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Results
In Ryedale it was business as usual with John Greenway re-elected
as Conservative MP, doubling his majority. The surprise of the night
was the performance of Labour's Paul Blanchard who managed the party's
best ever result in Ryedale. Not such good news for the Lib dems
who saw their support slump by more than 5,000 votes compared to
2001.
Hear
the BBC Radio York interview with John Greenway
John Greenway - Conservative 21,251 (48.17%, +0.99%)
Gordon Beever - Lib dem 10,782 (24.44%, -11.64%)
Paul Blanchard - Labour 9,148 (20.73%, +6.00%)
Stephen Feaster - UKIP 1,522 (3.45%, +1.44%)
John Clarke - Liberal 1,417 (3.21%)
The Conservative majority in Ryedale is now 10,469
(23.73%) which is a swing of 6.31% from Lib dem to Conservative.
Turnout was 44,120. That's 65.10% of the 67,770 strong electorate
which is 0.87% down on 2001.
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Paul Blanchard - Labour
Paul Blanchard is 29 and comes from York, where
he has lived all his life. He lives in Heworth, the area he represents
on City of York Council. In addition to his
duties as a local councillor, he runs a small marketing business.
Paul started out when he was 17 with small adverts in the Yorkshire
Evening Press and Gazette & Herald offering computer advice.
He is passionate about promoting entrepreneurship
in young people, acting as Chair, York Area Board, of ‘Young
Enterprise’ – and works with many local schools as a volunteer
business advisor.
When Paul is not working, he enjoys spending time
at home with his wife Heather and their dog Sweep. He is also training
(part-time) to become a barrister. He enjoys travel, reading, cinema,
and music.
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Gordon Beever - Lib Dem
Gordon Beever has served for 23 years on Kirklees
Metropolitan Council. He has served as cabinet member for finance
& legal services and is now Chair of Finance for the West Yorkshire
Fire & Civil Defence Authority. He also serves on the Local
Government Association Strategy & Finance Committee and Scrutiny
Panel.
Gordon is an experienced businessman, having been
a partner in a medium-sized firm of Chartered Accountants since
1973. He has a wide experience of company affairs, regularly advising
on business finance, acquisitions and dispersals, regulatory matters
and taxation affairs. He is widely travelled, particularly in Central
Europe where is daughter is in business.
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Stephen Feaster - UKIP
Born at Cropton in 1947, the son of a farmer, I
ran my own TV Rental Business for 30 years in the Ryedale area and
now help my wife Ruth with our B&B and Holiday Cottage businesses.
Playing sport, especially cricket, has always been a big part of
my life.
I passionately believe that it is wrong for Conservative
& Labour governments supported by the Liberal Democrats to have
signed away our rights and freedoms that millions fought and died
for. Control over our everyday lives, form filling, means testing
is increasing at an alarming rate and I vow to do everything I can
to stop it.
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John Clark - Liberal
John Grew up on the family farm in Cropton. A small
farm couldn't support an income for two so he left and went south.
He spent four years on Berkshire County Council, part of that time
as chair of youth and community service, before returning to the
family farm in 1990.
John was elected to Ryedale district council in
2003 and Led the campaign that resulted in Ryedale being a GM free
council.
He is also Northern representative of the small
farms association.
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John Greenway - Conservative
John was born in 1946. He was educated at Sir John
Deane`s Grammar School, Northwich and the London College of Law.
He was elected as Member of Parliament for Ryedale in June 1987.
He was the Vice-Chairman of the North Yorkshire Police Authority,
and also served on the Education, Schools and Public Protection
Committees. He was also the Governor of five schools in the York
area.
He served as a London policeman for five years
from 1965 to 1970. On leaving the police he entered the insurance
industry and in 1972 started his own firm of insurance brokers.
John is President of the Institute of Insurance Brokers and an honorary
fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute. Mr Greenway is also
the Chairman of the Register of Exercise Professionals, and a Trustee
of the National Playing Fields Association.
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2001 results
- Sitting MP: John Greenway MP (CON)
- Electorate: 66543
- Turnout: 66%
- Majority: 4875 (11.1%)
- Conservative: 47.2% (change + 3.4%)
- Liberal Democrats: 36.1% (change + 2.7%)
- Labour: 14.7% (change -3.3%)
- UKIP: 2.0% (change + 0.1%)
1997 Results
- Electorate: 65215
- Majority: 5058 (10.4%)
- Turnout: 74.8%
- Conservative: 43.8%
- Liberal Democrat: 33.4%
- Labour: 18%
- REF: 3%
- UKIP: 1.9%
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About the Ryedale constituency
Like neighbouring Richmond
and the Vale of York, Ryedale is a huge
and picturesque North Yorkshire constituency which is naturally Conservative.
It stretches from the boundaries of York,
across the North York Moors, past Malton and Pickering, for almost 40
miles to the east, North Sea coast at Filey.
In 1986, its natural order was momentarily overturned
when, following the death of sitting Tory MP, John Spence, the Liberals'
Elizabeth Shields overturned a 16,000 majority to win by 5,000 votes.
This was, however, her 15 minutes of fame as the Conservatives
regained Ryedale in the 1987 General Election by more than 10,000 votes.
The victor John Greenway has been there ever since, though his majority
has reduced to 4,875 by 2001.
This constituency is more than 99% white, with almost
50% of the population aged 45 or over. Unemployment is low and 20% of
the workforce are either part-time or self-employed, with 15% working
mainly at home. Three-quarters are owner-occupiers and there is almost
no (1.9%) council rented sector.
Industry is mainly based on agriculture and tourism.
Rievaulx Abbey and Castle Howard are in the constituency as is a thoroughbred
racehorse training centre at Malton. Also here is the famous Catholic
public school, Ampleforth. A sizeable number of commuters travel to nearby
York.
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