Hancock won the constituency with 51 per cent of the vote, beating runner-up Meyer by 2,020 votes.

Matheson won the constituency in the 2007 election, after Canavan stepped down.

In the general election 1970 he won the Reading constituency from Labour.

He won the constituency in a by-election in 1956, and served until his death at the age of 60 in 1972.

Two years later, he made another attempt, and this time was successful, winning the constituency with a majority of just 94.

Roy Jenkins failed to win the constituency at the 1945 UK general election.

He however won the same constituency in 2008.

His margin of victory was the highest-ever achieved by the Workers' Party since it first won the constituency in 1991.

And this time, in a surprise result, Cheo defeated Ng to win the constituency.

He easily won the constituency in a by-election in 1946.