town Hall ward, unemployment ranges between 20 and 25%, much of it long term; among young men, the figure is much higher.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stretford and Urmston', '70924', '3.89218176686424', '5.49503694095088', '12.5495036940951', '12.9023305874408', '10.8107921999769', '11.0842509146662', '14.3730816140037', 'Labours Beverley Hughes became the first MP for Stretford & Urmston in 1997 after major boundary changes in 1995 created the seat. The seat has an industrial dimension whilst retaining high levels of residential housing from the old Davyhulme seat, the giant Shell works at Carrington and the nearby Partington council estate which serves it provide a perfect illustration of this uneasy mix. The business development of Trafford Park, which consists of over 1,300 firms and manufacturers, is also included in this new seat. This seat is home to Old Trafford - football ground of the perennial champions of the FA Carling Premiership, Manchester United. The wards of Davyhulme East and West and Flixton, all in southern Manchester and home to many of the citys commuters and middle-class workers, are presently controlled by the Tories. These green suburban areas of Greater Manchester, still considered to be in Cheshire by many residents, enjoy owner-occupation levels of 80% and all but the tiniest fraction of the population is white.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Stroud', '78878', '5.34481196193928', '6.99497958873197', '17.6994979588732', '18.9885060081918', '16.0113337964169', '15.1592856577624', '16.057376033206', 'This constituency is found to the south of Gloucester and is contained within the area covered by Stroud District Council, covering the edge of the Cotswolds and the Severn Vale. It includes two major market towns - Stroud in the north and Dursley in the south - as well as four other market towns - Minchinhampton, Nailsworth, Berkeley and Stonehouse. There is much rural hinterland too, with sizeable communities there including Cam, Cainscross and Rodborough. The town of Berkeley has several interesting connections. The Berkeley family dates back to 1066, and is connected with Berkeley University in California and Berkeley Square in London. Furthermore, it was in the dungeons of Berkeley Castle that Edward II was murdered. Edward Jenner was brought up and eventually retired in Berkeley, having dedicated his much of his life to preventing smallpox; his house is now a museum. The Green Party saw its third best performance in the country here in 1997. The Greens are strong locally and have recently seen candidates elected to the local council. This is Labours 20th most vulnerable seat, and one which the Conservatives could win back with a swing of 2.4%.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Suffolk Central and North Ipswich', '74200', '5.55791440217391', '6.34824797843666', '17.6348247978437', '18.4495576806615', '17.0834688346254', '20.244672530338', '15.2762734359756', 'Apart from the northernmost suburbs of Ipswich, most of this seat is covered by undulating, unspoilt farmland. It is geographically huge and stretches from Christchurch Park in Ipswich, the sprawling suburb of Kesgrave, to Palgrave and Mendham on the Norfolk border and from Coton in the west to Little Glenham in the east. The economy is based largely on agriculture and associated industries. Unemployment is low and council housing amounts to only 14% of the total. Roads play a big part in the life of the constituency, which encompasses the A140 in the west and A12 in the east. The scrapping of the Ipswich northern bypass and the Kesgrave relief roads have been particularly controversial. The sitting Conservative MP Michael Lord has held this seat since 1983, although he witnessed his majority being slashed to 3,500 votes in 1997.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Suffolk Coastal', '75963', '5.66587973892515', '6.6357305530324', '17.6635730553032', '18.9734991123882', '15.5483196208959', '15.728093392539', '19.3238772238058', 'Suffolk Coastal became yet more coastal in the last boundary review, and now contains almost the whole of Suffolks coastline, apart from the area around Lowestoft which is in Waveney. The largest town in the seat is Felixstowe, other towns in the area are Woodbridge and Leiston. Aldeburgh and Southwold are popular seaside resorts, and many people have invested in holiday homes or choose to retire to these towns. The main employer in the constituency is the port of Felixstowe, which is one of the largest ports in the country and is mainly involved in container shipping. The Sizewell nuclear plant is also located in the seat and is one of the other major employers. While the southern part of the seat is urban, the rest is rural and dependent on the farming industry and a variety of small businesses. John Gummer has held Suffolk Coastal since 1983, having held its predecessor since 1979.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Suffolk South', '68408', '5.86072903097609', '6.62100923868553', '17.6621009238686', '15.5059695229716', '15.1344502023308', '19.7683600065872', '17.8349876007849', 'Suffolk South is typical rural England, though the largest town, Sudbury, and the neighbouring Great Cornard, are home to large council estates, which were built after the second world war to house the overspill from London. Sudbury is the industrial centre of the area, including the traditional weaving and textile industry, large engineering facilities such as Delphi Automotive Systems and industrial estates which are home to companies such as British Sugar. The countryside along the river Stour near East and West Bergholt is commonly known as Constable country. There are also lots of little attractive villages, which display the thatched roofs and colour washed walls characteristic of the Suffolk area. Sudbury is also the birthplace of the artist Thomas Gainsborough. The sitting MP Tim Yeo was one of the few back to basics Tories to survive the Labour landslide.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Suffolk West', '71220', '5.24066438920957', '5.95970233080595', '12.5959702330806', '13.2159209890568', '11.9133599494222', '12.9021420703469', '13.8521079989582', 'This was an old seat with a new name in 1997, having previously been known by virtually every title possible - Suffolk Central, Suffolk South and Suffolk Coastal - and is effectively the former Bury St Edmonds seat minus the town by that name. Suffolk West covers the Forest Heath district towards the north west of the seat, and is home to many armed services personnel - eg the RAF bases in Mildenhall and Lakenheath. The home of the Jockey Club, Newmarket, is located in the far west of the seat, and it is no surprise that one of the major sources of employment is the race course and the many stud farms located in the area. The south west of the constituency is mainly rural but contains the town of Haverhill, which doubled in size during the 1950s and 1960s due to the construction of many council estates to cope with the overspill from London.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sunderland North', '60846', '3.73407109322602', '4.90089734740164', '12.4900897347402', '13.9116280933235', '11.4091515898234', '13.8301727833242', '11.2570287412884', 'Since its formation in 1948, the constituency of Sunderland North has only ever been held by the Labour party. Incumbent MP Bill Etherington first won the seat in 1992 - the year in which Sunderland gained city status. The largest city between Leeds and Edinburgh, Sunderland is home to some 300,000 people and has undergone tremendous change within the past 50 years. Historically, the citys economy rested on the coal mining and shipbuilding industries, though both of these have all but disappeared in recent years. There has been massive investment in Sunderland in recent years and the building of the Metro extension from nearby Newcastle to the city will be another important part in the regeneration jigsaw. Attractions such as the National Glass Centre on the banks of the Wear, the 48,500 capacity Stadium of Light, home to the citys football club and the redevelopment and expansion of the Bridges shopping centre are also feted locally. The university which caters for some 16,000 students has also just opened a major new campus on the northern banks of the River Wear with land reclaimed from the shipbuilding yards.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sunderland South', '64577', '3.61240260364896', '4.82942843427226', '17.4829428434272', '17.1207757091609', '19.7564343877609', '14.9727468008675', '15.1655596797441', 'This was the first seat to declare in the last two general elections, and set what some think is an all-time record when it declared only 46 minutes after the polls closed in 1997. That early result in Sunderland South fired the starting pistol for the Labour landslide, by recording a swing of over 10% to Labour. Sunderland is suffering from the decline of the coal and shipbuilding industries, which has caused high unemployment in the area. The growth of the call centre business has brought new jobs - with One to One and Northern Electric locating their call centres in the seat. The Sunderland Enterprise Centre at Doxford Park is home to several new businesses. Another major source of employment for Sunderland Souths constituents is the Nissan plant in the neighbouring constituency of Houghton and Washington East, which announced the creation of 500 jobs in January 2001. This seat has a strong Labour tradition, although it was held by the Tories from 1953-64. Chris Mullin has held this seat since 1987.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Surrey East', '75049', '4.74887882845544', '6.26910418526563', '17.6269104185266', '17.6243933014827', '17.777292700526', '14.7072953069966', '19.7262871932371', 'Formerly the seat of Sir Geoffrey Howe, this constituency covers the easternmost section of Surrey, bordering Kent, and includes the small towns of Caterham and Warlingham. Peter Ainsworth has represented this seat since 1992, and in 1997 he retained it with a majority of over 15,000 votes. Despite a drop in his share of the vote by more than 10% this remains the third largest Conservative majority behind Huntingdon and Surrey Heath. Surrey is one of only two counties where every seat was Conservative at the last election. For what is essentially a London commuter seat, Surrey East has a charmingly pastoral nature. Development has been limited to narrow valleys and established upland settlements by the North Downs, and much of the area is covered with wooded hillsides and rolling arable land. Caterham is the largest town, lying close to the M25 which runs across the middle of the seat. The residents are typically white owner-occupying middle-class, and half of the workforce are either professionals or in management/technical employment. Although the seat is undoubtedly pretty in parts, there are few noted tourist attractions save for a seventeenth-century windmill at Outwood and the racecourse at Lingfield.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Surrey Heath', '75858', '5.03325794864973', '5.94558253579056', '17.5945582535791', '18.5004899677224', '16.8366447094751', '18.4745709459671', '20.4057512690431', 'The seat is mainly urban and suburban in character, and it is the home of many monied London commuters. It encompasses the communities of Camberley and Frimley and includes other smaller towns such as Bagshot and Windelsham. The area is predominantly, white and middle class with more than half the households owning at least two cars. However, there is also a strong military presence as it is located near Chobham and Bisley. Nick Hawkins, previously the MP for Blackpool South, was elected to represent Surrey Heath in 1997 with a majority of over 16,000 votes; the largest of Surreys eleven Tory seats and the second largest Conservative majority in the country - surpassed only by John Major in Huntingdon. In 1997, it came as no surprise that Mr Hawkins was returned with a smaller majority, not only because of the national swing against the Conservatives, but also because of the 1995 boundary changes which reduced the electorate by approximately 12,000 members. Formerly called Surrey North West, this seat had among the largest electorates in the country prior to those boundary changes.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Surrey South West', '74127', '5.47064042587514', '6.69013989504499', '17.6690139895045', '18.1867251117896', '19.8691245854602', '18.3181752596572', '15.5213922396523', 'Former minister Virginia Bottomley was returned to Surrey South West in 1997 after a close fight with the Liberal Democrats. Her majority was substantially reduced from over 14,000 votes to a slender 2,694 votes which makes this seat the closest in the county to a marginal. For the first time since they both entered parliament, her husband Peter Bottomley, having moved from Eltham to Worthing West, has the more secure constituency. Located towards the Sussex and Hampshire borders, this seat combines pleasant countryside and residential areas. The main towns in the constituency are Farnham, after which a very similar seat was named before the 1983 boundary changes, Godalming and Haslemere. Local landmarks include the Devils Punchbowl and Frensham Ponds which characterise this rural home counties seat. The main industries in the area are historically paper, leather, wool and cloth. However it is now more a base for mainly affluent commuters to London. Nearly half of the total population is aged over 40 and unemployment levels are among the lowest in the country.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sussex Mid', '70632', '5.38431321199424', '6.48742779476724', '8.64874277947672', '8.7456766960133', '9.15953927946197', '8.11968090656381', '7.6207657647453', 'This constituency is dominated by four towns - Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill, East Grinstead and Cuckfield. Haywards Heath has a population of about 23,000 and is the main centre - the district councils offices are based here. Burgess Hill was for a time the fastest-growing town in Europe, expanding to over 25,000 people, and attracting Swedish giant Ericsson to set up its headquarters in the town. The constituency also contains a few small villages set in some beautiful countryside including the High Weald. At least half the working population is employed in the service sector. Unemployment levels of under 1% are among the lowest in the country; owner-occupation is over 80%; the seat has the third lowest proportion of council house tenants in England and Wales; and lone parents are comparatively rare. At local level, the Conservatives picked up eight seats across Mid Sussex council in 1999, and are now equal with the Lib Dems with 18 councillors each in this seat.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sutton and Cheam', '63648', '5.12071092314276', '6.24104449472097', '17.6241044494721', '14.974151128114', '17.1151512575796', '18.9104768062866', '16.7874781062495', 'Much of this seat is 1930s suburbia, although both Sutton and Cheam have their own distinctive identity. It lies 13 miles from central London, nestling on the edge of the North Downs, boasting the greatest tree cover in London. Cheam is rather more affluent than Sutton, and has more than its fair share of history: today there remains an historic Tudor house, Whitehall, which is a Grade II listed building. Yards outside the constituency is the site of Henry VIIIs Nonsuch Palace, and his influence remains in some road names today eg Anne Boleyns Walk. Fans of Tony Hancock who come to Cheam to find the address 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, are disappointed to discover that it was, in fact, entirely fictitious. Unlike the neighbouring seats which were won by the Lib Dems in 1997, Sutton was no stranger to having a Lib Dem MP. In 1972, Graham Tope (formerly Sutton council Leader, now a peer and GLA member) won a famous by-election victory, only to lose in 1974. This general election sees the incumbent Lib Dem MP and former deputy council leader, Paul Burstow, face the Conservative Lady Olga Maitland (MP 1992-1997) for the third time.