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Data Last Updated: 16 February 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		51,887/69,600	74.55
Petre Bowen Wells	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,039	55.97
Ronald Edward Wotherspoon	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	16,110	31.05
John Adam Carr	Labour Party	6,203	11.95
Godfrey John Wiles	British National Party	314	0.61
Peter Burke Cullen	Independent	221	0.43
Majority		12,929	24.92

11 June 1987		58,694/76,470	76.75
Petre Bowen Wells	Conservative & Unionist Party	33,763	57.52
Ronald Edward Wotherspoon	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	16,623	28.32
Patricia Rose Ellen Sumner	Labour and Co-operative Party	7,494	12.77
Graham Charles Cole	Green Party	814	1.39
Majority		17,140	29.20

9 April 1992		62,127/76,654	81.05
Petre Bowen Wells	Conservative & Unionist Party	35,716	57.49
Christopher James White	Liberal Democrats	15,506	24.96
Alasdair James Bovaird	Labour Party	10,125	16.30
James Anthony Goth	Green Party	780	1.26
Majority		20,210	32.53

Major Boundary Change
1 May 1997		54,561/71,759	76.03
Petre Bowen Wells	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,027	44.04
Simon Kirby Spellar	Labour Party	17,142	31.42
Michael Wood	Liberal Democrats	9,679	17.74
Hugo Douglas Page Croft	Referendum Party	2,105	3.86
Bryan Garnet Smalley	UK Independence Party	1,223	2.24
Michael John Franey	Pro-Life Alliance	259	0.47
Derek Edmund Molloy	Independent	126	0.23
Majority		6,885	12.62

7 June 2001		47,176/75,141	62.78
Michael Mark Prisk	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,074	44.67
Simon Kirby Spellar	Labour Party	15,471	32.79
Dr Madeline Hermione Goldspink	Liberal Democrats	9,388	19.90
Stuart Frederick Rising	UK Independence Party	1,243	2.63
Majority		5,603	11.88

5 May 2005		49,692/73,394	67.71
Michael Mark Prisk	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,074	50.46
Richard Joseph Henry	Labour Party	11,977	24.10
James Oliver Lucas	Liberal Democrats	9,129	18.37
Peter John Hart	Green Party	1,914	3.85
David Sodey	UK Independence Party	1,026	2.06
Deborah Gaye le May	Veritas	572	1.15
Majority		13,097	26.36

Minor Boundary Change
6 May 2010		55,377/78,654	70.41
Michael Mark Prisk	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,810	53.83
Andrew Alan Lewin	Liberal Democrats	14,373	25.95
Stephen Terry	Labour Party	7,620	13.76
David Sodey	UK Independence Party	1,716	3.10
Roy Henry Harris	British National Party	1,297	2.34
Loucas Xenophontos	Independent	325	0.59
Martin Paul Adams	Independent	236	0.43
Majority		15,437	27.88

7 May 2015		56,277/78,906	71.32
Michael Mark Prisk	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,593	56.14
Katherine Chibah	Labour Party	10,084	17.92
Adrian Howard Baker	UK Independence Party	7,534	13.39
Michael Andrew Green	Liberal Democrats	4,385	7.79
Sophie Elizabeth Christophy	Green Party	2,681	4.76
Majority		21,509	38.22

8 June 2017		59,992/82,339	72.86
Michael Mark Prisk	Conservative & Unionist Party	36,184	60.31
Katherine Chibah	Labour Party	17,149	28.59
Mark Timothy Argent	Liberal Democrats	4,845	8.08
David Woollcombe	Green Party	1,814	3.02
Majority		19,035	31.73

12 December 2019		60,094/81,765	73.50
Julie Marson	Conservative & Unionist Party	33,712	56.10
Christopher John Vince	Labour Party	14,092	23.45
Christopher Francis Lucas	Liberal Democrats	8,596	14.30
Lucy Downes	Green Party	2,705	4.50
Alistair David Lindsay	UK Independence Party	681	1.13
Brian William Percival	Independent	308	0.51
Majority		19,620	32.65

Minor Boundary Change
4 July 2024		54,009/78,915	68.44
Joshua Robert Abraham Dean	Labour Party	20,808	38.53
Julie Marson	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,060	29.74
John Burmicz	Reform UK	8,325	15.41
Nicholas John Cox	Green Party	4,373	8.10
Helen Rosemary Campbell	Liberal Democrats	4,167	7.72
Jane Maria Fowler	Alliance for Democracy and Freedom	139	0.26
Barry James Hensall	Heritage	137	0.25
Majority		4,748	8.79