UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		74,997/89,882	83.44
Peter Maudslay Hordern	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,802	42.40
Ronald Leighton	Labour Party	25,028	33.37
Harold Charles Anthony Gill	Liberal Party	18,167	24.22
Majority		6,774	9.03

10 October 1974		70,984/90,913	78.08
Peter Maudslay Hordern	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,867	42.08
Matthew Alan Oakeshott	Labour Party	26,168	36.86
Patricia Olive Greenwood	Liberal Party	13,848	19.51
Anthony Philip Brewer	National Front	1,101	1.55
Majority		3,699	5.21

3 May 1979		81,450/100,059	81.40
Peter Maudslay Hordern	Conservative & Unionist Party	42,529	52.21
Patrick William Newman	Labour Party	27,508	33.77
Michael Hervey Christian Foley	Liberal Party	10,920	13.41
Alistair Archibebald Murch	National Front	493	0.61
Majority		15,021	18.44