Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency)
Wycombe | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. | |
Location of Buckinghamshire within England. | |
County | Buckinghamshire |
Electorate | 73,956 (April 2015)[1] |
Major settlements | High Wycombe |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1885 |
Member of parliament | Steve Baker (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
1295–1885 | |
Number of members | Two until 1868, then One |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South East England |
Wycombe /ˈwɪkəm/ is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Steve Baker, a Conservative.[n 2]
History
Wycombe has continuously returned MPs since the Model Parliament of 1295. As a parliamentary borough (often referred to as High Wycombe or Chepping Wycombe), it returned two MPs until 1868 and then one until its abolition in 1885. The name was then transferred to a new county division, formally known as the "Wycombe division of Buckinghamshire".
Constituency profile
The constituency shares similar borders with Wycombe local government district, although it covers a slightly smaller area. The main town within the constituency, High Wycombe contains many working/middle class voters and a sizeable ethnic minority population that totals around one quarter of the town's population, with some census output areas of town home to over 50% ethnic minorities, with a number of wards harbouring a considerable Labour vote. The surrounding villages which account for just under half of the electorate are some of the most wealthy areas in the country with extremely low unemployment, and high incomes and are very supportive of the Conservatives. Workless claimants totalled 3.0% of the population in November 2012, lower than the national average of 3.8%.[2]
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Chepping Wycombe, the Sessional Divisions of Burnham and Stoke, and parts of the first and second Sessional Divisions of Desborough.
1918-1945: The Municipal Borough of Chepping Wycombe, the Urban Districts of Eton, Marlow, and Slough, the Rural Districts of Eton and Hambleden, and part of the Rural District of Wycombe.
1945-1950: The Municipal Borough of Chepping Wycombe, the Urban District of Marlow, and the Rural District of Wycombe.
1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of High Wycombe, the Urban District of Marlow, and the Rural District of Wycombe.
1974-1983: The Municipal Borough of High Wycombe, the Urban District of Marlow, and in the Rural District of Wycombe the parishes of Chepping Wycombe, Fawley, Fingest and Lane End, Great Marlow, Hambleden, Hughenden, Little Marlow, Medmenham, Turville, and West Wycombe Rural.
1983-1997: The District of Wycombe wards of Booker and Castlefield, Bowerdean and Daws Hill, Cressex and Frogmoor, Downley, Great Marlow, Green Hill and Totteridge, Hambleden Valley, Hughenden Valley, Keep Hill and Hicks Farm, Kingshill, Lane End and Piddington, Little Marlow, Marlow Bottom, Marlow North, Marlow South, Marsh and Micklefield, Oakridge and Tinkers Wood, and West Wycombe and Sands.
1997-2010: The District of Wycombe wards of Booker and Castlefield, Bowerdean and Daws Hill, Cressex and Frogmoor, Downley, Great Marlow, Green Hill and Totteridge, Hambleden Valley, Hughenden Valley, Keep Hill and Hicks Farm, Kingshill, Lane End and Piddington, Marlow Bottom, Marlow North, Marlow South, Marsh and Micklefield, Oakridge and Tinkers Wood, and West Wycombe and Sands.
