Aylesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Aylesbury
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.
Location of Buckinghamshire within England.
County	Buckinghamshire
Electorate	78,750 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1885 (1885)
Member of Parliament	David Lidington (Conservative)
Number of members	One
1553 (1553)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	Two
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Aylesbury is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Conservative Party has held the seat since 1924, and held it at the 2010 general election with a 52.2% share of the vote.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs 1553–1659 2.2 MPs 1659–1885 2.3 MPs since 1885 3 Elections 3.1 Elections in the 2010s 3.2 Elections in the 2000s 3.3 Elections in the 1990s 3.4 Elections in the 1940s 4 See also 5 Notes and references 6 Sources

Boundaries

The constituency is based around the town of Aylesbury and the surrounding countryside in Buckinghamshire.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Buckinghamshire, the Boundary Commission for England made several changes to the Aylesbury constituency, which took effect at the 2010 general election. The electoral wards included in the revised constituency are:

• Aston Clinton, Aylesbury Central, Bedgrove, Coldharbour, Elmhurst and Watermead, Gatehouse, Mandeville and Elm Farm, Oakfield, Quarrendon, Southcourt, Walton Court and Hawkslade and Wendover from the district of Aylesbury Vale
• Bledlow and Bradenham, Greater Hughenden, Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens and Stokenchurch and Radnage from Wycombe

Members of Parliament

MPs 1553–1659

• Constituency created (1553)

Year	First member	Second member
1554 (Apr)	Thomas Smith	Humphrey Moseley
1554 (Nov)	William Ryse	John Walwyn
1555		Anthony Restwold
1558	Names lost
1559	Arthur Porter	Thomas Crawley
1563	Thomas Sackville	Thomas Coleshill
1571	Thomas Lichfield	Edward Dockwra
1572		George Burden
1584	Thomas Tasburgh	John Smith
1586		Thomas Scott
1589	Thomas Pigott	Henry Fleetwood
1593	Sir Thomas West	John Lyly
1597	Thomas Tasburgh	Thomas Smythe
1601	John Lyly	Richard Moore
1604	Sir William Borlase	Sir William Smythe
1614	Sir John Dormer	Samuel Backhouse
1621		Henry Borlase
1624	Sir John Pakington, Bt	Sir Thomas Crewe
1625	Sir Robert Carr
May 1625		Sir John Hare
1626	Clement Coke	Arthur Goodwin
1628		Sir Edmund Verney
April 1640	Sir John Pakington, Bt	Ralph Verney
1640	Thomas Fountaine
November 1640	Sir John Pakington, Bt
1645	Thomas Scot	Simon Mayne

• Returned one member to the First and Second Protectorate Parliaments

Year	Member
1654	Henry Philips
1656	Thomas Scot

• Returned two members to the Third Protectorate Parliament and thereafter

MPs 1659–1885

Year			First member[2]	First party	Second member[2]	Second party
		1659	Sir James Whitelocke		Thomas Tyrrill
		1660	Sir Thomas Lee, 1st Bt.		Sir Richard Ingoldsby
		1685	Sir William Egerton		Richard Anderson
		1689	Sir Thomas Lee, 2nd Bt.		Richard Beke
		1690			Sir Thomas Lee, 1st Bt
		1691			Simon Mayne
		1695			James Herbert
		1699	Robert Dormer
		1701	Sir Thomas Lee, 2nd Bt.
		July 1702	Sir John Pakington, 4th Bt.	Tory
		December 1702	Simon Harcourt
		1704			Sir Henry Parker, 2nd Bt.
		1705	Sir John Wittewrong, 3rd Bt.		Simon Mayne
		1710	Simon Harcourt		John Essington
		January 1715	Nathaniel Meade		John Deacle
		April 1715			Trevor Hill
		1722	Richard Abell	Whig	John Guise
		1727	Sir William Stanhope		Philip Lloyd
		1728 by-election	Edward Rudge
		1730 by-election			Thomas Ingoldsby
		1734	George Champion		Christopher Tower
		1741	Charles Pilsworth		Viscount Petersham
		1747	The Earl of Inchiquin	Whig	Edward Willes
		1754	Thomas Potter		John Willes
		1757	John Wilkes
		1761			Welbore Ellis
		1764 by-election	Anthony Bacon
		1768			John Durand
		1774			John Aubrey
		1780			Thomas Orde	Tory
		1784	Sir Thomas Hallifax		William Wrightson
		1789 by-election	Scrope Bernard
		1790			Gerard Lake
		1802	James Du Pre		Robert Bent
		1804 by-election			William Cavendish
		1806	George Nugent, 1st Bt.		George Henry Compton Cavendish
		1809 by-election			Thomas Hussey
		1812	The Lord Nugent	Whig
		1814 by-election			Charles Compton Cavendish	Whig
		1818			William Rickford	Whig
		1832	Henry Hanmer	Tory
		1837	Winthrop Mackworth Praed
		1839 by-election	Charles Baillie-Hamilton	Conservative
		1841			Richard Rice Clayton
		1847	John Peter Deering	Conservative	The Lord Nugent	Liberal
		1848 by-election	Quintin Dick
		1850 by-election			Frederick Calvert
		1851 by-election			Richard Bethell	Liberal
		1852	Austen Henry Layard	Liberal
		1857	Thomas Tyringham Bernard
		1859			Samuel George Smith	Conservative
		1865	Nathan Rothschild	Liberal
		1880			George W. E. Russell	Liberal
		1885 by-election	Ferdinand James de Rothschild	Liberal
		1885	Parliamentary borough abolished

