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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		13,508/31,943	42.29
John Joseph Jones	National Socialist Party	6,971	51.61
Thomas Walter Colby Carthew	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	4,259	31.53
David John Davis	Labour Party	2,278	16.86
Majority		2,712	20.08

15 November 1922		16,235/33,111	49.03
John Joseph Jones	Labour Party	11,874	73.14
Charles George Lewis	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,361	26.86
Majority		7,513	46.28

Charles Lewis was the nominee of local Conservative working men's clubs and was an official Conservative canddiate. However he sought election as "Labour in the Conservative interest".

6 December 1923		15,725/34,261	45.90
John Joseph Jones	Labour Party	12,777	81.25
Charles George Lewis	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,948	18.75
Majority		9,829	62.51

29 October 1924		19,694/35,087	56.13
John Joseph Jones	Labour Party	15,962	81.05
Edward Doran	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,732	18.95
Majority		12,230	62.10

30 May 1929		27,354/45,080	60.68
John Joseph Jones	Labour Party	23,451	85.73
Luke William Burke Teeling	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,903	14.27
Majority		19,548	71.46

27 October 1931		25,505/44,632	57.15
John Joseph Jones	Labour Party	19,851	77.83
Eleonora Elisa Fiaschi Tennant	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,654	22.17
Majority		14,197	55.66

14 November 1935		22,453/42,078	53.36
John Joseph Jones	Labour Party	18,177	80.96
Eleonora Elisa Fiaschi Tennant	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,276	19.04
Majority		13,901	61.91

7 February 1940 Resignation of John Jones. (Northstead)

22 February 1940		15,460/38,575	40.08
James Henry Hollins	Labour Party	14,343	92.77
Harry Pollitt	Communist Party	966	6.25
Thomas P Moran	British Union of Fascists	151	0.98
Majority		13,377	86.53

5 July 1945		10,253/15,591	65.76
Dr Louis Comyns	Labour Party	9,358	91.27
Edward Elverston	Conservative & Unionist Party	494	4.82
Arthur William Davies	Independent	401	3.91
Majority		8,864	86.45