UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		41,352/61,516	67.22
Rt Hon Merlyn Rees	Labour Party	18,995	45.93
William Schofield Hyde	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,141	31.78
Peter Michael Burley	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	9,216	22.29
Majority		5,854	14.16

11 June 1987		43,490/61,420	70.81
Rt Hon Merlyn Rees	Labour Party	21,551	49.55
Tessa Christine Holdroyd	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,840	34.12
Edward John Vincent Dawson	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	7,099	16.32
Majority		6,711	15.43

9 April 1992		45,809/63,107	72.59
William John Gunnell	Labour Party	23,896	52.16
Richard George Booth	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,524	36.07
Joan Margaret Walmsley	Liberal Democrats	5,062	11.05
Robert David Thurston	Natural Law Party	327	0.71
Majority		7,372	16.09