Windsor and Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency)
Windsor and Maidenhead | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Location of Berkshire within England. | |
County | Berkshire |
Major settlements | Windsor and Maidenhead |
1974–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Windsor and Maidenhead |
Created from | Windsor |
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.
Boundaries
1974-1983: The Royal Borough of New Windsor, the Municipal 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. Territory was added to the seat from the abolished Eton and Slough constituency.
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 & 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 | Catherine 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 | 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 | Alan Glyn | 33,980 | 56.84 | ||
Liberal | SJ Jackson | 16,144 | 27.01 | ||
Labour | HB de Lyon | 6,678 | 11.17 | ||
Ind. 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 | Alan Glyn | 32,191 | 58.23 | ||
Liberal | P Winner | 13,988 | 25.30 | ||
Labour | VI Price | 6,383 | 11.55 | ||
Ind. Conservative | WO Board | 1,842 | 3.33 | ||
National Front | GFC Gillmore | 511 | 0.92 | ||
Independent | PB Illesley | 300 | 0.54 | ||
Wessex Regionalist | Colin 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 | 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 | Colin Bex | 251 | 0.39 | ||
Majority | 25,130 | 38.99 | |||
Turnout | 75.43 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | 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 | Alan Glyn | 31,022 | 48.85 | -10.00 | |
Liberal | GH Kahan | 16,027 | 25.24 | +13.67 | |
Labour | MD Golder | 15,413 | 24.27 | -5.31 | |
Ind. Conservative | DP Funnell | 1,041 | 1.64 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,995 | 23.61 | -5.67 | ||
Turnout | 80.43 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.