Yorkshire & Humberside Election '97
A selection of useful, useless or downright stupid election statistics
Note: all records are for Yorkshire & Humberside only
Greatest number of candidates
Sheffield Central 8 candidates
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Bradford West 8 candidates
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Lowest number of candidates
Great Grimsby 3 candidates
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Safest seat
Barnsley East & Mexborough Labour majority of 26,763
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Safest Conservative seat
Skipton & Ripon Conservative majority of 11,620
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Most marginal seat
Beverley & Holderness Conservative majority of 811
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Most marginal Labour seat
Shipley Labour majority of 2,996
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Smallest margin over Liberal Democrats
Ryedale Conservative vote: 21,351
Lib Dem vote: 16,293
Majority: 5,058
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Smallest Labour margin over Liberal Democrats
Hull West & Hessle Labour vote: 22,520
Lib Dem vote: 6,995
Majority: 15,525
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Greatest swing (or most exciting result)
Beverley & Holderness Notional swing from Conservative to Labour: 16.44% (Conservative hold)
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Smallest swing (or least exciting result)
Sheffield Brightside Swing from Lib Dem to Labour: 0.49% (Labour hold...surprise surprise)
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Swings away from Labour
Bradford South Swing to Conservatives: 7.42%
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Bradford West Swing to Conservatives: 5.45%
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Strangest Party
Leeds North West Daniel Duffy stood for the Ronnie the Rhino party and polled 232 votes, 0.47% of the total.
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Largest Labour vote
City of York 34,956 votes (59.91% of total).
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Largest Conservative vote
Skipton & Ripon 25,294 votes (46.5% of total).
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Largest Liberal Democrat vote
Harrogate & Knaresborough 24,558 votes (51.54% of total).
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Largest vote for Referendum Party
Skipton & Ripon 3,212 votes (5.9% of total).
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Largest vote for any other party
Dewsbury 2,232 votes (5.18% of total) for the British National Party.
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Lowest Labour vote
Harrogate & Knaresborough 4,159 votes (8.73% of total).
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Lowest Conservative vote
Sheffield Brightside 2,850 votes (8.42% of total).
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Lowest Liberal Democrat vote
Pontefract & Castleford 3,042 votes (7.35% of total).
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Lowest Referendum Party vote (where candidate fielded)
Sheffield Brightside 624 votes (1.84% of total).
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Lowest vote for any party
Sheffield Brightside 61 votes (0.18% of total) for the Natural Law Party.
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Strangest candidate name
Bradford North Wild Willy Beckett recieved 369 votes standing for the Monster Raving Loony Party.
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