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</div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918 onwards</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media 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org">Weston-super-Mare</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/County_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="County constituency">County constituency</a><br /><span class="category">for the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WestonSuperMare2007Constituency.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Outline map" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/WestonSuperMare2007Constituency.svg/120px-WestonSuperMare2007Constituency.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="105" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/WestonSuperMare2007Constituency.svg/180px-WestonSuperMare2007Constituency.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="infobox-caption">Location of Somerset within England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_registration_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Electoral registration in the United Kingdom">Electorate</a></th><td class="infobox-data">70,722 (2023)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Major settlements</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Weston-super-Mare" title="Weston-super-Mare">Weston-super-Mare</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf;">Current constituency</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">1918</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dan_Aldridge" title="Dan Aldridge">Dan Aldridge</a> (<a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)"><span class="category">Labour</span></a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">One</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created from</th><td class="infobox-data">part <a href="/wiki/North_Somerset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)">North Somerset</a>, part <a href="/wiki/Wells_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wells (UK Parliament constituency)">Wells</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Weston-super-Mare</b> is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_Parliament_constituencies" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies">constituency</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> represented in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> of the <a href="/wiki/UK_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Parliament">UK Parliament</a> by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Aldridge" title="Dan Aldridge">Dan Aldridge</a> from the Labour Party since 2024. Before then it was held since 2005 by <a href="/wiki/John_Penrose" title="John Penrose">John Penrose</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Further to the completion of the <a href="/wiki/2023_Periodic_Review_of_Westminster_constituencies" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies">2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies</a>, the seat will be subject to moderate boundary changes which will involve the loss of rural areas in the east which will move into the new constituency of <a href="/wiki/Wells_and_Mendip_Hills_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wells and Mendip Hills (UK Parliament constituency)"><b>Wells and Mendip Hills</b></a> to be first contested at the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 general election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The seat was created under the <a href="/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1918" title="Representation of the People Act 1918">Representation of the People Act 1918</a>. Its forerunner was the <a href="/wiki/North_Somerset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)">North Somerset</a> division created in 1885. </p><p>The by-election of 1934 was triggered by the acceptance of the appointment of Lord Erskine to the position of Governor of <a href="/wiki/Madras" class="mw-redirect" title="Madras">Madras</a> Presidency, that of 1958 by the death of <a href="/wiki/Ian_Leslie_Orr-Ewing" class="mw-redirect" title="Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing">Ian Orr-Ewing</a> and that of 1969 by the death of <a href="/wiki/David_Webster_(politician)" title="David Webster (politician)">David Webster</a>. </p> <dl><dt>Political history</dt></dl> <p>The seat has alternated in representation between 1992 and 2005: in the election of 1997 the fresh Conservative candidate, <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Daly" title="Margaret Daly">Margaret Daly</a> failed to hold the seat which led to Weston Super Mare's first <a href="/wiki/Marginal_seat" title="Marginal seat">marginal</a> majority since 1923, obtained by <a href="/wiki/Brian_Cotter" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Cotter">Brian Cotter</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a>. Between 1997 and 2010, all the majorities in the constituency were lower than 3,000 votes, remaining strongly marginal and seeing in 2005 Cotter lose the seat to <a href="/wiki/John_Penrose" title="John Penrose">John Penrose</a>. Following the 2015 election however, the seat moved strongly towards the Conservatives, who increased their share of the vote in every subsequent election until 2019 election, when Penrose gained a majority of 17,121 over the second place Labour candidate. Penrose subsequently lost the seat to Labour's <a href="/wiki/Dan_Aldridge" title="Dan Aldridge">Dan Aldridge</a> in 2024. </p> <dl><dt>Frontbenchers</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Wiggin" title="Jerry Wiggin">Jerry Wiggin</a> was Minister for the Armed Services from 1981 to 1983.</li> <li>Brian Cotter was the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a> Small Business Spokesman (1997–2005),</li> <li>John Penrose was appointed the <a href="/wiki/Department_for_Culture,_Media_and_Sport" title="Department for Culture, Media and Sport">Minister for Tourism and Heritage</a> (2010–2012).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundaries">Boundaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Boundaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-kartographer-container thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 300px;"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme" style="width: 300px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="300" data-height="200" data-overlays="["_208884c2198b13a37350ae6136a041372b446801"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,a,a,a,300x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Weston-super-Mare_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29&revid=1246764547&groups=_208884c2198b13a37350ae6136a041372b446801" width="300" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,a,a,a,300x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Weston-super-Mare_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29&revid=1246764547&groups=_208884c2198b13a37350ae6136a041372b446801 2x" alt="Map" /></a><div class="thumbcaption">Map of current boundaries</div></div></div> <p><b>1918–1950</b>: The Urban Districts of Clevedon, Portishead, and Weston-super-Mare, and the Rural Districts of Axbridge and Long Ashton. </p><p><b>1950–1983</b>: The Borough of Weston-super-Mare, the Urban District of Clevedon, the Rural District of Axbridge, and in the Rural District of Long Ashton the parishes of Kenn, Kingston Seymour, and Yatton. </p><p><b>1983–1997</b>: The District of Woodspring wards of Banwell, Blagdon, Churchill, Congresbury, Hutton, Locking, Weston-super-Mare Ashcombe, Weston-super-Mare East, Weston-super-Mare Ellenborough, Weston-super-Mare North, Weston-super-Mare South, Weston-super-Mare Uphill, Weston-super-Mare West, Winscombe, Wrington, and Yatton. </p><p><b>1997–2010</b>: The District of North Somerset wards of Banwell, Blagdon, Churchill, Congresbury, Hutton, Locking, Weston-super-Mare Ashcombe, Weston-super-Mare East, Weston-super-Mare Ellenborough, Weston-super-Mare North, Weston-super-Mare South, Weston-super-Mare Uphill, Weston-super-Mare West, and Winscombe. </p><p><b>2010–2024</b>: The District of North Somerset wards of Banwell and Winscombe, Blagdon and Churchill, Congresbury, Hutton and Locking, Kewstoke, Weston-super-Mare Central, Weston-super-Mare Clarence and Uphill, Weston-super-Mare East, Weston-super-Mare Milton and Old Worle, Weston-super-Mare North Worle, Weston-super-Mare South, Weston-super-Mare South Worle, and Weston-super-Mare West. </p><p>The constituency covers the southern half of <a href="/wiki/North_Somerset" title="North Somerset">North Somerset</a> Unitary Authority, including its only town, Weston-super-Mare on the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Channel" title="Bristol Channel">Bristol Channel</a>. </p> <p><b>2024–present</b>: </p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AvonConstituencies2023.