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Sutton Coldfield', '71856', '4.95788456227561', '6.04709418837675', '12.6047094188377', '12.129942645449', '12.3719572563678', '13.6726617603054', '12.9540484374676', 'Sutton Coldfield has been held by the Conservatives since its creation in 1945, often with large majorities. The Liberal Democrats have regularly taken second place, but they have never yet been a serious threat and in fact lost votes to both Labour and the Conservatives last time. At local government level the Conservatives dominate - they currently hold all nine Birmingham City Council seats in this constituency. Sutton Coldfield is one of the most middle class areas in the UK. It has little industry and few large businesses, its economic landscape being dominated instead by small companies. At least one touchstone Conservative issue is currently very controversial in Sutton Coldfield: grammar schools. This constituency has two, and the Labour-run city council wants to close them. While the seat contains the largest urban park in Europe in the 2,500-acre Sutton Park, the hottest political potatoes are two major construction schemes on green belt land. That with greatest national significance is the Birmingham Northern Relief Road, which will pass through the green belt to the north of the seat.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Swansea East', '57273', '3.47831870178239', '5.25064166361113', '12.5250641663611', '14.2057664567227', '10.6770353589491', '11.2491573386979', '12.3445720882736', 'An historically safe Labour seat in Wales second city. Held by the party since 1922, the Westminster seat has been represented since 1974 by Donald Anderson, who had a massive majority of 66.1% in 1997. This was the third safest Labour seat in Wales in 1997. The seat contains the citys main industrial areas, the docks and several large council estates. Swansea, whose electors voted Yes at the 1997 devolution referendum by 3,228 votes, offered to house the National Assembly for Wales in 1998, after negotiations to secure Cardiffs City Hall failed. Swanseas bid also failed a few weeks later, when the then Secretary of State Ron Davies opted for Cardiff Bay. The Driving and Vehicle Licensing Centre (DVLC), and the Morriston Hospital which has specialist cardiac and burns units, are located in this constituency.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Swansea West', '57074', '5.12647975077882', '5.62427725409118', '12.5624277254091', '12.025361984087', '11.8587311872539', '12.8393595818617', '10.6593449622098', 'Swansea is a city of around 200,000 people. It was rebuilt after suffering extensive bomb damage during the Second World War. The poet Dylan Thomas famously described Swansea as an ugly, lovely, town. The seat comprises Swanseas university (founded 1920, currently 11,000 students) and student district, as well as some of its more prosperous western suburbs. It also includes the St Helens rugby and cricket ground. The new national maritime and industrial museum will be built in this constituency, to replace the one demolished during the redevelopment of Cardiff Bay. There are also plans for a new national swimming pool. Wales has been without an Olympic sized pool since the demolition of Cardiffs Empire pool to make way for the Millennium Stadium. Apart from a brief Conservative interlude (1959-1964), this has been a Labour seat since the Second World War. Since 1964, Swansea West has been represented at Westminster by Alan Williams, who had a majority of 35.7% in 1997.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Swindon North', '69335', '4.71484596484597', '6.10485324871998', '12.610485324872', '13.0097255550719', '10.7338565701436', '14.1272713929174', '12.4044543383533', 'Before the 1995 boundary changes, the seat of Swindon had almost 90,000 electors, which was about 20,000 voters above the average for English constituencies. This reflected the fact that Swindon is one of Europes fastest growing towns and in an attempt to redress the balance, the Boundary Commission awarded Wiltshire the additional seat of North Swindon. The old Swindon part of the new seat had a strong Labour vote and its hopes of winning it came to fruition with Michael Wills, a former television producer and an old friend of Peter Mandelson, who was elected in 1997 with a majority of 7,688. Unemployment is among the lowest in the country in Swindon North, and the local economy is booming. Manufacturing companies, such as GEC Plessey and Rover are located here. The seat expects to see the opening of the high-tech PFI funded Great Western Hospital in 2002, and is currently witnessing the development of the Northern Sector, a new residential community in the north of the constituency which will provide accommodation for Swindons aspirational middle-classes.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Swindon South', '71080', '4.86907615710861', '6.10354530106922', '12.6103545301069', '10.5098338915936', '10.6970201838027', '14.030952152228', '12.3466701455226', 'The town of Swindon is something of a political anomaly in its geographic location as it has tended to be a Labour island set in a Conservative sea. This is due to the fact that it was a small industrial railway town, built on the Great Western Line, which has rapidly expanded over recent years because it has attracted large high tech companies and manufacturing industries. There are a large number of owner-occupiers in the seat (72%) with most of the remaining population in council housing. Unemployment is among the lowest in the country, in fact in some areas of the town there are skills shortages. In the local elections in 2000 turn out was embarrassingly low and Labour suffered badly. As a result it lost the council to no overall control. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tamworth', '69596', '5.10012422360249', '5.78337835507788', '17.5783378355078', '19.9516910662023', '20.4157438478199', '20.1872557491703', '14.7532141258704', 'Tamworth has, since the Second World war, been one of the fastest growing towns in England, trebling its population in 40 years. The seat consists of the urban centre of Tamworth, which still falls just below the size of electorate needed for a constituency, plus generous numbers of rural electors to the north and west of the town. Tamworth itself is dominated by tower blocks of council accommodation, but the growth in more recent years of suburban private estates has ensured that the seat remains demographically balanced. Tamworth is associated in political history with Sir Robert Peels Tamworth Manifesto of 1834, the first time a political party outlined its proposals before a general election. More recently, it threw up a psephological oddity when the SDP saw a leap in its vote to take second place in 1987, which then collapsed again with a fall of 17.1% in 1992. Theories of lost votes abound but no clear explanation for the swings has ever emerged.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tatton', '64954', '5.18872038373952', '6.35495889398651', '17.6354958893987', '17.0002248309029', '15.6052805216312', '20.4339084897988', '19.6839990854785', 'In the 1997 general election two results symbolised the overall battle - Michael Portillos defeat at the hands of Stephen Twigg at Enfield Southgate and Martin Bells trouncing of Neil Hamilton at Tatton. Mr Twiggs victory was impressive, but the anti-Tory swing in north London was dwarfed by that in Cheshire. Tatton was reckoned to be the fifth safest Conservative seat in the country with a notional majority of over 22,000. Mr Bell, an independent anti-sleaze campaigner, took it with a majority of over 11,000 votes after Labour and the Lib Dems withdrew. This seat includes the market towns of Knutsford, Wilmslow and Alderley Edge and their environs. One of the most prosperous areas in England, its population is predominantly white and middle class. Mr Bell promised in his manifesto that he would serve for only one term, and he is sticking to his word. He is contesting Eric Pickles Brentwood and Ongar seat instead. William Hagues speechwriter George Osborne is the Tory candidate this time around.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Taunton', '81651', '5.82924400181077', '6.76354239384698', '7.6763542393847', '8.43376003639903', '8.50758833117473', '6.95374605686988', '8.31556839403835', 'The market town of Taunton, on the River Tone, is the county town of Somerset and is an important commercial and administrative centre, with the county councils main offices based here, as well as Somerset County Cricket Club. The second largest town in the constituency is Wellington, most famous for the fact that Arthur Wellesley took the title Duke of Wellington, although he is reputed to have only visited it once (in 1819). Most of the rest of the seat is taken up by numerous small villages with quintessentially Somerset-sounding names as Combe Florey, North Curry, Langford Budville and Bishops Lydeard. There is some light industry but the main economic activity is agriculture and the services and processing it generates. The Tories held this seat for most of the 20th Century, although a Liberal did hold it from 1922 to 1924. Previous incumbents include Sir Edward du Cann and his successor, David Nicholson, who was beaten by Lib Dem Jackie Ballard in 1997. However, the Liberal Democrats lost overall control on Taunton Deane Council in 1999.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tayside North', '61645', '5.99112080380092', '6.24819531186633', '8.62481953118663', '7.61521468935233', '8.14730849465721', '7.26880604191635', '8.63172702196621', 'This is a beautiful part of Scotland which is popular with tourists and includes a host of famous place-names, for example, Pitlochry, Forfar and Blairgowrie. The southern borders near Perth are the most populous. Further inland there are large forests, lochs and plenty of opportunities for skiing in winter. Tourism, agriculture and forestry are the main industries. The seat of Tayside North was created in 1983 from parts of Perth & East Perthshire and Angus South. Both these seats were won by the SNP in 1974 but regained by the Conservatives in 1979. Tayside North was represented by the outspoken unionist and eurosceptic Bill Walker from 1983 until 1997 when it was won by the SNPs John Swinney (who also holds the seat in the Scottish Parliament). On Alex Salmonds resignation as SNP leader in the summer of 2000, his then deputy, John Swinney was elected leader. Mr Swinney is standing down as an MP in this election. His successor as SNP candidate is Pete Wishart, keyboard player with the successful Scottish rock band Runrig. The bands former lead singer Donnie Munro has contested several elections for Labour.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Teignbridge', '85533', '5.55842185128983', '6.93416576058364', '12.6934165760584', '14.6011027455209', '12.704990459548', '13.1283721227407', '11.5963671280452', 'Teignbridge has a population of 120,000 and sits in the shadow of Dartmoor. Its coastline includes the estuaries of the rivers Exe and Teign, with the internationally renowned bird sanctuary at Dawlish Warren and the twin seaside resorts of Dawlish and Teignmouth. Inland, there is the town of Newton Abbot, famous for its weekly market and the National Hunt Racecourse, (Newton Abbot is known as the gateway to Dartmoor and the coast) and the Bovey basin which has some of the Worlds richest deposits of ball clay from where exports are made to over 80 countries worldwide. The area has some of the prettiest scenery in Britain, and it includes one third of the Dartmoor National Park.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Telford', '59486', '4.54121457489879', '5.190296876576', '17.5190296876576', '19.9037562071493', '15.1453325447772', '15.4911080441366', '17.7585576304641', 'This seat was created at the pre-1997 boundary review, in order to give Telford a seat of its own, having previously been part of the seat called The Wrekin. The constituency is on the east of Shropshire, and has by far the smallest acreage of the five constituencies in the county. Telford was designated a New Town, but it is actually based on some of the oldest industrial communities in the country. Iron was smelted with coke by Abraham Darby at Coalbrookdale from 1709 and perhaps the most famous place within the seat is a mile away at Ironbridge. It is so called because the worlds first iron bridge was built there in 1779 by Abraham Darby III (grandson of the above) and today the Ironbridge Gorge Museums commemorate this genesis of the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, the Ironbridge Gorge on the banks of the River Severn has been designated a World Heritage Site.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tewkesbury', '70276', '5.39108308441199', '6.43107177414765', '17.6431071774148', '16.321383942479', '14.7392778049197', '15.906613453144', '16.2669020541161', 'Although this constituency is named after Tewkesbury, the town itself is on the northern periphery of the seat, which sprawls southwards, almost encircling Lib Dem-held Cheltenham and bordering Labour held Gloucester. Most of the seat is made up of wards from Tewkesbury Borough Council, but there are also a few from Cheltenham Borough Council. Tewkesbury is an historic market town on the northern border of the County at the confluence of the Rivers Severn and Avon. On the main road between Gloucester and Worcester, it is not far from the M5 and is a popular tourist destination. However, the heart of this seat lies in the modern residential areas between Gloucester and Cheltenham such as Churchdown, Brockworth and Innsworth. Churchdown lies halfway between Cheltenham and Gloucester, with the oldest part of the village on the top of Chosen Hill which was used as an ancient hill fort. Brockworth has many historical associations given that it is on the old Roman Road of Ermin Street; and at Innsworth a thriving Technology Park provides a base for a wide range of small businesses.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Thanet North', '70581', '4.97229387599121', '5.93190802057211', '12.5931908020572', '11.1607233557396', '12.327405091147', '10.775986284316', '13.782428534939', 'Since 1974 the Isle of Thanet (which contrary to its name is not an island) has been split into two constituencies with some non-Thanet proper territory thrown in. For Thanet North this extraneous land is the Conservative-friendly areas of Herne Bay and Reculver along the coast to the west. The Isle of Thanet itself is somewhat more mixed, incorporating the seaside resorts of Cliftonville, Margate, Westgate-on-Sea and Birchington. Margate (site of battles between Mods and Rockers, and the traditionally favoured destination of East End daytrippers) is more working class, while Cliftonville is somewhat more upmarket. Both however currently have Conservative councillors on Thanet District Council, and this has been reflected in voting patterns in national elections also. Conservative MP Roger Gale has represented the seat since 1983 and stayed the tide sweeping the country in 1997 salvaging a sizeable majority of almost 3,000 (although this was a drop of 15,000 from 1992). A key demographic element in Thanet North is the size of the pensioner population. Over 29% of the population and around 37% per cent of eligible voters are pensioners (compared with a national average of 19%).');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Thanet South', '61462', '5.43455656716796', '6.41550876964629', '12.6415508769646', '11.2863682518524', '13.4248299089661', '10.8900131487536', '14.0652094936808', 'Two factors may have made Thanet South an easier target than Thanet North for Labour in 1997. Firstly there is a lower proportion of pensioners here, but possible more importantly it was the seat of Jonathan Aitken, who was already facing the alleagtions which have since resulted in his being jailed for perjury. Labour increased its share of the vote here by 18% in 1997, to take the seat, while the Lib Dem vote dropped from 18% to 11% - an indication of tactical voting. In his maiden speech Stephen Ladyman described Thanet South as the birthplace of the English because the people and traditions that have ultimately become the English are said to have originated in this corner of Kent. This was where the Romans are believed to have landed and they built their castle at Richborough and before proceeding to move across Britain. St Augustine also arrived here, before moving to Canterbury to establish his base for the conversion of the British.