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Data Last Updated: 11 January 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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5 July 1945		49,390/68,621	71.98
Otho Leslie Prior-Palmer	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,337	63.45
Arthur Wellesley Wright	Labour Party	11,570	23.43
Walter Parnell-Smith	Liberal Party	6,483	13.13
Majority		19,767	40.02

Boundary Change
23 February 1950		44,150/52,572	83.98
Otho Leslie Prior-Palmer	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,475	66.76
Edgar Duchin	Labour Party	10,028	22.71
William Arthur John Herbert Horne	Liberal Party	4,647	10.53
Majority		19,447	44.05

25 October 1951		43,280/54,122	79.97
Otho Leslie Prior-Palmer	Conservative & Unionist Party	32,302	74.63
Gerald William Reynolds	Labour Party	10,978	25.37
Majority		21,324	49.27

26 May 1955		40,337/55,456	72.74
Otho Leslie Prior-Palmer	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,106	77.12
Brian Ronald Stevens	Labour Party	9,231	22.88
Majority		21,875	54.23

8 October 1959		46,059/60,505	76.12
Sir Otho Leslie Prior-Palmer	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,396	68.16
Frederick Russell Mason	Labour Party	7,618	16.54
Deryck Robert Endsleigh Abel	Liberal Party	7,045	15.30
Majority		23,778	51.63

15 October 1964		49,499/64,931	76.23
Terence Langley Higgins	Conservative & Unionist Party	30,203	61.02
Paul Lawrence Rose	Liberal Party	11,320	22.87
Russell Leon Butler	Labour Party	7,976	16.11
Majority		18,883	38.15

31 March 1966		50,183/66,279	75.71
Terence Langley Higgins	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,903	59.59
Anthony Paul Lester	Labour Party	10,281	20.49
Robert Roberts	Liberal Party	8,955	17.84
Edward William John Moloney	Independent Conservative	1,044	2.08
Majority		19,622	39.10

18 June 1970		50,376/71,935	70.03
Terence Langley Higgins	Conservative & Unionist Party	33,051	65.61
Suzanne Molly Bartlett	Labour Party	8,989	17.84
Michael James Rooke	Liberal Party	8,336	16.55
Majority		24,062	47.76

28 February 1974		56,582/72,165	78.41
Terence Langley Higgins	Conservative & Unionist Party	33,613	59.41
Michael Hervey Christian Foley	Liberal Party	14,683	25.95
Michael William John Neves	Labour Party	8,286	14.64
Majority		18,930	33.46

10 October 1974		51,617/72,581	71.12
Terence Langley Higgins	Conservative & Unionist Party	30,036	58.19
Michael Hervey Christian Foley	Liberal Party	12,691	24.59
Michael William John Neves	Labour Party	8,890	17.22
Majority		17,345	33.60

3 May 1979		54,924/74,961	73.27
Terence Langley Higgins	Conservative & Unionist Party	33,624	61.22
Brian Raymond Sudbury	Liberal Party	13,244	24.11
Kerry Underwood	Labour Party	7,163	13.04
Albert Hough	National Front	893	1.63
Majority		20,380	37.11

9 June 1983		53,914/76,468	70.51
Rt Hon Terence Langley Higgins	Conservative & Unionist Party	32,807	60.85
B Arthur Robert Clare	Liberal Party in Alliance	17,554	32.56
Ashley Mark Minto	Labour Party	3,158	5.86
Martin Wingfield	National Front	292	0.54
David Malcolm Monks	British National Party	103	0.19
Majority		15,253	28.29

11 June 1987		56,032/77,717	72.10
Rt Hon Terence Langley Higgins	Conservative & Unionist Party	34,573	61.70
B Arthur Robert Clare	Liberal Party in Alliance	16,072	28.68
James Leigh Weetman Deen	Labour Party	5,387	9.61
Majority		18,501	33.02

9 April 1992		60,027/77,540	77.41
Rt Hon Terence Langley Higgins	Conservative & Unionist Party	34,198	56.97
Susan Bucknell	Liberal Democrats	17,665	29.43
James Leigh Weetman Deen	Labour Party	6,679	11.13
Pauline Julia Beever	Green Party	806	1.34
Nicholas Jon Goble	Official Liberal Party	679	1.13
Majority		16,533	27.54