UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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7 June 1979		172,192/504,605	34.12
Paul Frederic Howell	Conservative & Unionist Party	102,981	59.81
Hugh Gray	Labour Party	52,406	30.43
Ernest Brian Stuart Baxter	Liberal Party	16,805	9.76
Majority		50,575	29.37

14 June 1984		191,764/543,214	35.30
Paul Frederic Howell	Conservative & Unionist Party	95,459	49.78
Alfred Ernest Bryan Heading	Labour Party	58,602	30.56
Leighton Vaughan Williams	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	37,703	19.66
Majority		36,857	19.22

15 June 1989		218,274/577,576	37.79
Paul Frederic Howell	Conservative & Unionist Party	92,385	42.33
Mary Elizabeth Page	Labour Party	71,478	32.75
Michael Graham Macartney-Filgate	Green Party	40,575	18.59
R A Lawes	Liberal Democrats	8,902	4.08
Stuart Dempster Maxwell	Social Democratic Party	4,934	2.26
Majority		20,907	9.58

9 June 1994		227,255/513,553	44.25
Clive John Needle	Labour Party	102,711	45.20
Paul Frederic Howell	Conservative & Unionist Party	76,424	33.63
Paul Richard Burall	Liberal Democrats	39,107	17.21
Adrian St John Holmes	Green Party	7,938	3.49
Bryan Alan Parsons	Natural Law Party	1,075	0.47
Majority		26,287	11.57