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Dudley — UK General Election Results

Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30

Dudley was won by Labour at the 2024 general election, with a majority of 1,900 votes over Conservative. This page covers every general election in Dudley from 1832 to 2024.

Full Election History, 1832–2024

Election Elected Votes Vote Share Runner-up Majority Turnout
1832 John Campbell (Whig) 318 58.1% Horace David Cholwell St Paul (Conservative) 89 (16.3 pts) 81.6%
1835 Thomas Hawkes (Conservative) 360 56.3% John Forbes (Whig) 81 (12.7 pts) 87.9%
1837 Thomas Hawkes (Conservative) 385 57.1% William Merryweather Turner (Whig) 96 (14.2 pts) 79.9%
1841 Thomas Hawkes (Conservative) 436 69.8% William Adams Smith (Whig) 247 (39.5 pts) 64.4%
1847 John Benbow (Conservative) Elected unopposed — no other candidate stood, no vote count on record 0.0%
1852 John Benbow (Conservative) 400 63.4% James Baldwin (Radical) 169 (26.8 pts) 69.2%
1857 Henry Brinsley Sheridan (Independent) Elected unopposed — no other candidate stood, no vote count on record 0.0%
1859 Henry Brinsley Sheridan (Liberal) 432 54.5% Charles Stanley Monck (Conservative) 71 (8.9 pts) 79.9%
1865 Henry Brinsley Sheridan (Liberal) 526 65.7% Francis Wyatt Truscott (Conservative) 251 (31.3 pts) 59.0%
1868 Henry Brinsley Sheridan (Liberal) Elected unopposed — no other candidate stood, no vote count on record 0.0%
1874 Henry Brinsley Sheridan (Liberal) 5,149 55.2% Frederick Smith-Shenstone (Conservative) 968 (10.4 pts) 63.9%
1880 Henry Brinsley Sheridan (Liberal) 6,948 62.5% Alfred Waterman (Conservative) 2,785 (25.1 pts) 74.1%
1885 Henry Brinsley Sheridan (Liberal) 6,377 55.0% Brooke Robinson (Conservative) 1,166 (10.1 pts) 77.7%
1886 Brooke Robinson (Conservative) 6,475 58.8% Henry Brinsley Sheridan (Liberal) 1,930 (17.5 pts) 73.9%
1892 Brooke Robinson (Conservative) 6,668 54.3% Howard Spensley (Liberal) 1,049 (8.5 pts) 80.3%
1895 Brooke Robinson (Conservative) 6,536 53.0% Charles James Fleming (Liberal) 741 (6.0 pts) 83.1%
1900 Brooke Robinson (Conservative) 6,461 52.4% William Belcher (Liberal-Labour) 585 (4.7 pts) 77.8%
1906 Arthur George Hooper (Liberal) 8,296 52.4% Gilbert Henry Claughton (Conservative) 754 (4.8 pts) 90.2%
Jan 1910 Arthur George Hooper (Liberal) 8,342 50.6% Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen (Conservative) 187 (1.1 pts) 94.4%
Dec 1910 Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen (Conservative) 8,260 51.1% Arthur George Hooper (Liberal) 360 (2.2 pts) 92.4%
1918 Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen (Unionist) 9,126 60.2% William Bridgland Steer (Labour) 3,080 (20.3 pts) 60.4%
1922 Cyril Edward Lloyd (Unionist) 12,876 60.2% James Wilson (Labour) 4,354 (20.3 pts) 82.5%
1923 Cyril Edward Lloyd (Unionist) 10,227 49.4% Francis James Ballard (Liberal) 1,717 (8.3 pts) 78.8%
1924 Cyril Edward Lloyd (Unionist) 11,199 52.1% Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin (Labour) 885 (4.1 pts) 80.2%
1929 Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin (Labour) 13,551 47.6% Cyril Edward Lloyd (Unionist) 3,043 (10.7 pts) 81.6%
1931 Dudley Jack Barnato Joel (Conservative) 16,009 56.9% William Hodgkiss (Labour) 3,904 (13.9 pts) 80.7%
1935 Dudley Jack Barnato Joel (Conservative) 13,958 54.8% William Wedgwood Benn (Labour) 2,449 (9.6 pts) 75.3%
1945 George Edward Cecil Wigg (Labour) 15,439 62.8% Esme Tatton Cecil Brinton (Conservative) 6,283 (25.6 pts) 73.7%
1950 George Edward Cecil Wigg (Labour) 32,856 54.6% Roy Alexander Farran (Conservative) 13,031 (21.7 pts) 86.8%
1951 George Edward Cecil Wigg (Labour) 34,376 58.4% Harold Benjamin Soref (Conservative) 9,851 (16.7 pts) 83.7%
1955 George Edward Cecil Wigg (Labour) 31,384 54.9% Thomas Douglas Wilson (Conservative) 11,051 (19.3 pts) 79.8%
1959 George Edward Cecil Wigg (Labour) 31,826 54.9% Frank E Spiller (Conservative) 5,725 (9.9 pts) 79.5%
1964 George Edward Cecil Wigg (Labour) 30,250 53.0% David Arthur Russell Howell (Conservative) 10,270 (18.0 pts) 76.5%
1966 George Wigg (Labour) 32,693 59.1% William Williams (Conservative) 10,022 (18.1 pts) 73.9%
1970 John Gilbert (Labour) 29,499 50.3% William Williams (Conservative) 336 (0.6 pts) 72.0%
2024 Sonia Kumar (Labour) 12,215 34.1% Marco Longhi (Conservative) 1,900 (5.3 pts) 51.2%

