Twickenham (UK Parliament constituency)
Twickenham | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Twickenham in Greater London. | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 79,172 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Twickenham, Whitton, Hampton and Teddington |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1918 |
Member of parliament | Tania Mathias (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Brentford |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | London |
Twickenham is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Tania Mathias, a member of the Conservative Party.[n 2]
Boundaries


1918-1945: The Urban Districts of Heston and Isleworth, and Twickenham.
1945-1974: The Municipal Borough of Twickenham.
1974-1983: The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames wards of Central Twickenham, East Twickenham, Hampton, Hampton Hill, Hampton Wick, Heathfield, South Twickenham, Teddington, West Twickenham, and Whitton.
1983-1997: The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames wards of Central Twickenham, Hampton, Hampton Hill, Hampton Nursery, Hampton Wick, Heathfield, South Twickenham, Teddington, West Twickenham, and Whitton.
1997-2010: The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames wards of Central Twickenham, East Twickenham, Hampton, Hampton Hill, Hampton Nursery, Hampton Wick, Heathfield, South Twickenham, Teddington, West Twickenham, and Whitton.
2010-present: The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames wards of Fulwell and Hampton Hill, Hampton, Hampton North, Hampton Wick, Heathfield, St Margaret's and North Twickenham, South Twickenham, Teddington, Twickenham Riverside, West Twickenham, and Whitton.
The seat covers the south western part of the London Borough of Richmond, that part of the borough on the north bank of the River Thames.[n 3] It chiefly contains the towns or London districts of Twickenham, Hampton, Teddington and Whitton. Smaller sub-localities by order of commercial activity are Hampton Hill, Hampton Wick, St Margarets, Fulwell, Strawberry Hill and Hampton Court hamlet proper.[n 4] Features includes Hampton Court Palace, Bushy Park (one of the Royal Parks of London), and the Rugby Football Union's national ground, Twickenham Stadium.
History of boundaries
- 1918-1945
During this period the Hamptons (Hampton, Hampton Hill, Hampton Court and Hampton Wick) were excluded from the seat, which instead contained two urban districts to the north of subsequent boundaries, Isleworth and Hounslow, an area at the time with key economic sectors of construction, brewing, warehousing and goods transportation. As such these areas had some support for the Labour Party, who in their best result in the seat, lost the 1929 by-election in the seat by 503 votes (1.6% of the vote).
- 1945-date
In 1945, the area saw as an unusual corollary to its shift southwards, the swing nationally, of +11.7% (Con-to-Lab) converted in this middle-class urban setting to a loss in Conservative share of the vote[n 5] of -15.3% to the main beneficiary, a Liberal, George Granville Slack. From 1974 until seizing victory in 1997 the runner-up party became the Liberal Party or their successor, the Liberal Democrats and the ward boundaries became only slightly adjusted to reflect changes made in the borderlines made at the local level of government.
History
Twickenham was from 1931 until 1983 a safe seat of the Conservative Party and from 1983 until 1997 a marginal seat for that party. Liberal Democrat Vince Cable gained the seat at the 1997 landslide Conservative defeat and held it until 2015. The seat was one of very few in Britain that gave the Liberal Democrats a majority of votes in the 2005 and 2010 elections, their 6th best performance in 2010.[n 6] Cable was Secretary of State for Business from 2010 to 2015, but unexpectedly lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Tania Mathias in the 2015 General Election, in which the Liberal Democrats lost all but eight of their seats.
