- Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency)
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Wycombe County constituency for the House of Commons 
Boundary of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.
Location of Buckinghamshire within England.County Buckinghamshire Electorate 73,750 (December 2010)[1] Major settlements High Wycombe Current constituency Created 1885 Member of Parliament Steve Baker (Conservative) Number of members One 1295–1885 Number of members Two until 1868, then One Type of constituency Borough constituency Overlaps European Parliament constituency South East England Wycombe is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It currently elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of elections.
Wycombe has continuously returned MPs since 1295. As a parliamentary borough (often referred to as High Wycombe or Chepping Wycombe), it returned two MPs until 1868 and then one until its abolition in 1885. The name was then transferred to a new county division, formally known as the "Wycombe division of Buckinghamshire".
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Boundaries
The constituency shares similar borders with Wycombe local government district, although it covers a slightly smaller area. The main town within the constituency, High Wycombe contains many working and middle class voters and a sizeable ethnic minority population that totals around one quarter of the town's population, with some areas of town housing over 50% ethnic minorities. The surrounding villages which account for just under half of the electorate are some of the most wealthy areas in the country with extremely low unemployment, and high incomes.
The towns of Eton and Slough were part of the Wycombe constituency until 1945, when the new seat of Eton and Slough was created at the redistribution of that year.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1295-1640
- Constituency created (1295)
Year First member Second member 1295 Stephen Ayott Thomas le Tayleur 1298 Adam de Guldeford Roger Allitarius 1300 John le Pistor 1306 Peter le Cotiler John le Bake 1307 Andrew Batyn 1307 Roger de Sandwell 1308 Edmond de Haveringdoun 1312 Thomas Gerveys Matthew le Fuller 1312 Robert Paer William le Cassiere 1318 Robert Smith William le Fote 1322 Richard le Haslere Bennet le Cassiere 1325 John le Taylor John de Sandwell 1326 Roger Sandwell Matthew le Fuller 1327 Richard atte Walle John atte Donne 1328 John atte Donne Henry de Mussenden 1330 John le Harriere Richard Perre 1332 Matthew Fuller Richard Tottering 1333 Jordan de Wycombe Richard Bennet 1335 John Ayot Richard Perkyn 1336 John le Harriere Thomas Gerveys 1336 John Ayot Richard Abyndon 1337 John le Clerk John Pool 1338 Stephen Ayot John le Taverner 1338 Thomas Gerveys Jordan de Preston 1341 Robert Stenstoole Robert Harleyford 1346 Ralph Barber 1347 John Martyn Robert Cattingham 1348 Walter atte Leech William Cassiere 1355 Thomas Gerveys Ralph Harleyford 1357 Robert Harleyford 1357 John Mepertshale 1360 Robert le Weeler 1360 Richard Spigurnell 1362 William Frere 1365 Thomas Cornwaile Richard Barbour 1368 William atte Dene 1369 Thomas Gerveys 1371 No other? 