Uxbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Uxbridge
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Uxbridge in Greater London for the 2005 general election.
County	Greater London
Major settlements	Uxbridge
1885–2010
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Uxbridge and South Ruislip, and Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
Created from	Middlesex

Uxbridge was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system, from 1885 until it was abolished at the 2010 general election.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The parliamentary constituency of Uxbridge was created as the westernmost county division of the historic county of Middlesex. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 defined the seat as comprising the parishes of Ashford*, Bedfont, Cowley, Cranford, Feltham, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Harefield, Harlington, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Laleham*, Littleton*, Northolt, Ruislip, Shepperton*, Staines*, Stanwell*, Sunbury*, Teddington, Uxbridge, West Drayton, and Yiewsley.

The parishes marked * were, from 1965, included in the administrative county of Surrey. The other parishes, in the above list, were at the same time incorporated in Greater London. In 1974 the south-west Middlesex communities, which had been transferred to Surrey, were linked to become the Borough of Spelthorne.

Uxbridge in the county of Middlesex, boundaries 1918-45

Uxbridge in the county of Middlesex, boundaries 1945-50

1918-1945: Uxbridge was cut down to be the north-western county division of Middlesex. The areas of south-west Middlesex which subsequently became the Borough of Spelthorne, with Feltham, Hampton, Hampton Wick and Teddington were all combined in a new Spelthorne constituency.

The local government areas in the new Uxbridge seat were defined, by the Representation of the People Act 1918, as the urban districts of Hayes, Ruislip-Northwood, Southall-Norwood, Uxbridge, and Yiewsley as well as the Uxbridge Rural District.

1945-1950: As part of an interim redistribution of parliamentary seats with more than 100,000 registered electors, changes were made to the Middlesex constituencies. Uxbridge was reduced to the urban districts of Ruislip-Northwood and Uxbridge.

1950-1974: In the general redistribution which took effect in 1950, Ruislip-Northwood became a new seat. Uxbridge (which became the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge in 1955) was joined by the Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District, to form the last incarnation of the Uxbridge county division.

In 1965 the area of the constituency became part of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

1974-1983: The seat was re-classified as a borough constituency, comprising the Hillingdon wards of Colham-Cowley, Harefield, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Uxbridge, and Yiewsley.

1983-1997: The constituency was unchanged from 1974, but following re-warding it comprised the wards of Colham, Cowley, Harefield, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon North, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Uxbridge North, Uxbridge South, West Drayton, and Yiewsley.

1997-2010: There was a small boundary change, with Harefield ward being transferred to the Ruislip-Northwood constituency. The remaining wards were Colham, Cowley, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon North, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Uxbridge North, Uxbridge South, West Drayton and Yiewsley.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England has created a new constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

A number of electoral wards in Hillingdon are moved into the new constituency of Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner

Members of Parliament

	Member ^[1]	Party
1885	Sir Frederick Dixon-Hartland, Bt	Conservative
Jan 1910	Hon. Charles Thomas Mills	Conservative
1915 b-e	Hon. Arthur Mills	Unionist
1918	Sir Sidney Peel	Unionist
1922	Sir Dennistoun Burney	Unionist
1929	John Llewellin	Conservative
1945	Frank Beswick	Labour
1959	Charles Curran	Conservative
1966	John Ryan	Labour
1970	Charles Curran	Conservative
1972 b-e	Sir Michael Shersby	Conservative
1997 b-e	John Randall	Conservative

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

Dixon-Hartland

General Election 1885: Uxbridge^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Dixon-Hartland	5,093		n/a
	Liberal	J P Rickman	2,615		n/a
Majority			2,478		n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Conservative win (new seat)

General Election 1886: Uxbridge^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Dixon-Hartland	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Uxbridge^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Frederick Dixon-Hartland	5,172
	Liberal	Leslie Probyn	2,029
Majority			3,143
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1895: Uxbridge^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Frederick Dixon-Hartland	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Uxbridge^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Frederick Dixon-Hartland	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1906: Uxbridge^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Frederick Dixon-Hartland	6,429
	Liberal	Sidney Job Pocock	6,284
Majority			145
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

C.T. Mills

General Election January 1910: Uxbridge^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon. Charles Thomas Mills	10,116
	Liberal	Sidney Job Pocock	5,408
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Uxbridge^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon. Charles Thomas Mills	9,005	67.8
	Liberal	Manmath Chandra Mallik	4,286	32.2
Majority				35.6
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Uxbridge by-election, 1915^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Hon. Arthur Robert Mills	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

Harry Gosling

General Election 1918: Uxbridge^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sidney Cornwallis Peel	9,814	59.1
	Labour	Harry Gosling	6,251	37.6
	Liberal	N M Snowball	545	3.3
Majority			3,563	21.5
Turnout				55.9
	Unionist hold		Swing

endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Uxbridge^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Charles Dennistoun Burney	12,391	52.7
	Labour	William John Brown	7,292	31.0
	National Liberal	F. S. Evans	3,844	16.3
Majority			5,099	21.7
Turnout				73.0
	Unionist hold		Swing