Constituency profile
As described by the boundaries, the area enjoys substantial parkland and Thameside landscapes, coupled with a variety of commuter train services to Central London including semi-fast services from Twickenham itself to London Waterloo. Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 1.7% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[2]
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 2010s
General Election 2015: Twickenham[3][4] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Tania Mathias | 25,580 | 41.3 | +7.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Vince Cable | 23,563 | 38.0 | −16.4 | |
Labour | Nick Grant | 7,129 | 11.5 | +3.8 | |
UKIP | Barry Edwards | 3,069 | 4.9 | +3.5 | |
Green | Tanya Williams | 2,463 | 4.0 | +2.8 | |
Christian | Dominic Stockford | 174 | 0.3 | n/a | |
Magna Carta | David Wedgwood | 26 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,017 | 3.3 | |||
Turnout | 62,004 | 77.3 | +2.5 | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat | Swing | +11.8 | |||
Twickenham had the highest turnout in England and the fourth highest in the UK at the 7 May 2015 General Election.[5]
General Election 2010: Twickenham[6] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Vince Cable | 32,483 | 54.4 | +2.7 | |
Conservative | Deborah Thomas | 20,343 | 34.1 | +1.7 | |
Labour | Brian Tomlinson | 4,583 | 7.7 | −3.7 | |
UKIP | Brian Gilbert | 868 | 1.5 | +0.0 | |
Green | Stephen Roest | 674 | 1.1 | −1.7 | |
BNP | Chris Hurst | 654 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality | Harry Cole | 76 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Magna Carta | Paul Armstrong | 40 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,140 | 20.3 | |||
Turnout | 59,721 | 74.8 | +2.4 | ||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | +0.5 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
General Election 2005: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | Vince Cable | 26,696 | 51.6 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | Paul Maynard | 16,731 | 32.4 | −1.0 | |
Labour | Brian Whitington | 5,868 | 11.4 | −2.4 | |
Green | Henry B. Leveson-Gower | 1,445 | 2.8 | 0.0 | |
UKIP | Douglas Orchard | 766 | 1.5 | +0.3 | |
Independent | Brian P. Gibert | 117 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | George Weiss | 64 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,965 | 19.3 | |||
Turnout | 51,687 | 71.8 | +5.4 | ||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | +2.0 | |||
General Election 2001: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | John Vincent Cable | 24,344 | 48.7 | +3.6 | |
Conservative | Nicholas Roger Simon Longworth | 16,689 | 33.4 | −4.3 | |
Labour | Dean Peter Rogers | 6,903 | 13.8 | −1.8 | |
Green | Mrs. Judith Sara M. Maciejowska | 1,423 | 2.8 | N/A | |
UKIP | Ray Thomas Hollebone | 579 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,655 | 15.3 | |||
Turnout | 49,938 | 66.4 | −12.6 | ||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | +4.0 | |||
Elections in the 1990s
General Election 1997: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Democrat | John Vincent Cable | 26,237 | 45.1 | +5.4 | |
Conservative | Toby Henry Francis Jessel | 21,956 | 37.8 | −12.6 | |
Labour | Mrs. Eva Tutchell | 9,065 | 15.6 | +6.3 | |
Independent English Conservative and Referendum | Jane Harrison | 589 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Terence D. Haggar | 155 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Anthony J.W. Hardy | 142 | 0.2 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 4,281 | 7.3 | |||
Turnout | 58,144 | 79.3 | |||
Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative | Swing | +9.0 | |||
General Election 1992: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Toby Henry Francis Jessel | 26,804 | 50.4 | −1.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | John Vincent Cable | 21,093 | 39.7 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Michael D. Gold | 4,919 | 9.3 | +0.9 | |
Natural Law | Gary P. Gill | 152 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Democratic Liberal and Conservatives | D.W. Griffith | 103 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | A.J. Miners | 85 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,711 | 10.7 | −6.8 | ||
Turnout | 53,156 | 84.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.5 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
General Election 1987: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Toby Henry Francis Jessel | 27,331 | 51.9 | +1.5 | |
