UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 23 August 1923

Died: 5 May 1997

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Middleton

Leigh Technical College

Wigan Mining College

Miner

15 October 1964	Liverpool West Derby	Labour Party	21,134	54.68
31 March 1966	Liverpool West Derby	Labour Party	19,988	56.88
18 June 1970	Liverpool West Derby	Labour Party	22,324	57.32
28 February 1974	Liverpool West Derby	Labour Party	22,689	54.68
10 October 1974	Liverpool West Derby	Labour Party	23,694	60.21
3 May 1979	Liverpool West Derby	Labour Party	22,576	55.47
27 October 1981 Eric Ogden resigns the Labour whip and joins the SDP on 29 October 1981.
9 June 1983	Liverpool West Derby	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	7,871	17.95