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('The Wrekin', '65837', '5.29235960472403', '6.30192748758297', '12.6301927487583', '11.8064752815691', '11.3676256869673', '13.3684753579934', '11.0411562085852', 'The constituency currently called The Wrekin should not be confused with the seat of the same name prior to the boundary changes which took effect in 1997. The old seat was dominated by the town of Telford, which now has its own constituency, and was a marginal Labour seat even in some years when the Tories were in government. The new one is pretty rural and was something of an unexpected Labour gain in the Tory massacre of 1997. The main communities in this seat which were in the old Wrekin constituency are Wellington, Donnington and Hadley. There are not the major housing estates which are now in the Telford constituency (although a relatively high proportion of the population live in council houses) but there are more affluent and rural parts of east Shropshire. The seat also includes Newport, Albrighton, Shifnal and Wellington. Lilleshall is home to the FAs National School of Football Excellence along with The National School of Gymnastics and is one of the top sports injury centres in the country.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Thurrock', '76524', '4.34693003586532', '4.88238983848204', '17.4882389838482', '15.559733544734', '15.9617330333494', '20.0008341830072', '15.1707775026304', 'This constituency has a long river frontage which stretches from the boundary with London at Purfleet round to East Tilbury. Much of the population and commercial activity is centred along the riverfront and the port of Tilbury. This includes many large and important industrial sites, including one remaining oil refinery and some manufacturing industry. Commercial life in the seat is dominated by Lakeside Thurrock, one of Europes largest indoor shopping malls - with over 300 shops under one roof - which lies in the south west corner of the constituency, just off the M25. The centre, which attracts shoppers from Kent, East London and other parts of Essex, has brought a large number of jobs to the constituency. In the 1992-7 parliament, this seat was a lone Labour island amongst a sea of Tory constituencies in Essex: this changed on 1 May 1997, when Essex Man was a little more willing to vote Labour and the Labour majority here in Thurrock increased significantly on a swing of over 17%.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tiverton', '80646', '5.29291553133515', '6.91714406170176', '17.6917144061702', '17.8537354828345', '18.6753868024267', '16.9532985401717', '14.9483737642886', 'Tiverton and Honiton is a rural seat with a large number of small villages, some set in the attractive valleys of the rivers Exe, Culm and Taw. The River Taw is famous as the setting for stories about Tarka the Otter. The main towns are small, the largest being Tiverton with a population of 17,500, which serves the local areas as a shopping, industrial and distribution centre. There is a tradition of manufacturing here which was started by mill owners from northern England harnessing the water power of the river valleys. The seat is divided between two local authorities - Mid and East Devon. Independents and Lib Dems vie for control in the former; the Conservatives tend to dominate in the latter. The two political sides of the seat are separate geographically, too. In the former, rolling farmland punctuated by small market towns predominates. In the latter, Honiton is closer to the elderly, conservative profile of the coastal resorts to its south. This constituency hit the headlines during the last election campaign when Angela Browning became the first Tory MP to issue an election address ruling out Euro membership.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tonbridge and Malling', '65939', '5.06174003204826', '6.43564506589424', '12.6435645065894', '11.2338910409286', '10.6166599812326', '13.5753669238474', '14.0792519649792', 'Tonbridge and Malling is a fairly diverse constituency, home to commuters, light industry, farmers and apple growers. Generally though, residents are comfortably-off and the workforce is largely non-manual. There is only a tiny ethnic minority population, unemployment is low, and 70% of homes are owner-occupied. The commuting element is well served by the presence of the M20 and M26 motorways, although the landscape is mostly unspoilt and contains a good number of castles and country houses. In Tonbridge itself, the Norman castle still houses important parts of the councils offices. The hop farm in East Peckham is a reminder that this whole region was once the Garden of England; today it has been converted to a tourist attraction. This has proved in the past to be loyal Conservative ground, remaining with the party even as half of the county was swept by the Labour tide in 1997.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tooting', '68447', '4.59125854592855', '5.49198650050404', '8.5491986500504', '7.54521190235205', '9.73529903181837', '9.55158435035875', '9.38747701029669', 'Tooting in some respects is a fairly average constituency: it has around average unemployment and has seen an increase in owner occupiers over the past decade in line with the national average rather than the rapid increases seen in the other Wandsworth constituencies. What is less than average and marks Tooting out from Battersea and Putney is the size of its mostly South Asian, ethnic minority population. At the time of the 1991 census 26.3% of the population was non-white. Since the May 1998 local council election all wards but Graveney, Tooting and Furzedown have been represented by Conservatives on Wandsworth Council. Tooting has been something of the black sheep of Wandsworth, the flagship Tory Council, beneficiary of the so-called Wandsworth gap in council tax but a devoted returner of Labour MPs unlike the two other Wandsworth constituencies of Battersea and Putney. Both of these were taken by Labour in their landslide of 1997 but had previously been held by the Conservatives, whereas the sitting MP in Tooting, Tom Cox, has represented the seat since 1974.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Torbay', '72409', '4.95154407282053', '6.5694872184397', '12.656948721844', '13.5325770673951', '11.2676129257992', '13.3400325011652', '13.4726263851989', 'Known as the English Riviera, Torbay is one of Britains premier holiday resorts and it receives over 1.5 million visitors each year. Unsurprisingly, tourism underpins Torbays economy. Its present role as a holiday destination began in the Napoleonic period, when because of the war the continent was closed to travellers. The three towns of Torquay, Brixham and Paignton have a combined population of over 120,000, making Torbay the third largest urban area in the South West. During the summer season this figure swells to an average 200,000 as visitors and holiday makers pour in. Torbay boasts an array of leisure opportunities from the marinas at Torquay and Brixham, to the zoo in Paignton and the Riviera Centre in Torquay. Torbay also has around 1,700 acres of public gardens. With a majority of twelve, this is the Liberal Democrats second most vulnerable seat.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Torfaen', '61110', '3.79064752284206', '5.76697758141057', '17.5766977581411', '19.6379404304023', '19.743554360966', '16.8105679878456', '16.549348623784', 'This Gwent Valleys seat comprises the towns of Cwmbran and Pontypool and the surrounding communities. Formerly called Pontypool, the seat, which comprises many former mining communities as well as the new town of Cwmbran, coincides with the boundaries of the Torfaen local authority area. The area around Blaenavon, formerly a coal-mining, iron and steel town, has been nominated by the UK Government for United Nations recognition - other landmarks already on the list of World Heritage sites are the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China. Historically a very safe Labour constituency, Leo Abse held the seat for over 20 years before Paul Murphys election in 1987. Mr Murphy, as a Northern Ireland minister, helped broker the Good Friday Agreement. He has been Secretary of State for Wales since July 1999.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Totnes', '72548', '5.55009543922349', '6.78805756189006', '12.678805756189', '13.6407753816921', '14.2443641274442', '14.11695962546', '10.9088703301357', 'Totnes is a rural constituency made up of small villages and towns. The main industries are agriculture and fishing along with tourism. A large part of the area comes under the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The seat includes all of the South Hams constituency except for the Erme Valley; it extends to the edge of Torbay to take in the fishing port and resort of Brixham. There is also the south eastern edge of Dartmoor, including Haytor and the small towns of Buckfastleigh and Ashburton. In Ashburton there is the Golden Lion Hotel, which was the national headquarters of the Raving Loony Party; its then proprietor Alan Hope became the first self-proclaimed Loony to gain office in Britain when elected to Ashburton Town Council in 1989. Totnes has been represented by a stream of Conservative MPs since 1945');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tottenham', '65567', '3.2543273947027', '4.81965012887581', '8.48196501288758', '9.21990015332738', '7.20360032408647', '8.22409708431903', '7.10687505022798', 'Tottenham was the seat of the late Labour MP Bernie Grant, who died in May 2000. He was replaced by David Lammy, who beat off candidates including Mr Grants wife, Sharon, to gain the Labour nomination. Tottenham is quite a poor and deprived area and rich in ethnic diversity - including just under 40% non-whites, from a whole host of nationalities including Russians, Spaniards, Greek and Turkish Cypriots, Africans, Irish, Hasidic Jews, Asians, Caribbean islanders and, more recently, Kosovans and other people from eastern Europe. Afro-Caribbeans are by far the largest community. The Broadwater farm estate, which became notorious after the riots in 1985, falls within the seat. The estate houses 3,500 people from 39 different nations, and is enjoying a £33m facelift. Famous landmarks here include White Hart Lane, home to Tottenham Hotspurs football club, and Finsbury Park. This has over the years been one of Labours safest London seats. One aberration was in 1959 when the Labour MP Alan Brown defected to the Conservatives. He was easily beaten by former Labour treasurer Norman Atkinson in 1964 who held the seat until 1987, when Mr Grant defeated him for the party nomination');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Truro and St. Austell', '79219', '5.16930112337211', '6.34885570380843', '17.6348855703808', '18.1054256966063', '16.7354556788045', '16.9606409514704', '18.7745040027089', 'Liberal David Penhaligon originally gained this seat from the Conservatives in October 1974 with a majority of just 464. He was an enthusiastic campaigner and Truro became one of the bases upon which Liberal success in the South West was built. After his death, in a car crash in the constituency in 1986, his researcher Matthew Taylor was selected to contest the by-election. He was elected with a majority of 14,617 and has held it since. Truro is Cornwalls county town and acts as a retailing business and administrative centre. But the main centre of population and industry is St Austell with its china clay mining. Tourism is concentrated around the northern and southern coasts.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tunbridge Wells', '64534', '5.11380313922539', '6.22942944804289', '8.62294294480429', '9.03706106870134', '9.07214169805097', '7.78662439035659', '9.72263080262092', 'Royal Tunbridge Wells is for some the epitome of conservatism. Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, regularly reveals the concerns and frustrations of Middle England to the Daily Telegraphs letters page. The shock which registered on local election night in 1994 when the Conservatives lost control of the council gives some indication of just how far this seat is associated with the party and with its core electoral support. The eponymous town is a growing service centre, but is also a base for large number of commuters and is home to many retired people. Royal Tunbridge Wells is still a functioning spa town and attracts tourists to its architecturally and historically important buildings. Local MP and former Asda boss Archie Norman represents a constituency in a part of England which will witness massive house-building in the next decade. Tunbridge Wells Council has planned for 2,600 new homes, but this may yet rise if John Prescott increases the house-building targets for the county.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale', '51966', '5.77475389107987', '6.39206404187353', '8.63920640418735', '7.96220845938722', '9.5967619931445', '7.41093584404109', '7.94908370645049', 'The Borders area is very rural with a low population density, no railway station and poor road links. The largest towns in the constituency are Penicuik, Galashiels, Peebles and Selkirk. The economy is dependent on a narrow range of industries including textiles, electronics and agriculture. The decline in all of these industries has caused great economic problems over recent years. Nearly 1,000 jobs were lost when the US electronics firm Viasystems pulled the plug on their Selkirk and Galashiels factories. The future of the area would look brighter if the campaign for the restoration of the rail link from Edinburgh to Carlisle known as the Waverley Line was successful. The Scottish Executive announced a £1.9m grant to the Scottish Borders Council in November 2000 to help it prepare a parliamentary order and examine funding opportunities for re-opening the line. The Liberal Democrats Michael Moore won this seat in 1997 following the retirement of former Liberal leader Sir David Steel, with a majority of just 3.8%. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Twickenham', '74135', '5.12515519243862', '6.73608956633169', '12.6736089566332', '10.9415074720573', '11.0842175082817', '11.0138859260289', '10.9622835654124', 'Probably most famous for its rugby ground, Twickenham is a leafy, largely residential middle class constituency just south of the river Thames. The constituency falls in the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames. Twickenham, along with neighbouring Richmond Park and Kingston and Surbiton, elected a Lib Dem MP in 1997; Vincent Cable won the seat with a majority of 4,281. Mr Cable defeated the Conservative Toby Jessel who had been MP since 1970. The Lib Dems have had a strong hold on the local council since the early 1980s, although their support has slipped a little towards Labour in recent years. The regeneration of Twickenham town centre is an important area of local interest. Since the closure of Twickenham swimming pool in 1980, the site, on the riverside opposite Eel Pie Island, has been derelict. The council has now approved a development which would create 40 flats, plus shops and restaurants, a health and fitness club, and a 3-screen cinema, but this decision is being contested by some local groups who seek a less commercial purpose for the site.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tyne Bridge', '58900', '2.9529041180086', '4.41969439728353', '12.4419694397284', '12.658172754599', '10.6940208032156', '13.1696322991551', '11.4142656845776', 'The creation of Tyne Bridge as a constituency in 1983 was a matter of some controversy because its boundaries, for the first time, ignored the natural barrier of the river. The seat incorporates sections of both Newcastle and Gateshead, and holds most of the heart of the city. The railway station, castle, cathedral and main shopping centre are all found here, as is one of the more successful Millennial engineering projects, the recently opened Gateshead Millennium Bridge, which pivots on an axis like a blinking eye to allow the passage of shipping. However, despite these features, the seat remains very much a typical North-Eastern inner city area, with all the attendant problems. Unemployment has fallen over the course of the last parliament, but still runs at one of the highest levels on the country. Council housing accounts for almost half of all housing in the constituency, and much of the labour market is partly skilled or simply unskilled. Labour has held the seat since its creation; the only change since 1983 has been caused by the death of Harry Cowans in 1985, leading to the by-election victory of David Clelland, who has held it ever since.