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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		39,988/60,832	65.74
Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys Williams, Bt	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,425	46.08
John Vincent Tilley	Labour Party	13,293	33.24
Dr Robert Michael Henry Lefever	Liberal Party	8,270	20.68
Majority		5,132	12.83

10 October 1974		34,443/61,097	56.37
Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys Williams, Bt	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,562	45.18
John Vincent Tilley	Labour Party	13,645	39.62
Ronald Mourad Cohen	Liberal Party	5,236	15.20
Majority		1,917	5.57

3 May 1979		33,850/52,396	64.60
Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys Williams, Bt	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,361	51.29
Patricia Ann Holmes	Labour Party	11,898	35.15
Bobbie Maureen Mary Vincent-Emery	Liberal Party	3,537	10.45
Nicholas Bronson Albery	Ecology Party	698	2.06
Christopher David Hopewell	National Front	356	1.05
Majority		5,463	16.14

Minor Boundary Change
9 June 1983		31,055/50,123	61.96
Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys Williams, Bt	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,274	45.96
Benjamin Theophilus Bousquet	Labour Party	9,173	29.54
William Howard Goodhart	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	6,873	22.13
Hon Jonathon Espie Porritt	Ecology Party	649	2.09
Terence Frank Knight	Independent	86	0.28
Majority		5,101	16.43

11 June 1987		31,191/48,456	64.37
Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys Williams, Bt	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,818	47.51
Benjamin Theophilus Bousquet	Labour Party	10,371	33.25
William Howard Goodhart	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	5,379	17.25
Roger Everingham Shorter	Green Party	528	1.69
Lana Queenie Yvonne Carrick	Humanist	65	0.21
Muriel Hughes	PIP	30	0.10
Majority		4,447	14.26

18 May 1988 Death of Sir Brandon Rhys Williams.

14 July 1988		23,633/48,456	48.77
John Dudley Fishburn	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,829	41.59
Patricia Ann Holmes	Labour Party	9,014	38.14
William Howard Goodhart	Liberal Democrats	2,546	10.77
John Martin	Social Democratic Party	1,190	5.04
Philip Andrew David Hobson	Green Party	572	2.42
Cynthia Diane Payne	Payne & Pleasure	193	0.82
David Edward Sutch	Monster Raving Loony Party	61	0.26
John Dugnan	Independent	60	0.25
Brian George Goodyear	Independent	31	0.13
Thomas Brian Joseph McDermott	Independent Liberal	31	0.13
Roy Eadie	Independent	30	0.13
William Patrick Charles Victor Scola	Leveller	27	0.11
John Eamonn Crowley	Independent	24	0.10
John Connell	Peace	20	0.08
Dr Kailish Shanker Trivedi	Independent	5	0.02
Majority		815	3.45

9 April 1992		30,878/42,129	73.29
John Dudley Fishburn	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,540	50.33
Patricia Ann Holmes	Labour Party	11,992	38.84
Christopher Kyle Shirley	Liberal Democrats	2,770	8.97
Ajay Burlingham-Johnson	Green Party	415	1.34
Anthony John Whittelle Hardy	Natural Law Party	90	0.29
Anne Bulloch	Anti-Fed	71	0.23
Majority		3,548	11.49

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6 May 2010		35,150/63,319	55.51
Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,595	50.06
Sam Gurney	Labour Party	8,979	25.54
Robin Mark Meltzer	Liberal Democrats	6,872	19.55
Lady Caroline Pearson of Rannoch	UK Independence Party	754	2.15
Zahra-Melan Ebrahimi-Fardouee	Green Party	753	2.14
Edward Samuel Adams	Green Soc	197	0.56
Majority		8,616	24.51

23 February 2015 The Conservative whip is removed from Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Rifkind pending an investigation into conduct of former ministers.

7 May 2015		34,828/61,333	56.79
Victoria Lorne Peta Borwick, Lady Borwick	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,199	52.25
Mohammed Rodwan Abouharb	Labour Party	10,838	31.12
Robin Max McGhee	Liberal Democrats	1,962	5.63
Robina Henningsen Rose	Green Party	1,765	5.07
Alfred John Sherer Bovill	UK Independence Party	1,557	4.47
Anthony Haynes Mark Auguste	CISTA	211	0.61
Andrew David Knight	Animal Welfare	158	0.45
Tobias Abse	Alliance for Green S	115	0.33
Roland Basil Skyvington Courtenay	New Independent Cent	23	0.07
Majority		7,361	21.14

8 June 2017		38,677/60,588	63.84
Emma Dent Coad	Labour Party	16,333	42.23
Victoria Lorne Peta Borwick, Lady Borwick	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,313	42.18
Annabel Jean Charlotte Mullin	Liberal Democrats	4,724	12.21
Jennifer Nadel	Green Party	767	1.98
James Torrance	Independent	393	1.02
Peter Marshall	Independent	98	0.25
John Lloyd	Alliance for Green Soc	49	0.13
Majority		20	0.05

12 December 2019		43,762/64,609	67.73
Felicity Christiana Buchan	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,768	38.32
Emma Dent Coad	Labour Party	16,618	37.97
Samuel Philip Gyimah	Liberal Democrats	9,312	21.28
Vivien Aviva Lichtenstein	Green Party	535	1.22
Jay Hilda Aston-Colquhoun	Brexit Party	384	0.88
Roger David Phillips	Christian Peoples Alliance	70	0.16
Harriet Nkechi Adimora Gore	Touch Love Worldwide	47	0.11
Scott Ejiro Dore	Workers Revolutionary Party	28	0.06
Majority		150	0.34