UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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7 June 1979		171,600/489,803	35.03
David Anthony Harris	Conservative & Unionist Party	94,650	55.16
D Leather	Labour Party	36,681	21.38
G Spring	Liberal Party	23,105	13.46
Richard Garfield Jenkin	Mebyon Kernow	10,205	5.95
Edward Rene David Goldsmith	Ecology Party	5,125	2.99
A E M Ash	Independent	1,834	1.07
Majority		57,969	33.78

14 June 1984		191,973/506,004	37.94
Christopher John Pridham Beazley	Conservative & Unionist Party	81,627	42.52
Jonathan Clive Marks	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	63,876	33.27
John Digby Cosgrove	Labour Party	35,952	18.73
Anthony Isaac Parkin	Independent	5,645	2.94
Robin Jabez Trevallion	Official Liberal Party	2,981	1.55
Dr James Charles Arthur Whetter	Federalist	1,892	0.99
Majority		17,751	9.25

15 June 1989		227,206/542,527	41.88
Christopher John Pridham Beazley	Conservative & Unionist Party	88,376	38.90
Paul Archer Tyler	Liberal Democrats	68,559	30.17
Dorothy M Kirk	Labour Party	41,466	18.25
Howard Spencer Hoptrough	Green Party	24,581	10.82
Colin Lawry	Mebyon Kernow	4,224	1.86
Majority		19,817	8.72