2010-present: The District of Wycombe wards of Abbey, Booker and Cressex, Bowerdean, Chiltern Rise, Disraeli, Downley and Plomer Hill, Greater Marlow, Hambleden Valley, Hazlemere North, Hazlemere South, Micklefield, Oakridge and Castlefield, Ryemead, Sands, Terriers and Amersham Hill, Totteridge, and Tylers Green and Loudwater.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1295–1640
- Constituency created (1295)
Year | First member | Second member |
---|---|---|
1295 | Stephen Ayott | Thomas le Tayleur |
1298 | Adam de Guldeford | Roger Allitarius |
1300 | John le Pistor | |
1306 | Peter le Cotiler | John le Bake |
1307 | Andrew Batyn | |
1307 | Roger de Sandwell | |
1308 | Edmond de Haveringdoun | |
1312 | Thomas Gerveys | Matthew le Fuller |
1312 | Robert Paer | William le Cassiere |
1318 | Robert Smith | William le Fote |
1322 | Richard le Haslere | Bennet le Cassiere |
1325 | John le Tayleur | John de Sandwell |
1326 | Roger Sandwell | Matthew le Fuller |
1327 | Richard atte Walle | John atte Donne |
1328 | John atte Donne | Henry de Mussenden |
1330 | John le Harriere | Richard Perre |
1332 | Matthew le Fuller | Richard Tottering |
1333 | Jordan de Wycombe | Richard Bennet |
1335 | John Ayot | Richard Perkyn |
1336 | John le Harriere | Thomas Gerveys |
1336 | John Ayot | Richard Abyndon |
1337 | John le Clerk | John Pool |
1338 | Stephen Ayot | John le Taverner |
1338 | Thomas Gerveys | Jordan de Preston |
1341 | Robert Stenstoole | Robert Harleyford |
1346 | Ralph Barber | |
1347 | John Martyn | Robert Cattingham |
1348 | Walter atte Leech | William Cassiere |
1355 | Thomas Gerveys | Ralph Harleyford |
1357 | Robert Harleyford | |
1357 | John Mepertshale | |
1360 | Robert le Weeler | |
1360 | Richard Spigurnell | |
1362 | William Frere | |
1365 | Thomas Cornwaile | Richard Barbour |
1368 | William atte Dene | |
1369 | Thomas Gerveys | |
1371 | No other? | |
1372 | John Bledlowe | |
1373 | Thomas Ballard | |
1377 | Richard Sandwell | |
1378 | Richard Jordaine | |
1379 | Richard Sandwell | |
1381 | Thomas Ravell | Walter Frere |
1382 | William Kele | William atte Dene |
1383 | Stephen Watford | John Petymin |
1384 | William atte Dene | Richard Kele |
1385 | Stephen Watford | |
1386 | Walter Frere | Richard Holyman |
1388 | Stephen Watford | William atte Dene |
1391 | William Depham | |
1392 | Walter Waltham | |
1394 | Walter atte Dene | William Depham |
1396 | Richard Sandwell | Walter Waltham |
1399 | John Cotyngham | William Clerk |
1401 | Nicholas Sperling | John Sandwell |
1413 | Henry Sperling | Roger More |
1414 | William Hall | John Coventre II |
1415 | William Clerk | Andrew Sperling |
1417 | Roger More | |
1419 | William Merchant | John Cotyngham |
1420 | Roger More | Thomas Merston |
1421 | John Horewode | Thomas Pusey |
1421 | Roger More | Richard Merston |
1422 | Nicholas Stepton | John Coventry |
1423 | Roger More | |
1424 | William Whaplode | John Cotyngham |
1425 | Thomas Muston | William Stocton |
1427 | John Coventry | John Justice |
1429 | John Wellesbourn | John Bishop |
1430 | Roger More | William Fowler |
1432 | John Martyn | John Blackpoll |
1434 | John Durein | John Cotyngham |
1436 | John Hill | Bartholomew Halling |
1441 | John Radeshill | John Martyn |
1446 | John Wellesbourn | |
1448 | John Haynes | |
1449 | William Stocton | Nicholas Fayrewell |
1450 | Thomas More | |
1452 | William Collard | David Thomasyn |
1461 | Thomas Mansell | Thomas Catsbury |
1469 | Thomas Fowler | Thomas Fayrewell |
1478 | Thomas Gate | Thomas Wellesbourn |
1529 | William Windsor | |
1542 | John Gates | William Dormer |
1547 | Thomas Fisher | Armigyll Wade |
Mar 1553 | Henry Peckham | John Cheyne |
Oct 1553 | Robert Drury | |
Apr 1554 | Thomas Pymme alias Fryer | |
Nov 1554 | John Cheyne | William Drury |
1555 | Henry Peckham | Robert Drury |
1558 | Thomas Pymme | Robert Woodleafe |
1558 | Paul Wentworth | Roland Bracebridge |
1562 | Thomas Fermore alias Draper | Thomas Keele |
1570 | John Russell | Robert Christmas |
1571 | Thomas Nale | Rowland Goules |
1584 | John Morley | George Cawfield |
1585 | Thomas Ridley | George Fleetwood |
1589 | Owen Oglethorp | Francis Goodwin |
1592 | Thomas Tasburgh | Thomas Fortescue |
1596 | William Fortescue | John Tasburgh |
1601 | Richard Blount | Henry Fleetwood |
1604 | Sir John Townsend | |
1614 | William Borlase | Sir Henry Neville, jnr |
1621 | Richard Lovelace | Arthur Goodwin |
1624 | Henry Coke | |
1625 | Thomas Lane | |
