St Ives Parliamentary election results 1950-2005

1950

Howard	Conservative	16,653	46.0%
Shore	Labour	11,118	30.7%
Allison	Liberal	8,421	23.3%
	turnout	81.6%

1951

Howard	Conservative	18,828	53.3%
Maddison	Labour	11,216	31.8%
Kellock	Liberal	5,273	14.9%
	turnout	78.7%

1955

Howard	Conservative	17,063	52.0%
Pawley	Labour	9,728	29.78%
Banks	Liberal	6,020	18.4%
	turnout	73.9%

1959

Howard	Conservative	15,700	47.9%
Longden	Labour	8,802	26.9%
Whitmarsh	Liberal	8,258	25.2%
	turnout	74.4%

1964

Howard	Conservative	14,040	42.6%
Whitmarsh	Liberal	9,641	29.3%
Longden	Labour	9,265	28.1%
	turnout	75.1%

1966

Nott	Conservative	14,312	41.3%
Jones	Labour	10,713	31.0%
Trewin	Liberal	9,593	27.7%
	turnout	77.9%

1970

Nott	Conservative	18,581	50.9%
Castle	Labour	9,913	27.2%
Fry	Liberal	7,981	21.9%
	turnout	75.1%

1974 (Feb)

Nott	Conservative	18,290	45.1%
Tonkin	Liberal	12,865	31.7%
Tidy	Labour	9,231	22.8%
Taylor	Independent Conservative	177	0.4%
	turnout	79.4%

1974 (Oct)

Nott	Conservative	17,198	45.4%
Tonkin	Liberal	11,330	29.9%
Tidy	Labour	9,388	24.8%
	turnout	73.7%

1979

Nott	Conservative	22,352	54.0%
Evans	Labour	8,636	20.9%
Cotton	Liberal	8,299	20.1%
Murley	Mebyon Kernow	1,662	4.0%
Hoptrough	Ecology	427	1.0%
	turnout	77.0%

1983

Harris	Conservative	24,297	51.4%
Carter	SDP	16,438	34.8%
Crowley	Labour	5,310	11.2%
Prior	Mebyon Kernow	569	1.2%
Hoptrough	Ecology	439	0.9%
Horner	Independent	219	0.5%
	turnout	73.9%

1987

Harris	Conservative	25,174	48.4%
Carter	SDP	17,619	33.8%
Hope	Labour	9,275	17.8%
	turnout	77.2%

1992

Harris	Conservative	24,528	42.9%
George	Liberal Democrat	22,883	40.1%
Warran	Labour	9,144	16.0%
Stephens	Liberal	577	1.0%
	turnout	80.3%

1997

George	Liberal Democrat	23,966	44.5%
Rogers	Conservative	16,796	31.2%
Fegan	Labour	8,184	15.2%
Faulkner	Referendum	3,714	6.9%
Garnier	UK Independence	567	1.1%
Stephens	Liberal	425	0.8%
Lippiatt	Independent	178	0.3%
Hitchins	Independent	78	0.1%
	turnout	75.2%

2001

George	Liberal Democrat	25,413	51.6%
Richardson	Conservative	15,360	31.2%
Morris	Labour	6,567	13.3%
Faulkner	UK Independence	1,926	3.9%
	turnout	66.3%

2005

George	Liberal Democrat	25,577	50.7%
Mitchell	Conservative	13,968	27.7%
Dooley	Labour	6,583	13.1%
Faulkner	UK Independence	2,551	5.1%
Slack	Green	1,738	3.5%
	turnout	67.5%

In the major boundary changes of 2010 St Ives lost 14% of its electorate as Hayle was moved to the new Camborne and Redruth constituency.

The 2010 result for St Ives can be found here.

The 2010 result for Camborne and Redruth can be found here.