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.
There has been a Banbury constituency since 1553. Until 1885 it was a parliamentary borough, consisting only of the town of Banbury; since then it has been a county constituency, consisting of the northern part of Oxfordshire. It was the constituency represented by Lord North, the Prime Minister during the American War of Independence.
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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
[edit] Banbury borough (until 1885)
[edit] 1553-1660
Constituency created 1553. (Even before the Reform Act of 1832, Banbury only returned one member to Parliament [1])
| Parliament | Member | ||
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| Parliament of 1559 | Francis Walsingham | ||
| Parliament of 1563-1567 | Francis Walsingham (Also elected for Lyme Regis, which he chose to represent) ? |
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| Parliament of 1571 | Anthony Cope | ||
| Parliament of 1572-1583 | |||
| Parliament of 1584-1585 | ? | ||
| Parliament of 1586-1587 | Anthony Cope | ||
| Parliament of 1588-1589 | |||
| Parliament of 1593 | |||
| Parliament of 1597-1598 | |||
| Parliament of 1601 | |||
| Parliament of 1604-1611 | (Sir) William Cope [1] | ||
| Addled Parliament (1614) | |||
| Parliament of 1621-1622 | |||
| Happy Parliament (1624-1625) | Sir Erasmus Dryden | ||
| Useless Parliament (1625) | Sir William Cope | ||
| Parliament of 1625-1626 | James Fiennes | ||
| Parliament of 1628-1629 | John Crew | ||
| No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 | |||
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[edit] 1640-1885
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| April 1640 | Nathaniel Fiennes | Parliamentarian | |
| 1648 | Fiennes excluded in Pride's Purge - seat left vacant | ||
| 1653 | Banbury was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
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| January 1659 | Nathaniel Fiennes | ||
| May 1659 | Banbury was not represented in the restored Rump | ||
| April 1660 | Sir Anthony Cope | ||
| 1661 | (Sir) John Holman [2] | ||
| 1685 | Sir Dudley North | ||
| 1689 | Sir Robert Dashwood | ||
| 1698 | James Isaacson [3] | ||
| 1699 | Sir John Cope | ||
| 1701 | Charles North | ||
| 1713 | Sir Jonathan Cope | ||
| 1722 | Monoux Cope | ||
| 1727 | Hon. Francis North | ||
| 1730 | Toby Chauncy | ||
| 1733 | William Knollys [4] | ||
| 1740 | William Moore | ||
| 1746 | John Willes | ||
| 1754 | Frederick North, Lord North | Tory | |
| 1790 | George Augustus North, Lord North | ||
| 1792 | Hon. 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 | Whig | |
| 1832 | Henry William Tancred | Whig | |
| February 1859 | Bernhard Samuelson | Liberal | |
| April 1859 | Sir Charles Eurwicke Douglas | Liberal | |
| 1865 | Sir Bernhard Samuelson | Liberal | |
| 1885 | Borough abolished - name transferred to county division | ||
[edit] Banbury division of Oxfordshire/Banbury County Constituency (since 1885)
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Sir Bernhard Samuelson | Liberal | |
| 1895 | Albert Brassey | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Hon. Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes | Liberal | |
| January 1910 | Captain Robert Brassey | Conservative | |
| December 1910 | Hon. (Sir) Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes [5] | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams | Liberal | |
| 1922 | Sir Albert Edmondson | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Douglas Dodds-Parker | Conservative | |
| 1959 | Neil Marten | Conservative | |
| 1983 | Tony Baldry | Conservative | |
[edit] Notes
- ^ Succeeded as baronet, July 1615
- ^ Created a baronet, June 1663
- ^ Expelled from the House of Commons
- ^ Knollys claimed and used the title Viscount Wallingford, but his claim was disallowed by the House of Lords
- ^ Created a baronet, June 1916
[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 Democrat | 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 Democrat | 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) in 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.
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [2]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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