UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 11 January 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		50,551/67,909	74.44
Spencer Lee Batiste	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,909	47.30
Roy Wilson	Labour Party	16,053	31.76
Gillian Margaret Paterson	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	10,589	20.95
Majority		7,856	15.54

11 June 1987		54,715/69,975	78.19
Spencer Lee Batiste	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,658	46.89
Colin Burgon	Labour Party	20,302	37.10
John Durno Macarthur	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	8,755	16.00
Majority		5,356	9.79

9 April 1992		58,237/70,558	82.54
Spencer Lee Batiste	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,677	47.52
Colin Burgon	Labour Party	24,416	41.93
Ann Beck	Liberal Democrats	6,144	10.55
Majority		3,261	5.60

1 May 1997		54,095/70,423	76.81
Colin Burgon	Labour Party	28,348	52.40
Spencer Lee Batiste	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,569	36.18
Brian David Timothy Jennings	Liberal Democrats	4,691	8.67
Christopher Anderson Zawadski	Referendum Party	1,487	2.75
Majority		8,779	16.23

7 June 2001		45,937/70,041	65.59
Colin Burgon	Labour Party	22,038	47.97
Andrew Christopher Glanvile Millard	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,867	38.89
Madeleine Anne Kirk	Liberal Democrats	5,001	10.89
Andrew Michael Spence	UK Independence Party	1,031	2.24
Majority		4,171	9.08

5 May 2005		47,146/68,514	68.81
Colin Burgon	Labour Party	22,260	47.22
Andrew Christopher Glanvile Millard	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,732	37.61
Madeleine Anne Kirk	Liberal Democrats	5,923	12.56
Tracy Ann Andrews	British National Party	1,231	2.61
Majority		4,528	9.60