Coordinates: 52°00′00″N 0°59′17″W / 52.000°N 0.988°W / 52.000; -0.988
Buckingham /ˈbʌkɪŋm̩/ is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by John Bercow, who later became Speaker of the House of Commons.[n 2]
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Buckingham, the Sessional Divisions of Ashendon, Buckingham, Newport, and Stony Stratford, and part of the Sessional Division of Winslow.
1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Buckingham, the Urban Districts of Bletchley, Linslade, and Newport Pagnell, the Rural Districts of Buckingham, Newport Pagnell, Stratford and Wolverton, Wing, and Winslow, in the Rural District of Aylesbury the civil parishes of Ashenden, Chearsley, Grendon Underwood, Kingswood, Ludgershall, Woodham, and Wotton Underwood, and the part of the Rural District of Long Crendon which was not included in the Aylesbury constituency.
1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Buckingham, the Urban Districts of Bletchley, Linslade, Newport Pagnell, and Wolverton, and the Rural Districts of Buckingham, Newport Pagnell, Wing, and Winslow.
1974-1983: The Municipal Borough of Buckingham, the Urban Districts of Bletchley, Newport Pagnell, and Wolverton, and the Rural Districts of Buckingham, Newport Pagnell, Wing, and Winslow.
1983-1992: The District of Aylesbury Vale wards of Bierton, Brill, Buckingham North, Buckingham South, Cheddington, Eddlesborough, Great Brickhill, Great Horwood, Grendon Underwood, Haddenham, Hogshaw, Long Crendon, Luffield Abbey, Marsh Gibbon, Newton Longville, Oakley, Pitstone, Quainton, Steeple Claydon, Stewkley, Stone, Tingewick, Waddesdon, Wing, Wingrave, and Winslow, and the Borough of Milton Keynes wards of Stony Stratford, Wolverton, and Wolverton Stacey Bushes.
1992-1997: The District of Aylesbury Vale wards of Bierton, Brill, Buckingham North, Buckingham South, Cheddington, Eddlesborough, Great Brickhill, Great Horwood, Grendon Underwood, Haddenham, Hogshaw, Long Crendon, Luffield Abbey, Marsh Gibbon, Newton Longville, Oakley, Pitstone, Quainton, Steeple Claydon, Stewkley, Stone, Tingewick, Waddesdon, Wing, Wingrave, and Winslow.
1997-2010: The District of Aylesbury Vale wards of Aston Clinton, Bierton, Brill, Buckingham North, Buckingham South, Cheddington, Eddlesborough, Great Brickhill, Great Horwood, Grendon Underwood, Haddenham, Hogshaw, Long Crendon, Luffield Abbey, Marsh Gibbon, Newton Longville, Oakley, Pitstone, Quainton, Steeple Claydon, Stewkley, Stone, Tingewick, Waddesdon, Wing, Wingrave, and Winslow.
2010–present: The District of Aylesbury Vale wards of Bierton, Brill, Buckingham North, Buckingham South, Cheddington, Edlesborough, Great Brickhill, Great Horwood, Grendon Underwood, Haddenham, Long Crendon, Luffield Abbey, Marsh Gibbon, Newton Longville, Pitstone, Quainton, Steeple Claydon, Stewkley, Tingewick, Waddesdon, Weedon, Wing, Wingrave, and Winslow, and the District of Wycombe wards of Icknield and The Risboroughs.
The constituency takes up a large part of central Buckinghamshire, covering much of the Aylesbury Vale district including the town of Buckingham. To the north, the remaining part of ceremonial Buckinghamshire forms two Borough of Milton Keynes constituencies (Milton Keynes South and Milton Keynes North).
History
The seat has sent MPs since 1542 — its standard double representation was halved in 1868. In the twentieth century, the constituency was held by the Conservative Party for most of the time. However, a Labour Party MP served Buckingham from 1945 until 1951, Aidan Crawley and from 1964 until 1970 its Labour MP was the controversial publisher Robert Maxwell.