1626 | Edmund Waller | |
1628 | Sir William Borlase | Thomas Lane |
1629–1640 | No Parliament summoned |
MPs 1640–1868
Year | First member[3] | First party | Second member[3] | Second party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
April 1640 | Sir Edmund Verney | Royalist | Thomas Lane | Parliamentarian | ||
November 1640 | ||||||
October 1642 | Verney killed in battle – seat left vacant | |||||
1645 | Richard Browne | |||||
December 1648 | Browne and Lane excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant | |||||
1653 | Wycombe was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
1654 | Thomas Scot | Wycombe had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||
1656 | Tobias Bridge | |||||
January 1659 | Thomas Scot | |||||
May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
April 1660 | Edmund Petty | Richard Browne | ||||
1661 | Sir Edmund Pye, Bt | Sir John Borlase, Bt | ||||
February 1673 | Sir John Borlase, Bt | |||||
November 1673 | Robert Sawyer | |||||
1679 | Thomas Lewes | |||||
1685 | Sir Dennis Hampson, Bt | Edward Baldwin | ||||
1689 | Thomas Lewes | William Jephson | ||||
1691 | Charles Godfrey | |||||
1696 | Fleetwood Dormer | |||||
1698 | John Archdale[4] | |||||
1699 | Thomas Archdale | |||||
1701 | Fleetwood Dormer | |||||
1710 | Sir Thomas Lee, Bt | |||||
1713 | Sir John Wittewrong, Bt | |||||
February 1722 | John Neale | |||||
March 1722 | Charles Egerton | The Earl of Shelburne | ||||
February 1726 | Charles Colyear [5] | |||||
March 1726 | Harry Waller | |||||
1727 | William Lee | |||||
1730 | Sir Charles Vernon | |||||
1734 | Edmund Waller [6] | |||||
1734 | Sir Charles Vernon | |||||
1741 | Edmund Waller | |||||
1747 | Edmund Waller, junior | |||||
1754 | The Earl of Shelburne | John Waller | Opposition Whig | |||
1757 | Edmund Waller, junior | |||||
1760 | Viscount FitzMaurice | Whig | ||||
March 1761 | Robert Waller | |||||
December 1761 | Isaac Barré | Whig | ||||
1774 | Hon. Thomas FitzMaurice | |||||
1780 | Viscount Mahon | Whig | ||||
1786 | Earl Wycombe | |||||
1790 | Rear-Admiral Sir John Jervis [7] | Whig | ||||
1794 | Sir Francis Baring, Bt | |||||
1796 | Sir John Dashwood-King, Bt | |||||
1802 | Sir Francis Baring, Bt | |||||
1806 | Sir Thomas Baring, Bt | |||||
1830 | Whig[8] | Tory[8] | ||||
1831 | Hon. Robert Smith | Whig[8] | ||||
1832 | Hon. Charles Grey | Whig[8] | ||||
1837 | Sir George Dashwood, Bt | Whig[9][8] | ||||
1838 | George Robert Smith | Whig[8] | ||||
1841 | Ralph Bernal | Radical[10][11][12][13][14] | ||||
1847 | Martin Tucker Smith | Whig | ||||
1859 | Liberal | Liberal | ||||
1862 | John Remington Mills | Liberal | ||||
1865 | Hon. Charles Carington | Liberal |
MPs 1868–present
- Reduced to one member (1868)
Year | Member[3] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1868 | Hon. William Carington | Liberal | |
1883 | Gerard Smith | Liberal | |
1885 | Richard Curzon | Conservative | |
1900 | William Grenfell | Conservative | |
1906 | Arnold Herbert | Liberal | |
January 1910 | Sir Charles Cripps | Conservative | |
1914 | William Baring du Pré | Conservative | |
1923 | Vera Woodhouse | Liberal | |
1924 | Sir Alfred Knox | Unionist | |
1945 | John Haire | Labour | |
1951 | William Astor | Conservative | |
1952 | Sir John Hall | Conservative | |
1978 | Sir Ray Whitney | Conservative | |
2001 | Paul Goodman | Conservative | |
2010 | Steve Baker | Conservative |
Elections
Elections 1920–2017
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Steve Baker | 26,766 | 50.0 | −1.4 | |
Labour | Rafiq Raja | 20,188 | 37.7 | +15.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Steve Guy | 4,147 | 7.8 | −1.1 | |
UKIP | Richard Phoenix | 1,210 | 2.3 | −7.8 | |
Green | Peter Sims | 1,182 | 2.2 | −3.8 | |
Majority | 6,578 | 12.3 | –16.6 | ||
Turnout | 53,493 | 69.4 | +2.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −8.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Steve Baker | 26,444 | 51.4 | +2.8 | |
Labour | David Williams | 11,588 | 22.5 | +5.2 | |
UKIP | David Meacock | 5,198 | 10.1 | +5.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Steve Guy | 4,546 | 8.8 | −20.0 | |
Green | Jem Bailey | 3,086 | 6.0 | N/A | |
Independent | David Fitton | 577 | 1.1 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 14,856 | 28.9 | +9.0 | ||
Turnout | 51,439 | 67.4[18] | +1.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Steve Baker | 23,423 | 48.6 | +2.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Steve Guy | 13,863 | 28.8 | +9.0 | |
