UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		53,756/72,941	73.70
Terence Lewis	Labour Party	21,675	40.32
Stanley Windle	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,536	32.62
John Francis Hodgess Roper	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	14,545	27.06
Majority		4,139	7.70

11 June 1987		56,484/73,941	76.39
Terence Lewis	Labour Party	27,157	48.08
Veronica Horman	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,820	35.09
David Allan Cowpe	Liberal Party in Alliance	9,507	16.83
Majority		7,337	12.99

9 April 1992		56,167/72,244	77.75
Terence Lewis	Labour Party	29,418	52.38
Neil St Clair Cameron	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,406	34.55
Robert Douglas Boyd	Liberal Democrats	6,490	11.55
Philip John Connolly	Green Party	677	1.21
Gregg David Phillips	Natural Law Party	176	0.31
Majority		10,012	17.83

Major Boundary Change
1 May 1997		46,781/68,978	67.82
Terence Lewis	Labour Party	29,083	62.17
Damian Robin Leon Garrido	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,342	24.24
Robert Mark Bleakley	Liberal Democrats	6,356	13.59
Majority		17,741	37.92

7 June 2001		35,363/69,300	51.03
Terence Lewis	Labour Party	20,193	57.10
Tobias Martin Ellwood	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,406	23.77
Robert Mark Bleakley	Liberal Democrats	6,188	17.50
Dorothy Edna Entwistle	Socialist Labour	576	1.63
Majority		11,787	33.33

5 May 2005		36,946/69,534	53.13
Barbara Mary Keeley	Labour Party	18,859	51.04
Graham Thomas Evans	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,491	25.69
Richard Mark Clayton	Liberal Democrats	6,902	18.68
Bernard Gill	UK Independence Party	1,694	4.59
Majority		9,368	25.36