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1832

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Campbell Whig 31858.1% Yes
Horace David Cholwell St Paul Conservative 22941.9% No

1835

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Hawkes Conservative 36056.3% Yes
John Forbes Whig 27943.7% No

1837

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Hawkes Conservative 38557.1% Yes
William Merryweather Turner Whig 28942.9% No

1841

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Hawkes Conservative 43669.8% Yes
William Adams Smith Whig 18930.2% No

1847

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Benbow Conservative Unopposed Yes

1852

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Benbow Conservative 40063.4% Yes
James Baldwin Radical 23136.6% No

1857

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Henry Brinsley Sheridan Independent Unopposed Yes

1859

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Henry Brinsley Sheridan Liberal 43254.5% Yes
Charles Stanley Monck Conservative 36145.5% No

1865

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Henry Brinsley Sheridan Liberal 52665.7% Yes
Francis Wyatt Truscott Conservative 27534.3% No

1868

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Henry Brinsley Sheridan Liberal Unopposed Yes

1874

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Henry Brinsley Sheridan Liberal 5,14955.2% Yes
Frederick Smith-Shenstone Conservative 4,18144.8% No

1880

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Henry Brinsley Sheridan Liberal 6,94862.5% Yes
Alfred Waterman Conservative 4,16337.5% No

1885

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Henry Brinsley Sheridan Liberal 6,37755.0% Yes
Brooke Robinson Conservative 5,21145.0% No

1886

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Brooke Robinson Conservative 6,47558.8% Yes
Henry Brinsley Sheridan Liberal 4,54541.2% No

1892

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Brooke Robinson Conservative 6,66854.3% Yes
Howard Spensley Liberal 5,61945.7% No

1895

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Brooke Robinson Conservative 6,53653.0% Yes
Charles James Fleming Liberal 5,79547.0% No

1900

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Brooke Robinson Conservative 6,46152.4% Yes
William Belcher Liberal-Labour 5,87647.6% No

1906

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Arthur George Hooper Liberal 8,29652.4% Yes
Gilbert Henry Claughton Conservative 7,54247.6% No

Jan 1910

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Arthur George Hooper Liberal 8,34250.6% Yes
Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen Conservative 8,15549.4% No

Dec 1910

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen Conservative 8,26051.1% Yes
Arthur George Hooper Liberal 7,90048.9% No

1918

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen Unionist 9,12660.2% Yes
William Bridgland Steer Labour 6,04639.8% No

1922

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Cyril Edward Lloyd Unionist 12,87660.2% Yes
James Wilson Labour 8,52239.8% No

1923

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Cyril Edward Lloyd Unionist 10,22749.4% Yes
Francis James Ballard Liberal 8,51041.1% No
Richard Smith Labour 1,9589.5% No

1924

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Cyril Edward Lloyd Unionist 11,19952.1% Yes
Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin Labour 10,31447.9% No

