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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		49,616/65,568	75.67
Hon Robert Thomas Boscawen	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,988	54.39
Nicholas John Hinton	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	17,761	35.80
Jeffrey Bryan Osborn	Labour Party	4,867	9.81
Majority		9,227	18.60

11 June 1987		54,625/69,661	78.42
Hon Robert Thomas Boscawen	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,351	53.73
Rowland Godfrey Morgan	Liberal Party in Alliance	19,813	36.27
Ian Spencer Kelly	Labour Party	5,461	10.00
Majority		9,538	17.46

9 April 1992		59,047/71,354	82.75
Mark Noel Foster Robinson	Conservative & Unionist Party	28,052	47.51
David William St John Heath	Liberal Democrats	23,711	40.16
Robert Ashford	Labour Party	6,154	10.42
Leona Aroha Graham	Green Party	742	1.26
Jean Pollock	Official Liberal Party	388	0.66
Majority		4,341	7.35

1 May 1997		57,403/73,988	77.58
David William St John Heath	Liberal Democrats	22,684	39.52
Mark Noel Foster Robinson	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,554	39.29
Robert Ashford	Labour Party	9,385	16.35
Robert Edward Hunter Rodwell	Referendum Party	2,449	4.27
Ronald Patrick Gadd	UK Independence Party	331	0.58
Majority		130	0.23

7 June 2001		52,684/74,991	70.25
David William St John Heath	Liberal Democrats	22,983	43.62
Jonathan Peter Marland	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,315	42.36
Andrew Mark Perkins	Labour Party	6,113	11.60
Peter John Bridgwood	UK Independence Party	919	1.74
Jean Pollock	Official Liberal Party	354	0.67
Majority		668	1.27

5 May 2005		53,922/77,806	69.30
David William St John Heath	Liberal Democrats	23,759	44.06
Clive Edward James Allen	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,947	42.56
Joseph Peregrine Pestell	Labour Party	5,685	10.54
William James Lukins	UK Independence Party	1,047	1.94
Carleton Aderne Hulme Beaman	Veritas	484	0.90
Majority		812	1.51

Minor Boundary Change
6 May 2010		60,612/82,084	73.84
David William St John Heath	Liberal Democrats	28,793	47.50
Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,976	44.51
David Alan Oakensen	Labour Party	2,675	4.41
Barry Francis Harding	UK Independence Party	1,932	3.19
Timothy Niall Warry	Independent	236	0.39
Majority		1,817	3.00

7 May 2015		60,309/83,527	72.20
David John Warburton	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,960	52.99
David Digby Rendel	Liberal Democrats	11,692	19.39
Alan Ivor Dimmick	UK Independence Party	6,439	10.68
Theo Simon	Green Party	5,434	9.01
David Alan Oakensen	Labour Party	4,419	7.33
Ian Paul Angell	Independent	365	0.61
Majority		20,268	33.61

8 June 2017		63,592/84,437	75.31
David John Warburton	Conservative & Unionist Party	36,231	56.97
Mark Blackburn	Liberal Democrats	13,325	20.95
Sean Adam Dromgoole	Labour Party	10,998	17.29
Theo Simon	Green Party	2,047	3.22
Richard Hadwin	Independent	991	1.56
Majority		22,906	36.02

12 December 2019		64,896/85,866	75.58
David John Warburton	Conservative & Unionist Party	36,230	55.83
Adam Owen Matthew Boyden	Liberal Democrats	17,017	26.22
Sean Adam Dromgoole	Labour Party	8,354	12.87
Andrea Dexter	Green Party	3,295	5.08
Majority		19,213	29.61

2 April 2022 David Warburton is suspended from the Conservative whip.

19 June 2023 Resignation of David Warburton. (Northstead)

20 July 2023		38,788/87,921	44.12
Sarah Joanne Dyke	Liberal Democrats	21,187	54.62
Faye Marie Purbrick	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,179	26.24
Martin John Dimery	Green Party	3,944	10.17
Bruce David Evans	Reform UK	1,303	3.36
Neil William Guild	Labour Party	1,009	2.60
Rosie Mitchell	Independent	635	1.64
Peter Kevin Richardson	UK Independence Party	275	0.71
Lorna Irene Bromley Corke	Christian Alliance	256	0.66
Majority		11,008	28.38