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Summary | |
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LAB | 303 |
CON | 277 |
LAB Co-op | 16 |
LIB | 13 |
SNP | 11 |
UU | 6 |
VUPP | 3 |
PC | 3 |
SDLP | 1 |
Ind Rep | 1 |
DUP | 1 |
Aberavon | |||
47,251/64,652 | 73.09 | ||
Labour Party | 29,683 | 62.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,931 | 16.78 | |
Liberal Party | 5,178 | 10.96 | |
Plaid Cymru | 4,032 | 8.53 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 427 | 0.90 | |
Majority | 21,752 | 46.04 | |
Aberdare | |||
38,251/48,370 | 79.08 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 24,197 | 63.26 | |
Plaid Cymru | 8,133 | 21.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,775 | 7.25 | |
Liberal Party | 2,118 | 5.54 | |
Communist Party | 1,028 | 2.69 | |
Majority | 16,064 | 42.00 | |
Aberdeen North | |||
45,464/65,230 | 69.70 | ||
Labour Party | 23,130 | 50.88 | |
Scottish National Party | 13,509 | 29.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,125 | 11.27 | |
Liberal Party | 3,700 | 8.14 | |
Majority | 9,621 | 21.16 | |
Aberdeen South | |||
52,084/68,241 | 76.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,475 | 35.47 | |
Labour Party | 18,110 | 34.77 | |
Scottish National Party | 10,481 | 20.12 | |
Liberal Party | 5,018 | 9.63 | |
Majority | 365 | 0.70 | |
Abertillery | |||
27,458/36,553 | 75.12 | ||
Labour Party | 20,835 | 75.88 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,480 | 9.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,364 | 8.61 | |
Liberal Party | 1,779 | 6.48 | |
Majority | 18,355 | 66.85 | |
Abingdon | |||
68,514/90,422 | 75.77 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,956 | 46.64 | |
Labour Party | 21,319 | 31.12 | |
Liberal Party | 15,239 | 22.24 | |
Majority | 10,637 | 15.53 | |
30 March 1979 Assassination of Airey Neave. | |||
Accrington | |||
40,336/50,808 | 79.39 | ||
Labour Party | 19,838 | 49.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,618 | 33.76 | |
Liberal Party | 5,704 | 14.14 | |
National Front | 1,176 | 2.92 | |
Majority | 6,220 | 15.42 | |
Aldershot | |||
58,623/80,500 | 72.82 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,463 | 45.14 | |
Liberal Party | 16,104 | 27.47 | |
Labour Party | 14,936 | 25.48 | |
National Front | 1,120 | 1.91 | |
Majority | 10,359 | 17.67 | |
Aldridge-Brownhills | |||
49,190/61,711 | 79.71 | ||
Labour Party | 21,403 | 43.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,884 | 38.39 | |
Liberal Party | 8,693 | 17.67 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 210 | 0.43 | |
Majority | 2,519 | 5.12 | |
Altrincham & Sale | |||
55,888/73,278 | 76.27 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,910 | 42.78 | |
Labour Party | 16,998 | 30.41 | |
Liberal Party | 14,980 | 26.80 | |
Majority | 6,912 | 12.37 | |
Anglesey | |||
33,514/44,016 | 76.14 | ||
Labour Party | 13,947 | 41.62 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,975 | 23.80 | |
Plaid Cymru | 6,410 | 19.13 | |
Liberal Party | 5,182 | 15.46 | |
Majority | 5,972 | 17.82 | |
Argyll | |||
30,106/41,814 | 72.00 | ||
Scottish National Party | 14,967 | 49.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,036 | 36.66 | |
Labour Party | 4,103 | 13.63 | |
Majority | 3,931 | 13.06 | |
Armagh | |||
62,511/91,060 | 68.65 | ||
Ulster Unionist | 37,518 | 60.02 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 19,855 | 31.76 | |
Republican Clubs | 5,138 | 8.22 | |
Majority | 17,663 | 28.26 | |
Arundel | |||
60,887/83,448 | 72.96 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,215 | 56.19 | |
Liberal Party | 15,404 | 25.30 | |
Labour Party | 11,268 | 18.51 | |
Majority | 18,811 | 30.89 | |
Ashfield | |||
55,778/74,683 | 74.69 | ||
Labour Party | 35,367 | 63.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,452 | 22.32 | |
Liberal Party | 7,959 | 14.27 | |
Majority | 22,915 | 41.08 | |
5 April 1977 Resignation of David Marquand on appointment to a post with the European Commission. | |||
28 April 1977 | 45,535/76,251 | 59.72 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,616 | 43.08 | |
Labour Party | 19,352 | 42.50 | |
Liberal Party | 4,380 | 9.62 | |
National Front | 1,734 | 3.81 | |
Socialist Workers Party | 453 | 0.99 | |
Majority | 264 | 0.58 | |
Ashford | |||
43,546/58,404 | 74.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,294 | 44.31 | |
Labour Party | 13,269 | 30.47 | |
Liberal Party | 10,983 | 25.22 | |
Majority | 6,025 | 13.84 | |
Ashton-under-Lyne | |||
43,609/60,378 | 72.23 | ||
Labour Party | 23,490 | 53.87 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,763 | 29.27 | |
Liberal Party | 7,356 | 16.87 | |
Majority | 10,727 | 24.60 | |
Aylesbury | |||
50,376/67,710 | 74.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,565 | 46.78 | |
Labour Party | 14,592 | 28.97 | |
Liberal Party | 12,219 | 24.26 | |
Majority | 8,973 | 17.81 | |
Ayr | |||
41,268/51,976 | 79.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,487 | 42.37 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 14,268 | 34.57 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,902 | 16.72 | |
Liberal Party | 2,611 | 6.33 | |
Majority | 3,219 | 7.80 | |
Banbury | |||
51,128/67,514 | 75.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,210 | 47.35 | |
Labour Party | 18,019 | 35.24 | |
Liberal Party | 8,352 | 16.34 | |
English National Party | 547 | 1.07 | |
Majority | 6,191 | 12.11 | |
Banff | |||
23,164/31,992 | 72.41 | ||
Scottish National Party | 10,638 | 45.92 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,767 | 37.85 | |
Liberal Party | 2,059 | 8.89 | |
Labour Party | 1,700 | 7.34 | |
Majority | 1,871 | 8.08 | |
Barking | |||
33,708/50,027 | 67.38 | ||
Labour Party | 21,546 | 63.92 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,256 | 15.59 | |
Liberal Party | 5,245 | 15.56 | |
National Front | 1,661 | 4.93 | |
Majority | 16,290 | 48.33 | |
Barkston Ash | |||
63,538/83,782 | 75.84 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,498 | 48.00 | |
Labour Party | 20,557 | 32.35 | |
Liberal Party | 12,483 | 19.65 | |
Majority | 9,941 | 15.65 | |
Barnsley | |||
52,365/76,551 | 68.41 | ||
Labour Party | 34,212 | 65.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,400 | 17.95 | |
Liberal Party | 8,753 | 16.72 | |
Majority | 24,812 | 47.38 | |
Barrow-in-Furness | |||
42,032/54,527 | 77.08 | ||
Labour Party | 21,607 | 51.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,253 | 33.91 | |
Liberal Party | 5,788 | 13.77 | |
ICP | 384 | 0.91 | |
Majority | 7,354 | 17.50 | |
Barry | |||
54,374/69,974 | 77.71 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,360 | 42.96 | |
Labour Party | 20,457 | 37.62 | |
Liberal Party | 8,764 | 16.12 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,793 | 3.30 | |
Majority | 2,903 | 5.34 | |
Basildon | |||
67,460/91,387 | 73.82 | ||
Labour Party | 32,298 | 47.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,747 | 32.24 | |
Liberal Party | 12,816 | 19.00 | |
Independent Labour | 599 | 0.89 | |
Majority | 10,551 | 15.64 | |
Basingstoke | |||
67,263/86,759 | 77.53 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,038 | 43.17 | |
Labour Party | 22,826 | 33.94 | |
Liberal Party | 14,636 | 21.76 | |
National Front | 763 | 1.13 | |
Majority | 6,212 | 9.24 | |
Bassetlaw | |||
53,386/71,707 | 74.45 | ||
Labour Party | 28,663 | 53.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,494 | 30.90 | |
Liberal Party | 7,821 | 14.65 | |
Christian | 408 | 0.76 | |
Majority | 12,169 | 22.79 | |
Bath | |||
48,979/62,289 | 78.63 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,470 | 37.71 | |
Liberal Party | 16,348 | 33.38 | |
Labour Party | 14,011 | 28.61 | |
United Democratic Party | 150 | 0.31 | |
Majority | 2,122 | 4.33 | |
Batley & Morley | |||
43,038/61,882 | 69.55 | ||
Labour Party | 21,179 | 49.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,931 | 30.05 | |
Liberal Party | 8,928 | 20.74 | |
Majority | 8,248 | 19.16 | |
2 April 1979 Death of Sir Alfred Broughton. | |||
Battersea North | |||
27,580/44,791 | 61.57 | ||
Labour Party | 17,161 | 62.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,019 | 21.82 | |
Liberal Party | 3,048 | 11.05 | |
National Front | 1,250 | 4.53 | |
Communist Party of England | 102 | 0.37 | |
Majority | 11,142 | 40.40 | |
Battersea South | |||
30,008/46,716 | 64.23 | ||
Labour Party | 14,334 | 47.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,483 | 38.27 | |
Liberal Party | 4,021 | 13.40 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 170 | 0.57 | |
Majority | 2,851 | 9.50 | |
Beaconsfield | |||
48,093/68,524 | 70.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,234 | 48.31 | |
Liberal Party | 12,606 | 26.21 | |
Labour Party | 12,253 | 25.48 | |
Majority | 10,628 | 22.10 | |
Bebington & Ellesmere Port | |||
68,076/86,617 | 78.59 | ||
Labour Party | 32,310 | 47.46 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,819 | 37.93 | |
Liberal Party | 9,947 | 14.61 | |
Majority | 6,491 | 9.53 | |
Beckenham | |||
41,516/59,497 | 69.78 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,798 | 47.69 | |
Labour Party | 11,140 | 26.83 | |
Liberal Party | 10,578 | 25.48 | |
Majority | 8,658 | 20.85 | |
Bedford | |||
56,940/74,124 | 76.82 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,834 | 43.61 | |
Labour Party | 20,746 | 36.43 | |
Liberal Party | 11,360 | 19.95 | |
Majority | 4,088 | 7.18 | |
Bedwellty | |||
38,681/50,179 | 77.09 | ||
Labour Party | 27,418 | 70.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,556 | 11.78 | |
Liberal Party | 3,621 | 9.36 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3,086 | 7.98 | |
Majority | 22,862 | 59.10 | |
Beeston | |||
59,727/74,156 | 80.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,095 | 42.02 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 24,974 | 41.81 | |
Liberal Party | 9,658 | 16.17 | |
Majority | 121 | 0.20 | |
Belfast East | |||
53,426/79,591 | 67.13 | ||
Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party | 31,594 | 59.14 | |
UPNI | 14,417 | 26.98 | |
Northern Ireland Labour Party | 7,415 | 13.88 | |
Majority | 17,177 | 32.15 | |
26 November 1977 William Craig resigns as leader of the VUPP and joins the OUP. | |||
Belfast North | |||
47,310/71,779 | 65.91 | ||
Ulster Unionist | 29,622 | 62.61 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 11,400 | 24.10 | |
Alliance Party | 3,807 | 8.05 | |
Northern Ireland Labour Party | 2,481 | 5.24 | |
Majority | 18,222 | 38.52 | |
Belfast South | |||
50,846/75,112 | 67.69 | ||
Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party | 30,116 | 59.23 | |
Alliance Party | 11,715 | 23.04 | |
Independent Ulster Unionist | 4,982 | 9.80 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 2,390 | 4.70 | |
Northern Ireland Labour Party | 1,643 | 3.23 | |
Majority | 18,401 | 36.19 | |
19 November 1975 Rev Robert Bradford leaves the VUPP and joins the OUP. | |||
Belfast West | |||
44,526/66,279 | 67.18 | ||
Social Democratic Labour Party | 21,821 | 49.01 | |
Democratic Unionist Party | 16,265 | 36.53 | |
Republican Clubs | 3,547 | 7.97 | |
Volunteer Political Party | 2,690 | 6.04 | |
Communist Party | 203 | 0.46 | |
Majority | 5,556 | 12.48 | |
Belper | |||
58,063/71,181 | 81.57 | ||
Labour Party | 27,365 | 47.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,681 | 37.34 | |
Liberal Party | 9,017 | 15.53 | |
Majority | 5,684 | 9.79 | |
Bermondsey | |||
31,177/55,244 | 56.44 | ||
Labour Party | 22,875 | 73.37 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,294 | 13.77 | |
Liberal Party | 2,520 | 8.08 | |
National Front | 1,488 | 4.77 | |
Majority | 18,581 | 59.60 | |
Berwick & East Lothian | |||
47,458/57,503 | 82.53 | ||
Labour Party | 20,682 | 43.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,642 | 37.17 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,323 | 13.32 | |
Liberal Party | 2,811 | 5.92 | |
Majority | 3,040 | 6.41 | |
30 July 1978 Death of Prof John Mackintosh. | |||
26 October 1978 | 43,290/60,782 | 71.22 | |
Labour Party | 20,530 | 47.42 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,418 | 40.24 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,799 | 8.78 | |
Liberal Party | 1,543 | 3.56 | |
Majority | 3,112 | 7.19 | |
Berwick-upon-Tweed | |||
34,063/41,851 | 81.39 | ||
Liberal Party | 14,684 | 43.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,611 | 42.89 | |
Labour Party | 4,768 | 14.00 | |
Majority | 73 | 0.21 | |
Bethnal Green & Bow | |||
28,516/53,753 | 53.05 | ||
Labour Party | 19,649 | 68.91 | |
Liberal Party | 3,700 | 12.98 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,995 | 10.50 | |
National Front | 2,172 | 7.62 | |
Majority | 15,949 | 55.93 | |
Bexleyheath | |||
39,693/51,009 | 77.82 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,399 | 43.83 | |
Labour Party | 15,412 | 38.83 | |
Liberal Party | 6,882 | 17.34 | |
Majority | 1,987 | 5.01 | |
Birkenhead | |||
42,392/60,385 | 70.20 | ||
Labour Party | 21,748 | 51.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,264 | 28.93 | |
Liberal Party | 8,380 | 19.77 | |
Majority | 9,484 | 22.37 | |
Birmingham Edgbaston | |||
44,326/70,066 | 63.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,483 | 43.95 | |
Labour Party | 17,073 | 38.52 | |
Liberal Party | 7,770 | 17.53 | |
Majority | 2,410 | 5.44 | |
Birmingham Erdington | |||
43,075/65,749 | 65.51 | ||
Labour Party | 22,160 | 51.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,383 | 31.07 | |
Liberal Party | 6,119 | 14.21 | |
National Front | 1,413 | 3.28 | |
Majority | 8,777 | 20.38 | |
Birmingham Hall Green | |||
47,046/67,028 | 70.19 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,569 | 43.72 | |
Labour Party | 17,945 | 38.14 | |
Liberal Party | 8,532 | 18.14 | |
Majority | 2,624 | 5.58 | |
Birmingham Handsworth | |||
30,377/45,668 | 66.52 | ||
Labour Party | 15,011 | 49.42 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,115 | 36.59 | |
Liberal Party | 3,205 | 10.55 | |
National Front | 838 | 2.76 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 105 | 0.35 | |
Communist Party of England | 103 | 0.34 | |
Majority | 3,896 | 12.83 | |
Birmingham Ladywood | |||
22,983/40,387 | 56.91 | ||
Labour Party | 14,818 | 64.47 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,079 | 22.10 | |
Liberal Party | 3,086 | 13.43 | |
Majority | 9,739 | 42.37 | |
16 June 1977 Resignation of Brian Walden. | |||
18 August 1977 | 15,484/36,331 | 42.62 | |
Labour Party | 8,227 | 53.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,402 | 28.43 | |
National Front | 888 | 5.73 | |
Liberal Party | 765 | 4.94 | |
Socialist Unity | 534 | 3.45 | |
Independent | 336 | 2.17 | |
Socialist Workers Party | 152 | 0.98 | |
Independent Conservative | 71 | 0.46 | |
Reform | 63 | 0.41 | |
Independent | 46 | 0.30 | |
Majority | 3,825 | 24.70 | |
Bill Boaks sought election as "Air Road Public Safety". | |||
Birmingham Northfield | |||
52,663/77,573 | 67.89 | ||
Labour Party | 27,435 | 52.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,838 | 31.97 | |
Liberal Party | 7,851 | 14.91 | |
People | 359 | 0.68 | |
Communist Party | 180 | 0.34 | |
Majority | 10,597 | 20.12 | |
Birmingham Perry Barr | |||
38,521/52,497 | 73.38 | ||
Labour Party | 18,291 | 47.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,087 | 39.17 | |
Liberal Party | 4,231 | 10.98 | |
National Front | 826 | 2.14 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 86 | 0.22 | |
Majority | 3,204 | 8.32 | |
Birmingham Selly Oak | |||
42,164/62,746 | 67.20 | ||
Labour Party | 17,320 | 41.08 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,994 | 40.30 | |
Liberal Party | 7,850 | 18.62 | |
Majority | 326 | 0.77 | |
Birmingham Small Heath | |||
29,611/51,394 | 57.62 | ||
Labour Party | 19,703 | 66.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,648 | 19.07 | |
Liberal Party | 4,260 | 14.39 | |
Majority | 14,055 | 47.47 | |
Birmingham Sparkbrook | |||
29,899/49,673 | 60.19 | ||
Labour Party | 17,476 | 58.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,955 | 29.95 | |
Liberal Party | 2,920 | 9.77 | |
Irish Civil Rights Association | 548 | 1.83 | |
Majority | 8,521 | 28.50 | |
Birmingham Stechford | |||
40,087/62,501 | 64.14 | ||
Labour Party | 23,075 | 57.56 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,152 | 27.82 | |
Liberal Party | 5,860 | 14.62 | |
Majority | 11,923 | 29.74 | |
5 January 1977 Resignation of Rt Hon Roy Jenkins on appointment as the President of the Commission of the European Communities. | |||
31 March 1977 | 36,240/61,612 | 58.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,731 | 43.41 | |
Labour Party | 13,782 | 38.03 | |
National Front | 2,955 | 8.15 | |
Liberal Party | 2,901 | 8.00 | |
International Marxist Group | 494 | 1.36 | |
Socialist Workers Party | 377 | 1.04 | |
Majority | 1,949 | 5.38 | |
Birmingham Yardley | |||
43,161/59,039 | 73.11 | ||
Labour Party | 20,834 | 48.27 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,664 | 38.61 | |
Liberal Party | 4,518 | 10.47 | |
National Front | 1,034 | 2.40 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 111 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 4,170 | 9.66 | |
Bishop Auckland | |||
51,435/72,561 | 70.89 | ||
Labour Party | 27,181 | 52.85 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,086 | 31.27 | |
Liberal Party | 8,168 | 15.88 | |
Majority | 11,095 | 21.57 | |
Blaby | |||
50,939/65,057 | 78.30 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,405 | 49.87 | |
Labour Party | 13,244 | 26.00 | |
Liberal Party | 12,290 | 24.13 | |
Majority | 12,161 | 23.87 | |
Blackburn | |||
39,535/54,200 | 72.94 | ||
Labour Party | 20,344 | 51.46 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,692 | 32.10 | |
Liberal Party | 4,741 | 11.99 | |
National Front | 1,758 | 4.45 | |
Majority | 7,652 | 19.36 | |
Blackpool North | |||
41,607/59,730 | 69.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,662 | 47.26 | |
Labour Party | 14,195 | 34.12 | |
Liberal Party | 7,750 | 18.63 | |
Majority | 5,467 | 13.14 | |
Blackpool South | |||
40,482/57,940 | 69.87 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,188 | 44.93 | |
Labour Party | 12,967 | 32.03 | |
Liberal Party | 9,327 | 23.04 | |
Majority | 5,221 | 12.90 | |
Blaydon | |||
41,459/56,896 | 72.87 | ||
Labour Party | 23,743 | 57.27 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,277 | 24.79 | |
Liberal Party | 7,439 | 17.94 | |
Majority | 13,466 | 32.48 | |
Blyth | |||
55,305/74,449 | 74.29 | ||
Labour Party | 20,308 | 36.72 | |
Independent Labour | 20,230 | 36.58 | |
Liberal Party | 8,177 | 14.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,590 | 11.92 | |
Majority | 78 | 0.14 | |
Bodmin | |||
45,661/55,474 | 82.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,756 | 45.46 | |
Liberal Party | 20,091 | 44.00 | |
Labour Party | 4,814 | 10.54 | |
Majority | 665 | 1.46 | |
Bolsover | |||
38,660/51,866 | 74.54 | ||
Labour Party | 27,275 | 70.55 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,209 | 16.06 | |
Liberal Party | 5,176 | 13.39 | |
Majority | 21,066 | 54.49 | |
Bolton East | |||
46,120/60,161 | 76.66 | ||
Labour Party | 21,569 | 46.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,504 | 37.95 | |
Liberal Party | 5,792 | 12.56 | |
National Front | 1,106 | 2.40 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 149 | 0.32 | |
Majority | 4,065 | 8.81 | |
Bolton West | |||
39,227/50,768 | 77.27 | ||
Labour Party | 16,967 | 43.25 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,061 | 40.94 | |
Liberal Party | 5,127 | 13.07 | |
National Front | 1,072 | 2.73 | |
Majority | 906 | 2.31 | |
Bootle | |||
43,158/64,213 | 67.21 | ||
Labour Party | 27,633 | 64.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,743 | 24.89 | |
Liberal Party | 4,266 | 9.88 | |
Communist Party | 516 | 1.20 | |
Majority | 16,890 | 39.14 | |
Bosworth | |||
68,760/83,800 | 82.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,490 | 41.43 | |
Labour Party | 28,188 | 40.99 | |
Liberal Party | 12,082 | 17.57 | |
Majority | 302 | 0.44 | |
Bothwell | |||
45,406/59,358 | 76.50 | ||
Labour Party | 22,086 | 48.64 | |
Scottish National Party | 11,138 | 24.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,125 | 17.89 | |
Liberal Party | 4,057 | 8.93 | |
Majority | 10,948 | 24.11 | |
Bournemouth East | |||
40,169/56,997 | 70.48 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,790 | 51.76 | |
Liberal Party | 10,129 | 25.22 | |
Labour Party | 8,422 | 20.97 | |
National Front | 828 | 2.06 | |
Majority | 10,661 | 26.54 | |
