Constituency 27, Warwick North Central, is a populous residential district — and, comparatively young, in relation to the rest of the Island.Containing 1,028 Bermudians according to the 2010 Census, the area running from Burnt House Hill to Longford Road, and sandwiched between Harbour Road and Middle Road, weighs in a notable 12th in population out of the 36 voter districts.Ranking eighth in the category of 16- to 30-year-olds, Constituency 27 also contains a healthy potential youth vote.Voter turnout there was higher than Island trends in the last two elections — significantly so in 2007, when nearly 80 percent of voters went to the ballot boxes, against 75.65 percent across Bermuda.This time around, following boundary changes, the area has lost the islands of Hamilton Harbour, and gained a slice of farmland and affluent residential areas adjoining Burnt House Hill. Giving away the voters of Hinson Island, where residents likely remain angered by post-Budget cutbacks in the ferry service, may play in the governing Progressive Labour Party’s favour.The 187 voters picked up from neighbouring Constituency 28 could cancel that out, however: residents described the pastoral stretch of Burnt House Hill as favourable turf for the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance in this election, versus the densely populated housing estates of Hillview and Cedar Hill, which are regarded as traditionally PLP-inclined.Residents have not been named for this article.“I told the OBA not to bother coming around because right now I’m OBA,” a “70-something” retired shopkeeper and hobby farmer of Watch Hill said. “The PLP haven’t bothered coming around here anyway.”Ensconced in an area of large properties and extensive farmland, she said crime was of little concern in her district, but a serious concern Island-wide.“Crime seems to have moved off to Somerset and Pembroke,” she said. “I don’t think gangs are an issue around here. It looks a lot better. I haven’t seen too many people sitting around.”Calling herself “a true-blue conservative all my life”, the resident said she didn’t trust the Government’s financial record and wanted to see change.A nearby Tamarind Vale retiree called himself a long-standing supporter of the PLP who won’t be voting next month.“I’m just fed up with the system,” he said. “I’m not voting. No matter who gets in, what we need is good, honest people.”He said he had been turned off voting PLP by candidate David Burch.“Wayne Scott [for the OBA] has been around here a couple of times,” he added. “But I will not be voting.”Reflecting the east-west dichotomy of the constituency, he said: “Cedar Hill is a completely different area. It’s more PLP. This side, the houses are more expensive, and there are more expats.”As for serious issues, he said: “The most I hear people talking about is debt, and the money that’s unaccounted for.”Moving east to Ten Pin Crescent took The Royal Gazette across a demographic divide, into much more densely packed housing.A 37-year-old seasonal hospitality worker there declared himself undecided.He said: “I honestly don’t know. It seems like the lesser of two evils.“My people were always PLP so that’s how I traditionally voted. As we fast forward to this — and this is just my personal vibe — we have gotten away from the foundations of the PLP. I think Freddy Wade and all those are rolling in their graves.”He described the area itself as traditionally PLP.“In 1998, it was huge. My father flew me in to vote. The PLP got in on the youth vote. Come to today, you have students complaining because they’re overseas and can’t vote.”He added that OBA candidate Mr Scott had earned some points when he “came around here with a truck cleaning up trash”.But he said he still wasn’t sure, and blamed the failure of the education system for high unemployment and high disillusionment.In the heavily populated Hillview neighbourhood, meanwhile, a 48-year-old kitchen porter said “housing and jobs” were his top concern.“Yeah, I’m registered to vote,” he said. “But I’m not going to. They only come out around election time.”He called it a PLP-leaning neighbourhood of settled families, “a nice place to raise children”, but said he was too busy looking after his own difficulties to vote Government.“The OBA say they have big plans, but they don’t tell nobody,” he shrugged. “Who knows what they’re going to do?”At the constituency’s eastern edge, a 64-year-old Longford Hill resident who works with specially challenged adults said she would “stick with the same party I’ve been rooting for all these years” — the PLP — adding: “From what I hear, the OBA has a hidden agenda.”Crime in the area was low, she said. Her top concern: “FutureCare. I am approaching that age.”She added that Government’s record had satisfied her in that regard — and she was leery of Opposition promises.“It’s kind of frightening for me, if the OBA gets in, because I have gotten used to the PLP. With the OBA, one month I hear one thing and another month I hear something else.”And lifelong Cedar Hill resident and Warwick Parish Council head Chaplain Kevin Santucci said the most pressing need for the area was for “people to recognise that they need to own their constituency by being involved personally”.“We have become a nation that wants to be served, rather than serving. Many people in Constituency 27 and Bermuda tend to leave their concerns to people of trust. They should ask what they can do for their country.”Local concerns, he said, were “mostly parochial — lighting, roadwork”.“We don’t have any big problems as such. What we need is to unite with one another, and that can be said across the Island.”Area landmarks are the Salvation Army Centre in Cedar Hill, St Mary’s Church by Middle Road and the nearby Warwick Lanes bowling centre, where residents often congregate. A field by the Lorraine Rest Home offers a playground and a quiet spot to relax.Lastly there is Purvis Primary School. On December 17, it will be the polling station for the district’s voters to cast their ballots.