Election Results
| General Election 2010: Kensington | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Sir Malcom Rifkind | 17,595 | 50.1 | +6.2 | |
| Labour | Sam Gurney | 8,979 | 25.5 | −4.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Robin Meltzer | 6,872 | 19.6 | −0.6 | |
| UKIP | Caroline Pearson | 754 | 2.1 | +1.0 | |
| Green | Melan Ebrahimi-Fardouée | 753 | 2.1 | −2.4 | |
| Alliance for Green Socialism | Eddie Adams | 197 | 0.6 | +0.2 | |
| Majority | 8,616 | 24.5 | |||
| Turnout | 35,150 | 53.3 | +1.5 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1992: Kensington | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | John Dudley Fishburn | 15,540 | 50.3 | +2.8 | |
| Labour | Patricia Ann Holmes | 11,992 | 38.8 | +5.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Chris K. Shirley | 2,770 | 9.0 | −8.3 | |
| Green | Ajay Burlingham-Johnson | 415 | 1.3 | −1.4 | |
| Natural Law | Anthony J. W. Hardy | 90 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| ALP | Anne Bulloch | 71 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,548 | 11.5 | |||
| Turnout | 30,878 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −1.4 | |||
| 1987 General Election: Kensington | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Brandon Rhys-Williams | 14,818 | 47.51 | ||
| Labour | B. T. Bousquet | 10,371 | 33.25 | ||
| SDP–Liberal Alliance | William Goodhart | 5,379 | 17.25 | ||
| Green | R. Shorter | 528 | 1.69 | ||
| Humanist | L. Carrick | 65 | 0.21 | ||
| PIP | M. Hughes | 30 | 0.10 | ||
| Majority | 4,447 | 14.26 | |||
| Turnout | 31,191 | 64.70 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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