25 July 1977 Resignation of John Cordle after being criticised for contempt of the House as a result of his business links with John Poulson. | |||
24 November 1977 | 24,025/56,337 | 42.65 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,235 | 63.41 | |
Labour Party | 3,684 | 15.33 | |
Liberal Party | 3,212 | 13.37 | |
New Britain | 1,127 | 4.69 | |
National Front | 725 | 3.02 | |
Independent | 42 | 0.17 | |
Majority | 11,551 | 48.08 | |
Bournemouth West | |||
42,026/61,197 | 68.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,294 | 50.67 | |
Labour Party | 10,566 | 25.14 | |
Liberal Party | 10,166 | 24.19 | |
Majority | 10,728 | 25.53 | |
Bradford North | |||
46,568/66,117 | 70.43 | ||
Labour Party | 22,841 | 49.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,252 | 30.60 | |
Liberal Party | 9,475 | 20.35 | |
Majority | 8,589 | 18.44 | |
Bradford South | |||
52,469/73,252 | 71.63 | ||
Labour Party | 25,219 | 48.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,944 | 32.29 | |
Liberal Party | 10,306 | 19.64 | |
Majority | 8,275 | 15.77 | |
Bradford West | |||
43,548/62,669 | 69.49 | ||
Labour Party | 21,133 | 48.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,192 | 37.18 | |
Liberal Party | 5,884 | 13.51 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 339 | 0.78 | |
Majority | 4,941 | 11.35 | |
Braintree | |||
52,032/65,522 | 79.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,559 | 39.51 | |
Labour Party | 19,469 | 37.42 | |
Liberal Party | 12,004 | 23.07 | |
Majority | 1,090 | 2.09 | |
Brecon & Radnor | |||
44,214/54,288 | 81.44 | ||
Labour Party | 18,622 | 42.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,610 | 35.31 | |
Liberal Party | 7,682 | 17.37 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,300 | 5.20 | |
Majority | 3,012 | 6.81 | |
Brent East | |||
37,929/63,157 | 60.06 | ||
Labour Party | 20,481 | 54.00 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,554 | 30.46 | |
Liberal Party | 4,416 | 11.64 | |
National Front | 1,096 | 2.89 | |
Irish Civil Rights Association | 382 | 1.01 | |
Majority | 8,927 | 23.54 | |
Brent North | |||
51,849/72,104 | 71.91 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,853 | 47.93 | |
Labour Party | 17,541 | 33.83 | |
Liberal Party | 8,158 | 15.73 | |
National Front | 1,297 | 2.50 | |
Majority | 7,312 | 14.10 | |
Brent South | |||
37,486/61,230 | 61.22 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 21,611 | 57.65 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,558 | 28.17 | |
Liberal Party | 3,929 | 10.48 | |
National Front | 1,388 | 3.70 | |
Majority | 11,053 | 29.49 | |
Brentford & Isleworth | |||
52,203/71,186 | 73.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,527 | 43.15 | |
Labour Party | 22,295 | 42.71 | |
Liberal Party | 6,019 | 11.53 | |
National Front | 1,362 | 2.61 | |
Majority | 232 | 0.44 | |
Brentwood & Ongar | |||
45,051/58,345 | 77.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,136 | 46.92 | |
Labour Party | 13,190 | 29.28 | |
Liberal Party | 10,725 | 23.81 | |
Majority | 7,946 | 17.64 | |
Bridgwater | |||
53,878/69,738 | 77.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,850 | 44.27 | |
Labour Party | 17,663 | 32.78 | |
Liberal Party | 12,077 | 22.42 | |
United Democratic Party | 288 | 0.53 | |
Majority | 6,187 | 11.48 | |
Bridlington | |||
44,629/65,745 | 67.88 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,901 | 49.07 | |
Liberal Party | 11,795 | 26.43 | |
Labour Party | 9,946 | 22.29 | |
National Front | 987 | 2.21 | |
Majority | 10,106 | 22.64 | |
Brigg & Scunthorpe | |||
63,568/90,137 | 70.52 | ||
Labour Party | 28,929 | 45.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,187 | 34.90 | |
Liberal Party | 12,452 | 19.59 | |
Majority | 6,742 | 10.61 | |
Brighouse & Spenborough | |||
50,016/63,631 | 78.60 | ||
Labour Party | 21,964 | 43.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,787 | 39.56 | |
Liberal Party | 8,265 | 16.52 | |
Majority | 2,177 | 4.35 | |
Brighton Kemptown | |||
47,326/65,427 | 72.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,725 | 45.90 | |
Labour Party | 19,060 | 40.27 | |
Liberal Party | 6,214 | 13.13 | |
English National Party | 155 | 0.33 | |
Communist Party of England | 125 | 0.26 | |
Independent | 47 | 0.10 | |
Majority | 2,665 | 5.63 | |
Brighton Pavilion | |||
39,313/57,340 | 68.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,041 | 48.43 | |
Labour Party | 11,624 | 29.57 | |
Liberal Party | 8,648 | 22.00 | |
Majority | 7,417 | 18.87 | |
Bristol North East | |||
37,006/51,960 | 71.22 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,647 | 53.09 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,056 | 29.88 | |
Liberal Party | 6,303 | 17.03 | |
Majority | 8,591 | 23.22 | |
Bristol North West | |||
52,593/66,362 | 79.25 | ||
Labour Party | 22,156 | 42.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,523 | 40.92 | |
Liberal Party | 8,914 | 16.95 | |
Majority | 633 | 1.20 | |
Bristol South | |||
42,316/61,022 | 69.35 | ||
Labour Party | 25,108 | 59.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,124 | 23.92 | |
Liberal Party | 6,289 | 14.86 | |
National Front | 795 | 1.88 | |
Majority | 14,984 | 35.41 | |
Bristol South East | |||
52,881/69,413 | 76.18 | ||
Labour Party | 25,978 | 49.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,605 | 31.40 | |
Liberal Party | 8,987 | 16.99 | |
National Front | 775 | 1.47 | |
Mid Class | 457 | 0.86 | |
Communist Party of England | 79 | 0.15 | |
Majority | 9,373 | 17.72 | |
Bristol West | |||
39,525/60,447 | 65.39 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,555 | 46.94 | |
Liberal Party | 11,598 | 29.34 | |
Labour Party | 9,372 | 23.71 | |
Majority | 6,957 | 17.60 | |
Bromsgrove & Redditch | |||
69,917/87,828 | 79.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,153 | 44.56 | |
Labour Party | 29,085 | 41.60 | |
Liberal Party | 9,679 | 13.84 | |
Majority | 2,068 | 2.96 | |
Buckingham | |||
62,983/79,055 | 79.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,597 | 42.23 | |
Labour Party | 23,679 | 37.60 | |
Liberal Party | 12,707 | 20.18 | |
Majority | 2,918 | 4.63 | |
Burnley | |||
39,527/52,918 | 74.69 | ||
Labour Party | 21,642 | 54.75 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,766 | 24.71 | |
Liberal Party | 8,119 | 20.54 | |
Majority | 11,876 | 30.05 | |
Burton | |||
52,863/67,783 | 77.99 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,496 | 44.45 | |
Labour Party | 21,398 | 40.48 | |
Liberal Party | 7,969 | 15.07 | |
Majority | 2,098 | 3.97 | |
Bury & Radcliffe | |||
62,881/77,779 | 80.85 | ||
Labour Party | 26,430 | 42.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,988 | 41.33 | |
Liberal Party | 10,463 | 16.64 | |
Majority | 442 | 0.70 | |
Bury St Edmunds | |||
63,907/87,300 | 73.20 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,179 | 50.35 | |
Labour Party | 21,097 | 33.01 | |
Liberal Party | 10,631 | 16.64 | |
Majority | 11,082 | 17.34 | |
Bute & North Ayrshire | |||
34,971/49,071 | 71.27 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,599 | 38.89 | |
Labour Party | 10,093 | 28.86 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,055 | 25.89 | |
Liberal Party | 2,224 | 6.36 | |
Majority | 3,506 | 10.03 | |
Caernarvon | |||
34,369/42,499 | 80.87 | ||
Plaid Cymru | 14,624 | 42.55 | |
Labour Party | 11,730 | 34.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,325 | 12.58 | |
Liberal Party | 3,690 | 10.74 | |
Majority | 2,894 | 8.42 | |
Caerphilly | |||
42,694/56,499 | 75.57 | ||
Labour Party | 24,161 | 56.59 | |
Plaid Cymru | 10,452 | 24.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,897 | 11.47 | |
Liberal Party | 3,184 | 7.46 | |
Majority | 13,709 | 32.11 | |
Caithness & Sutherland | |||
22,511/28,837 | 78.06 | ||
Labour Party | 7,941 | 35.28 | |
Scottish National Party | 5,381 | 23.90 | |
Liberal Party | 4,949 | 21.98 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,240 | 18.84 | |
Majority | 2,560 | 11.37 | |
Cambridge | |||
52,821/75,932 | 69.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,790 | 41.25 | |
Labour Party | 19,017 | 36.00 | |
Liberal Party | 11,129 | 21.07 | |
United Democratic Party | 885 | 1.68 | |
Majority | 2,773 | 5.25 | |
12 November 1976 Resignation of David Lane on appointment as the Chairman of the Commission of Racial Equality. | |||
2 December 1976 | 38,451/78,153 | 49.20 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,620 | 51.03 | |
Labour Party | 9,995 | 25.99 | |
Liberal Party | 7,051 | 18.34 | |
Independent | 711 | 1.85 | |
National Front | 700 | 1.82 | |
Monster Raving Loony Party | 374 | 0.97 | |
Majority | 9,625 | 25.03 | |
James Sharpe was sponsored by the East Anglian Region of the National Federation of Self-Employed. | |||
Philip Sargent sought election as a Science Fiction Loony. | |||
Cambridgeshire | |||
64,202/84,416 | 76.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,508 | 47.52 | |
Labour Party | 17,853 | 27.81 | |
Liberal Party | 15,841 | 24.67 | |
Majority | 12,655 | 19.71 | |
Cannock | |||
43,011/56,558 | 76.05 | ||
Labour Party | 23,887 | 55.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,665 | 27.12 | |
Liberal Party | 7,459 | 17.34 | |
Majority | 12,222 | 28.42 | |
Canterbury | |||
62,243/85,699 | 72.63 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,002 | 49.81 | |
Labour Party | 16,247 | 26.10 | |
Liberal Party | 13,898 | 22.33 | |
National Front | 1,096 | 1.76 | |
Majority | 14,755 | 23.71 | |
Cardiff North | |||
32,151/43,848 | 73.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,480 | 41.93 | |
Labour Party | 11,479 | 35.70 | |
Liberal Party | 5,728 | 17.82 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,464 | 4.55 | |
Majority | 2,001 | 6.22 | |
Cardiff North West | |||
34,571/43,776 | 78.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,652 | 45.27 | |
Labour Party | 11,319 | 32.74 | |
Liberal Party | 6,322 | 18.29 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,278 | 3.70 | |
Majority | 4,333 | 12.53 | |
Cardiff South East | |||
40,554/57,284 | 70.79 | ||
Labour Party | 21,074 | 51.97 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,356 | 25.54 | |
Liberal Party | 8,066 | 19.89 | |
Plaid Cymru | 983 | 2.42 | |
Communist Party of England | 75 | 0.18 | |
Majority | 10,718 | 26.43 | |
5 April 1976 Rt Hon James Callaghan elected Leader of the Labour Party and appointed Prime Minister. | |||
Cardiff West | |||
36,311/52,070 | 69.73 | ||
Labour Party | 18,153 | 49.99 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,481 | 31.62 | |
Liberal Party | 4,669 | 12.86 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,008 | 5.53 | |
Majority | 6,672 | 18.37 | |
2 February 1976 Rt Hon George Thomas elected Speaker of the House of Commons. | |||
Cardigan | |||
34,654/43,043 | 80.51 | ||
Liberal Party | 14,612 | 42.17 | |
Labour Party | 12,202 | 35.21 | |
Plaid Cymru | 4,583 | 13.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,257 | 9.40 | |
Majority | 2,410 | 6.95 | |
Carlisle | |||
41,210/52,305 | 78.79 | ||
Labour Party | 21,079 | 51.15 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,825 | 35.97 | |
Liberal Party | 5,306 | 12.88 | |
Majority | 6,254 | 15.18 | |
Carlton | |||
55,789/71,763 | 77.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,638 | 44.16 | |
Labour Party | 20,019 | 35.88 | |
Liberal Party | 9,859 | 17.67 | |
National Front | 1,273 | 2.28 | |
Majority | 4,619 | 8.28 | |
Carmarthen | |||
51,707/60,390 | 85.62 | ||
Plaid Cymru | 23,325 | 45.11 | |
Labour Party | 19,685 | 38.07 | |
Liberal Party | 5,393 | 10.43 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,962 | 5.73 | |
British | 342 | 0.66 | |
Majority | 3,640 | 7.04 | |
Evan Jones was opposed to Welsh nationalism, and sought election as a "British" candidate.. | |||
Carshalton | |||
49,650/66,838 | 74.28 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,538 | 45.39 | |
Labour Party | 18,840 | 37.95 | |
Liberal Party | 8,272 | 16.66 | |
Majority | 3,698 | 7.45 | |
15 January 1976 Elevation of Rt Hon Robert Carr to the Peerage - Baron Carr of Hadley. | |||
11 March 1976 | 40,152/66,334 | 60.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,753 | 51.69 | |
Labour Party | 11,021 | 27.45 | |
Liberal Party | 6,028 | 15.01 | |
National Front | 1,851 | 4.61 | |
Conservative Against the Common Market | 251 | 0.63 | |
International Logic | 133 | 0.33 | |
Independent | 115 | 0.29 | |
Majority | 9,732 | 24.24 | |
Bill Boaks sought election as "Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident". | |||
William Dunmore sought election for the International Logic Party. | |||
Central Ayrshire | |||
46,994/59,273 | 79.28 | ||
Labour Party | 21,188 | 45.09 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,633 | 24.75 | |
Scottish National Party | 11,533 | 24.54 | |
Liberal Party | 2,640 | 5.62 | |
Majority | 9,555 | 20.33 | |
Central Dunbartonshire | |||
39,393/49,358 | 79.81 | ||
Labour Party | 15,837 | 40.20 | |
Scottish National Party | 11,452 | 29.07 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,792 | 17.24 | |
Communist Party | 3,417 | 8.67 | |
Liberal Party | 1,895 | 4.81 | |
Majority | 4,385 | 11.13 | |
Central Fife | |||
43,162/58,403 | 73.90 | ||
Labour Party | 22,400 | 51.90 | |
Scottish National Party | 14,414 | 33.40 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,308 | 12.30 | |
Communist Party | 1,040 | 2.41 | |
Majority | 7,986 | 18.50 | |
Cheadle | |||
52,598/65,541 | 80.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,863 | 49.17 | |
Liberal Party | 18,687 | 35.53 | |
Labour Party | 8,048 | 15.30 | |
Majority | 7,176 | 13.64 | |
Chelmsford | |||
63,377/80,020 | 79.20 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,334 | 41.55 | |
Liberal Party | 22,332 | 35.24 | |
Labour Party | 14,711 | 23.21 | |
Majority | 4,002 | 6.31 | |
Chelsea | |||
32,260/64,548 | 49.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,674 | 60.99 | |
Labour Party | 6,507 | 20.17 | |
Liberal Party | 5,758 | 17.85 | |
Independent | 321 | 1.00 | |
Majority | 13,167 | 40.82 | |
Richard Byron sought election as Independent - Save London Action Group. | |||
Cheltenham | |||
47,062/62,727 | 75.03 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,691 | 46.09 | |
Liberal Party | 13,237 | 28.13 | |
Labour Party | 12,134 | 25.78 | |
Majority | 8,454 | 17.96 | |
Chertsey & Walton | |||
49,616/67,510 | 73.49 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,151 | 50.69 | |
Labour Party | 14,847 | 29.92 | |
Liberal Party | 9,194 | 18.53 | |
Independent Conservative | 424 | 0.85 | |
Majority | 10,304 | 20.77 | |
Chesham & Amersham | |||
49,494/63,367 | 78.11 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,078 | 50.67 | |
Liberal Party | 14,091 | 28.47 | |
Labour Party | 10,325 | 20.86 | |
Majority | 10,987 | 22.20 | |
Chester-le-Street | |||
51,012/68,335 | 74.65 | ||
Labour Party | 33,511 | 65.69 | |
Liberal Party | 9,233 | 18.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,268 | 16.21 | |
Majority | 24,278 | 47.59 | |
Chesterfield | |||
51,695/71,194 | 72.61 | ||
Labour Party | 30,953 | 59.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,393 | 25.91 | |
Liberal Party | 7,349 | 14.22 | |
Majority | 17,560 | 33.97 | |
Chichester | |||
51,310/69,750 | 73.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,942 | 52.51 | |
Liberal Party | 15,601 | 30.41 | |
Labour Party | 8,767 | 17.09 | |
Majority | 11,341 | 22.10 | |
Chingford | |||
41,837/56,972 | 73.43 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,022 | 45.47 | |
Labour Party | 14,377 | 34.36 | |
Liberal Party | 8,438 | 20.17 | |
Majority | 4,645 | 11.10 | |
Chippenham | |||
53,187/67,836 | 78.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,721 | 42.72 | |
Liberal Party | 20,792 | 39.09 | |
Labour Party | 9,396 | 17.67 | |
United Democratic Party | 278 | 0.52 | |
Majority | 1,929 | 3.63 | |
Chipping Barnet | |||
41,547/56,473 | 73.57 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,661 | 47.32 | |
Labour Party | 11,795 | 28.39 | |
Liberal Party | 8,884 | 21.38 | |
National Front | 1,207 | 2.91 | |
Majority | 7,866 | 18.93 | |
14 July 1977 The House of Commons Select Committee on the Conduct of Members criticises Rt Hon Reginald Maudling for "conduct inconsistent with the standards which the House is entitled to expect from its members" as a result of his business contacts with John Poulson. | |||
26 July 1977 An attempt to expel Rt Hon Reginald Maudling from the House of Commons is defeated by 331 votes to 11. | |||
14 February 1979 Death of Rt Hon Reginald Maudling. | |||
Chislehurst | |||
40,858/53,683 | 76.11 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,926 | 46.32 | |
Labour Party | 15,032 | 36.79 | |
Liberal Party | 6,900 | 16.89 | |
Majority | 3,894 | 9.53 | |
Chorley | |||
61,883/76,197 | 81.21 | ||
Labour Party | 27,290 | 44.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,577 | 39.72 | |
Liberal Party | 9,831 | 15.89 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 185 | 0.30 | |
Majority | 2,713 | 4.38 | |
Christchurch & Lymington | |||
41,325/55,290 | 74.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,728 | 57.42 | |
Liberal Party | 9,838 | 23.81 | |
Labour Party | 7,759 | 18.78 | |
Majority | 13,890 | 33.61 | |
Cirencester & Tewkesbury | |||
61,673/80,388 | 76.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,930 | 46.91 | |
Liberal Party | 18,770 | 30.43 | |
Labour Party | 13,973 | 22.66 | |
Majority | 10,160 | 16.47 | |
City of Chester | |||
52,479/69,587 | 75.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,095 | 44.01 | |
Labour Party | 18,477 | 35.21 | |
Liberal Party | 10,907 | 20.78 | |
Majority | 4,618 | 8.80 | |
City of London & Westminster South | |||
27,747/52,164 | 53.19 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,350 | 51.72 | |
Labour Party | 8,589 | 30.95 | |
Liberal Party | 4,122 | 14.86 | |
National Front | 686 | 2.47 | |
Majority | 5,761 | 20.76 | |
5 January 1977 Resignation of Christopher Tugendhat on appointment as a member of the Commission of the European Communities. | |||
24 February 1977 | 20,251/51,174 | 39.57 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,962 | 59.07 | |
Labour Party | 3,997 | 19.74 | |
Liberal Party | 1,981 | 9.78 | |
National Front | 1,051 | 5.19 | |
Independent | 449 | 2.22 | |
National Party | 364 | 1.80 | |
New Britain | 306 | 1.51 | |
Independent | 61 | 0.30 | |
Independent | 43 | 0.21 | |
Independent | 37 | 0.18 | |
Majority | 7,965 | 39.33 | |
Bill Boaks sought election as "Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident". | |||
William Thompson was opposed to pornography. | |||
Ralph Herbert sought election as "Christ, Crown, Country, Commonwealth, Christian Constitution". | |||
Peter Mitchell was sponsored by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. | |||
Clackmannan & East Stirlingshire | |||
51,292/62,693 | 81.81 | ||
Scottish National Party | 25,998 | 50.69 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 18,657 | 36.37 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,369 | 10.47 | |
Liberal Party | 1,268 | 2.47 | |
Majority | 7,341 | 14.31 | |
Cleveland & Whitby | |||
46,213/60,659 | 76.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,973 | 43.22 | |
Labour Party | 18,445 | 39.91 | |
Liberal Party | 7,795 | 16.87 | |
Majority | 1,528 | 3.31 | |
Clitheroe | |||
40,921/52,072 | 78.59 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,643 | 48.00 | |
Labour Party | 12,775 | 31.22 | |
Liberal Party | 8,503 | 20.78 | |
Majority | 6,868 | 16.78 | |
26 October 1978 Death of David Walder. | |||
1 March 1979 | 34,112/54,294 | 62.83 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,185 | 65.04 | |
Labour Party | 9,685 | 28.39 | |
Liberal Party | 2,242 | 6.57 | |
Majority | 12,500 | 36.64 | |
Coatbridge & Airdrie | |||
44,629/59,903 | 74.50 | ||
Labour Party | 23,034 | 51.61 | |
Scottish National Party | 12,466 | 27.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,683 | 17.22 | |
Liberal Party | 1,446 | 3.24 | |
Majority | 10,568 | 23.68 | |
Colchester | |||
62,377/81,816 | 76.24 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,693 | 44.40 | |
Labour Party | 22,193 | 35.58 | |
Liberal Party | 12,491 | 20.03 | |
Majority | 5,500 | 8.82 | |
Colne Valley | |||
49,665/60,761 | 81.74 | ||
Liberal Party | 21,997 | 44.29 | |
Labour Party | 20,331 | 40.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,337 | 14.77 | |
Majority | 1,666 | 3.35 | |
Consett | |||
40,495/59,003 | 68.63 | ||
Labour Party | 27,123 | 66.98 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,677 | 18.96 | |
Liberal Party | 5,695 | 14.06 | |
