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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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23 February 1950		44,713/51,318	87.13
Rt Hon Philip John Noel-Baker	Labour Party	26,887	60.13
Richard Cecil Dudley Grimes	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,926	31.15
Lyndon Irving	Liberal Party	3,900	8.72
Majority		12,961	28.99

25 October 1951		43,677/51,681	84.51
Rt Hon Philip John Noel-Baker	Labour Party	27,333	62.58
Richard Cecil Dudley Grimes	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,344	37.42
Majority		10,989	25.16

Major Boundary Change
26 May 1955		43,061/54,675	78.76
Rt Hon Philip John Noel-Baker	Labour Party	23,081	53.60
Marcus Richard Kimball	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,572	38.48
Alfred Leslie Smart	Liberal Party	3,408	7.91
Majority		6,509	15.12

8 October 1959		42,867/54,131	79.19
Rt Hon Philip John Noel-Baker	Labour Party	20,776	48.47
Terence Malcolm Wray	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,345	40.46
Alfred Leslie Smart	Liberal Party	4,746	11.07
Majority		3,431	8.00

15 October 1964		38,852/51,944	74.80
Rt Hon Philip John Noel-Baker	Labour Party	22,432	57.74
Terence Malcolm Wray	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,420	42.26
Majority		6,012	15.47

31 March 1966		37,257/51,348	72.56
Rt Hon Philip John Noel-Baker	Labour Party	21,433	57.53
Michael George Cecil Fidler	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,857	31.82
Alfred Leslie Smart	Liberal Party	3,967	10.65
Majority		9,576	25.70

18 June 1970		35,665/52,938	67.37
Walter Hamlet Johnson	Labour Party	19,407	54.41
Royden Greene	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,258	45.59
Majority		3,149	8.83

Major Boundary Change
28 February 1974		56,204/73,756	76.20
Walter Hamlet Johnson	Labour Party	26,613	47.35
Ronald Sydney Westcott Clements	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,470	34.64
Julia Mabel Mills	Liberal Party	10,121	18.01
Majority		7,143	12.71

10 October 1974		51,755/74,325	69.63
Walter Hamlet Johnson	Labour Party	26,432	51.07
Arthur Jack Bussell	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,010	32.87
Reginald Thomas Palmer	Liberal Party	7,520	14.53
Alfred Sydney Ashby	UNEP	793	1.53
Majority		9,422	18.21

3 May 1979		53,849/75,422	71.40
Walter Hamlet Johnson	Labour Party	26,945	50.04
Michael Charles Stern	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,853	38.72
James Dermot Somerset-Sullivan	Liberal Party	5,196	9.65
Leslie Arundel Verity	National Front	587	1.09
William Alexander Biggs	Workers Revolutionary Party	146	0.27
Joseph Short	United English Nationalist Party	122	0.23
Majority		6,092	11.31

Major Boundary Change
9 June 1983		46,190/69,424	66.53
Margaret Mary Beckett	Labour Party	18,169	39.34
Gerald William Hales	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,748	38.42
Ivor William Smith	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	9,976	21.60
Eric Wall	Ecology Party	297	0.64
Majority		421	0.91

11 June 1987		48,098/69,579	69.13
Margaret Mary Beckett	Labour Party	21,003	43.67
Paul Francis Leighton	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,487	40.52
Nora Patricia Mellor	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	7,608	15.82
Majority		1,516	3.15

9 April 1992		50,096/66,328	75.53
Margaret Mary Beckett	Labour Party	25,917	51.73
Nicholas Paul Brown	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,981	37.89
Simon John Hartropp	Liberal Democrats	5,198	10.38
Majority		6,936	13.85

24 April 1995 Margaret Beckett assumes the leadership of the Labour Party on the death of John Smith.

Major Boundary Change
1 May 1997		51,819/76,386	67.84
Rt Hon Margaret Mary Beckett	Labour Party	29,154	56.26
Javed Arain	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,048	25.18
Jeremy William Ronald Beckett	Liberal Democrats	7,438	14.35
John Kenneth Browne	Referendum Party	1,862	3.59
Robert Evans	Nat Dem	317	0.61
Majority		16,106	31.08

7 June 2001		43,075/77,366	55.68
Rt Hon Margaret Mary Beckett	Labour Party	24,310	56.44
Simon Andrew Spencer	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,455	24.27
Anders Paul Hanson	Liberal Democrats	8,310	19.29
Majority		13,855	32.16

5 May 2005		43,373/70,397	61.61
Rt Hon Margaret Mary Beckett	Labour Party	19,683	45.38
Lucy Helen Care	Liberal Democrats	14,026	32.34
David Hereward Gibson Brackenbury	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,211	18.93
David William Black	UK Independence Party	845	1.95
Graham Frank Leeming	Veritas	608	1.40
Majority		5,657	13.04

Major Boundary Change
6 May 2010		41,188/71,401	57.69
Rt Hon Margaret Mary Beckett	Labour Party	17,851	43.34
Jack Perschke	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,729	28.48
David Robert Batey	Liberal Democrats	8,430	20.47
Steve Fowke	UK Independence Party	1,821	4.42
Alan Wayne Graves	Independent	1,357	3.29
Majority		6,122	14.86

7 May 2015		40,820/70,240	58.12
Rt Hon Dame Margaret Mary Beckett	Labour Party	20,007	49.01
Evonne Williams	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,179	27.39
Victor Charles Webb	UK Independence Party	6,341	15.53
Harjinder Singh Naitta	Liberal Democrats	1,717	4.21
David Leonard Foster	Green Party	1,208	2.96
Christopher Fernandez	Trades Union & Socialist Coalition	225	0.55
David Andrew Gale	British Independents	143	0.35
Majority		8,828	21.63

8 June 2017		45,306/69,918	64.80
Rt Hon Dame Margaret Mary Beckett	Labour Party	26,430	58.34
Evonne Williams	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,182	33.51
Alan Wayne Graves	UK Independence Party	2,011	4.44
Harjinder Singh Naitta	Liberal Democrats	1,229	2.71
Ian Sleeman	Green Party	454	1.00
Majority		11,248	24.83

12 December 2019		42,462/73,062	58.12
Rt Hon Dame Margaret Mary Beckett	Labour Party	21,690	51.08
Edward Peter Barker	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,671	36.91
Harjinder Singh Naitta	Liberal Democrats	2,621	6.17
Timothy Graham Prosser	Brexit Party	2,480	5.84
Majority		6,019	14.18

4 July 2024		37,399/72,952	51.27
Bhagat Singh Shanker	Labour and Co-operative Party	14,503	38.78
Alan Wayne Graves	Reform UK	8,501	22.73
Christopher Williamson	Workers Britain	5,205	13.92
Jamie Mulhall	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,192	13.88
Samuel Ward	Green Party	1,899	5.08
Harjinder Singh Naitta	Liberal Democrats	1,807	4.83
Zephyr Tair	Independent	292	0.78
Majority		6,002	16.05