1372 John Bledlowe 1373 Thomas Ballard 1377 Richard Sandwell 1378 Richard Jordaine 1379 Richard Sandwell 1381 Thomas Ravell Walter Frere 1382 William Kele William atte Dene 1383 Stephen Watford John Petymin 1384 William atte Dene Richard Kele 1385 Stephen Watford 1386 Walter Frere Richard Holyman 1388 Stephen Watford William atte Dene 1391 William Depham 1392 Walter Waltham 1394 Walter atte Dene Nicholas Depham 1396 Richard Sandwell Walter Waltham 1399 John Cottingham William Clerke 1401 Nicholas Sperling John Sandwell 1413 Henry Sperling Roger More 1414 William Hall John Coventry 1415 William Clerke Andrew Sperling 1417 Roger More 1419 William Merchant John Cottingham 1420 Roger More Thomas Merston 1421 John Harewood Thomas Pusey 1421 Roger More Richard Merston 1422 Nicholas Stepton John Coventry 1423 Roger More 1424 William Whapelade John Cottingham 1425 Thomas Muston William Stocton 1427 John Coventry John Justice 1429 John Wellesbourn John Bishop 1430 Roger More William Fowler 1432 John Martyn John Blackpoll 1434 John Durein John Cottingham 1436 John Hill Bartholomew Halling 1441 John Radeshill John Martyn 1446 John Wellesbourn 1448 John Haynes 1449 William Stocton Nicholas Fayrewell 1450 Thomas More 1452 William Collard David Thomasyn 1461 Thomas Mansell Thomas Catsbury 1469 Thomas Fowler Thomas Fayrewell 1478 Thomas Gate Thomas Wellesbourn 1542 John Gates William Dormer 1547 Thomas Fisher Armigyll Wade Mar 1553 Henry Peckham John Cheyne Oct 1553 Robert Drury Apr 1554 Thomas Pymme alias Fryer Nov 1554 John Cheyne William Drury 1555 Henry Peckham Robert Drury 1558 Thomas Pymme Robert Woodleafe 1558 Paul Wentworth Roland Bracebridge 1562 Thomas Fermore alias Draper Thomas Keele 1570 John Russell Robert Christmas 1571 Thomas Nale Rowland Goules 1584 John Morley George Cawfield 1585 Thomas Ridley George Fleetwood 1589 Owen Oglethorp Francis Goodwin 1592 Thomas Tasburgh Thomas Fortescue 1596 William Fortescue John Tasburgh 1601 Richard Blunt Henry Fleetwood 1604 Sir John Townsend 1614 William Borlase Sir Henry Neville,jnr 1621 Richard Lovelace Arthur Goodwin 1624 Henry Coke 1625 Thomas Lane 1626 Edmund Waller 1628 Sir William Borlase Thomas Lane 1629-1640 No Parliament summoned MPs 1640-1868
Year First member[2] First party Second member[2] Second party April 1640 Sir Edmund Verney Royalist Thomas Lane Parliamentarian November 1640 October 1642 Verney killed in battle - seat left vacant 1645 Richard Browne December 1648 Browne and Lane excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant 1653 Wycombe was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament 1654 Thomas Scot Wycombe had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate1656 Tobias Bridge January 1659 Thomas Scot May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump April 1660 Edmund Petty Richard Browne 1661 Sir Edmund Pye, Bt Sir John Borlase, Bt February 1673 Sir John Borlase, Bt November 1673 Robert Sawyer 1679 Thomas Lewes 1685 Sir Dennis Hampson, Bt Edward Baldwin 1689 Thomas Lewes William Jephson 1691 Charles Godfrey 1696 Fleetwood Dormer 1698 John Archdale[3] 1699 Thomas Archdale 1701 Fleetwood Dormer 1710 Sir Thomas Lee, Bt 1713 Sir John Wittewrong, Bt February 1722 John Neale March 1722 Charles Egerton The Earl of Shelburne February 1726 Charles Colyear [4] March 1726 Harry Waller 1727 William Lee 1730 Sir Charles Vernon 1734 Edmund Waller [5] 1734 Sir Charles Vernon 1741 Edmund Waller 1747 Edmund Waller, junior 1754 The Earl of Shelburne John Waller Opposition Whig 1757 Edmund Waller, junior 1760 Viscount FitzMaurice Whig March 1761 Robert Waller December 1761 Isaac Barré Whig 1774 Hon. Thomas FitzMaurice 1780 Viscount Mahon Whig 1786 Earl Wycombe 1790 Rear-Admiral Sir John Jervis [6] Whig 1794 Sir Francis Baring, Bt 1796 Sir John Dashwood-King, Bt Tory 1802 Sir Francis Baring, Bt 1806 Sir Thomas Baring, Bt 1831 Hon. Robert Smith Whig 1832 Hon. Charles Grey Whig 1837 Sir George Dashwood, Bt Whig 1838 George Robert Smith Whig 1841 Ralph Bernal Whig 1847 Martin Tucker Smith Whig 1859 Liberal Liberal 1862 John Remington Mills Liberal 1865 Hon. Charles Carington Liberal MPs 1868-present
