Windsor and Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency)
Windsor and Maidenhead | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Location of Berkshire within England.
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County | Berkshire |
Major settlements | Windsor and Maidenhead |
1974–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Windsor and Maidenhead |
Windsor and Maidenhead was a county constituency in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created at the February 1974 general election and abolished at the 1997 general election, when it was replaced by the new separate constituencies of Windsor and Maidenhead.
Contents
History
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Boundaries
1974–1983: The Royal Borough of New Windsor, the Borough of Maidenhead, and the Rural Districts of Cookham and Windsor.
1983–1997: The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead wards of Belmont, Bisham and Cookham, Boyn Hill, Bray, Castle, Clewer North, Clewer South, Cox Green, Eton North and South, Eton West, Furze Platt, Hurley, Oldfield, Park, Pinkneys Green, St Mary’s, and Trinity.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Sir Alan Glyn | Conservative | |
1992 | Michael Trend | Conservative | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Windsor and Maidenhead |
Elections
Election in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Trend | 35,075 | 55.5 | −1.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Jeremy R.G. Hyde | 22,147 | 35.1 | +8.1 | |
Labour | Miss Catherine M. Sinclair Attlee | 4,975 | 7.9 | −3.3 | |
Green | Robert N. Williams | 510 | 0.8 | −0.4 | |
Monster Raving Loony | D.N. Askwith | 236 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Miss Edith Bigg | 110 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Mike R.S. Grenville | 108 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,928 | 20.5 | −9.4 | ||
Turnout | 63,161 | 81.6 | +6.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.7 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Alan Glyn | 33,980 | 56.84 | ||
Liberal | SJ Jackson | 16,144 | 27.01 | ||
Labour | HB de Lyon | 6,678 | 11.17 | ||
Independent Conservative | WO Board | 1,938 | 3.24 | ||
Green | P Gordon | 711 | 1.19 | ||
Blancmange Throwers | Pamela Stephenson | 328 | 0.55 | ||
Majority | 17,836 | 29.84 | |||
Turnout | 75.37 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Alan Glyn | 32,191 | 58.23 | ||
Liberal | P Winner | 13,988 | 25.30 | ||
Labour | VI Price | 6,383 | 11.55 | ||
Independent Conservative | WO Board | 1,842 | 3.33 | ||
National Front | GFC Gillmore | 511 | 0.92 | ||
Independent | PB Illesley | 300 | 0.54 | ||
Wessex Regionalist | Colin Roland Bex | 68 | 0.12 | ||
Majority | 18,203 | 32.93 | |||
Turnout | 70.32 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Alan Glyn | 38,451 | 59.66 | ||
Labour | VI Price | 13,321 | 20.67 | ||
Liberal | J Farrand | 11,496 | 17.84 | ||
National Front | P Crowley | 930 | 1.44 | ||
Wessex Regionalist | CR Bex | 251 | 0.39 | ||
Majority | 25,130 | 38.99 | |||
Turnout | 75.43 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Alan Glyn | 28,013 | 48.97 | ||
Labour | MD Golder | 15,172 | 26.52 | ||
Liberal | GH Kahan | 14,022 | 24.51 | ||
Majority | 12,841 | 22.45 | |||
Turnout | 71.78 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Alan Glyn | 31,022 | 48.85 | ||
Liberal | GH Kahan | 16,027 | 25.24 | ||
Labour | MD Golder | 15,413 | 24.27 | ||
Independent Conservative | DP Funnell | 1,041 | 1.64 | ||
Majority | 14,995 | 23.61 | |||
Turnout | 80.43 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- Parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire (historic)
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