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/AvonConstituencies2023.svg/205px-AvonConstituencies2023.svg.png" decoding="async" width="205" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/AvonConstituencies2023.svg/308px-AvonConstituencies2023.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/AvonConstituencies2023.svg/410px-AvonConstituencies2023.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="639" /></a><figcaption>Weston-Super-Mare is 11 in <a href="/wiki/Avon_(county)" title="Avon (county)">Avon County</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The composition of the constituency from the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 United Kingdom general election</a> will be reduced in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range by transferring the Banwell & Winscombe, Blagdon & Churchill, and Congresbury & Puxton wards to the new constituency of <a href="/wiki/Wells_and_Mendip_Hills" class="mw-redirect" title="Wells and Mendip Hills">Wells and Mendip Hills</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_of_boundaries">History of boundaries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History of boundaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Changes for 1950</dt></dl> <p>Under the first periodic review the Weston constituency lost the Urban District of Portishead, and most of the Rural District of Long Ashton (excepting the parishes of Kenn, Kingston Seymour, and Yatton) to <a href="/wiki/North_Somerset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)">North Somerset</a> constituency. </p> <dl><dt>Changes for 1983</dt></dl> <p>Under the third periodic review the Weston constituency lost Clevedon to <a href="/wiki/Woodspring_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Woodspring (UK Parliament constituency)">Woodspring</a> constituency, and the parishes now within the Sedgemoor district (under the Local Government Act 1972) to <a href="/wiki/Wells_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wells (UK Parliament constituency)">Wells</a> constituency. </p> <dl><dt>Changes for 1997</dt></dl> <p>Under the fourth periodic review the Weston constituency lost Yatton and Wrington to <a href="/wiki/Woodspring_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Woodspring (UK Parliament constituency)">Woodspring</a> constituency. </p> <dl><dt>Changes for 2010</dt></dl> <p>Parliament accepted the <a href="/wiki/Boundary_Commission_for_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Boundary Commission for England">Boundary Commission</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Periodic_Review_of_Westminster_constituencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies">Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies</a> by making slight changes to this constituency for the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a>, namely the loss of only 181 electors in <a href="/wiki/Butcombe" title="Butcombe">Butcombe</a> (in the ward of Wrington, no longer in the seat at all) to <a href="/wiki/North_Somerset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)">North Somerset</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Constituency_profile">Constituency profile</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Constituency profile"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town grew as a relatively late-Victorian affluent resort with many green spaces and gardens south of the headland, Sand Point which denotes the sandier beach of the town and of <a href="/wiki/Burnham_on_Sea" class="mw-redirect" title="Burnham on Sea">Burnham on Sea</a> relative to northerly shores such as at <a href="/wiki/Clevedon" title="Clevedon">Clevedon</a>. </p><p>Work in tourism and visitor attractions is seasonal but other areas of the economy locally, such as customer services operations, freight, haulage and distribution, social, care, elderly and health services as well as retail, manufacturing and materials/foods processing provide employment. Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 3.5% of the population based on a statistical compilation by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Election</th> <th>Member<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">1918</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Wills,_1st_Baron_Dulverton" title="Gilbert Wills, 1st Baron Dulverton">Sir Gilbert Wills</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1922</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Erskine,_Lord_Erskine" title="John Erskine, Lord Erskine">Lord Erskine</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1923 United Kingdom general election">1923</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frank_Murrell" title="Frank Murrell">Frank Murrell</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">1924</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Erskine,_Lord_Erskine" title="John Erskine, Lord Erskine">Lord Erskine</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1934_Weston-super-Mare_by-election" title="1934 Weston-super-Mare by-election">1934 by-election</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ian_Leslie_Orr-Ewing" class="mw-redirect" title="Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing">Ian Orr-Ewing</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1958_Weston-super-Mare_by-election" title="1958 Weston-super-Mare by-election">1958 by-election</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_Webster_(politician)" title="David Webster (politician)">David Webster</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1969_Weston-super-Mare_by-election" title="1969 Weston-super-Mare by-election">1969 by-election</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Wiggin" title="Jerry Wiggin">Jerry Wiggin</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cotter" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Cotter">Brian Cotter</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Penrose" title="John Penrose">John Penrose</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2024</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dan_Aldridge" title="Dan Aldridge">Dan Aldridge</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elections">Elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2020s">Elections in the 2020s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2020s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">General election 2024</a>: Weston-super-Mare<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Dan_Aldridge" title="Dan Aldridge">Dan Aldridge</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>16,310 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>38.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+10.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Penrose" title="John Penrose">John Penrose</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,901 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–29.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #12B6CF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_UK" title="Reform UK">Reform UK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Richard Pearse </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,735 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Patrick Keating </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,756 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–2.