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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		74,125/90,409	81.99
Eric Moonman	Labour Party	33,499	45.19
Ronald Colin Denney	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,832	30.80
Edward Fortune	Liberal Party	17,794	24.01
Majority		10,667	14.39

10 October 1974		67,460/91,387	73.82
Eric Moonman	Labour Party	32,298	47.88
David Anthony Atkinson	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,747	32.24
Edward Fortune	Liberal Party	12,816	19.00
Robert Chaplin	Independent Labour	599	0.89
Majority		10,551	15.64

3 May 1979		80,818/103,596	78.01
Keith Harvey Proctor	Conservative & Unionist Party	37,919	46.92
Eric Moonman	Labour Party	32,739	40.51
Raymond Michael Auvray	Liberal Party	9,280	11.48
George Alec Sawyer	National Front	880	1.09
Majority		5,180	6.41

Major Boundary Change
9 June 1983		45,287/66,573	68.03
David Anthony Andrew Amess	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,516	38.68
Julian George Holder Fulbrook	Labour Party	16,137	35.63
Susan Slipman	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	11,634	25.69
Majority		1,379	3.05

11 June 1987		50,206/68,878	72.89
David Anthony Andrew Amess	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,858	43.54
Julian George Holder Fulbrook	Labour Party	19,209	38.26
Raymond Michael Auvray	Liberal Party in Alliance	9,139	18.20
Majority		2,649	5.28

9 April 1992		53,805/67,585	79.61
David Anthony Andrew Amess	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,159	44.90
John Russell Potter	Labour Party	22,679	42.15
Geoffrey Williams	Liberal Democrats	6,967	12.95
Majority		1,480	2.75

Major Boundary Change
1 May 1997		53,082/73,989	71.74
Angela Evans Smith	Labour and Co-operative Party	29,646	55.85
John Charles Baron	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,366	30.83
Dr Lindsay Patricia Granshaw	Liberal Democrats	4,608	8.68
Craig Barry Robinson	Referendum Party	2,462	4.64
Majority		13,280	25.02

7 June 2001		40,875/74,121	55.15
Angela Evans Smith	Labour and Co-operative Party	21,551	52.72
Dominic John Schofield	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,813	33.79
Jane Caroline Grantham Smithard	Liberal Democrats	3,691	9.03
Francis Michael Mallon	UK Independence Party	1,397	3.42
Richard Duane	Socialist Alliance	423	1.03
Majority		7,738	18.93

5 May 2005		43,141/73,912	58.37
Angela Evans Smith	Labour and Co-operative Party	18,720	43.39
Aaron James Powell	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,578	36.11
Martin Adam Thompson	Liberal Democrats	4,473	10.37
Emma Louise Colgate	British National Party	2,055	4.76
Alix Colin Blythe	UK Independence Party	1,143	2.65
Vikki Ann Copping	Green Party	662	1.53
Kim Elizabeth Gandy	English Democrats Party	510	1.18
Majority		3,142	7.28