UK General Election results 1970

18th June 1970

The region in which each constituency is situated is indicated in square brackets

Barking — Beckenham

Bedford — Billericay

Barking
[E] Labour hold

TEN Driberg	Labour	21,097	69.38%
GE Pattie	Conservative	9,309	30.62%

Electorate: 49,363; Turnout: 61.60%;; Majority: 11,788 (38.77%)

Barkston Ash
[E] Conservative hold

MJH Alison	Conservative	35,198	59.60%
EK Grime	Labour	23,861	40.40%

Electorate: 78,127; Turnout: 75.59%;
Majority: 11,337 (19.20%)

Barnet
[E] Conservative hold

R Maudling	Conservative	26,845	52.29%
JEM Baker	Labour	18,166	35.38%
JDO Henchley	Liberal	6,329	12.33%

Electorate: 71,828; Turnout: 71.48%;
Majority: 8,679 (16.90%)

Barnsley
[E] Labour hold

R Mason	Labour	34,956	64.79%
R Godber	Conservative	10,811	20.04%
JH Dossett	Liberal	8,186	15.17%

Electorate: 75,743; Turnout: 71.23%;
Majority: 24,145 (44.75%)

Barons Court
[E] Labour hold

IS Richard	Labour	13,374	48.02%
RE Brum	Conservative	12,269	44.06%
SHJA Knott	Liberal	2,206	7.92%

Electorate: 41,401; Turnout: 67.27%;
Majority: 1,105 (3.97%)

Barrow in Furness
[E] Labour hold

AE Booth	Labour	22,400	56.09%
HD Miller	Conservative	17,536	43.91%

Electorate: 54,198; Turnout: 73.69%;
Majority: 4,864 (12.18%)

Barry
[W] Conservative hold

HR Gower	Conservative	31,957	53.76%
J Allison	Labour	23,286	39.17%
EO Williams	Plaid Cymru	4,200	7.07%

Electorate: 75,049; Turnout: 79.21%;
Majority: 8,671 (14.59%)

Basingstoke
[E] Conservative hold

DB Mitchell	Conservative	35,138	50.94%
DV Carter	Labour	25,664	37.20%
RA Musselwhite	Liberal	8,183	11.86%

Electorate: 91,958; Turnout: 75.02%;
Majority: 9,474 (13.73%)

Bassetlaw
[E] Labour hold

JW Ashton	Labour	28,959	54.87%
JT Lester	Conservative	20,698	39.21%
MH Haydon-Baillie	Liberal	3,125	5.92%

Electorate: 69,049; Turnout: 76.44%;
Majority: 8,261 (15.65%)

Bath
[E] Conservative hold

EJ Brown	Conservative	22,344	48.96%
DW Young	Labour	16,493	36.14%
RH Crowther	Liberal	5,957	13.05%
G Young	Ind	840	1.84%

Electorate: 59,194; Turnout: 77.09%;
Majority: 5,851 (12.82%)

Batley & Morley
[E] Labour hold

ADD Broughton	Labour	23,024	50.41%
D Thompson	Conservative	15,753	34.49%
P Wrigley	Liberal	6,893	15.09%

Electorate: 63,086; Turnout: 72.39%;
Majority: 7,271 (15.92%)

Battersea North
[E] Labour hold

DPT Jay	Labour	11,621	65.51%
AV Bradbury	Conservative	4,927	27.77%
HMG Smallbone	Liberal	1,012	5.70%
D Welsh	Communist	179	1.01%

Electorate: 30,226; Turnout: 58.69%;
Majority: 6,694 (37.74%)

Battersea South
[E] Labour hold

EG Perry	Labour	10,925	49.54%
IN Samuel	Conservative	9,227	41.84%
R Benad	Liberal	1,183	5.36%
T Lamb	National Front	716	3.25%

Electorate: 34,687; Turnout: 63.57%;
Majority: 1,698 (7.70%)

Bebington
[E] Conservative gain

EP Cockeram	Conservative	31,260	50.59%
E Brooks	Labour	30,535	49.41%

Electorate: 81,913; Turnout: 75.44%;
Majority: 725 (1.17%)

Beckenham
[E] Conservative hold

PC Goodhart	Conservative	30,763	57.83%
IG Bing	Labour	13,031	24.50%
PA Golding	Liberal	9,404	17.68%

Electorate: 77,459; Turnout: 68.68%;
Majority: 17,732 (33.33%)

