Spelthorne (UK Parliament constituency)

Spelthorne
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Spelthorne in Surrey.
Location of Surrey within England.
County	Surrey
Electorate	71,211 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Sunbury-on-Thames, Staines, Ashford, Stanwell
Current constituency
Created	1918
Member of parliament	Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Uxbridge
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England
During its existence contributed to new seat(s) of:	Feltham (all) Southall (small part)

Spelthorne is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Kwasi Kwarteng, a Conservative.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

1918-1945: The Urban Districts of Feltham, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Staines, Sunbury-on-Thames, and Teddington, and the Rural District of Staines.

1945-1950: The Urban Districts of Feltham, Staines, Sunbury-on-Thames, and Yiewsley and West Drayton.

1950-1955: The Urban Districts of Feltham, Staines, and Sunbury-on-Thames.

1955-1983: The Urban Districts of Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames.

1983-present: The Borough of Spelthorne.

History of boundaries

Spelthorne in Middlesex 1918-45

Spelthorne in Middlesex 1945-50

Spelthorne 1955-date (shown within its county since 1965, Surrey)

Spelthorne was one of the ancient hundreds of the historic county of Middlesex. The hundred, which covered the south west of the historic county, had an area larger than the modern borough. Greater London, formed in 1965, incorporated almost all of the historic county of Middlesex; however Potters Bar was placed in Hertfordshire and Spelthorne was placed in Surrey. Accordingly, Spelthorne became the most northern part of Surrey.

Before 1918 the area formed part of the Uxbridge constituency.

1918-1945

The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 as a Middlesex county constituency, and occupied the south west of the county. The seat was larger than it is today and included the whole of the ancient hundred.

1945-1950

In 1945 the seat lost an eastern section: Hampton, Hampton Wick and Teddington to Twickenham constituency. The seat gained territory to the north-west from the Uxbridge constituency and lost the small adjoining Cranford and Harlington area to help form the new seat of Southall, which the incumbent for Spelthorne went on to represent in 1950.

1950-1955

In 1950 Yiewsley and West Drayton were returned to the Uxbridge seat.

1955 onwards

In the 1955 redistribution Feltham became the southwest of the new Feltham constituency. Since 1955 the constituency has comprised the former urban districts of Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames, added to Surrey in 1965, and merged in 1974 to form the Borough of Spelthorne.

The seat was categorised as a borough constituency of Surrey from the February 1974 general election. This was the result of the first redistribution after the formation of Greater London. In 1995 the small settlement of Poyle, transferred from Buckinghamshire to the area in 1974, was transferred to the Borough of Slough.

The Boundary Commission recommended no boundary changes to this constituency in their review for the 2010 election.

Constituency profile

The seat is south of Heathrow Airport bounded by a long meander of the Thames. It is a more built-up area with numerous but less expansive green spaces, fewer private roads and little woodland compared to further south in Surrey. Some 30% is embanked reservoir or flood plain protected in planning.^[2]

While relative to the county as a whole this borough is marginally less affluent, in national terms it is more affluent. Workless claimants (registered jobseekers) were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.0% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian^[3], only 0.3% higher than the affluent neighbouring constituency of Twickenham in London. Most residents can afford to buy their own homes: social housing accounts for only 10% of the total,^[4] and the proportion of professionals and managerial workers is high. Stanwell comprises the only county council ward in Surrey held by a Labour councillor, and in common with Sunbury Common has significant social housing.

Spelthorne exceeds the average quota of commercial property among the 11 Surrey divisions — it contains about 20% of the county's commercial/industrial property, including large plants or wholesale units of Complete Cover Group, Kingston Technology, Edmundson Electrical, Esso Petroleum, Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Thames Water, Shepperton Film Studios, wholesalers and storage companies. Major offices/creative facilities of BP (its global HQ), Del Monte, NatWest, Samsung, Richmond Film Services and film/television ancillary businesses are in the constituency.

During the 2016 referendum on the UK's EU membership, the majority of voters in the area voted in favour of exiting the European Union. ^[5] This was the preferred outcome of Spelthorne MP Kwasi Kwarteng.^[6]

History of results

The pre-1950 much larger predecessor state of the seat saw no marginal majorities and was a Conservative safe seat based on length of party tenure and size of majorities.

