UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 11 January 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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7 June 1979		144,522/506,017	28.56
Michael Gallagher	Labour Party	66,279	45.86
John Derek Taylor	Conservative & Unionist Party	64,728	44.79
David John Chambers	Liberal Party	13,515	9.35
Majority		1,551	1.07

5 January 1984 Michael Gallagher announces that he has left the Labour Party and joined the Social Democratic Party.

14 June 1984		182,043/554,473	32.83
Michael Leopold Kilby	Conservative & Unionist Party	82,500	45.32
Kenneth Sidney Coates	Labour Party	66,374	36.46
Keith Myers Melton	Liberal Party in Alliance	33,169	18.22
Majority		16,126	8.86

15 June 1989		210,799/565,354	37.29
Kenneth Sidney Coates	Labour Party	92,261	43.77
Michael Leopold Kilby	Conservative & Unionist Party	77,748	36.88
Susan Elizabeth Blount	Green Party	34,097	16.18
A Swift	Liberal Democrats	6,693	3.18
Majority		14,513	6.88