Slough (UK Parliament constituency)
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Slough in Berkshire.
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Location of Berkshire within England.
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County | Berkshire |
Electorate | 81,327 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of parliament | Fiona Mactaggart (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Eton & Slough, and Beaconsfield |
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European Parliament constituency | South East England |
Slough is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Fiona Mactaggart, a member of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency was created in 1983 and covers the Borough of Slough, a unitary authority, in Berkshire, with the exception of one ward.
The former Eton and Slough constituency, which contributed 88.2% of the Slough constituency, was a safe seat for the Labour Party. The remaining northern slice came from the safe Conservative constituency of Beaconsfield.
Constituency profile
The Conservatives gained the new Slough seat in 1983, and held it until 1997, when Labour gained the constituency.
Workless claimants stood at 3.9% in November 2012, just 0.1% above the national average, and while lower than all of eastern Kent and the Isle of Wight, statistically significantly greater than the regional average of 2.5%.[2] The borough has one of the largest mixed commercial (company headquarters and manufacturing) estates in Europe and fast rail links to London on the Great Western Main Line, to be bolstered by direct city centre services with Crossrail. The area is also the part of the M4 corridor that is the closest to the capital and London Heathrow Airport.
History
Prominent members
From 1945 to 1983 most of the area presently covered by this seat was in the Eton and Slough constituency, whose Labour MP from 1950 to 1964 was Fenner Brockway, a radical progressive social democrat, who led in writing on pacifism, prison reform, anti-colonialism and anti-discrimination, and was editor of the Labour Leader, attended talks by the Fabian Society and joined the fledgling Independent Labour Party in 1907.
History of boundaries
- 1983–1997
The constituency comprised the whole Borough of Slough as it existed in 1983.[3] The borough grew in 1995 with the addition of the Colnbrook area formerly in Buckinghamshire and the Poyle area formerly in Surrey.[4] This change did not affect the Slough parliamentary boundary.
- 1997–2010
The constituency comprised twelve of the thirteen wards existing in 1995: Baylis, Britwell, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham, Farnham, Haymill, Kederminster, Langley St. Mary's, Stoke, Upton and Wexham Lea. The remaining ward, Foxborough, formed part of Windsor County Constituency.[5] In 2004 the borough was divided into fourteen wards with altered boundaries.[6] No changes were made to the parliamentary boundaries until 2010. The wards wholly in the Slough constituency were Baylis and Stoke, Britwell, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham Green, Cippenham Meadows, Farnham, Haymill, Upton and Wexham Lea. Three mostly Langley wards: Foxborough, Kedermister and Langley St Mary's were split between the Slough and Windsor constituencies, while the entire Colnbrook with Poyle was also placed in Windsor for parliamentary purposes.
- 2010–present
The seat comprises 13 of the 14 wards of the Borough of Slough:
- Baylis and Stoke, Britwell, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham Green, Cippenham Meadows, Farnham, Foxborough, Haymill, Kedermister, Langley St Mary's, Upton and Wexham Lea.[7]
In 2014 there was a boundary review with creation of a new Ward Elliman. Therefore, the wards are Baylis and Stoke, Britwell and Northborough, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham Green, Cippenham Meadows, Farnham, Foxborough, Haymill and Lynch Hill, Kedermister, Langley St. Mary's, Upton and Wexham Lea.
