UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		35,686/60,065	59.41
Rt Hon Peter David Shore	Labour Party	28,869	80.90
Harry Greenway	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,539	15.52
Kevin Halpin	Communist Party	1,278	3.58
Majority		23,330	65.38

10 October 1974		31,140/60,446	51.52
Rt Hon Peter David Shore	Labour Party	24,159	77.58
Harry Greenway	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,183	10.22
Frances Winifred Alexander	Liberal Party	3,181	10.22
Kevin Halpin	Communist Party	617	1.98
Majority		20,976	67.36

3 May 1979		31,262/58,637	53.31
Rt Hon Peter David Shore	Labour Party	19,576	62.62
Robert Gurth Hughes	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,561	20.99
Rif Winfield	Liberal Party	2,234	7.15
Victor James Clarke	National Front	1,571	5.03
Edwin Thomas Johns	Independent Labour	672	2.15
Kevin Halpin	Communist Party	413	1.32
Peter Simon Chappell	Workers Revolutionary Party	235	0.75
Majority		13,015	41.63