Labour | Andrew Lomas | 8,326 | 17.3 | −12.6 | |
UKIP | John Wiseman | 2,123 | 4.4 | +0.5 | |
Independent | Mudassar Khokar | 228 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Independent | David Fitton | 188 | 0.4 | −0.3 | |
Majority | 9,560 | 19.9 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 48,151 | 66.2 | +4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Paul Goodman | 20,331 | 45.8 | +3.4 | |
Labour | Julia Wassell | 13,280 | 29.9 | −5.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | James Oates | 8,780 | 19.8 | +2.8 | |
UKIP | Robert Davis | 1,735 | 3.9 | +1.5 | |
Independent | David Fitton | 301 | 0.7 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 7,051 | 15.9 | +8.8 | ||
Turnout | 44,427 | 62.2 | +1.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Paul Goodman | 19,064 | 42.4 | +2.5 | |
Labour | Chauhdry Shafique | 15,896 | 35.3 | −0.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Dee Tomlin | 7,658 | 17.0 | −1.5 | |
UKIP | Christopher Cooke | 1,059 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Green | John Laker | 1,057 | 2.4 | +1.0 | |
Independent | David Fitton | 240 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,168 | 7.1 | +2.6 | ||
Turnout | 44,974 | 60.5 | −10.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ray Whitney | 20,890 | 39.9 | −14.2 | |
Labour | Chris Bryant | 18,520 | 35.4 | +13.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Paul Bensilum | 9,678 | 18.5 | −3.1 | |
Referendum | Alan Fulford | 2,394 | 4.6 | N/A | |
Green | John Laker | 716 | 1.4 | +0.2 | |
Natural Law | Mark Heath | 121 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,370 | 4.5 | −25.7 | ||
Turnout | 52,319 | 71.1 | −6.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ray Whitney | 30,081 | 53.14 | −0.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Tim Andrews | 13,005 | 22.97 | −5.5 | |
Labour | John Huddart | 12,222 | 22.6 | +3.0 | |
Green | John Laker | 686 | 1.2 | N/A | |
SDP | Alan Page | 449 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Natural Law | T. Anton | 168 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,076 | 30.2 | +3.8 | ||
Turnout | 56,611 | 78.0 | +5.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.9 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ray Whitney | 28,209 | 53.9 | −0.3 | |
Social Democratic | Tom Hayhoe | 14,390 | 27.5 | −0.4 | |
Labour | John Huddart | 9,773 | 18.7 | +1.4 | |
Majority | 13,819 | 26.4 | +0.1 | ||
Turnout | 56,611 | 72.8 | +1.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ray Whitney | 27,221 | 54.22 | −3.08 | |
Social Democratic | Alan Page | 14,024 | 27.93 | N/A | |
Labour | Colin Bastin | 8,636 | 17.20 | −9.82 | |
Multiracial Political Party | M. Amin | 327 | 0.65 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,197 | 26.28 | −4.0 | ||
Turnout | 71.66 | −5.95 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ray Whitney | 38,171 | 57.30 | +10.97 | |
Labour | Trevor Fowler | 18,000 | 27.02 | −3.80 | |
Liberal | A. Lawson | 9,615 | 14.43 | −4.92 | |
National Front | Sylvia Jones | 833 | 1.25 | −2.25 | |
Majority | 20,171 | 30.28 | +14.78 | ||
Turnout | 77.61 | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ray Whitney | 29,677 | 59.96 | +13.63 | |
Labour | Trevor Fowler | 14,109 | 28.51 | −2.31 | |
Liberal | Harry Warschauer | 3,665 | 7.41 | −11.94 | |
National Front | Sylvia Jones | 2,040 | 4.12 | +0.62 | |
Majority | 15,568 | 31.46 | +15.96 | ||
Turnout | 49,491 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Hall | 27,131 | 46.33 | ||
Labour | W. F. Back | 18,052 | 30.82 | ||
Liberal | M. T. James | 11,333 | 19.35 | ||
National Front | D. H. Smith | 2,049 | 3.50 | ||
Majority | 9,079 | 15.50 | |||
Turnout | 74.29 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Hall | 29,521 | 46.23 | ||
Labour | W. F. Back | 18,822 | 29.48 | ||
Liberal | M. T. James | 15,512 | 24.29 | ||
Majority | 10,699 | 16.76 | |||
Turnout | 81.65 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Hall | 40,151 | 55.93 | ||
Labour | Bryan S Jones | 23,341 | 32.51 | ||
Liberal | Ernest Henry Palfrey | 8,297 | 11.56 | ||
Majority | 16,810 | 23.42 | |||
Turnout | 74.83 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Hall | 31,577 | 49.25 | ||
Labour | Joseph Holland | 24,498 | 38.21 | ||
Liberal | Morris Janis | 8,037 | 12.54 | ||
Majority | 7,079 | 11.04 | |||