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Thomas Daw </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,688 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,409 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42,533 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–5.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">71,396 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>19.7 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2010s">Elections in the 2010s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2010s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019</a> <a href="/wiki/2023_Periodic_Review_of_Westminster_constituencies" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies">notional result</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="130px" colspan="2">Party </th> <th bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px">Vote </th> <th bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="30px">% </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#0087DC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></td> <td align="right">26,210</td> <td align="right">57.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E4003B; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></td> <td align="right">12,900</td> <td align="right">28.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FAA61A; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a></td> <td align="right">5,382</td> <td align="right">11.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#02A95B; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a></td> <td align="right">1,380</td> <td align="right">3.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" bgcolor="#EAECF0"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><b>Turnout</b> </td> <td align="right">45,872 </td> <td align="right">64.9 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><b>Electorate</b> </td> <td align="right">70,722 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">General election 2019</a>: Weston-super-Mare<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Penrose" title="John Penrose">John Penrose</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>31,983 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Tim Taylor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,862 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–6.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Patrick Keating </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,935 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Suneil Basu </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,834 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,121 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">55,614 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–1.3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+5.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/General_election_2017" class="mw-redirect" title="General election 2017">General election 2017</a>: Weston-super-Mare<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Penrose" title="John Penrose">John Penrose</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>29,982 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Tim Taylor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,438 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+14.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mike Bell </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,175 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–1.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Helen Hims </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,932 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–14.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Suneil Basu </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">888 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–3.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,544 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–9.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">56,415 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">–4.6 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">General election 2015</a>: Weston-super-Mare<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Penrose" title="John Penrose">John Penrose</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>25,203 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+3.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Tim Taylor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,594 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ernie Warrender </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,366 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+15.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Munro </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,486 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–28.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lawson_(Green_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Lawson (Green politician)">Richard Lawson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,592 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #915F6D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/English_Democrats" title="English Democrats">English Democrat</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ronald Lavelle </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">311 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,609 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+24.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52,552 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">66.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–1.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">General election 2010</a>: Weston-super-Mare<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2010_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2010-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Penrose" title="John Penrose">John Penrose</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>23,356 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mike Bell </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,665 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">David Bradley </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,772 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–7.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Paul Spencer </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,406 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #2e3b74; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/British_National_Party" title="British National Party">BNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Peryn Parsons </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,098 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #915F6D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/English_Democrats" title="English Democrats">English Democrat</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Peverelle </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">275 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Steve Satch </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">144 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,691 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52,716 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2000s">Elections in the 2000s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2000s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">General election 2005</a>: Weston-super-Mare<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Penrose" title="John Penrose">John Penrose</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>19,804 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>40.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+1.