Political Parties

Election of 24th Nov 1885 to 18th Dec, 1885
Party	Votes	Outcome
Independent Liberal	4337	Elected
Liberal	1929

More information about the 1885 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st Jul 1886 to 27th Jul, 1886
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	3694	Elected
Liberal Unionist	2253

More information about the 1886 General Election is available here.

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Election of 4th Jul 1892 to 26th Jul, 1892
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	3969	Elected
Liberal Unionist	2809

More information about the 1892 General Election is available here.

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Election of 13th Jul 1895 to 7th Aug, 1895
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	3499	Elected
Liberal Unionist	3050

More information about the 1895 General Election is available here.

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Election of 23rd Jun, 1899
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	4891	Elected
Liberal Unionist	2961

This was a by-election.

Election of 1st Oct 1900 to 24th Oct, 1900
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	4461	Elected
Liberal Unionist	3170

More information about the 1900 General Election is available here.

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Election of 12th Jan 1906 to 8th Feb, 1906
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	6606	Elected
Liberal Unionist	2432

More information about the 1906 General Election is available here.

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Election of 16th Apr, 1909
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	4527	Elected
Liberal Unionist	4069

This was a by-election.

Election of 15th Jan 1910 to 10th Feb, 1910
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	6760	Elected
Liberal Unionist	4273

More information about the 1910 Feb General Election is available here.

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Election of 3rd Dec 1910 to 19th Dec, 1910
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	6436	Elected
Conservative	3782

More information about the 1910 Dec General Election is available here.

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Election of 2nd Feb, 1912
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	5064	Elected
Liberal Unionist	4139

This was a by-election.

Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	8460	Elected
Coalition Labour	5136

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	10551	Elected
National Liberal	7088

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	10876	Elected
Conservative	5045

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

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Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	9330	Elected
Conservative	6105
Liberal	5625

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

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Election of 30th May, 1929
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	13933	Elected
Liberal	8687
Conservative	6889

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

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Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party	Votes	Outcome
Liberal	17372	Elected
Labour	10244
Scottish National Party	2872

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

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Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	13341	Elected
Conservative	12229
Liberal	5313

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	19300	Elected
Conservative	12771
Scottish National Party	2149

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

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Election of 3rd Oct, 1945
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	15482	Elected
Conservative	9665

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Nov, 1947
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	16906	Elected
National Liberal & Conservative	11490
Liberal	3379
Scottish National Party	1682

This was a by-election.

Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	24072	Elected
Conservative	17531
Liberal	3632

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

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Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	25201	Elected
Conservative	21400

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Apr, 1954
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	18950	Elected
Conservative	13922

This was a by-election.

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	21240	Elected
Conservative	19198

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	22244	Elected
Conservative	21932

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	24808	Elected
Conservative	19376

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	25423	Elected
Conservative	16614

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	22171	Elected
Conservative	16657
Scottish National Party	3502
Communist Party of Great Britain	413

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	20163	Elected
Conservative	14614
Scottish National Party	7128
Liberal	3998
Communist Party	274

More information about the 1974 Feb General Election is available here.

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	19669	Elected
Scottish National Party	11213
Conservative	10111
Liberal	2578
Communist Party	213

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	23477	Elected
Conservative	14660
Scottish National Party	5296
Communist Party	173
WRP	124

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	16169	Elected
Conservative	10303
Liberal	7570
Scottish National Party	1976

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	18257	Elected
Conservative	8962
Liberal	5592
Scottish National Party	3434

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party	Votes	Outcome
Labour	15446	Elected
Conservative	8235
Scottish National Party	6225
Liberal Democrat	3432
Green	424

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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