Turnout | 77.19 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Hall | 30,877 | 50.01 | ||
Labour | Michael Barnes | 21,534 | 34.88 | ||
Liberal | Arthur Donald Dennis | 9,330 | 15.11 | ||
Majority | 9,343 | 15.13 | |||
Turnout | 81.34 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Hall | 30,774 | 53.29 | ||
Labour | Wilfred Fordham | 19,904 | 34.47 | ||
Liberal | Arthur Donald Dennis | 7,068 | 12.24 | ||
Majority | 10,870 | 18.82 | |||
Turnout | 84.67 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Hall | 29,845 | 57.67 | ||
Labour | Ray Fletcher | 21,905 | 42.33 | ||
Majority | 7,940 | 15.34 | |||
Turnout | 82.02 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Hall | 26,750 | 52.04 | +0.37 | |
Labour | John Haire | 24,650 | 47.96 | −0.37 | |
Majority | 2,100 | 4.09 | +0.75 | ||
Turnout | 51,400 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Astor | 27,084 | 51.67 | ||
Labour | John Haire | 25,331 | 48.33 | ||
Majority | 1,753 | 3.34 | |||
Turnout | 86.21 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Haire | 21,491 | 42.09 | ||
Conservative | William Astor | 21,015 | 41.16 | ||
Liberal | Brian Armstrong Law | 8,354 | 16.36 | ||
Communist | E. Leigh | 199 | 0.39 | ||
Majority | 476 | 0.93 | |||
Turnout | 85.83 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Haire | 20,482 | 45.17 | ||
Conservative | Roger Peake | 17,946 | 39.58 | ||
Liberal | Cecil Chadwick | 6,916 | 15.25 | ||
Majority | 2,536 | 5.59 | |||
Turnout | 72.10 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
A general election was expected 1939/40 and by 1939 the following had been adopted as candidates;
- Conservative: Sir Alfred Knox
- Labour: Ernest Whitfield
- Liberal: Vaughan Watkins
In 1938, the local Labour and Liberal parties had set up a formal organisation, 'The South Bucks Unity Committee' in support of a Popular Front and may well have agreed to support a joint candidate against the sitting Conservative.[28]
Election in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alfred Knox | 34,747 | 64.87 | ||
Labour | Ernest Whitfield | 18,817 | 35.13 | ||
Majority | 15,930 | 29.74 | |||
Turnout | 61.41 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alfred Knox | 41,208 | 79.20 | ||
Labour | Leslie Haden-Guest | 10,821 | 20.80 | ||
Majority | 30,387 | 58.40 | |||
Turnout | 52,029 | 67.47 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Election in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Alfred Knox | 23,231 | 47.4 | −7.4 | |
Liberal | Leonard John Humphrey | 16,929 | 34.5 | +1.5 | |
Labour | R. Townsend | 8,899 | 18.1 | +5.9 | |
Majority | 6,302 | 12.9 | −8.9 | ||
Turnout | 49,059 | 71.1 | −6.9 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | −4.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Alfred Knox | 20,820 | 54.8 | ||
Liberal | Vera Woodhouse | 12,526 | 33.0 | ||
Labour | George Young | 4,626 | 12.2 | ||
Majority | 8,294 | 21.8 | |||
Turnout | 78.0 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Vera Woodhouse | 14,910 | 46.9 | +11.1 | |
Unionist | William Baring du Pré | 13,228 | 41.7 | −8.4 | |
Labour | George Young | 3,611 | 11.4 | −2.7 | |
Majority | 1,682 | 5.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 68.2 | −1.0 | |||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +9.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | William Baring du Pré | 15,627 | 50.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | Vera Woodhouse | 11,154 | 35.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Samuel Stennett | 4,403 | 14.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,473 | 14.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 69.2 | N/A | |||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Elections 1868–1918
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | William Baring du Pré | Unopposed | ||
Unionist hold | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | William Baring du Pré | 9,044 | 57.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Tonman Mosley | 6,713 | 42.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,331 | 14.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 15,757 | 86.3 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 18,268 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Charles Cripps | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Charles Cripps | 8,690 | 58.6 | +13.5 | |
Liberal | Arnold Herbert | 6,134 | 41.4 | −13.5 | |