Hutchison

General Election 1923: Uxbridge ^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Charles Dennistoun Burney	9,254	40.6	-12.1
	Liberal	Graham Seton Hutchison	7,423	32.5	+16.2
	Labour	Robert Small	6,146	26.9	-4.1
Majority			1,831	8.1	-13.6
Turnout				66.6	-6.4
	Unionist hold		Swing	-14.2

General Election 1924: Uxbridge^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Charles Dennistoun Burney	13,525	52.1
	Labour	Robert Small	8,459	32.6
	Liberal	J S Griffith-Jones	3,976	15.3
Majority			5,066	19.5
Turnout				71.8
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Uxbridge^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Jestyn Llewellin	17,770	41.2	-10.9
	Labour	Reginald Francis Orlando Bridgeman	16,422	38.2	+5.6
	Liberal	Richard Christian Cecil James Binney	8,847	20.6	+5.3
Majority			1,348	3.0	-16.5
Turnout				72.2	+0.4
	Unionist hold		Swing	-8.2

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Llewellin	35,836	71.96
	Labour	L.M. Worsnop	11,609	23.31
	Independent	Reginald Francis Orlando Bridgeman	2,358	4.73
Majority			24,227	48.65
Turnout				68.36
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Llewellin	34,727	54.06
	Labour	L.M. Worsnop	24,000	37.36
	Liberal	William Ridgway	5,514	8.58
Majority			10,727	16.70
Turnout				65.20
	Conservative hold		Swing

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Frank Beswick	25,190	43.74
	Conservative	John Jestyn Llewellin	24,106	41.85
	Liberal	John Ernest Aylett	8,300	14.41
Majority			1,084	1.88
Turnout				73.93
	Labour Co-op gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Frank Beswick	20,139	48.16
	Conservative	C.B. Thorne	17,741	42.43
	Liberal	John Ernest Aylett	3,933	9.41
Majority			2,398	5.74
Turnout				84.56
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Frank Beswick	21,249	49.14
	Conservative	Leslie Charles Curran	19,701	45.56
	Liberal	Lucien Fior	2,289	5.29
Majority			1,548	3.58
Turnout				84.75
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Frank Beswick	22,244	51.00
	Conservative	Leslie Charles Curran	21,368	49.00
Majority			876	2.01
Turnout				81.71
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leslie Charles Curran	22,360	46.51
	Labour Co-op	Frank Beswick	20,970	43.62
	Liberal	Gordon Robert Goodall	4,746	9.87
Majority			1,390	2.89
Turnout				84.35
	Conservative gain from Labour Co-op		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leslie Charles Curran	20,519	43.63
	Labour	Thomas J. Parker	19,866	42.24
	Liberal	Gordon Robert Goodall	6,644	14.13
Majority			653	1.39
Turnout				80.77
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Ryan	21,793	45.46
	Conservative	Leslie Charles Curran	20,903	43.61
	Liberal	Gordon Robert Goodall	5,241	10.93
Majority			890	1.86
Turnout				82.55
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leslie Charles Curran	23,414	49.35
	Labour	John Ryan	19,768	41.66
	Liberal	Gordon Robert Goodall	4,265	8.99
Majority			3,646	7.68
Turnout				74.95
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Uxbridge by-election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Shersby	14,178	42.31	-7.04
	Labour	Manuela Sykes	13,000	38.79	-2.87
	Liberal	Ian Stuart	3,650	10.89	+1.9
	National Front	John Clifton	2,920	8.71	N/A
	Union Movement	Dan Harmston	873	2.60	N/A
	National Independence	Clare Macdonald	551	1.64	N/A
	Democratic Conservative against the Common Market	Reginald Simmerson	341	1.02	N/A
Majority			1,178
Turnout			35,513
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Shersby	20,542	42.08
	Labour	Manuela Sykes	18,127	37.13
	Liberal	J.S. Pincham	10,150	20.79
Majority			2,415	4.95
Turnout				82.48
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Shersby	19,969	44.51
	Labour	G.E. Pringle	17,816	39.71
	Liberal	J.S. Pincham	7,081	15.78
Majority			2,153	4.80
Turnout				75.09
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Shersby	24,967	52.49
	Labour	G.E. Pringle	16,972	35.68
	Liberal	Jonathan Hunt	5,031	10.58
	National Front	P. Budgen	595	1.25
Majority			7,995	16.81
Turnout				78.86
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Shersby	23,875	53.62
	Social Democratic	P. Russell	11,038	24.79
	Labour	P.J. Magee	9,611	21.59
Majority			12,837	28.83
Turnout				72.26
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Shersby	27,292	56.47
	Labour	David Michael Ernest Keys	11,322	23.43
	Social Democratic	Anthony Philip Goodman	9,164	18.96
	Green	Ian Edward Flindall	549	1.14
Majority			15,970	33.05
Turnout				76.52
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Uxbridge^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Shersby	27,487	56.44
	Labour	Robert John Emlyn Evans	14,308	29.38
	Liberal Democrat	SJ Carey	5,900	12.11
	Green	Ian Edward Flindall	538	1.10
	BNP	Michael O'Rourke	350	0.72
	Natural Law	A Deans	120	0.25
Majority			13,179	27.06
Turnout			30,071	78.88
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Shersby	18,095	43.5
	Labour	David Williams	17,371	41.8
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Malyan	4,528	10.9
	Referendum	Garrick Aird	1,153	2.8	N/A
	Socialist Alternative	Julia Leonard	398	1.0	N/A
Majority			724
Turnout				72.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Uxbridge by-election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alexander John Randall	16,288	51.1	+7.6
	Labour	Andrew Francis Slaughter	12,522	39.3	-2.5
	Liberal Democrat	Keith Kerr	1,792	5.6	-5.4
	Monster Raving Loony	Screaming Lord Sutch	396	1.3	N/A
	Socialist Alternative	Julia Leonard	259	0.8	-0.1
	BNP	Frances Taylor	205	0.7	N/A
	National Democrats	Ian Hugh Myddleton Anderson	157	0.5	N/A
	National Front	John McAuley	110	0.3	N/A
	Independent Liberal	Henry Middleton	69	0.2	N/A
	UKIP	James Feisenberger	39	0.1	N/A
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	Ronnie Carroll	30	0.1	N/A
Majority			3,766
Turnout				55.2	-16.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alexander John Randall	15,751	47.1	+3.6
	Labour	David Salisbury-Jones	13,653	40.9	+1.6
	Liberal Democrat	Catherine Royce	3,426	10.3	-0.6
	UKIP	Paul Cannons	588	1.8	N/A
Majority			2,098	6.2
Turnout			33,418	57.5	-14.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 2005: Uxbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alexander John Randall	16,840	49.0	+1.9
	Labour	Roderick Dubrow-Marshall	10,669	31.0	−9.9
	Liberal Democrat	Tariq Mahmood	4,544	13.2	+2.9
	BNP	Cliff le May	763	2.2	N/A
	Green	Stephen Young	725	2.1	N/A
	UKIP	Robert Kerby	553	1.6	−0.2
	National Front	Peter Shaw	284	0.8	N/A
Majority			6,171	18.0
Turnout			34,378	59.4	+1.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.9

