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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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23 February 1950		50,120/57,689	86.88
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland	Labour Party	24,458	48.80
Brian Davidson	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,320	36.55
Stafford Vaughan Stepney Howard	Liberal Party	7,342	14.65
Majority		6,138	12.25

25 October 1951		50,278/58,296	86.25
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland	Labour Party	27,808	55.31
Marjorie Hickling	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,470	44.69
Majority		5,338	10.62

Major Boundary Change
26 May 1955		41,794/51,166	81.68
Frederick Vernon Corfield	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,760	52.06
Edward Stanley Bishop	Labour Party	20,034	47.94
Majority		1,726	4.13

8 October 1959		47,735/57,026	83.71
Frederick Vernon Corfield	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,168	54.82
Joseph Holland	Labour Party	21,567	45.18
Majority		4,601	9.64

15 October 1964		57,905/68,781	84.19
Frederick Vernon Corfield	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,504	45.77
Michael Francis Lovell Cocks	Labour Party	22,790	39.36
Brian Sidney Sherriff	Liberal Party	8,611	14.87
Majority		3,714	6.41

31 March 1966		62,445/74,023	84.36
Frederick Vernon Corfield	Conservative & Unionist Party	28,224	45.20
Michael Francis Lovell Cocks	Labour Party	26,800	42.92
Eric Cleaton Hart	Liberal Party	7,421	11.88
Majority		1,424	2.28

18 June 1970		68,792/87,503	78.62
Frederick Vernon Corfield	Conservative & Unionist Party	35,045	50.94
Michael George Dalling	Labour Party	26,067	37.89
Anthony Lambert	Liberal Party	7,680	11.16
Majority		8,978	13.05

Major Boundary Change
28 February 1974		66,021/78,766	83.82
John Ambrose Cope	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,602	41.81
Oonagh Anne McDonald	Labour Party	21,143	32.02
David Cyril Short	Liberal Party	17,276	26.17
Majority		6,459	9.78

10 October 1974		63,228/79,419	79.61
John Ambrose Cope	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,581	42.04
Oonagh Anne McDonald	Labour Party	22,235	35.17
David Cyril Short	Liberal Party	14,412	22.79
Majority		4,346	6.87

3 May 1979		69,637/84,867	82.05
John Ambrose Cope	Conservative & Unionist Party	35,627	51.16
Michael Kevin Mullins	Labour Party	20,465	29.39
Dr George Mark Conrad	Liberal Party	12,850	18.45
David Stuart Kerridge	Ecology Party	695	1.00
Majority		15,162	21.77