UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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7 June 1979		175,530/528,166	33.23
Rt Hon Diana Louise Elles, Baroness Elles	Conservative & Unionist Party	110,788	63.12
John Arthur Ford Ennals	Labour Party	39,865	22.71
Prof Michael Patrick Fogarty	Liberal Party	24,877	14.17
Majority		70,923	40.41

14 June 1984		143,755/519,564	27.67
Rt Hon Diana Louise Elles, Baroness Elles	Conservative & Unionist Party	74,928	52.12
Robert Brian Bastin	Labour Party	36,123	25.13
Robert Wilfrid Bradnock	Liberal Party in Alliance	32,704	22.75
Majority		38,805	26.99

15 June 1989		171,117/542,855	31.52
John Christopher Courteney Stevens	Conservative & Unionist Party	73,070	42.70
Hilary Barbara de Lyon	Labour Party	46,579	27.22
Peter Gordon	Green Party	36,865	21.54
D B Griffiths	Liberal Democrats	14,603	8.53
Majority		26,491	15.48

9 June 1994		189,212/543,685	34.80
John Christopher Courteney Stevens	Conservative & Unionist Party	70,485	37.25
John Howarth	Labour Party	69,727	36.85
N C Bathurst	Liberal Democrats	33,187	17.54
Philip John Unsworth	Green Party	6,120	3.23
John Samuel Clark	Official Liberal Party	5,381	2.84
Peter Thomas Owen	Loony CON	2,859	1.51
Michael Robert Stephen Grenville	Natural Law Party	1,453	0.77
Majority		758	0.40