UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		40,155/58,265	68.92
Arthur Charles Latham	Labour Party	17,293	43.07
Nicholas Paul Scott	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,421	40.89
Neville Julian Spencer Lewis	Liberal Party	6,441	16.04
Majority		872	2.17

10 October 1974		36,068/58,492	61.66
Arthur Charles Latham	Labour Party	17,155	47.56
Geoffrey Mark Wolfson	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,844	41.16
Neville Julian Spencer Lewis	Liberal Party	3,742	10.37
Christopher David Wertheim	Independent	192	0.53
James Stephen Allman	Irish Civil Rights Association	135	0.37
Majority		2,311	6.41

Christopher Wertheim sought election as a Labour Conservative Coalition candidate.

3 May 1979		35,606/56,234	63.32
John Daniel Wheeler	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,189	45.47
Arthur Charles Latham	Labour Party	16,083	45.17
Alastair John Brett	Liberal Party	2,815	7.91
Ian Alistair Cameron	National Front	402	1.13
Olatunji Banjo	Workers Revolutionary Party	117	0.33
Majority		106	0.30