Erith and Crayford (UK Parliament constituency)
Erith and Crayford | |
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Former constituency for the House of Commons | |
1955–1997 | |
Replaced by | Erith & Thamesmead and Bexleyheath & Crayford |
Created from | Dartford |
Erith and Crayford was a parliamentary constituency in the London Borough of Bexley, south-east London, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was created for the 1955 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Erith & Thamesmead and Bexleyheath & Crayford.
Boundaries
1955-1974: The Municipal Borough of Erith, and the Urban District of Crayford.
1974-1983: The London Borough of Bexley wards of Belvedere, Bostall, Crayford North, Crayford Town, Crayford West, Erith Town, and Northumberland Heath.
1983-1997: The London Borough of Bexley wards of Belvedere, Bostall, Crayford, Erith, North End, Northumberland Heath, and Thamesmead East.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1955 | Norman Dodds | Labour Co-op | Previously MP for Dartford from 1945. Died 1965 | |
1965 by-election | James Wellbeloved | Labour | ||
1981 | SDP | |||
1983 | David Evennett | Conservative | Contested and lost Bexleyheath and Crayford in 1997. Subsequently MP for the seat from 2005 | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Erith and Thamesmead & Bexleyheath and Crayford |
Elections
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Norman Dodds | 24,957 | 60.43 | ||
Conservative | Edward Gardner | 16,339 | 39.57 | ||
Majority | 8,618 | 20.87 | |||
Labour Co-op win (new seat) | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Norman Dodds | 24,523 | 56.65 | ||
Conservative | James J Davis | 18,763 | 43.35 | ||
Majority | 5,760 | 13.31 | |||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Norman Dodds | 22,806 | 53.1 | ||
Conservative | B Black | 13,951 | 32.3 | ||
Liberal | Stanley W Vince | 6,189 | 14.4 | ||
Majority | 8,855 | 20.6 | – | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Wellbeloved | 21,835 | 55.4 | +2.3 | |
Conservative | David Madel | 14,763 | 37.5 | +5.2 | |
Liberal | Stanley W Vince | 2,823 | 7.2 | -7.2 | |
Majority | 7,072 | 17.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Wellbeloved | 24,243 | 55.53 | ||
Conservative | David Madel | 15,033 | 34.43 | ||
Liberal | Stanley W Vince | 3,827 | 8.77 | ||
Communist | L Smith | 556 | 1.27 | ||
Majority | 9,210 | 21.10 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Wellbeloved | 23,012 | 55.9 | ||
Conservative | H.J. Jackson | 18,158 | 44.1 | ||
Majority | 4,854 | 11.79 | |||
Turnout | 71.3 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Wellbeloved | 22,632 | 46.1 | ||
Conservative | R.I. Raitt | 15,551 | 31.7 | ||
Liberal | S. Vince | 10,951 | 22.3 | ||
Majority | 7,081 | 14.4 | |||
Turnout | 81.8 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Wellbeloved | 22,670 | 51.2 | +5.1 | |
Conservative | M. Macdonald | 14,203 | 32.1 | +0.4 | |
Liberal | T. Hobbert | 7,423 | 16.8 | −5.5 | |
Majority | 8,467 | 19.1 | |||
Turnout | 44,296 | 73.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Wellbeloved | 22,450 | 47.3 | −3.9 | |
Conservative | S. Blunt | 19,717 | 41.5 | +9.3 | |
Liberal | M. Jamieson | 4,512 | 9.5 | −7.3 | |
National Front | O. Hawke | 838 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,733 | 5.8 | |||
Turnout | 47,517 | 77.5 | +4.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.6 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Evennett | 15,289 | 37.1 | −1.7 | |
Social Democratic | James Wellbeloved | 14,369 | 34.9 | +25.4 | |
Labour | M.G. Smart | 11,260 | 27.3 | −22.7 | |
BNP | O. Hawke | 272 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 920 | 2.2 | |||
Turnout | 41,190 | 73.5 | −4.0 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +10.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Evennett | 20,203 | 45.2 | +8.1 | |
Labour | Colin Hargrave | 13,209 | 29.5 | +2.5 | |
Social Democratic | James Wellbeloved | 11,300 | 25.3 | −9.6 | |
Majority | 6,994 | 15.7 | |||
Turnout | 44,712 | 75.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 | |||
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Evennett | 21,926 | 46.5 | +1.3 | |
Labour | Nigel Beard | 19,587 | 41.5 | +12.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Florence M. Jamieson | 5,657 | 12.0 | −13.3 | |
Majority | 2,339 | 5.0 | −10.7 | ||
Turnout | 47,170 | 79.7 | +4.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.3 | |||
References
- ↑ http://tools.assembla.com/svn/grodt/uk/thc/files/marked_up/1955_marked_up.txt
- ↑ http://tools.assembla.com/svn/grodt/uk/thc/files/marked_up/1959_marked_up.txt
- ↑ http://tools.assembla.com/svn/grodt/uk/thc/files/marked_up/1964_marked_up.txt
- ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.
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