References

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "U"
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i20.htm

Historic constituencies in London

1974	Acton Barking Battersea North Battersea South Beckenham Bermondsey Bethnal Green and Bow Bexleyheath Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Carshalton Chelsea Chingford Chipping Barnet Chislehurst City of London and Westminster South Croydon Central Croydon North East Croydon North West Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich Ealing North Edmonton Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Crayford Feltham and Heston Finchley Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith North Hampstead Harrow Central Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon North Hendon South Holborn and St Pancras South Hornchurch Hornsey Ilford North Ilford South Islington Central Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lambeth Central Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton Mitcham and Morden Newham North East Newham North West Newham South Norwood Orpington Paddington Peckham Putney Ravensbourne Richmond Romford Ruislip-Northwood St Marylebone St Pancras North Sidcup Southall Stepney and Poplar Streatham Surbiton Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Wimbledon Wood Green Woolwich East Woolwich West

1983	Barking Battersea Beckenham Bethnal Green and Stepney Bexleyheath Bow and Poplar Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Carshalton and Wallington Chelsea Chingford Chipping Barnet Chislehurst City of London and Westminster South Croydon Central Croydon North East Croydon North West Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich Ealing Acton Ealing North Ealing Southall Edmonton Eltham Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Crayford Feltham and Heston Finchley Fulham Greenwich Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith Hampstead and Highgate Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon North Hendon South Holborn and St Pancras Hornchurch Hornsey and Wood Green Ilford North Ilford South Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton Mitcham and Morden Newham North East Newham North West Newham South Norwood Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Peckham Putney Ravensbourne Richmond and Barnes Romford Ruislip-Northwood Southwark and Bermondsey Streatham Surbiton Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Westminster North Wimbledon Woolwich

1997	Barking Battersea Beckenham Bethnal Green and Bow Bexleyheath and Crayford Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Bromley and Chislehurst Camberwell and Peckham Carshalton and Wallington Chingford and Woodford Green Chipping Barnet Cities of London and Westminster Croydon Central Croydon North Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich and West Norwood Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush Ealing North Ealing Southall East Ham Edmonton Eltham Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Thamesmead Feltham and Heston Finchley and Golders Green Greenwich and Woolwich Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith and Fulham Hampstead and Highgate Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon Holborn and St Pancras Hornchurch Hornsey and Wood Green Ilford North Ilford South Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington and Chelsea Kingston and Surbiton Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton and Wanstead Mitcham and Morden North Southwark and Bermondsey Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Poplar and Canning Town Putney Regent's Park and Kensington North Richmond Park Romford Ruislip-Northwood Streatham Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow West Ham Wimbledon

Coordinates: 51°32′20″N 0°27′47″W / 51.539°N 0.463°W / 51.539; -0.463

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