Majority | 19,446 | 48.02 | |
Conway | |||
39,434/51,720 | 76.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,614 | 39.60 | |
Labour Party | 12,808 | 32.48 | |
Liberal Party | 6,344 | 16.09 | |
Plaid Cymru | 4,668 | 11.84 | |
Majority | 2,806 | 7.12 | |
Coventry North East | |||
44,516/63,595 | 70.00 | ||
Labour Party | 26,489 | 59.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,520 | 23.63 | |
Liberal Party | 6,846 | 15.38 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 352 | 0.79 | |
Communist Party | 309 | 0.69 | |
Majority | 15,969 | 35.87 | |
Coventry North West | |||
37,033/49,238 | 75.21 | ||
Labour Party | 19,205 | 51.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,717 | 31.64 | |
Liberal Party | 5,798 | 15.66 | |
People | 313 | 0.85 | |
Majority | 7,488 | 20.22 | |
14 December 1975 Death of Maurice Edelman. | |||
4 March 1976 | 35,871/49,197 | 72.91 | |
Labour Party | 17,118 | 47.72 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,424 | 37.42 | |
Liberal Party | 4,062 | 11.32 | |
National Front | 986 | 2.75 | |
N Pty | 208 | 0.58 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 40 | 0.11 | |
International Logic | 33 | 0.09 | |
Majority | 3,694 | 10.30 | |
W Dunmore sought election for the International Logic Party which he had founded. | |||
Coventry South East | |||
34,371/50,809 | 67.65 | ||
Labour Party | 20,771 | 60.43 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,648 | 25.16 | |
Liberal Party | 4,952 | 14.41 | |
Majority | 12,123 | 35.27 | |
Coventry South West | |||
53,877/67,831 | 79.43 | ||
Labour Party | 23,225 | 43.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,107 | 39.18 | |
Liberal Party | 8,579 | 15.92 | |
National Front | 822 | 1.53 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 144 | 0.27 | |
Majority | 2,118 | 3.93 | |
Crewe | |||
43,372/59,215 | 73.24 | ||
Labour Party | 21,534 | 49.65 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,279 | 32.92 | |
Liberal Party | 7,559 | 17.43 | |
Majority | 7,255 | 16.73 | |
Crosby | |||
57,782/78,583 | 73.53 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,764 | 51.51 | |
Labour Party | 17,589 | 30.44 | |
Liberal Party | 10,429 | 18.05 | |
Majority | 12,175 | 21.07 | |
Croydon Central | |||
48,450/66,729 | 72.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,390 | 42.08 | |
Labour Party | 20,226 | 41.75 | |
Liberal Party | 7,834 | 16.17 | |
Majority | 164 | 0.34 | |
Croydon North East | |||
41,404/58,295 | 71.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,938 | 43.32 | |
Labour Party | 15,787 | 38.13 | |
Liberal Party | 7,228 | 17.46 | |
Ind Brit Nat | 451 | 1.09 | |
Majority | 2,151 | 5.20 | |
William Stringer sought election as an Independant British Nationalist. | |||
Croydon North West | |||
38,203/55,164 | 69.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,035 | 41.97 | |
Labour Party | 14,556 | 38.10 | |
Liberal Party | 6,563 | 17.18 | |
National Front | 1,049 | 2.75 | |
Majority | 1,479 | 3.87 | |
Croydon South | |||
44,420/60,072 | 73.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,703 | 57.86 | |
Liberal Party | 11,514 | 25.92 | |
Labour Party | 7,203 | 16.22 | |
Majority | 14,189 | 31.94 | |
Dagenham | |||
45,495/69,984 | 65.01 | ||
Labour Party | 29,678 | 65.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,684 | 16.89 | |
Liberal Party | 7,564 | 16.63 | |
Communist Party | 569 | 1.25 | |
Majority | 21,994 | 48.34 | |
Darlington | |||
46,834/62,940 | 74.41 | ||
Labour Party | 21,332 | 45.55 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,620 | 37.62 | |
Liberal Party | 7,882 | 16.83 | |
Majority | 3,712 | 7.93 | |
Dartford | |||
43,693/57,038 | 76.60 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 20,817 | 47.64 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,331 | 35.09 | |
Liberal Party | 6,606 | 15.12 | |
National Front | 939 | 2.15 | |
Majority | 5,486 | 12.56 | |
Darwen | |||
54,075/70,593 | 76.60 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,577 | 43.60 | |
Labour Party | 17,926 | 33.15 | |
Liberal Party | 12,572 | 23.25 | |
Majority | 5,651 | 10.45 | |
Daventry | |||
64,180/83,233 | 77.11 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,801 | 46.43 | |
Labour Party | 20,739 | 32.31 | |
Liberal Party | 13,640 | 21.25 | |
Majority | 9,062 | 14.12 | |
Dearne Valley | |||
44,949/63,249 | 71.07 | ||
Labour Party | 33,315 | 74.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,046 | 13.45 | |
Liberal Party | 5,588 | 12.43 | |
Majority | 27,269 | 60.67 | |
Denbigh | |||
48,529/63,491 | 76.43 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,751 | 38.64 | |
Liberal Party | 14,200 | 29.26 | |
Labour Party | 9,824 | 20.24 | |
Plaid Cymru | 5,754 | 11.86 | |
Majority | 4,551 | 9.38 | |
Deptford | |||
35,818/61,195 | 58.53 | ||
Labour Party | 21,045 | 58.76 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,111 | 22.65 | |
Liberal Party | 4,931 | 13.77 | |
National Front | 1,731 | 4.83 | |
Majority | 12,934 | 36.11 | |
Derby North | |||
60,564/82,674 | 73.26 | ||
Labour Party | 26,960 | 44.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,767 | 37.59 | |
Liberal Party | 10,595 | 17.49 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 242 | 0.40 | |
Majority | 4,193 | 6.92 | |
Derby South | |||
51,755/74,325 | 69.63 | ||
Labour Party | 26,432 | 51.07 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,010 | 32.87 | |
Liberal Party | 7,520 | 14.53 | |
UNEP | 793 | 1.53 | |
Majority | 9,422 | 18.21 | |
Devizes | |||
58,514/77,771 | 75.24 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,842 | 42.45 | |
Labour Party | 17,821 | 30.46 | |
Liberal Party | 15,851 | 27.09 | |
Majority | 7,021 | 12.00 | |
Dewsbury | |||
44,846/61,493 | 72.93 | ||
Labour Party | 20,378 | 45.44 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,477 | 30.05 | |
Liberal Party | 10,991 | 24.51 | |
Majority | 6,901 | 15.39 | |
Don Valley | |||
65,115/88,753 | 73.37 | ||
Labour Party | 41,187 | 63.25 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,767 | 21.14 | |
Liberal Party | 10,161 | 15.60 | |
Majority | 27,420 | 42.11 | |
Doncaster | |||
43,260/59,448 | 72.77 | ||
Labour Party | 22,177 | 51.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,747 | 34.09 | |
Liberal Party | 6,336 | 14.65 | |
Majority | 7,430 | 17.18 | |
Dorking | |||
44,215/58,940 | 75.02 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,403 | 50.67 | |
Liberal Party | 12,098 | 27.36 | |
Labour Party | 9,714 | 21.97 | |
Majority | 10,305 | 23.31 | |
Dover & Deal | |||
58,767/74,686 | 78.69 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,647 | 43.64 | |
Labour Party | 23,353 | 39.74 | |
Liberal Party | 9,767 | 16.62 | |
Majority | 2,294 | 3.90 | |
Dudley East | |||
41,225/60,367 | 68.29 | ||
Labour Party | 23,621 | 57.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,430 | 27.73 | |
Liberal Party | 5,003 | 12.14 | |
National Front | 1,171 | 2.84 | |
Majority | 12,191 | 29.57 | |
Dudley West | |||
56,214/74,731 | 75.22 | ||
Labour Party | 28,740 | 51.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,215 | 35.96 | |
Liberal Party | 7,259 | 12.91 | |
Majority | 8,525 | 15.17 | |
Dulwich | |||
43,987/67,528 | 65.14 | ||
Labour Party | 21,790 | 49.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,331 | 32.58 | |
Liberal Party | 7,866 | 17.88 | |
Majority | 7,459 | 16.96 | |
Dumfries | |||
47,447/61,857 | 76.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,386 | 38.75 | |
Labour Party | 12,558 | 26.47 | |
Scottish National Party | 12,542 | 26.43 | |
Liberal Party | 3,961 | 8.35 | |
Majority | 5,828 | 12.28 | |
Dundee East | |||
46,343/63,152 | 73.38 | ||
Scottish National Party | 22,120 | 47.73 | |
Labour Party | 15,137 | 32.66 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,784 | 16.80 | |
Liberal Party | 1,302 | 2.81 | |
Majority | 6,983 | 15.07 | |
Dundee West | |||
47,503/63,916 | 74.32 | ||
Labour Party | 19,480 | 41.01 | |
Scottish National Party | 16,678 | 35.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,769 | 18.46 | |
Liberal Party | 2,195 | 4.62 | |
Communist Party | 381 | 0.80 | |
Majority | 2,802 | 5.90 | |
Dunfermline | |||
46,060/60,680 | 75.91 | ||
Labour Party | 18,470 | 40.10 | |
Scottish National Party | 13,179 | 28.61 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,611 | 23.04 | |
Liberal Party | 3,800 | 8.25 | |
Majority | 5,291 | 11.49 | |
Durham | |||
53,505/74,692 | 71.63 | ||
Labour Party | 31,305 | 58.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,189 | 24.65 | |
Liberal Party | 9,011 | 16.84 | |
Majority | 18,116 | 33.86 | |
Ealing Acton | |||
39,099/56,680 | 68.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,669 | 45.19 | |
Labour Party | 16,861 | 43.12 | |
Liberal Party | 4,569 | 11.69 | |
Majority | 808 | 2.07 | |
Ealing North | |||
54,577/73,882 | 73.87 | ||
Labour Party | 24,574 | 45.03 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,652 | 39.67 | |
Liberal Party | 8,351 | 15.30 | |
Majority | 2,922 | 5.35 | |
Ealing Southall | |||
45,010/70,818 | 63.56 | ||
Labour Party | 24,218 | 53.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,235 | 31.63 | |
Liberal Party | 6,557 | 14.57 | |
Majority | 9,983 | 22.18 | |
Easington | |||
44,036/63,798 | 69.02 | ||
Labour Party | 28,984 | 65.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,047 | 18.27 | |
Liberal Party | 7,005 | 15.91 | |
Majority | 20,937 | 47.55 | |
East Aberdeenshire | |||
33,642/47,736 | 70.48 | ||
Scottish National Party | 16,304 | 48.46 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,933 | 35.47 | |
Labour Party | 3,173 | 9.43 | |
Liberal Party | 2,232 | 6.63 | |
Majority | 4,371 | 12.99 | |
East Dunbartonshire | |||
49,838/61,779 | 80.67 | ||
Scottish National Party | 15,551 | 31.20 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,529 | 31.16 | |
Labour Party | 15,122 | 30.34 | |
Liberal Party | 3,636 | 7.30 | |
Majority | 22 | 0.04 | |
East Fife | |||
41,605/56,453 | 73.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,116 | 38.74 | |
Scottish National Party | 13,202 | 31.73 | |
Labour Party | 7,040 | 16.92 | |
Liberal Party | 5,247 | 12.61 | |
Majority | 2,914 | 7.00 | |
East Flint | |||
55,183/69,255 | 79.68 | ||
Labour Party | 27,002 | 48.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,416 | 31.56 | |
Liberal Party | 8,986 | 16.28 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,779 | 3.22 | |
Majority | 9,586 | 17.37 | |
East Grinstead | |||
41,438/55,588 | 74.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,035 | 53.18 | |
Liberal Party | 12,755 | 30.78 | |
Labour Party | 6,648 | 16.04 | |
Majority | 9,280 | 22.39 | |
East Hertfordshire | |||
65,779/88,824 | 74.06 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,334 | 44.59 | |
Labour Party | 20,999 | 31.92 | |
Liberal Party | 15,446 | 23.48 | |
Majority | 8,335 | 12.67 | |
East Kilbride | |||
52,073/65,799 | 79.14 | ||
Labour Party | 21,810 | 41.88 | |
Scottish National Party | 19,106 | 36.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,513 | 16.35 | |
Liberal Party | 2,644 | 5.08 | |
Majority | 2,704 | 5.19 | |
East Renfrewshire | |||
47,996/61,811 | 77.65 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,847 | 41.35 | |
Scottish National Party | 11,137 | 23.20 | |
Labour Party | 9,997 | 20.83 | |
Liberal Party | 7,015 | 14.62 | |
Majority | 8,710 | 18.15 | |
East Surrey | |||
42,406/55,657 | 76.19 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,227 | 52.41 | |
Liberal Party | 12,382 | 29.20 | |
Labour Party | 7,797 | 18.39 | |
Majority | 9,845 | 23.22 | |
Eastbourne | |||
55,689/74,684 | 74.57 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,442 | 54.66 | |
Liberal Party | 14,417 | 25.89 | |
Labour Party | 10,830 | 19.45 | |
Majority | 16,025 | 28.78 | |
Eastleigh | |||
59,755/75,806 | 78.83 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,869 | 44.97 | |
Labour Party | 19,054 | 31.89 | |
Liberal Party | 13,832 | 23.15 | |
Majority | 7,815 | 13.08 | |
Ebbw Vale | |||
28,647/37,631 | 76.13 | ||
Labour Party | 21,226 | 74.10 | |
Liberal Party | 3,167 | 11.06 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,153 | 7.52 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,101 | 7.33 | |
Majority | 18,059 | 63.04 | |
Eccles | |||
41,908/57,533 | 72.84 | ||
Labour Party | 22,328 | 53.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,062 | 31.17 | |
Liberal Party | 6,170 | 14.72 | |
Communist Party | 348 | 0.83 | |
Majority | 9,266 | 22.11 | |
Edinburgh Central | |||
27,634/40,956 | 67.47 | ||
Labour Party | 11,129 | 40.27 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,176 | 25.97 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,866 | 24.85 | |
Liberal Party | 2,463 | 8.91 | |
Majority | 3,953 | 14.30 | |
Edinburgh East | |||
43,784/57,460 | 76.20 | ||
Labour Party | 19,669 | 44.92 | |
Scottish National Party | 11,213 | 25.61 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,111 | 23.09 | |
Liberal Party | 2,578 | 5.89 | |
Communist Party | 213 | 0.49 | |
Majority | 8,456 | 19.31 | |
Edinburgh Leith | |||
29,495/39,407 | 74.85 | ||
Labour Party | 11,708 | 39.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,263 | 28.01 | |
Scottish National Party | 7,688 | 26.07 | |
Liberal Party | 1,836 | 6.22 | |
Majority | 3,445 | 11.68 | |
Edinburgh North | |||
32,679/47,215 | 69.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,856 | 39.34 | |
Labour Party | 8,465 | 25.90 | |
Scottish National Party | 7,681 | 23.50 | |
Liberal Party | 3,677 | 11.25 | |
Majority | 4,391 | 13.44 | |
Edinburgh Pentlands | |||
41,509/54,955 | 75.53 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,083 | 33.93 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 12,826 | 30.90 | |
Scottish National Party | 10,189 | 24.55 | |
Liberal Party | 4,411 | 10.63 | |
Majority | 1,257 | 3.03 | |
Edinburgh South | |||
41,653/56,154 | 74.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,962 | 35.92 | |
Labour Party | 11,736 | 28.18 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,034 | 21.69 | |
Liberal Party | 5,921 | 14.22 | |
Majority | 3,226 | 7.74 | |
Edinburgh West | |||
40,247/52,569 | 76.56 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,354 | 38.15 | |
Labour Party | 10,152 | 25.22 | |
Scottish National Party | 8,135 | 20.21 | |
Liberal Party | 6,606 | 16.41 | |
Majority | 5,202 | 12.93 | |
Edmonton | |||
41,224/61,462 | 67.07 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 20,229 | 49.07 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,401 | 32.51 | |
Liberal Party | 5,699 | 13.82 | |
National Front | 1,895 | 4.60 | |
Majority | 6,828 | 16.56 | |
Enfield North | |||
47,823/67,803 | 70.53 | ||
Labour Party | 20,880 | 43.66 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,087 | 33.64 | |
Liberal Party | 9,526 | 19.92 | |
National Front | 1,330 | 2.78 | |
Majority | 4,793 | 10.02 | |
Enfield Southgate | |||
48,031/70,919 | 67.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,888 | 53.90 | |
Labour Party | 10,966 | 22.83 | |
Liberal Party | 9,922 | 20.66 | |
National Front | 1,255 | 2.61 | |
Majority | 14,922 | 31.07 | |
Epping Forest | |||
46,962/64,038 | 73.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,392 | 47.68 | |
Labour Party | 15,618 | 33.26 | |
Liberal Party | 8,952 | 19.06 | |
Majority | 6,774 | 14.42 | |
Epsom & Ewell | |||
59,399/80,576 | 73.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,109 | 54.06 | |
Liberal Party | 15,819 | 26.63 | |
Labour Party | 11,471 | 19.31 | |
Majority | 16,290 | 27.42 | |
6 April 1978 Resignation of Rt Hon Sir Peter Rawlinson. | |||
27 April 1978 | 44,402/80,931 | 54.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,242 | 63.61 | |
Labour Party | 7,314 | 16.47 | |
Liberal Party | 5,673 | 12.78 | |
Royalist | 2,350 | 5.29 | |
National Front | 823 | 1.85 | |
Majority | 20,928 | 47.13 | |
Erith & Crayford | |||
44,296/60,579 | 73.12 | ||
Labour Party | 22,670 | 51.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,203 | 32.06 | |
Liberal Party | 7,423 | 16.76 | |
Majority | 8,467 | 19.11 | |
Esher | |||
35,351/47,560 | 74.33 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,741 | 55.84 | |
Liberal Party | 8,881 | 25.12 | |
Labour Party | 6,729 | 19.03 | |
Majority | 10,860 | 30.72 | |
Eton & Slough | |||
46,387/63,794 | 72.71 | ||
Labour Party | 22,238 | 47.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,575 | 31.42 | |
Liberal Party | 8,213 | 17.71 | |
National Front | 1,241 | 2.68 | |
Independent | 120 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 7,663 | 16.52 | |
Exeter | |||
53,934/67,167 | 80.30 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,970 | 40.73 | |
Labour Party | 19,622 | 36.38 | |
Liberal Party | 12,342 | 22.88 | |
Majority | 2,348 | 4.35 | |
Eye | |||
50,865/65,694 | 77.43 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,387 | 44.01 | |
Liberal Party | 14,530 | 28.57 | |
Labour Party | 13,948 | 27.42 | |
Majority | 7,857 | 15.45 | |
Falmouth & Camborne | |||
50,718/66,907 | 75.80 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,950 | 47.22 | |
Labour Party | 18,094 | 35.68 | |
Liberal Party | 6,428 | 12.67 | |
Independent Liberal | 2,246 | 4.43 | |
Majority | 5,856 | 11.55 | |
Fareham | |||
44,155/57,317 | 77.04 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,053 | 43.15 | |
Liberal Party | 14,605 | 33.08 | |
Labour Party | 8,153 | 18.46 | |
Independent Conservative | 1,727 | 3.91 | |
National Front | 617 | 1.40 | |
Majority | 4,448 | 10.07 | |
Farnham | |||
47,816/62,720 | 76.24 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,885 | 49.95 | |
Liberal Party | 15,626 | 32.68 | |
Labour Party | 8,305 | 17.37 | |
Majority | 8,259 | 17.27 | |
Farnworth | |||
52,732/70,545 | 74.75 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 28,184 | 53.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,489 | 25.58 | |
Liberal Party | 11,059 | 20.97 | |
Majority | 14,695 | 27.87 | |
Faversham | |||
58,276/75,983 | 76.70 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,087 | 43.05 | |
Labour Party | 22,210 | 38.11 | |
Liberal Party | 10,979 | 18.84 | |
Majority | 2,877 | 4.94 | |
Feltham & Heston | |||
53,613/78,962 | 67.90 | ||
Labour Party | 26,611 | 49.64 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,464 | 32.57 | |
Liberal Party | 7,554 | 14.09 | |
National Front | 1,984 | 3.70 | |
Majority | 9,147 | 17.06 | |
Fermanagh & South Tyrone | |||
63,265/71,343 | 88.68 | ||
Independent Republican | 32,795 | 51.84 | |
Ulster Unionist | 30,285 | 47.87 | |
CPI | 185 | 0.29 | |
Majority | 2,510 | 3.97 | |
Finchley | |||
37,912/53,921 | 70.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,498 | 43.52 | |
Labour Party | 12,587 | 33.20 | |
Liberal Party | 7,834 | 20.66 | |
National Front | 993 | 2.62 | |
Majority | 3,911 | 10.32 | |
11 February 1975 Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher elected Leader of the Conservative Party. | |||
Folkestone & Hythe | |||
45,322/64,701 | 70.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,930 | 46.18 | |
Liberal Party | 12,488 | 27.55 | |
Labour Party | 11,639 | 25.68 | |
Independent | 265 | 0.58 | |
Majority | 8,442 | 18.63 | |
Fulham | |||
41,343/58,293 | 70.92 | ||
Labour Party | 20,616 | 49.87 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,295 | 37.00 | |
Liberal Party | 4,577 | 11.07 | |
National Front | 855 | 2.07 | |
Majority | 5,321 | 12.87 | |
Gainsborough | |||
46,155/61,732 | 74.77 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,163 | 41.52 | |
Liberal Party | 15,195 | 32.92 | |
Labour Party | 11,797 | 25.56 | |
Majority | 3,968 | 8.60 | |
Galloway | |||
30,377/39,407 | 77.09 | ||
Scottish National Party | 12,242 | 40.30 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,212 | 40.20 | |
Liberal Party | 3,181 | 10.47 | |
Labour Party | 2,742 | 9.03 | |
Majority | 30 | 0.10 | |
Gateshead East | |||
44,589/63,478 | 70.24 | ||
Labour Party | 27,620 | 61.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,021 | 22.47 | |
Liberal Party | 6,948 | 15.58 | |
Majority | 17,599 | 39.47 | |
Gateshead West | |||
20,200/30,762 | 65.67 | ||
Labour Party | 13,859 | 68.61 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,432 | 21.94 | |
Liberal Party | 1,909 | 9.45 | |
Majority | 9,427 | 46.67 | |
Gillingham | |||
47,141/62,082 | 75.93 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,042 | 40.39 | |
Labour Party | 15,046 | 31.92 | |
Liberal Party | 12,131 | 25.73 | |
National Front | 922 | 1.96 | |
Majority | 3,996 | 8.48 | |
Glasgow Cathcart | |||
38,195/49,826 | 76.66 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,301 | 42.68 | |