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tynemouth', '65184', '4.67826799990889', '6.73524177712322', '12.6735241777123', '13.6497004288202', '13.8910533180325', '12.6807074271448', '11.6257237572834', 'Tynemouth is a predominantly coastal constituency which is positioned in the south eastern corner of the old Northumberland county, in confluence of the River Tyne and the North Sea. The seats economy has been moulded in part by shipyards and docks. The accompanying council estates in Chirton, Collingwood and North Shields reflect the strong Labour tradition in the seat. By contrast it also contains seaside resorts and middle-class housing: Tynemouth, Cullercoats, Whitley Bay and Seaton Sluice. It could be said this seat has a North-South divide of its own. The constituency has suffered greatly from the decline of the shipbuilding industry, as well the closure of the Siemens and Fujitsu factories in the last few years. Call centres are one expanding source of employment in the area: companies located in North Shields include MB&G Insurance Services. Formerly the only Conservative seat in Tyne and Wear, Labours Alan Campbell won Tynemouth in the 1997 landslide, with a commanding majority of 11,000 votes. It had previously only been won by Labour in 1945.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tyneside North', '64914', '3.04559610317017', '5.78750346612441', '16.5787503466124', '18.6589138514624', '15.9933812867319', '15.2407414446993', '15.4684875116997', 'This seat is composed of former mining villages, new private housing complexes and large, sprawling council estates - the most famous of the latter is Killingsworth Township. Swan Hunter Shipyards used to be the major employer in the area, but the decline in ship building has crippled the yard in recent years. The last warship built on the Tyne was HMS Richmond, which was launched from the Swan Hunter yard in 1994. However, things are looking up, and the yard won a £150m MoD order for two Royal Navy Ships in December 2000, securing 2,000 jobs. The seats Long Benton area is home to the Viasystems electronics factory. The controversial US-owned printed circuit board company closed its Scottish Borders factories in 1999, with nearly 1,000 job losses. It has been subjected to bitter allegations ever since that Scottish work was being transferred to its new Tyneside plant - which provides 1,000 jobs. The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Stephen Byers, has held this seat since 1992. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Tyrone West', '60739', '5.9171646404286', '7.9899241014834', '16.7989924101483', '14.6066659907597', '15.691482781576', '19.1869079417229', '19.3232733837371', 'This is a predominantly rural constituency of gently rolling hills, glens, forests, loughs and rivers revered by fishermen. Tourism is an important industry based on the attractive countryside, with other sources of employment including agriculture and associated processing industries along with some manufacturing such as the production of linen, hosiery and shirts. The constituency is made up the areas covered by the district councils based around the two main towns in the seat: Omagh and Strabane. On 15 August 1998, four months after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, a car bomb planted by the Real IRA exploded in Omaghs town centre, killing 29 people and injuring many more. This seat is quite interesting: the electorate is nearly 65% Catholic, but at recent general elections the nationalist vote has been split between the SDLP and Sinn Féin. On the unionist side the DUP has not put up a candidate and the Ulster Unionists have managed to win with barely a third of the votes cast. When the seat was contested by all four parties in the Assembly election, Sinn Féin came out on top; in the same situation at the 1996 Forum election, the SDLP was the victor.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Ulster Mid', '61390', '4.89306312079462', '8.13422381495358', '17.8134223814954', '18.9051257589045', '19.3230717677517', '19.0248862344153', '16.4887877951571', 'The northern part of this seat is in County Londonderry and the southern part is in County Tyrone. It is bordered on the west by the Sperrin Mountains, and on the east by Lough Neagh. It is a rural constituency where farming is important, with some fine agricultural land. The tourist industry has great potential, based on Lough Neagh and the varied countryside, ranging from a gently rolling landscape to mountains. There are three main urban centres: Cookstown, Magherafelt and Coalisland, which is a centre for the brick-making industry. This seat is demographically and electorally quite similar to its neighbour, West Tyrone: the majority (over 60%) of electors are Catholic, but a split in the nationalist vote against one unionist candidate has meant that a unionist has in the past been able to win the day. In 1983 the DUPs Reverend Willie McCrea won the seat, but in 1997 Sinn Féin won it with Martin McGuinness. He has never taken his seat in the commons. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Upminster', '56829', '5.44769726152846', '5.95664185539073', '13.5956641855391', '15.1635024725119', '14.1532492623297', '14.0653349206392', '14.7380200868986', 'Upminster is located on the eastern edge of London, on the border with Essex. The seat comprises the usually solid Labour territory of Harold Hill, a sprawling council estate in the north which was built after the second world war to house the overspill population from London. In stark contrast, the southern part of the seat covers the middle-class and prosperous Cranham and Emerson park. The seat also includes the area from which it gets its name, Upminster. Local successes include Hall Mead school in Cranham, which was one of 300 schools nationwide to receive Beacon status and the Thames Chase Community Forest, which has been awarded over £4m to aid its development as a new English woodland.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Upper Bann', '72574', '6.65040363664864', '7.03227051010004', '17.70322705101', '19.9261181535867', '20.5998130781627', '16.299981057866', '18.2775311187453', 'This seat is the political home of Northern Irelands First Minister, David Trimble, who won it in a 1990 by-election. The northern half of the seat takes in the whole of Craigavon District Council, which includes the towns of Portadown and Lurgan, as well as the southern shores of Lough Neagh. The southern half takes in part of Banbridge District Council, including the town of Banbridge itself, with the constituency name being taken from the River Bann, which flows into Lough Neagh. Portadown is best known to outsiders because it encompasses Drumcree Parish Church and the Garvaghy Road, site of the most contentious annual Orange March. In 2000, for the third year running, Orangemen were not allowed to march down the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road, and much violence was seen, with water cannons being used on protesters for the first time in decades. Mr Trimble won last time with a reduced vote share due to the appearance of a DUP candidate, but he nevertheless won with a majority of nearly 10,000.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Uxbridge', '58066', '5.28667185349213', '5.75517514552406', '12.5755175145524', '12.0322525459311', '13.7097053617543', '13.9632845552783', '12.1182210753773', 'Uxbridge is a part of outer Londons surburban sprawl and is comprised of a collection of communities in Ickenham, Cowley, Hillingdon, Colham, Yiewsley and West Drayton. These were once individual villages and have kept some of their character, but the passage of time and housing development has inevitably merged them into one and other. Many of the constituents think of themselves as living in Middlesex, rather than in west London. Uxbridge houses one of Brunel Universitys sites, it is a large and modern campus - with the River Pinn flowing though its grounds - and is also the universitys administrative base. There are also several nature reserves to be found in this seat; Muntjac deer graze only half a mile from Uxbridge town centre. The first by-election after the 1997 general election was held here, caused by the death of Sir Michael Shersby just a week after the election. Sir Michael had only held onto the seat for the Tories by fewer than 800 votes, so campaigning for the by-election in July 1997 was fervent. However, in the event the Tories managed to return their candidate John Randall with a far greater majority of over 3,700 votes.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Vale of Clwyd', '51247', '4.99814505657577', '6.31178410443538', '12.6311784104435', '12.9440213390627', '12.1366204712672', '12.8463795649332', '12.953654313857', 'This seat was created for the 1997 general election out of parts of the former Clwyd North West and Delyn constituencies. Labour won it then by a big margin, but Clwyd North West was the Tories strongest seat in Wales for many years, and they also held Delyn until 1992. Socially and economically, the constituency comprises the seaside resorts of Prestatyn and Rhyl, which have a high proportion of retired people. Inland, the comparatively prosperous Vale of Clwyd has some of the best farming land in Wales and has a high proportion of Welsh speakers.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Vale of Glamorgan', '67071', '5.45768413597734', '6.73674166182106', '17.6736741661821', '15.125641301014', '20.0590520036753', '15.8243874658984', '15.3676687899451', 'This constituency combines the large industrial and port town of Barry, combined with the prosperous Vale of Glamorgan area. The major towns are Barry (famous for for the Barry Island funfair), Llantwit Major, Dinas Powys, Cowbridge (a prosperous market town), and Rhoose (site of Cardiff-Wales airport). The constituency had been in long-term Conservative control at Westminster until Labour took it at a by-election in 1989, only to lose it again at the 1992 general election when the Tories won it by only 19 votes. That made it the most marginal seat in Britain, and the slender majority could not withstand the Labour landslide five years later in 1997, when John Smith won it for Labour with a majority of 19.5%. The Vale of Glamorgan council, formerly Labour-held, has had its share of scandals since its formation in 1996. Its chief executive was sacked for gross misconduct in July 2000, and the former Labour council leader Shaun Stringer pleaded guilty in 1999 to four charges of abusing public office between 1996 and 1998. In the Welsh devolution referendum, the Vale of Glamorgan council area voted No by the biggest margin in the country.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Vale of York', '73335', '4.83749226644669', '6.61212245176246', '12.6612122451762', '14.2091760069446', '10.7834187025326', '11.7394251415711', '13.0236297639246', 'The creation of Yorkshires eighth constituency in 1997 gave the Tories a fresh face in parliament with a healthy majority approaching 10,000. Like the neighbouring seats of Rydale, Richmond, and Skipton and Ripon - the other three seats to contribute voters to the Vale of York - this is a large and sprawling constituency. As the name implies, the countryside here is flatter and less dramatic than the more rugged seats to the north of the county, and is characterised by fertile farmland, prosperous small market and commuting towns and several small villages. This blend of agriculture, small-town life and stately homes and other tourist traps, helped to create one of the Conservatives safest seats in 1997. Some light industry is undertaken in this seat, mostly in Thirsk, but farming aside there are few manual workers. The unemployment rate at 1.4% (January 2001) is amongst the lowest in the UK, and council housing here accounts for less than 10% of the total. The Vale of York has its roots in Roman times, and witnessed one of the most important battles of the Civil War at Marston Moor in 1644.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Vauxhall', '74474', '4.08900335409679', '4.48371243655504', '12.4483712436555', '10.61269184571', '13.4084924196456', '11.1071767082069', '12.2438646750903', 'Despite a troubled past in local elections, Labour has consistently fared well here in Westminster elections. Pro-hunting Sports Minister Kate Hoey has served in this seat since winning it in a by-election in 1989. Although the seat contains some of Londons most prominent landmarks including the Oval Cricket ground, Lambeth Palace, the South Bank Centre, Waterloo stations and St Thomass hospital, it is also home to some of Londons more run-down areas. Areas such as Stockwell and its Stockwell Park Council estate and the terraced streets North of Brixton are riddled with drug and crime related problems. There is a very low percentage of owner occupied housing across the constituency, a mere 24%, and half of all housing here is owned by the local authority.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wakefield', '75750', '5.00848402579144', '5.44607260726073', '12.5446072607261', '11.4559398872592', '13.4087631189665', '13.4508615077597', '10.7730050225072', 'Wakefield has elected a Labour MP to Westminster every Parliament of the past 60 years. David Hinchcliffe has been the MP since 1987, and managed to increase his majority from 6,590 in 1992 to 14,604 in 1997. Wakefield was the capital of the old West Riding, and of the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire until its abolition in 1986. Despite its cathedral, historic market place and a fine collection of buildings, the political preferences of the town have always been shaped by its industrial heritage. Traditional coal fields may have given way to commercial offices and high technology firms, but a heavy industrial belt continues to thrive around this seat, with the working population split evenly between those in manual and non-manual jobs. Most residents are white, although there is a small Asian minority. Unemployment is around the national average at 3.8% and just under 30% of housing in the seat is council rented. This, combined with the seats coal mining history and the working-class roots of many of its inhabitants, have made this seat hard going for Conservative candidates in the past.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wallasey', '64889', '3.91688534247309', '5.75536685724853', '12.5755366857249', '10.7970532890352', '11.5075170325159', '11.8451806586103', '12.9098606660181', 'On the north eastern tip of the Wirral peninsula at the mouth of the Mersey River, Wallasey - the Island of the Welshmen has been represented since 1992 by Labours Angela Eagle. Long-regarded as a safe Conservative stronghold, the slim majority of 279 votes which returned Lynda Chalker, Minister of State for the Foreign Office, in 1987 signalled the weakening of Conservative fortunes in the seat. In 1992 Angela Eagle beat Lynda Chalker by almost 4,000 votes. An historic victory, it was the first time that Labour had gained Wallasey - the Conservatives had tenaciously held on in both 1945 and 1966 when Labour had won landslide national victories. A constituency of contrasts, Wallasey encompasses residential areas, derelict docklands, council estates and the seaside resort of New Brighton. Wallasey emerged battered from the 1970s and 80s - two recessions in a decade wrecked the basic manufacturing industries on which the prosperity of the area was founded - especially shipbuilding. Unemployment is among the highest in the UK.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Walsall North', '66020', '4.18822728398118', '4.89427446228416', '12.4894274462284', '11.1528906426827', '14.2825676491045', '10.7055244238609', '13.7933279576907', 'This is in some ways a typical West Midlands industrial seat, and until 1976 was held by John Stonehouse, when he was convicted of fraud. At the subsequent by-election, the Conservatives won the seat and held it until the 1979 General Election, when David Winnick regained it for Labour. The seat contains Willenhall, traditionally the centre of the lock and key industry, while other main industries are engineering and metal working. There is a high level of public sector housing and the non-white population is relatively small. 43% of homes are council-rented, and unemployment is above the national average. Significant new investment in the constituency has brought new jobs. The arrival of the European headquarters of Poundland, and the construction of a major warehouse and offices for delivery firm Citylink have each brought approximately 700 jobs, while a number of other firms have located in the area and brought jobs with them.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Walsall South', '62657', '4.10470214046248', '5.56984854046635', '12.5569848540466', '11.898973630939', '11.9958131380378', '11.2717144223866', '12.1898143198967', 'Although Walsall South is historically just as Labour-minded as its partner to the north, often returning a very similar majority, other resemblances are harder to find. South has an industrial base, with engineering and metal-working firms and a tradition of saddlery, but it has far more non-manual workers than North. This seat contains the town centre, and a £16m contribution from the lottery towards the construction of the new art gallery has helped in its regeneration. The seat also has a far greater proportion of ethnic minorities than the north, with 17% of the population coming from Asian communities. Unemployment is higher, and so is the number of owner-occupiers. On the whole, then, South is less white and working-class than North, and has more areas, like Paddock, that attract the better-off.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Walthamstow', '64403', '3.78372883325104', '5.34586898125864', '12.5345868981259', '13.4243796468638', '14.2072126510468', '13.6178553804639', '11.3436994221352', 'Walthamstow was won by Labour from the Conservatives in 1992 with a majority of 3,000 votes and was held by Neil Gerrard in 1997 with one of 17,000 votes. Past Conservative success here came when the seat was divided into two seats - West and East. In two by-elections caused by the deaths of both Labour members during Harold Wilsons 1966-70 government, Walthamstow West, the seat of the late Labour Party leader and post war Prime Minister Clement Attlee, was lost to the Tories in 1967, and Walthamstow East in 1969. Eric Deakins regained West for Labour in the 1970 General Election, and then following the amalgamation of the two seats in 1974 brought the entire area back into the Labour fold. Walthamstow boasts the longest daily street market in Europe, and a popular greyhound racing track. William Morris, famous for his designs, poetry and politics, was born here in 1834. The British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli was educated locally and the film director Ken Russell attended college in Walthamstow. More recently, the postcode for the district became famous thanks to the pop group East 17 who hailed from here.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wansbeck', '62989', '4.22298832144098', '5.94056105034212', '12.5940561050342', '14.6450912040303', '11.4910052022474', '14.6381931275709', '14.0993658430355', 'Based on the former Morpeth seat which was replaced in 1983, the constituency is now more appropriately named after the river which winds its way through the seat, rather than the affluent commuter town of Morpeth which is hardly representative of this gritty division in the heart of the former Northumberland coalfield. Labour has won Morpeth and then Wansbeck in every general election since the Second World War and Denis Murphy won majority of 22,367 in 1997. The main centres of population here are the towns of Morpeth, Newbiggen, Bedlington, Pegswood and Ashington - birthplace of the footballing brothers Bobby and Jack Charlton. All of these towns are industrial in nature and grew up as mining communities, although other industries are replacing coal and the largest employer is now Alcan - makers of aluminium cans. There is some agriculture in the seat, and some of Newcastles better-off commuters choose to live here.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wansdyke', '70728', '5.37056292943503', '6.93459450288429', '17.6934594502884', '18.6484794822872', '16.5077765942606', '18.7472856524172', '15.5643292592909', 'Wansdyke derives its name from Wodens Dyke (Woden being a god of the Saxons), the ancient defensive ditch that stretches from near Bristol to beyond Marlborough in the South West country. The constituency is mainly a residential area from which people commute into Bristol or Bath but it includes the picturesque Chew Valley to the south of Bristol and parts of South Gloucestershire. The northern edge of the constituency includes parts of Bristol, moving across to Bath and down to the old Somerset coalfields. One of the main towns is Keynsham which is best known for its large Cadburys chocolate factory which makes many well-known brands including Turkish Delight and Double Decker. Dan Norris was elected Labour MP for Wansdyke in 1997 with the biggest increase in Labours share of the vote in the South West.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wantage', '76129', '6.03594618249913', '6.45338832770692', '12.6453388327707', '11.7221858346002', '14.6613031705481', '12.8175391432192', '14.5160087657545', 'The constituency covers the south western quarter of the presently constituted county of Oxfordshire, between Oxford and Swindon. The main towns are Didcot and Wallingford from the South Oxfordshire district and Faringdon and Wantage from the Vale of White Horse. Robert Jackson has held Wantage for the Tories since its creation in 1983. The towns buildings are mostly 17th and 18th century with narrow cobbled streets and passages. Wantage lies at the foot of the Downs and there are numerous racing stables in surrounding villages. Nearby is the historic, probably pre-Roman, Ridgeway track running from Ashbury to Streatley on the Thames. Wantage is in the heart of an area full of high technology companies, including AEA Technology, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Culham Laboratory, Esso Research Centre and the Williams Motor Racing Centre. The Oxford Transport Strategy is said to have had significant repercussions on the people of Wantage, reportedly causing delays and difficulties for those living in Wantage to enter Oxford.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Warley', '58071', '3.94970555467134', '5.40975702157704', '12.5409757021577', '10.9923188856822', '11.0170654899139', '12.4862356026133', '13.5981984564151', 'This seat was in 1997 very safe for Labour, the safest of the three seats in Sandwell council, itself one of Labours safest local authorities. In fact, prior to the last general election the Conservatives did not hold a single councillor in Warley. Sandwell Borough is one of the poorest in the country - ninth after the 1991 census - but the poverty is relatively evenly spread rather than concentrated in pockets. It is at the heart of the West Midlands, and Warley is closer to Birmingham city centre than several Birmingham seats. The constituency is urban, and most employers are small or medium sized and representative of the Black Countrys traditional light manufacturing industry. However, due to its excellent location near the M5 and M6 and consequently excellent transportation links, it has more recently become a popular location for distribution centres. New investment will shortly be flowing into this seat as the Public-Private Partnership to rebuild three schools gets underway. The scheme will include the replacement of Warley Infants, Brasshouse Infants and Albion Junior School schools, and provision of cleaning and catering services once they are completed.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Warrington North', '72445', '3.82523772809046', '5.37097108151011', '12.537097108151', '11.7690110989186', '14.0414206940162', '13.904459230666', '13.2997215241628', 'Despite the fact that Warrington has been Labour-held since the Second World War, the town is remembered more for Roy Jenkinss attempt to win the seat for the infant Social Democratic Party at a 1981 by-election. His attempt was not quite successful, but he did well enough for the contest to go down in the annals of centre party history. There has never been as close a parliamentary contest in this seat since then. In 1981 the seat comprised a tiny core of the town, which had long spread far beyond its administrative boundaries. Now the whole of Greater Warrington is included in one borough which is effectively divided into two for parliamentary purposes. Most of the New Town housing is in Warrington North, which includes the whole of the town north of the Mersey except for the Howley and Whitecross ward which the boundary commissioners transferred to Warrington South prior to the 1997 election.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Warrington South', '74283', '5.07353749422912', '6.12347374230982', '12.612347374231', '13.9027833845033', '13.9368475891056', '14.0937583848264', '13.8012384937544', 'In 1992 Labour gained the seat from the Conservatives by just 191 votes, but following boundary changes Helen Southworth won the 1997 election for Labour with a comfortable majority of over 10,800 votes. Most of the seats middle-class population lives south of the Manchester Ship Canal in suburbs like Stockton Heath, Appleton and Grappenhall. The Liberal Democrats have done well here in local elections, but the area has tended to provide the main Conservative strength in general elections. A more even battle between Labour and the Conservatives can be found west of Warrington in Great Sankey and Penketh, which have seen the growth of private housing estates in recent decades. More non-manual workers than manual live in this constituency and the level of owner-occupation is high at 80%. Few homes are council-rented and unemployment is below the national average. There is some industry in the seat - mainly chemicals and service industries - but it generally consists of quiet residential areas.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Warwick and Leamington', '81405', '5.12355479183399', '6.57686874270622', '12.6576868742706', '12.8804698036532', '14.4774793799302', '13.5272382558016', '12.0395915427419', 'After Rugby and Kenilworth, this was the second least-expected Labour victory in this county in 1997. It had been held by the Conservatives since 1910 and for 34 years was the seat of Tory Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Industry is mainly light and Automotive Products, making car components, is well known. There is a significant Asian community in Leamington which makes up 5% of the constituencys population, and many students from nearby Warwick University live in Leamington, geographically closer to the Coventry campus. Nearly half of all households are headed by professionals, managers or technicians. However, because of all this wealth the impoverishment still visible in parts of Leamington is all the more stark and helps to explain the otherwise unexpected Labour victory in this seat. In Leamington, major Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) investment, particularly on the old gasworks site, is in the process of transforming the old town area, and SRB money is now being sought for development in impoverished rural parts of the area.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Warwickshire North', '73828', '4.59051093246864', '6.01519748604865', '12.6015197486049', '13.1837424483856', '11.1943606255219', '11.2686033649332', '12.2731718107627', 'Warwickshire North is now one of four Labour seats in Warwickshire. Only Stratford-on-Avon has stayed with the party which, before 1992, dyed the whole county blue. The constituency covers a large part of the old North Warwickshire coalfield and an application from RJB mining to dig an open-cast mine at Dordon in the north of the constituency is now a cause of controversy as environmental considerations come to the fore. Most of the mines, though, are long gone. The new Coventry City football stadium at Keresley is mostly over the constituency boundary in Coventry North-West. However, the housing and industrial portions of this development, which will provide a big boost to the economy, are in North Warwickshire. More than half the households are headed by skilled or partly skilled workers. Many of these now work in the newer manufacturing, service and distribution industries which have grown up as a result of the easy access to the M6, M41 and A5. There are newer residential areas such as Coleshill and Water Orton on the M42, but even these areas now elect Labour councillors. The Conservatives only represent the largest and most rural of wards.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Watford', '75724', '5.47313033727249', '6.12381807617136', '12.6123818076171', '12.5863605432074', '10.8903667223416', '11.5467034757428', '14.0808578128513', 'Watford was a 19th Century industrial town and is situated in the south west of Hertfordshire on the border with Greater London; in that sense, the towns urban character sets it apart from the rest of the county. Paper is still an important industry here, the first printing company having set up its presses in 1834: today, four million copies of The Mirror and The Independent roll off the presses every night in Watford. Perhaps the highest profile company here is the present national lottery operator, Camelot, which employs 300 people. Culture and sport have their place here too: Leavesden Studios is the fastest growing film studios in the country on a site once occupied by an aircraft factory; and there is the Woodside Athletics stadium, Saracens rugby club and Watford FC. Labour won this seat in 1997 on the retirement of the Tory MP, Tristan Garel-Jones, who had himself taken the seat from Labour in 1979. The incumbent, Claire Ward, is the youngest female MP.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Waveney', '76585', '4.9299298238175', '6.15877782855651', '12.6158777828556', '10.8637032825255', '14.3451553116392', '12.5204453237496', '11.3912434751201', 'This is the most northerly of the Suffolk seats, and is named after the River Waveney, which forms the boundary with Norfolk. The most easterly point in Great Britain, Ness Point, is to be found in this seat, which also contains the towns of Lowestoft, Beccles and Bungay. The economy of Lowestoft has long been based on the fishing industry and its port, but the town is also home to the southern headquarters of Shell, Birds Eye and Sanyo. It is also a base for the maintenance of off-shore oil exploration installations. The decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding, fishing and canning (Waveney was the trademark of Co-op cans) has caused significant unemployment in the seat and given rise to the view that Waveney is East Anglias black spot. Bob Blizzard is only the second Labour MP to be elected in the history of Waveney, which was formerly known as Lowestoft. The previous Labour MP was Edward Evans, who served from 1945 to 1959.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wavertree', '72555', '3.72860787852387', '4.42946730066846', '17.4429467300668', '16.7500818700894', '18.3973856490647', '15.1301171518125', '20.2135568459266', 'There is no data on this constituency');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wealden', '83066', '5.01876563803169', '6.35109431054824', '12.6351094310548', '12.5305014996638', '12.1905317975391', '10.682957726818', '11.126773827553', 'Wealden covers a large part of the High Weald, a patchwork of well-wooded ridges and valleys. There are four small towns: Crowborough, Hailsham, Uckfield and Heathfield, the first of which was the birthplace of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and duly hosts an annual Sherlock Holmes festival. The seat was recently rated as one of the most likely places in the country to find a millionaire. Which is not to say that the constituency does not have pockets of deprivation - Hailsham has recently received £11m of Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) cash to renovate deprived areas. A quick look at the seats demographics reveals why it is has historically been so safe for the Conservatives: just over half the population can be grouped in the professional, managerial and technical social classes according to the 1991 census. Over 80% have access to a car and over 80% are owner occupiers.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Weaver Vale', '68236', '4.75159787120267', '5.75517322234598', '12.5755173222346', '11.2154973476306', '14.6207647511982', '10.7898410997805', '12.580293009888', 'Weaver Vale was a new seat created in 1997 towards the west of the county from parts of Eddisbury, Warrington South, Tatton and Halton. Weaver Vale was won for Labour by Mike Hall with a majority of over 13,000 votes in its first contest. Mike Hall was MP for Warrington South during the 1992-97 parliament, and chose to contest Weaver Vale because it was both a safer prospect and incorporated part of his original seat. The constituency has an extremely varied landscape that includes industrial Northwich, the base for ICI, rural Helsby, popular with hill-walkers and rock-climbers, and affluent commuter towns like Hartford. Salt-mining is the historic key to the seats industry, and the presence of salt led to the establishment of the huge ICI works at Warrington which now makes products ranging from PVC to anti-knock chemicals for petrol. The River Weaver was canalised in the eighteenth century to help transport salt, and Northwich is even home to a National Salt Museum. Salt, though, is not the only force in the local economy as tourism, agriculture and service industries also play a part.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wellingborough', '77389', '5.32074657883386', '6.59085916603135', '17.6590859166031', '16.9710125519207', '17.0086887700773', '18.5946561191469', '17.5623297451456', 'The town of Wellingborough is situated east of Northampton and north of Bedford, and contains significant Asian and Afro-Caribbean communities, but this constituency covers territory outside the town too. It includes the towns of Rushden and the historic Higham Ferrers, which featured in the Domesday book. Smaller surrounding villages include Earls Barton, home to All Saints Church which boasts a 1,000-year-old Saxon tower, a Norman door, a 15th Century screen and a 17th Century tower clock. Business-wise, Wellingborough was founded on ironworks and the leather industry, with the constituency still containing 60 businesses involved in footwear manufacturing and employing more than 3,000 workers. However, today the industrial base has expanded into more diverse light and service industries, such as distribution, with recent development seeing the growth of the Park Farm estate. Farming is also important in the rural parts of the seat, whilst good rail links to London also serve a population of commuters. The seat has the smallest actual Labour majority in the country - a mere 187 votes.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wells', '74189', '5.62263709708851', '6.9166588038658', '12.6916658803866', '13.2882581410845', '14.1930098391989', '14.4586034474402', '12.0755028195633', 'Wells - with a population of around 10,000 - is Englands smallest city, and is the only city in the county of Somerset. It has a magnificent cathedral, built between the 12th and 14th centuries, which is considered one of the finest examples of early Gothic church architecture. The moated Bishops Palace is home to the Bishop of Bath and Wells: the citys name derives from the springs which rise in the garden of the Palace and have formed a focus of religious interest for over 2,000 years. Glastonbury is best known today for the annual music festival which takes place there usually attracting around 100,000 visitors. St Michaels Tower sits on the top of Glastonbury Tor over 500 feet above sea level. The ruined Glastonbury Abbey was visited according to legend by Joseph of Arimathea and given that this is in the legendary Camelot country it is said that King Arthur and his wife Guinevere were buried there.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Welwyn Hatfield', '67004', '5.68342635622709', '6.39081248880664', '12.6390812488807', '11.2174152120555', '14.5891704033865', '10.6738103895807', '13.5096683535665', 'The two principal towns in this constituency are Welwyn Garden City - the second garden city after Letchworth and which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1995 - and Hatfield. The constituency also takes in more rural areas including the villages of Essendon and Newgate Street and the tiny parishes of Ayot St Lawrence and Ayot St Peter. In addition there are residential developments at Welwyn and Oaklands in the north of the seat and at Welham Green and Brookmans Park in the south. The area is socially mixed but, like most constituencies containing new towns, has a high proportion of voters living in council houses. The constituency has tended to be a marginal for some years: it was held in the latter half of the 1970s by Labours Helene (now Baroness) Hayman, losing it to the Tories in 1979. The abrasive Tory rightwinger David Evans held this seat from 1987, until he was beaten in 1997 by Labours Melanie Johnson.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wentworth', '64033', '3.25063650897034', '5.27509253041401', '12.5275092530414', '11.8964215008353', '14.2778018271884', '11.3567492685074', '12.6965994766218', 'John Healey won the seat in 1997 with a majority of just under 24,000 making this seat one of Labours safest in that year. The end of coal mining had a major impact on this seat. A third of homes are rented from the council, unemployment is above the national average and 60% of those who do work are in manual occupations. The closure of Cortonwood colliery near Brampton was one of the key elements that sparked the miners strike of 1984-85, and the deprivation caused in Brampton and in other mining communities such as Wath-Upon-Dearne and Swinton cannot be overstated. The council has attempted several initiatives to attract new businesses to the area, but its efforts have only been partly successful in reversing the long term decline here. Light industry that has been attracted has doubtless been encouraged by the pool of cheap labour and excellent motorway links. Despite this being historically a safe seat for Labour, there is one significant Tory connection here. William Hague, the Leader of the Opposition, was a pupil at Wath-Upon-Dearne Comprehensive, when as a 16-year-old he made his famous speech to the Conservative Party Conference.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('West Bromwich East', '61198', '4.41280920891501', '5.33742932775581', '12.5337429327756', '11.3845383752211', '14.3043024446625', '13.014874575576', '11.2436110473368', 'This is a more residential seat than West Bromwich West. Housing varies from council-rented to Victorian terraced, to that found on private estates in the plusher suburbs of Charlemont, Great Barr and Newton. Council housing accounts for almost 40% of the total, and Labour has usually achieved big majorities on estates like Friar Park. A new PFI-funded hospital of adult psychiatry recently opened in this seat, which will provide services for the whole West Midlands area. Elsewhere, the town centre is undergoing a £300m regeneration, the Lyng Estate is being regenerated as part of a £50m investment and Health and Education Action Zones mean plenty of government money will be spent on deprived areas in the constituency. At general elections, it has been left to the Conservatives to challenge Labour. That they have done since the seats creation in 1974 - in 1983 the majority here shrunk as low as 298 votes - but Labour managed a majority of 13,854 votes in 1997.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('West Bromwich West', '66777', '3.92211055276382', '4.76810877996915', '12.4768108779969', '13.8252197450432', '12.8568355143108', '13.4089143866432', '10.7006968850885', 'West Bromwich, famous for its football team, is typical of the industrial towns of the West Midlands. Its economy is based on engineering and metal-working, with a string of old industrial communities known for their variety of engineering and metalworking industries: Wednesbury, Tipton, Great Bridge, Oldbury and Tividale, and good road links via the M6. The largest employer in West Bromwich West is Nightspeed, a parcels service employing 900 people and based on the Vanghan Trading Estate. The constituency has seen a number of companies relocate or set up offices here since 1997, including National Power. The seat was previously represented by Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd, but she stepped down in 2000. Ms Boothroyd had held the seat for Labour from 1973 until becoming Speaker in 1992 and the party won the seat at the by-election following her retirement.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('West Ham', '59828', '3.01438185358522', '4.89285953065454', '17.4892859530655', '19.9324276132846', '16.6002854850639', '17.80296340907', '17.3941839773494', 'Famous for the football club that shares it name, this constituency is held by Tony Banks, former Minister for Sport. The current seat was formed from Mr Bankss old Newham North West seat, which was deemed to have too few voters in the 1995 boundary review, 46,000 compared with the English average of 69,000. Three wards were added to the old Newham North west seat; Bemeryside, Hudsons and Plaistow. These wards were previously part of the old Newham South seat. As with many east London seats, there is a growing ethnic minority population. In the 1991 census just over 43% of residents were non-white. Over a fifth of the population here is Afro-Caribbean, and over a fifth Asian. Labours hegemony in the area is summed up by its performance on Newham Council, where they hold all but one seat on the council - a total of 59 seats.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Westbury', '75911', '5.79303942482421', '6.66938915308717', '12.6669389153087', '12.7534774397417', '13.5295851752602', '13.6783579259292', '13.0152474039551', 'David Faber, Harold Macmillans grandson, was successfully re-elected here in 1997 with only a marginally reduced majority of 6,068 votes. Labour almost doubled its share of the vote in Westbury, but remained in third place. Bradford-on-Avon (which is just eight miles from Bath) is in the north of the seat; it is a former mill town which first grew wealthy from the wool trade in medieval times and now attracts many visitors. There is an area in the town called Tory, but it is so called because it is a high place not because of its political affiliations - all four council seats in Bradford-on-Avon are currently held by the Lib Dems. Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire and the main administrative headquarters for both the district and county councils. The market town of Westbury overlooks Somerset and stands on the westernmost fringes of Salisbury Plain. The town is most famous for the White Horse carved into the chalk. Also on the fringes of Salisbury Plain is Warminster - an important military centre where the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the School of Infantry are based. Longleat House and safari park are nearby. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Western Isles', '21807', '5.49813815639486', '6.03430091255102', '17.6034300912551', '19.7316008336003', '20.1885821583956', '15.9884646438274', '17.2809421207052', 'The Western Isles are also known as the Outer Hebrides, and stretch from the Butt of Lewis in the north to Vatersay in the south - a distance of 130 miles. The electorate is less than 23,000 - about half that of most Scottish constituencies. Lewis is the largest island, but others include Harris, the two Uists (North and South) and Benbecula, from where Bonnie Prince Charlie sailed over the sea to Skye. Crofting, fishing, limited tourism and cottage industries are the basis of the local economy, along with the manufacture of Harris tweed - the islands most famous export. The Isles are remote from the mainland in culture as well as distance. Some 68% of inhabitants are Gaelic speakers. The Gaelic name for the Western Isles is Na h-Eileanan Siar. This seat has historical significance for both the SNP and the Labour party. Malcolm K Macmillan took the seat for Labour in 1935, making it the first non-urban/industrial seat that the party had won. He held it until 1970 when he was defeated by the SNPs Donald Stewart. This was the first time the SNP had won a seat at a general election.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Westmorland and Lonsdale', '70637', '5.30593073502703', '6.78157339637867', '8.67815733963787', '7.51034633146641', '9.17428171612684', '9.20263427789112', '9.89568970314025', 'There is some light industry to be found in this rural haven, especially in Kendal - home to textiles, shoes and the world famous mint cake - but unsurprisingly, much employment is still to be found on the land. Although sheep farming will always remain the main industry here, tourism continues to grow in importance with visitor numbers boosted by literary connections to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Beatrix Potter. Despite the dominance of the lakes, the scenery remains varied thanks to areas of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and Grizedale Forest falling within the seats boundaries. The largest lake in England, Windemere, is to be found here, as is Coniston Water, the venue of Donald Campbells ill-fated water-speed record attempt in 1967. Although other Cumbrian seats dispel the notion of an attractive, rural landscape going hand in hand with a Conservative MP, Westmoreland & Lonsdale is not among them - long having been true blue.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Weston-super-Mare', '74343', '6.05312767780634', '6.27900407570316', '12.6279004075703', '11.0854840430775', '13.3955447737839', '13.6129621512746', '12.7429681622459', 'The seat is centred on the town of Weston-super-Mare, famed for its beach, and includes the surrounding villages. Weston-super-Mare is a mixture of old charm and modern technology. The sea front is almost without modern high-rise buildings and tourism is one of the main industries in the seat. There were plans for a new casino to be built in order to attract more visitors to the resort, which was one of the first in the country to advertise its allure on the internet. As tourism is the main money-spinner, Weston-super-Mare is full of small businesses geared towards it. The town is filled with hotels, guest houses and a great variety of shops, but there are also many small and privately owned manufacturing companies, distributors, and information technology and engineering firms based here as well.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wigan', '64040', '3.82602482807895', '5.24531542785759', '17.5245315427858', '18.3715773747032', '18.6526543041924', '19.3965420983368', '20.4174059130816', 'Wigan has elected a Labour MP at every general election since 1918, and any notion of the seat becoming jaded with the partys policies were dispatched in 1997 when Roger Stott, MP for Wigan 1983 until 1999, won by the greatest majority of his career so far - 22,643 votes. Mr Stott died in 1999, however, and was succeeded by party colleague Neil Turner at the resulting by-election. The constituency includes most of the town of Wigan, although Ince, Orrell and parts of the southern suburbs are in the Makerfield constituency. In the north of the seat are the small towns of Shelvington, Standish and Aspull set in some attractive countryside. Wigan is a working class seat with above average numbers of skilled workers and council housing. There are some large companies based here including Heinz, Volex, the Tote and National Girobank. Of Celtic and Roman origin, Wigan stands on high ground above the River Douglas. One of the oldest Boroughs in Lancashire, the towns charter dates back to 1246.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wiltshire North', '79524', '5.45025307849211', '6.65811578894422', '12.6658115788944', '12.3247204210844', '12.5863420099874', '14.2877370257265', '12.6461812902258', 'Wiltshire North is situated on the edge of the Cotswolds, which reach into the western and northern ends of the constituency. It is bordered in the east by the chalk hills of the Marlborough Downs and Swindon. There is significant manufacturing industry here, especially in the food and engineering sectors. The main centres of activity are Chippenham, Corsham and Malmesbury. In the rural areas the closure of military bases and the decline of agriculture is being compensated for by the growth of tourism. In 1997, the Conservatives were returned once again to this seat but this time represented by James Gray with a 3,475 vote majority. He succeeded Richard Needham, the MP for this constituency since its creation and for its predecessor, Chippenham, since 1979. Although the Conservatives saw a 12.4% drop in their share of the vote the Liberal Democrats failed to win here at a time when many west of England seats were falling to them.