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cotter" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Cotter">Brian Cotter</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,725 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Damien_Egan" title="Damien Egan">Damien Egan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,169 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Paul Spencer </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,207 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #2e3b74; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/British_National_Party" title="British National Party">BNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Clive Courtney </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">778 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">William Human </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">225 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">Demanding Honesty in Politics and Whitehall </td> <td class="fn">Paul Hemingway-Arnold </td> <td style="text-align:right;">187 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,079 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49,095 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">65.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">General election 2001</a>: Weston-super-Mare<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FAA61A; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cotter" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Cotter">Brian Cotter</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>18,424 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>39.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>–0.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Penrose" title="John Penrose">John Penrose</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,086 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Derek Kraft </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,235 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bill Lukins </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">650 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Peverelle </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">206 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Richard Sibley </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">338 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–1.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46,680 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–10.9 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">–0.8 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1990s">Elections in the 1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">General election 1997</a>: Weston-super-Mare<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FAA61A; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cotter" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Cotter">Brian Cotter</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>21,407 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>40.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Daly" title="Margaret Daly">Margaret Daly</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,133 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−10.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Derek Kraft </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,557 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #bf475c; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Referendum_Party" title="Referendum Party">Referendum</a> </td> <td class="fn">Tom Sewell </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,280 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,274 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53,377 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-5.44 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">General election 1992</a>: Weston-super-Mare<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Wiggin" title="Jerry Wiggin">Jerry Wiggin</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30,022 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>47.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−1.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cotter" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Cotter">Brian Cotter</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24,680 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">David Murray </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,913 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lawson_(Green_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Lawson (Green politician)">Richard Lawson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,262 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,342 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62,877 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−2.7 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1980s">Elections in the 1980s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1980s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">General election 1987</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Wiggin" title="Jerry Wiggin">Jerry Wiggin</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>28,547 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.4 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−4.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6C2f56; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">SDP</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Crockford-Hawley </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,549 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a> </td> <td class="fn">Paul Loach </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,584 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #528D6B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_(UK)" title="Green Party (UK)">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lawson_(Green_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Lawson (Green politician)">Richard Lawson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,067 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,998 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57,747 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">75.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">General election 1983</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Wiggin" title="Jerry Wiggin">Jerry Wiggin</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,948 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6C2f56; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">SDP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Marks,_Baron_Marks_of_Henley-on-Thames" title="Jonathan Marks, Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames">Jonathan Marks</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,457 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.4 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Roger_Berry" title="Roger Berry">Roger Berry</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,781 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.1 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,491 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52,186 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1970s">Elections in the 1970s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">General election 1979</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Wiggin" title="Jerry Wiggin">Jerry Wiggin</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>40,618 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+8.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Rowland Morgan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,305 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a> </td> <td class="fn">Alan Taylor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,420 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24,313 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+13.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">71,343 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">77.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">General election October 1974</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Wiggin" title="Jerry Wiggin">Jerry Wiggin</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>31,028 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−1.