Liberal | John Waller | 20,204 | 38.3 | −2.5 | |
Labour | Valerie Carol Marian Vaz | 4,415 | 8.4 | +0.9 | |
Green | David Stephen Batchelor | 746 | 1.4 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 7,127 | 13.5 | |||
Turnout | 52,696 | 81.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.5 | |||
General Election 1983: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Toby Henry Francis Jessel | 25,110 | 50.4 | −1.8 | |
Liberal | John Waller | 20,318 | 40.8 | +10.9 | |
Labour | Mrs. P.A. Nicholas | 3,732 | 7.5 | −9.2 | |
Ecology | J.J. Clarke | 424 | 0.9 | N/A | |
National Front | T.J. Denville-Faulkner | 234 | 0.5 | −0.7 | |
Independent | R.W. Kenyon | 40 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,792 | 9.6 | |||
Turnout | 49,858 | 77.8 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +7.0 | |||
Elections in the 1970s
General Election 1979: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Toby Henry Francis Jessel | 30,017 | 52.2 | +5.7 | |
Liberal | John Waller | 17,169 | 29.9 | +5.7 | |
Labour | David Wetzel | 9,591 | 16.7 | −12.1 | |
National Front | M. Braithwaite | 686 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,848 | 22.4 | |||
Turnout | 57,463 | 80.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election October 1974: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Toby Henry Francis Jessel | 24,959 | 46.5 | +0.2 | |
Labour | M. Cunningham | 15,452 | 28.8 | +2.1 | |
Liberal | Susan E. Kramer | 13,021 | 24.2 | −2.8 | |
Anti EEC | W. Burgess | 287 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,507 | 17.7 | |||
Turnout | 53,719 | 74.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election February 1974: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Toby Henry Francis Jessel | 27,595 | 46.3 | ||
Liberal | Susan E. Kramer | 16,092 | 27.0 | ||
Labour | R.M. Taylor | 15,909 | 26.7 | ||
Majority | 11,503 | 19.3 | |||
Turnout | 59,596 | 83.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1970: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Toby Henry Francis Jessel | 28,571 | 54.4 | ||
Labour | John H.W. Grant | 16,950 | 32.3 | ||
Liberal | David K. Rebak | 6,516 | 12.4 | ||
Independent | Richard Franklin | 462 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,621 | 22.1 | |||
Turnout | 52,499 | 70.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
General Election 1966: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Roger Gresham Cooke | 26,512 | 47.7 | ||
Labour | David Carlton | 18,884 | 34.0 | ||
Liberal | Simon Goldblatt | 10,160 | 18.3 | ||
Majority | 7,628 | 13.7 | |||
Turnout | 55,556 | 78.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1964: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Roger Gresham Cooke | 27,427 | 48.9 | ||
Labour | W Eric Wolff | 15,231 | 27.2 | ||
Liberal | John Woolfe | 12,306 | 22.0 | ||
Independent | Michael H. Craft | 1,073 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,196 | 21.8 | |||
Turnout | 56,037 | 77.7 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
General Election 1959: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Roger Gresham Cooke | 33,677 | 57.2 | ||
Labour | Anne Patricia Kerr | 16,638 | 28.3 | ||
Liberal | K. Arthur Powell | 8,589 | 14.6 | ||
Majority | 17,039 | 28.9 | |||
Turnout | 58,904 | 79.8 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1955: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Roger Gresham Cooke | 33,726 | 58.4 | ||
Labour | Pat O'Gorman | 17,450 | 30.2 | ||
Liberal | Miss Margaret Neilson | 6,626 | 11.5 | ||
Majority | 16,276 | 28.2 | |||
Turnout | 57,802 | 77.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Twickenham by-election, 25 January 1955 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Roger Gresham Cooke | 23,075 | 64.0 | −1.9 | |
Labour | R. P. Pitman | 12,953 | 36.0 | −1.9 | |
Majority | 10,122 | 28.1 | −3.9 | ||
Turnout | 36,028 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.9 | |||
General Election 1951: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Edward Keeling | 39,080 | 62.1 | ||
Labour | Miss Ethel E.B. Chipchase | 23,871 | 37.9 | ||
Majority | 15,209 | 24.2 | |||
Turnout | 62,951 | 81.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1950: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Edward Herbert Keeling | 36,757 | 55.9 | ||
Labour | John Thomson Stonehouse | 23,088 | 35.1 | ||
Liberal | Derek Alan Forwood | 5,950 | 9.0 | ||
Majority | 13,669 | 20.8 | |||
Turnout | 65,795 | 85.7 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1945: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Edward Herbert Keeling | 26,045 | 48.0 | -15.3 | |
