| Results 2005: Lab hold |
| Candidate (Party) | Votes (percentage) | |
| Sion Simon (Lab) | 16,810 (52.95%, -3.82%) | |
| Victoria Elvidge (C) | 7,235 (22.79%, -1.43%) | |
| Jerry Evans (LD) | 5,027 (15.84%, +4.07%) | |
| Sharon Ebanks (BNP) | 1,512 (4.76%) | |
| Rannal Hepburn (UKIP) | 746 (2.35%, +0.65%) | |
| Terry Williams (NF) | 416 (1.31%, -0.91%) | |
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| Lab maj 9,575 (30.16%) | |
| 1.20% swing Lab to C |
| Electorate 64,951 |
| Turnout 31,746 (48.88%, +2.27%) | |
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| Results 2001 | | |
| Name | Party | Votes |
| Sion Llewelyn Simon | Labour | 17,375 |
| Oliver Lodge | Conservative | 7,413 |
| Sandra Johnson | Liberal Democrat | 3,602 |
| Michael Shore | National Front | 681 |
| Steve Godward | Socialist Alliance | 669 |
| Mark Nattrass | UK Independence Party | 521 |
| Judith Sambrook-Marshall | Socialist Labour Party | 343 |
| Labour | Majority | 9,962 |
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| Swing to Labour | | 0.62 |
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| Results 1997 | | |
| Name | Party | Votes |
| Corbett | Labour | 23,764 |
| Tompkins | Conservative | 11,107 |
| Garrett | Liberal Democrat | 4,112 |
| Cable | Referendum Party | 1,424 |
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