Cambridgeshire South
Conservative hold

Cambridgeshire is a growing county, and outside the large urban areas of Peterborough and Cambridge a very Conservative one. This applies to all the rural seats, including this, where Sawston is the largest single community boasting a population of just 7,000, but where there are hundreds of villages on the flat lands among the large and generally prosperous farms. It will remain safely Tory, and a useful base for a fast rising former Central Office star, Andrew Lansley.

Andrew Lansley, Shadow Cabinet member responsible for policy review, is a former party apparatchik who as Conservative Research Director co-authored the 'Double Whammy' slogan of 1992 and the equally successful - if-on-a-low-turnout - Euro-election campaign of 1999. He was previously a civil servant for eight years, where he served as Norman Tebbit's principal private secretary. Born 1956 and educated at Brentwood School and Exeter University, he initially backed Michael Howard in the 1997 ballot, but with the look of a career politician about him and with fashionably classless speech, he is taken to be a potential future leader.

Cambridge Liberal Democrats

Cambridgeshire County Council

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   Thriving Wealthy Achievers, Suburban Areas 45.05% 14.99% 300.49 Affluent Greys, Rural Communities 0.03% 2.13% 1.49 Prosperous Pensioners, Retirement Areas 1.62% 2.49% 65.04 Expanding Affluent Executives, Family Areas 8.31% 4.43% 187.76 Well-Off Workers, Family Areas 12.45% 7.27% 171.21 Rising Affluent Urbanites, Town & City Areas 5.89% 2.56% 229.53 Prosperous Professionals, Metropolitan Areas 0.90% 2.04% 44.20 Better-Off Executives, Inner City Areas 2.37% 3.94% 60.14 Settling Comfortable Middle Agers, Mature Home Owning Areas 12.92% 13.04% 99.07 Skilled Workers, Home Owning Areas 1.26% 12.70% 9.94 Aspiring New Home Owners, Mature Communities 7.40% 8.14% 90.84 White Collar Workers, Better-Off Multi Ethnic Areas 0.38% 4.02% 9.34 Striving Older People, Less Prosperous Areas 1.23% 3.19% 38.69 Council Estate Residents, Better-Off Homes 0.07% 11.31% 0.59 Council Estate Residents, High Unemployment 0.00% 3.06% 0.00 Council Estate Residents, Greatest Hardship 0.00% 2.52% 0.00 People in Multi-Ethnic, Low-Income Areas 0.00% 2.10% 0.00 Unclassified Unclassified 0.12% 0.06% 198.80

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   £0-5K 5.93% 9.41% 63.03 £5-10K 12.13% 16.63% 72.94 £10-15K 13.97% 16.58% 84.28 £15-20K 12.90% 13.58% 94.99 £20-25K 10.86% 10.39% 104.50 £25-30K 8.77% 7.77% 112.76 £30-35K 6.94% 5.79% 119.88 £35-40K 5.46% 4.33% 126.00 £40-45K 4.29% 3.27% 131.26 £45-50K 3.37% 2.48% 135.81 £50-55K 2.66% 1.90% 139.75 £55-60K 2.11% 1.47% 143.19 £60-65K 1.68% 1.15% 146.21 £65-70K 1.35% 0.91% 148.86 £70-75K 1.09% 0.72% 151.21 £75-80K 0.88% 0.57% 153.29 £80-85K 0.72% 0.46% 155.16 £85-90K 0.59% 0.37% 156.83 £90-95K 0.48% 0.31% 158.34 £95-100K 0.40% 0.25% 159.70 £100K + 2.23% 1.34% 165.60