Aldershot (UK Parliament constituency)

Aldershot /ˈɔːldərˌʃɒt/ is a constituency[n 1] in Hampshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Leo Docherty, a Conservative.[n 2]

Aldershot
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Aldershot in Hampshire
Location of Hampshire within England
CountyHampshire
Population103,922 (2011 census)[1]
Electorate72,430 (December 2015)[2]
Major settlementsAldershot, Farnborough
Current constituency
Created1918
Member of ParliamentLeo Docherty (Conservative)
Number of membersOne
Created fromBasingstoke

Political history

Aldershot has elected a Conservative as its MP since its creation in 1918.

From 1974, to 2010 (inclusive) Liberal Democrats (or predecessor, Liberals) polled second. In 2015 and 2017 the Labour candidate was runner-up.

The 2015 result saw the seat rank 123rd safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.[3] In June 2016, 57.9% of local adults voting in the EU membership referendum chose to leave the European Union instead of to remain. This was matched in two January 2018 votes in Parliament by its MP.[4]

In the 2017 general election, Leo Docherty won the seat after Howarth stood down (retired). The seat saw a further increase in the Labour vote, like much of the South East amid its national rise to 40% of the vote, the highest since 2001 when the party was in government.

Boundaries

1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Aldershot, Farnborough, and Fleet, and the Rural District of Hartley Wintney.

1950–1974: The Borough of Aldershot, the Urban Districts of Farnborough and Fleet, and the Rural District of Hartley Wintney. The constituency boundaries remained unchanged.

1974–1983: The Borough of Aldershot, the Urban Districts of Farnborough and Fleet, and in the Rural District of Hartley Wintney the parishes of Crondall, Crookham Village, Hawley, and Yateley.

1983–1997: The Borough of Rushmoor, and the District of Hart wards of Eversley, Frogmore and Darby Green, Hartley Wintney, Hawley, Whitewater, Yateley East, Yateley North, and Yateley West.

1997–2010: The Borough of Rushmoor, and the District of Hart wards of Frogmore and Darby Green, Hawley, Yateley East, Yateley North, and Yateley West.

2010–present: The Borough of Rushmoor, and the District of Hart wards of Blackwater and Hawley, and Frogmore and Darby Green.[n 3]

Constituency profile

The constituency includes the towns Aldershot and Farnborough in the north-east of Hampshire which have research, development and production sites of information technology and light industrial major commercial businesses such as in aviation at Farnborough Airport, storage and distribution, and military supply businesses. Aldershot is a major training and residential base of the British Army. Adding to steady employment and high income sectors, two 35 minutes to one-hour journey time passenger lines to Central London, serve the south and north of the mixed functionalist urban and leafy, relatively grand suburbia seat.[n 4]

Aldershot itself has some Labour councillors, along with one strong ward in Farnborough (Cherrywood), but the majority of wards, particularly in the smaller rural towns and villages are safely Conservative, the latter holding the seat with solid or large majorities from its creation 100 years ago.

Members of Parliament
Parliament Years Member[5] Party
Constituency created from Basingstoke
31st 1918–1922 Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne Conservative Party
32nd 1922–1923
33rd 1923–1924
34th 1924–1929
35th 1929–1931
36th 1931–1935
37th 1935–1940
1940 by-election–1945 Oliver Lyttelton
38th 1945–1950
39th 1950–1951
40th 1951–1954
1954 by-election–1955 Eric Errington
41st 1955–1959
42nd 1959–1964
43rd 1964–1966
44th 1966–1970
45th 1970–Feb 1974 Julian Critchley
46th Feb 1974–Oct 1974
47th Oct 1974–1979
48th 1979–1983
49th 1983–1987
50th 1987–1992
51st 1992–1997
52nd 1997–2001 Gerald Howarth
53rd 2001–2005
54th 2005–2010
55th 2010–2015
56th 2015–2017
57th 2017–2019 Leo Docherty
58th 2019–present

