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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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25 November 1885		5,689/7,381	77.08
Sir William Guyer Hunter	Conservative Party	2,941	51.70
John Holms	Liberal Party	2,748	48.30
Majority		193	3.39

5 July 1886		5,008/7,381	67.85
Sir William Guyer Hunter	Conservative Party	3,047	60.84
Martin Andrew Sharp Hume	Liberal Party	1,961	39.16
Majority		1,086	21.69

6 July 1892		6,671/8,951	74.53
Sir Andrew Richard Scoble	Conservative Party	3,478	52.14
John Fyfe Stewart	Liberal Party	3,193	47.86
Majority		285	4.27

16 July 1895		6,244/8,835	70.67
Sir Andrew Richard Scoble	Conservative Party	3,278	52.50
Charles Russell	Liberal Party	2,966	47.50
Majority		312	5.00

4 October 1900		5,990/8,692	68.91
Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen	Conservative Party	3,747	62.55
Sir Israel Hart	Liberal Party	2,243	37.45
Majority		1,504	25.11

17 January 1906		7,380/8,779	84.06
Albert Spicer	Liberal Party	3,998	54.17
Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen	Conservative Party	3,382	45.83
Majority		616	8.35

19 January 1910		8,282/9,343	88.64
Sir Albert Spicer, Bt	Liberal Party	4,429	53.48
Felix Maximilian Schoenbrunn Cassel	Liberal Unionist Party	3,853	46.52
Majority		576	6.95

6 December 1910		7,418/9,343	79.40
Sir Albert Spicer, Bt	Liberal Party	3,954	53.30
Albert Henry Jessel	Conservative Party	3,464	46.70
Majority		490	6.61

14 December 1918
William James Uglow Woolcock	Liberal Party - Coalition	Unopposed

15 November 1922		21,127/35,033	60.31
Sir Arthur Levy Lever, Bt	National Liberal Party	9,795	46.36
Rt Hon Thomas McKinnon Wood	Liberal Party	6,825	32.30
Arthur Alfred Lynch	Labour Party	4,507	21.33
Majority		2,970	14.06

6 December 1923		22,175/35,334	62.76
Leonard Benjamin Franklin	Liberal Party	8,569	38.64
Sir Daniel Thomas Keymer	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,252	32.70
Ernest Edwin Hunter	Labour Party	6,354	28.65
Majority		1,317	5.94

29 October 1924		26,692/35,969	74.21
Sir Robert Vaughan Gower	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,414	42.76
Ernest Edwin Hunter	Labour Party	9,684	36.28
Leonard Benjamin Franklin	Liberal Party	5,594	20.96
Majority		1,730	6.48

30 May 1929		33,462/47,774	70.04
Frederick Charles Watkins	Labour Party	12,462	37.24
Albert Charles Bossom	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,814	32.32
Leonard Benjamin Franklin	Liberal Party	10,186	30.44
Majority		1,648	4.92

27 October 1931		32,574/48,025	67.83
John Cutts Lockwood	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,963	52.08
Frederick Charles Watkins	Labour Party	9,295	28.54
Leonard Benjamin Franklin	Liberal Party	6,316	19.39
Majority		7,668	23.54

14 November 1935		29,707/48,990	60.64
Frederick Charles Watkins	Labour Party	15,332	51.61
John Cutts Lockwood	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,375	48.39
Majority		957	3.22

5 July 1945		22,047/33,638	65.54
Henry Hynd	Labour Party	14,810	67.17
Richard Reader Harris	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,889	22.18
Samuel Woolf Magnus	Liberal Party	2,348	10.65
Majority		9,921	45.00

New
26 May 1955		43,754/66,183	66.11
Herbert William Butler	Labour Party	27,012	61.74
James Harry Allason	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,212	34.77
John Richard Betteridge	Communist Party	1,530	3.50
Majority		11,800	26.97

8 October 1959		41,312/62,561	66.03
Herbert William Butler	Labour Party	25,407	61.50
John Charles Thomas Tremayne Waring	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,905	38.50
Majority		9,502	23.00

15 October 1964		34,844/61,036	57.09
Herbert William Butler	Labour Party	23,110	66.32
Humphrey Martin Lea Morton	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,734	33.68
Majority		11,376	32.65

31 March 1966		33,668/58,513	57.54
Herbert William Butler	Labour Party	21,466	63.76
Humphrey Martin Lea Morton	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,440	22.10
Cecil Victor Gittins	Liberal Party	4,762	14.14
Majority		14,026	41.66

18 June 1970		26,971/53,067	50.82
Stanley Clinton Davis	Labour Party	17,380	64.44
Kenneth Sydney Lightwood	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,339	34.63
Aftab Qureshi	Independent	252	0.93
Majority		8,041	29.81

Major Boundary Change
28 February 1974		30,263/48,282	62.68
Stanley Clinton Davis	Labour Party	18,705	61.81
Kenneth Sydney Lightwood	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,302	20.82
Margaret Gelling Snow	Liberal Party	5,256	17.37
Majority		12,403	40.98

10 October 1974		25,621/48,517	52.81
Stanley Clinton Davis	Labour Party	17,650	68.89
Kenneth Sydney Lightwood	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,797	18.72
Margaret Gelling Snow	Liberal Party	3,174	12.39
Majority		12,853	50.17

3 May 1979		27,953/46,464	60.16
Stanley Clinton Davis	Labour Party	16,506	59.05
Nicholas Jerome Bennett	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,718	27.61
Elikkos Georghiades	Liberal Party	1,835	6.56
Robin May	National Front	1,418	5.07
David Boyes	Communist Party	340	1.22
Michael Robert Johnson	Workers Revolutionary Party	136	0.49
Majority		8,788	31.44