South East: February 1974 general election results

How South East voted at the February 1974 general election: the Conservatives won 66 of 72 seats with 46.9% of the vote. Every constituency result.

37 for a majority

Con66
Lab5
Lib1

South East: results by party
Party	Seats	Change	Votes	Share	Change	Candidates
Conservative	66	+7	1,896,495	46.9%	−7.6	72
Labour	5	+3	1,015,708	25.1%	−6.0	72
Liberal	1	+1	1,114,738	27.6%	+14.7	72
1 other parties and independents			17,735	0.4%

Change compared with the 1970 general election in South East.

Constituencies

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Constituency	Winner	Majority	%	Turnout
Abingdon	Con	13,743	18.5	83.0%
Aldershot	Con	10,658	16.5	81.2%
Arundel	Con	19,943	30.2	79.6%
Ashford	Con	8,459	17.9	81.5%
Aylesbury	Con	11,183	20.4	91.2%
Banbury	Con	6,878	12.4	82.8%
Basingstoke	Con	7,797	10.9	83.2%
Beaconsfield	Con	11,248	21.4	77.3%
Bournemouth East	Con	9,314	21.0	78.6%
Bournemouth West	Con	10,818	23.4	76.1%
Brighton Kemptown	Con	4,020	7.9	78.8%
Brighton Pavilion	Con	10,618	24.5	76.2%
Buckingham	Con	3,123	4.7	85.3%
Canterbury	Con	17,041	25.0	80.2%
Chertsey and Walton	Con	11,963	21.8	82.0%
Chesham and Amersham	Con	10,416	19.5	85.0%
Chichester	Con	11,413	20.9	79.1%
Dartford	Lab	3,654	7.8	83.4%
Dorking	Con	10,313	21.4	82.6%
Dover and Deal	Con	4,850	7.7	84.7%
East Grinstead	Con	8,577	19.1	81.5%
Eastbourne	Con	7,475	12.2	82.6%
Eastleigh	Con	10,110	15.8	85.3%
Epsom and Ewell	Con	16,924	25.8	82.0%
Esher	Con	10,715	27.6	82.3%
Eton and Slough	Lab	6,891	13.5	80.6%
Fareham	Con	7,877	16.8	82.4%
Farnham	Con	6,462	12.6	83.0%
Faversham	Con	5,407	8.7	82.6%
Folkestone and Hythe	Con	8,510	17.1	77.3%
Gillingham	Con	5,882	11.6	82.7%
Gosport	Con	7,228	18.4	81.4%
Gravesend	Lab	1,582	2.2	83.7%
Guildford	Con	9,891	17.2	80.4%
Hastings	Con	7,083	15.8	79.1%
Havant and Waterloo	Con	9,188	15.4	80.0%
Henley	Con	8,900	17.7	81.3%
Horsham and Crawley	Con	6,774	9.0	83.5%
Hove	Con	11,509	20.5	77.4%
Isle of Wight	Lib	7,766	11.2	81.4%
Lewes	Con	14,257	24.8	80.3%
Maidstone	Con	7,656	10.8	81.3%
New Forest	Con	11,382	18.2	80.7%
Newbury	Con	1,201	2.1	80.8%
Oxford	Con	821	1.4	78.6%
Oxfordshire Mid	Con	7,973	16.3	82.7%
Petersfield	Con	9,580	16.1	81.1%
Portsmouth North	Lab	320	0.6	79.9%
Portsmouth South	Con	10,982	20.6	75.9%
Reading North	Con	2,369	4.7	79.3%
Reading South	Con	5,359	9.7	81.0%
Reigate	Con	14,060	23.4	83.3%
Rochester and Chatham	Con	843	1.3	79.3%
Rye	Con	16,135	27.8	80.8%
Sevenoaks	Con	13,713	22.2	83.4%
Shoreham	Con	9,758	17.7	80.8%
Southampton Itchen	Lab	5,590	8.9	77.2%
Southampton Test	Con	1,403	2.4	79.2%
Spelthorne	Con	8,059	14.3	82.1%
Surrey East	Con	8,019	17.4	83.6%
Surrey North West	Con	14,949	27.3	80.3%
Sussex Mid	Con	12,155	24.1	83.3%
Thanet East	Con	6,597	17.2	80.5%
Thanet West	Con	7,660	22.5	78.1%
Tonbridge and Malling	Con	10,108	18.7	83.4%
Tunbridge Wells	Con	11,028	20.0	80.4%
Winchester	Con	10,504	15.7	81.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead	Con	14,995	23.6	80.4%
Woking	Con	7,583	13.9	80.9%
Wokingham	Con	10,432	17.3	82.8%
Worthing	Con	18,930	33.5	78.4%
Wycombe	Con	10,699	16.8	81.7%

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Questions and answers

Who won in South East at the February 1974 general election?

The Conservatives won 66 of the 72 seats in South East, with 46.9% of the vote.

How many seats were there in South East in February 1974?

72 constituencies.

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