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HESFORD, Stephen |
Wirral West |
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 Member for Wirral West since 1997. Committees: Vice- Chair, Parliamentary Labour Party Home Affairs Committee since 2001; Member, Health Select Committee 1999-2001; Member, Northern Ireland Affairs 1997-99; Founder and Secretary, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Primary Care and Public Health since 1998. Political career: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Baroness Amos, Leader of the House of Lords since 2005; Parliamentary Candidate for Suffolk South 1992. Special political interests: Health, home affairs. Profession/Trade: Non-practising barrister. Title/Honours/Decorations: Fellow, the Royal Institute of Public Health 1999; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 2006. Education: University of Bradford, BSc Social Sciences; University of Westminster, Postgraduate Diploma Law. Affiliations: Member, GMB Trade Union. Hobbies: Biographies, Manchester United, watching sons play football. b. 27 May 1957, Lowton St Marys. Married with two children.
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Votes |
% |
+/- % |
Votes |
% |
| Labour |
17,543 |
42.6 |
-4.7 |
19,105 |
47.2 |
| Conservative |
16,446 |
39.9 |
2.7 |
15,070 |
37.2 |
| Lib Dem |
6,652 |
16.1 |
0.6 |
6,300 |
15.6 |
| UKIP |
429 |
1.0 |
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| Alternative |
163 |
0.4 |
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| Majority |
1,097 |
1,093 |
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4,035 |
10 |
| Turnout |
41,233 |
67.5 |
2.5 |
40,475 |
65 |
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