Basingstoke (UK Parliament constituency)

Basingstoke
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Basingstoke in Hampshire for the 2010 general election.
Location of Hampshire within England.
County	Hampshire
Electorate	75,470 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Basingstoke
Current constituency
Created	1885 (1885)
Member of Parliament	Maria Miller (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	North Hampshire
Overlaps
European Parliament 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. Prior to 1885 it was represented by the North Hampshire constituency. With the exception of the 1923 election, it has always elected Conservative MPs. It is a Conservative safe seat.

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.

	Member ^[2]	Party
1885	George Sclater-Booth	Conservative
1887 by-election	Arthur Frederick Jeffreys	Conservative
1906	Arthur Salter	Conservative
1917 by-election	Auckland Campbell Geddes	Unionist
1920 by-election	Arthur Richard Holbrook	Coalition Conservative
1923	Reginald Fletcher	Liberal
1924	Arthur Richard Holbrook	Conservative
1929	Viscount Lymington	Conservative
1934 by-election	Henry Maxence Cavendish Drummond Wolff	Conservative
1935	Patrick Donner	Conservative
1955	Denzil Freeth	Conservative
1964	David Mitchell	Conservative
1983	Andrew Hunter	Conservative
2002		Independent Conservative
2004		Democratic Unionist
2005	Maria Miller	Conservative

General Election 2010: Basingstoke^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maria Miller	25,590	50.5	+11.7
	Liberal Democrat	John Shaw	12,414	24.5	+2.6
	Labour	Funda Pepperell	10,327	20.4	-12.2
	UKIP	Stella Howell	2,076	4.1	+1.9
	Basingstoke Common Man	Steve Saul	247	0.5	+0.5
Majority			13,176	26.0
Turnout			50,654	67.1	+6.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.6

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 Democrat	Jen Smith	9,952	20.7	+6.8
	UKIP	Peter Effer	1,044	2.2	−0.3
	Green	Darren Shirley	928	1.9	N/A
	BNP	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 hold		Swing

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 Democrat	Steve Sollitt	6,693	13.9	-3.1
	UKIP	Kim Graham	1,202	2.5	N/A
Majority			880	1.8
Turnout			47,995	60.7	-13.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Basingstoke
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Hunter	24,751	43.3	-10.2
	Labour	Nigel Lickley	22,354	39.1	+14.0
	Liberal Democrat	M Rimmer	9,714	17.0	-3.4
	Independent	E Salim	310	0.6	N/A
Majority			2,397	4.2
Turnout				74.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Basingstoke^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Hunter	37,521	54.6	-1.4
	Labour	DJC Bull	16,323	23.8	+6.1
	Liberal Democrat	CI Curtis	14,119	20.6	-5.7
	Green	Ms. VJ Oldaker	714	1.0	+1.0
Majority			21,198	30.9	+1.1
Turnout			68,677	82.8	+5.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	-3.7

General Election 1987: Basingstoke
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Hunter	33,657	56.0
	Social Democrat	D Bennett	15,764	26.3
	Labour	P Daden	10,632	17.7
Majority			17,893	29,7
Turnout				77.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1945: Basingstoke Electorate 61,, Turnout 66.5, Voters 40,669
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Donner	18,700	46.0
	Labour	A E Weston	13,763	33.8
	Liberal	D Rhys	8,206	20.2
Majority			4,937	12.1

General Election 1931: Basingstoke Electorate, Turnout ,Voters 33,753
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Viscount Lymington	23,523	69.7
	Liberal	A E Weston	6,106	18.1
	Labour	D Rhys	4,124	12.2
Majority			17,417	51.6

Constituencies in South East England (84)

Conservative (74)	Aldershot Arundel and South Downs Ashford Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Beaconsfield Bexhill and Battle Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Bracknell Brighton Kemptown Canterbury Chatham and Aylesford Chesham and Amersham Chichester Crawley Dartford Dover East Hampshire East Surrey East Worthing and Shoreham Epsom and Ewell Esher and Walton Fareham Faversham and Mid Kent Folkestone and Hythe Gillingham and Rainham Gosport Gravesham Guildford Hastings and Rye Havant Henley Horsham Hove Isle of Wight Maidenhead Maidstone and The Weald Meon Valley Mid Sussex Milton Keynes North Milton Keynes South Mole Valley Newbury New Forest East New Forest West North East Hampshire North Thanet North West Hampshire Oxford West and Abingdon Portsmouth North Reading East Reading West Reigate Rochester and Strood Romsey and Southampton North Runnymede and Weybridge Sevenoaks Sittingbourne and Sheppey South Thanet South West Surrey Spelthorne Surrey Heath Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells Wantage Wealden Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worthing West Wycombe

Labour (4)	Oxford East Slough Southampton Itchen Southampton Test

Liberal Democrats (4)	Eastbourne Eastleigh Lewes Portsmouth South

Green (1)	Brighton Pavilion

Speaker (1)	Buckingham

South East England European constituency: Conservative (4) UKIP (2) Liberal Democrats (2) Green (1) Labour (1)