UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		41,658/49,118	84.81
Rt Hon Edward Richard George Heath	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,448	49.09
Colin Francis Hargrave	Labour Party	10,750	25.81
Oliver Charles Napier Moxon	Liberal Party	9,847	23.64
Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett	Anti-Common Market	613	1.47
Majority		9,698	23.28

10 October 1974		37,628/49,550	75.94
Rt Hon Edward Richard George Heath	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,991	50.47
William John Jennings	Labour Party	11,448	30.42
Ian Richard Philip Josephs	Liberal Party	6,954	18.48
Douglas Hartley Jones	Independent Conservative	174	0.46
Marcus John Norton	Independent	61	0.16
Majority		7,543	20.05

3 May 1979		39,610/49,976	79.26
Rt Hon Edward Richard George Heath	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,692	59.81
Francis Keohane	Labour Party	10,236	25.84
Peter Vickers	Liberal Party	4,908	12.39
Alan David Webb	National Front	774	1.95
Majority		13,456	33.97