Basingstoke (UK Parliament constituency)

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Basingstoke County constituency
Basingstoke shown within Hampshire, and Hampshire shown within England
Created:	1295, 1885
MP:	Maria Miller
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Hampshire
EP constituency:	South East England

Basingstoke is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The town was represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, but not again until a constituency was created in 1885. It has elected Conservative MPs for decades.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The Basingstoke constituency is based around the town of Basingstoke, and the surrounding countryside, in Hampshire.

The Boundary Commission has proposed that the boundaries of Basingstoke and North West Hampshire be aligned to more closely match the town area.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1885 — 1906: Arthur Frederick Jeffreys, Conservative
• 1906 — 1917: Arthur Clavell Salter, Conservative
• 1917 — 1920: Auckland Campbell Geddes, Unionist
• 1920 — 1923: Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook
• 1923 — 1924: Reginald Fletcher, Liberal
• 1924 — 1929: Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook
• 1929 — 1934: Viscount Lymington, Conservative
• 1934 — 1935: Henry Maxence Cavendish Drummond Wolff
• 1935 — 1955: Patrick Donner, Conservative
• 1955 — 1964: Denzil Freeth, Conservative
• 1964 — 1983: David Mitchell, Conservative
• 1983 — 2005: Andrew Hunter, Conservative (1983 — 2002), Independent Conservative (2002 — 2004), Democratic Unionist (2004 — 2005)
• 2005 — present: Maria Miller, Conservative

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: Basingstoke
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maria Miller	19,955	41.5	−1.2
	Labour	Paul Harvey	15,275	31.7	−9.2
	Liberal Democrats	Jen Smith	9,952	20.7	+6.8
	UK Independence	Peter Effer	1,044	2.2	−0.3
	Green	Darren Shirley	928	1.9	N/A
	British National	Roger Robertson	821	1.7	N/A
	Millennium Council	Roger MacNair	148	0.3	N/A
Majority			4,680	9.7
Turnout			48,123	63.0	+2.3
	Conservative gain from Democratic Unionist		Swing	+4.0

General Election 2001: Basingstoke
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Hunter	20,490	42.7	-0.6
	Labour	Jon Hartley	19,610	40.9	+1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Sollitt	6,693	13.9	-3.1
	UK Independence	Kim Graham	1,202	2.5	N/A
Majority			880	1.8
Turnout			47,995	60.7	-13.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hampshire

Constituencies in South East England
Conservative	Aldershot | Arundel and South Downs | Ashford | Aylesbury | Banbury | Basingstoke | Beaconsfield | Bexhill and Battle | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Bracknell | Buckingham | Canterbury | Chesham and Amersham | Chichester | East Hampshire | East Surrey | East Worthing and Shoreham | Eastbourne | Epsom and Ewell | Esher and Walton | Fareham | Faversham and Mid Kent | Folkestone and Hythe | Gosport | Gravesham | Guildford | Havant | Henley | Horsham | Isle of Wight | Maidenhead | Maidstone and The Weald | Mid Sussex | Mole Valley | New Forest East | New Forest West | Newbury | North East Hampshire | North East Milton Keynes | North Thanet | North West Hampshire | Reading East | Reigate | Runnymede and Weybridge | Sevenoaks | South West Surrey | Spelthorne | Surrey Heath | Tonbridge and Malling | Tunbridge Wells | Wantage | Wealden | Windsor | Witney | Woking | Wokingham | Worthing West | Wycombe
Labour	Brighton Kemptown | Brighton Pavilion | Chatham and Aylesford | Crawley | Dartford | Dover | Gillingham | Hastings and Rye | Hove | Medway | Milton Keynes South West | Oxford East | Portsmouth North | Reading West | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Slough | Southampton Itchen | Southampton Test | South Thanet
Liberal Democrat	Eastleigh | Lewes | Oxford West and Abingdon | Portsmouth South | Romsey | Winchester
South East European constituency: Conservative (4) | UKIP (2) | Liberal Democrats (2) | Labour (1) | Green (1)