Wantage 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.
Boundaries
The constituency covers the south-west of Oxfordshire, largely corresponding to the Vale of White Horse local government district and a part of the South Oxfordshire district council. Nearly all of the Vale of the White Horse lie in the Wantage Costituency with the exception of twelve wards in the north east (comprising the town of Abingdon and the Oxford suburbs of North Hinksey (Botley) and Cumnor), which lie in the Oxford West and Abingdon constituency. With an electorate of barely 8000, Wantage is one of the smallest towns to hold sole ownership of a parliamentary constituency name and in fact the largest town in the constituency is Didcot, which lies in the neighbouring South Oxfordshire local authority district, as does Wallingford, another significant centre of population for the division.
Boundary Review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Oxfordshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made changes to the existing arrangement as a consequence of population changes. The electoral wards used in the creation of the modified constituency are:
- From the district of South Oxfordshire - Brightwell, Cholsey and Wallingford South, Didcot All Saints, Didcot Ladygrove, Didcot Northbourne, Didcot Park, Hagbourne, Moulsford, South Moreton, North Moreton, Shillingford, Little Wittenham, Long Wittenham, Aston Tirrold, Aston Upthorpe and Wallingford North
- From the district of Vale of White Horse - Blewbury and Upton, Craven, Drayton, Faringdon and The Coxwells, Greendown, Grove, Hanneys, Harwell, Hendreds, Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor, Longworth, Buscot, Duxford, Hinton Waldrist, Marcham and Shippon, Shrivenham, Stanford in the Vale, Sutton Courtenay and Appleford, Wantage Charlton, and Wantage Segsbury.
History
The constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the seat of Abingdon. It is a safe seat for the Conservative Party. Its first MP was Robert Jackson, who served as a junior minister under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
However, Jackson defected to the Labour Party in 2005, and so Wantage unexpectedly had a Labour MP. Jackson was deemed unlikely to be re-elected in Wantage as a Labour MP, so he did not stand at the 2005 general election. At that election, Ed Vaizey was elected as MP for Wantage and now holds the post of Shadow Minister for Culture.
Members of Parliament
Elections
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Blewbury • Chilton • Cumnor ( Chilswell, Cumnor Hill, Dean Court, Farmoor, Swinford) • Drayton • East Challow • East Hendred • Grove • Harwell • Kennington • Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor ( Kingston Bagpuize, Southmoor) • Marcham • North Hinksey ( Botley, Harcourt Hill) • Radley • St. Helen Without • Shrivenham • Stanford in the Vale ( Bow) • Steventon • Sunningwell ( Bayworth, Boars Hill, Foxcombe Hill) • Sutton Courtenay • Wootton (Dry Sandford, Cothill, Henwood, Lamborough Hill)
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The District of South Oxfordshire |
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Adwell • Aston Rowant • Aston Tirrold • Aston Upthorpe • Beckley and Stowood ( Beckley, Stowood) • Berrick Salome ( Berrick Prior, Roke, Rokemarsh) • Binfield Heath • Bix and Assendon ( Bix, Bix Bottom, Lower Assendon, Middle Assendon) • Brightwell Baldwin • Britwell Salome • Checkendon • Clifton Hampden ( Burcot) • Crowell • Cuddesdon and Denton ( Cuddesdon, Denton) • Culham • Cuxham with Easington ( Cuxham, Easington) • Dorchester • Drayton St. Leonard • East Hagbourne ( Coscote) • Elsfield • Eye and Dunsden ( Sonning Eye, Dunsden Green, Playhatch) • Forest Hill with Shotover ( Forest Hill, Shotover) • Goring Heath (Whitchurch Hill, Cray's Pond) • Great Haseley (Latchford, Little Haseley, North Weston, Rycote) • Harpsden • Highmoor • Holton • Ipsden • Kidmore End ( Gallowstree Common) • Lewknor ( Postcombe, South Weston) • Little Milton • Little Wittenham • Long Wittenham • Mapledurham ( Trench Green, Chazey Heath) • Marsh Baldon ( Baldon Row) • Moulsford • Nettlebed • Newington ( Great Holcombe) • North Moreton • Nuffield • Nuneham Courtenay • Pishill with Stonor ( Pishill, Stonor, Russell's Water) • Pyrton • Rotherfield Greys • Rotherfield Peppard • Shirburn • South Moreton ( Fulscot) • South Stoke ( Littlestoke) • Stadhampton ( Chiselhampton, Brookhampton, Ascott) • Stanton St. John (Woodperry) • Stoke Row • Stoke Talmage • Swyncombe • Sydenham (Kingston Stert) • Tetsworth • Tiddington-with-Albury (Tiddington, Albury) • Toot Baldon • Towersey • Warborough ( Shillingford) • Waterstock • West Hagbourne • Wheatfield • Whitchurch-on-Thames • Woodeaton • Waterperry with Thomley ( Waterperry, Thomley)
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Coordinates: 51°36′N 1°26′W / 51.60°N 1.43°W / 51.60; -1.43
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