In the 1945 general election George Pargiter (Lab) was elected in the Attlee Ministry landslide while the boundaries of the seat saw a favorable form to the party during expansion of London when the area extended to areas to the north, including Feltham and Bedfont (removed in 1955 — see Feltham and Heston) and had cast off Hampton, Hampton Wick and Teddington, before 1945 part of the seat.

Since the 1955 boundary reduction and a local emphasis or demand upon private housing relative to social housing, the reduced area has eight Conservative candidate majorities of greater than 11% and three lower majorities: 1966, 1997 and 2001. The earliest of these produced the narrowest margin of victory, 5% of the vote. Based on length of party tenure and majorities the seat would be considered safe by most UK electoral analysts including of academic standing.

Members of Parliament

The constituency's first MP was Philip Pilditch, an architect who piloted the Ancient Monuments Act 1931 through Parliament: see Scheduled Monument. The MP for Spelthorne since 2010 is the author, columnist and historian Kwasi Kwarteng.

Election		Member^[7]	Party
	1918	Sir Philip Pilditch	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Sir Philip Pilditch	Conservative
	1931	Reginald Blaker	Conservative
1945		Major loss of territory to east
	1945	George Pargiter	Labour
1950		Minor loss of territory in north-west
	1950*	Beresford Craddock	Conservative
	1970	Humphrey Atkins	Conservative
	1987	David Wilshire	Conservative
	2010	Kwasi Kwarteng	Conservative

Major loss of territory in 1955 to north-east

Elections

Note the standard two-party swing is only accurate when the same two parties, as in the previous election, share first and second place. Votes for other candidates are ignored in the calculation of 'Butler swing'. A positive swing is from Labour or SDP in 1987 towards the Conservative candidate and a negative swing is from Conservative towards a Labour or SDP in 1987 candidate.

1910s – 1920s – 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2017: Spelthorne^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Kwasi Kwarteng	28,692	57.3	+7.6
	Labour	Rebecca Geach	15,267	30.5	+11.9
	Liberal Democrat	Rosie Shimell	2,755	5.5	-0.9
	UKIP	Redvers Cunningham	2,296	4.6	-16.3
	Green	Paul Jacobs	1,105	2.2	-1.3
Majority			13,425	26.8	-2.0
Turnout			50,221	69.0	+0.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.1

General Election 2015: Spelthorne^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Kwasi Kwarteng	24,386	49.7	+2.6
	UKIP	Redvers Cunningham^[10]	10,234	20.9	+12.4
	Labour	Rebecca Geach^[11]	9,114	18.6	+2.1
	Liberal Democrat	Rosie Shimell^[12]	3,163	6.4	-19.4
	Green	Paul Jacobs^[13]	1,724	3.5	N/A
	Independent	Juliet Griffith	230	0.5	N/A
	TUSC	Paul Couchman^[14]	228	0.5	+0.1
Majority			14,152	28.8
Turnout				68.9	+1.8

General Election 2010: Spelthorne^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Kwasi Kwarteng	22,261	47.1	-3.4
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Chapman	12,242	25.9	+8.8
	Labour	Adam Tyler-Moore	7,789	16.5	-10.8
	UKIP	Christopher Browne	4,009	8.5	+3.9
	Independent	Ian Swinglehurst	314	0.7	N/A
	Best of a Bad Bunch	Rod Littlewood	244	0.5	N/A
	TUSC	Paul Couchman	176	0.4	N/A
	Campaign for Independent Politicians	John Gore	167	0.4	N/A
	Independents Federation UK - Honesty, Integrity, Democracy	Grahame Leon-Smith	102	0.2	N/A
Majority			10,019	21.2	-2.0
Turnout			47,304	67.1	+4.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	-6.1

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Spelthorne^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Wilshire	21,620	50.48	+5.38
	Labour	Keith Dibble	11,684	27.28	−10.02
	Liberal Democrat	Simon James	7,318	17.09	+2.36
	UKIP	Christopher Browne	1,968	4.60	+1.73
	UK Community Issues Party	Caroline Schwark	239	0.6	N/A
Majority			9,936	23.20	+15.40
Turnout			42,829	62.75	+1.94
	Conservative hold		Swing	+7.7