Labour Party | 14,544 | 38.08 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,292 | 16.47 | |
Liberal Party | 1,058 | 2.77 | |
Majority | 1,757 | 4.60 | |
Glasgow Central | |||
14,506/25,516 | 56.85 | ||
Labour Party | 9,231 | 63.64 | |
Scottish National Party | 2,790 | 19.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 1,880 | 12.96 | |
Liberal Party | 605 | 4.17 | |
Majority | 6,441 | 44.40 | |
Glasgow Craigton | |||
33,585/44,333 | 75.76 | ||
Labour Party | 16,952 | 50.47 | |
Scottish National Party | 8,171 | 24.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,734 | 20.05 | |
Liberal Party | 1,728 | 5.15 | |
Majority | 8,781 | 26.15 | |
Glasgow Garscadden | |||
38,756/54,700 | 70.85 | ||
Labour Party | 19,737 | 50.93 | |
Scottish National Party | 12,100 | 31.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,004 | 12.91 | |
Liberal Party | 1,915 | 4.94 | |
Majority | 7,637 | 19.71 | |
18 January 1978 Death of William Small. | |||
13 April 1978 | 36,364/52,603 | 69.13 | |
Labour Party | 16,507 | 45.39 | |
Scottish National Party | 11,955 | 32.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,746 | 18.55 | |
Scottish Labour | 583 | 1.60 | |
Communist Party | 407 | 1.12 | |
Socialist Workers Party | 166 | 0.46 | |
Majority | 4,552 | 12.52 | |
Glasgow Govan | |||
23,012/32,094 | 71.70 | ||
Labour Party | 11,392 | 49.50 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,440 | 41.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 1,623 | 7.05 | |
Liberal Party | 444 | 1.93 | |
National Front | 86 | 0.37 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 27 | 0.12 | |
Majority | 1,952 | 8.48 | |
Glasgow Hillhead | |||
30,203/41,726 | 72.38 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,203 | 37.09 | |
Labour Party | 8,507 | 28.17 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,897 | 22.84 | |
Liberal Party | 3,596 | 11.91 | |
Majority | 2,696 | 8.93 | |
Glasgow Kelvingrove | |||
27,024/42,654 | 63.36 | ||
Labour Party | 11,567 | 42.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,448 | 27.56 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,274 | 23.22 | |
Liberal Party | 1,735 | 6.42 | |
Majority | 4,119 | 15.24 | |
Glasgow Maryhill | |||
33,983/51,545 | 65.93 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,589 | 57.64 | |
Scottish National Party | 10,171 | 29.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,160 | 9.30 | |
Liberal Party | 1,063 | 3.13 | |
Majority | 9,418 | 27.71 | |
Glasgow Pollok | |||
42,614/59,451 | 71.68 | ||
Labour Party | 18,695 | 43.87 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,604 | 27.23 | |
Scottish National Party | 10,041 | 23.56 | |
Liberal Party | 2,274 | 5.34 | |
Majority | 7,091 | 16.64 | |
Glasgow Provan | |||
35,181/54,975 | 63.99 | ||
Labour Party | 20,602 | 58.56 | |
Scottish National Party | 10,628 | 30.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,448 | 9.80 | |
Communist Party | 503 | 1.43 | |
Majority | 9,974 | 28.35 | |
Glasgow Queen's Park | |||
25,975/38,776 | 66.99 | ||
Labour Party | 14,574 | 56.11 | |
Scottish National Party | 5,660 | 21.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,421 | 17.02 | |
Liberal Party | 966 | 3.72 | |
Communist Party | 354 | 1.36 | |
Majority | 8,914 | 34.32 | |
Glasgow Shettleston | |||
24,666/38,324 | 64.36 | ||
Labour Party | 13,391 | 54.29 | |
Scottish National Party | 7,042 | 28.55 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,543 | 14.36 | |
Liberal Party | 690 | 2.80 | |
Majority | 6,349 | 25.74 | |
Glasgow Springburn | |||
31,955/48,066 | 66.48 | ||
Labour Party | 17,444 | 54.59 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,049 | 28.32 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,245 | 13.28 | |
Liberal Party | 865 | 2.71 | |
Communist Party | 352 | 1.10 | |
Majority | 8,395 | 26.27 | |
Gloucester | |||
49,157/62,486 | 78.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,664 | 46.11 | |
Labour Party | 19,136 | 38.93 | |
Liberal Party | 7,357 | 14.97 | |
Majority | 3,528 | 7.18 | |
Goole | |||
44,796/64,614 | 69.33 | ||
Labour Party | 26,804 | 59.84 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,707 | 28.37 | |
Liberal Party | 5,285 | 11.80 | |
Majority | 14,097 | 31.47 | |
Gosport | |||
36,809/48,858 | 75.34 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,487 | 47.51 | |
Labour Party | 10,621 | 28.85 | |
Liberal Party | 8,701 | 23.64 | |
Majority | 6,866 | 18.65 | |
Gower | |||
43,752/56,856 | 76.95 | ||
Labour Party | 25,067 | 57.29 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,863 | 20.26 | |
Liberal Party | 5,453 | 12.46 | |
Plaid Cymru | 4,369 | 9.99 | |
Majority | 16,204 | 37.04 | |
Grantham | |||
58,198/78,385 | 74.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,738 | 47.66 | |
Labour Party | 19,708 | 33.86 | |
Liberal Party | 10,752 | 18.47 | |
Majority | 8,030 | 13.80 | |
Gravesend | |||
68,620/87,247 | 78.65 | ||
Labour Party | 29,569 | 43.09 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,264 | 39.73 | |
Liberal Party | 10,244 | 14.93 | |
National Front | 1,304 | 1.90 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 239 | 0.35 | |
Majority | 2,305 | 3.36 | |
Greenock & Port Glasgow | |||
44,152/62,126 | 71.07 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 21,279 | 48.19 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,324 | 21.12 | |
Liberal Party | 8,580 | 19.43 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,969 | 11.25 | |
Majority | 11,955 | 27.08 | |
Greenwich | |||
34,496/52,834 | 65.29 | ||
Labour Party | 19,155 | 55.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,249 | 26.81 | |
Liberal Party | 5,838 | 16.92 | |
Independent | 254 | 0.74 | |
Majority | 9,906 | 28.72 | |
David Green sought election as a Mulberry Club - Abortion isn't Right candidate. | |||
Grimsby | |||
45,979/66,284 | 69.37 | ||
Labour Party | 21,657 | 47.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,675 | 31.92 | |
Liberal Party | 9,481 | 20.62 | |
Independent Labour | 166 | 0.36 | |
Majority | 6,982 | 15.19 | |
19 February 1977 Death of Rt Hon Tony Crosland. | |||
28 April 1977 | 46,697/66,525 | 70.19 | |
Labour Party | 21,890 | 46.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,370 | 45.76 | |
Liberal Party | 3,128 | 6.70 | |
Socialist Workers Party | 215 | 0.46 | |
Sunshine | 64 | 0.14 | |
Independent | 30 | 0.06 | |
Majority | 520 | 1.11 | |
Max Nottingham sought election as the "Malcolm Muggeridge Fan Club". | |||
Guildford | |||
51,951/72,283 | 71.87 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,564 | 49.21 | |
Liberal Party | 14,660 | 28.22 | |
Labour Party | 11,727 | 22.57 | |
Majority | 10,904 | 20.99 | |
Hackney Central | |||
25,621/48,517 | 52.81 | ||
Labour Party | 17,650 | 68.89 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,797 | 18.72 | |
Liberal Party | 3,174 | 12.39 | |
Majority | 12,853 | 50.17 | |
Hackney North & Stoke Newington | |||
27,914/52,862 | 52.81 | ||
Labour Party | 16,525 | 59.20 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,972 | 21.39 | |
Liberal Party | 3,796 | 13.60 | |
National Front | 1,044 | 3.74 | |
Communist Party | 418 | 1.50 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 159 | 0.57 | |
Majority | 10,553 | 37.81 | |
Hackney South & Shoreditch | |||
27,088/49,530 | 54.69 | ||
Labour Party | 17,333 | 63.99 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,038 | 14.91 | |
Liberal Party | 3,173 | 11.71 | |
National Front | 2,544 | 9.39 | |
Majority | 13,295 | 49.08 | |
Halesowen & Stourbridge | |||
62,596/82,173 | 76.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,387 | 38.96 | |
Labour Party | 23,537 | 37.60 | |
Liberal Party | 14,672 | 23.44 | |
Majority | 850 | 1.36 | |
Halifax | |||
47,386/63,548 | 74.57 | ||
Labour Party | 20,976 | 44.27 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,798 | 35.45 | |
Liberal Party | 8,693 | 18.35 | |
Powellite | 919 | 1.94 | |
Majority | 4,178 | 8.82 | |
Haltemprice | |||
57,155/76,236 | 74.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,206 | 49.35 | |
Liberal Party | 16,566 | 28.98 | |
Labour Party | 12,383 | 21.67 | |
Majority | 11,640 | 20.37 | |
Hamilton | |||
38,883/50,346 | 77.23 | ||
Labour Party | 18,487 | 47.55 | |
Scottish National Party | 15,155 | 38.98 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,682 | 9.47 | |
Liberal Party | 1,559 | 4.01 | |
Majority | 3,332 | 8.57 | |
23 March 1978 Death of Alexander Wilson. | |||
31 May 1978 | 37,035/51,352 | 72.12 | |
Labour Party | 18,880 | 50.98 | |
Scottish National Party | 12,388 | 33.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,818 | 13.01 | |
Liberal Party | 949 | 2.56 | |
Majority | 6,492 | 17.53 | |
Hammersmith North | |||
33,833/52,362 | 64.61 | ||
Labour Party | 18,061 | 53.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,939 | 29.38 | |
Liberal Party | 5,200 | 15.37 | |
Irish Civil Rights Association | 633 | 1.87 | |
Majority | 8,122 | 24.01 | |
Hampstead | |||
40,414/64,078 | 63.07 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,139 | 44.88 | |
Labour Party | 16,414 | 40.61 | |
Liberal Party | 5,566 | 13.77 | |
Irish Civil Rights Association | 146 | 0.36 | |
Socialist Party of Great Britain | 118 | 0.29 | |
Independent | 31 | 0.08 | |
Majority | 1,725 | 4.27 | |
Harborough | |||
50,277/65,837 | 76.37 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,776 | 51.27 | |
Liberal Party | 12,567 | 25.00 | |
Labour Party | 11,934 | 23.74 | |
Majority | 13,209 | 26.27 | |
Harlow | |||
47,340/62,940 | 75.21 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 24,961 | 52.73 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,510 | 24.31 | |
Liberal Party | 10,869 | 22.96 | |
Majority | 13,451 | 28.41 | |
Harrogate | |||
45,648/64,743 | 70.51 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,583 | 53.85 | |
Liberal Party | 11,269 | 24.69 | |
Labour Party | 8,047 | 17.63 | |
National Front | 1,030 | 2.26 | |
Independent Liberal | 719 | 1.58 | |
Majority | 13,314 | 29.17 | |
Harrow Central | |||
33,023/45,250 | 72.98 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,356 | 43.47 | |
Labour Party | 12,288 | 37.21 | |
Liberal Party | 5,566 | 16.85 | |
National Front | 813 | 2.46 | |
Majority | 2,068 | 6.26 | |
Harrow East | |||
36,936/49,303 | 74.92 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,073 | 46.22 | |
Labour Party | 13,595 | 36.81 | |
Liberal Party | 6,268 | 16.97 | |
Majority | 3,478 | 9.42 | |
Harrow West | |||
42,169/56,626 | 74.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,924 | 51.99 | |
Labour Party | 10,342 | 24.53 | |
Liberal Party | 9,903 | 23.48 | |
Majority | 11,582 | 27.47 | |
Hartlepool | |||
47,300/65,325 | 72.41 | ||
Labour Party | 24,440 | 51.67 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,546 | 34.98 | |
Liberal Party | 6,314 | 13.35 | |
Majority | 7,894 | 16.69 | |
Harwich | |||
64,146/88,694 | 72.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,963 | 46.71 | |
Labour Party | 19,135 | 29.83 | |
Liberal Party | 15,048 | 23.46 | |
Majority | 10,828 | 16.88 | |
Hastings | |||
40,815/57,011 | 71.59 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,337 | 44.93 | |
Labour Party | 13,685 | 33.53 | |
Liberal Party | 8,793 | 21.54 | |
Majority | 4,652 | 11.40 | |
Havant & Waterloo | |||
55,643/75,447 | 73.75 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,880 | 44.71 | |
Liberal Party | 16,148 | 29.02 | |
Labour Party | 14,615 | 26.27 | |
Majority | 8,732 | 15.69 | |
Hayes & Harlington | |||
38,885/55,946 | 69.50 | ||
Labour Party | 20,291 | 52.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,871 | 27.96 | |
Liberal Party | 6,336 | 16.29 | |
National Front | 1,189 | 3.06 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 198 | 0.51 | |
Majority | 9,420 | 24.23 | |
Hazel Grove | |||
55,720/67,630 | 82.39 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,012 | 44.89 | |
Liberal Party | 22,181 | 39.81 | |
Labour Party | 8,527 | 15.30 | |
Majority | 2,831 | 5.08 | |
Hemel Hempstead | |||
68,458/83,769 | 81.72 | ||
Labour Party | 29,223 | 42.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,738 | 41.98 | |
Liberal Party | 10,497 | 15.33 | |
Majority | 485 | 0.71 | |
Hemsworth | |||
48,969/69,788 | 70.17 | ||
Labour Party | 37,467 | 76.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,895 | 12.04 | |
Liberal Party | 5,607 | 11.45 | |
Majority | 31,572 | 64.47 | |
Hendon North | |||
36,670/50,744 | 72.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,299 | 44.45 | |
Labour Party | 14,549 | 39.68 | |
Liberal Party | 5,822 | 15.88 | |
Majority | 1,750 | 4.77 | |
Hendon South | |||
36,173/51,876 | 69.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,866 | 46.63 | |
Labour Party | 11,903 | 32.91 | |
Liberal Party | 7,404 | 20.47 | |
Majority | 4,963 | 13.72 | |
Henley | |||
46,253/62,460 | 74.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,554 | 48.76 | |
Liberal Party | 12,288 | 26.57 | |
Labour Party | 11,411 | 24.67 | |
Majority | 10,266 | 22.20 | |
Hereford | |||
43,828/57,816 | 75.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,060 | 38.92 | |
Liberal Party | 15,948 | 36.39 | |
Labour Party | 10,820 | 24.69 | |
Majority | 1,112 | 2.54 | |
Hertford & Stevenage | |||
62,701/82,193 | 76.29 | ||
Labour Party | 29,548 | 47.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,502 | 32.70 | |
Liberal Party | 11,419 | 18.21 | |
National Front | 1,232 | 1.96 | |
Majority | 9,046 | 14.43 | |
Hexham | |||
49,054/65,069 | 75.39 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,352 | 43.53 | |
Labour Party | 16,711 | 34.07 | |
Liberal Party | 10,991 | 22.41 | |
Majority | 4,641 | 9.46 | |
Heywood & Royton | |||
59,482/77,687 | 76.57 | ||
Labour Party | 27,206 | 45.74 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,307 | 32.46 | |
Liberal Party | 12,969 | 21.80 | |
Majority | 7,899 | 13.28 | |
High Peak | |||
45,959/57,081 | 80.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,043 | 41.43 | |
Labour Party | 17,041 | 37.08 | |
Liberal Party | 9,875 | 21.49 | |
Majority | 2,002 | 4.36 | |
Hitchin | |||
57,952/72,296 | 80.16 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,842 | 44.59 | |
Labour Party | 22,656 | 39.09 | |
Liberal Party | 9,454 | 16.31 | |
Majority | 3,186 | 5.50 | |
Holborn & St Pancras South | |||
21,077/39,166 | 53.81 | ||
Labour Party | 11,790 | 55.94 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,349 | 30.12 | |
Liberal Party | 2,938 | 13.94 | |
Majority | 5,441 | 25.81 | |
Holland with Boston | |||
58,082/80,435 | 72.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,145 | 48.46 | |
Labour Party | 19,461 | 33.51 | |
Liberal Party | 10,476 | 18.04 | |
Majority | 8,684 | 14.95 | |
Honiton | |||
55,268/73,057 | 75.65 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,720 | 53.77 | |
Liberal Party | 16,500 | 29.85 | |
Labour Party | 9,048 | 16.37 | |
Majority | 13,220 | 23.92 | |
Horncastle | |||
35,105/49,616 | 70.75 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,750 | 47.71 | |
Liberal Party | 11,506 | 32.78 | |
Labour Party | 6,849 | 19.51 | |
Majority | 5,244 | 14.94 | |
Hornchurch | |||
43,952/60,407 | 72.76 | ||
Labour Party | 21,336 | 48.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,535 | 33.07 | |
Liberal Party | 7,284 | 16.57 | |
People | 797 | 1.81 | |
Majority | 6,801 | 15.47 | |
Hornsey | |||
39,926/58,270 | 68.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,226 | 43.14 | |
Labour Party | 16,444 | 41.19 | |
Liberal Party | 5,283 | 13.23 | |
National Front | 973 | 2.44 | |
Majority | 782 | 1.96 | |
Horsham & Crawley | |||
70,984/90,913 | 78.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,867 | 42.08 | |
Labour Party | 26,168 | 36.86 | |
Liberal Party | 13,848 | 19.51 | |
National Front | 1,101 | 1.55 | |
Majority | 3,699 | 5.21 | |
Houghton-le-Spring | |||
43,396/59,889 | 72.46 | ||
Labour Party | 29,699 | 68.44 | |
Liberal Party | 9,298 | 21.43 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,399 | 10.14 | |
Majority | 20,401 | 47.01 | |
Hove | |||
50,993/73,023 | 69.83 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,345 | 53.63 | |
Liberal Party | 12,469 | 24.45 | |
Labour Party | 11,179 | 21.92 | |
Majority | 14,876 | 29.17 | |
Howden | |||
41,757/57,498 | 72.62 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,583 | 46.90 | |
Liberal Party | 14,803 | 35.45 | |
Labour Party | 7,371 | 17.65 | |
Majority | 4,780 | 11.45 | |
Huddersfield East | |||
38,720/53,502 | 72.37 | ||
Labour Party | 19,522 | 50.42 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,108 | 28.69 | |
Liberal Party | 7,326 | 18.92 | |
National Front | 764 | 1.97 | |
Majority | 8,414 | 21.73 | |
Huddersfield West | |||
40,799/53,498 | 76.26 | ||
Labour Party | 16,882 | 41.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,518 | 38.04 | |
Liberal Party | 7,503 | 18.39 | |
National Front | 760 | 1.86 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 136 | 0.33 | |
Majority | 1,364 | 3.34 | |
Huntingdon | |||
59,886/79,705 | 75.13 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,989 | 45.07 | |
Labour Party | 17,745 | 29.63 | |
Liberal Party | 15,152 | 25.30 | |
Majority | 9,244 | 15.44 | |
Huyton | |||
52,223/73,460 | 71.09 | ||
Labour Party | 31,750 | 60.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,517 | 29.71 | |
Liberal Party | 4,956 | 9.49 | |
Majority | 16,233 | 31.08 | |
Ilford North | |||
48,544/65,179 | 74.48 | ||
Labour Party | 20,621 | 42.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,843 | 40.88 | |
Liberal Party | 8,080 | 16.64 | |
Majority | 778 | 1.60 | |
29 October 1977 Death of Millie Miller. | |||
2 March 1978 | 44,819/64,815 | 69.15 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,548 | 50.31 | |
Labour Party | 17,051 | 38.04 | |
Liberal Party | 2,248 | 5.02 | |
National Front | 2,126 | 4.74 | |
Independent Conservative | 671 | 1.50 | |
Independent | 89 | 0.20 | |
New Britain | 48 | 0.11 | |
Independent | 38 | 0.08 | |
Majority | 5,497 | 12.26 | |
Carole Rowe was the nominee of the East London People's Front, an anti-fascist and anti-racist organisation. | |||
Thomas Iremonger had failed to secure re-adoption as the Conservative Party candidate following his defeat in October 1974. | |||
Alfred Burr withdrew 6 days before polling when it was reported in the local press that he was on two years probation for sexually assaulting two children in 1977. | |||
Bill Boaks sought election as "Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident". | |||
Ilford South | |||
39,230/56,244 | 69.75 | ||
Labour Party | 17,538 | 44.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,789 | 40.25 | |
Liberal Party | 5,734 | 14.62 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 169 | 0.43 | |
Majority | 1,749 | 4.46 | |
Ilkeston | |||
56,119/74,962 | 74.86 | ||
Labour Party | 31,153 | 55.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,295 | 27.25 | |
Liberal Party | 9,671 | 17.23 | |
Majority | 15,858 | 28.26 | |
Ince | |||
55,812/77,095 | 72.39 | ||
Labour Party | 35,453 | 63.52 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,923 | 21.36 | |
Liberal Party | 8,436 | 15.12 | |
Majority | 23,530 | 42.16 | |
Inverness | |||
40,531/57,527 | 70.46 | ||
Liberal Party | 13,128 | 32.39 | |
Scottish National Party | 11,994 | 29.59 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,922 | 22.01 | |
Labour Party | 6,332 | 15.62 | |
Fine Gael | 155 | 0.38 | |
Majority | 1,134 | 2.80 | |
Ipswich | |||
69,694/87,651 | 79.51 | ||
Labour Party | 31,566 | 45.29 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,833 | 42.81 | |
Liberal Party | 8,295 | 11.90 | |
Majority | 1,733 | 2.49 | |
Isle of Ely | |||
52,815/68,473 | 77.13 | ||
Liberal Party | 22,040 | 41.73 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,355 | 36.65 | |
Labour Party | 11,420 | 21.62 | |
Majority | 2,685 | 5.08 | |
Isle of Wight | |||
65,916/85,877 | 76.76 | ||
Liberal Party | 29,697 | 45.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,657 | 41.96 | |
Labour Party | 8,562 | 12.99 | |
Majority | 2,040 | 3.09 | |
Islington Central | |||
25,106/45,339 | 55.37 | ||
Labour Party | 14,689 | 58.51 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,296 | 21.09 | |
Liberal Party | 3,786 | 15.08 | |
National Front | 1,335 | 5.32 | |
Majority | 9,393 | 37.41 | |
Islington North | |||
22,422/41,384 | 54.18 | ||
Labour Party | 12,973 | 57.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,155 | 27.45 | |
Liberal Party | 2,736 | 12.20 | |
LAB and Dem | 558 | 2.49 | |
Majority | 6,818 | 30.41 | |
