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Windsor and Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency)

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Windsor and Maidenhead
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Location of Berkshire within England
CountyBerkshire
Major settlementsWindsor and Maidenhead
1974 (1974)1997
SeatsOne
Created fromWindsor
Replaced byWindsor 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.

History

Boundaries

1974–1983: The Royal Borough of New Windsor, the Municipal Borough of Maidenhead, and the Rural Districts of Cookham (the civil parishes of Bisham, Bray, Cookham, Hurley, Shottesbrooke, Waltham St Lawrence, and White Waltham) and Windsor (the civil parishes of Old Windsor, Sunningdale, and Sunninghill).

1983–1997: The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead wards of 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, and Trinity.

Members of Parliament

Election Member[1] Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Feb 1974 Sir Alan Glyn Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1992 Michael Trend Conservative
1997 constituency abolished: see Windsor & Maidenhead

Elections

Election in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Windsor and Maidenhead[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Trend 35,075 55.5 −1.3
Liberal Democrats Jeremy R.G. Hyde 22,147 35.1 +8.1
Labour Miss Catherine M. Sinclair Attlee 4,975 7.9 −3.3
Green Robert N. Williams 510 0.8 −0.4
Monster Raving Loony D.N. Askwith 236 0.4 N/A
Independent Miss Edith Bigg 110 0.2 N/A
Natural Law Mike R.S. Grenville 108 0.2 N/A
Majority 12,928 20.5 −9.4
Turnout 63,161 81.6 +6.2
Conservative hold Swing −4.7

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Windsor and Maidenhead
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Alan Glyn 33,980 56.84
Liberal SJ Jackson 16,144 27.01
Labour HB de Lyon 6,678 11.17
Ind. Conservative WO Board 1,938 3.24
Green P Gordon 711 1.19
Blancmange Throwers Pamela Stephenson 328 0.55
Majority 17,836 29.84
Turnout 75.37
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1983: Windsor and Maidenhead
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Alan Glyn 32,191 58.23
Liberal P Winner 13,988 25.30
Labour VI Price 6,383 11.55
Ind. Conservative WO Board 1,842 3.33
National Front GFC Gillmore 511 0.92
Independent PB Illesley 300 0.54
Wessex Regionalist Colin Roland Bex 68 0.12
Majority 18,203 32.93
Turnout 70.32
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Windsor and Maidenhead
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Alan Glyn 38,451 59.66
Labour VI Price 13,321 20.67
Liberal J Farrand 11,496 17.84
National Front P Crowley 930 1.44
Wessex Regionalist CR Bex 251 0.39
Majority 25,130 38.99
Turnout 75.43
Conservative hold Swing
General Election October 1974: Windsor and Maidenhead
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Alan Glyn 28,013 48.97
Labour MD Golder 15,172 26.52
Liberal GH Kahan 14,022 24.51
Majority 12,841 22.45
Turnout 71.78
Conservative hold Swing
General Election February 1974: Windsor and Maidenhead
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Alan Glyn 31,022 48.85
Liberal GH Kahan 16,027 25.24
Labour MD Golder 15,413 24.27
Ind. Conservative DP Funnell 1,041 1.64
Majority 14,995 23.61
Turnout 80.43
Conservative hold Swing

Notes and references

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)
  2. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.