Colnbrook with Poyle ward remains within the Windsor constituency.[7]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[8] | Party | |
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1983 | John Watts | Conservative | |
1997 | Fiona Mactaggart | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Fiona Mactaggart | 23,421 | 48.5 | +2.7 | |
Conservative | Gurcharan Singh[11] | 16,085 | 33.3 | -1.0 | |
UKIP | Diana Coad[12] | 6,274 | 13.0 | +9.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Tom McCann | 1,275 | 2.6 | -11.9 | |
Green | Julian Edmonds[13] | 1,220 | 2.5 | +1.4 | |
Majority | 7,336 | 15.2 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 48,275 | 55.9 | -6.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.8 |
UKIP originally selected Ken Wight, who was replaced by former Conservative member, Diana Coad.[12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Fiona Mactaggart | 21,884 | 45.8 | −0.4 | |
Conservative | Diana Coad | 16,361 | 34.3 | +7.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Chris Tucker | 6,943 | 14.5 | −2.2 | |
UKIP | Peter Mason-Apps | 1,517 | 3.2 | −0.5 | |
Green | Miriam Kennet | 542 | 1.1 | −0.9 | |
Christian | Sunil Chaudhary | 495 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,523 | 11.6 | |||
Turnout | 47,742 | 61.9 | +8.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Fiona Mactaggart | 17,517 | 47.2 | −11.1 | |
Conservative | Sheila Gunn | 9,666 | 26.1 | −0.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Thomas McCann | 5,739 | 15.5 | +5.0 | |
Respect | Ajaz Khan | 1,632 | 4.4 | N/A | |
UKIP | Geoff Howard | 1,415 | 3.8 | +1.9 | |
Green | David Wood | 759 | 2.0 | N/A | |
Independent | Paul Janik | 367 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,851 | 21.2 | |||
Turnout | 37,095 | 50.5 | −2.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Fiona Mactaggart | 22,718 | 58.3 | +1.6 | |
Conservative | Diana Coad | 10,210 | 26.2 | −3.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Keith Kerr | 4,109 | 10.5 | +3.2 | |
Independent | Tony Haines | 859 | 2.2 | +1.6 | |
UKIP | John Lane | 738 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Choudry Nazir | 364 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,508 | 32.1 | |||
Turnout | 38,998 | 53.4 | −14.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Fiona Mactaggart | 27,029 | 56.6 | +12.9 | |
Conservative | Peta Buscombe | 13,958 | 29.2 | −15.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Chris Bushill | 3,509 | 7.4 | +0.4 | |
Liberal | Anne Bradshaw | 1,835 | 3.8 | +1.3 | |
Referendum | Terence J. Sharkey | 1,124 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Paul P. Whitmore | 277 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,071 | 27.4 | |||
Turnout | 47,732 | 67.9 | −10.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Arthur Watts | 25,793 | 44.6 | −2.3 | |
Labour | Eddie Lopez | 25,279 | 43.7 | +4.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Peter Mapp | 4,041 | 7.0 | −6.4 | |
Liberal | John Clark | 1,426 | 2.5 | N/A | |
Independent Labour | Declan Alford | 699 | 1.2 | N/A | |
National Front | Andy Carmichael | 290 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Natural Law | M.R. Creese | 153 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Ms Elizabeth A. Smith | 134 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 514 | 0.9 | −6.5 | ||
Turnout | 57,815 | 78.0 | +2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −3.3 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Arthur Watts | 26,166 | 47.0 | +4.1 | |
Labour | Eddie Lopez | 22,076 | 39.6 | +2.7 | |
Social Democratic | Michael Goldstone | 7,490 | 13.4 | −5.1 | |
Majority | 4,090 | 7.4 | +1.4 | ||
Turnout | 55,732 | 75.9 | +4.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Arthur Watts | 22,064 | 42.9 | +4.3 | |
Labour | Joan Lestor | 18,958 | 36.9 | −6.7 | |
Social Democratic | Nicholas Bosanquet | 9,519 | 18.5 | +7.2 | |
National Front | Graham John | 528 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Ecology | Ian Flindall | 325 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,106 | 6.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 51,394 | 71.5 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
See also
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire
- Slough Borough Council includes historical information about wards and local elections
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A borough 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
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- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/417)
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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ https://www.slough.gov.uk/council/voting-and-elections/2015-general-election-results.aspx 8July 2015
- ↑ http://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2014/12/19/106235-new-slough-conservative-parliamentary-candidate-we-can-overturn-labour-stronghold/
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Sources
- British Parliamentary Constituencies, A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984).
- Official list of candidates nominated 2010 Slough Borough Council website accessed 21 April 2010
External links
- [1] The Boundary Committee for England page about Slough Unitary Authority, with links to pre and post 2004 ward maps[dead link]
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- EngvarB from October 2013
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with dead external links from February 2011
- Use dmy dates from October 2013
- Parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire
- Government and politics of Slough
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983