Denis Fallon sought election as a Labour and Democrat candidate, and was the nominee of a local organisation, the Society for the Advancement of Democracy. | |||
Islington South & Finsbury | |||
23,668/42,244 | 56.03 | ||
Labour Party | 14,544 | 61.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,951 | 20.92 | |
Liberal Party | 3,661 | 15.47 | |
Communist Party | 512 | 2.16 | |
Majority | 9,593 | 40.53 | |
Jarrow | |||
39,083/54,721 | 71.42 | ||
Labour Party | 24,558 | 62.84 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,707 | 22.28 | |
Liberal Party | 5,818 | 14.89 | |
Majority | 15,851 | 40.56 | |
Keighley | |||
42,934/51,727 | 83.00 | ||
Labour Party | 19,569 | 45.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,488 | 38.40 | |
Liberal Party | 5,839 | 13.60 | |
National Front | 859 | 2.00 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 179 | 0.42 | |
Majority | 3,081 | 7.18 | |
Kensington | |||
34,443/61,097 | 56.37 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,562 | 45.18 | |
Labour Party | 13,645 | 39.62 | |
Liberal Party | 5,236 | 15.20 | |
Majority | 1,917 | 5.57 | |
Kettering | |||
62,808/85,779 | 73.22 | ||
Labour Party | 30,970 | 49.31 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,800 | 31.52 | |
Liberal Party | 12,038 | 19.17 | |
Majority | 11,170 | 17.78 | |
Kidderminster | |||
59,168/78,948 | 74.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,602 | 43.27 | |
Labour Party | 18,833 | 31.83 | |
Liberal Party | 14,733 | 24.90 | |
Majority | 6,769 | 11.44 | |
Kilmarnock | |||
48,550/60,380 | 80.41 | ||
Labour Party | 22,184 | 45.69 | |
Scottish National Party | 14,655 | 30.19 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,203 | 18.96 | |
Liberal Party | 2,508 | 5.17 | |
Majority | 7,529 | 15.51 | |
Kingston-upon-Hull Central | |||
42,823/63,262 | 67.69 | ||
Labour Party | 22,417 | 52.35 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,596 | 29.41 | |
Liberal Party | 7,810 | 18.24 | |
Majority | 9,821 | 22.93 | |
Kingston-upon-Hull East | |||
54,783/81,598 | 67.14 | ||
Labour Party | 34,190 | 62.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,397 | 18.98 | |
Liberal Party | 10,196 | 18.61 | |
Majority | 23,793 | 43.43 | |
Kingston-upon-Hull West | |||
37,173/57,577 | 64.56 | ||
Labour Party | 20,393 | 54.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,272 | 27.63 | |
Liberal Party | 6,508 | 17.51 | |
Majority | 10,121 | 27.23 | |
Kingston-upon-Thames | |||
42,526/59,238 | 71.79 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,680 | 48.63 | |
Labour Party | 12,266 | 28.84 | |
Liberal Party | 9,580 | 22.53 | |
Majority | 8,414 | 19.79 | |
Kingswood | |||
47,056/55,952 | 84.10 | ||
Labour Party | 20,703 | 44.00 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,137 | 38.54 | |
Liberal Party | 8,216 | 17.46 | |
Majority | 2,566 | 5.45 | |
Kinross & West Perthshire | |||
26,470/35,237 | 75.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,034 | 41.68 | |
Scottish National Party | 10,981 | 41.48 | |
Liberal Party | 2,427 | 9.17 | |
Labour Party | 2,028 | 7.66 | |
Majority | 53 | 0.20 | |
Kirkcaldy | |||
45,602/60,824 | 74.97 | ||
Labour Party | 20,688 | 45.37 | |
Scottish National Party | 14,587 | 31.99 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,539 | 16.53 | |
Liberal Party | 2,788 | 6.11 | |
Majority | 6,101 | 13.38 | |
Knutsford | |||
42,411/55,223 | 76.80 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,636 | 51.02 | |
Liberal Party | 11,210 | 26.43 | |
Labour Party | 9,565 | 22.55 | |
Majority | 10,426 | 24.58 | |
6 November 1978 Resignation of Rt Hon John Davies. | |||
1 March 1979 | 32,902/57,496 | 57.22 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,086 | 67.13 | |
Liberal Party | 5,206 | 15.82 | |
Labour Party | 5,124 | 15.57 | |
Independent Conservative | 486 | 1.48 | |
Majority | 16,880 | 51.30 | |
Michael Byrne advocated a pro-Rhodesia policy. | |||
Lambeth Central | |||
25,617/48,716 | 52.58 | ||
Labour Party | 15,381 | 60.04 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,704 | 26.17 | |
Liberal Party | 3,211 | 12.53 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 233 | 0.91 | |
Communist Party of England | 88 | 0.34 | |
Majority | 8,677 | 33.87 | |
22 February 1978 Death of Marcus Lipton. | |||
20 April 1978 | 20,846/46,826 | 44.52 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 10,311 | 49.46 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,170 | 34.40 | |
National Front | 1,291 | 6.19 | |
Liberal Party | 1,104 | 5.30 | |
Socialist Unity | 287 | 1.38 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 271 | 1.30 | |
Socialist Workers Party | 201 | 0.96 | |
Socialist Party of Great Britain | 91 | 0.44 | |
Independent | 55 | 0.26 | |
Independent | 38 | 0.18 | |
Independent | 27 | 0.13 | |
Majority | 3,141 | 15.07 | |
Stuart Monro was the nominee of the South London People's Front, an anti-fascist and anti-racist organisation. | |||
Lanark | |||
39,794/48,409 | 82.20 | ||
Labour Party | 14,948 | 37.56 | |
Scottish National Party | 14,250 | 35.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,222 | 23.17 | |
Liberal Party | 1,374 | 3.45 | |
Majority | 698 | 1.75 | |
Lancaster | |||
38,820/49,633 | 78.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,540 | 42.61 | |
Labour Party | 15,119 | 38.95 | |
Liberal Party | 7,161 | 18.45 | |
Majority | 1,421 | 3.66 | |
Leeds East | |||
44,476/67,718 | 65.68 | ||
Labour Party | 24,745 | 55.64 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,434 | 27.96 | |
Liberal Party | 6,970 | 15.67 | |
People | 327 | 0.74 | |
Majority | 12,311 | 27.68 | |
Leeds North East | |||
38,607/58,954 | 65.49 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,749 | 48.56 | |
Labour Party | 13,121 | 33.99 | |
Liberal Party | 6,737 | 17.45 | |
Majority | 5,628 | 14.58 | |
Leeds North West | |||
43,122/65,047 | 66.29 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,243 | 44.62 | |
Labour Party | 15,216 | 35.29 | |
Liberal Party | 8,663 | 20.09 | |
Majority | 4,027 | 9.34 | |
Leeds South | |||
33,604/52,689 | 63.78 | ||
Labour Party | 21,653 | 64.44 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,388 | 19.01 | |
Liberal Party | 5,563 | 16.55 | |
Majority | 15,265 | 45.43 | |
Leeds South East | |||
28,050/49,779 | 56.35 | ||
Labour Party | 17,160 | 61.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,144 | 21.90 | |
Liberal Party | 4,429 | 15.79 | |
Communist Party | 317 | 1.13 | |
Majority | 11,016 | 39.27 | |
Leeds West | |||
41,638/60,388 | 68.95 | ||
Labour Party | 20,669 | 49.64 | |
Liberal Party | 13,062 | 31.37 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,907 | 18.99 | |
Majority | 7,607 | 18.27 | |
Leek | |||
65,883/83,910 | 78.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,796 | 46.74 | |
Labour Party | 26,472 | 40.18 | |
Liberal Party | 8,615 | 13.08 | |
Majority | 4,324 | 6.56 | |
Leicester East | |||
46,200/63,881 | 72.32 | ||
Labour Party | 20,688 | 44.78 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,877 | 36.53 | |
Liberal Party | 5,668 | 12.27 | |
National Front | 2,967 | 6.42 | |
Majority | 3,811 | 8.25 | |
Leicester South | |||
49,960/72,539 | 68.87 | ||
Labour Party | 21,588 | 43.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,455 | 40.94 | |
Liberal Party | 5,709 | 11.43 | |
National Front | 2,072 | 4.15 | |
Communist Party of England | 136 | 0.27 | |
Majority | 1,133 | 2.27 | |
Leicester West | |||
44,240/64,632 | 68.45 | ||
Labour Party | 23,406 | 52.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,446 | 30.39 | |
Liberal Party | 5,135 | 11.61 | |
National Front | 2,253 | 5.09 | |
Majority | 9,960 | 22.51 | |
Leigh | |||
48,077/65,037 | 73.92 | ||
Labour Party | 27,036 | 56.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,401 | 25.79 | |
Liberal Party | 8,640 | 17.97 | |
Majority | 14,635 | 30.44 | |
Leominster | |||
34,527/44,045 | 78.39 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,741 | 45.59 | |
Liberal Party | 15,162 | 43.91 | |
Labour Party | 3,624 | 10.50 | |
Majority | 579 | 1.68 | |
Lewes | |||
53,186/72,046 | 73.82 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,588 | 51.87 | |
Liberal Party | 13,741 | 25.84 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 11,857 | 22.29 | |
Majority | 13,847 | 26.04 | |
Lewisham East | |||
47,817/69,521 | 68.78 | ||
Labour Party | 24,350 | 50.92 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,398 | 32.20 | |
Liberal Party | 8,069 | 16.87 | |
Majority | 8,952 | 18.72 | |
Lewisham West | |||
43,741/62,419 | 70.08 | ||
Labour Party | 21,102 | 48.24 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,573 | 35.60 | |
Liberal Party | 5,952 | 13.61 | |
National Front | 1,114 | 2.55 | |
Majority | 5,529 | 12.64 | |
Leyton | |||
40,323/64,328 | 62.68 | ||
Labour Party | 22,130 | 54.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,617 | 26.33 | |
Liberal Party | 5,408 | 13.41 | |
National Front | 2,168 | 5.38 | |
Majority | 11,513 | 28.55 | |
Lichfield & Tamworth | |||
70,127/89,731 | 78.15 | ||
Labour Party | 29,872 | 42.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,541 | 42.13 | |
Liberal Party | 10,714 | 15.28 | |
Majority | 331 | 0.47 | |
Lincoln | |||
39,635/53,008 | 74.77 | ||
Labour Party | 14,698 | 37.08 | |
Democratic Labour | 13,714 | 34.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,223 | 28.32 | |
Majority | 984 | 2.48 | |
Liverpool Edge Hill | |||
25,083/40,962 | 61.23 | ||
Labour Party | 13,023 | 51.92 | |
Liberal Party | 6,852 | 27.32 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,208 | 20.76 | |
Majority | 6,171 | 24.60 | |
15 December 1978 Death of Rt Hon Sir Arthur Irvine. | |||
29 March 1979 | 20,199/35,306 | 57.21 | |
Liberal Party | 12,945 | 64.09 | |
Labour Party | 4,812 | 23.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 1,906 | 9.44 | |
Law and Order | 337 | 1.67 | |
Socialist Unity | 127 | 0.63 | |
Independent | 40 | 0.20 | |
Independent | 32 | 0.16 | |
Majority | 8,133 | 40.26 | |
Michael Taylor claimed he was duped into standing as a National Front candidate by two men in a public house. He agreed and apparently signed the consent to nomination form which was later lodged with a nomination paper describing him as a Gay Liberal. He took no part in the campaign. | |||
Joan Jonker sought election as a Citzens Crusade Against Violence candidate, and campaigned for the restoration of capital punishment. | |||
Liverpool Garston | |||
58,279/81,002 | 71.95 | ||
Labour Party | 27,857 | 47.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,557 | 42.14 | |
Liberal Party | 5,865 | 10.06 | |
Majority | 3,300 | 5.66 | |
Liverpool Kirkdale | |||
28,799/45,332 | 63.53 | ||
Labour Party | 17,686 | 61.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,205 | 28.49 | |
Liberal Party | 2,908 | 10.10 | |
Majority | 9,481 | 32.92 | |
Liverpool Scotland Exchange | |||
18,888/35,136 | 53.76 | ||
Labour Party | 15,154 | 80.23 | |
Independent Conservative | 2,234 | 11.83 | |
Liberal Party | 944 | 5.00 | |
Communist Party | 556 | 2.94 | |
Majority | 12,920 | 68.40 | |
Philip Rankin was the nominee of the local Conservative Association, but his candidature was not approved by the Conservative Party's Standing Advisory Committee on Candidates. | |||
Liverpool Toxteth | |||
26,915/45,874 | 58.67 | ||
Labour Party | 15,312 | 56.89 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,062 | 29.95 | |
Liberal Party | 3,176 | 11.80 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 365 | 1.36 | |
Majority | 7,250 | 26.94 | |
Liverpool Walton | |||
35,495/51,952 | 68.32 | ||
Labour Party | 20,568 | 57.95 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,706 | 30.16 | |
Liberal Party | 4,221 | 11.89 | |
Majority | 9,862 | 27.78 | |
Liverpool Wavertree | |||
41,380/59,703 | 69.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,971 | 45.85 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 16,216 | 39.19 | |
Liberal Party | 6,193 | 14.97 | |
Majority | 2,755 | 6.66 | |
Liverpool West Derby | |||
39,354/58,867 | 66.85 | ||
Labour Party | 23,694 | 60.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,445 | 29.08 | |
Liberal Party | 4,215 | 10.71 | |
Majority | 12,249 | 31.13 | |
Llanelli | |||
49,555/64,483 | 76.85 | ||
Labour Party | 29,474 | 59.48 | |
Liberal Party | 7,173 | 14.47 | |
Plaid Cymru | 6,767 | 13.66 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,141 | 12.39 | |
Majority | 22,301 | 45.00 | |
Londonderry | |||
64,632/93,141 | 69.39 | ||
Ulster Unionist | 35,138 | 54.37 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 26,118 | 40.41 | |
Republican Clubs | 2,530 | 3.91 | |
Independent Labour | 846 | 1.31 | |
Majority | 9,020 | 13.96 | |
Richard Foster was the nominee of the Derry Labour and Trade Union Party. | |||
Loughborough | |||
55,139/70,226 | 78.52 | ||
Labour Party | 22,869 | 41.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,521 | 37.22 | |
Liberal Party | 10,409 | 18.88 | |
National Front | 1,215 | 2.20 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 125 | 0.23 | |
Majority | 2,348 | 4.26 | |
Louth | |||
51,505/70,483 | 73.07 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,819 | 38.48 | |
Liberal Party | 16,939 | 32.89 | |
Labour Party | 14,747 | 28.63 | |
Majority | 2,880 | 5.59 | |
Lowestoft | |||
60,123/76,919 | 78.16 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,510 | 42.43 | |
Labour Party | 23,448 | 39.00 | |
Liberal Party | 11,165 | 18.57 | |
Majority | 2,062 | 3.43 | |
Ludlow | |||
36,365/48,614 | 74.80 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,124 | 47.09 | |
Liberal Party | 10,888 | 29.94 | |
Labour Party | 8,353 | 22.97 | |
Majority | 6,236 | 17.15 | |
Luton East | |||
39,323/53,535 | 73.45 | ||
Labour Party | 17,877 | 45.46 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,200 | 36.11 | |
Liberal Party | 6,947 | 17.67 | |
Irish Civil Rights Association | 299 | 0.76 | |
Majority | 3,677 | 9.35 | |
Luton West | |||
43,654/58,256 | 74.93 | ||
Labour Party | 20,402 | 46.74 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,963 | 31.99 | |
Liberal Party | 9,289 | 21.28 | |
Majority | 6,439 | 14.75 | |
Macclesfield | |||
63,041/80,131 | 78.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,685 | 50.26 | |
Labour Party | 18,592 | 29.49 | |
Liberal Party | 12,764 | 20.25 | |
Majority | 13,093 | 20.77 | |
Maidstone | |||
65,261/88,108 | 74.07 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,852 | 44.21 | |
Liberal Party | 18,581 | 28.47 | |
Labour Party | 17,828 | 27.32 | |
Majority | 10,271 | 15.74 | |
Maldon | |||
47,056/61,712 | 76.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,485 | 43.53 | |
Labour Party | 14,098 | 29.96 | |
Liberal Party | 12,473 | 26.51 | |
Majority | 6,387 | 13.57 | |
Manchester Ardwick | |||
28,156/47,926 | 58.75 | ||
Labour Party | 15,632 | 55.52 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,849 | 31.43 | |
Liberal Party | 3,675 | 13.05 | |
Majority | 6,783 | 24.09 | |
Manchester Blackley | |||
38,752/54,845 | 70.66 | ||
Labour Party | 19,720 | 50.89 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,601 | 32.52 | |
Liberal Party | 5,517 | 14.24 | |
National Front | 914 | 2.36 | |
Majority | 7,119 | 18.37 | |
Manchester Central | |||
21,277/39,846 | 53.40 | ||
Labour Party | 14,753 | 69.34 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,142 | 19.47 | |
Liberal Party | 2,382 | 11.20 | |
Majority | 10,611 | 49.87 | |
Manchester Gorton | |||
39,694/55,942 | 70.96 | ||
Labour Party | 21,287 | 53.63 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,423 | 31.30 | |
Liberal Party | 5,984 | 15.08 | |
Majority | 8,864 | 22.33 | |
Manchester Moss Side | |||
32,333/51,431 | 62.87 | ||
Labour Party | 15,212 | 47.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,101 | 34.33 | |
Liberal Party | 5,686 | 17.59 | |
Irish Civil Rights Association | 238 | 0.74 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 96 | 0.30 | |
Majority | 4,111 | 12.71 | |
16 May 1978 Death of Frank Hatton. | |||
13 July 1978 | 27,073/52,470 | 51.60 | |
Labour Party | 12,556 | 46.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,998 | 40.62 | |
Liberal Party | 2,502 | 9.24 | |
National Front | 623 | 2.30 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 394 | 1.46 | |
Majority | 1,558 | 5.75 | |
Manchester Openshaw | |||
27,985/42,544 | 65.78 | ||
Labour Party | 16,109 | 57.56 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,596 | 27.14 | |
Liberal Party | 3,980 | 14.22 | |
Communist Party | 300 | 1.07 | |
Majority | 8,513 | 30.42 | |
Manchester Withington | |||
39,428/58,186 | 67.76 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,937 | 42.96 | |
Labour Party | 14,936 | 37.88 | |
Liberal Party | 7,555 | 19.16 | |
Majority | 2,001 | 5.08 | |
Manchester Wythenshawe | |||
44,788/65,102 | 68.80 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 26,448 | 59.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,269 | 27.39 | |
Liberal Party | 6,071 | 13.55 | |
Majority | 14,179 | 31.66 | |
Mansfield | |||
50,455/69,536 | 72.56 | ||
Labour Party | 28,964 | 57.41 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,685 | 23.16 | |
Liberal Party | 9,358 | 18.55 | |
Communist Party | 448 | 0.89 | |
Majority | 17,279 | 34.25 | |
Melton | |||
63,257/82,117 | 77.03 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,943 | 48.92 | |
Labour Party | 16,747 | 26.47 | |
Liberal Party | 15,567 | 24.61 | |
Majority | 14,196 | 22.44 | |
Meriden | |||
73,098/97,336 | 75.10 | ||
Labour Party | 34,641 | 47.39 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,675 | 35.12 | |
Liberal Party | 12,782 | 17.49 | |
Majority | 8,966 | 12.27 | |
Merioneth | |||
22,457/26,728 | 84.02 | ||
Plaid Cymru | 9,543 | 42.49 | |
Labour Party | 6,951 | 30.95 | |
Liberal Party | 3,454 | 15.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,509 | 11.17 | |
Majority | 2,592 | 11.54 | |
Merthyr Tydfil | |||
30,111/39,706 | 75.83 | ||
Labour Party | 21,260 | 70.61 | |
Plaid Cymru | 4,455 | 14.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,587 | 8.59 | |
Liberal Party | 1,300 | 4.32 | |
Communist Party | 509 | 1.69 | |
Majority | 16,805 | 55.81 | |
Mid Bedfordshire | |||
58,832/75,153 | 78.28 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,885 | 45.70 | |
Labour Party | 17,559 | 29.85 | |
Liberal Party | 14,388 | 24.46 | |
Majority | 9,326 | 15.85 | |
Mid Oxfordshire | |||
45,591/59,683 | 76.39 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,944 | 45.94 | |
Labour Party | 13,641 | 29.92 | |
Liberal Party | 11,006 | 24.14 | |
Majority | 7,303 | 16.02 | |
Mid Sussex | |||
46,709/61,061 | 76.50 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,176 | 53.90 | |
Liberal Party | 13,129 | 28.11 | |
Labour Party | 8,404 | 17.99 | |
Majority | 12,047 | 25.79 | |
Mid Ulster | |||
64,528/81,689 | 78.99 | ||
Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party | 30,552 | 47.35 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 25,885 | 40.11 | |
Republican Clubs | 8,091 | 12.54 | |
Majority | 4,667 | 7.23 | |
October 1975 John Dunlop resigns from the VUPP. | |||
Middlesbrough | |||
36,855/60,235 | 61.19 | ||
Labour Party | 22,791 | 61.84 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,984 | 24.38 | |
Liberal Party | 5,080 | 13.78 | |
Majority | 13,807 | 37.46 | |
Middleton & Prestwich | |||
58,138/76,715 | 75.78 | ||
Labour Party | 26,639 | 45.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,925 | 39.43 | |
Liberal Party | 8,340 | 14.35 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 234 | 0.40 | |
Majority | 3,714 | 6.39 | |
Midlothian | |||
69,059/89,191 | 77.43 | ||
Labour Party | 28,652 | 41.49 | |
Scottish National Party | 24,568 | 35.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,046 | 16.00 | |
Liberal Party | 4,793 | 6.94 | |
Majority | 4,084 | 5.91 | |
Mitcham & Morden | |||
46,461/65,382 | 71.06 | ||
Labour Party | 22,384 | 48.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,193 | 34.85 | |
Liberal Party | 7,429 | 15.99 | |
Communist Party | 281 | 0.60 | |
Independent | 106 | 0.23 | |
Independent | 68 | 0.15 | |
Majority | 6,191 | 13.33 | |
Monmouth | |||
59,493/74,819 | 79.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,460 | 42.79 | |
Labour Party | 23,118 | 38.86 | |
Liberal Party | 10,076 | 16.94 | |
Plaid Cymru | 839 | 1.41 | |
Majority | 2,342 | 3.94 | |
Montgomery | |||
26,172/33,575 | 77.95 | ||
Liberal Party | 11,280 | 43.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,421 | 28.35 | |
Labour Party | 5,031 | 19.22 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,440 | 9.32 | |
