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Data Last Updated: 11 January 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		45,037/62,387	72.19
Charles Frederick Wardle	Conservative & Unionist Party	30,329	67.34
Paul Roger Smith	Liberal Party in Alliance	10,583	23.50
Ian Phares Pearson	Labour Party	3,587	7.96
Anne Patricia Melba Rix	Ecology Party	538	1.19
Majority		19,746	43.84

11 June 1987		50,524/65,880	76.69
Charles Frederick Wardle	Conservative & Unionist Party	33,570	66.44
Robert Kiernan	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	13,051	25.83
Derek Keith Watts	Labour Party	3,903	7.73
Majority		20,519	40.61

9 April 1992		52,070/65,850	79.07
Charles Frederick Wardle	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,380	60.27
Susan Myfanwy Prochak	Liberal Democrats	15,023	28.85
Frank Taylor	Labour Party	4,883	9.38
Jonathan Lech Prus	Green Party	594	1.14
Mary Freda Smith	Commonsense	190	0.36
Majority		16,357	31.41

1 May 1997		48,994/65,584	74.70
Charles Frederick Wardle	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,570	48.11
Kathryn Margaret Field	Liberal Democrats	12,470	25.45
Robert Douglas Beckwith	Labour Party	8,866	18.10
Vanessa Thompson	Referendum Party	3,302	6.74
John Dennis Pankhurst	UK Independence Party	786	1.60
Majority		11,100	22.66

11 April 2001 Charles Wardle was expelled from the Parliamentary Conservative Party on the grounds that he had refused to support the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate in the forthcoming General Election.

7 June 2001		44,783/69,010	64.89
Gregory Leonard George Barker	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,555	48.13
Stephen Philip Hardy	Liberal Democrats	11,052	24.68
Anne Elizabeth Moore-Williams	Labour Party	8,702	19.43
Nigel Paul Farage	UK Independence Party	3,474	7.76
Majority		10,503	23.45

5 May 2005		46,834/69,676	67.22
Gregory Leonard George Barker	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,629	52.59
Mary Elizabeth Varrall	Liberal Democrats	11,180	23.87
Michael Gerard Jones	Labour Party	8,457	18.06
Anthony Bernard Frederick Smith	UK Independence Party	2,568	5.48
Majority		13,449	28.72

Major Boundary Change
6 May 2010		54,587/81,032	67.36
Gregory Leonard George Barker	Conservative & Unionist Party	28,147	51.56
Mary Elizabeth Varrall	Liberal Democrats	15,267	27.97
James William Royston	Labour Party	6,524	11.95
John Stuart Wheeler	Trust	2,699	4.94
Neil Playle Jackson	British National Party	1,950	3.57
Majority		12,880	23.60

7 May 2015		55,218/78,796	70.08
Huw William Merriman	Conservative & Unionist Party	30,245	54.77
Geoffrey Bernard Bastin	UK Independence Party	10,170	18.42
Michelle Thew	Labour Party	7,797	14.12
Rachel Cerys Sadler	Liberal Democrats	4,199	7.60
Jonathan Christopher Kent	Green Party	2,807	5.08
Majority		20,075	36.36

8 June 2017		59,472/81,331	73.12
Huw William Merriman	Conservative & Unionist Party	36,854	61.97
Christine Ann Bayliss	Labour Party	14,689	24.70
Joel Kemp	Liberal Democrats	4,485	7.54
Geoffrey Bernard Bastin	UK Independence Party	2,006	3.37
Jonathan Christopher Kent	Green Party	1,438	2.42
Majority		22,165	37.27

12 December 2019		59,093/81,963	72.10
Huw William Merriman	Conservative & Unionist Party	37,590	63.61
Christine Ann Bayliss	Labour Party	11,531	19.51
Martin Stuart Saunders	Liberal Democrats	7,280	12.32
Jonathan Christopher Kent	Green Party	2,692	4.56
Majority		26,059	44.10

Major Boundary Change
4 July 2024		47,750/72,209	66.13
Kieran John Mullan	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,186	33.90
Christine Ann Bayliss	Labour Party	13,529	28.33
Ian Michael Gribbin	Reform UK	7,929	16.61
Rebecca Marie Jones	Liberal Democrats	3,473	7.27
Jonathan Christopher Kent	Green Party	2,972	6.22
Abul Kalam Azad	Independent	2,206	4.62
Jeffrey Newnham	Independent	769	1.61
Julia Maria Long	Party of Women	332	0.70
Nigel Adam Jacklin	Ind Network	210	0.44
Colin Martin Sullivan	UK Independence Party	144	0.30
Majority		2,657	5.56