Labour | Arthur James Irvine | 22,736 | 41.9 | +4.2 | |
Liberal | George Granville Slack | 5,509 | 10.2 | +10.2 | |
Majority | 3,309 | 6.1 | |||
Turnout | 54,290 | 74.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1935: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Edward Herbert Keeling | 37,635 | 62.3 | ||
Labour Co-op | Percy Holman | 22,823 | 37.8 | ||
Majority | 14,812 | 24.5 | |||
Turnout | 60,458 | 66.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Twickenham by-election, 22 June 1934 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Alfred Cecil Critchley | 23,395 | 56.1 | −0.1 | |
Labour Co-op | Percy Holman | 19,890 | 43.9 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 5,505 | 12.2 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 43,285 | 55.5 | +3.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.1 | |||
Twickenham by-election, 16 September 1932 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Hylton Ralph Murray-Philipson | 21,688 | 56.2 | −17.8 | |
Labour Co-op | Percy Holman | 16,881 | 43.8 | +17.8 | |
Majority | 4,807 | 12.4 | −35.6 | ||
Turnout | 38,569 | 51.9 | −19.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −17.8 | |||
General election, 1931: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir John Ferguson | 39,161 | 74.0 | +26.3 | |
Labour Co-op | Percy Holman | 13,793 | 26.0 | −20.1 | |
Majority | 25,398 | 48.0 | +46.4 | ||
Turnout | 42,954 | 71.3 | +21.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +23.2 | |||
Elections in the 1920s
Twickenham by-election, 1929 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Sir John Ferguson | 14,705 | 47.7 | −0.8 | |
Labour | Thomas Jackson Mason | 14,202 | 46.1 | +11.3 | |
Liberal | Frederick Graham Paterson | 1,920 | 6.2 | −10.5 | |
Majority | 503 | 1.6 | −12.1 | ||
Turnout | 49.5 | −20.3 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | −6.6 | |||
General Election 1929: Twickenham[7] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Rt Hon. Sir William Joynson-Hicks | 21,087 | 48.5 | ||
Labour | Thomas Jackson Mason | 15,121 | 34.8 | ||
Liberal | Frederick Graham Paterson | 7,246 | 16.7 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1924: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Rt Hon. Sir William Joynson-Hicks | ||||
Labour | Stanley Simon Sherman | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||

General Election 1923: Twickenham | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Rt Hon. Sir William Joynson-Hicks | 12,903 | 55.4 | n/a | |
Labour | Stanley Simon Sherman | 5,509 | 23.7 | n/a | |
Liberal | Charles Baker | 4,858 | 20.9 | n/a | |
Majority | 7,394 | 31.7 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 23,270 | n/a | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a | |||
General Election 1922 : Twickenham [8] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Sir William Joynson-Hicks | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1918 Twickenham[9]
Electorate | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | n/a | ||||
Labour | Rev. Humphrey Chalmers | n/a | |||
Majority | n/a | ||||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Unionist win | |||||
- denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
See also
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London
- Twickenham by-election, 1929
- Twickenham by-election, 1932
- Twickenham by-election, 1934
- Twickenham by-election, 1955
- Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election in individual constituencies
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.
- ↑ However mostly further south as the river is on a north-south axis at this point
- ↑ An ill-defined but major neighbourhood of East Molesey often self-identifies as and ascribes to itself Hampton Court by virtue of its station and long standing sweep of shops of that name, across historic and actual boundaries, across the Thames in Surrey, this is not part of the Hampton Court hamlet mentioned.
- ↑ Also known as one-party swing
- ↑ By share of the vote, behind five seats: Orkney and Shetland, Westmoreland and Lonsdale, Bath, Yeovil, and Norfolk North
- References
- ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ http://cabnet.richmond.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=78&RPID=18489107 19Aug15
- ↑ http://geo.digiminster.com/election/2015-05-07/Statistics/Turnout
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Sources
- Boundary Commission for England
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
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