UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		58,669/80,238	73.12
William Richard Benyon	Conservative & Unionist Party	28,181	48.03
Janet Mary Nightingale	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	16,659	28.39
James Thakoordin	Labour Party	13,045	22.23
Alan Herbert Francis	Ecology Party	494	0.84
Ronald George William Rickcord	British National Party	290	0.49
Majority		11,522	19.64

11 June 1987		74,012/98,215	75.36
William Richard Benyon	Conservative & Unionist Party	35,396	47.82
Rt Hon William Thomas Rodgers	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	21,695	29.31
Yvonne Valerie Anne Brownfield-Pope	Labour Party	16,111	21.77
Alan Herbert Francis	Green Party	810	1.09
Majority		13,701	18.51