Coordinates: 51°36′36″N 0°38′42″W / 51.610°N 0.645°W
| Beaconsfield County constituency |
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| Beaconsfield shown within Buckinghamshire, and Buckinghamshire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1974 |
| MP: | Dominic Grieve |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Buckinghamshire |
| EP constituency: | South East England |
Beaconsfield is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is among the safest of Conservative seats.
In the 1982 by-election caused by the death of Sir Ronald Bell, the losing (third-placed) Labour candidate was Tony Blair. Tim Smith thus remains the last person to date to have beaten Blair in an election. Paul Tyler was in second place; he later became an MP for the second time so, most unusually, the three main-party candidates subsequently served in the House of Commons at the same time.
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Boundaries
The constituency was created in 1974, mostly from the former seat of South Buckinghamshire. It consists of all civil parishes in the district of South Bucks, and includes the parishes of Chepping Wycombe, Hedsor, Little Marlow, and Wooburn and Bourne End in the Wycombe district.
Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Buckinghamshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made minor changes to the existing Beaconsfield constituency. The electoral wards used in the newly drawn seat are:
- The entire South Bucks district
- Bourne End, Flackwell Heath, Hedsor, Little Marlow and Wooburn, in the Wycombe district
- Marlow North and West, and Marlow South East in the Wycombe district, from the Wycombe constituency.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1974 | Sir Ronald Bell | Conservative | |
| 1982 by-election | Tim Smith | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Dominic Grieve | Conservative | |
Election results
Elections in the 1970s
| General Election 1979: Beaconsfield | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Ronald Bell | 31,938 | 61.7 | +13.4 | |
| Labour | E.L. Glasson | 10,443 | 20.2 | −5.2 | |
| Liberal | P. Meyer | 8,853 | 17.1 | −9.1 | |
| National Front | J. Noyes | 548 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 21,495 | 41.5 | +19.4 | ||
| Turnout | 76.2 | +6.0 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1980s
| Beaconsfield by-election, 27th May 1982 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Tim Smith | 23,049 | 61.8 | +0.1 | |
| Liberal | Paul Tyler | 9,996 | 26.8 | +8.7 | |
| Labour | Tony Blair | 3,886 | 10.4 | −9.8 | |
| New Britain | Michael Byrne | 225 | 0.6 | − | |
| Democratic Monarchist | Bill Boaks | 99 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Benn in Ten Unless Proportional Representation | Thomas Keen | 51 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 13,053 | 35.0 | −8.2 | ||
| Turnout | 37,306 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Beaconsfield | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Tim Smith | 33,817 | 64.0 | −2.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | P. A. Purse | 10,220 | 19.3 | −4.4 | |
| Labour | D.G. Smith | 7,163 | 13.6 | +3.3 | |
| Independent Conservative | W. Foulds | 1,317 | 2.5 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | A. Foss | 196 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Equal Representation in Parliament | J. Martin | 166 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 23,597 | 44.6 | +4.4 | ||
| Turnout | 82.3 | +7.7 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Beaconsfield | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Dominic Grieve | 24,709 | 49.2 | −14.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | P. Mapp | 10,722 | 21.4 | +2.1 | |
| Labour | A. Hudson | 10,063 | 20.1 | +6.5 | |
| Referendum Party | H. Lloyd | 2,197 | 4.4 | N/A | |
| Independent Conservative | C. Story | 1,434 | 2.9 | ||
| UKIP | C. Cooke | 451 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Pro Life | G. Duval | 286 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | T. Dyball | 193 | 0.4 | +0.0 | |
| Indedpendent | R. Matthews | 146 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 13,987 | 27.9 | −16.7 | ||
| Turnout | 72.8 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −8.2 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
| General Election 2001: Beaconsfield | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Dominic Grieve | 22,233 | 52.8 | +3.5 | |
| Labour | Stephen Lathrope | 9,168 | 21.8 | +1.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Stephen Lloyd | 9,117 | 21.6 | +0.3 | |
| UKIP | Andrew Moffatt | 1,626 | 3.9 | +3.0 | |
| Majority | 13,065 | 31.0 | |||
| Turnout | 42,144 | 60.8 | -12.0 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 2005: Beaconsfield | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Dominic Grieve | 24,126 | 55.4 | +2.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Peter Chapman | 8,873 | 20.4 | −1.2 | |
| Labour | Alex Sobel | 8,422 | 19.4 | −2.4 | |
| UKIP | John Fagan | 2,102 | 4.8 | +0.9 | |
| Majority | 15,253 | 35.0 | |||
| Turnout | 43,523 | 63.9 | +3.1 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +1.9 | |||
References
- Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources: UK General Elections since 1832
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
See also
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