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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		21,742/36,701	59.24
Evan Hayward	Liberal Party	12,754	58.66
John James Lawson	Labour Party	8,988	41.34
Majority		3,766	17.32

Evan Hayward was issued with the Coalition "coupon" but repudiated it.

15 November 1922		33,765/41,229	81.90
Sidney James Webb	Labour Party	20,203	59.83
Thomas Andrew Bradford	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,315	24.63
Evan Hayward	Liberal Party	5,247	15.54
Majority		11,888	35.21

6 December 1923		29,827/41,854	71.26
Sidney James Webb	Labour Party	21,281	71.35
Ronald Deane Ross	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,546	28.65
Majority		12,735	42.70

29 October 1924		34,174/43,356	78.82
Rt Hon Sidney James Webb	Labour Party	22,399	65.54
Ronald Deane Ross	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,775	34.46
Majority		10,624	31.09

30 May 1929		49,133/58,358	84.19
Rt Hon James Ramsay MacDonald	Labour Party	35,615	72.49
William Arthur Fearnley-Whittingstall	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,821	13.88
Henry Augustus Haslam	Liberal Party	5,266	10.72
Harry Pollitt	Communist Party	1,431	2.91
Majority		28,794	58.60

27 October 1931		52,682/60,795	86.66
Rt Hon James Ramsay MacDonald	National Labour	28,978	55.01
William Coxon	Labour Party	23,027	43.71
George Lumley	Communist Party	677	1.29
Majority		5,951	11.30

14 November 1935		56,262/65,178	86.32
Emanuel Shinwell	Labour Party	38,380	68.22
Rt Hon James Ramsay MacDonald	National Labour	17,882	31.78
Majority		20,498	36.43

5 July 1945		53,627/67,485	79.47
Emanuel Shinwell	Labour Party	42,942	80.08
Maurice Victor Macmillan	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,685	19.92
Majority		32,257	60.15