Epsom and Ewell | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
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County | Surrey |
Electorate | 76,844 (2023) [1] |
Borough | Epsom and Ewell |
Major settlements | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of Parliament | Helen Maguire ( Liberal Democrats) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Epsom |
Epsom and Ewell is a constituency [n 1] in Surrey represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Helen Maguire, a Liberal Democrat. [n 2]
1974–1983: The Municipal Borough of Epsom and Ewell, and the Urban District of Leatherhead.
1983–1997: The Borough of Epsom and Ewell, and the Borough of Reigate and Banstead wards of Banstead Village, Nork, Preston, and Tattenhams.
1997–2010: The Borough of Epsom and Ewell, the District of Mole Valley wards of Ashtead Common, Ashtead Park, and Ashtead Village, and the Borough of Reigate and Banstead wards of Nork, Preston, and Tattenhams.
2010–2024: The Borough of Epsom and Ewell, the District of Mole Valley wards of Ashtead Common, Ashtead Park, and Ashtead Village, and the Borough of Reigate and Banstead wards of Nork and Tattenhams.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 general election, the constituency comprises
The electorate was reduced to bring it within the permitted range by transferring the parts in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead to Reigate. To partly compensate, Leatherhead joined from extinct Mole Valley (its main successor being Dorking and Horley).
Per a re-branding and map drawing for Mole Valley councillors [3] [4], as from May 2023 Ashtead Village ward has been allocated between the others with the Ashtead name (it, extinct, is cited in the 2023 Order).
Before 1997 it excluded Ashtead but instead included Banstead from Reigate and Banstead. As the borough of Epsom and Ewell is small and includes relatively sparsely populated areas such as Epsom Downs, the constituency has consistently also included areas of neighbouring Surrey districts. [5]
2010 boundary change After the Boundary Commission's report of 2005, some changes were implemented for the 2010 election. The boundary with Mole Valley moved slightly the uninhabited portions of land by the M25 motorway adjoining Ashtead and Leatherhead, in line with local government wards. The Preston ward of Reigate & Banstead (in Tadworth) was transferred to Reigate to bring that constituency's electorate closer to the county average.
The seat has existed since the February 1974 general election, forming the centre of the previous Epsom constituency. Epsom had been held by a Conservative since its creation in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.
In Westminster elections, it was one of the strongest Conservative areas in the country. Locally, however, the majority area council (Epsom and Ewell Borough Council) is controlled by the local Residents' Association. Conservatives regularly run the two slightly included neighbouring councils and until recently the party rarely contested the main borough's elections. One ward in Epsom, Court, is quite strongly Labour, and several Residents Association councillors have sided against Conservative-run Reigate and Banstead council which is also electorally diverse.
In 1987, Barbara Follett, later Member of Parliament for Stevenage, unsuccessfully stood for the Labour Party in the constituency.
Epsom prior to 1974
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Peter Rawlinson | Conservative | |
1978 by-election | Sir Archie Hamilton | Conservative | |
2001 | Chris Grayling | Conservative | |
2024 | Helen Maguire | Liberal Democrats |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Helen Maguire | 20,674 | 37.9 | +13.7 | |
Conservative | Mhairi Fraser | 16,988 | 31.2 | -22.4 | |
Labour | Mark Todd | 8,325 | 15.3 | -1.5 | |
Reform UK | Mayuran Senthilnathan | 5,795 | 10.6 | +10.6 | |
Green | Stephen McKenna | 1,745 | 3.2 | -0.1 | |
True & Fair | Gina Miller | 845 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
SDP | Damon Young | 153 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 3,686 | 6.7 | |||
Turnout | 54,525 | 70 | -4.40 | ||
Registered electors | 77,530 | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Grayling | 31,819 | 53.5 | −6.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Gee | 13,946 | 23.5 | +11.0 | |
Labour | Ed Mayne | 10,226 | 17.2 | −7.8 | |
Green | Janice Baker | 2,047 | 3.4 | +0.5 | |
Independent | Clive Woodbridge | 1,413 | 2.4 | New | |
Majority | 17,873 | 30.0 | −4.6 | ||
Turnout | 59,451 | 73.3 | −0.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −8.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Grayling | 35,313 | 59.6 | +1.3 | |
Labour | Ed Mayne | 14,838 | 25.0 | +9.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Gee | 7,401 | 12.5 | +3.7 | |
Green | Janice Baker | 1,714 | 2.9 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 20,475 | 34.6 | −8.2 | ||
