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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		55,041/75,160	73.23
Kenneth Harvard Hind	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,458	46.25
Josephine Harrington	Labour Party	18,600	33.79
Andrew Dean Sackville	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	10,983	19.95
Majority		6,858	12.46

11 June 1987		60,619/77,054	78.67
Kenneth Harvard Hind	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,500	43.72
Colin Pickthall	Labour Party	25,147	41.48
Robert Jermyn	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	8,972	14.80
Majority		1,353	2.23

9 April 1992		63,945/77,462	82.55
Colin Pickthall	Labour Party	30,128	47.12
Kenneth Harvard Hind	Conservative & Unionist Party	28,051	43.87
Peter Francis Reilly	Liberal Democrats	4,884	7.64
Philip John Pawley	Green Party	546	0.85
Bevin Howell Morris	Natural Law Party	336	0.53
Majority		2,077	3.25

Major Boundary Change
1 May 1997		54,729/73,175	74.79
Colin Pickthall	Labour Party	33,022	60.34
Christopher John Varley	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,903	29.06
Arthur Robert Wood	Liberal Democrats	3,938	7.20
Michelle Carter	Referendum Party	1,025	1.87
John Dickinson Collins	Natural Law Party	449	0.82
David Hill	Home Rule	392	0.72
Majority		17,119	31.28

7 June 2001		42,971/72,858	58.98
Colin Pickthall	Labour Party	23,404	54.46
Jeremy Myers	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,761	32.02
John Lestock Thornton	Liberal Democrats	4,966	11.56
David Hill	Independent	523	1.22
Rev David Oswald Braid	Independent	317	0.74
Majority		9,643	22.44

5 May 2005		43,155/74,777	57.71
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper	Labour Party	20,746	48.07
Alfred Doran	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,662	33.98
Richard Charles Kemp	Liberal Democrats	6,059	14.04
Alan Freeman	UK Independence Party	871	2.02
Stephen Paul Garrett	English Democrats Party	525	1.22
David Oswald Braid	Christian Democrat	292	0.68
Majority		6,084	14.10

6 May 2010		48,473/73,835	65.65
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper	Labour Party	21,883	45.14
Adrian Edward Owens	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,540	36.19
John Philip Robson Gibson	Liberal Democrats	6,573	13.56
Damon Noone	UK Independence Party	1,775	3.66
Peter Andrew Edward Cranie	Green Party	485	1.00
David Oswald Braid	Christian Democrat	217	0.45
Majority		4,343	8.96

7 May 2015		49,676/70,906	70.06
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper	Labour Party	24,474	49.27
Paul Vincent Greenall	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,114	32.44
Jack Sen	UK Independence Party	6,058	12.20
Benedict Henry Basson	Green Party	1,582	3.18
Daniel George Lewis	Liberal Democrats	1,298	2.61
David Oswald Braid	War Veteran's Family	150	0.30
Majority		8,360	16.83

8 June 2017		54,389/73,257	74.24
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper	Labour Party	32,030	58.89
Sam Currie	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,341	37.40
Joanne Barton	Liberal Democrats	1,069	1.97
Nate Higgins	Green Party	680	1.25
David Oswald Braid	War Veteran's Family	269	0.49
Majority		11,689	21.49

12 December 2019		52,663/73,347	71.80
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper	Labour Party	27,458	52.14
Jack Gilmore	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,122	36.31
Simon Paul Thomson	Liberal Democrats	2,560	4.86
Marc Stanton	Brexit Party	2,275	4.32
John Richard Puddifer	Green Party	1,248	2.37
Majority		8,336	15.83

30 November 2022 Resignation of Rosie Cooper. (Chiltern Hundreds)

10 February 2023		22,578/72,199	31.27
Ruth Ashley Charman Dalton	Labour Party	14,068	62.31
Michael Francis Prendergast	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,742	25.43
Jonathan Stanley Kay	Reform UK	994	4.40
Joanne Barton	Liberal Democrats	918	4.07
Peter Andrew Edward Cranie	Green Party	646	2.86
Alan Hope	Monster Raving Loony Party	210	0.93
Majority		8,326	36.88

4 July 2024		44,200/74,083	59.66
Ruth Ashley Charman Dalton	Labour Party	22,305	50.46
Michael Francis Prendergast	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,680	19.64
Simon Evans	Reform UK	7,909	17.89
Charlotte Marian Houltram	Green Party	3,263	7.38
Graham Michael Smith	Liberal Democrats	2,043	4.62
Majority		13,625	30.83