1979 General Election - Middlesbrough
| Year | 1979 |
| General election | 1979 General Election |
| Constituency | Middlesbrough |
| Turnout | 67.9% |
Results
| Candidate | Party | Votes |
| Bottomley, Arthur | Labour | 24,872 |
| Fenwick, C | Conservative | 13,463 |
| Freitag, Peter | Liberal | 4,023 |
| Simpson, M | Workers Revolutionary | 1,018 |
| Wilcox, J | Independent Labour | 861 |