Majority | 3,859 | 14.74 | |
Moray & Nairn | |||
30,766/41,174 | 74.72 | ||
Scottish National Party | 12,667 | 41.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,300 | 39.98 | |
Labour Party | 2,985 | 9.70 | |
Liberal Party | 2,814 | 9.15 | |
Majority | 367 | 1.19 | |
Morecambe & Lonsdale | |||
49,914/68,460 | 72.91 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,877 | 49.84 | |
Labour Party | 12,633 | 25.31 | |
Liberal Party | 12,404 | 24.85 | |
Majority | 12,244 | 24.53 | |
Morpeth | |||
35,571/48,506 | 73.33 | ||
Labour Party | 22,696 | 63.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,009 | 22.52 | |
Liberal Party | 4,866 | 13.68 | |
Majority | 14,687 | 41.29 | |
Motherwell & Wishaw | |||
38,817/51,506 | 75.36 | ||
Labour Party | 17,319 | 44.62 | |
Scottish National Party | 12,357 | 31.83 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,069 | 18.21 | |
Liberal Party | 1,126 | 2.90 | |
Communist Party | 946 | 2.44 | |
Majority | 4,962 | 12.78 | |
Nantwich | |||
46,625/61,180 | 76.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,395 | 43.74 | |
Labour Party | 17,021 | 36.51 | |
Liberal Party | 9,209 | 19.75 | |
Majority | 3,374 | 7.24 | |
Neath | |||
40,733/52,246 | 77.96 | ||
Labour Party | 25,028 | 61.44 | |
Plaid Cymru | 7,305 | 17.93 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,641 | 11.39 | |
Liberal Party | 3,759 | 9.23 | |
Majority | 17,723 | 43.51 | |
Nelson & Colne | |||
39,191/48,344 | 81.07 | ||
Labour Party | 17,505 | 44.67 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,836 | 42.96 | |
Liberal Party | 4,850 | 12.38 | |
Majority | 669 | 1.71 | |
New Forest | |||
57,958/78,090 | 74.22 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,778 | 49.65 | |
Liberal Party | 15,355 | 26.49 | |
Labour Party | 13,825 | 23.85 | |
Majority | 13,423 | 23.16 | |
Newark | |||
55,541/71,329 | 77.87 | ||
Labour Party | 26,598 | 47.89 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,827 | 37.50 | |
Liberal Party | 8,116 | 14.61 | |
Majority | 5,771 | 10.39 | |
Newbury | |||
55,366/72,566 | 76.30 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,499 | 42.44 | |
Liberal Party | 22,477 | 40.60 | |
Labour Party | 9,390 | 16.96 | |
Majority | 1,022 | 1.85 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne Central | |||
14,694/25,156 | 58.41 | ||
Labour Party | 10,546 | 71.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,432 | 16.55 | |
Liberal Party | 1,716 | 11.68 | |
Majority | 8,114 | 55.22 | |
12 October 1976 Resignation of Rt Hon Edward Short. | |||
4 November 1976 | 9,856/24,047 | 40.99 | |
Labour Party | 4,692 | 47.61 | |
Liberal Party | 2,854 | 28.96 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 1,945 | 19.73 | |
Soc Worker | 184 | 1.87 | |
National Front | 181 | 1.84 | |
Majority | 1,838 | 18.65 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne East | |||
32,766/45,640 | 71.79 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 17,312 | 52.84 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,063 | 33.76 | |
Liberal Party | 4,391 | 13.40 | |
Majority | 6,249 | 19.07 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne North | |||
26,154/40,232 | 65.01 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,217 | 42.89 | |
Labour Party | 10,748 | 41.10 | |
Liberal Party | 4,189 | 16.02 | |
Majority | 469 | 1.79 | |
Newcastle upon Tyne West | |||
52,985/76,945 | 68.86 | ||
Labour Party | 30,057 | 56.73 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,983 | 28.28 | |
Liberal Party | 7,945 | 14.99 | |
Majority | 15,074 | 28.45 | |
Newcastle-under-Lyme | |||
56,798/72,762 | 78.06 | ||
Labour Party | 28,154 | 49.57 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,784 | 36.59 | |
Liberal Party | 7,604 | 13.39 | |
UK Front | 256 | 0.45 | |
Majority | 7,370 | 12.98 | |
Sydney Rowe sought election for the United Kingdom Front. | |||
Newham North East | |||
39,036/65,962 | 59.18 | ||
Labour Party | 22,205 | 56.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,664 | 22.19 | |
Liberal Party | 4,880 | 12.50 | |
National Front | 2,715 | 6.96 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 572 | 1.47 | |
Majority | 13,541 | 34.69 | |
8 October 1977 Rt Hon Reg Prentice leaves the Labour Party and joins the Conservative Party. | |||
Newham North West | |||
27,596/53,480 | 51.60 | ||
Labour Party | 18,388 | 66.63 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,007 | 18.14 | |
Liberal Party | 4,201 | 15.22 | |
Majority | 13,381 | 48.49 | |
Newham South | |||
30,835/57,685 | 53.45 | ||
Labour Party | 21,372 | 69.31 | |
Liberal Party | 3,611 | 11.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,440 | 11.16 | |
National Front | 2,412 | 7.82 | |
Majority | 17,761 | 57.60 | |
Newport | |||
56,745/75,041 | 75.62 | ||
Labour Party | 30,069 | 52.99 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,253 | 28.64 | |
Liberal Party | 9,207 | 16.23 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,216 | 2.14 | |
Majority | 13,816 | 24.35 | |
Newton | |||
73,178/95,246 | 76.83 | ||
Labour Party | 38,956 | 53.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,484 | 30.73 | |
Liberal Party | 11,738 | 16.04 | |
Majority | 16,472 | 22.51 | |
Normanton | |||
41,495/58,922 | 70.42 | ||
Labour Party | 24,372 | 58.73 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,739 | 23.47 | |
Liberal Party | 7,384 | 17.79 | |
Majority | 14,633 | 35.26 | |
14 July 1977 The House of Commons Select Committee on the Conduct of Members criticised Albert Roberts for "conduct inconsistent with the standards which the House is entitled to expect from its members" as a result of his business contacts with John Poulson. An attempt to expel Albert Roberts from the House was defeated by 331 votes to 11. | |||
North Angus & Mearns | |||
27,173/37,604 | 72.26 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,835 | 43.55 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,284 | 34.17 | |
Labour Party | 3,354 | 12.34 | |
Liberal Party | 2,700 | 9.94 | |
Majority | 2,551 | 9.39 | |
North Antrim | |||
59,491/103,737 | 57.35 | ||
Democratic Unionist Party | 43,186 | 72.59 | |
Alliance Party | 8,689 | 14.61 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 7,616 | 12.80 | |
Majority | 34,497 | 57.99 | |
North Cornwall | |||
41,691/51,767 | 80.54 | ||
Liberal Party | 21,368 | 51.25 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,512 | 42.00 | |
Labour Party | 2,663 | 6.39 | |
Independent | 148 | 0.35 | |
Majority | 3,856 | 9.25 | |
North Devon | |||
58,621/73,582 | 79.67 | ||
Liberal Party | 28,209 | 48.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,488 | 36.66 | |
Labour Party | 8,356 | 14.25 | |
English National Party | 568 | 0.97 | |
Majority | 6,721 | 11.47 | |
9 May 1976 Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe resigns as Leader of the Liberal Party. | |||
North Dorset | |||
56,486/71,308 | 79.21 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,891 | 51.15 | |
Liberal Party | 20,350 | 36.03 | |
Labour Party | 7,245 | 12.83 | |
Majority | 8,541 | 15.12 | |
North Down | |||
57,006/93,604 | 60.90 | ||
Ulster Unionist | 40,996 | 71.92 | |
Alliance Party | 9,973 | 17.49 | |
UPNI | 6,037 | 10.59 | |
Majority | 31,023 | 54.42 | |
11 February 1979 James Kilfedder resigns from the Ulster Unionist Council. | |||
North East Derbyshire | |||
50,571/66,852 | 75.65 | ||
Labour Party | 25,238 | 49.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,997 | 29.66 | |
Liberal Party | 10,336 | 20.44 | |
Majority | 10,241 | 20.25 | |
2 March 1979 Death of Thomas Swain. | |||
North Fylde | |||
53,437/74,782 | 71.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,661 | 55.51 | |
Labour Party | 12,522 | 23.43 | |
Liberal Party | 11,254 | 21.06 | |
Majority | 17,139 | 32.07 | |
North Lanarkshire | |||
43,027/54,147 | 79.46 | ||
Labour Party | 19,902 | 46.25 | |
Scottish National Party | 11,561 | 26.87 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,665 | 22.46 | |
Liberal Party | 1,899 | 4.41 | |
Majority | 8,341 | 19.39 | |
North Norfolk | |||
69,279/90,507 | 76.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 33,312 | 48.08 | |
Labour Party | 22,191 | 32.03 | |
Liberal Party | 13,776 | 19.88 | |
Majority | 11,121 | 16.05 | |
North Somerset | |||
71,632/89,032 | 80.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 32,146 | 44.88 | |
Labour Party | 22,671 | 31.65 | |
Liberal Party | 16,428 | 22.93 | |
United Democratic Party | 387 | 0.54 | |
Majority | 9,475 | 13.23 | |
3 May 1979 John Poling sought election for the United Democratic Party. | |||
North West Durham | |||
43,568/61,267 | 71.11 | ||
Labour Party | 27,953 | 64.16 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,197 | 21.11 | |
Liberal Party | 6,418 | 14.73 | |
Majority | 18,756 | 43.05 | |
North West Norfolk | |||
62,545/79,725 | 78.45 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,513 | 43.99 | |
Labour Party | 26,170 | 41.84 | |
Liberal Party | 8,862 | 14.17 | |
Majority | 1,343 | 2.15 | |
North West Surrey | |||
48,823/68,909 | 70.85 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,524 | 52.28 | |
Labour Party | 11,943 | 24.46 | |
Liberal Party | 11,356 | 23.26 | |
Majority | 13,581 | 27.82 | |
Northampton North | |||
37,250/49,017 | 75.99 | ||
Labour Party | 16,314 | 43.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,776 | 39.67 | |
Liberal Party | 6,160 | 16.54 | |
Majority | 1,538 | 4.13 | |
Northampton South | |||
33,487/44,333 | 75.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,393 | 42.98 | |
Labour Party | 14,252 | 42.56 | |
Liberal Party | 4,842 | 14.46 | |
Majority | 141 | 0.42 | |
Northwich | |||
41,361/52,611 | 78.62 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,663 | 45.12 | |
Labour Party | 14,053 | 33.98 | |
Liberal Party | 8,645 | 20.90 | |
Majority | 4,610 | 11.15 | |
Norwich North | |||
32,090/45,068 | 71.20 | ||
Labour Party | 17,958 | 55.96 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,754 | 27.28 | |
Liberal Party | 5,378 | 16.76 | |
Majority | 9,204 | 28.68 | |
Norwich South | |||
35,204/44,850 | 78.49 | ||
Labour Party | 16,590 | 47.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,185 | 37.45 | |
Liberal Party | 5,429 | 15.42 | |
Majority | 3,405 | 9.67 | |
Norwood | |||
32,727/52,884 | 61.88 | ||
Labour Party | 16,449 | 50.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,678 | 35.68 | |
Liberal Party | 4,377 | 13.37 | |
Independent | 223 | 0.68 | |
Majority | 4,771 | 14.58 | |
Malcolm Greatbanks was the nominee of the Gay Liberation Front. | |||
Nottingham East | |||
32,282/53,777 | 60.03 | ||
Labour Party | 16,530 | 51.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,574 | 32.76 | |
Liberal Party | 4,442 | 13.76 | |
Independent Labour | 736 | 2.28 | |
Majority | 5,956 | 18.45 | |
Nottingham North | |||
51,334/76,472 | 67.13 | ||
Labour Party | 24,694 | 48.10 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,853 | 34.78 | |
Liberal Party | 7,470 | 14.55 | |
National Front | 792 | 1.54 | |
Communist Party | 525 | 1.02 | |
Majority | 6,841 | 13.33 | |
Nottingham West | |||
55,079/77,656 | 70.93 | ||
Labour Party | 27,373 | 49.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,108 | 32.88 | |
Liberal Party | 9,598 | 17.43 | |
Majority | 9,265 | 16.82 | |
Nuneaton | |||
57,584/77,872 | 73.95 | ||
Labour Party | 32,308 | 56.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,547 | 25.26 | |
Liberal Party | 10,729 | 18.63 | |
Majority | 17,761 | 30.84 | |
Ogmore | |||
51,195/67,911 | 75.39 | ||
Labour Party | 30,453 | 59.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,249 | 16.11 | |
Liberal Party | 8,203 | 16.02 | |
Plaid Cymru | 4,290 | 8.38 | |
Majority | 22,204 | 43.37 | |
Oldham East | |||
36,113/50,726 | 71.19 | ||
Labour Party | 19,054 | 52.76 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,917 | 30.23 | |
Liberal Party | 6,142 | 17.01 | |
Majority | 8,137 | 22.53 | |
Oldham West | |||
34,689/48,050 | 72.19 | ||
Labour Party | 18,444 | 53.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,407 | 30.00 | |
Liberal Party | 5,838 | 16.83 | |
Majority | 8,037 | 23.17 | |
Orkney & Shetland | |||
17,572/26,289 | 66.84 | ||
Liberal Party | 9,877 | 56.21 | |
Scottish National Party | 3,025 | 17.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 2,495 | 14.20 | |
Labour Party | 2,175 | 12.38 | |
Majority | 6,852 | 38.99 | |
9 May 1976 Rt Hon Jo Grimond appointed temporary Leader of the Liberal Party. | |||
7 July 1976 Rt Hon Jo Grimond steps down as Leader of the Liberal Party. | |||
Ormskirk | |||
70,320/96,559 | 72.83 | ||
Labour Party | 35,392 | 50.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,541 | 37.74 | |
Liberal Party | 8,387 | 11.93 | |
Majority | 8,851 | 12.59 | |
Orpington | |||
51,899/65,665 | 79.04 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,394 | 47.00 | |
Liberal Party | 19,384 | 37.35 | |
Labour Party | 8,121 | 15.65 | |
Majority | 5,010 | 9.65 | |
Oswestry | |||
40,539/56,414 | 71.86 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,165 | 47.28 | |
Labour Party | 10,751 | 26.52 | |
Liberal Party | 10,623 | 26.20 | |
Majority | 8,414 | 20.76 | |
Oxford | |||
54,592/77,252 | 70.67 | ||
Labour Party | 23,359 | 42.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,223 | 40.71 | |
Liberal Party | 8,374 | 15.34 | |
National Front | 572 | 1.05 | |
Independent | 64 | 0.12 | |
Majority | 1,136 | 2.08 | |
Paddington | |||
36,068/58,492 | 61.66 | ||
Labour Party | 17,155 | 47.56 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,844 | 41.16 | |
Liberal Party | 3,742 | 10.37 | |
Independent | 192 | 0.53 | |
Irish Civil Rights Association | 135 | 0.37 | |
Majority | 2,311 | 6.41 | |
Christopher Wertheim sought election as a Labour Conservative Coalition candidate. | |||
Paisley | |||
47,702/66,059 | 72.21 | ||
Labour Party | 21,368 | 44.79 | |
Scottish National Party | 15,778 | 33.08 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,440 | 15.60 | |
Liberal Party | 3,116 | 6.53 | |
Majority | 5,590 | 11.72 | |
26 July 1976 John Robertson resigns the Labour whip and joins the Scottish Labour Party. | |||
Peckham | |||
34,317/63,336 | 54.18 | ||
Labour Party | 24,586 | 71.64 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,760 | 16.78 | |
Liberal Party | 3,971 | 11.57 | |
Majority | 18,826 | 54.86 | |
Pembroke | |||
57,304/72,036 | 79.55 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,190 | 40.47 | |
Labour Party | 22,418 | 39.12 | |
Liberal Party | 9,116 | 15.91 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,580 | 4.50 | |
Majority | 772 | 1.35 | |
Penistone | |||
50,057/67,043 | 74.66 | ||
Labour Party | 27,146 | 54.23 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,011 | 23.99 | |
Liberal Party | 10,900 | 21.78 | |
Majority | 15,135 | 30.24 | |
20 May 1978 Death of John Mendelson. | |||
13 July 1978 | 42,718/71,398 | 59.83 | |
Labour Party | 19,424 | 45.47 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,053 | 32.90 | |
Liberal Party | 9,241 | 21.63 | |
Majority | 5,371 | 12.57 | |
Penrith & The Border | |||
40,553/55,587 | 72.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,547 | 58.06 | |
Labour Party | 9,791 | 24.14 | |
Liberal Party | 7,215 | 17.79 | |
Majority | 13,756 | 33.92 | |
Perth & East Perthshire | |||
42,537/57,646 | 73.79 | ||
Scottish National Party | 17,337 | 40.76 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,544 | 38.89 | |
Labour Party | 5,805 | 13.65 | |
Liberal Party | 2,851 | 6.70 | |
Majority | 793 | 1.86 | |
Peterborough | |||
49,094/63,028 | 77.89 | ||
Labour Party | 21,820 | 44.45 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,972 | 40.68 | |
Liberal Party | 7,302 | 14.87 | |
Majority | 1,848 | 3.76 | |
Petersfield | |||
56,809/74,241 | 76.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,689 | 50.50 | |
Liberal Party | 19,702 | 34.68 | |
Labour Party | 8,301 | 14.61 | |
United Democratic Party | 117 | 0.21 | |
Majority | 8,987 | 15.82 | |
Plymouth Devonport | |||
36,802/50,096 | 73.46 | ||
Labour Party | 17,398 | 47.27 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,139 | 41.14 | |
Liberal Party | 3,953 | 10.74 | |
Independent Liberal | 312 | 0.85 | |
Majority | 2,259 | 6.14 | |
Plymouth Drake | |||
41,894/55,544 | 75.42 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,287 | 41.26 | |
Labour Party | 17,253 | 41.18 | |
Liberal Party | 7,354 | 17.55 | |
Majority | 34 | 0.08 | |
Plymouth Sutton | |||
45,857/60,994 | 75.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,457 | 44.61 | |
Labour Party | 15,269 | 33.30 | |
Liberal Party | 10,131 | 22.09 | |
Majority | 5,188 | 11.31 | |
Pontefract & Castleford | |||
42,890/60,271 | 71.16 | ||
Labour Party | 30,208 | 70.43 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,966 | 16.24 | |
Liberal Party | 5,259 | 12.26 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 457 | 1.07 | |
Majority | 23,242 | 54.19 | |
24 June 1978 Death of Joseph Harper. | |||
26 October 1978 | 29,642/60,648 | 48.88 | |
Labour Party | 19,508 | 65.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,080 | 27.26 | |
Liberal Party | 2,054 | 6.93 | |
Majority | 11,428 | 38.55 | |
Pontypool | |||
40,034/55,099 | 72.66 | ||
Labour Party | 25,381 | 63.40 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,686 | 16.70 | |
Liberal Party | 5,744 | 14.35 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,223 | 5.55 | |
Majority | 18,695 | 46.70 | |
Pontypridd | |||
51,797/70,185 | 73.80 | ||
Labour Party | 29,302 | 56.57 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,528 | 20.33 | |
Liberal Party | 8,050 | 15.54 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3,917 | 7.56 | |
Majority | 18,774 | 36.25 | |
Poole | |||
62,801/83,382 | 75.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,982 | 46.15 | |
Liberal Party | 17,557 | 27.96 | |
Labour Party | 16,262 | 25.89 | |
Majority | 11,425 | 18.19 | |
Portsmouth North | |||
53,094/69,072 | 76.87 | ||
Labour Party | 24,352 | 45.87 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,007 | 43.33 | |
Liberal Party | 5,208 | 9.81 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 527 | 0.99 | |
Majority | 1,345 | 2.53 | |
Portsmouth South | |||
49,106/70,761 | 69.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,379 | 47.61 | |
Labour Party | 15,308 | 31.17 | |
Liberal Party | 9,807 | 19.97 | |
Communist Party of England | 612 | 1.25 | |
Majority | 8,071 | 16.44 | |
Preston North | |||
39,390/51,355 | 76.70 | ||
Labour Party | 18,044 | 45.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,260 | 41.28 | |
Liberal Party | 4,948 | 12.56 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 138 | 0.35 | |
Majority | 1,784 | 4.53 | |
Preston South | |||
39,355/51,510 | 76.40 | ||
Labour Party | 18,449 | 46.88 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,700 | 37.35 | |
Liberal Party | 5,456 | 13.86 | |
National Front | 663 | 1.68 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 87 | 0.22 | |
Majority | 3,749 | 9.53 | |
Pudsey | |||
51,072/65,338 | 78.17 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,180 | 39.51 | |
Liberal Party | 15,599 | 30.54 | |
Labour Party | 15,293 | 29.94 | |
Majority | 4,581 | 8.97 | |
Putney | |||
47,731/66,501 | 71.77 | ||
Labour Party | 21,611 | 45.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,836 | 39.46 | |
Liberal Party | 7,159 | 15.00 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 125 | 0.26 | |
Majority | 2,775 | 5.81 | |
Ravensbourne | |||
35,909/48,528 | 74.00 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,318 | 51.01 | |
Liberal Party | 9,813 | 27.33 | |
Labour Party | 7,204 | 20.06 | |
National Front | 574 | 1.60 | |
Majority | 8,505 | 23.68 | |
Reading North | |||
46,658/64,468 | 72.37 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,734 | 40.15 | |
Labour Party | 18,266 | 39.15 | |
Liberal Party | 9,064 | 19.43 | |
National Front | 594 | 1.27 | |
Majority | 468 | 1.00 | |
Reading South | |||
51,627/69,106 | 74.71 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,959 | 42.53 | |
Liberal Party | 15,293 | 29.62 | |
Labour Party | 14,375 | 27.84 | |
Majority | 6,666 | 12.91 | |
Redcar | |||
43,079/62,345 | 69.10 | ||
Labour Party | 23,204 | 53.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,774 | 29.65 | |
Liberal Party | 7,101 | 16.48 | |
Majority | 10,430 | 24.21 | |
Reigate | |||
54,774/72,724 | 75.32 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,769 | 50.70 | |
Labour Party | 14,185 | 25.90 | |
Liberal Party | 12,554 | 22.92 | |
Independent | 266 | 0.49 | |
