UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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1 May 1997		48,064/72,078	66.68
Clive Stafford Soley	Labour Party	28,052	58.36
Barbara Czeslawa Yerolemou	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,405	25.81
Andrew Darby Mitchell	Liberal Democrats	5,163	10.74
Christopher William Huntley Winn	Referendum Party	637	1.33
Jack Gilbert	Socialist Labour	635	1.32
Joseph David Gomm	UK Independence Party	385	0.80
Paul Frederic Edmund Danon	Pro-Life Alliance	265	0.55
Christopher Glenn Beasley	Independent	209	0.43
William Thomas Edwards	Independent	163	0.34
Kevin Andrew Turner	Natural Law Party	150	0.31
Majority		15,647	32.55

William Edwards was the candidate of the Christian Party.

Minor Boundary Change
7 June 2001		37,201/70,697	52.62
Clive Stafford Soley	Labour Party	20,144	54.15
Justine Greening	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,355	25.15
Martin Paul Neibuhr Tod	Liberal Democrats	6,171	16.59
Nicholas John Grant	Socialist Alliance	529	1.42
Andrew John George Lawrie	UK Independence Party	476	1.28
Carlos Joseph Martinez Rule	Socialist Labour	301	0.81
Rebecca Ng	Pro-Life Alliance	225	0.60
Majority		10,789	29.00

5 May 2005		39,623/70,454	56.24
Andrew Francis Slaughter	Labour Party	16,579	41.84
Jonathan Harold Gough	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,059	27.91
Gary Malcolm	Liberal Democrats	9,986	25.20
Geoffrey Peter Burgess	Green Party	1,999	5.05
Majority		5,520	13.93