Beaconsfield (UK Parliament constituency)

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Beaconsfield County constituency

Beaconsfield shown within Buckinghamshire, and Buckinghamshire shown within England
Created:	1974
MP:	Dominic Grieve
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Buckinghamshire
EP constituency:	South East England

Beaconsfield is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is among the strongest of Conservative seats.

1 Boundaries
- 1.1 Boundary review
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 Trivia
5 See also
6 References

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers South Bucks as well as Little Marlow, Wooburn, Hedsor and Flackwell Heath in Wycombe.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Buckinghamshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made minor changes to the existing Beaconsfield constituency. The electoral wards used in the newly drawn seat are:

The entire South Bucks district
Bourne End-cum-Hedsor, Flackwell Heath, Hedsor, Little Marlow and Wooburn, in the Wycombe district
Marlow North and West, and Marlow South East in the Wycombe district, from the Wycombe constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Constituency created (1974)

	Member	Party
1974, February	Sir Ronald Bell	Conservative
1974, October
1979
1982 by-election	Tim Smith	Conservative
1983
1987
1992
1997	Dominic Grieve	Conservative
2001
2005

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Beaconsfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald Bell	31,938	61.7	+13.4
	Labour	E.L. Glasson	10,443	20.2	−5.2
	Liberal	P. Meyer	8,853	17.1	−9.1
	National Front	J. Noyes	548	1.1	N/A
Majority			21,495	41.5	+19.4
Turnout				76.2	+6.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

Beaconsfield by-election, 27th May 1982
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tim Smith	23,049	61.8	+0.1
	Liberal	Paul Tyler	9,996	26.8	+8.7
	Labour	Tony Blair	3,886	10.4	−9.8
	New Britain	Michael Byrne	225	0.6	−
	Democratic Monarchist	Bill Boaks	99	0.3	N/A
	Benn in Ten Unless Proportional Representation	Thomas Keen	51	0.1	N/A
Majority			13,053	35.0	−8.2
Turnout			37,306
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Beaconsfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tim Smith	33,817	64.0	−2.0
	Liberal Democrats	P. A. Purse	10,220	19.3	−4.4
	Labour	D.G. Smith	7,163	13.6	+3.3
	Independent Conservative	W. Foulds	1,317	2.5	N/A
	Natural Law	A. Foss	196	0.4	N/A
	Equal Representation in Parliament	J. Martin	166	0.3	N/A
Majority			23,597	44.6	+4.4
Turnout				82.3	+7.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Beaconsfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dominic Grieve	24,709	49.2	−14.8
	Liberal Democrats	P. Mapp	10,722	21.4	+2.1
	Labour	A. Hudson	10,063	20.1	+6.5
	Referendum Party	H. Lloyd	2,197	4.4	N/A
	Independent Conservative	C. Story	1,434	2.9
	UK Independence	C. Cooke	451	0.9	N/A
	Pro Life	G. Duval	286	0.6	N/A
	Natural Law	T. Dyball	193	0.4	+0.0
	Indedpendent	R. Matthews	146	0.3	N/A
Majority			13,987	27.9	−16.7
Turnout				72.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−8.2

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Beaconsfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dominic Grieve	22,233	52.8	+3.5
	Labour	Stephen Lathrope	9,168	21.8	+1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Lloyd	9,117	21.6	+0.3
	UK Independence	Andrew Moffatt	1,626	3.9	+3.0
Majority			13,065	31.0
Turnout			42,144	60.8	-12.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 2005: Beaconsfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dominic Grieve	24,126	55.4	+2.6
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Chapman	8,873	20.4	−1.2
	Labour	Alex Sobel	8,422	19.4	−2.4
	UK Independence	John Fagan	2,102	4.8	+0.9
Majority			15,253	35.0
Turnout			43,523	63.9	+3.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.9

[edit] Trivia

In the 1982 by-election caused by the death of Sir Ronald Bell, the losing (third-placed) Labour candidate was Tony Blair. Tim Smith thus remains the last person to date to have beaten Blair in an election. Paul Tyler was in second place; he later became an MP for the second time so, most unusually, the three main-party candidates subsequently served in the House of Commons at the same time.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources: UK General Elections since 1832
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

Constituencies in South East England
Conservative	Aldershot \| Arundel and South Downs \| Ashford \| Aylesbury \| Banbury \| Basingstoke \| Beaconsfield \| Bexhill and Battle \| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton \| Bracknell \| Buckingham \| Canterbury \| Chesham and Amersham \| Chichester \| East Hampshire \| East Surrey \| East Worthing and Shoreham \| Eastbourne \| Epsom and Ewell \| Esher and Walton \| Fareham \| Faversham and Mid Kent \| Folkestone and Hythe \| Gosport \| Gravesham \| Guildford \| Havant \| Henley \| Horsham \| Isle of Wight \| Maidenhead \| Maidstone and The Weald \| Mid Sussex \| Mole Valley \| New Forest East \| New Forest West \| Newbury \| North East Hampshire \| North East Milton Keynes \| North Thanet \| North West Hampshire \| Reading East \| Reigate \| Runnymede and Weybridge \| Sevenoaks \| South West Surrey \| Spelthorne \| Surrey Heath \| Tonbridge and Malling \| Tunbridge Wells \| Wantage \| Wealden \| Windsor \| Witney \| Woking \| Wokingham \| Worthing West \| Wycombe
Labour	Brighton Kemptown \| Brighton Pavilion \| Chatham and Aylesford \| Crawley \| Dartford \| Dover \| Gillingham \| Hastings and Rye \| Hove \| Medway \| Milton Keynes South West \| Oxford East \| Portsmouth North \| Reading West \| Sittingbourne and Sheppey \| Slough \| Southampton Itchen \| Southampton Test \| South Thanet
Liberal Democrat	Eastleigh \| Lewes \| Oxford West and Abingdon \| Portsmouth South \| Romsey \| Winchester
South East European constituency: Conservative (4) \| UKIP (2) \| Liberal Democrats (2) \| Labour (1) \| Green (1)

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