Bedford
[E] Conservative gain

THH Skeet	Conservative	26,330	50.52%
BS Parkyn	Labour	21,051	40.39%
AW Butcher	Liberal	4,740	9.09%

Electorate: 67,414; Turnout: 77.31%;
Majority: 5,279 (10.13%)

Bedfordshire Mid
[E] Conservative hold

SLE Hastings	Conservative	29,670	52.51%
DF Harrowell	Labour	19,035	33.69%
JP Christian	Liberal	7,799	13.80%

Electorate: 73,116; Turnout: 77.28%;
Majority: 10,635 (18.82%)

Bedfordshire South
[E] Conservative gain

WD Madel	Conservative	38,085	48.73%
GE Roberts	Labour	33,107	42.36%
G Shocket	Liberal	6,956	8.90%

Electorate: 101,284; Turnout: 77.16%;
Majority: 4,978 (6.37%)

Bedwellty
[W] Labour hold

NG Kinnock	Labour	28,078	74.56%
P Marland	Conservative	5,799	15.40%
CM Davey	Plaid Cymru	3,780	10.04%

Electorate: 49,157; Turnout: 76.61%;
Majority: 22,279 (59.16%)

Belfast East
[N] Ulster Unionist hold

SR McMaster	Ulster Unionist	26,778	59.46%
D Bleakley	NI Labour	18,259	40.54%

Electorate: 59,610; Turnout: 75.55%;
Majority: 8,519 (18.92%)

Belfast North
[N] Ulster Unionist hold

WS Mills	Ulster Unionist	28,668	48.45%
J Sharkey	NI Labour	18,894	31.93%
W Beattie	Protestant Unionist	11,173	18.88%
J McKeague	Ind Unionist	441	0.75%

Electorate: 75,823; Turnout: 78.04%;
Majority: 9,774 (16.52%)

Belfast South
[N] Ulster Unionist hold

R Pounder	Ulster Unionist	27,523	70.41%
J Coulthard	NI Labour	11,567	29.59%

Electorate: 57,152; Turnout: 68.40%;
Majority: 15,956 (40.82%)

Belfast West
[N] Republican Labour hold

G Fitt	Republican Labour	30,649	52.75%
B McRoberts	Ulster Unionist	27,451	47.25%

Electorate: 68,777; Turnout: 84.48%;
Majority: 3,198 (5.50%)

Belper
[E] Conservative gain

DG Stewart-Smith	Conservative	35,757	51.53%
GA Brown	Labour	33,633	48.47%

Electorate: 86,642; Turnout: 80.09%;
Majority: 2,124 (3.06%)

Bermondsey
[E] Labour hold

RJ Mellish	Labour	13,908	76.92%
GHJ Nicholson	Conservative	4,172	23.08%

Electorate: 34,174; Turnout: 52.91%;
Majority: 9,736 (53.85%)

Berwick & East Lothian
[S] Labour hold

JP Mackintosh	Labour	21,107	45.58%
JDM Hardie	Conservative	20,466	44.20%
DRF Simpson	Scottish Nationalist	4,735	10.23%

Electorate: 55,326; Turnout: 83.70%;
Majority: 641 (1.38%)

Berwick upon Tweed
[E] Conservative hold

ACF Lambton	Conservative	15,558	50.66%
RN Wareing	Labour	8,413	27.39%
AJ Beith	Liberal	6,741	21.95%

Electorate: 41,731; Turnout: 73.60%;
Majority: 7,145 (23.26%)

Bethnal Green
[E] Labour hold

WS Hilton	Labour	15,483	64.24%
OS Henriques	Conservative	5,587	23.18%
WO Smedley	Liberal	3,030	12.57%

Electorate: 47,830; Turnout: 50.39%;
Majority: 9,905 (41.06%)

Bexley
[E] Conservative hold

ERG Heath	Conservative	27,075	53.00%
JC Cartwright	Labour	19,017	37.23%
E Harrison	Liberal	3,222	6.31%
EJRL Heath	Ind	938	1.84%
MP Coney	Ind Conservative	833	1.63%

Electorate: 67,062; Turnout: 76.18%;
Majority: 8,058 (15.77%)

Billericay
[E] Conservative gain

RA McCrindle	Conservative	47,719	52.16%
E Moonman	Labour	43,765	47.84%

Electorate: 123,297; Turnout: 74.20%;
Majority: 3,954 (4.32%)

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