UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		29,130/45,102	64.59
John Douglas Grant	Labour Party	15,687	53.85
Richard Devonald-Lewis	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,996	24.02
Ian Colin Stuart	Liberal Party	6,447	22.13
Majority		8,691	29.84

10 October 1974		25,106/45,339	55.37
John Douglas Grant	Labour Party	14,689	58.51
Clive St George Clement Stanbrook	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,296	21.09
Peter William Murphy	Liberal Party	3,786	15.08
John William Score	National Front	1,335	5.32
Majority		9,393	37.41

3 May 1979		26,040/40,884	63.69
John Douglas Grant	Labour Party	13,415	51.52
Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,276	35.62
Margot Joan Dunn	Liberal Party	2,242	8.61
Sidney Albert Chaney	National Front	797	3.06
Adrian Robert Williams	Ecology Party	310	1.19
Majority		4,139	15.89

21 October 1981 John Grant resigns the Labour whip.

16 November 1981 John Grant joins the SDP.