Turnout | 59,468 | 74.1 | +1.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Grayling | 33,309 | 58.3 | +2.1 | |
Labour | Sheila Carlson | 8,866 | 15.5 | +3.6 | |
UKIP | Robert Leach | 7,117 | 12.5 | +7.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Gee | 5,002 | 8.8 | −18.0 | |
Green | Susan McGrath | 2,116 | 3.7 | New | |
Independent | Lionel Blackman | 612 | 1.1 | New | |
Independent | Gareth Harfoot | 121 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 24,443 | 42.8 | +13.4 | ||
Turnout | 57,143 | 72.7 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Grayling | 30,868 | 56.2 | +1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Lees | 14,734 | 26.8 | +5.3 | |
Labour | Craig Montgomery | 6,538 | 11.9 | −8.1 | |
UKIP | Elizabeth Wallace | 2,549 | 4.6 | +1.1 | |
Radical Reform | Peter Ticher | 266 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 16,134 | 29.4 | −3.5 | ||
Turnout | 54,955 | 70.4 | +4.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Grayling | 27,146 | 54.4 | +6.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Lees | 10,699 | 21.4 | −0.7 | |
Labour | Charlie Mansell | 10,265 | 20.6 | −5.9 | |
UKIP | Peter Kefford | 1,769 | 3.5 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 16,447 | 33.0 | +11.4 | ||
Turnout | 49,879 | 66.1 | +3.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Grayling | 22,430 | 48.1 | +2.5 | |
Labour | Charlie Mansell | 12,350 | 26.5 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Vincent | 10,316 | 22.1 | −0.7 | |
UKIP | Graham Webster-Gardiner | 1,547 | 3.3 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 10,080 | 21.6 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 46,643 | 62.8 | −11.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 24,717 | 45.6 | −14.6 | |
Labour | Philip Woodford | 13,192 | 24.3 | +8.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Vincent | 12,380 | 22.8 | −0.7 | |
Referendum | Christopher Macdonald | 2,355 | 4.3 | New | |
UKIP | Harold Green | 544 | 1.0 | New | |
Green | Hugo Charlton | 527 | 1.0 | New | |
ProLife Alliance | Katherine Weeks | 466 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 11,525 | 21.3 | |||
Turnout | 54,181 | 74.0 | −6.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 32,861 | 60.2 | −2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin P. Emerson | 12,840 | 23.5 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Richard A. Warren | 8,577 | 15.7 | +1.2 | |
Natural Law | GD Hatchard | 334 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 20,021 | 36.7 | −2.3 | ||
Turnout | 54,612 | 80.1 | +4.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 33,145 | 62.2 | +1.8 | |
Liberal | Margaret Joachim | 12,384 | 23.2 | -3.4 | |
Labour | Barbara Follett | 7,751 | 14.6 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 20,761 | 39.0 | +5.2 | ||
Turnout | 53,280 | 75.4 | +3.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 30,737 | 60.4 | ||
Liberal | Michael Anderson | 13,542 | 26.6 | ||
Labour | William Carpenter | 6,587 | 13.0 | ||
Majority | 17,195 | 33.8 | |||
Turnout | 50,866 | 72.0 | -4.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 39,104 | 61.91 | +7.85 | |
Liberal | Michael Anderson | 12,746 | 20.18 | -6.45 | |
Labour | Chris Smith | 11,315 | 17.91 | -1.40 | |
Majority | 26,358 | 41.73 | +14.31 | ||
Turnout | 63,165 | 76.91 | +3.21 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 28,242 | 63.61 | +9.55 | |
Labour | Anthony Mooney | 7,314 | 16.47 | -2.84 | |
Liberal | Michael Alexander John Anderson | 5,673 | 12.78 | -13.85 | |
Royalist | Jonathan King | 2,350 | 5.29 | New | |
National Front | James Sawyer | 823 | 1.85 | New | |
Majority | 20,928 | 47.14 | +19.72 | ||
Turnout | 44,402 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Rawlinson | 32,109 | 54.06 | ||
Liberal | David Julian Hardy Griffiths | 15,819 | 26.63 | ||
Labour | Neil Kearney | 11,471 | 19.31 | ||
Majority | 16,290 | 27.43 | |||
Turnout | 59,399 | 73.70 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Rawlinson | 35,823 | 54.68 | -6.73 | |
Liberal | David Julian Hardy Griffiths | 18,899 | 28.85 | +12.33 | |
Labour | Neil Kearney | 10,787 | 16.47 | -5.59 | |
Majority | 16,924 | 25.83 | -13.52 | ||
Turnout | 65,509 | 82.0 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Epsom and Ewell | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
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County | Surrey |
Electorate | 76,844 (2023) [1] |
Borough | Epsom and Ewell |
Major settlements | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of Parliament | Helen Maguire ( Liberal Democrats) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Epsom |
Epsom and Ewell is a constituency [n 1] in Surrey represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Helen Maguire, a Liberal Democrat. [n 2]
1974–1983: The Municipal Borough of Epsom and Ewell, and the Urban District of Leatherhead.
