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14 December 1918		33,935
William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

28 July 1921 Death of Rt Hon William Burdett-Coutts.

25 August 1921		14,227/36,952	38.50
John Sanctuary Nicholson	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,204	43.61
Reginald Vincent Kempenfelt Applin	Anti-Waste League	4,970	34.93
Arnold Lupton	Liberal Party	3,053	21.46
Majority		1,234	8.67

John Nicholson was supported by Horatio Bottomley's Independent Parliamentary Group.

15 November 1922		18,024/36,763	49.03
John Sanctuary Nicholson	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,620	75.57
Joseph George Butler	Labour Party	2,454	13.62
Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe	Independent	1,950	10.82
Majority		11,166	61.95

6 December 1923		36,999
John Sanctuary Nicholson	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

21 February 1924 Death of John Nicholson.

19 March 1924		22,778/36,999	61.56
Otho William Nicholson	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,187	35.94
Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill	Constitutionalist	8,144	35.75
Archibald Fenner Brockway	Labour Party	6,156	27.03
John Scott Duckers	Liberal Party	291	1.28
Majority		43	0.19

29 October 1924		22,223/38,069	58.38
Otho William Nicholson	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,915	80.61
Arthur Harold Woolf	Labour Party	4,308	19.39
Majority		13,607	61.23

30 May 1929		24,601/48,524	50.70
Otho William Nicholson	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,195	73.96
James Hyndman MacDonnell	Labour Party	6,406	26.04
Majority		11,789	47.92

27 October 1931		48,638
Otho William Nicholson	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

4 July 1932 Resignation of Otho Nicholson. (Northstead)

12 July 1932
Sidney Herbert	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

14 November 1935		23,372/47,538	49.16
Sidney Herbert	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,117	77.52
William Smith Kennedy	Labour Party	5,255	22.48
Majority		12,862	55.03

22 March 1939 Death of Sir Sidney Herbert, Bt.

17 May 1939		14,352/47,396	30.28
Sir William Harold Webbe	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,678	67.43
Gabriel Carritt	Independent Progressive Party	4,674	32.57
Majority		5,004	34.87

Gabriel Carritt sought election as an "Independent Progressive" candidate, advocating a "Popular Front" policy, and received the support of the local Liberal and Labour Associations.

5 July 1945		16,858/28,823	58.49
Sir William Harold Webbe	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,160	54.34
Jeremy Nicholas Hutchinson	Labour Party	4,408	26.15
Gabriel Carritt	Communist Party	2,964	17.58
Norman Leith-Hay-Clark	Dem P	326	1.93
Majority		4,752	28.19