UK Elections Info

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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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John Gorst

Born: 28 June 1928

Died: 31 July 2010

Knighted - 11 June 1994

son of Charles Gorst

son of Tatiana Kolotinsky

husband of Noel Harington Walker

Ardingly College, Sussex

Corpus Christi, Cambridge

Public Relations Consultant

15 October 1964	Chester-le-Street	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,851	24.80
31 March 1966	Bodmin	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,121	41.40
18 June 1970	Hendon North	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,192	49.29
28 February 1974	Hendon North	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,285	42.63
10 October 1974	Hendon North	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,299	44.45
3 May 1979	Hendon North	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,766	52.06
9 June 1983	Hendon North	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,449	49.84
11 June 1987	Hendon North	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,155	55.62
9 April 1992	Hendon North	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,569	53.18
6 December 1996 Sir John Gorst announces that, whilst not resigning the Conservative whip, the Government could no longer count on his vote in the House of Commons.
1 May 1997	Hendon	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,528	37.03