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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		19,369/36,038	53.75
Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	12,232	63.15
Ernest Bevin	Labour Party	7,137	36.85
Majority		5,095	26.30

15 November 1922		27,871/38,709	72.00
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,568	55.86
Christopher Birdwood Thomson	Labour Party	12,303	44.14
Majority		3,265	11.71

6 December 1923		26,318/40,000	65.80
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,386	54.66
Samuel Edward Walters	Labour Party	11,932	45.34
Majority		2,454	9.32

29 October 1924		31,195/40,252	77.50
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,177	55.06
James Alexander Lovat-Fraser	Labour Party	14,018	44.94
Majority		3,159	10.13

30 May 1929		37,273/48,081	77.52
Joseph Herbert Alpass	Labour Party	20,749	55.67
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,524	44.33
Majority		4,225	11.34

27 October 1931		37,454/46,560	80.44
Allen Algernon Bathurst, Baron Apsley	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,311	59.57
Joseph Herbert Alpass	Labour Party	15,143	40.43
Majority		7,168	19.14

14 November 1935		30,032/41,228	72.84
Allen Algernon Bathurst, Baron Apsley	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,774	52.52
Joseph John Taylor	Labour Party	14,258	47.48
Majority		1,516	5.05

17 December 1942 Death of Baron Apsley.

18 February 1943		11,263/34,234	32.90
Violet Emily Mildred Bathurst, Lady Apsley	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,867	52.09
Janet Lee	Independent Labour	4,308	38.25
John McNair	Independent Labour Party	830	7.37
F H Dunn	Independent	258	2.29
Majority		1,559	13.84

Jennie Lee was supported by the Common Wealth Movement.

5 July 1945		20,414/28,750	71.01
Stanley Stephen Awbery	Labour Party	13,045	63.90
Violet Emily Mildred Bathurst, Lady Apsley	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,369	36.10
Majority		5,676	27.80

Boundary Change
23 February 1950		43,392/51,366	84.48
Stanley Stephen Awbery	Labour Party	25,889	59.66
John Wynne William Peyton	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,461	31.02
Donald David Oliver Jones	Liberal Party	4,042	9.32
Majority		12,428	28.64

25 October 1951		41,816/50,341	83.07
Stanley Stephen Awbery	Labour Party	26,091	62.39
Kenelm Antony Philip Dalby	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,725	37.61
Majority		10,366	24.79

Major Boundary Change
26 May 1955		41,564/56,326	73.79
Stanley Stephen Awbery	Labour Party	25,158	60.53
Kenelm Antony Philip Dalby	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,406	39.47
Majority		8,752	21.06

8 October 1959		37,114/49,476	75.01
Stanley Stephen Awbery	Labour Party	19,905	53.63
Leslie Gilbert Pine	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,209	46.37
Majority		2,696	7.26

15 October 1964		29,759/41,367	71.94
Arthur Montague Frank Palmer	Labour and Co-operative Party	16,207	54.46
James Richard Emery Taylor	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,616	39.03
Desmond Horace Reginald Burgess	Independent	1,936	6.51
Majority		4,591	15.43

31 March 1966		26,131/37,363	69.94
Arthur Montague Frank Palmer	Labour and Co-operative Party	15,399	58.93
James Richard Emery Taylor	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,410	36.01
Desmond Horace Reginald Burgess	Independent	1,322	5.06
Majority		5,989	22.92

18 June 1970		24,074/36,120	66.65
Arthur Montague Frank Palmer	Labour and Co-operative Party	12,375	51.40
James Richard Emery Taylor	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,130	37.92
Antony Rider	Liberal Party	2,569	10.67
Majority		3,245	13.48

New
4 July 2024		43,365/62,735	69.12
Carla Suzanne Denyer	Green Party	24,539	56.59
Thangam Elizabeth Rachel Debbonaire	Labour Party	14,132	32.59
Samuel Patrick Sutherland Williams	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,998	4.61
Robert Vernon Clarke	Reform UK	1,338	3.09
Nicholas John Coombes	Liberal Democrats	1,162	2.68
Kelly-Jay Nyishie Keen-Minshull	Party of Women	196	0.45
Majority		10,407	24.00