1929

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin Labour 13,55147.6% Yes
Cyril Edward Lloyd Unionist 10,50836.9% No
Thomas Illingworth Clough Liberal 4,39915.5% No

1931

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Dudley Jack Barnato Joel Conservative 16,00956.9% Yes
William Hodgkiss Labour 12,10543.1% No

1935

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Dudley Jack Barnato Joel Conservative 13,95854.8% Yes
William Wedgwood Benn Labour 11,50945.2% No

1945

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Cecil Wigg Labour 15,43962.8% Yes
Esme Tatton Cecil Brinton Conservative 9,15637.2% No

1950

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Cecil Wigg Labour 32,85654.6% Yes
Roy Alexander Farran Conservative 19,82533.0% No
Bertram Samuel White Liberal 7,47012.4% No

1951

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Cecil Wigg Labour 34,37658.4% Yes
Harold Benjamin Soref Conservative 24,52541.6% No

1955

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Cecil Wigg Labour 31,38454.9% Yes
Thomas Douglas Wilson Conservative 20,33335.5% No
Wallace Leslie Lawler Liberal 5,4799.6% No

1959

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Cecil Wigg Labour 31,82654.9% Yes
Frank E Spiller Conservative 26,10145.1% No

1964

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Cecil Wigg Labour 30,25053.0% Yes
David Arthur Russell Howell Conservative 19,98035.0% No
Robert CS Fowler Liberal 6,82912.0% No

1966

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Wigg Labour 32,69359.1% Yes
William Williams Conservative 22,67140.9% No

1970

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Gilbert Labour 29,49950.3% Yes
William Williams Conservative 29,16349.7% No

2024

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Sonia Kumar Labour 12,21534.1% Yes
Marco Longhi Conservative 10,31528.8% No
Andrew Southall Reform UK 9,44226.4% No
Zia Qari Green 1,1543.2% No
Ian Flynn Liberal Democrat 1,0563.0% No
Shakeela Bibi Independent 8572.4% No
Aftab Hussain Workers Party of Britain 6211.7% No
Dharmanand Mortha Independent 1360.4% No

Margin Over Time

Winning margin (percentage points) at each election, coloured by the winning party.

1832: Whig margin 16.3 pts 1835: Conservative margin 12.7 pts 1837: Conservative margin 14.2 pts 1841: Conservative margin 39.5 pts 1852: Conservative margin 26.8 pts 1859: Liberal margin 8.9 pts 1865: Liberal margin 31.3 pts 1874: Liberal margin 10.4 pts 1880: Liberal margin 25.1 pts 1885: Liberal margin 10.1 pts 1886: Conservative margin 17.5 pts 1892: Conservative margin 8.5 pts 1895: Conservative margin 6.0 pts 1900: Conservative margin 4.7 pts 1906: Liberal margin 4.8 pts Jan 1910: Liberal margin 1.1 pts Dec 1910: Conservative margin 2.2 pts 1918: Unionist margin 20.3 pts 1922: Unionist margin 20.3 pts 1923: Unionist margin 8.3 pts 1924: Unionist margin 4.1 pts 1929: Labour margin 10.7 pts 1931: Conservative margin 13.9 pts 1935: Conservative margin 9.6 pts 1945: Labour margin 25.6 pts 1950: Labour margin 21.7 pts 1951: Labour margin 16.7 pts 1955: Labour margin 19.3 pts 1959: Labour margin 9.9 pts 1964: Labour margin 18.0 pts 1966: Labour margin 18.1 pts 1970: Labour margin 0.6 pts 2024: Labour margin 5.3 pts 1832 1835 1837 1841 1852 1859 1865 1874 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900 1906 Jan 1910 Dec 1910 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 2024

Trend

Dudley has been contested at 36 general elections on record since 1832. Parties that have won a seat here over that span: Whig, Conservative, Independent, Liberal, Unionist, Labour.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Dudley in the 2024 general election?

Labour won Dudley in 2024 with 12,215 votes (34.1%), a majority of 1,900 votes over Conservative in second place.

Which parties have won Dudley since 1832?

Since 1832, Dudley has been won by: Conservative, Independent, Labour, Liberal, Unionist, Whig.

What was the closest result in Dudley?

The closest result on record for Dudley was 1970, when Labour beat Conservative by just 336 votes (0.6 percentage points).

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