UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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New
23 February 1950		34,073/39,261	86.79
Ronald William Gordon Mackay	Labour Party	15,681	46.02
Sir John Stanley Vincent Marling, Bt	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,154	44.48
John Michael Derrick	Liberal Party	3,238	9.50
Majority		527	1.55

25 October 1951		34,454/39,681	86.83
Frederick Mackarness Bennett	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,378	50.44
Ronald William Gordon Mackay	Labour Party	17,076	49.56
Majority		302	0.88

New
28 February 1974		50,736/63,969	79.31
Robert Anthony Bevis Durant	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,984	39.39
Maeve Judith Denby	Labour Party	17,615	34.72
Julian Francis Burnett	Liberal Party	13,137	25.89
Majority		2,369	4.67

10 October 1974		46,658/64,468	72.37
Robert Anthony Bevis Durant	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,734	40.15
Maeve Judith Denby	Labour Party	18,266	39.15
Keith Ernest Vincent Watts	Liberal Party	9,064	19.43
Philip Baker	National Front	594	1.27
Majority		468	1.00

3 May 1979		49,598/65,369	75.87
Robert Anthony Bevis Durant	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,085	50.58
Rev David Michael Mason	Labour Party	17,662	35.61
Peter Kenneth Minton	Liberal Party	6,170	12.44
Philip Baker	National Front	554	1.12
Llewellyn Wales Edwards	Independent	127	0.26
Majority		7,423	14.97