Swindon (UK Parliament constituency)

Swindon
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Wiltshire
1918–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Swindon South, Swindon North

Swindon was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Swindon in Wiltshire, England.

It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from the 1918 general election until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.

It was then replaced by the two new constituencies of North Swindon and South Swindon.

Boundaries

1983-1997: The Borough of Thamesdown wards of Central, Dorcan, Eastcott, Gorse Hill, Lawns, Moredon, Park, Toothill, Walcot, Western, and Whitworth.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[1]	Party
1918	Sir Frederick William Young	Coalition Conservative
1922	Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks	Conservative
1929	Christopher Addison	Labour
1931	Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks	Conservative
1934 by-election	Christopher Addison	Labour
1935	Wavell Wakefield	Conservative
1945	Thomas Reid	Labour
1955	Francis Noel-Baker	Labour
1969 by-election	Christopher Ward	Conservative
1970	David Stoddart	Labour
1983	Simon Coombs	Conservative
1997	constituency abolished: see Swindon South and Swindon North

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Swindon^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Coombs	31,749	43.3	−0.6
	Labour	JP D’Avila	28,923	39.4	+2.8
	Liberal Democrat	SR Cordon	11,737	16.0	−3.6
	Green	JV Hughes	647	0.9	+0.9
	Raving Loony Green Giant	CR Gillard	236	0.3	+0.3
	Independent	VF Farrar	78	0.1	+0.1
Majority			2,826	3.9	−3.4
Turnout			73,370	81.5	+3.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.7

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