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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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26 May 1955		34,372/47,132	72.93
Bernard Richard Braine	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,531	59.73
Edward William Harby	Labour and Co-operative Party	13,841	40.27
Majority		6,690	19.46

8 October 1959		46,115/60,316	76.46
Bernard Richard Braine	Conservative & Unionist Party	28,124	60.99
Reginald Manourie Fryer	Labour Party	17,991	39.01
Majority		10,133	21.97

15 October 1964		58,787/78,364	75.02
Bernard Richard Braine	Conservative & Unionist Party	33,494	56.98
Anthony Pearson-Clarke	Labour Party	25,293	43.02
Majority		8,201	13.95

31 March 1966		65,856/85,151	77.34
Bernard Richard Braine	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,942	48.50
Derek William Edwards	Labour Party	26,208	39.80
Joyce Muriel Arram	Liberal Party	7,706	11.70
Majority		5,734	8.71

18 June 1970		72,084/100,167	71.96
Bernard Richard Braine	Conservative & Unionist Party	41,589	57.70
Derek William Edwards	Labour Party	23,684	32.86
Christopher Hugh Bohling	Liberal Party	6,811	9.45
Majority		17,905	24.84

Major Boundary Change
28 February 1974		61,914/75,424	82.09
Sir Bernard Richard Braine	Conservative & Unionist Party	28,644	46.26
David Bryn Jones	Labour Party	19,379	31.30
Frances Winifred Alexander	Liberal Party	13,891	22.44
Majority		9,265	14.96

10 October 1974		56,035/75,995	73.74
Sir Bernard Richard Braine	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,348	48.81
David Bryn Jones	Labour Party	18,638	33.26
Anthony Frankland Crowley Morris	Liberal Party	10,049	17.93
Majority		8,710	15.54

3 May 1979		63,320/82,350	76.89
Sir Bernard Richard Braine	Conservative & Unionist Party	40,497	63.96
Nigel John Murray Smith	Labour Party	15,965	25.21
Frances Winifred Alexander	Liberal Party	6,858	10.83
Majority		24,532	38.74