MPs since 1885

Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the parliamentary borough of Aylesbury was abolished. The name was transferred to a new, larger, county division of Buckinghamshire, which elected one Member of Parliament (MP).

Election		Member[2]	Party
	1885	Ferdinand James de Rothschild	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1899 by-election	Lionel Walter Rothschild	Liberal Unionist
	1910, January	Lionel Nathan de Rothschild	Liberal Unionist
	1912		Conservative
	1918		Coalition Conservative
	1922		Conservative
	1923	Thomas Keens	Liberal
	1924	Sir Alan Hughes Burgoyne	Conservative
	1929	Michael Beaumont	Conservative
	1938 by-election	Sir Stanley Reed	Conservative
	1950	Spencer Summers	Conservative
	1970	Timothy Raison	Conservative
	1992	David Lidington	Conservative

• GENUKI

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Aylesbury[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Lidington	27,736	52.2	+3.1
	Liberal Democrat	Steven Lambert	15,118	28.4	+0.8
	Labour	Kathryn White	6,695	12.6	-5.9
	UKIP	Chris Adams	3,613	6.8	+2.0
Majority			12,618	23.7
Turnout			53,162	68.2	+5.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	2.1

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Aylesbury[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Lidington	25,252	49.1	+1.8
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Jones	14,187	27.6	+0.7
	Labour	Mohammed Khaliel	9,540	18.5	-4.7
	UKIP	Chris Adams	2,479	4.8	+2.3
Majority			11,066	21.5
Turnout			51,458	62.4	+1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.6

General Election 2001: Aylesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Lidington	23,230	47.3	+3.1
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Jones	13,221	26.9	-2.6
	Labour	Keith White	11,388	23.2	+1.0
	UKIP	Justin Harper	1,248	2.5	N/A
Majority			10,009	20.4
Turnout			49,087	61.4	-11.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Aylesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Lidington	25,426	44.2	-13.2
	Liberal Democrat	Sharon Bowles	17,007	29.5	+1.8
	Labour	Robert Langridge	12,759	22.2	+8.8
	Referendum Party	M. John	2,196	3.8	N/A
	Natural Law	K. Sheaff	166	0.3	+0.1
Majority			8,419
Turnout			57,554	72.8	-6.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

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General Election 1992: Aylesbury[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Lidington	36,500	57.4	-0.1
	Liberal Democrat	Sharon Bowles	17,640	27.7	-0.9
	Labour	R Priest	8,517	13.4	-0.5
	Green	NA Foster	702	1.1	+1.1
	Natural Law	BHM D'Arcy	239	0.4	+0.4
Majority			18,860	29.7	+0.8
Turnout			63,598	80.4	+5.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.4

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Aylesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	S Reed	24,537	47.85
	Labour	R Groves	16,445	32.07
	Liberal	G Naylor	10,302	20.09
Majority			8,092	15.78
Turnout				69.55
	Conservative hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire

Notes and references

Sources

• Iain Dale, ed (2003). The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X. 
• The Times House of Commons 1945. The Times. 1945. 
• The Times House of Commons 1950. The Times. 1950. 
• The Times House of Commons 1955. The Times. 1955. 
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press, revised edition 1977)

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