Before 1983, the new town of Milton Keynes, including its older parts such as Bletchley and Fenny Stratford[n 3] was in the Buckingham constituency, until its population had expanded substantially enough to merit a seat of its own. The sitting Buckingham MP William Benyon moved to the new Milton Keynes constituency. Benyon's successor in Buckingham was Conservative George Walden. Walden retired in 1997, and John Bercow has held the seat since then. In 2009, Bercow was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons following the resignation of Michael Martin and there is an inconsistently followed convention not to oppose a professed speaker candidate at election which is mostly kept by the major parties — nonetheless UKIP's leader stood against Bercow in the 2010 election but finished third behind the Buckinghamshire Campaign for Democracy founder who previously founded the Pro-Euro Conservative Party.[3]
At the 2005 general election, this constituency had the Conservatives' highest numerical majority, although a higher share of the vote was achieved in Kensington and Chelsea in London and Richmond in North Yorkshire, the constituency of William Hague.
Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (1542)
MPs to 1660
MPs 1660–1868
Year | First member[6][7] | First party | Second member[6][7] | Second party |
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1660 |
John Dormer | |
Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet | |
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1661 |
Sir William Smyth, 1st Baronet | |
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February 1679 |
Viscount Latimer | |
Sir Peter Tyrrell, 1st Baronet | |
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August 1679 |
Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Bt. | |
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1681 |
Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Bt. | |
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1690 |
Alexander Denton | |
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1697 |
Sir Richard Temple, 4th Bt. | Whig |
|
1698 |
Edmund Denton | |
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1702 |
Roger Price | |
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May 1705 |
Sir Richard Temple, 4th Bt. | Whig |
|
December 1705 |
Browne Willis | |
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1708 |
Sir Richard Temple, 4th Bt. | Whig |
Alexander Denton | |
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1710 |
Thomas Chapman | |
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1713 |
John Radcliffe | |
| |
1715 |
Alexander Denton | |
Abraham Stanyan | |
|
1718 |
Edmund Halsey | |
|
March 1722 |
Richard Grenville | |
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October 1722 |
William Heathcote | |
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March 1727 |
John Fane | |
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August 1727 |
Thomas Lewis | |
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1728 |
George Chamberlayne | |
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1734 |
Richard Grenville | |
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1741 |
George Grenville | Whig |
|
1747 |
Richard Grenville | |
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1753 |
Temple West | |
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1754 |
James Grenville | |
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1768 |
Henry Grenville | |
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1770 |
James Grenville | |
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1774 |
Richard Grenville | |
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1780 |
Richard Aldworth-Neville | |
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1782 |
William Grenville | Whig |
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1784 |
Charles Edmund Nugent | |
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June 1790 |
George Nugent | |
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December 1790 |
The Lord Bridport | |
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1796 |
Thomas Grenville | |
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1802 |
Lord Proby | |
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1805 |
Lord Proby | |
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August 1806 |
Earl Percy | Tory |
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November 1806 |
Sir William Young, 2nd Bt. | |
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March 1807 |
Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Bt. | |
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May 1807 |
Hon. Richard Griffin | |
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1810 |
Lord George Grenville | Liberal |
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1812 |
Viscount Ebrington | Whig |
William Henry Fremantle | |
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1817 |
James Hamilton Stanhope | |
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1818 |
Sir George Nugent, 1st Bt. | |
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1827 |
Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Bt. | Conservative |
|
1832 |
Sir Harry Verney | Liberal |
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1841 |
Sir John Chetwode, 4th Bt. | |
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January 1846 |
John Hall | |
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February 1846 |
Marquess of Chandos | Conservative |
|
1857 |
Sir Harry Verney |
Liberal |
|
1859 |
John Gellibrand Hubbard | Conservative |
1868 |
Representation reduced to one member |
MPs since 1868
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
1 In both 2015 and 2010, John Bercow stood as 'The Speaker seeking re-election'.
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1910s
Sir Harry Verney
Elections in the 1900s
Frederick Verney
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1880s
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- References
- ↑ "Buckingham: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ The Guardian profile of the seat as at 2010
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-09-29.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-09-29.
- 1 2 "Buckingham 1660-". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 7 February 2015. [For members from 1796].
- 1 2 3 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)
- ↑ "Buckingham 1660-". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ http://www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/news/general-election-2015-results 30Aug15/
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk Aylesbury Vale District Council
- ↑ BBC.co.uk
- ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- 1 2 3 British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- 1 2 The Constitiutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 140 (164 in web page), Berkshire
- Sources
- Iain Dale, ed. (2003). The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X.
- The Times House of Commons 1945. 1945.
- The Times House of Commons 1950. 1950.
- The Times House of Commons 1955. 1955.
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