Majority | 13,584 | 24.80 | |
Rhondda | |||
50,112/65,770 | 76.19 | ||
Labour Party | 38,654 | 77.14 | |
Plaid Cymru | 4,173 | 8.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,739 | 7.46 | |
Liberal Party | 2,142 | 4.27 | |
Communist Party | 1,404 | 2.80 | |
Majority | 34,481 | 68.81 | |
Richmond (Surrey) | |||
40,399/53,810 | 75.08 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,450 | 43.19 | |
Liberal Party | 13,235 | 32.76 | |
Labour Party | 8,714 | 21.57 | |
National Front | 1,000 | 2.48 | |
Majority | 4,215 | 10.43 | |
Richmond (Yorks) | |||
40,709/61,986 | 65.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,156 | 56.88 | |
Liberal Party | 9,528 | 23.41 | |
Labour Party | 8,025 | 19.71 | |
Majority | 13,628 | 33.48 | |
Ripon | |||
39,598/50,160 | 78.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,636 | 52.11 | |
Liberal Party | 13,632 | 34.43 | |
Labour Party | 5,330 | 13.46 | |
Majority | 7,004 | 17.69 | |
Rochdale | |||
47,098/67,014 | 70.28 | ||
Liberal Party | 20,092 | 42.66 | |
Labour Party | 17,339 | 36.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,740 | 16.43 | |
National Front | 1,927 | 4.09 | |
Majority | 2,753 | 5.85 | |
Rochester & Chatham | |||
58,701/79,780 | 73.58 | ||
Labour Party | 25,467 | 43.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,049 | 39.27 | |
Liberal Party | 9,035 | 15.39 | |
National Front | 1,150 | 1.96 | |
Majority | 2,418 | 4.12 | |
Romford | |||
39,540/55,321 | 71.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,164 | 43.41 | |
Labour Party | 14,513 | 36.70 | |
Liberal Party | 7,663 | 19.38 | |
People | 200 | 0.51 | |
Majority | 2,651 | 6.70 | |
Ross & Cromarty | |||
20,432/29,411 | 69.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,954 | 38.93 | |
Scottish National Party | 7,291 | 35.68 | |
Labour Party | 3,440 | 16.84 | |
Liberal Party | 1,747 | 8.55 | |
Majority | 663 | 3.24 | |
Rossendale | |||
40,802/50,450 | 80.88 | ||
Labour Party | 16,156 | 39.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,953 | 39.10 | |
Liberal Party | 8,693 | 21.31 | |
Majority | 203 | 0.50 | |
Rother Valley | |||
66,391/91,938 | 72.21 | ||
Labour Party | 44,670 | 67.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,893 | 17.91 | |
Liberal Party | 9,828 | 14.80 | |
Majority | 32,777 | 49.37 | |
Rotherham | |||
40,064/61,197 | 65.47 | ||
Labour Party | 25,874 | 64.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,840 | 22.06 | |
Liberal Party | 5,350 | 13.35 | |
Majority | 17,034 | 42.52 | |
6 April 1976 Death of Rt Hon Brian O'Malley. | |||
24 June 1976 | 28,313/60,554 | 46.76 | |
Labour Party | 14,351 | 50.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,824 | 34.70 | |
Liberal Party | 2,214 | 7.82 | |
National Front | 1,696 | 5.99 | |
Independent | 129 | 0.46 | |
Eng Nat | 99 | 0.35 | |
Majority | 4,527 | 15.99 | |
Peter Bishop sought election for the "World Grid Sunshine Room Party". | |||
Roxburgh, Selkirk & Peebles | |||
45,791/57,825 | 79.19 | ||
Liberal Party | 20,006 | 43.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,531 | 27.37 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,178 | 20.04 | |
Labour Party | 4,076 | 8.90 | |
Majority | 7,475 | 16.32 | |
7 July 1976 David Steel elected Leader of the Liberal Party. | |||
Royal Tunbridge Wells | |||
50,130/69,123 | 72.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,829 | 49.53 | |
Liberal Party | 12,802 | 25.54 | |
Labour Party | 12,499 | 24.93 | |
Majority | 12,027 | 23.99 | |
Rugby | |||
47,560/59,574 | 79.83 | ||
Labour Party | 22,926 | 48.20 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,722 | 37.26 | |
Liberal Party | 6,775 | 14.25 | |
Social Credit | 137 | 0.29 | |
Majority | 5,204 | 10.94 | |
Ruislip-Northwood | |||
40,348/54,105 | 74.57 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,779 | 51.50 | |
Labour Party | 10,490 | 26.00 | |
Liberal Party | 8,621 | 21.37 | |
United Democratic Party | 458 | 1.14 | |
Majority | 10,289 | 25.50 | |
Runcorn | |||
54,278/69,911 | 77.64 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,047 | 46.15 | |
Labour Party | 19,579 | 36.07 | |
Liberal Party | 9,188 | 16.93 | |
Independent | 464 | 0.85 | |
Majority | 5,468 | 10.07 | |
Rushcliffe | |||
49,505/63,961 | 77.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,074 | 54.69 | |
Labour Party | 12,131 | 24.50 | |
Liberal Party | 10,300 | 20.81 | |
Majority | 14,943 | 30.18 | |
Rutherglen | |||
38,492/48,824 | 78.84 | ||
Labour Party | 17,088 | 44.39 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,732 | 25.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,248 | 24.03 | |
Liberal Party | 2,424 | 6.30 | |
Majority | 7,356 | 19.11 | |
Rutland & Stamford | |||
41,325/54,642 | 75.63 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,101 | 46.22 | |
Labour Party | 12,111 | 29.31 | |
Liberal Party | 10,113 | 24.47 | |
Majority | 6,990 | 16.91 | |
Rye | |||
53,642/72,249 | 74.25 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,511 | 56.88 | |
Liberal Party | 14,828 | 27.64 | |
Labour Party | 8,303 | 15.48 | |
Majority | 15,683 | 29.24 | |
Saffron Walden | |||
48,713/62,383 | 78.09 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,291 | 43.71 | |
Liberal Party | 14,770 | 30.32 | |
Labour Party | 12,652 | 25.97 | |
Majority | 6,521 | 13.39 | |
17 April 1977 Death of Sir Peter Kirk. | |||
7 July 1977 | 40,713/62,850 | 64.78 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,692 | 55.74 | |
Liberal Party | 10,255 | 25.19 | |
Labour Party | 5,948 | 14.61 | |
Anti-Common Market | 1,818 | 4.47 | |
Majority | 12,437 | 30.55 | |
Salford East | |||
23,876/40,135 | 59.49 | ||
Labour Party | 14,276 | 59.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,440 | 26.97 | |
Liberal Party | 3,160 | 13.24 | |
Majority | 7,836 | 32.82 | |
Salford West | |||
29,889/45,822 | 65.23 | ||
Labour Party | 17,112 | 57.25 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,540 | 28.57 | |
Liberal Party | 4,237 | 14.18 | |
Majority | 8,572 | 28.68 | |
Salisbury | |||
46,916/62,800 | 74.71 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,478 | 43.65 | |
Liberal Party | 16,298 | 34.74 | |
Labour Party | 10,140 | 21.61 | |
Majority | 4,180 | 8.91 | |
Scarborough | |||
39,877/58,540 | 68.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,831 | 49.73 | |
Liberal Party | 10,123 | 25.39 | |
Labour Party | 9,923 | 24.88 | |
Majority | 9,708 | 24.34 | |
Sevenoaks | |||
56,759/74,948 | 75.73 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,670 | 46.99 | |
Labour Party | 15,065 | 26.54 | |
Liberal Party | 15,024 | 26.47 | |
Majority | 11,605 | 20.45 | |
Sheffield Attercliffe | |||
42,926/63,903 | 67.17 | ||
Labour Party | 29,601 | 68.96 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,043 | 18.74 | |
Liberal Party | 5,282 | 12.30 | |
Majority | 21,558 | 50.22 | |
Sheffield Brightside | |||
36,376/54,084 | 67.26 | ||
Labour Party | 18,018 | 49.53 | |
Independent Labour | 10,182 | 27.99 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,905 | 13.48 | |
Liberal Party | 3,271 | 8.99 | |
Majority | 7,836 | 21.54 | |
Eddie Griffiths was refused readoption by the local Labour Party in September 1974. | |||
Sheffield Hallam | |||
53,226/77,385 | 68.78 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,083 | 49.00 | |
Labour Party | 15,419 | 28.97 | |
Liberal Party | 11,724 | 22.03 | |
Majority | 10,664 | 20.04 | |
Sheffield Heeley | |||
47,924/65,231 | 73.47 | ||
Labour Party | 24,728 | 51.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,322 | 31.97 | |
Liberal Party | 7,151 | 14.92 | |
National Front | 723 | 1.51 | |
Majority | 9,406 | 19.63 | |
Sheffield Hillsborough | |||
34,656/52,022 | 66.62 | ||
Labour Party | 21,026 | 60.67 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,718 | 25.16 | |
Liberal Party | 4,912 | 14.17 | |
Majority | 12,308 | 35.51 | |
Sheffield Park | |||
42,092/67,412 | 62.44 | ||
Labour Party | 30,057 | 71.41 | |
Liberal Party | 6,093 | 14.48 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,539 | 13.16 | |
Communist Party | 403 | 0.96 | |
Majority | 23,964 | 56.93 | |
Shipley | |||
42,094/51,993 | 80.96 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,518 | 43.99 | |
Labour Party | 15,482 | 36.78 | |
Liberal Party | 8,094 | 19.23 | |
Majority | 3,036 | 7.21 | |
Shoreham | |||
51,167/68,485 | 74.71 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,170 | 51.15 | |
Liberal Party | 14,797 | 28.92 | |
Labour Party | 10,200 | 19.93 | |
Majority | 11,373 | 22.23 | |
Shrewsbury | |||
44,211/60,210 | 73.43 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,064 | 43.12 | |
Liberal Party | 13,643 | 30.86 | |
Labour Party | 11,504 | 26.02 | |
Majority | 5,421 | 12.26 | |
Sidcup | |||
37,628/49,550 | 75.94 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,991 | 50.47 | |
Labour Party | 11,448 | 30.42 | |
Liberal Party | 6,954 | 18.48 | |
Independent Conservative | 174 | 0.46 | |
Independent | 61 | 0.16 | |
Majority | 7,543 | 20.05 | |
Skipton | |||
43,163/52,548 | 82.14 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,822 | 41.29 | |
Liberal Party | 17,232 | 39.92 | |
Labour Party | 8,109 | 18.79 | |
Majority | 590 | 1.37 | |
Solihull | |||
60,195/79,968 | 75.27 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,707 | 52.67 | |
Liberal Party | 15,848 | 26.33 | |
Labour Party | 12,640 | 21.00 | |
Majority | 15,859 | 26.35 | |
South Angus | |||
38,954/52,275 | 74.52 | ||
Scottish National Party | 17,073 | 43.83 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,249 | 39.15 | |
Labour Party | 4,103 | 10.53 | |
Liberal Party | 2,529 | 6.49 | |
Majority | 1,824 | 4.68 | |
South Antrim | |||
68,413/117,834 | 58.06 | ||
Ulster Unionist | 48,892 | 71.47 | |
Alliance Party | 10,460 | 15.29 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 9,061 | 13.24 | |
Majority | 38,432 | 56.18 | |
South Ayrshire | |||
39,712/51,330 | 77.37 | ||
Labour Party | 22,329 | 56.23 | |
Scottish National Party | 7,851 | 19.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,402 | 18.64 | |
Liberal Party | 2,130 | 5.36 | |
Majority | 14,478 | 36.46 | |
26 July 1976 James Sillars resigns the Labour Whip and founds the Scottish Labour Party. | |||
South Bedfordshire | |||
50,339/64,312 | 78.27 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,794 | 41.31 | |
Labour Party | 16,351 | 32.48 | |
Liberal Party | 13,194 | 26.21 | |
Majority | 4,443 | 8.83 | |
South Dorset | |||
53,078/70,400 | 75.39 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,351 | 45.88 | |
Labour Party | 17,652 | 33.26 | |
Liberal Party | 11,075 | 20.87 | |
Majority | 6,699 | 12.62 | |
South Down | |||
66,140/91,354 | 72.40 | ||
Ulster Unionist | 33,614 | 50.82 | |
Social Democratic Labour Party | 30,047 | 45.43 | |
Republican Clubs | 2,327 | 3.52 | |
CPI | 152 | 0.23 | |
Majority | 3,567 | 5.39 | |
South East Derbyshire | |||
43,111/53,727 | 80.24 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,856 | 43.74 | |
Labour Party | 17,851 | 41.41 | |
Liberal Party | 6,404 | 14.85 | |
Majority | 1,005 | 2.33 | |
South East Essex | |||
56,035/75,995 | 73.74 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,348 | 48.81 | |
Labour Party | 18,638 | 33.26 | |
Liberal Party | 10,049 | 17.93 | |
Majority | 8,710 | 15.54 | |
South Fylde | |||
65,444/90,838 | 72.04 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 37,193 | 56.83 | |
Liberal Party | 14,527 | 22.20 | |
Labour Party | 13,724 | 20.97 | |
Majority | 22,666 | 34.63 | |
South Gloucestershire | |||
63,228/79,419 | 79.61 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,581 | 42.04 | |
Labour Party | 22,235 | 35.17 | |
Liberal Party | 14,412 | 22.79 | |
Majority | 4,346 | 6.87 | |
South Hertfordshire | |||
49,201/64,648 | 76.11 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,018 | 42.72 | |
Labour Party | 18,790 | 38.19 | |
Liberal Party | 9,393 | 19.09 | |
Majority | 2,228 | 4.53 | |
South Norfolk | |||
69,195/90,789 | 76.22 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,478 | 45.49 | |
Labour Party | 22,713 | 32.82 | |
Liberal Party | 14,687 | 21.23 | |
United Democratic Party | 317 | 0.46 | |
Majority | 8,765 | 12.67 | |
South Shields | |||
46,976/72,565 | 64.74 | ||
Labour Party | 26,492 | 56.39 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,667 | 24.84 | |
Liberal Party | 8,106 | 17.26 | |
National Front | 711 | 1.51 | |
Majority | 14,825 | 31.56 | |
South West Hertfordshire | |||
58,507/75,970 | 77.01 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,939 | 42.63 | |
Labour Party | 19,098 | 32.64 | |
Liberal Party | 14,470 | 24.73 | |
Majority | 5,841 | 9.98 | |
South West Norfolk | |||
41,286/53,706 | 76.87 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,778 | 47.90 | |
Labour Party | 14,850 | 35.97 | |
Liberal Party | 6,658 | 16.13 | |
Majority | 4,928 | 11.94 | |
South West Staffordshire | |||
46,024/61,028 | 75.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,604 | 49.11 | |
Labour Party | 15,065 | 32.73 | |
Liberal Party | 8,355 | 18.15 | |
Majority | 7,539 | 16.38 | |
South Worcestershire | |||
55,366/73,674 | 75.15 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 26,790 | 48.39 | |
Liberal Party | 17,738 | 32.04 | |
Labour Party | 10,838 | 19.58 | |
Majority | 9,052 | 16.35 | |
Southampton Itchen | |||
57,612/81,986 | 70.27 | ||
Labour Party | 28,168 | 48.89 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,373 | 35.36 | |
Liberal Party | 9,071 | 15.74 | |
Majority | 7,795 | 13.53 | |
Southampton Test | |||
54,024/73,879 | 73.12 | ||
Labour Party | 22,780 | 42.17 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,250 | 41.19 | |
Liberal Party | 8,994 | 16.65 | |
Majority | 530 | 0.98 | |
Southend East | |||
39,419/57,282 | 68.82 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,083 | 45.87 | |
Labour Party | 13,480 | 34.20 | |
Liberal Party | 7,856 | 19.93 | |
Majority | 4,603 | 11.68 | |
Southend West | |||
49,340/67,422 | 73.18 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,480 | 47.59 | |
Liberal Party | 16,409 | 33.26 | |
Labour Party | 9,451 | 19.15 | |
Majority | 7,071 | 14.33 | |
Southport | |||
48,724/66,094 | 73.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,014 | 47.23 | |
Liberal Party | 17,387 | 35.68 | |
Labour Party | 8,323 | 17.08 | |
Majority | 5,627 | 11.55 | |
Sowerby | |||
38,589/48,735 | 79.18 | ||
Labour Party | 14,971 | 38.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,325 | 37.12 | |
Liberal Party | 9,136 | 23.68 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 157 | 0.41 | |
Majority | 646 | 1.67 | |
Spelthorne | |||
51,694/69,393 | 74.49 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,125 | 44.73 | |
Labour Party | 17,177 | 33.23 | |
Liberal Party | 10,212 | 19.75 | |
National Front | 1,180 | 2.28 | |
Majority | 5,948 | 11.51 | |
St Albans | |||
54,377/69,672 | 78.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,436 | 44.94 | |
Labour Party | 15,301 | 28.14 | |
Liberal Party | 14,640 | 26.92 | |
Majority | 9,135 | 16.80 | |
St Helens | |||
50,863/76,050 | 66.88 | ||
Labour Party | 32,620 | 64.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,554 | 20.75 | |
Liberal Party | 7,689 | 15.12 | |
Majority | 22,066 | 43.38 | |
St Ives | |||
37,916/51,430 | 73.72 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,198 | 45.36 | |
Liberal Party | 11,330 | 29.88 | |
Labour Party | 9,388 | 24.76 | |
Majority | 5,868 | 15.48 | |
St Marylebone | |||
24,884/43,628 | 57.04 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,660 | 54.89 | |
Labour Party | 7,157 | 28.76 | |
Liberal Party | 4,067 | 16.34 | |
Majority | 6,503 | 26.13 | |
St Pancras North | |||
24,185/41,623 | 58.10 | ||
Labour Party | 14,155 | 58.53 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,602 | 27.30 | |
Liberal Party | 3,428 | 14.17 | |
Majority | 7,553 | 31.23 | |
Stafford & Stone | |||
59,860/78,797 | 75.97 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,173 | 45.39 | |
Labour Party | 20,845 | 34.82 | |
Liberal Party | 11,491 | 19.20 | |
Monster Raving Loony Party | 351 | 0.59 | |
Majority | 6,328 | 10.57 | |
David Sutch sought election as a Go To Blazes candidate. | |||
Stalybridge & Hyde | |||
48,608/66,373 | 73.23 | ||
Labour Party | 25,161 | 51.76 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,404 | 31.69 | |
Liberal Party | 7,725 | 15.89 | |
Independent | 318 | 0.65 | |
Majority | 9,757 | 20.07 | |
Stepney & Poplar | |||
31,140/60,446 | 51.52 | ||
Labour Party | 24,159 | 77.58 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 3,183 | 10.22 | |
Liberal Party | 3,181 | 10.22 | |
Communist Party | 617 | 1.98 | |
Majority | 20,976 | 67.36 | |
Stirling, Falkirk & Grangemouth | |||
51,077/64,362 | 79.36 | ||
Labour Party | 22,090 | 43.25 | |
Scottish National Party | 20,324 | 39.79 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,186 | 14.07 | |
Liberal Party | 1,477 | 2.89 | |
Majority | 1,766 | 3.46 | |
Stockport North | |||
41,219/52,828 | 78.02 | ||
Labour Party | 17,979 | 43.62 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,155 | 39.19 | |
Liberal Party | 7,085 | 17.19 | |
Majority | 1,824 | 4.43 | |
Stockport South | |||
35,502/47,782 | 74.30 | ||
Labour Party | 16,281 | 45.86 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,061 | 33.97 | |
Liberal Party | 7,160 | 20.17 | |
Majority | 4,220 | 11.89 | |
7 April 1979 Resignation of Maurice Orbach. | |||
Stockton | |||
59,106/85,490 | 69.14 | ||
Labour Party | 32,962 | 55.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,488 | 31.28 | |
Liberal Party | 6,906 | 11.68 | |
Independent | 750 | 1.27 | |
Majority | 14,474 | 24.49 | |
Stoke-on-Trent Central | |||
39,952/61,202 | 65.28 | ||
Labour Party | 24,146 | 60.44 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,493 | 23.76 | |
Liberal Party | 6,313 | 15.80 | |
Majority | 14,653 | 36.68 | |
Stoke-on-Trent North | |||
41,695/59,883 | 69.63 | ||
Labour Party | 25,264 | 60.59 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,192 | 24.44 | |
Liberal Party | 6,239 | 14.96 | |
Majority | 15,072 | 36.15 | |
Stoke-on-Trent South | |||
50,181/72,610 | 69.11 | ||
Labour Party | 30,699 | 61.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,204 | 28.31 | |
Liberal Party | 5,278 | 10.52 | |
Majority | 16,495 | 32.87 | |
Stratford-on-Avon | |||
53,229/71,877 | 74.06 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,123 | 50.96 | |
Liberal Party | 14,555 | 27.34 | |
Labour Party | 11,551 | 21.70 | |
Majority | 12,568 | 23.61 | |
Streatham | |||
36,177/56,444 | 64.09 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,515 | 45.65 | |
Labour Party | 13,648 | 37.73 | |
Liberal Party | 4,987 | 13.79 | |
National Front | 817 | 2.26 | |
Small Business | 210 | 0.58 | |
Majority | 2,867 | 7.92 | |
Teresa Moore sought election as a Small Business candidate. | |||
Stretford | |||
52,620/68,747 | 76.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,114 | 42.03 | |
Labour Party | 20,877 | 39.68 | |
Liberal Party | 9,629 | 18.30 | |
Majority | 1,237 | 2.35 | |
Stroud | |||
55,755/69,381 | 80.36 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,406 | 43.77 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 17,352 | 31.12 | |
Liberal Party | 13,756 | 24.67 | |
United Democratic Party | 241 | 0.43 | |
Majority | 7,054 | 12.65 | |
Sudbury & Woodbridge | |||
63,241/84,267 | 75.05 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,049 | 47.52 | |
Labour Party | 17,986 | 28.44 | |
Liberal Party | 15,206 | 24.04 | |
Majority | 12,063 | 19.07 | |
Sunderland North | |||
50,642/75,560 | 67.02 | ||
Labour Party | 29,618 | 58.49 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,947 | 27.54 | |
Liberal Party | 7,077 | 13.97 | |
Majority | 15,671 | 30.94 | |
Sunderland South | |||
52,044/76,464 | 68.06 | ||
Labour Party | 28,623 | 55.00 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,593 | 29.96 | |
Liberal Party | 7,828 | 15.04 | |
Majority | 13,030 | 25.04 | |
Surbiton | |||
33,570/46,065 | 72.88 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,330 | 45.67 | |
Labour Party | 9,309 | 27.73 | |
Liberal Party | 8,931 | 26.60 | |
Majority | 6,021 | 17.94 | |
Sutton & Cheam | |||
46,567/60,546 | 76.91 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,156 | 47.58 | |
Liberal Party | 16,995 | 36.50 | |
Labour Party | 7,118 | 15.29 | |
Independent | 298 | 0.64 | |
Majority | 5,161 | 11.08 | |
Dr Una Kroll was sponsored by the Womens' Rights Campaign. | |||
Sutton Coldfield | |||
45,057/60,474 | 74.51 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,729 | 57.10 | |
Liberal Party | 12,373 | 27.46 | |
Labour Party | 6,955 | 15.44 | |
