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[Hatman 🍁]

I'm picking Cheadle

2001 results:
Patsy Calton    Liberal Democrats    18,477    42.4%
Stephen Day    Conservative Party    18,444    42.3%
Howard Dawber    Labour Party    6,086    14.0%
Vincent Cavanagh    UKIP    599    1.4%

2005 candidates:
 Patsy Calton     Liberal Democrat               
Vincent Cavanagh    UK Independence Party          
Richard Chadfield    British National Party          
Stephen Day    Conservative          
Martin Miller    Labour

[Hatman 🍁]

I've already picked a constituency, however I would like to know which one best matches my riding of Ottawa South. Demographics are here: http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/fedprofile/RetrieveTable.cfm?R=FED03&G=35064

[Hatman 🍁]

Al, you forgot my request!

[Hatman 🍁]

Bullmoose: Bury South would seem to fit best (actually none of Bury proper is in the seat, it should actually be called Prestwich & Radcliffe...) although the cheaper homes were built for cotton mill workers rather than steelworkers (this being Lancashire after all) and the area isn't doing as well economically as Bucks county.
The seat has a high Jewish population (by U.K standards) and is a pretty safe Labour seat nowadays.

Earl: need to know one thing; is part of the seat a mostly gentrified inner city area, or is it all suburban?

It's mostly suburban. Few places in Canada can be considered "inner city" at least not by American terms.

[Hatman 🍁]

It's mostly suburban. Few places in Canada can be considered "inner city" at least not by American terms.

By inner city I don't mean ghetto; I mean more a very urban area, part of the orginal urban core basically.

Then, it's not the urban core. It's not quite suburbia either. It's inbetween Much of the area was first built after WW2, which probably doesnt compare well to the uK .  I would classify it as inner suburbs, with some outersuburbs in the south.  There are some rural regions in the far south of the district too.

[Hatman 🍁]

Birmingham Hall Green would seem to fit best (although, weirdly, nowhere really fits all that well).
It's mostly inter-war suburbia, is mostly middle class and has the lowest minority population of the Brum seats (not including Sutton Coldfield o/c) but still much higher than the national average (17% of the seats population is from a minority group).
It used to be a safe Tory seat (60% in 1970) but fell to Labour for the first time since '45 in 1997; and by a large margin.
The majority (over 20% in 2001) will probably fall, but Labour would be very unlikely to lose the seat.

Thanks. I should let you know that my riding has the highest Arab population in Ontario- possibly in Canada.