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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		21,077/40,383	52.19
Rt Hon Albert Holden Illingworth	Liberal Party - Coalition	14,250	67.61
Horace Nobbs	Labour Party	6,827	32.39
Majority		7,423	35.22

24 May 1921 Resignation of Rt Hon Albert Illingworth prior to his elevation to the Peerage as Baron Illingworth. (Northstead)

8 June 1921		32,226/39,856	80.86
Walter Halls	Labour Party	13,430	41.67
Abraham England	Liberal Party - Coalition	13,125	40.73
Cornelius Pickstone	Liberal Party	5,671	17.60
Majority		305	0.95

15 November 1922		34,350/40,968	83.85
Abraham England	National Liberal Party	19,016	55.36
Walter Halls	Labour Party	15,334	44.64
Majority		3,682	10.72

6 December 1923		32,436/41,430	78.29
Abraham England	Liberal Party	17,163	52.91
Walter Halls	Labour Party	15,273	47.09
Majority		1,890	5.83

29 October 1924		34,438/42,529	80.98
Abraham England	Constitutionalist	19,131	55.55
Alexander George Walkden	Labour Party	15,307	44.45
Majority		3,824	11.10

30 May 1929		43,437/54,757	79.33
Abraham England	Liberal Party	22,692	52.24
Arthur Creech Jones	Labour Party	20,745	47.76
Majority		1,947	4.48

27 October 1931		45,344/56,159	80.74
Joseph Cooksey Jackson	Conservative & Unionist Party	32,429	71.52
James Stott	Labour Party	12,915	28.48
Majority		19,514	43.04

14 November 1935		45,025/57,583	78.19
Richard Whitaker Porritt	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,226	60.47
Thomas McLean	Labour Party	17,799	39.53
Majority		9,427	20.94

26 May 1940 Death of Richard Porritt.

28 August 1940
James Henry Wootton-Davies	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

5 July 1945		44,310/57,997	76.40
John Edmondson Whittaker	Labour Party	22,601	51.01
James Henry Wootton-Davies	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,709	48.99
Majority		892	2.01

9 December 1945 Death of John Whittaker.

21 February 1946		44,024/58,204	75.64
Arthur William James Greenwood	Labour Party	22,238	50.51
Aubrey Jones	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,786	49.49
Majority		452	1.03