Majority | 13,356 | 29.64 | |
Swansea East | |||
41,900/58,766 | 71.30 | ||
Labour Party | 26,735 | 63.81 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,014 | 14.35 | |
Liberal Party | 5,173 | 12.35 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3,978 | 9.49 | |
Majority | 20,721 | 49.45 | |
Swansea West | |||
48,914/65,211 | 75.01 | ||
Labour Party | 22,565 | 46.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,729 | 36.25 | |
Liberal Party | 6,842 | 13.99 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1,778 | 3.63 | |
Majority | 4,836 | 9.89 | |
Swindon | |||
46,533/62,879 | 74.00 | ||
Labour Party | 24,124 | 51.84 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,854 | 29.77 | |
Liberal Party | 8,349 | 17.94 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 206 | 0.44 | |
Majority | 10,270 | 22.07 | |
Taunton | |||
50,530/63,636 | 79.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,542 | 44.61 | |
Labour Party | 15,721 | 31.11 | |
Liberal Party | 11,984 | 23.72 | |
United Democratic Party | 283 | 0.56 | |
Majority | 6,821 | 13.50 | |
Thanet East | |||
34,303/47,929 | 71.57 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,813 | 46.10 | |
Labour Party | 11,310 | 32.97 | |
Liberal Party | 6,472 | 18.87 | |
National Front | 708 | 2.06 | |
Majority | 4,503 | 13.13 | |
Thanet West | |||
30,353/43,893 | 69.15 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 13,763 | 45.34 | |
Labour Party | 8,655 | 28.51 | |
Liberal Party | 7,935 | 26.14 | |
Majority | 5,108 | 16.83 | |
The Wrekin | |||
62,374/82,639 | 75.48 | ||
Labour Party | 30,385 | 48.71 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,547 | 37.75 | |
Liberal Party | 8,442 | 13.53 | |
Majority | 6,838 | 10.96 | |
Thirsk & Malton | |||
46,538/63,841 | 72.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,779 | 53.24 | |
Liberal Party | 10,917 | 23.46 | |
Labour Party | 10,842 | 23.30 | |
Majority | 13,862 | 29.79 | |
Thornaby | |||
45,054/62,312 | 72.30 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 22,130 | 49.12 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,482 | 38.80 | |
Liberal Party | 5,442 | 12.08 | |
Majority | 4,648 | 10.32 | |
Thurrock | |||
61,307/89,423 | 68.56 | ||
Labour Party | 34,066 | 55.57 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,986 | 24.44 | |
Liberal Party | 12,255 | 19.99 | |
Majority | 19,080 | 31.12 | |
4 May 1976 Death of Hugh Delargy. | |||
15 July 1976 | 49,034/90,705 | 54.06 | |
Labour Party | 22,191 | 45.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,352 | 35.39 | |
Liberal Party | 5,977 | 12.19 | |
National Front | 3,255 | 6.64 | |
Eng Nat | 187 | 0.38 | |
Independent | 72 | 0.15 | |
Majority | 4,839 | 9.87 | |
Tiverton | |||
54,122/69,868 | 77.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,265 | 46.68 | |
Liberal Party | 19,911 | 36.79 | |
Labour Party | 8,946 | 16.53 | |
Majority | 5,354 | 9.89 | |
Tonbridge & Malling | |||
49,534/65,571 | 75.54 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,188 | 46.81 | |
Labour Party | 14,579 | 29.43 | |
Liberal Party | 11,767 | 23.76 | |
Majority | 8,609 | 17.38 | |
Tooting | |||
34,117/53,783 | 63.43 | ||
Labour Party | 18,530 | 54.31 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,675 | 31.29 | |
Liberal Party | 4,644 | 13.61 | |
Communist Party | 268 | 0.79 | |
Majority | 7,855 | 23.02 | |
Torbay | |||
62,419/85,559 | 72.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,208 | 48.40 | |
Liberal Party | 17,770 | 28.47 | |
Labour Party | 14,441 | 23.14 | |
Majority | 12,438 | 19.93 | |
Totnes | |||
61,939/80,698 | 76.75 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,987 | 45.18 | |
Liberal Party | 21,586 | 34.85 | |
Labour Party | 12,366 | 19.96 | |
Majority | 6,401 | 10.33 | |
Tottenham | |||
26,699/47,523 | 56.18 | ||
Labour Party | 15,708 | 58.83 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,492 | 24.32 | |
Liberal Party | 2,288 | 8.57 | |
National Front | 2,211 | 8.28 | |
Majority | 9,216 | 34.52 | |
Truro | |||
56,624/71,976 | 78.67 | ||
Liberal Party | 22,549 | 39.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,085 | 39.00 | |
Labour Party | 11,606 | 20.50 | |
Mebyon Kernow | 384 | 0.68 | |
Majority | 464 | 0.82 | |
Twickenham | |||
53,719/72,195 | 74.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,959 | 46.46 | |
Labour Party | 15,452 | 28.76 | |
Liberal Party | 13,021 | 24.24 | |
Anti-Common Market | 287 | 0.53 | |
Majority | 9,507 | 17.70 | |
Tynemouth | |||
56,794/76,431 | 74.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,510 | 43.16 | |
Labour Party | 21,389 | 37.66 | |
Liberal Party | 10,895 | 19.18 | |
Majority | 3,121 | 5.50 | |
Upminster | |||
49,082/64,408 | 76.20 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,966 | 42.72 | |
Labour Party | 20,272 | 41.30 | |
Liberal Party | 7,844 | 15.98 | |
Majority | 694 | 1.41 | |
Uxbridge | |||
44,866/59,730 | 75.11 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,969 | 44.51 | |
Labour Party | 17,816 | 39.71 | |
Liberal Party | 7,081 | 15.78 | |
Majority | 2,153 | 4.80 | |
Vauxhall | |||
24,520/46,495 | 52.74 | ||
Labour Party | 15,493 | 63.19 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,727 | 23.36 | |
Liberal Party | 3,300 | 13.46 | |
Majority | 9,766 | 39.83 | |
Wakefield | |||
46,730/66,518 | 70.25 | ||
Labour Party | 25,616 | 54.82 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,810 | 27.41 | |
Liberal Party | 8,304 | 17.77 | |
Majority | 12,806 | 27.40 | |
Wallasey | |||
53,458/70,074 | 76.29 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,499 | 43.96 | |
Labour Party | 21,529 | 40.27 | |
Liberal Party | 7,643 | 14.30 | |
National Front | 787 | 1.47 | |
Majority | 1,970 | 3.69 | |
Wallsend | |||
63,979/90,275 | 70.87 | ||
Labour Party | 37,180 | 58.11 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,911 | 24.87 | |
Liberal Party | 10,453 | 16.34 | |
Workers Revolutionary Party | 435 | 0.68 | |
Majority | 21,269 | 33.24 | |
Walsall North | |||
47,637/71,504 | 66.62 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 28,340 | 59.49 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,455 | 26.15 | |
Liberal Party | 6,377 | 13.39 | |
Communist Party | 465 | 0.98 | |
Majority | 15,885 | 33.35 | |
21 November 1974 Rt Hon John Stonehouse was reported missing in Miami, Florida. | |||
December 1974 Rt Hon John Stonehouse reappeared in Australia. | |||
7 April 1976 Rt Hon John Stonehouse resigns the Labour whip. | |||
14 April 1976 Rt Hon John Stonehouse joined the English National Party. | |||
6 August 1976 Rt Hon John Stonehouse was convicted on 18 charges of fraud, conspiracy and theft. | |||
27 August 1976 Resignation of Rt Hon John Stonehouse. | |||
4 November 1976 | 37,398/72,567 | 51.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,212 | 43.35 | |
Labour Party | 11,833 | 31.64 | |
Independent | 4,374 | 11.70 | |
National Front | 2,724 | 7.28 | |
Liberal Party | 1,212 | 3.24 | |
Soc Worker | 574 | 1.53 | |
Ind National Party | 258 | 0.69 | |
Ecology Party | 181 | 0.48 | |
Independent | 30 | 0.08 | |
Majority | 4,379 | 11.71 | |
Marian Powell sought election as a candidate of the National Party but was repudiated by the party's headquarters. | |||
Bill Boaks sought election as "Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident". | |||
Walsall South | |||
43,579/59,228 | 73.58 | ||
Labour Party | 20,917 | 48.00 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,255 | 37.30 | |
Liberal Party | 5,031 | 11.54 | |
National Front | 1,226 | 2.81 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 150 | 0.34 | |
Majority | 4,662 | 10.70 | |
Walthamstow | |||
34,622/52,269 | 66.24 | ||
Labour Party | 19,088 | 55.13 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,424 | 24.33 | |
Liberal Party | 5,199 | 15.02 | |
National Front | 1,911 | 5.52 | |
Majority | 10,664 | 30.80 | |
Wanstead & Woodford | |||
39,850/58,365 | 68.28 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 21,209 | 53.22 | |
Labour Party | 10,369 | 26.02 | |
Liberal Party | 8,272 | 20.76 | |
Majority | 10,840 | 27.20 | |
Warley East | |||
38,617/57,516 | 67.14 | ||
Labour Party | 21,065 | 54.55 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,888 | 33.37 | |
Liberal Party | 4,664 | 12.08 | |
Majority | 8,177 | 21.17 | |
Warley West | |||
41,028/61,259 | 66.97 | ||
Labour Party | 24,761 | 60.35 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,904 | 24.14 | |
Liberal Party | 6,363 | 15.51 | |
Majority | 14,857 | 36.21 | |
Warrington | |||
31,661/46,540 | 68.03 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 19,882 | 62.80 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,621 | 24.07 | |
Liberal Party | 4,158 | 13.13 | |
Majority | 12,261 | 38.73 | |
Warwick & Leamington | |||
58,822/78,645 | 74.79 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,721 | 47.13 | |
Labour Party | 19,476 | 33.11 | |
Liberal Party | 11,625 | 19.76 | |
Majority | 8,245 | 14.02 | |
Watford | |||
43,311/55,997 | 77.35 | ||
Labour Party | 19,177 | 44.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,220 | 35.14 | |
Liberal Party | 8,243 | 19.03 | |
National Front | 671 | 1.55 | |
Majority | 3,957 | 9.14 | |
Wellingborough | |||
67,898/85,268 | 79.63 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,078 | 42.83 | |
Labour Party | 27,320 | 40.24 | |
Liberal Party | 11,500 | 16.94 | |
Majority | 1,758 | 2.59 | |
Wells | |||
54,944/69,640 | 78.90 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,979 | 43.64 | |
Liberal Party | 16,278 | 29.63 | |
Labour Party | 13,909 | 25.31 | |
United Democratic Party | 778 | 1.42 | |
Majority | 7,701 | 14.02 | |
Welwyn & Hatfield | |||
54,576/67,129 | 81.30 | ||
Labour Party | 23,339 | 42.76 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,819 | 41.81 | |
Liberal Party | 8,418 | 15.42 | |
Majority | 520 | 0.95 | |
West Aberdeenshire | |||
42,348/55,341 | 76.52 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 15,111 | 35.68 | |
Liberal Party | 12,643 | 29.86 | |
Scottish National Party | 9,409 | 22.22 | |
Labour Party | 5,185 | 12.24 | |
Majority | 2,468 | 5.83 | |
West Bromwich East | |||
39,489/58,381 | 67.64 | ||
Labour Party | 19,942 | 50.50 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,413 | 31.43 | |
Liberal Party | 5,442 | 13.78 | |
National Front | 1,692 | 4.28 | |
Majority | 7,529 | 19.07 | |
West Bromwich West | |||
37,514/59,732 | 62.80 | ||
Labour Party | 23,336 | 62.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,537 | 22.76 | |
Liberal Party | 3,619 | 9.65 | |
National Front | 2,022 | 5.39 | |
Majority | 14,799 | 39.45 | |
West Derbyshire | |||
38,546/49,130 | 78.46 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,468 | 47.91 | |
Liberal Party | 10,622 | 27.56 | |
Labour Party | 9,456 | 24.53 | |
Majority | 7,846 | 20.35 | |
West Devon | |||
45,158/57,418 | 78.65 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,594 | 50.03 | |
Liberal Party | 16,665 | 36.90 | |
Labour Party | 5,899 | 13.06 | |
Majority | 5,929 | 13.13 | |
West Dorset | |||
41,699/53,556 | 77.86 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,517 | 49.20 | |
Liberal Party | 11,832 | 28.37 | |
Labour Party | 9,350 | 22.42 | |
Majority | 8,685 | 20.83 | |
West Dunbartonshire | |||
40,658/51,944 | 78.27 | ||
Labour Party | 15,511 | 38.15 | |
Scottish National Party | 13,697 | 33.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,421 | 23.17 | |
Liberal Party | 2,029 | 4.99 | |
Majority | 1,814 | 4.46 | |
West Flint | |||
48,475/64,289 | 75.40 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,054 | 41.37 | |
Labour Party | 15,234 | 31.43 | |
Liberal Party | 10,881 | 22.45 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,306 | 4.76 | |
Majority | 4,820 | 9.94 | |
West Gloucestershire | |||
53,906/67,239 | 80.17 | ||
Labour Party | 22,481 | 41.70 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,072 | 40.95 | |
Liberal Party | 9,353 | 17.35 | |
Majority | 409 | 0.76 | |
West Lothian | |||
61,100/77,527 | 78.81 | ||
Labour Party | 27,687 | 45.31 | |
Scottish National Party | 24,997 | 40.91 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 6,086 | 9.96 | |
Liberal Party | 2,083 | 3.41 | |
Communist Party | 247 | 0.40 | |
Majority | 2,690 | 4.40 | |
West Renfrewshire | |||
53,718/67,078 | 80.08 | ||
Labour Party | 20,674 | 38.49 | |
Scottish National Party | 15,374 | 28.62 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,399 | 26.80 | |
Liberal Party | 3,271 | 6.09 | |
Majority | 5,300 | 9.87 | |
West Stirlingshire | |||
42,769/52,989 | 80.71 | ||
Labour Party | 16,698 | 39.04 | |
Scottish National Party | 16,331 | 38.18 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,875 | 18.41 | |
Liberal Party | 1,865 | 4.36 | |
Majority | 367 | 0.86 | |
Westbury | |||
57,914/73,575 | 78.71 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,172 | 41.74 | |
Liberal Party | 18,129 | 31.30 | |
Labour Party | 15,613 | 26.96 | |
Majority | 6,043 | 10.43 | |
Western Isles | |||
14,253/22,477 | 63.41 | ||
Scottish National Party | 8,758 | 61.45 | |
Labour Party | 3,526 | 24.74 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 1,180 | 8.28 | |
Liberal Party | 789 | 5.54 | |
Majority | 5,232 | 36.71 | |
Westhoughton | |||
56,097/72,037 | 77.87 | ||
Labour Party | 30,373 | 54.14 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,798 | 29.94 | |
Liberal Party | 8,926 | 15.91 | |
Majority | 13,575 | 24.20 | |
Westmorland | |||
40,431/55,867 | 72.37 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,559 | 50.85 | |
Liberal Party | 12,844 | 31.77 | |
Labour Party | 7,028 | 17.38 | |
Majority | 7,715 | 19.08 | |
Weston-super-Mare | |||
63,550/84,971 | 74.79 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 31,028 | 48.82 | |
Liberal Party | 18,169 | 28.59 | |
Labour and Co-operative Party | 14,057 | 22.12 | |
United Democratic Party | 296 | 0.47 | |
Majority | 12,859 | 20.23 | |
Whitehaven | |||
39,294/50,949 | 77.12 | ||
Labour Party | 21,832 | 55.56 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,899 | 30.28 | |
Liberal Party | 5,563 | 14.16 | |
Majority | 9,933 | 25.28 | |
Widnes | |||
53,210/75,120 | 70.83 | ||
Labour Party | 31,532 | 59.26 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,611 | 27.46 | |
Liberal Party | 7,067 | 13.28 | |
Majority | 16,921 | 31.80 | |
Wigan | |||
42,105/56,900 | 74.00 | ||
Labour Party | 27,692 | 65.77 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,865 | 21.05 | |
Liberal Party | 5,548 | 13.18 | |
Majority | 18,827 | 44.71 | |
Wimbledon | |||
48,657/70,711 | 68.81 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,615 | 48.53 | |
Labour Party | 14,909 | 30.64 | |
Liberal Party | 10,133 | 20.83 | |
Majority | 8,706 | 17.89 | |
Winchester | |||
62,275/82,768 | 75.24 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,671 | 44.43 | |
Liberal Party | 18,451 | 29.63 | |
Labour Party | 16,153 | 25.94 | |
Majority | 9,220 | 14.81 | |
Windsor & Maidenhead | |||
57,207/79,682 | 71.79 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 28,013 | 48.97 | |
Labour Party | 15,172 | 26.52 | |
Liberal Party | 14,022 | 24.51 | |
Majority | 12,841 | 22.45 | |
Wirral | |||
70,267/93,109 | 75.47 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 35,705 | 50.81 | |
Labour Party | 22,217 | 31.62 | |
Liberal Party | 12,345 | 17.57 | |
Majority | 13,488 | 19.20 | |
11 February 1976 Resignation of Rt Hon Selwyn Lloyd. | |||
11 March 1976 | 51,925/93,485 | 55.54 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 34,675 | 66.78 | |
Labour Party | 10,563 | 20.34 | |
Liberal Party | 5,914 | 11.39 | |
Eng Nat | 466 | 0.90 | |
Independent Conservative | 307 | 0.59 | |
Majority | 24,112 | 46.44 | |
Woking | |||
49,531/67,900 | 72.95 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,804 | 46.04 | |
Liberal Party | 14,069 | 28.40 | |
Labour Party | 11,737 | 23.70 | |
National Front | 921 | 1.86 | |
Majority | 8,735 | 17.64 | |
Wokingham | |||
55,642/73,575 | 75.63 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,009 | 43.15 | |
Labour Party | 16,304 | 29.30 | |
Liberal Party | 15,329 | 27.55 | |
Majority | 7,705 | 13.85 | |
Wolverhampton North East | |||
46,007/69,494 | 66.20 | ||
Labour Party | 25,788 | 56.05 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 11,135 | 24.20 | |
Liberal Party | 7,156 | 15.55 | |
National Front | 1,928 | 4.19 | |
Majority | 14,653 | 31.85 | |
Wolverhampton South East | |||
36,573/55,370 | 66.05 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 21,466 | 58.69 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,768 | 26.71 | |
Liberal Party | 3,636 | 9.94 | |
National Front | 1,703 | 4.66 | |
Majority | 11,698 | 31.99 | |
Wolverhampton South West | |||
47,196/64,060 | 73.67 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 20,854 | 44.19 | |
Labour Party | 15,554 | 32.96 | |
Liberal Party | 9,215 | 19.52 | |
National Front | 1,573 | 3.33 | |
Majority | 5,300 | 11.23 | |
Wood Green | |||
32,384/52,009 | 62.27 | ||
Labour and Co-operative Party | 16,605 | 51.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,394 | 25.92 | |
Liberal Party | 4,782 | 14.77 | |
National Front | 2,603 | 8.04 | |
Majority | 8,211 | 25.36 | |
Woolwich East | |||
32,837/50,984 | 64.41 | ||
Labour Party | 19,812 | 60.33 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 7,387 | 22.50 | |
Liberal Party | 4,638 | 14.12 | |
National Front | 1,000 | 3.05 | |
Majority | 12,425 | 37.84 | |
Woolwich West | |||
41,649/56,351 | 73.91 | ||
Labour Party | 19,614 | 47.09 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 16,073 | 38.59 | |
Liberal Party | 5,962 | 14.31 | |
Majority | 3,541 | 8.50 | |
20 March 1975 Death of William Hamling. | |||
26 June 1975 | 35,421/56,839 | 62.32 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,280 | 48.78 | |
Labour Party | 14,898 | 42.06 | |
Liberal Party | 1,884 | 5.32 | |
National Front | 856 | 2.42 | |
Fellowship | 218 | 0.62 | |
Eng Nat | 140 | 0.40 | |
Independent Conservative | 104 | 0.29 | |
Independent | 41 | 0.12 | |
Majority | 2,382 | 6.72 | |
Reginald Simmerson opposed Britain's membership of the Common Market. | |||
Worcester | |||
55,265/74,824 | 73.86 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 25,183 | 45.57 | |
Labour Party | 20,194 | 36.54 | |
Liberal Party | 9,888 | 17.89 | |
Majority | 4,989 | 9.03 | |
Workington | |||
40,255/53,101 | 75.81 | ||
Labour Party | 22,539 | 55.99 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,988 | 32.26 | |
Liberal Party | 4,728 | 11.75 | |
Majority | 9,551 | 23.73 | |
23 September 1976 Elevation of Rt Hon Thomas Peart to the Peerage - Baron Peart. | |||
4 November 1976 | 40,207/54,178 | 74.21 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 19,396 | 48.24 | |
Labour Party | 18,331 | 45.59 | |
Liberal Party | 2,480 | 6.17 | |
Majority | 1,065 | 2.65 | |
Worthing | |||
51,617/72,581 | 71.12 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 30,036 | 58.19 | |
Liberal Party | 12,691 | 24.59 | |
Labour Party | 8,890 | 17.22 | |
Majority | 17,345 | 33.60 | |
Wrexham | |||
56,514/76,089 | 74.27 | ||
Labour Party | 28,885 | 51.11 | |
Liberal Party | 12,519 | 22.15 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 12,251 | 21.68 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2,859 | 5.06 | |
Majority | 16,366 | 28.96 | |
Wycombe | |||
58,565/78,815 | 74.31 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 27,131 | 46.33 | |
Labour Party | 18,052 | 30.82 | |
Liberal Party | 11,333 | 19.35 | |
National Front | 2,049 | 3.50 | |
Majority | 9,079 | 15.50 | |
19 January 1978 Death of Sir John Hall, Bt. | |||
27 April 1978 | 49,491/83,848 | 59.02 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 29,677 | 59.96 | |
Labour Party | 14,109 | 28.51 | |
Liberal Party | 3,665 | 7.41 | |
National Front | 2,040 | 4.12 | |
Majority | 15,568 | 31.46 | |
Yarmouth | |||
52,136/70,785 | 73.65 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 22,573 | 43.30 | |
Labour Party | 20,313 | 38.96 | |
Liberal Party | 9,250 | 17.74 | |
Majority | 2,260 | 4.33 | |
Yeovil | |||
59,669/75,141 | 79.41 | ||
Conservative & Unionist Party | 24,709 | 41.41 | |
Labour Party | 17,330 | 29.04 | |
Liberal Party | 17,298 | 28.99 | |
United Democratic Party | 332 | 0.56 | |
Majority | 7,379 | 12.37 | |
York | |||
58,122/77,153 | 75.33 | ||
Labour Party | 26,983 | 46.42 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 23,294 | 40.08 | |
Liberal Party | 7,370 | 12.68 | |
Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain | 304 | 0.52 | |
Protest Party | 171 | 0.29 | |
Majority | 3,689 | 6.35 |