1983–1997: The Borough of Epsom and Ewell, and the Borough of Reigate and Banstead wards of Banstead Village, Nork, Preston, and Tattenhams.
1997–2010: The Borough of Epsom and Ewell, the District of Mole Valley wards of Ashtead Common, Ashtead Park, and Ashtead Village, and the Borough of Reigate and Banstead wards of Nork, Preston, and Tattenhams.
2010–2024: The Borough of Epsom and Ewell, the District of Mole Valley wards of Ashtead Common, Ashtead Park, and Ashtead Village, and the Borough of Reigate and Banstead wards of Nork and Tattenhams.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 general election, the constituency comprises
The electorate was reduced to bring it within the permitted range by transferring the parts in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead to Reigate. To partly compensate, Leatherhead joined from extinct Mole Valley (its main successor being Dorking and Horley).
Per a re-branding and map drawing for Mole Valley councillors [3] [4], as from May 2023 Ashtead Village ward has been allocated between the others with the Ashtead name (it, extinct, is cited in the 2023 Order).
Before 1997 it excluded Ashtead but instead included Banstead from Reigate and Banstead. As the borough of Epsom and Ewell is small and includes relatively sparsely populated areas such as Epsom Downs, the constituency has consistently also included areas of neighbouring Surrey districts. [5]
2010 boundary change After the Boundary Commission's report of 2005, some changes were implemented for the 2010 election. The boundary with Mole Valley moved slightly the uninhabited portions of land by the M25 motorway adjoining Ashtead and Leatherhead, in line with local government wards. The Preston ward of Reigate & Banstead (in Tadworth) was transferred to Reigate to bring that constituency's electorate closer to the county average.
The seat has existed since the February 1974 general election, forming the centre of the previous Epsom constituency. Epsom had been held by a Conservative since its creation in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.
In Westminster elections, it was one of the strongest Conservative areas in the country. Locally, however, the majority area council (Epsom and Ewell Borough Council) is controlled by the local Residents' Association. Conservatives regularly run the two slightly included neighbouring councils and until recently the party rarely contested the main borough's elections. One ward in Epsom, Court, is quite strongly Labour, and several Residents Association councillors have sided against Conservative-run Reigate and Banstead council which is also electorally diverse.
In 1987, Barbara Follett, later Member of Parliament for Stevenage, unsuccessfully stood for the Labour Party in the constituency.
Epsom prior to 1974
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Peter Rawlinson | Conservative | |
1978 by-election | Sir Archie Hamilton | Conservative | |
2001 | Chris Grayling | Conservative | |
2024 | Helen Maguire | Liberal Democrats |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Helen Maguire | 20,674 | 37.9 | +13.7 | |
Conservative | Mhairi Fraser | 16,988 | 31.2 | -22.4 | |
Labour | Mark Todd | 8,325 | 15.3 | -1.5 | |
Reform UK | Mayuran Senthilnathan | 5,795 | 10.6 | +10.6 | |
Green | Stephen McKenna | 1,745 | 3.2 | -0.1 | |
True & Fair | Gina Miller | 845 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
SDP | Damon Young | 153 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 3,686 | 6.7 | |||
Turnout | 54,525 | 70 | -4.40 | ||
Registered electors | 77,530 | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Grayling | 31,819 | 53.5 | −6.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Gee | 13,946 | 23.5 | +11.0 | |
Labour | Ed Mayne | 10,226 | 17.2 | −7.8 | |
Green | Janice Baker | 2,047 | 3.4 | +0.5 | |
Independent | Clive Woodbridge | 1,413 | 2.4 | New | |
Majority | 17,873 | 30.0 | −4.6 | ||
Turnout | 59,451 | 73.3 | −0.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −8.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Grayling | 35,313 | 59.6 | +1.3 | |
Labour | Ed Mayne | 14,838 | 25.0 | +9.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Gee | 7,401 | 12.5 | +3.7 | |
Green | Janice Baker | 1,714 | 2.9 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 20,475 | 34.6 | −8.2 | ||