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wimbledon', '63930', '5.42533265221728', '6.43031440638198', '8.6430314406382', '7.81377842807089', '9.2677487923587', '9.58525686587452', '8.29083880082372', 'A London constituency since the 1960s, parts of it still have the feel of its Surrey heritage. In the north, skirting the 1,000 acres of Wimbledon Common, is the village - the strongest Conservative area in the constituency. Sweeping down Wimbledon hill the wards become the marginal battleground of local politics, before fetching up at the strongest Labour territory in the south at the border with Mitcham and Morden constituency. Wimbledon is home to the world famous tennis courts, the papal nuncio and the headquarters of two large trade unions - the GMB and CWU. The Common has its Caesars Camp and a slightly less old windmill. The areas association with Horatio Nelson (who lived here for some time) is reflected in the name of the local hospital, the Emma Hamilton pub and various street names. Labour only won here once before 1997. Roger Casales victory then was unexpected and he will be in the frontline of the Conservatives campaign to recover what they regard as their heartland seats.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Winchester', '81852', '4.54308800162277', '7.2274348824708', '17.7227434882471', '16.7788381682262', '20.2113439979518', '18.5262606293144', '17.6435780702698', 'A 7.4% swing handed Liberal Democrat Mark Oaten a two-vote victory at the 1997 general election, but the Conservatives succeessfully challenged the result in the courts. At the resulting by-election there was a further 19.9% swing against the Conservatives to make this nominally the safest Liberal Democrat seat in the country. Apart from Winchester itself, the seat covers the small and picturesque towns of Twyford, New Alresford, Bishops Waltham, Denmead and Wickham. Nevertheless Winchester is at the constituencys centre, as it has always been. The city was important in Roman times, and was resuscitated under King Alfred in the ninth century to become the principal city of Wessex and later royal capital of England. Tourism is a growing industry in a city with such a long history, but there is no great need for the extra income: the area is affluent and unemployment is low. During the 1980s Winchester was the richest city in England with the highest per capita income and one of the lowest levels of unemployment (just 2.2% in 1988).');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Windsor', '69136', '5.27428164331513', '6.09089331173339', '12.6090893311733', '13.6722542821614', '14.5676716715049', '12.0381980975588', '10.6280887702942', 'Windsor is best known for its castle, which dominates the towns skyline. William the Conqueror chose the site, high above the River Thames and on the edge of a Saxon hunting ground, over 900 years ago. Today it remains a Royal residence, although it suffered a serious fire in 1992. Within the castles precincts stands St Georges Chapel, the resting place of 10 sovereigns, which was founded by Edward IV in 1475 and completed by Henry VIII. There are other noteworthy towns in the constituency too. Eton, opposite Windsor on the northern bank of the river, is dominated by one of the most exclusive and well known public schools in the UK, if not the world: Prince William left Eton College in 2000, and his younger brother Prince Harry is still studying there. The majority of the electorate are in the professional, managerial or technical socio-economic groups; and over four-fifths of people have access to at least one car.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wirral South', '60653', '5.25591441056809', '6.56488549618321', '12.6564885496183', '14.4861241883274', '14.757089924584', '10.9285230389328', '10.6362353003808', 'Ben Chapman seized Wirral South with a majority that fell just short of 8,000 in the February 1997 by-election which followed Barry Porters death. At the time, pundits predicted that if he retained the seat in the imminent general election, the Tories would have been trounced. In May, Chapman won again with a barely reduced majority and Labours was a landslide victory. Essentially a middle class seat, the Wirral South constituency stretches from the Dee estuary to Heswall and Gayton. It includes countryside and farmland in Clatterbridge and Bebington and residential areas in Bromborough and Eastham. Further into the constituency, one begins to get a characteristic, impressive view of the Mersey. Despite its residential nature, the constituency has a long industrial history, of manufacturing in particular. Much of the constituency bears the mark and carries the legacy of the first Lord Leverhulme, notably the attractive industrial village of Port Sunlight. Unilever in its various forms is still the biggest employer in the constituency.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wirral West', '62294', '5.27980234712786', '6.49741548142678', '17.6497415481427', '17.4680968111594', '16.7583356619184', '16.6396804023619', '17.4719514955905', 'When Stephen Hesford won Wirral West with a majority of 2,738 in 1997, he became the first Labour member for the seat and the symbol of Labour victory in the metropolitan county. This corner of the Wirral peninsula is predominantly middle class and residential. As such, it had been regarded as an area in which the Conservative Party was unbeatable - after the 1992 election it was the safest Conservative seat in the whole of Merseyside. Mr Hesfords success here offered proof of New Labours impact among the wealthy middle class in England. The constituency includes the seaside towns of West Kirby, Hoylake and Meols. Many residents commute to Birkenhead and Liverpool from here. Moving inland, Wirral West embraces Greasby, Irby and Pensby. Lying on the eastern edge of the constituency, which borders Birkenhead, are Upton and Prenton, both of which contain parts of the Woodchurch council estate as well as post-war private housing. It is in Woodchurch, parts of which are depressed in nature, that the core of Labour support is found.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Witney', '74624', '5.49763225819564', '6.59345518867925', '17.6593455188679', '20.229743562948', '15.2763846729694', '20.1164732071449', '19.7722032680912', 'This seat is comprised of some 82 villages and towns nestled in the idyllic Cotswold countryside. The main population centres are the market town from which the seat takes its name, and the old mill town of Chipping Norton. Witneys economic history is based around the weaving and blanket trade. The Witney Blanket Company was incorporated in 1710 - the secret of its high quality blankets was apparently the use of water from the River Windrush in the manufacturing process. The blanket industry has now declined, and the seats economy is now largely based on industrial estates which are home to a variety of companies including Oxford Electrical Products Ltd and Windrush Technology Ltd. Former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd represented this seat, and its predecessor, for 23 years until he stood down in 1997. Shaun Woodward succeeded Mr Hurd as the MP for Witney in 1997 - but he defected to the Labour party in December 1999. It is no great surprise that Mr Woodward is not seeking re-election as a Labour MP in this historically Conservative seat, but seeking more Labour friendly pastures instead.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Woking', '71163', '5.39804241435563', '6.02981886654582', '17.6029818866546', '16.4007871855225', '18.4423585924099', '17.8451803861551', '18.6078046128871', 'Twenty-five miles from London and 40 miles from the south coast, Woking is another traditionally safe Conservative seat in Surrey. However, at the last election it saw a drop in the Conservative share of the vote by over 20%. This was perhaps partially due to the retirement of Sir Cranley Onslow, who had been the MP for Woking since 1964, but was also due to support for both the Independent Conservative candidate, who retained his deposit with over 3,900 votes, and the Referendum Party. Woking is the largest town in Surrey, and home to many commuters. Over recent years it has also become the retail and service centre for the stockbroker belt, and has undergone rapid expansion. Extensive office development took place in the town centre in the 1980s, attracting industry based on new technologies. This has lead to further development of shopping and entertainment centres, including the Peacock Theatre. As a result, the population has also grown, as shown by the boom in the residential sector.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wokingham', '68430', '5.38952745849298', '6.40771591407277', '12.6407715914073', '13.8815836572921', '12.8546987928522', '11.4207890428314', '12.9554317308208', 'This seat nestles below the two Reading constituencies, to the east of Newbury, with its southern boundary on the border with Hampshire. It has been since 1987 the seat of twice-failed Conservative leadership challenger John Redwood. The principal town in the seat is Wokingham. It still retains the character of a small market town, with a rich collection of buildings and its historic street pattern. Although in the suburbs there is much light industry, the towns main function is still to act as a shopping and servicing centre for the surrounding area. This constituency in many ways epitomises the Thatcherite dream: a huge proportion own their own homes with an accordingly small number of council tenants: there was much private development during the 1980s. Furthermore, more people own cars here than anywhere else in the country, and it has one of the highest proportions of voters in the upper social classes. This was one of only 13 seats which the Tories won with over 50% of the vote in 1997. Wolverhampton');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wolverhampton North East', '60486', '3.97218517812917', '5.20682471976986', '12.520682471977', '13.7384236557232', '10.8102459751359', '12.9594942027977', '11.9716227105944', 'This seat was a Labour-Tory marginal in the late 1980s. The combination of skilled and partly-skilled manual employees, larger than average proportion of council house tenants and council house buyers was good Thatcherite territory, but it has proved good for Blairism too. This seat is at the northern extremity of the mostly industrial conurbation that comprises the West Midlands, and although the south Staffordshire countryside is close at hand it is industry that still dominates the landscape. Wolverhampton is one of the principal manufacturing centres in the West Midlands, and the workforce of North East is mostly made up of skilled and partly-skilled manual employees. Wolverhampton has a high proportion of homes (40% at the time of the 1991 census) which are council-rented, and before the last election a new policy of lopping and topping was adopted. Tower blocks would literally be cut in half and have new roofs installed. The buildings that were left have been transformed into warden-controlled sheltered accommodation for the elderly.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wolverhampton South East', '53931', '3.25603546177236', '5.06146743060577', '12.5061467430606', '13.1203616495436', '12.9971349501305', '12.8379321199646', '14.3323819777502', 'Situated north of Dudley and closer to the urban core of the West Midlands than the other seats in the town, Wolverhampton South East is heavily industrial in character. Manufacturing industries, though declining, are still commonplace in this region and the seat has the fourth highest proportion of skilled manual workers in England and Wales. Partly-skilled workers make up a fifth of the total, whilst unemployment runs above 7%, the highest of the three Wolverhampton seats, but nevertheless much lower than the rate in 1997. Wolverhampton suffered very badly during the shakeout of the manufacturing sector in the 1980s. As such, regeneration is a particular concern in the city, and the Bilston Urban Village is a particularly large project on the cards in this seat. A brownfield industrial site on which a combination of housing, light employment and leisure facilities will be built, the scheme will cost £50m. However, there have been delays due to problems in finding sufficient money to fund the project, and for the time being at least it remains on the drawing board. Wolverhampton');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wolverhampton South West', '67171', '5.1744626745238', '6.08849056884667', '17.6088490568847', '19.5246097329968', '14.9062313567495', '19.9232597612603', '15.014160407821', 'The seat is essentially split in two. Most of it is suburban, residential, predominantly middle class, and traditionally fertile ground for the Conservatives. The other part of the city centre is covered by St Peters ward, Labours only reliable stronghold, where the large Asian and black community in the seat is concentrated. The town centre includes the civic centre and civic hall, currently undergoing a major renovation, as well as the university. It also includes the terminus for the new Metro scheme linking Wolverhampton to Birmingham. This £145m scheme, funded by a mixture of private, government and European money, opened in 2000. The seat was represented from 1950 to 1974 by Conservative Enoch Powell, who made his infamous Rivers of Blood speech on race here in 1968. After 1974, the seat was home to eurosceptic Nick Budgen, who received the endorsement of his predecessor in the 1997 campaign. Given the large ethnic minority population, this might not have helped and Mr Budgen was ousted by Labour.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Woodspring', '71023', '5.63210139874482', '6.86510003801585', '12.6865100038016', '13.1394616878207', '11.4629852480708', '12.8180122223675', '10.8140576264828', 'There is no town called Woodspring and the constituency name was taken from the local government district created in 1974 which has since been abolished. This seat is largely rural and accounts for some 58% of the population of the North Somerset council area. The Victorian town of Clevedon is Woodsprings largest town. Its economy is largely dependent on commuters, with a large proportion working in Bristol and with its position on the M5 it has become a centre for distribution and light industry. The other major conurbation, Nailsea, was at the centre of the North Somerset coalfield in the nineteenth century and was also famous for its glass. Sinking into rural tranquillity at the end of the 1800s the then village was identified by Somerset County Council as the site of a dormer town for Bristol in the 1950s. The town has since grown from a small village of a few thousand to a town of 18,000.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Worcester', '71255', '5.14182311694187', '6.20447687881552', '17.6204476878816', '19.4876344073232', '19.6922762817274', '18.2630846144219', '14.7670712962536', 'In terms of its social make-up Worcester is almost a microcosm of the country as a whole. Data from the 1991 census shows the constituency to be very similar to the national average in terms of its class composition, proportion of ethnic minority voters, average age and housing tenure. Unemployment however is below average. Employment in the service sector such as administration, hotels, distribution and shops takes up about 80% of the total. The seat covers the city and its surrounding area, including the cathedral and Guildhall, and the Worcester racecourse, where proposals to build a giant drainage ditch are proving controversial. Unsurprisingly, the city is also home to the Royal Worcester porcelain factory and its many associated gift shops and museums. Worcester was also the birthplace of composer Sir Edward Elgar, and the city hosts the Three Choirs festival every three years. Labour won this seat for the first time in 1997, it generally having been traditionally Tory.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Worcestershire Mid', '71985', '4.89119540281088', '6.23699381815656', '17.6236993818157', '17.2377828713334', '20.4783007512069', '17.4006326599461', '20.1449696044917', 'Apart from the towns of Droitwich and Evesham this is a rural area with an important fruit growing and market gardening industry around Evesham. Rural concerns are thus uppermost in the minds of Peter Luff - until recently the Chair of the Agriculture Select Committee - and its residents. But picturesque as it is, the seat is not free from transport blight. Local efforts to obtain a bypass for the village of Wyre Piddle are ongoing, to reduce the effect of heavy lorries driving from the nearby landfill site. There is also some commuting from here to the West Midlands conurbation via the M5, which passes through the constituency. The motorway has also attracted some light industry. Car ownership is high (81%) as are the numbers of managerial or technical occupations.