Daily Echo | General Election 2010 | Southampton Test Constituency
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Southampton Test
MP joins Ed Miliband camp
10:35am Tuesday 18th May 2010 SOUTHAMPTON Test MP Alan Whitehead is backing former Energy Secretary Ed Miliband for the leadership of the Labour Party. Whitehead win sees off Tories
5:23am Friday 7th May 2010 ALAN Whitehead has kept his seat as MP in Southampton Test. 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. Youth vote key part of general election
2:05pm Monday 3rd May 2010 TENS of thousands of youngsters across Hampshire will head to the polls for the first time on Thursday and they could prove to be the decisive factor in our election races. Patrick beams in for Labour
10:36am Saturday 1st May 2010 THE ACTOR Patrick Stewart, best known as Star Trek’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard, beamed into Southampton yesterday to boost the campaigns of John Denham and Alan Whitehead. How would you deal with binge drinking?
12:47pm Friday 30th April 2010 BINGE drinking in Southampton will become an election issue tonight as candidates are quizzed by residents at a public meeting. Brown washes hands of calls for fluoride vote
9:48am Tuesday 27th April 2010 Labour sought to give its campaign for re-election in Southampton a boost with a visit from PM Gordon Brown. Cameron berated by students on city visit
12:37pm Monday 26th April 2010 CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron hit the election trail in Hampshire today. Denham slams Tories for ‘hedging their bets’3:27pm Saturday 24th April 2010 TORY parliamentary candidates in Southampton have been accused of wanting to be “part-time” MPs amid a row over Labour scaremongering. Lib Dems attack care budget cuts
1:54pm Thursday 22nd April 2010 LIBERAL Democrats have attacked cuts to local care budgets warning it heralds what a Tory Government would do. Testing times for government hopefuls9:44am Thursday 22nd April 2010 As the election countdown continues, the Echo sheds some light on politics in the region’s constituencies. Today we look at Southampton Test. Tories hit out a shared housing plans row
2:37pm Tuesday 20th April 2010 TORY shadow housing minister Grant Shapps has hit back in a row over new powers to control shared houses in Southampton. Party candidates join Question Time-style debate
LEADING candidates from the three main parties took part in a Question Time-style event in Winchester last night. Prescott heckled over MPs expenses
10:25am Saturday 17th April 2010 FORMER Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott clashed with an angry voter as his battle bus tour arrived in Southampton. Ditch MPs who back fluoride
11:02am Thursday 15th April 2010 FRIENDS of the Earth has called on voters to reject candidates who support water fluoridation in Hampshire. |
Southampton TestThe seat covers the western part of Southampton. It includes the leafy northern suburbs and the western port areas as well as the council housing estates of the western fringes, plus the Ford Transit factory. It is seen as the marginally more affluent of the two constituencies in the city and has had more Tory tradition than Southampton Itchen. It is, however, in Labour hands at the moment. The party registered a majority of just over 7,000 over the Conservatives in 2005, so it is not regarded by the Tories as an impossible seat to win. The sitting MP Alan Whitehead is a renewable energy advocate and a former university lecturer.
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