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==Boundaries== |
==Boundaries== |
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'''1974-1983''': The Royal Borough of New Windsor, the Municipal Borough of Maidenhead, and the Rural Districts of Cookham (the civil parishes of Bisham, Bray, Cookham, Hurley, Shottesbrooke, Waltham St Lawrence, and White Waltham) and Windsor (the civil parishes of Old Windsor, Sunningdale, and Sunninghill). |
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'''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. |
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==Members of Parliament== |
==Members of Parliament== |
Revision as of 12:25, 21 June 2016
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 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Windsor |
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.
History
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Boundaries
1974-1983: The Royal Borough of New Windsor, the Municipal Borough of Maidenhead, and the Rural Districts of Cookham (the civil parishes of Bisham, Bray, Cookham, Hurley, Shottesbrooke, Waltham St Lawrence, and White Waltham) and Windsor (the civil parishes of Old Windsor, Sunningdale, and Sunninghill).
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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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Feb 1974 | Sir Alan Glyn | Conservative |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 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 Democrats | 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 | K.A. | |
Independent | Miss Edith Bigg | 110 | 0.2 | K.A. | |
Natural Law | Mike R.S. Grenville | 108 | 0.2 | K.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 | ||
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 | Sir 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 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 | ||
Ind. 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)
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.