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Roger Miller </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,169 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a> </td> <td class="fn">Peter Owen </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,057 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">United Democratic </td> <td class="fn">Eric Iszatt </td> <td style="text-align:right;">296 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,859 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63,550 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">General election February 1974</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Wiggin" title="Jerry Wiggin">Jerry Wiggin</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>33,838 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−7.9 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Philip Golding </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,237 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a> </td> <td class="fn">Roy Morris </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,542 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,601 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−13.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67,617 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">General election 1970</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Wiggin" title="Jerry Wiggin">Jerry Wiggin</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>33,816 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sarah Palmer </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,473 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/1969_Weston-super-Mare_by-election#Candidates" title="1969 Weston-super-Mare by-election">Edward Deal</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,120 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,343 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">58,409 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1960s">Elections in the 1960s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1960s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1969_Weston-super-Mare_by-election" title="1969 Weston-super-Mare by-election">1969 Weston-super-Mare by-election</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Wiggin" title="Jerry Wiggin">Jerry Wiggin</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>29,211 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>65.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+13.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Edward Deal </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,739 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Bosanquet" title="Nicholas Bosanquet">Nicholas Bosanquet</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,504 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−14.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,472 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+22.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44,454 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">60.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−17.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">General election 1966</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/David_Webster_(politician)" title="David Webster (politician)">David Webster</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,733 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−1.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a> </td> <td class="fn">Melvyn Butcher </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,340 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ian McDonald </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,173 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,393 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53,246 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">78.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">General election 1964</a>: Weston-super-Mare<sup id="cite_ref-nationalarchives_8SUF/B/157_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nationalarchives_8SUF/B/157-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/David_Webster_(politician)" title="David Webster (politician)">David Webster</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,143 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−4.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Stephen" title="Jessie Stephen">Jessie Stephen</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,248 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ian McDonald </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,771 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,895 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">51,162 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1950s">Elections in the 1950s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1950s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">General election 1959</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/David_Webster_(politician)" title="David Webster (politician)">David Webster</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,881 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−5.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Edward Hampton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,977 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−14.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Edward Taylor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,609 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,904 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48,467 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.9 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1958_Weston-super-Mare_by-election" title="1958 Weston-super-Mare by-election">1958 Weston-super-Mare by-election</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/David_Webster_(politician)" title="David Webster (politician)">David Webster</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>21,271 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−13.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Edward Hampton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,295 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Edward Taylor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,588 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,976 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43,154 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">72.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">General election 1955</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Orr-Ewing_(Weston-super-Mare_MP)" title="Ian Orr-Ewing (Weston-super-Mare MP)">Ian Orr-Ewing</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,357 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>62.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−3.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Robert Andrews </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,275 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,082 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43,632 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.9 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">General election 1951</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Orr-Ewing_(Weston-super-Mare_MP)" title="Ian Orr-Ewing (Weston-super-Mare MP)">Ian Orr-Ewing</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30,485 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>65.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+9.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Robert Andrews </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,942 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,543 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−22.