- Reduced to one member (1868)
Year Member[2] Party 1868 Hon. William Carington Liberal 1883 Gerard Smith Liberal 1885 Viscount Curzon Conservative 1900 William Grenfell Conservative 1906 Thomas Arnold Herbert Liberal January 1910 Sir Charles Alfred Cripps Conservative 1914 William Baring du Pré Conservative 1923 Vera Woodhouse, Lady Terrington Liberal 1924 Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox Unionist 1945 John Edwin Haire Labour 1951 William Astor Conservative 1952 Sir John Hall Conservative 1978 Sir Raymond Whitney Conservative 2001 Paul Goodman Conservative 2010 Steve Baker Conservative Elections
Elections in the 2010s
General Election 2010: Wycombe[7] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Steve Baker 23,423 48.6 +2.8 Liberal Democrat Steve Guy 13,863 28.8 +9.0 Labour Andrew Lomas 8,326 17.3 −12.6 UKIP John Wiseman 2,123 4.4 +0.5 Independent Mudassar Khokar 228 0.5 N/A Independent David Fitton 188 0.4 −0.3 Majority 9,560 20.0 Turnout 48,151 66.2 +4.0 Conservative hold Swing Elections in the 2000s
General Election 2005: Wycombe Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Paul Goodman 20,331 45.8 +3.4 Labour Julia Wassell 13,280 29.9 −5.4 Liberal Democrat James Oates 8,780 19.8 +2.8 UKIP Robert Davis 1,735 3.9 +1.5 Independent David Fitton 301 0.7 +0.2 Majority 7,051 15.9 Turnout 44,427 62.2 +1.7 Conservative hold Swing +4.4 General Election 2001: Wycombe Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Paul Goodman 19,064 42.4 +2.5 Labour Chauhdry Shafique 15,896 35.3 -0.1 Liberal Democrat Dee Tomlin 7,658 17.0 -1.5 UKIP Christopher Cooke 1,059 2.4 N/A Green John Laker 1,057 2.4 +1.0 Independent David Fitton 240 0.5 N/A Majority 3,168 7.1 Turnout 44,974 60.5 -10.6 Conservative hold Swing Elections in the 1990s
General Election 1997: Wycombe Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Ray Whitney 20,890 39.9 -14.2 Labour Chris Bryant 18,520 35.4 +13.8 Liberal Democrat Paul Bensilum 9,678 18.5 -3.1 Referendum Party Alan Fulford 2,394 4.6 N/A Green John Laker 716 1.4 +0.2 Natural Law Mark Heath 121 0.2 N/A Majority 2,370 4.5 Turnout 52,319 71.1 -6.9 Conservative hold Swing General Election 1992: Wycombe[8] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Ray Whitney 30,081 53.14 -0.7 Liberal Democrat Tim Andrews 13,005 22.97 -5.5 Labour John Huddart 12,222 22.6 +3.0 Green John Laker 686 1.2 N/A Social Democrat Alan Page 449 0.8 N/A Natural Law T. Anton 168 0.3 N/A Majority 17,076 30.2 +3.8 Turnout 56,611 78.0 +5.2 Conservative hold Swing +1.9 Elections in the 1980s
General Election 1987: Wycombe Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Ray Whitney 28,209 53.9 -0.3 Social Democrat Tom Hayhoe 14,390 27.5 -0.4 Labour John Huddart 9,773 18.7 +1.4 Majority 13,819 26.4 +0.1 Turnout 56,611 72.8 +1.1 Conservative hold Swing See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
- ^ Archdale, a Quaker, never took his seat as he was not prepared to take the prescribed oath
- ^ On petition, Colyear's election was declared void and a by-election was called. He was re-elected at the by-election but once more voted by the committee not to have been duly returned, and his opponent, Waller, was seated instead.
- ^ Waller was also elected for Marlow, which he chose to represent, and did not for Wycombe in this Parliament
- ^ Vice Admiral from 1793
- ^ "Wycombe". BBC News Online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/f32.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
Sources
- GENUKI
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
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