Daily Echo | General Election 2010 | Gosport
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Live election coverage for Hampshire
7:10am Friday 7th May 2010 THE Daily Echo is providing the most comprehensive coverage possible for the General Election in Hampshire. Voters try to move on from duck house debacle
4:08pm Friday 23rd April 2010 IT was the Hampshire constituency at the centre of one of the most infamous parliamentary expenses scandals. Candidate moves into constituency
1:38pm Monday 12th April 2010 Gosport Tory candidate Caroline Dinenage has secured a constituency home - in married military quarters. PM calls general election
10:40am Tuesday 6th April 2010 THE date has been set for the UK to go to the polls after the Prime Minister called a general election. |
GosportThis South Coast Hampshire constituency is regarded as safe Tory territory, although it includes some stark social divisions, notably the large council estate of Rowner, reputedly one of the most deprived areas in the United Kingdom. But the presence of the Royal Naval base is helpful to the Tories. Sir Peter Viggers, a qualified jet pilot, lawyer and banker, is retiring at this election after the disclosure that he claimed for a duck house during the expenses row. Sir Peter, who was a Tory MP for 25 years, acquired a reputation of correctly predicting the dates of future general elections. He secured a majority of 5,700 for the Tories at the last election.
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