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Worcestershire West', '66769', '5.4031736112661', '6.71074900028456', '12.6710749000285', '14.2234076269632', '12.9450656958743', '13.0068125900371', '11.8235879965907', 'The constituency is generally rural, with a single large town - Great Malvern - which is an important tourist centre, spa town and famed for its associations with its most celebrated resident, Edward Elgar. The town is perhaps best known for its exceptionally pure spring water after Dr Wall wrote in 1756 of its medicinal powers. It is now exported all over the world. The population tends to be middle-class and middle-aged with high levels of car ownership and owner-occupation. Unemployment is low. In the west the constituency is overlooked by the Malvern Hills, in the east by Bredon Hill and in the main valley the River Severn meanders through pleasant English countryside. Fruit growing and agriculture are very important to the local economy. At local authority level, Conservative domination is matched only by the complete dearth of Labour support. Across two borough councils - Wychavon and Malvern Hills - Labour does not have a single councillor. In contrast, the Conservatives have 22, the Lib Dems 13, the Greens one and there are nine independents.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Workington', '65965', '4.45052843001291', '6.34002880315319', '12.6340028803153', '14.6099807281529', '11.706298641276', '13.2480252470591', '14.00716420339', 'Although this seat has been won by Labour at every general election since 1918 - even during the disastrous year of 1931 - it has been represented by a Conservative MP more recently than either neighbouring Carlisle and Copeland. In 1976, the elevation to the House of Lords of the former Cabinet Minister Fred Peart allowed the Conservative candidate Richard Page to sneak in at the by-election on the back of the Labour governments mid-term unpopularity. Three years later, he was ousted by Dale Campbell-Savours, who has held the seat ever since Following the closure of the last of the seats coal mines, the council has attracted new industries such as plastics, footwear, electronics and fibres. A single steel works is all that remains of the seats traditional economy. The seat covers much of the Lake District National Parks sumptuous countryside, from Cockermouth to the busy tourist resort of Keswick by Derwentwater. It also boasts two of the parks most scenic lakes, Buttermere and Crummock Water. There are virtually no ethnic minorities in the seat. 99% of the population are white giving Workington the third lowest ethnic minority population in the country.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Worsley', '69300', '4.28979441789441', '5.102886002886', '17.5102886002886', '18.7630557650901', '19.260174492007', '19.6045573493492', '14.8773882393031', 'Worsley is a small town, to the south of Bolton and west of Salford, which gives its name to a constituency neither large nor small, half urban and half rural. Worsley includes some of the most sought-after residential areas in Greater Manchester. Council literature describes pastoral beauty that surrounds Worsley town, and its canal is lined with timbered 19th century buildings, including the Court House and Worsley Old Hall. Four of the council wards found in this cross-borough constituency are part of the city of Salford with three more from Wigan borough completing the set. Overall, sixteen out of the 21 council seats in Worsley are held by Labour, with the Liberal Democrats holding four and the Tories bringing up the rear with just one. Labours Terry Lewis has sat here since 1983.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Worthing East and Shoreham', '71890', '5.67939073093712', '5.990819307275', '17.5990819307275', '15.4965181411176', '17.2389489096902', '18.2105898580203', '15.4471732530097', 'There is some light industry in Adur and Shoreham Harbour is the main port of Sussex and is situated to the east of Shoreham itself. Until the 14th Century New Shoreham was one of the most important towns in the region until the sea destroyed much of the coastline. The town centre is dominated by the Norman church of St. Mary de Haura. The Rope Tackle Site on Shoreham Harbour which has been derelict for decades is currently being redeveloped with a mixture of housing, hotels and restaurants. This is part of a longer term redevelopment of Shoreham Harbour. This seat was created in the 1995 Boundary changes. It comprises the four easternmost wards of Worthing Borough - Broadwater, Gaisford, Offington and Selden, in addition to the whole district of Adur which contains the towns of Shoreham and Southwick. Although currently Tory in parliamentary terms, at a local level the Lib Dems have traditionally held Adur Council, yet their long term leader, Martin King (1986-95) only gained 30% of the vote in the 1997 general election.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Worthing West', '72419', '5.25376657640769', '5.9665281210732', '12.5966528121073', '11.181554876536', '14.5535778517692', '13.3665466935602', '12.8285459569066', 'Worthing West is a residential seaside resort with the highest proportion of pensioners in the UK. It is classic Tory ground with 81.2% of homes owner occupied, very low unemployment and a high proportion of non manual workers. The seat is composed of the majority of voters from the old Worthing seat and 19,000 of Shorehams electorate. The Tories have a majority on Worthing Council, and MP Peter Bottomley came to the safety of Worthing West in 1997 from his previous seat of Eltham which Labour won. Worthing, reflecting the age of the population, is home to Britains oldest croquet club and the English Bowls Association. Oscar Wilde wrote the Importance of Being Earnest in Worthing in 1884 and the first two works of Shelley were printed in a building in Warwick Street between 1810 and 1811.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wrexham', '50465', '4.69715122470714', '5.95422570098088', '17.5954225700981', '16.0045854052725', '17.4753989923908', '16.7745742992775', '16.7185667767873', 'Wrexham has been traditional Labour territory, although not with the massive majorities characteristic of south Wales industrial seats. Labours John Marek has been the MP since 1983 but was also elected as a Member of the Welsh Assembly, and is standing down from Westminster at this election. An industrial and market town close to the English border, Wrexham has fared better than many similar communities in successfully diversifying its economy in the wake of the rundown of the areas traditional employers, steel and coal. As north Waless biggest town, it has developed as an important regional centre for north east Wales. It will not receive money from the Objective One or Two EU Structural Funds programmes nor regional selective assistance. As a result, there have been worries locally that the area could now suffer economically, from being sandwiched between two areas (Merseyside and NW Wales) that will receive much more aid. Wrexham lager is no longer brewed in the town. Since April 2000, Carlsberg Tetley have been producing it in Blackburn instead.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wycombe', '74647', '5.76110641704096', '6.02489048454727', '17.6024890484547', '18.1788514850383', '16.71060797642', '20.2444074914527', '20.1891412747474', 'About half of the electorate of this seat lives outside High Wycombe in the affluent Thames town of Marlow and many small villages where Tory support has tended to run deep. Furthermore, like many similarly sized communities in South East England, High Wycombe itself is usually predominantly Conservative supporting. The town of High Wycombe, however, contains many working-class voters, industrial estates, and a non-white community, mainly Afro-Caribbeans and Asians, that totalled well over one-tenth of the population in 1991. Hughendon Manor, the home of nineteenth century Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is located in this constituency. Disraeli purchased the manor before standing as the Tory candidate for Buckinghamshire county in 1847. Sir Ray Whitney has held this seat since 1978, retaining it in 1997 despite a 14% increase in the share of the Labour vote.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wyre Forest', '72152', '4.19367331132037', '6.79981150903648', '12.6799811509036', '14.2509887212956', '10.7621080569911', '14.1003436885044', '14.5957886616044', 'This seat is a curious mix of rural and urban elements. Kidderminster is an old town with a new town feel, and an economy based on carpet manufacture, whereas Stourport is an altogether more picturesque place reliant upon tourism for its income as much as anything else. Outside the towns, agriculture provides a livelihood for many inhabitants, but commuters to various West Midlands towns form the majority of residents. With the Severn and two canals running through the constituency, sailing, boating and fishing are popular pastimes. Labour holds 11 council seats here, yet the largest group is made up of the 18 Independent Kidderminster Save Our Hospital councillors. The downgrading of the local hospital in Kidderminster and the closure of its accident and emergency department is a major issue in this seat. An independent candidate Richard Taylor is contesting this seat under the save our hospital banner. The LibDems announced on 16 May that they were not contesting this seat, and would instead back Dr Taylor.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Wythenshawe and Sale East', '72127', '4.00028526601055', '4.86017718746101', '8.4860177187461', '7.52220797468668', '9.62135842444005', '7.11694771920119', '8.18289341438465', 'Contested for the first time in 1997, this newly-created seat was formed from the old safe Labour seat of Manchester Wythenshawe and three wards from two Tory seats. Labours Paul Goggins, contesting the seat for the first time following the retirement of Alf Morris who had held Manchester Wythenshawe since 1964, cruised to Westminster on a 15,019 majority. This seat on the south side of Greater Manchester is home to many post-war housing estates and 45.6% of all households are rented from the council. There is some light industry found here and women employees form an above average proportion of the workforce. A large area in the south of the seat is covered by Manchesters Ringway airport, which employs 14,000 people and has created many more jobs both directly and indirectly. The western and southern parts of the constituency are predominantly working class but with a significant student population. The eastern section of the seat includes Sale, a comfortable middle class part of Cheshire from which many commute into Manchester.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Yeovil', '75977', '5.58173356602676', '6.33507508851363', '12.6335075088514', '13.8138672703493', '11.7286551571926', '12.4773229924564', '14.1097899998957', 'Like many constituencies, this one covers much more territory than the town after which it is named. Aside from Yeovil, it takes in Chard, Crewkerne and Ilminster as well as many picturesque villages. Yeovil itself is not only a thriving market town, but also a growing industrial and commercial town with light industry and hi-tech engineering for aerospace production. Westland Helicopters is the largest employer here, with a workforce of about 5,000. Cabinet disagreements over the future of Westland caused the resignations of Michael Heseltine and Leon Brittan in 1986. Yeovil was represented by the Tories from 1918 to 1983, but was then won by Sir Paddy Ashdown, who consolidated his lead at the ensuing elections, being the Lib Dem leader at the contests in 1992 and 1997. Recently it has been regarded as a safe Lib Dem seat with a majority of over 11,000, although the partys vote share actually dropped in 1997. Sir Paddy is standing down at this election; his successor as Lib Dem candidate is the partys former director of policy and research, David Laws.');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Ynys Môn', '53117', '6.50008818860603', '6.40435265545871', '12.6404352655459', '10.5573288112905', '13.3676616391397', '11.8416725724068', '11.7819562517255', 'This seat has had a chequered political history at Westminster. It was held through three decades by Cledwyn Hughes for Labour until the Conservatives unexpectedly captured it when the Tories came to power in 1979. The Tories retained it in 1983, although Plaid Cymru had by that time emerged as the main challenger. Aided by the Tory MP Keith Bests disgrace over a share deception, Plaids Ieuan Wyn Jones snatched the seat in 1987, retaining it with narrow majorities over the Conservatives in 1992 and Labour in 1997. Anglesey is a predominantly rural island, although it has some heavier industry around Holyhead, where the ferry terminal is an important employer. Agriculture and tourism are major industries, and there is also a substantial retirement population. The island is predominantly Welsh-speaking, with 62% of the population registering as Welsh speakers. Anglesey Aluminium is the islands largest employer (550 people). The DTIs decision to lift the moratorium on gas-fired power stations means that a new one could be built on the island, safeguarding the aluminium jobs and creating around a hundred more. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('York', '80431', '4.77448937057107', '5.96536161430294', '17.5965361614303', '17.6451758500812', '16.4621712205591', '15.1533628749645', '16.1846788031723', 'Prior to 1992, the City of York constituency was a Tory marginal that had returned Labour MPs only twice in its history, despite its Rowntree Quaker connections. Perhaps this marginality could be explained by Yorks diversity. Its balance of tourist-friendly Viking and Roman history, combined with a solid industrial base beneath makes for a constituency of varied demands and character. After winning this seat at the second time of asking in 1992, Hugh Bayleys 1997 victory saw his majority leap from 6,000 to over 20,000. York is famed for its Minster and the medieval walls that surround the city. Vast throngs of visitors are attracted to the shops in the Shambles and Cliffords Tower, as well as the Jorvik Viking Centre which has proven hugely popular with tourists from all over the world. York is also a notable railway centre, and manufacturing stronghold for engineering, leather and chemicals. The city is also famous for the Rowntrees chocolate factory, one of the citys largest employers and home of the Kit Kat chocolate bar, which is now a member of the Nestle group. ');
INSERT INTO `locations` (`Constituency`, `Population`, `Political Change`, `Voter Turnout Rating`, `Economic`, `Freedoms`, `Foreign`, `Taxation`, `Tolerance`, `Profile`) VALUES ('Yorkshire East', '72342', '5.41464653460775', '5.98739321555943', '10.5987393215559', '9.20737216459945', '12.1001045689054', '9.28119536365555', '12.0468747456588', 'Yorkshire East, like the two old constituencies from which it was born, has traditionally been a safe Conservative seat, although the towering majorities of yesteryear in this part of the world may now be a thing of the past. The old seat of Bridlington provided about two-thirds of this seats electorate with the remaining voters coming from the northern section of the Boothferry constituency. Bridlington is a port, seaside resort and shopping area for the surrounding rural area. To the north are the cliffs of Flamborough Head - a notable tourist attraction. Inland is the rolling countryside of the Wolds with numerous villages and the small town of Driffield, Market Weighton and Pocklington. This is a large agricultural area which reaches to the boundaries of Yorks new unitary authority. More than half the population is over 40 and pensioners form a high proportion of the population - 23%. There are a high number of owner-occupiers and private renters. There are very few members of ethnic minorities here - 99.6% of residents are white. ');