Banbury

Banbury
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Banbury in Oxfordshire.
Location of Oxfordshire within England.
County	Oxfordshire
Electorate	84,063 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1553 (1553)
Member of Parliament	Tony Baldry (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Banbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a strongly Conservative seat.

The constituency was created January 26, 1554 through the efforts of Henry Stafford and Thomas Denton.^[2] Until 1885 it was a parliamentary borough, consisting only of the town of Banbury; since then it has been a county constituency, consisting of the northern part of Oxfordshire. It was the constituency represented by Lord North, the Prime Minister during the American War of Independence.

Boundaries

The constituency covers the north-east of Oxfordshire, around Banbury and largely corresponds to the Cherwell local government district, with the principal exception of the large village of Kidlington on the outskirts of Oxford which lies in the Oxford West and Abingdon constituency, and some smaller villages to the north-east of Oxford that lie in the Henley constituency.

Boundary Review

Following its review of parliamentary representation in Oxfordshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made minor alterations (transfer of the Cherwell district wards of Otmoor and Kirtlington to Henley) to the existing arrangement as a result of a population increase within previous boundaries. The electoral wards used in this modified constituency are:

• Twenty-three wards from the district of Cherwell – Adderbury, Ambrosden and Chesterton, Banbury Calthorpe, Banbury Easington, Banbury Grimsbury and Castle, Banbury Hardwick, Banbury Neithrop, Banbury Ruscote, Bicester East, Bicester North, Bicester South, Bicester Town, Bicester West, Bloxham and Bodicote, Caversfield, Cropredy, Deddington, Fringford, Hook Norton, Launton, Sibford, The Astons and Heyfords, and Wroxton.

Members of Parliament

Banbury borough (until 1885)

MPs 1554–1640

Constituency created 1554. (Even before the Reform Act of 1832, Banbury only returned one member to Parliament [1])

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MPs 1640–1885

Banbury division of Oxfordshire/Banbury County Constituency (since 1885)

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Election in the 1930s

Election in the 1920s

Election in the 1910s

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire
• History of Banbury, Oxfordshire

Notes and references

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. The Times. 1945. 
• The Times House of Commons 1950. The Times. 1950. 
• The Times House of Commons 1955. The Times. 1955. 
• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [2]
• Stanley T. Bindoff et al. (1982). The House of Commons: 1509 – 1558 ; 1, Appendices, constituencies, members A – C, Volume 4. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 0-436-04282-7. pp. 30–31.
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)

Coordinates: 51°58′N 1°18′W / 51.96°N 1.30°W / 51.96; -1.30

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