Turnout | 59,468 | 74.1 | +1.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Grayling | 33,309 | 58.3 | +2.1 | |
Labour | Sheila Carlson | 8,866 | 15.5 | +3.6 | |
UKIP | Robert Leach | 7,117 | 12.5 | +7.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Gee | 5,002 | 8.8 | −18.0 | |
Green | Susan McGrath | 2,116 | 3.7 | New | |
Independent | Lionel Blackman | 612 | 1.1 | New | |
Independent | Gareth Harfoot | 121 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 24,443 | 42.8 | +13.4 | ||
Turnout | 57,143 | 72.7 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Grayling | 30,868 | 56.2 | +1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Lees | 14,734 | 26.8 | +5.3 | |
Labour | Craig Montgomery | 6,538 | 11.9 | −8.1 | |
UKIP | Elizabeth Wallace | 2,549 | 4.6 | +1.1 | |
Radical Reform | Peter Ticher | 266 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 16,134 | 29.4 | −3.5 | ||
Turnout | 54,955 | 70.4 | +4.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Grayling | 27,146 | 54.4 | +6.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Lees | 10,699 | 21.4 | −0.7 | |
Labour | Charlie Mansell | 10,265 | 20.6 | −5.9 | |
UKIP | Peter Kefford | 1,769 | 3.5 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 16,447 | 33.0 | +11.4 | ||
Turnout | 49,879 | 66.1 | +3.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Grayling | 22,430 | 48.1 | +2.5 | |
Labour | Charlie Mansell | 12,350 | 26.5 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Vincent | 10,316 | 22.1 | −0.7 | |
UKIP | Graham Webster-Gardiner | 1,547 | 3.3 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 10,080 | 21.6 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 46,643 | 62.8 | −11.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 24,717 | 45.6 | −14.6 | |
Labour | Philip Woodford | 13,192 | 24.3 | +8.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Vincent | 12,380 | 22.8 | −0.7 | |
Referendum | Christopher Macdonald | 2,355 | 4.3 | New | |
UKIP | Harold Green | 544 | 1.0 | New | |
Green | Hugo Charlton | 527 | 1.0 | New | |
ProLife Alliance | Katherine Weeks | 466 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 11,525 | 21.3 | |||
Turnout | 54,181 | 74.0 | −6.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 32,861 | 60.2 | −2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin P. Emerson | 12,840 | 23.5 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Richard A. Warren | 8,577 | 15.7 | +1.2 | |
Natural Law | GD Hatchard | 334 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 20,021 | 36.7 | −2.3 | ||
Turnout | 54,612 | 80.1 | +4.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 33,145 | 62.2 | +1.8 | |
Liberal | Margaret Joachim | 12,384 | 23.2 | -3.4 | |
Labour | Barbara Follett | 7,751 | 14.6 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 20,761 | 39.0 | +5.2 | ||
Turnout | 53,280 | 75.4 | +3.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 30,737 | 60.4 | ||
Liberal | Michael Anderson | 13,542 | 26.6 | ||
Labour | William Carpenter | 6,587 | 13.0 | ||
Majority | 17,195 | 33.8 | |||
Turnout | 50,866 | 72.0 | -4.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 39,104 | 61.91 | +7.85 | |
Liberal | Michael Anderson | 12,746 | 20.18 | -6.45 | |
Labour | Chris Smith | 11,315 | 17.91 | -1.40 | |
Majority | 26,358 | 41.73 | +14.31 | ||
Turnout | 63,165 | 76.91 | +3.21 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Archie Hamilton | 28,242 | 63.61 | +9.55 | |
Labour | Anthony Mooney | 7,314 | 16.47 | -2.84 | |
Liberal | Michael Alexander John Anderson | 5,673 | 12.78 | -13.85 | |
Royalist | Jonathan King | 2,350 | 5.29 | New | |
National Front | James Sawyer | 823 | 1.85 | New | |
Majority | 20,928 | 47.14 | +19.72 | ||
Turnout | 44,402 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Rawlinson | 32,109 | 54.06 | ||
Liberal | David Julian Hardy Griffiths | 15,819 | 26.63 | ||
Labour | Neil Kearney | 11,471 | 19.31 | ||
Majority | 16,290 | 27.43 | |||
Turnout | 59,399 | 73.70 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Rawlinson | 35,823 | 54.68 | -6.73 | |
Liberal | David Julian Hardy Griffiths | 18,899 | 28.85 | +12.33 | |
Labour | Neil Kearney | 10,787 | 16.47 | -5.59 | |
Majority | 16,924 | 25.83 | -13.52 | ||
Turnout | 65,509 | 82.0 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |