Banbury (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Banbury County constituency |
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| Banbury shown within Oxfordshire, and Oxfordshire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1553 |
| MP: | Tony Baldry |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Oxfordshire |
| EP constituency: | South East England |
Banbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a strongly Conservative seat.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency covers the north-east of Oxfordshire, around Banbury and largely corresponds to the Cherwell local government district, with the principal exception of the large village of Kidlington on the outskirts of Oxford which lies in the Oxford West and Abingdon constituency, and some smaller villages to the north-east of Oxford that lie in the Henley constituency.
[edit] Boundary Review
Following its review of parliamentary representation in Oxfordshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made minor alterations (transfer of the Cherwell district wards of Otmoor and Kirtlington to Henley) to the existing arrangement as a result of a population increase within previous boundaries. The electoral wards used in this modified constituency are:
- Twenty-three wards from the district of Cherwell - Adderbury, Ambrosden and Chesterton, Banbury Calthorpe, Banbury Easington, Banbury Grimsbury and Castle, Banbury Hardwick, Banbury Neithrop, Banbury Ruscote, Bicester East, Bicester North, Bicester South, Bicester Town, Bicester West, Bloxham and Bodicote, Caversfield, Cropredy, Deddington, Fringford, Hook Norton, Launton, Sibford, The Astons and Heyfords, and Wroxton.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (1553)
- even before the Reform Act 1832, Banbury only returned one member to Parliament [1]
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1754 | Frederick North, Lord North | ||
| 1790 | George Augustus North | ||
| 1792 | Frederick North | ||
| 1794 | William Holbech | ||
| 1796 | Dudley North | ||
| 1806 | William Praed | ||
| 1808 | Dudley North | ||
| 1812 | Frederick Sylvester North Douglas | ||
| 1819 | Heneage Legge | ||
| 1826 | Arthur Charles Legge | ||
| 1830 | Henry Villiers-Stuart | ||
| 1831 | John Easthope | ||
| 1832 | Henry William Tancred | ||
| 1859 | Bernhard Samuelson | ||
| 1859 | Sir Charles Eurwicke Douglas | ||
| 1865 | Sir Bernhard Samuelson | ||
| 1895 | Albert Brassey | ||
| 1906 | Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes | Liberal | |
| 1910 | Robert Bingham Brassey | ||
| 1910 | Sir Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams | Liberal | |
| 1922 | James Edmondson | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Douglas Dodds-Parker | Conservative | |
| 1959 | Neil Marten | Conservative | |
| 1983 | Tony Baldry | Conservative | |
[edit] Elections
| General Election 2005: Banbury | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Tony Baldry | 26,382 | 46.9 | +1.7 | |
| Labour | Leslie Sibley | 15,585 | 27.7 | −7.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Zoe Patrick | 10,076 | 17.9 | +2.0 | |
| Green | Alyson Duckmanton | 1,590 | 2.8 | +0.3 | |
| UK Independence | Diana Heimann | 1,241 | 2.2 | +0.9 | |
| National Front | James Starkey | 918 | 1.6 | N/A | |
| Your Party | Chris Rowe | 417 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 10,797 | 19.2 | |||
| Turnout | 56,209 | 64.5 | +3.4 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +4.5 | |||
| General Election 2001: Banbury | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Tony Baldry | 23,271 | 45.2 | +2.3 | |
| Labour | Leslie Sibley | 18,052 | 35.0 | +0.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Tony Worgan | 8,216 | 15.9 | -0.8 | |
| Green | Bev Cotton | 1,281 | 2.5 | +1.6 | |
| UK Independence | Stephen Harris | 695 | 1.3 | +0.7 | |
| Majority | 5,219 | 10.2 | |||
| Turnout | 51,515 | 61.1 | -14.1 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- (2003) Iain Dale: The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X.
- (1945) The Times House of Commons 1945. The Times.
- (1950) The Times House of Commons 1950. The Times.
- (1955) The Times House of Commons 1955. The Times.
