UK General Election results May 1979

28th May 1979

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

Derbyshire South East — Down South

Dudley East — Eastbourne

Derbyshire South East
[E] Conservative hold

P Rost	Conservative	24,004	51.47%
GE Bermingham	Labour	16,617	35.63%
R Lustig	Liberal	5,518	11.83%
C Neil	National Front	498	1.07%

Electorate: 57,516; Turnout: 81.09%;
Majority: 7,387 (15.84%)

Derbyshire West
[E] Conservative hold

M Parris	Conservative	21,478	52.55%
PM Warboys	Liberal	11,261	27.55%
W Moore	Labour	8,134	19.90%

Electorate: 50,655; Turnout: 80.69%;
Majority: 10,217 (25.00%)

Devizes
[E] Conservative hold

CA Morrison	Conservative	32,439	50.92%
VE Finlayson	Labour	16,351	25.67%
J Ainslie	Liberal	14,059	22.07%
R Burcham	Ecology	713	1.12%
AB Mockler	Wessex Regionalist	142	0.22%

Electorate: 80,028; Turnout: 79.60%;
Majority: 16,088 (25.25%)

Devon North
[E] Conservative gain

A Speller	Conservative	31,811	50.09%
JJ Thorpe	Liberal	23,338	36.74%
AJ Saltern	Labour	7,108	11.19%
AM Whittaker	Ecology	729	1.15%
JP Price	National Front	237	0.37%
FH Hansford-Miller	English National Party	142	0.22%
A Waugh	Dog Lovers Party	79	0.12%
H Rous	Wessex Regionalist	50	0.08%
WG Boaks	Democratic Monarchist Public Safety White Resident	20	0.03%

Electorate: 77,715; Turnout: 81.73%;
Majority: 8,473 (13.34%)

Devon West
[E] Conservative hold

PM Mills	Conservative	29,428	60.99%
V Howell	Liberal	12,256	25.40%
RD Maddern	Labour	6,174	12.80%
R Bearsford-Walker	National Front	393	0.81%

Electorate: 61,408; Turnout: 78.57%;
Majority: 17,172 (35.59%)

Dewsbury
[E] Labour hold

D Ginsburg	Labour	22,829	46.73%
R Galley	Conservative	18,448	37.76%
N Derbyshire	Liberal	7,580	15.51%

Electorate: 63,379; Turnout: 77.09%;
Majority: 4,381 (8.97%)

Doncaster
[E] Labour hold

H Walker	Labour	22,184	48.93%
P Beard	Conservative	19,208	42.37%
G Broadhead	Liberal	3,646	8.04%
M Day	National Front	300	0.66%

Electorate: 60,487; Turnout: 74.95%;
Majority: 2,976 (6.56%)

Don Valley
[E] Labour hold

MC Welsh	Labour	39,603	55.62%
R Freeman	Conservative	22,243	31.24%
E Simpson	Liberal	8,238	11.57%
I Connelly	Workers Party	720	1.01%
T McCabe	Workers Revolutionary Party	398	0.56%

Electorate: 95,287; Turnout: 74.72%;
Majority: 17,360 (24.38%)

Dorking
[E] Conservative hold

K Wickenden	Conservative	29,003	61.43%
R Hope	Liberal	9,240	19.57%
JAS Weir	Labour	8,970	19.00%

Electorate: 60,630; Turnout: 77.87%;
Majority: 19,763 (41.86%)

Dorset North
[E] Conservative hold

N Baker	Conservative	40,046	62.24%
G Court	Liberal	16,750	26.03%
MC Rowlands	Labour	7,543	11.72%

Electorate: 80,732; Turnout: 79.69%;
Majority: 23,296 (36.21%)

Dorset South
[E] Conservative hold

Visc Cranbourne	Conservative	32,372	55.67%
A Chedzoy	Labour	17,133	29.46%
P St J Howe	Liberal	8,649	14.87%

Electorate: 74,239; Turnout: 78.33%;
Majority: 15,239 (26.20%)

Dorset West
[E] Conservative hold

JW Spicer	Conservative	26,281	58.71%
T Jones	Liberal	9,776	21.84%
HJ Skevington	Labour	7,999	17.87%
J Tillotson	National Front	514	1.15%
G McEwan	Wessex Regionalist	192	0.43%

Electorate: 56,658; Turnout: 79.00%;
Majority: 16,505 (36.87%)

Dover & Deal
[E] Conservative hold

PWI Rees	Conservative	30,606	50.01%
JL Chapman	Labour	22,664	37.04%
J Cohen	Liberal	6,906	11.29%
J Fox	Silly Party	642	1.05%
P Johnson	National Front	378	0.62%

Electorate: 75,883; Turnout: 80.65%;
Majority: 7,942 (12.98%)

Down North
[N] Ulster Unionist hold

JA Kilfedder	Ulster Unionist	36,989	59.58%
K Jones	Alliance	13,364	21.53%
C Smyth	Official Ulster Unionist	11,728	18.89%

Electorate: 99,861; Turnout: 62.17%;
Majority: 23,625 (38.06%)

