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The Conservative Party controls Thanet and Dover District Councils and Kent County Council. Labour controlled Thanet and Dover District Councils from 1995 to 2003. There will be ‘all out’ elections in Thanet and Dover in May 2011. The neighbouring constituencies to South Thanet are North Thanet , Canterbury and Dover.
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Steve Ladyman first won the seat from Jonathan Aitken, a Conservative Cabinet Minister, in 1997. At the 1992 elected Mr. Aitken had a healthy majority. The change in voting intentions was partly due to significantly changing demographics and growing unemployment under Conservative control and partly due to national changes in voting attitudes. The local swing is often, wrongly, attributed to scandals surrounding Jonathan Aitken but the court cases involving him occurred after the 1997 election and the Conservatives did no better in 2001 with a different candidate. The 2002 election result is shown below: |
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At the 2010 general election Labour lost the South Thanet seat. The result was as follows: |
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The 1997 and 1992 results for South Thanet are shown below: |
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The 2005 result, won by Labour, was: |
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1997 |
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1992 |
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Electorate |
62,792 |
71.6% |
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Conservative |
17,899 |
39.8% |
-11.95% |
25,222 |
51.7% |
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Green |
418 |
0.9% |
-0.9% |
870 |
1.8% |
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Labour |
20,777 |
46.2% |
18.03% |
13,723 |
28.1% |
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Lib Dem |
5263 |
11.7% |
-6.63% |
8,936 |
18.3% |
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UKIP |
631 |
1.4% |
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Turnout |
44,988 |
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48,751 |
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Majority |
2,878 |
6.4% |
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Steve Ladyman |
Labour |
18002 |
45.5% |
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Mark Macgregor |
Conservative |
16210 |
41.0% |
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Guy Voizey |
Lib Dem |
3706 |
9.4% |
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William Baldwin |
Ind |
770 |
1.9% |
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Terry Eccott |
UKIP |
502 |
1.3% |
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Bernard Franklin |
National Front |
242 |
0.6% |
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Turnout |
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39553 voted out of 61680 |
64.13% |
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Steve Ladyman |
Labour |
16660 |
40.39% |
-5.3% |
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Mark Macgregor |
Conservative |
15996 |
38.79% |
-2.3% |
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Guy Voizey |
Lib Dem |
5431 |
13.17% |
+3.8% |
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Maud Kinsella |
Ind |
188 |
0.5% |
+0.5% |
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Nigel Farage |
UKIP |
2079 |
5.04% |
+3.7% |
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Howard Green |
Green |
888 |
2.2% |
+2.2 |
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Turnout |
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41242 voted out of 63449 |
65.0% |
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Laura Sandys, Conservative |
22,043 |
48.0% |
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Stephen Ladyman, Labour |
14,426 |
31.4% |
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Peter Bucklitsch, Liberal Democrat |
6,935 |
15.1% |
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Trevor Shonk, UK Independence Party |
2,529 |
5.5% |
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