Majority | 2,556 | 17.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 14,824 | 90.6 | +7.8 | ||
Registered electors | 16,366 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +13.5 | |||
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Arnold Herbert | 6,839 | 54.9 | +17.9 | |
Conservative | Alfred Cripps | 5,626 | 45.1 | −17.9 | |
Majority | 1,213 | 9.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 12,465 | 82.8 | +8.6 | ||
Registered electors | 15,050 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +17.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Grenfell | 6,111 | 63.0 | N/A | |
Liberal | J Thomas | 3,582 | 37.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,529 | 26.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,693 | 74.2 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 13,064 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Curzon | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
- Caused by Curzon's appointment as Treasurer of the Household.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Curzon | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Curzon | 5,030 | 55.8 | −0.8 | |
Liberal | Anthony Hope | 3,988 | 44.2 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 1,042 | 11.6 | −1.6 | ||
Turnout | 9,018 | 78.1 | +5.7 | ||
Registered electors | 11,546 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.8 |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Curzon | 4,620 | 56.6 | +2.0 | |
Liberal | Alfred Gilbey | 3,537 | 43.4 | −2.0 | |
Majority | 1,083 | 13.2 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 9,331 | 72.4 | −10.4 | ||
Registered electors | 11,269 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Curzon | 5,092 | 54.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Rupert Carington | 4,239 | 45.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 853 | 9.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,331 | 82.8 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 11,269 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Gerard Smith | 1,105 | 66.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | James Simpson Carson[40] | 557 | 33.5 | N/A' | |
Majority | 548 | 33.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 1,662 | 80.6 | N/A' | ||
Registered electors | 2,062 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Carington | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 1,865 | ||||
Liberal hold |
- Caused by Carington's appointment as a Groom in Waiting.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Carington | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 1,865 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Elections in the 1870s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Carington | 953 | 68.7 | +10.3 | |
Lib-Lab | Henry Broadhurst | 415 | 29.9 | N/A | |
Liberal-Conservative | Frederick Charsley[41] | 19 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 538 | 38.8 | +22.1 | ||
Turnout | 1,387 | 86.7 | −3.1 | ||
Registered electors | 1,599 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Carington | 701 | 58.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | John Remington Mills | 500 | 41.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 201 | 16.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 1,201 | 89.8 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 1,338 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections 1832–1868
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Carington | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
- Caused by Carington's succession to the peerage, becoming Lord Carrington.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Carington | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | John Remington Mills | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 551 | ||||
Liberal hold | |||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Remington Mills | 220 | 58.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Donald Cameron[42] | 158 | 41.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 62 | 16.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 378 | 89.4 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 423 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
- Caused by Dashwood's death.
Elections in the 1850s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | George Dashwood | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Martin Tucker Smith | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 392 | ||||
