UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		67,954/81,346	83.54
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams	Labour Party	30,343	44.65
Vivian Walter Hough Bendall	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,167	32.62
Thomas Noel Willis	Liberal Party	15,444	22.73
Majority		8,176	12.03

10 October 1974		62,701/82,193	76.29
Rt Hon Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams	Labour Party	29,548	47.13
Vivian Walter Hough Bendall	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,502	32.70
Thomas Noel Willis	Liberal Party	11,419	18.21
Kenneth Taylor	National Front	1,232	1.96
Majority		9,046	14.43

3 May 1979		70,423/87,623	80.37
Petre Bowen Wells	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,739	45.07
Rt Hon Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams	Labour Party	30,443	43.23
Brian David Rigby	Liberal Party	7,660	10.88
Jack Leslie Pell	National Front	581	0.83
Majority		1,296	1.84