UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Renamed with no Boundary Change
1 May 1997		58,345/79,383	73.50
Hugh Bayley	Labour Party	34,956	59.91
Simon Jeremy Mallett	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,433	24.74
Andrew Michael Waller	Liberal Democrats	6,537	11.20
Jonathan Neil Sheppard	Referendum Party	1,083	1.86
Mark Richard Hill	Green Party	880	1.51
Eric Graham Wegener	UK Independence Party	319	0.55
Andrew James Lightfoot	Independent	137	0.23
Majority		20,523	35.18

Andrew Lightfoot sought election as a Christian - Nationalist candidate.

7 June 2001		47,980/80,431	59.65
Hugh Bayley	Labour Party	25,072	52.26
Michael McIntyre	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,293	23.54
Andrew Michael Waller	Liberal Democrats	8,519	17.76
William Tristram Shaw	Green Party	1,465	3.05
Frank Ormston	Socialist Alliance	674	1.40
Richard Fields Bate	UK Independence Party	576	1.20
Graham Cambridge	Monster Raving Loony Party	381	0.79
Majority		13,779	28.72

5 May 2005		46,597/75,555	61.67
Hugh Bayley	Labour Party	21,836	46.86
Clive Booth	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,364	24.39
Andrew Michael Waller	Liberal Democrats	10,166	21.82
Andrew Martin D'Agorne	Green Party	2,113	4.53
Richard Jackson	UK Independence Party	832	1.79
Noel Gabriel Curran	Independent	121	0.26
Damian Mark Fleck	Independent	93	0.20
Andrew Thomas Hinkles	Independent	72	0.15
Majority		10,472	22.47