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46,427 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">General election 1950</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Orr-Ewing_(Weston-super-Mare_MP)" title="Ian Orr-Ewing (Weston-super-Mare MP)">Ian Orr-Ewing</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>26,767 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.4 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael Hill </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,294 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.0 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Frederick Archie Kew </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,394 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.6 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,473 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47,455 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1940s">Elections in the 1940s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1940s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">General election 1945</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Orr-Ewing_(Weston-super-Mare_MP)" title="Ian Orr-Ewing (Weston-super-Mare MP)">Ian Orr-Ewing</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30,730 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−16.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Hugh Cardew </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,542 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+15.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Stanley Sanger </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,804 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,188 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−30.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62,076 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1930s">Elections in the 1930s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1930s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1935 United Kingdom general election">General election 1935</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Orr-Ewing_(Weston-super-Mare_MP)" title="Ian Orr-Ewing (Weston-super-Mare MP)">Ian Orr-Ewing</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,735 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>65.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−20.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Folliott_Scott-Stokes" title="Henry Folliott Scott-Stokes">Henry Scott-Stokes</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,883 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Elvin" title="George Elvin">George Elvin</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,625 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,852 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−24.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42,243 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">66.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1934_Weston-super-Mare_by-election" title="1934 Weston-super-Mare by-election">1934 Weston-super-Mare by-election</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Orr-Ewing_(Weston-super-Mare_MP)" title="Ian Orr-Ewing (Weston-super-Mare MP)">Ian Orr-Ewing</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>21,203 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>61.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−24.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Folliott_Scott-Stokes" title="Henry Folliott Scott-Stokes">Henry Scott-Stokes</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,551 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Albert Edward Millett </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,715 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,652 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−31.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34,469 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">General election 1931</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Erskine,_Lord_Erskine" title="John Erskine, Lord Erskine">John Erskine</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>35,255 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>85.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+33.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bernard Craig </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,905 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29,350 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">71.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+55.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41,160 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">71.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1920s">Elections in the 1920s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1920s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">General election 1929</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Erskine,_Lord_Erskine" title="John Erskine, Lord Erskine">John Erskine</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>21,898 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−4.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Morse_(Liberal_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Morse (Liberal politician)">William Morse</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,219 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Constance Elizabeth Borrett </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,766 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,679 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42,883 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">77.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-0.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">General election 1924</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Erskine,_Lord_Erskine" title="John Erskine, Lord Erskine">John Erskine</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>17,987 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+7.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Murrell" title="Frank Murrell">Frank Murrell</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,895 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Raphael Neft </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,343 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,092 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32,225 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">81.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1923 United Kingdom general election">General election 1923</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Frank_Murrell" title="Frank Murrell">Frank Murrell</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>15,223 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+6.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Erskine,_Lord_Erskine" title="John Erskine, Lord Erskine">John Erskine</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,318 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">905 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29,541 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.6 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">General election 1922</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Erskine,_Lord_Erskine" title="John Erskine, Lord Erskine">John Erskine</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>15,552 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−10.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Murrell" title="Frank Murrell">Frank Murrell</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,674 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,878 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−20.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28,226 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1910s">Elections in the 1910s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1910s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">General election 1918</a>: Weston-super-Mare </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px"><b><a href="/wiki/Coalition_Coupon" title="Coalition Coupon"><span style="color:white">C</span></a></b> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Wills" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilbert Wills">Gilbert Wills</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>13,494</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>65.5</b> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Edmund Thruston </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,104 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.5 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,390 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,598 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> <b>win</b> (new seat) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6"><b>C</b> <small>indicates <a href="/wiki/Coalition_Coupon" title="Coalition Coupon">candidate endorsed by the coalition government</a>.