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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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26 November 1885		6,127/8,455	72.47
Charles Edward Hamilton	Conservative Party	3,327	54.30
Dr Richard Marsden Pankhurst	Liberal/Labour	2,800	45.70
Majority		527	8.60

5 July 1886		5,317/8,455	62.89
Charles Edward Hamilton	Conservative Party	3,202	60.22
Sir William Bramston Gurdon	Liberal Party	2,115	39.78
Majority		1,087	20.44

6 July 1892		6,760/9,638	70.14
John Cumming Macdona	Conservative Party	3,995	59.10
Harold James Glanville	Liberal Party	2,765	40.90
Majority		1,230	18.20

17 July 1895		6,338/9,188	68.98
John Cumming Macdona	Conservative Party	4,092	64.56
Ambrose Pomeroy	Liberal Party	2,246	35.44
Majority		1,846	29.13

4 October 1900		6,294/9,559	65.84
John Cumming Macdona	Conservative Party	3,938	62.57
Thomas Hart-Davies	Liberal Party	2,356	37.43
Majority		1,582	25.14

17 January 1906		7,013/8,700	80.61
Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm	Liberal Party	4,192	59.77
John Cumming Macdona	Conservative Party	2,821	40.23
Majority		1,371	19.55

18 January 1910		8,044/9,538	84.34
Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm	Liberal Party	4,474	55.62
Assheton Pownall	Conservative Party	3,570	44.38
Majority		904	11.24

6 December 1910		7,056/9,538	73.98
Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm	Liberal Party	4,030	57.11
Assheton Pownall	Conservative Party	3,026	42.89
Majority		1,004	14.23

14 December 1918		11,278/25,008	45.10
John Rolleston Lort-Williams	Liberal Party - Coalition	5,639	50.00
Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm	Liberal Party	3,889	34.48
Will Godfrey	Labour Party	1,750	15.52
Majority		1,750	15.52

15 November 1922		18,486/29,166	63.38
John Rolleston Lort-Williams	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,749	36.51
Charles Diamond	Labour Party	6,703	36.26
Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm	Liberal Party	5,034	27.23
Majority		46	0.25

6 December 1923		18,795/29,457	63.80
Benjamin Smith	Labour Party	9,019	47.99
John Rolleston Lort-Williams	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,741	30.55
Dr Richard Hazleton	Liberal Party	4,035	21.47
Majority		3,278	17.44

29 October 1924		21,078/29,906	70.48
Benjamin Smith	Labour Party	12,703	60.27
Charles Garfield Lott du Cann	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,375	39.73
Majority		4,328	20.53

30 May 1929		23,814/36,133	65.91
Benjamin Smith	Labour Party	14,664	61.58
Joseph Gurney Braithwaite	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,594	19.29
Dora West	Liberal Party	4,556	19.13
Majority		10,070	42.29

27 October 1931		23,202/36,111	64.25
Norah Cecil Runge	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,666	50.28
Benjamin Smith	Labour Party	11,536	49.72
Majority		130	0.56

14 November 1935		24,167/33,899	71.29
Benjamin Smith	Labour Party	14,416	59.65
Norah Cecil Runge	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,751	40.35
Majority		4,665	19.30

5 July 1945		12,318/18,098	68.06
Rt Hon Sir Benjamin Smith	Labour Party	9,741	79.08
Norah Cecil Runge	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,577	20.92
Majority		7,164	58.16

12 September 1946 Resignation of Rt Hon Sir Benjamin Smith on appointment as Chairman of the West Midlands Divisional Coal Board. (Northstead)

19 November 1946
Robert Joseph Mellish	Labour Party	7,265	65.04
Edward Drewett Martell	Liberal Party	2,821	25.26
Frederick Frank Arthur Burden	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,084	9.70
Majority		4,444	39.79