| Windsor and Maidenhead | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
Location of Berkshire within England. |
|
| County | Berkshire |
| Major settlements | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| 1974–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Windsor and Maidenhead |
Windsor and Maidenhead was a county constituency in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created at the February 1974 general election and abolished at the 1997 general election, when it was replaced by the new separate constituencies of Windsor and Maidenhead.
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1983-1997: The following wards of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead: Belmont, Bisham and Cookham, Boyn Hill, Bray, Castle, Clewer North, Clewer South, Cox Green, Eton North and South, Eton West, Furze Platt, Hurley, Oldfield, Park, Pinkneys Green, St Mary’s, Trinity.
| Election | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1974 | Sir Alan Glyn | Conservative | |
| 1992 | Michael Trend | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Windsor and Maidenhead | ||
| General Election 1992: Windsor and Maidenhead[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Michael Trend | 35,075 | 55.5 | −1.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | JRG Hyde | 22,147 | 35.1 | +8.1 | |
| Labour | Miss CMS Attlee | 4,975 | 7.9 | −3.3 | |
| Green | RN Williams | 510 | 0.8 | −0.4 | |
| Monster Raving Loony | DN Askwith | 236 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
| Independent | Miss E Bigg | 110 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Natural Law | MRS Grenville | 108 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Majority | 12,928 | 20.5 | −9.4 | ||
| Turnout | 63,161 | 81.6 | +6.2 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −4.7 | |||