Windsor and Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency)

Windsor and Maidenhead
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Location of Berkshire within England.
County	Berkshire
Major settlements	Windsor and Maidenhead
1974–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Windsor and Maidenhead
Created from	Windsor

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.

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
	Feb 1974	Sir Alan Glyn	Conservative
	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 Democrat	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
	Independent 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
	Independent 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
	Independent 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.