General Election 2001: Spelthorne^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Wilshire	18,851	45.10	+0.21
	Labour	Andrew Shaw	15,589	37.30	−0.90
	Liberal Democrat	Martin Rimmer	6,156	14.73	+1.59
	UKIP	Richard Squire	1,198	2.87	+1.98
Majority			3,262	7.80	+1.11
Turnout			41,794	60.81	−12.77
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.6

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Spelthorne^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Wilshire	23,306	44.89	−13.66
	Labour	Keith Dibble	19,833	38.20	+15.26
	Liberal Democrat	Edward Glynn	6,821	13.14	−3.37
	Referendum	Barney Coleman	1,495	2.88	N/A
	UKIP	John Fowler	462	0.89	N/A
Majority			3,473	6.69	−28.92
Turnout			51,917	73.58	−6.78
	Conservative hold		Swing	−14.5

General Election 1992: Spelthorne^[19]^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Wilshire	32,627	58.55	−1.46
	Labour	Ann Leedham	12,784	22.94	+5.87
	Liberal Democrat	Roger Roberts	9,702	16.51	−6.41
	Green	J Wassell	580	1.04	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	D Rea	338	0.61	N/A
	Natural Law	D Ellis	195	0.35	N/A
Majority			19,843	35.61	−1.48
Turnout			55,726	80.36	+6.28
	Conservative hold		Swing	−0.7

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Spelthorne^[21]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Wilshire	32,440	60.01	+7.63
	Social Democratic	M. Cunningham	12,390	22.92	−3.12
	Labour	D.F.J. Welfare	9,227	17.07	+1.62
Majority			20,050	37.09	+10.76
Turnout			54,057	74.08	+3.08
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.57

General Election 1983: Spelthorne^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Humphrey Atkins	26,863	52.38	−5.02
	Social Democratic	A.W. Layton	13,357	26.04	+12.16
	Labour	M.C. Rowlands	7,926	15.45	−12.32
	Independent Conservative	Richard Adams	2,816	5.49	N/A
	FTACMP	E.J. Butterfield	325	0.63	N/A
Majority			13,506	26.33	−3.30
Turnout			51,287	71.00	-5.89
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Humphrey Atkins	31,290	57.40	+12.67
	Labour	C.H. Dodwell	15,137	27.77	-5.46
	Liberal	Paul Winner	7,565	13.88	-5.87
	National Front	J. Sawyer	518	0.95	-1.25
Majority			16,153	29.63	+18.12
Turnout			54,510	76.89	+2.40
	Conservative hold		Swing	+10.02

General Election October 1974: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Humphrey Atkins	23,125	44.73	+0.90
	Labour	C.H. Dodwell	17,177	33.23	+3.66
	Liberal	Paul Winner	10,212	19.75	-4.37
	National Front	J.M. Clifton	1,180	2.28	-0.20
Majority			5,948	11.51	-2.75
Turnout			51,694	74.49	-7.64
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.33

General Election February 1974: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Humphrey Atkins	24,772	43.83	-10.38
	Labour	J.H.W. Grant	16,713	29.57	-6.69
	Liberal	Paul Winner	13,632	24.12	+14.59
	National Front	E.J. Butterfield	1,399	2.48	N/A
Majority			8,059	14.26	-3.69
Turnout			56,516	82.13	+8.79
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.21

General Election 1970: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Humphrey Atkins	27,266	54.21	+8.42
	Labour	Patrick L. Cheney	18,239	36.26	-4.46
	Liberal	Ronald Henry Longland	4,792	9.53	-3.97
Majority			9,027	17.95	+12.88
Turnout			50,297	73.34	-7.55
	Conservative hold		Swing	+6.99

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966:Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Beresford Craddock	22,473	45.79	-1.23
	Labour	Ronald G Wallace	19,986	40.72	+5.19
	Liberal	Nesta Wyn Ellis	6,624	13.50	-3.95
Majority			2,487	5.07	-6.42
Turnout			49,083	80.89	+0.76
	Conservative hold		Swing	-4.03

