UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		64,172/84,527	75.92
William Thomas Rodgers	Labour Party	37,876	59.02
Beryl Sloan	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,505	39.74
Ernest Jones	Communist Party	791	1.23
Majority		12,371	19.28

10 October 1974		59,106/85,490	69.14
William Thomas Rodgers	Labour Party	32,962	55.77
Dr Brian Stanley Mawhinney	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,488	31.28
Natalie Long	Liberal Party	6,906	11.68
Vera Marion Fletcher	Independent	750	1.27
Majority		14,474	24.49

3 May 1979		65,751/89,206	73.71
Rt Hon William Thomas Rodgers	Labour Party	34,917	53.10
Robert Brannock Jones	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,790	36.18
Sandra Elaine Dunleavy	Liberal Party	6,074	9.24
Anthony Bruce	National Front	384	0.58
Vera Marion Fletcher	Independent	343	0.52
James Edwin Smith	Communist Party	243	0.37
Majority		11,127	16.92

2 March 1981 Rt Hon Bill Rodgers resigned the Labour whip and announced his intention to sit as a Social Democrat.