Elections
Aldershot election results

Elections in the 1910s
1918 general election: Aldershot[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
C Unionist Roundell Palmer 8,755 72.4 n/a
Liberal Harry Ainger 3,342 27.6 n/a
Majority 5,413 44.8 n/a
Turnout 48.0 n/a
Unionist win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s
1922 general election: Aldershot[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Roundell Palmer 10,952 67.4 −5.0
Liberal Harry Ainger 5,296 32.6 +5.0
Majority 5,656 34.8 −10.0
Turnout 16,248 64.8 +16.8
Unionist hold Swing −5.0
1923 general election: Aldershot [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Roundell Palmer 9,131 59.1 −8.3
Liberal Alfred Suenson-Taylor 6,315 40.9 +8.3
Majority 2,816 18.2 −16.6
Turnout 15,446 59.6 −5.2
Unionist hold Swing −8.3
1924 general election: Aldershot[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Roundell Palmer 14,081 76.6 +17.5
Labour Hubert Beaumont 4,313 23.4 n/a
Majority 9,768 53.2 +35.0
Turnout 68.2 +8.6
Unionist hold Swing N/A
1929 general election: Aldershot [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Roundell Palmer 15,123 59.3 −17.3
Liberal Henry Fabian Orpen 5,984 23.5 n/a
Labour J.R. McPhie 4,389 17.2 −6.2
Majority 9,139 35.8 17.4
Turnout 68.5 +0.3
Unionist hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1930s
1931 general election: Aldershot
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Roundell Palmer 22,134 84.4
Labour Mary Richardson 4,091 15.6
Majority 18,043 68.8
Turnout 26,225 65.6
Conservative hold Swing
1935 general election: Aldershot
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Roundell Palmer 17,730 73.4 −11.0
Independent Progressive Gerald Bailey 6,421 26.6 n/a
Majority 11,309 46.8 −22.0
Turnout 24,151 58.4 −7.2
Conservative hold Swing n/a
1945 general election: Aldershot[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Lyttelton 19,456 57.41 N/A
Common Wealth Tom Wintringham 14,435 42.59 N/A
Majority 5,021 14.82 N/A
Turnout 33,891 69.18 N/A
Conservative hold Swing N/A
1940 Aldershot by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Lyttelton Unopposed
Conservative hold

Elections in the 1950s
1950 general election: Aldershot[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Lyttelton 21,238 52.2 −5.21
Labour NF Hidden 15,066 37.0 +2.7
Liberal John Henry Gooden 4,355 10.7 N/A
Majority 6,172 15.2 +0.38
Turnout 40,659 79.7 −1.9
Conservative hold Swing +3.75
1951 general election: Aldershot[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Lyttelton 24,951 60.3 +8.1
Labour Robert N Hales 16,402 39.7 +2.7
Majority 8,549 20.7 +5.5
Turnout 41,353 77.8 −1.9
Conservative hold Swing +5.4
1954 Aldershot by-election[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Eric Errington 19,108 60.1 −0.2
Labour William Cuthbertson 12,701 39.9 +0.2
Majority 6,407 20.1 −0.4
Turnout 31,809 58.7 −19.1
Conservative hold Swing −0.2
1955 general election: Aldershot[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Eric Errington 22,701 56.7 −3.6
Labour Julian D Richards 13,129 32.8 −6.9
Liberal Enid Lakeman 4,232 10.6 N/A
Majority 9,572 23.9 +3.8
Turnout 40,062 73.9 −3.9
Conservative hold Swing −5.25
1959 general election: Aldershot[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Eric Errington 25,161 58.4 +!.7
Labour Roy E Brooks 12,270 28.5 −4.3
Liberal Enid Lakeman 5,679 13.2 +2.6
Majority 12,891 29.9 +6.0
Turnout 43,110 75.9 +2.0
Conservative hold Swing +3.0

Elections in the 1960s
1964 general election: Aldershot[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Eric Errington 25,797 52.03 −6.37
Labour Elizabeth K Collard 13,718 27.67 −0.87
Liberal Gerald Edward Owen 10,066 20.30 +7.1
Majority 12,079 24.36 −5.54
Turnout 49,581 75.01 −0.89
Conservative hold Swing +3.62
1966 general election: Aldershot[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Eric Errington 25,672 48.9 −4.1
Labour Derrick Harold Silvester 16,776 32.0 +4.3
Liberal Gerald Edward Owen 10,025 19.1 −1.2
Majority 8,896 17.0 −7.4
Turnout 52,473 75.38 +0.4
Conservative hold Swing +4.2

