UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 June 1984		137,070/518,707	26.43
John Edward Tomlinson	Labour and Co-operative Party	61,946	45.19
Colin Richard Campbell Hart	Conservative & Unionist Party	55,702	40.64
Joseph Christopher Binns	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	19,422	14.17
Majority		6,244	4.56

15 June 1989		171,287/515,817	33.21
John Edward Tomlinson	Labour Party	86,545	50.53
Charles Francis Robinson	Conservative & Unionist Party	55,685	32.51
J D Bentley	Green Party	21,384	12.48
Stewart Reynolds	Liberal Democrats	7,673	4.48
Majority		30,860	18.02

9 June 1994		145,287/509,948	28.49
John Edward Tomlinson	Labour Party	77,957	53.66
David Michael Harman	Conservative & Unionist Party	38,607	26.57
Nicholas Dudley Murdoch McGeorge	Liberal Democrats	14,603	10.05
Dr B A Juby	Anti-Fed	5,237	3.60
M G Abbott	Green Party	4,367	3.01
Andrew Carmichael	National Front	3,727	2.57
Huw Spencer Meads	Natural Law Party	789	0.54
Majority		39,350	27.08

12 July 1998 John Tomlinson was elevated to the Peerage as Baron Tomlinson.