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

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Swindon, and part of the Rural District of Highworth.

1950-1983: The Municipal Borough of Swindon.

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 1920s

General Election 1923: Swindon ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Reginald Mitchell Banks	12,625	45.1
	Labour	George Wilfrid Holford Knight	9,121	32.6
	Liberal	Walter Leslie Rocke	6,231	22.3	n/a
Majority			3,504	12.5	-0.3
Turnout				82.8
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Swindon ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. Christopher Addison	16,885	43.7
	Unionist	Reginald Mitchell Banks	14,724	38.1
	Liberal	Frank Crane Thornborough	7,060	18.3
Majority			2,161	5.6
Turnout
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Swindon

Party

Candidate

Votes

±%

Conservative

Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks

22,756

55.89

Labour

Christopher Addison

17,962

44.11

Majority

4,794

11.77

Turnout

85.53

Conservative gain from Labour

Swing

Swindon by-election 1934

Party

Candidate

Votes

±%

Labour

Christopher Addison

Conservative

Majority

Turnout

Labour gain from Conservative

Swing

General Election 1935: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Wavell Wakefield	20,732	51.20
	Labour	Christopher Addison	19,757	48.80
Majority			975	2.41
Turnout				84.26
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Reid	27,545	62.34
	Conservative	AM Gibb	16,641	37.66
Majority			10,904	24.68
Turnout				73.90
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Reid	21,976	51.47
	Conservative	Sir Geoffrey Ernest Tritton	13,697	32.08
	Liberal	Doreen Marjorie Gorsky	6,726	15.75
	Communist	Irving Gradwell	295	0.69
Majority			8,279	19.39
Turnout				87.19
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Reid	23,980	57.02
	Conservative	Sir Geoffrey Ernest Tritton	18,072	42.98
Majority			5,908	14.05
Turnout				89.00
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Francis Edward Noel-Baker	21,926	54.93
	Conservative	Patrick William Medd	17,987	45.07
Majority			3,939	9.87
Turnout				80.02
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Francis Edward Noel-Baker	24,087	54.42
	Conservative	Gordon L Pears	20,178	45.58
Majority			3,909	8.83
Turnout				79.99
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Francis Edward Noel-Baker	26,464	60.06
	Conservative	Norman George Reece	16,651	37.79
	Communist	Irving Gradwell	944	2.14
Majority			9,813	22.27
Turnout				74.77
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Francis Edward Noel-Baker	25,966	61.35
	Conservative	Norman George Reece	15,523	36.67
	Communist	Irving Gradwell	838	1.98
Majority			10,443	24.67
Turnout				73.51
	Labour hold		Swing

Swindon by-election 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher John Ferguson Ward	16,843	41.73	+5.06
	Labour	David Leonard Stoddart	16,365	40.54	-20.81
	Liberal	Christopher Layton	6,193	15.34	N/A
	Communist	Judith Gradwell	518	1.28	-0.70
	Young Socialist	Frank Willis	446	1.10	N/A
Majority			478	1.19
Turnout			40,365
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Leonard Stoddart	25,731	55.52
	Conservative	Christopher John Ferguson Ward	20,155	43.49
	Communist	Judith Gradwell	456	0.98
Majority			5,576	12.03
Turnout				75.49
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Leonard Stoddart	24,093	47.92
	Conservative	GCM Young	15,384	30.60
	Liberal	R Hubbard	10,564	21.01
	Workers Revolutionary	K Blakeney	240	0.48
Majority			8,709	17.32
Turnout				80.89
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Leonard Stoddart	24,124	51.84
	Conservative	JN Gripper	13,854	29.77
	Liberal	R Hubbard	8,349	17.94
	Workers Revolutionary	K Blakeney	206	0.44
Majority			10,270	22.07
Turnout				73.98
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Leonard Stoddart	25,218	50.19
	Conservative	N Hammond	19,319	38.45
	Liberal	G Collis	5,709	11.36
Majority			5,899	11.74
Turnout				76.41
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Coombs	22,310	39.16
	Labour	David Leonard Stoddart	20,915	36.71
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	DJ Scott	13,743	24.12
Majority			1,395	2.45
Turnout				74.15
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1987: Swindon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Coombs	29,385	43.84
	Labour	G Johnston	24,528	36.59
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	DJ Scott	13,114	19.57
Majority			4,857	7.25
Turnout				77.80
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Swindon^[4]
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

Notes and references

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.

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