Down South
[N] Official Ulster Unionist hold

JE Powell	Official Ulster Unionist	32,254	50.02%
EK McGrady	SDLP	24,033	37.27%
PM Forde	Alliance	4,407	6.84%
JE Markey	Irish Independence Party	1,853	2.87%
D O'Hagan	Republican Clubs	1,682	2.61%
SG Rice	Inter-Dependence Party	216	0.34%
PB Courtney	Reform Party	31	0.05%

Electorate: 89,562; Turnout: 71.99%;
Majority: 8,221 (12.75%)

Dudley East
[E] Labour hold

JW Gilbert	Labour	22,521	53.83%
WD Williams	Conservative	14,834	35.46%
GPT Lewis	Liberal	3,639	8.70%
AJ Baker	National Front	844	2.02%

Electorate: 59,661; Turnout: 70.13%;
Majority: 7,687 (18.37%)

Dudley West
[E] Conservative gain

JG Blackburn	Conservative	30,158	50.88%
MJ Hartley-Brewer	Labour	29,109	49.12%

Electorate: 77,525; Turnout: 76.45%;
Majority: 1,049 (1.77%)

Dulwich
[E] Labour hold

SC Silkin	Labour	18,557	43.02%
E Morley	Conservative	18,435	42.73%
WH Pearson	Liberal	4,759	11.03%
D Thompson	National Front	920	2.13%
D Smart	Ecology	468	1.08%

Electorate: 61,259; Turnout: 70.42%;
Majority: 122 (0.28%)

Dumfries
[S] Conservative hold

HSP Monro	Conservative	22,704	45.21%
A Wood	Labour	13,700	27.28%
J Wallace	Liberal	7,169	14.28%
E Gibson	SNP	6,647	13.24%

Electorate: 64,311; Turnout: 78.09%;
Majority: 9,004 (17.93%)

Dunbartonshire Central
[S] Labour hold

H McCartney	Labour	20,515	51.92%
N Soames	Conservative	8,512	21.54%
W Lindsay	SNP	6,055	15.33%
L McCreadie	Liberal	3,099	7.84%
D McCafferty	Communist	1,017	2.57%
R Darroch	Christian Democrat	312	0.79%

Electorate: 49,381; Turnout: 80.01%;
Majority: 12,003 (30.38%)

Dunbartonshire East
[S] Labour gain

N Hogg	Labour	23,268	37.86%
MW Hirst	Conservative	20,944	34.07%
MA Bain	SNP	12,654	20.59%
R Waddell	Liberal	4,600	7.48%

Electorate: 73,261; Turnout: 83.90%;
Majority: 2,324 (3.78%)

Dunbartonshire West
[S] Labour hold

I Campbell	Labour	21,166	48.42%
JC Munro	Conservative	14,709	33.65%
S Stratton	SNP	7,835	17.92%

Electorate: 54,507; Turnout: 80.19%;
Majority: 6,457 (14.77%)

Dundee East
[S] SNP hold

RG Wilson	SNP	20,497	41.03%
J Reid	Labour	17,978	35.99%
BJT Townsend	Conservative	9,072	18.16%
C Brodie	Liberal	2,317	4.64%
R Battersby	Workers Revolutionary Party	95	0.19%

Electorate: 64,330; Turnout: 77.66%;
Majority: 2,519 (5.04%)

Dundee West
[S] Labour hold

E Ross	Labour	23,654	47.25%
J Fairlie	SNP	13,197	26.36%
I Stevenson	Conservative	12,892	25.75%
R Mennie	Communist	316	0.63%

Electorate: 63,883; Turnout: 78.36%;
Majority: 10,457 (20.89%)

Dunfermline
[S] Labour hold

RG Douglas	Labour	22,803	44.32%
A Lester	Conservative	15,490	30.11%
A Cameron	SNP	7,351	14.29%
G Whitelaw	Liberal	5,803	11.28%

Electorate: 64,868; Turnout: 79.31%;
Majority: 7,313 (14.21%)

Durham
[E] Labour hold

WM Hughes	Labour	30,903	52.25%
M Lavis	Conservative	19,666	33.25%
C Wood	Liberal	8,572	14.49%

Electorate: 77,463; Turnout: 76.35%;
Majority: 11,237 (19.00%)

Durham North West
[E] Labour hold

E Armstrong	Labour	29,525	61.30%
T Fenwick	Conservative	14,245	29.58%
J Hannibell	Liberal	4,394	9.12%

Electorate: 63,387; Turnout: 75.98%;
Majority: 15,280 (31.72%)

Ealing North
[E] Conservative gain

H Greenway	Conservative	27,524	46.04%
WJ Molloy	Labour	26,044	43.57%
J Taylor	Liberal	5,162	8.64%
J Shaw	National Front	1,047	1.75%

Electorate: 76,805; Turnout: 77.83%;
Majority: 1,480 (2.48%)

Easington
[E] Labour hold

JD Dormand	Labour	29,537	60.90%
JS Smailes	Conservative	11,981	24.70%
V Morley	Liberal	6,979	14.39%

Electorate: 65,242; Turnout: 74.33%;
Majority: 17,556 (36.20%)

Eastbourne
[E] Conservative hold

IRE Gow	Conservative	37,168	63.05%
D Bellotti	Liberal	11,084	18.80%
LJ Caine	Labour	10,166	17.24%
C Mitchell	National Front	533	0.90%

Electorate: 76,880; Turnout: 76.68%;
Majority: 26,084 (44.25%)

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