South Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency)
South Buckinghamshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Buckinghamshire |
1950–1974 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Beaconsfield and Chesham & Amersham |
Created from | Aylesbury and Eton & Slough |
South Buckinghamshire was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Buckinghamshire, England. From 1950 to 1974, it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
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History
The constituency was created in 1950 as part of the first general review of seats by a permanent Boundary Commission for England which had been established in 1944. Before 1950 the area had been split between the constituencies of Aylesbury and Eton & Slough.
The constituency existed until the February 1974 general election, when major boundary changes split the area between the new constituencies of Beaconsfield and Chesham & Amersham.
Boundaries
The Urban District of Beaconsfield, the Rural District of Eton, and in the Rural District of Amersham the civil parishes of Amersham, Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter, Chenies, Chesham Bois, Coleshill, Penn, and Seer Green.
South Buckinghamshire was a county constituency and a division of the administrative county of Buckinghamshire. It comprised part of southern Buckinghamshire, bordering Aylesbury to the north, Wycombe to the west and Eton and Slough to the south.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member [1] | Party | |
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1950 | Ronald Bell | Conservative | |
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ronald McMillan Bell | 26,865 | 58.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Cyril Alfred Dee | 11,389 | 23.9 | N/A | |
Liberal | Bruce Henning Belfrage | 7,559 | 16.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,476 | 33.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 45,813 | 85.7 | N/A | ||
Conservative win |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ronald McMillan Bell | 30,976 | 68.61 | ||
Labour | Cyril Alfred Dee | 14,170 | 31.39 | ||
Majority | 16,806 | 37.23 | |||
Turnout | 80.08 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ronald McMillan Bell | 29,165 | 61.75 | ||
Labour | William E. Robinson | 11,184 | 23.68 | ||
Liberal | Oswald Patrick O'Brien Brunner | 6,885 | 14.58 | ||
Majority | 17,981 | 38.07 | |||
Turnout | 78.07 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ronald McMillan Bell | 34,154 | 59.10 | ||
Labour | Richard J Sankey | 13,050 | 22.58 | ||
Liberal | Ralph Kilner Brown | 10,589 | 18.32 | ||
Majority | 21,104 | 36.52 | |||
Turnout | 79.75 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ronald McMillan Bell | 33,905 | 52.75 | ||
Liberal | Ralph Kilner Brown | 16,151 | 25.13 | ||
Labour | John Ryan | 14,216 | 22.12 | ||
Majority | 17,754 | 27.62 | |||
Turnout | 78.89 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ronald McMillan Bell | 33,997 | 51.24 | ||
Labour | Frank Ernest Field | 17,005 | 25.63 | ||
Liberal | Harry T. Cowie | 15,348 | 23.13 | ||
Majority | 16,992 | 25.61 | |||
Turnout | 66,350 | 80.20 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ronald McMillan Bell | 40,039 | 58.7 | ||
Labour | Keith Davison | 16,465 | 24.1 | ||
Liberal | Iain Meiklejohn Fowler | 11,750 | 17.2 | ||
Majority | 23,574 | 34.5 | |||
Turnout | 68,254 | 72.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
Sources
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (Political Reference Publications, 1972)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983).
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1974