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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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23 February 1950		45,283/52,835	85.71
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton	Labour Party	22,716	50.16
Neil Loudon Desmond McLean	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,567	49.84
Majority		149	0.33

25 October 1951		45,504/52,610	86.49
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton	Labour Party	22,760	50.02
Neil Loudon Desmond McLean	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,744	49.98
Majority		16	0.04

Minor Boundary Change
26 May 1955		42,520/51,933	81.87
Alan Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,497	50.56
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton	Labour Party	21,023	49.44
Majority		474	1.11

8 October 1959		40,889/49,809	82.09
Alan Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,954	53.69
Thomas George Bradley	Labour Party	18,935	46.31
Majority		3,019	7.38

Minor Boundary Change
15 October 1964		38,356/48,685	78.78
Peter Mahon	Labour Party	19,352	50.45
Alan Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,004	49.55
Majority		348	0.91

31 March 1966		38,651/48,345	79.95
Peter Mahon	Labour Party	20,720	53.61
Alan Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,931	46.39
Majority		2,789	7.22

18 June 1970		39,629/52,181	75.95
Alan Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,480	51.68
Peter Mahon	Labour Party	19,149	48.32
Majority		1,331	3.36

28 February 1974		40,795/51,152	79.75
Stanley George Thorne	Labour Party	17,354	42.54
Alan Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,467	37.91
Ronald Philip Marshall	Liberal Party	7,974	19.55
Majority		1,887	4.63

10 October 1974		39,355/51,510	76.40
Stanley George Thorne	Labour Party	18,449	46.88
Alan Green	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,700	37.35
Ronald Philip Marshall	Liberal Party	5,456	13.86
Edward Victor Harrison	National Front	663	1.68
Harold Smith	Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain	87	0.22
Majority		3,749	9.53

3 May 1979		39,998/51,820	77.19
Stanley George Thorne	Labour Party	17,810	44.53
Brian Hugh Tetlow	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,189	42.97
Ronald Philip Marshall	Liberal Party	4,625	11.56
Michael Sydney Carl Gibson	National Front	258	0.65
Victor Anthony Stephens	Workers Revolutionary Party	116	0.29
Majority		621	1.55