Liberal hold | |||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | George Dashwood | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Martin Tucker Smith | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 390 | ||||
Whig hold | |||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | George Dashwood | 262 | 44.7 | N/A | |
Whig | Martin Tucker Smith | 208 | 35.5 | N/A | |
Whig | William Simpson[43][44] | 116 | 19.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 92 | 15.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 293 (est) | 84.7 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 346 | ||||
Whig hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Whig hold | Swing | N/A |
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer).
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- ↑ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2015 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- 1 2 3 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
- ↑ Archdale, a Quaker, never took his seat as he was not prepared to take the prescribed oath
- ↑ On petition, Colyear's election was declared void and a by-election was called. He was re-elected at the by-election but once more voted by the committee not to have been duly returned, and his opponent, Waller, was seated instead.
- ↑ Waller was also elected for Marlow, which he chose to represent, and did not for Wycombe in this Parliament
- ↑ Vice Admiral from 1793
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S., ed. The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 22–23. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
- ↑ "Sir George Henry Dashwood 5th Bart". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. University College London. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- ↑ "Ralph Bernal". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. University College London. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ↑ Malcolmson, A. P. W. (2006). The Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland 1740-1840 (Illustrated ed.). Ulster Historical Foundation. p. 176. ISBN 9781903688656. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ↑ "The Brazil Controversy". The Spectator. 18 February 1865. p. 13. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ↑ Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hilary L., eds. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-4039-3910-4. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ↑ Hawkins, Angus (2015). Victorian Political Culture: 'Habits of Heart & Mind'. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-19-872848-1. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ↑ "Wycombe parliamentary constituency - Election 2017". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ https://councillors.wycombe.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=96&RPID=29924966
- ↑ electorate 76371 provided by Wycombe Council elections office 22Jun2015
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Wycombe". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol1/no3/ayles.html
- 1 2 3 4 British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 London: Macmillan.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. p. 226. ISBN 9781349022984.
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book)
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(help) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 344–345. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3. - ↑ "Wycombe Election". Bolton Evening News. 7 March 1883. p. 3. Retrieved 15 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "The General Election". Bucks Herald. 7 February 1874. pp. 6–8. Retrieved 23 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Wycombe Election". Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon Gazette. 15 March 1862. p. 6. Retrieved 24 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "The Elections". London Evening Standard. 2 July 1852. pp. 3–4. Retrieved 28 July 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ The Spectator, Volume 18. F. C. Westley. 1845. p. 1006. Retrieved 28 July 2018 – via Google Books.
Further reading
- GENUKI
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
- D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)