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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		31,879/51,954	61.36
Christopher Samuel Tugendhat	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,950	53.17
Philip John Turner	Labour Party	8,700	27.29
Trevor George Underwood	Liberal Party	6,016	18.87
Christopher David Wertheim	Independent Conservative	134	0.42
Russell Ernest Eckley	Independent	44	0.14
William George Boaks	Independent	35	0.11
Majority		8,250	25.88

Christopher Wertheim advocated that prostitution should be legalised within government supervised areas.

10 October 1974		27,747/52,164	53.19
Christopher Samuel Tugendhat	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,350	51.72
Philip John Turner	Labour Party	8,589	30.95
Trevor George Underwood	Liberal Party	4,122	14.86
Dr David Baxter	National Front	686	2.47
Majority		5,761	20.76

5 January 1977 Resignation of Christopher Tugendhat on appointment as a member of the Commission of the European Communities. (Northstead)

24 February 1977		20,251/51,174	39.57
Hon Peter Leonard Brooke	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,962	59.07
Malcolm Murray Noble	Labour Party	3,997	19.74
Angus M E Scrimgeour	Liberal Party	1,981	9.78
Paul Terence Kavanagh	National Front	1,051	5.19
Peter C B Mitchell	Independent	449	2.22
Michael Lobb	National Party	364	1.80
Dennis William Delderfield	New Britain	306	1.51
William George Boaks	Independent	61	0.30
William F Thompson	Independent	43	0.21
Ralph Oakden Herbert	Independent	37	0.18
Majority		7,965	39.33

Bill Boaks sought election as "Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident".

William Thompson was opposed to pornography.

Ralph Herbert sought election as "Christ, Crown, Country, Commonwealth, Christian Constitution".

Peter Mitchell was sponsored by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.

3 May 1979		28,041/50,357	55.68
Hon Peter Leonard Brooke	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,851	60.09
Michael Russell Profitt	Labour Party	7,067	25.20
Harry Ball-Wilson	Liberal Party	3,375	12.04
Kenneth Ernest Matthews	National Front	748	2.67
Majority		9,784	34.89

Major Boundary Change
9 June 1983		35,119/68,007	51.64
Hon Peter Leonard Brooke	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,754	59.10
Adrian Anthony Walker-Smith	Liberal Party in Alliance	7,367	20.98
Stephen Philip Jones	Labour Party	6,013	17.12
Roger Everingham Shorter	Ecology Party	419	1.19
Anthony Reeve	National Front	258	0.73
Alan Walter Spence	Communist Party	161	0.46
Victor Litvin	Independent	147	0.42
Majority		13,387	38.12

11 June 1987		33,453/57,619	58.06
Hon Peter Leonard Brooke	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,333	57.79
Jane Caroline Grantham Smithard	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	7,299	21.82
Ruth Elizabeth Bush	Labour Party	6,821	20.39
Majority		12,034	35.97

9 April 1992		34,712/55,021	63.09
Rt Hon Peter Leonard Brooke	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,938	60.32
Charles Smith	Labour Party	7,569	21.81
Jane Caroline Grantham Smithard	Liberal Democrats	5,392	15.53
Guy Edwin Stephen Herbert	Green Party	458	1.32
Peter Forsyth Stockton	Monster Raving Loony Party	147	0.42
Alex Farrell	IFM	107	0.31
Richard Peter Johnson	Natural Law Party	101	0.29
Majority		13,369	38.51