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Constituency DescriptionUxbridge is a reasonably well-off town and constituency. The seat has one of the highest levels of full-time employment in the country and unemployment is low for London at just 3.7%. Nearly three-quarters of householders are owner-occupiers, with a trend for those in council houses to buy their properties. The seat is largely middle class; over 90% of the population is white, and over 80% economically active (of whom just under 70% work full time - the 8th highest level in the country). The seat contains Brunel University, Harefield heart transplant hospital, a Jacobean mansion at Ickenham and a ski centre. The Battle of Britain was largely directed from an underground control centre at RAF Uxbridge.If Labour wins the by-election, it will be the first time a governing party has gained a by-election since the Conservatives in Merton, Mitcham and Morden on June 3 1982. If the Conservatives hold the seat, it will be the first time the party has held a seat in a by-election since William Hague won Richmond in 1989.
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