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| Erith and Crayford | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1955–1997 | |
| Created from | Dartford |
| Replaced by | Erith & Thamesmead and Bexleyheath & Crayford |
Erith and Crayford was a constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK's Parliament.
It was created for the 1955 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Erith & Thamesmead and Bexleyheath & Crayford.
For its final 32 years it was in the London Borough of Bexley, south-east London but for its first ten years instead in Kent, divided among two council districts, below the higher tier of Kent County Council.
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1955–1974: The Municipal Borough of Erith, and the Urban District of Crayford.
1974–1983: The London Borough of Bexley wards of Belvedere, Bostall, Crayford North, Crayford Town, Crayford West, Erith Town, and Northumberland Heath.
1983–1997: The London Borough of Bexley wards of Belvedere, Bostall, Crayford, Erith, North End, Northumberland Heath, and Thamesmead East.
| Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Norman Dodds | Labour Co-op | Previously MP for Dartford from 1945. Died 1965 | |
| 1965 by-election | James Wellbeloved | Labour | ||
| 1981 | SDP | |||
| 1983 | David Evennett | Conservative | Contested and lost Bexleyheath and Crayford in 1997. Subsequently, MP for the seat from 2005 | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Erith and Thamesmead & Bexleyheath and Crayford | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Norman Dodds | 24,957 | 60.43 | ||
| Conservative | Edward Gardner | 16,339 | 39.57 | ||
| Majority | 8,618 | 20.86 | |||
| Turnout | 41,296 | ||||
| Labour Co-op win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Norman Dodds | 24,523 | 56.65 | ||
| Conservative | James J Davis | 18,763 | 43.35 | ||
| Majority | 5,760 | 13.30 | |||
| Turnout | 43,286 | ||||
| Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Norman Dodds | 22,806 | 53.1 | -3.5 | |
| Conservative | B Black | 13,951 | 32.3 | -11.0 | |
| Liberal | Stanley W Vince | 6,189 | 14.4 | New | |
| Majority | 8,855 | 20.8 | +7.5 | ||
| Turnout | 42,946 | ||||
| Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Wellbeloved | 21,835 | 55.4 | +2.3 | |
| Conservative | David Madel | 14,763 | 37.5 | +5.2 | |
| Liberal | Stanley W Vince | 2,823 | 7.2 | -7.2 | |
| Majority | 7,072 | 17.9 | -2.9 | ||
| Turnout | 39,421 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Wellbeloved | 24,243 | 55.53 | ||
| Conservative | David Madel | 15,033 | 34.43 | ||
| Liberal | Stanley W Vince | 3,827 | 8.77 | ||
| Communist | L Smith | 556 | 1.27 | New | |
| Majority | 9,210 | 21.10 | |||
| Turnout | 43,659 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Wellbeloved | 23,012 | 55.9 | +0.4 | |
| Conservative | H.J. Jackson | 18,158 | 44.1 | +9.7 | |
| Majority | 4,854 | 11.8 | -9.3 | ||
| Turnout | 41,170 | 71.3 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Wellbeloved | 22,632 | 46.1 | -9.8 | |
| Conservative | R.I. Raitt | 15,551 | 31.7 | -12.4 | |
| Liberal | Stanley W. Vince | 10,951 | 22.3 | New | |
| Majority | 7,081 | 14.4 | +2.6 | ||
| Turnout | 49,134 | 81.8 | +10.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Wellbeloved | 22,670 | 51.2 | +5.1 | |
| Conservative | M. MacDonald | 14,203 | 32.1 | +0.4 | |
| Liberal | T. Hibbert | 7,423 | 16.8 | −5.5 | |
| Majority | 8,467 | 19.1 | +4.7 | ||
| Turnout | 44,296 | 73.1 | -8.7 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Wellbeloved | 22,450 | 47.3 | −3.9 | |
| Conservative | Simon Blunt [1] | 19,717 | 41.5 | +9.4 | |
| Liberal | Florence Jamieson [1] | 4,512 | 9.5 | −7.3 | |
| National Front | Owen Hawke [1] | 838 | 1.8 | New | |
| Majority | 2,733 | 5.8 | -13.3 | ||
| Turnout | 47,517 | 77.5 | +4.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | −6.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David Evennett | 15,289 | 37.1 | −1.7 | |
| SDP | James Wellbeloved | 14,369 | 34.9 | +25.4 | |
| Labour | Malcolm Smart | 11,260 | 27.3 | −22.7 | |
| BNP | O. Hawke | 272 | 0.7 | New | |
| Majority | 920 | 2.2 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 41,190 | 73.5 | −4.0 | ||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +10.5 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David Evennett | 20,203 | 45.2 | +8.1 | |
| Labour | Colin Hargrave | 13,209 | 29.5 | +2.2 | |
| SDP | James Wellbeloved | 11,300 | 25.3 | −9.6 | |
| Majority | 6,994 | 15.7 | +13.5 | ||
| Turnout | 44,712 | 75.4 | +1.9 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David Evennett | 21,926 | 46.5 | +1.3 | |
| Labour | Nigel Beard | 19,587 | 41.5 | +12.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Florence M. Jamieson | 5,657 | 12.0 | −13.3 | |
| Majority | 2,339 | 5.0 | −10.7 | ||
| Turnout | 47,170 | 79.7 | +4.3 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −5.3 | |||
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