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Data Last Updated: 11 January 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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23 February 1950		45,216/52,086	86.81
Harold Julian Amery	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,888	48.41
Dr Samuel Segal	Labour Party	20,950	46.33
Charles Joseph Hemelryk	Liberal Party	2,012	4.45
Patrick Joseph Devine	Communist Party	366	0.81
Majority		938	2.07

25 October 1951		46,088/52,647	87.54
Harold Julian Amery	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,598	51.20
Thomas Hourigan	Labour Party	22,490	48.80
Majority		1,108	2.40

26 May 1955		41,717/51,220	81.45
Harold Julian Amery	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,310	53.48
Edgar Hewitt	Labour Party	19,407	46.52
Majority		2,903	6.96

8 October 1959		43,519/52,212	83.35
Harold Julian Amery	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,990	55.13
Arthur Davidson	Labour Party	19,529	44.87
Majority		4,461	10.25

15 October 1964		41,118/52,233	78.72
Rt Hon Harold Julian Amery	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,566	50.02
Russell Whiston Kerr	Labour Party	20,552	49.98
Majority		14	0.03

31 March 1966		40,660/50,140	81.09
Ronald Henry Atkins	Labour Party	21,539	52.97
Rt Hon Harold Julian Amery	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,121	47.03
Majority		2,418	5.95

18 June 1970		39,700/51,746	76.72
Mary Holt	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,102	50.63
Ronald Henry Atkins	Labour Party	17,140	43.17
David Trevor Jones	Liberal Party	2,458	6.19
Majority		2,962	7.46

28 February 1974		40,438/50,908	79.43
Ronald Henry Atkins	Labour Party	16,797	41.54
Mary Holt	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,542	40.91
Gordon Payne	Liberal Party	7,099	17.56
Majority		255	0.63

10 October 1974		39,390/51,355	76.70
Ronald Henry Atkins	Labour Party	18,044	45.81
Mary Holt	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,260	41.28
Gordon Payne	Liberal Party	4,948	12.56
Harold Smith	Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain	138	0.35
Majority		1,784	4.53

3 May 1979		40,279/51,756	77.82
Robert James Atkins	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,632	46.26
Ronald Henry Atkins	Labour Party	18,603	46.19
Michael Paul Braham	Liberal Party	2,715	6.74
John Farran Hetherington	National Front	329	0.82
Majority		29	0.07