General Election 1964: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Beresford Craddock	22,230	47.02	-12.54
	Labour	Richard S Stokes	16,797	35.53	-4.91
	Liberal	Maurice J Hayes	8,252	17.45	N/A
Majority			5,433	11.49	-7.62
Turnout			47,279	80.13	-1.13
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.60

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Beresford Craddock	25,221	59.56	+1.20
	Labour	James Pirrie Carruthers	17,128	40.44	-1.20
Majority			8,093	19.11	+2.40
Turnout			42,349	81.26	+3.53
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.20

General Election 1955: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Beresford Craddock	20,888	58.36	+7.44
	Labour	James Pirrie Carruthers	14,906	41.64	-7.44
Majority			5,982	16.71	+15.87
Turnout			35,794	77.73	-6.21
	Conservative hold		Swing	+7.44

General Election 1951: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Beresford Craddock	31,031	50.92	+5.29
	Labour	Albert Hunter	29,908	49.08	+3.51
Majority			1,123	1.84	+1.79
Turnout			60,939	83.94	+2.17
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.89

Boundary changes

General Election 1950: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Beresford Craddock	26,177	45.63	+9.11
	Labour	Frederick Wilson Temple	26,146	45.57	-6.39
	Liberal	Francis Joseph Halpin	5,048	8.80	-2.72
Majority			31	0.05	N/A
Turnout			57,371	81.77	+11.48
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+8.75

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Pargiter	28,064	51.96	+20.32
	Conservative	Ian Harvey	19,725	36.52	-31.84
	Liberal	Henry Kerby	6,222	11.52	N/A
Majority			8,339	15.44	N/A
Turnout			54,011	70.29	+12.33
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	-27.08

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Reginald Blaker	30,153	68.36	-10.37
	Labour	Bernard Lytton-Bernard	13,957	31.64	+10.37
Majority			16,196	36.72	-20.75
Turnout			44,110	57.96	-10.38
	Conservative hold		Swing	-10.38

General Election 1931: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Reginald Blaker	34,115	78.73	+29.37
	Labour	Frederick Wilson Temple	9,214	21.27	-9.48
Majority			24,901	57.47	+38.86
Turnout			43,329	68.34	-0.68
	Conservative hold		Swing	+17.12

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Philip Pilditch	19,177	49.36	-20.01
	Labour	Frederick Wilson Temple	11,946	30.75	+0.12
	Liberal	William A.J. Hillier	7,727	19.89	N/A
Majority			7,231	18.61	-20.14
Turnout			38,850	69.02	+4.45
	Unionist hold		Swing	-7.76

General Election 1924: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Philip Pilditch	17,650	69.37	+2.96
	Labour	Frederick Wilson Temple	7,792	30.63	-2.96
Majority			9,858	38.75	+5.92
Turnout			25,442	64.57	+18.62
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.96

General Election 1923: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Philip Pilditch	11,604	66.41	+1.73
	Labour	G.S. Cockrill	5,868	33.59	-1.73
Majority			5,736	32.83	+3.46
Turnout			17,472	45.95	-7.95
	Unionist hold		Swing	+1.73

General Election 1922: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Philip Pilditch	12,849	64.68	-13.04
	Labour	Archibald Church	7,015	35.32	+20.19
Majority			5,834	29.37	-33.22
Turnout			19,864	53.90	+8.25
	Unionist hold		Swing	-19.02

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Spelthorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Philip Pilditch	12,423	77.72	N/A
	Labour	Frank Ernest Horton	2,418	15.13	N/A
	NFDDSS	Alexander William Leonard	1,143	7.15	N/A
Majority			10,005	62.59	N/A
Turnout			15,984	45.65	N/A
	Unionist win (new seat)

endorsed by Coalition Government

Notes and references

Notes

↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References

↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ Spelthorne BC
↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
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↑ "A Brexiteer's Celebration - a conversation with Kwame Kwarteng". Foreign Affairs. 10 July 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)
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↑ http://www.ukipsoutheast.com/constituencies.html
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↑ "Spelthorne Liberal Democrats select Rosie Shimell as their Prospective Parliamentary". Spelthorne Liberal Democrats. 1 January 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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↑ http://www.tusc.org.uk/txt/324.pdf
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