UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		71,610/85,845	83.42
Alfred Bates	Labour Party	31,850	44.48
Eric Paul Cockeram	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,388	38.25
Philip John Handley	Liberal Party	12,372	17.28
Majority		4,462	6.23

10 October 1974		68,076/86,617	78.59
Alfred Bates	Labour Party	32,310	47.46
Eric Paul Cockeram	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,819	37.93
Neil Ronald Lindley Thomas	Liberal Party	9,947	14.61
Majority		6,491	9.53

3 May 1979		74,081/91,816	80.68
George Barrington Porter	Conservative & Unionist Party	32,488	43.85
Alfred Bates	Labour Party	32,002	43.20
Phillip Norman Gilchrist	Liberal Party	9,591	12.95
Majority		486	0.66