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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		56,805/67,522	84.13
Audrey Wise	Labour Party	22,985	40.46
John Robert Jeffrey	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,472	39.56
Norman Brian Chapple	Liberal Party	11,348	19.98
Majority		513	0.90

10 October 1974		53,877/67,831	79.43
Audrey Wise	Labour Party	23,225	43.11
John Robert Jeffrey	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,107	39.18
Norman Brian Chapple	Liberal Party	8,579	15.92
Roger Pickard	National Front	822	1.53
Thomas Leslie Keen	Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain	144	0.27
Majority		2,118	3.93

3 May 1979		56,684/69,552	81.50
John Patrick Butcher	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,928	49.27
Audrey Wise	Labour Party	22,274	39.30
Norman Brian Chapple	Liberal Party	5,921	10.45
Margaret Williamson	National Front	482	0.85
Thomas Leslie Keen	Campaign for a More Prosperous Britain	79	0.14
Majority		5,654	9.97

Major Boundary Change
9 June 1983		49,387/65,735	75.13
John Patrick Butcher	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,223	45.00
David Henry Edwards	Labour Party	15,776	31.94
Helen Marjorie Lyle	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	11,174	22.63
Margaret Williamson	Nationalist	214	0.43
Majority		6,447	13.05

11 June 1987		51,592/66,364	77.74
John Patrick Butcher	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,318	43.26
Robert Ernest Gregory Slater	Labour Party	19,108	37.04
Robert Wheway	Liberal Party in Alliance	10,166	19.70
Majority		3,210	6.22

9 April 1992		50,873/63,474	80.15
John Patrick Butcher	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,225	45.65
Robert Ernest Gregory Slater	Labour Party	21,789	42.83
Geoffrey Brian Sewards	Liberal Democrats	4,666	9.17
Robert Wheway	Official Liberal Party	989	1.94
David Spencer Morris	Natural Law Party	204	0.40
Majority		1,436	2.82