</small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_in_Avon" title="List of parliamentary constituencies in Avon">List of parliamentary constituencies in Avon</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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1913)</li> <li>F W S Craig, <i>British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885</i> (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)</li> <li>Michael Kinnear, <i>The British Voter</i> (London: BH Batsford, Ltd, 1968)</li> <li>Henry Pelling, <i>Social Geography of British Elections 1885–1910</i> (London: Macmillan, 1967)</li> <li>Frederic A Youngs, jr, <i>Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I</i> (London: <a href="/wiki/Royal_Historical_Society" title="Royal Historical Society">Royal Historical Society</a>, 1979)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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title="Camborne and Redruth (UK Parliament constituency)">Camborne and Redruth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exeter_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Exeter (UK Parliament constituency)">Exeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filton_and_Bradley_Stoke_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Filton and Bradley Stoke (UK Parliament constituency)">Filton and Bradley Stoke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forest_of_Dean_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Forest of Dean (UK Parliament constituency)">Forest of Dean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucester_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gloucester (UK Parliament constituency)">Gloucester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_East_Somerset_and_Hanham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North East Somerset and Hanham (UK Parliament constituency)">North East Somerset and Hanham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Somerset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)">North Somerset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Moor_View_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Plymouth Moor View (UK Parliament constituency)">Plymouth Moor View</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Sutton_and_Devonport_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Plymouth Sutton and Devonport (UK Parliament constituency)">Plymouth Sutton and Devonport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poole_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Poole (UK Parliament constituency)">Poole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Dorset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)">South Dorset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_East_Cornwall_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South East Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)">South East Cornwall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Austell_and_Newquay_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="St Austell and Newquay (UK Parliament constituency)">St Austell and Newquay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stroud_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stroud (UK Parliament constituency)">Stroud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swindon_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Swindon North (UK Parliament constituency)">Swindon North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swindon_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Swindon South (UK Parliament constituency)">Swindon South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truro_and_Falmouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Truro and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Truro and Falmouth</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Weston-super-Mare</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> (22)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bath_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bath (UK Parliament constituency)">Bath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheltenham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cheltenham (UK Parliament constituency)">Cheltenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chippenham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency)">Chippenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frome_and_East_Somerset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Frome and East Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)">Frome and East Somerset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_and_Somerton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glastonbury and Somerton (UK Parliament constituency)">Glastonbury and Somerton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honiton_and_Sidmouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Honiton and Sidmouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Honiton and Sidmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melksham_and_Devizes_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Melksham and Devizes (UK Parliament constituency)">Melksham and Devizes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid_Dorset_and_North_Poole_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mid Dorset and North Poole (UK Parliament constituency)">Mid Dorset and North Poole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton_Abbot_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Newton Abbot (UK Parliament constituency)">Newton Abbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Cornwall_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)">North Cornwall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Devon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Devon (UK Parliament constituency)">North Devon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Cotswolds_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Cotswolds (UK Parliament constituency)">South Cotswolds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Devon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Devon (UK Parliament constituency)">South Devon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Ives_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)">St Ives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taunton_and_Wellington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Taunton and Wellington (UK Parliament constituency)">Taunton and Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tewkesbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Tewkesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornbury_and_Yate_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Thornbury and Yate (UK Parliament constituency)">Thornbury and Yate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiverton_and_Minehead_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tiverton and Minehead (UK Parliament constituency)">Tiverton and Minehead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torbay_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Torbay (UK Parliament constituency)">Torbay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wells_and_Mendip_Hills_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wells and Mendip Hills (UK Parliament constituency)">Wells and Mendip Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Dorset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)">West Dorset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yeovil_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Yeovil (UK Parliament constituency)">Yeovil</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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