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Quite possibly you're correct there - I didn't consult my Almanac of British Politics. However, the seat used to be Newark and Sherwood, and the mining districts in Sherwood were solidly Labour. The boundary changes of 1983 removed those areas. The altered seat was Conservative from 1983 to...

Farage said he wasn't standing because he had no connection with the area. What was odd was that he also didn't stand at Eastleigh, which being in the South East, is very much his region. UKIP's candidate then, Diane James, was relatively unknown despite being (I think) a local, yet still got...