Beaconsfield (UK Parliament constituency)

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Beaconsfield
County constituency

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.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers South Bucks as well as Little Marlow, Wooburn, Hedsor and Flackwell Heath in Wycombe.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Members of Parliament

  • Constituency created (1974)
Election Member Party
1974, February Sir Ronald Bell Conservative
1974, October
1979
1982 by-election Tim Smith Conservative
1983
1987
1992
1997 Dominic Grieve Conservative
2001
2005

[edit] Election results

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
UK Independence 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

[edit] 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
UK Independence 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
UK Independence 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

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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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