UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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New
28 February 1974		62,709/74,075	84.66
Peter Wynford Innes Rees	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,033	43.11
Leonard John Armstrong Bishop	Labour Party	22,183	35.37
Scot Young	Liberal Party	12,832	20.46
William Lawrence Stone	Ind SD	661	1.05
Majority		4,850	7.73

10 October 1974		58,767/74,686	78.69
Peter Wynford Innes Rees	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,647	43.64
Leonard John Armstrong Bishop	Labour Party	23,353	39.74
Scot Young	Liberal Party	9,767	16.62
Majority		2,294	3.90

3 May 1979		61,196/75,883	80.65
Peter Wynford Innes Rees	Conservative & Unionist Party	30,606	50.01
Jane Louise Chapman	Labour Party	22,664	37.04
Jack Bernard Cohen	Liberal Party	6,906	11.29
Jeremy Nigel Wallace Fox	Silly	642	1.05
Paul Johnson	National Front	378	0.62
Majority		7,942	12.98

Renamed with Minor Boundary Change
4 July 2024		47,775/78,801	60.63
Michael Adrian Tapp	Labour Party	18,940	39.64
Howard Cox	Reform UK	11,355	23.77
Stephen Phillip James	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,370	21.71
Christine Lilian Oliver	Green Party	3,106	6.50
Penelope Laetiitia James	Liberal Democrats	2,595	5.43
Geoffrey Andrew John Lymer	Independent	485	1.02
Ashley James Payne	Independent	369	0.77
Stephen Mark Laws	English Democrats Party	185	0.39
Sylvia Jean Laidlow-Petersen	Heritage	168	0.35
Christopher James David Tough	Independent	104	0.22
Christopher Colin Tasker	Workers Britain	98	0.21
Majority		7,585	15.88