Elections in the 1970s
1970 general election: Aldershot[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Julian Critchley 33,447 55.8 +6.9
Labour Roger T. Bogg 18,916 31.6 −0.4
Liberal Philip M. Gibbons 7,551 12.6 −6.5
Majority 14,531 24.25 +7.3
Turnout 59,909 70.89 −4.5
Conservative hold Swing +3.7
February 1974 general election: Aldershot[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Julian Critchley 29,401 45.4 −10.2
Liberal G. Floyd 18,743 28.9 +16.3
Labour W.L.J.T. Card 15,492 23.9 −7.9
National Front T. Greenslade 1,148 1.77 N/A
Majority 10,658 16.5 +7.8
Turnout 64,781 81.2 +10.3
Conservative hold Swing −13.3
October 1974 general election: Aldershot[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Julian Critchley 26,463 45.1 −0.3
Liberal A. Burton 16,104 27.5 −1.4
Labour E.P. Sudworth 14,936 25.5 +1.6
National Front A. Greenslade 1,120 1.9 +0.1
Majority 10,359 17.7 +1.2
Turnout 58,620 72.8 −8.4
Conservative hold Swing −0.9
1979 general election: Aldershot[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Julian Critchley 38,014 57.5 +12.4
Liberal N. Westbrook 14,438 21.4 −6.1
Labour D. Somerville 13,698 20.7 −4.1
Majority 23,576 35.6 +17.9
Turnout 66,150 76.5 +3.7
Conservative hold Swing +9.3

Elections in the 1980s
1983 general election: Aldershot[20][21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Julian Critchley 31,288 55.5 −2.0
Liberal N. Westbrook 19,070 33.8 +12.4
Labour A. Crawford 6,070 10.8 −9.9
Majority 12,218 21.7 −12.9
Turnout 56,425 72.72 −3.8
Conservative hold Swing −7.2
1987 general election: Aldershot[22][23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Julian Critchley 35,272 59.0 +3.5
Liberal Roger Hargreaves 17,488 29.2 −4.6
Labour Ian Pearson 7,061 11.8 +1.0
Majority 17,784 29.7 +8.0
Turnout 59,822 74.0 +1.28
Conservative hold Swing +4.1

Elections in the 1990s
1992 general election: Aldershot[24][25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Julian Critchley 36,974 57.5 −1.5
Liberal Democrats Adrian Collett 17,786 27.6 −1.6
Labour John Smith 8,552 13.3 +1.5
Liberal David H. Robinson 1,038 1.6 N/A
Majority 19,188 29.8 +0.1
Turnout 64,350 78.7 +4.7
Conservative hold Swing +0.0
1997 general election: Aldershot[26][27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gerald Howarth 23,119 42.7 −14.8
Liberal Democrats Adrian Collett 16,498 30.5 +2.9
Labour Terence Bridgeman 13,057 24.1 +10.8
UKIP John Howe 794 1.5 N/A
Independent Arthur Uther Pendragon 361 0.7 N/A
BNP Donald Stevens 322 0.6 N/A
Majority 6,621 12.2
Turnout 54,153 70.8
Conservative hold Swing −8.9

Elections in the 2000s
2001 general election: Aldershot[28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gerald Howarth 19,106 42.2 −0.5
Liberal Democrats Adrian Collett 12,512 27.6 −2.8
Labour Luke Akehurst 11,394 25.2 +1.0
UKIP Derek Rumsey 797 1.8 +0.3
Green Adam Stacey 630 1.4 N/A
Independent Arthur Uther Pendragon 459 1.0 N/A
Monster Raving Loony Howling Laud Hope 390 0.9 N/A
Majority 6,594 14.6 +2.4
Turnout 45,288 57.9 −12.9
Conservative hold Swing +0.0
2005 general election: Aldershot[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gerald Howarth 20,572 42.7 +0.5
Liberal Democrats Adrian Collett 15,238 31.7 +4.1
Labour Howard Linsley 9,895 20.6 −4.6
UKIP Derek Rumsey 1,182 2.5 +0.7
English Democrat Gary Cowd 701 1.5 N/A
Monster Raving Loony Howling Laud Hope 553 1.1 +0.2
Majority 5,334 11.1 −3.5
Turnout 48,141 61.3 +3.4
Conservative hold Swing −1.8

Elections in the 2010s
2010 general election: Aldershot[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gerald Howarth 21,203 46.7 +2.7
Liberal Democrats Adrian Collett 15,617 34.4 +5.5
Labour Jonathan Slater 5,489 12.1 −9.6
UKIP Robert Snare 2,041 4.5 +2.1
English Independence Party Gary Cowd 999 1.8 N/A
Christian Juliana Brimicombe 231 0.5 N/A
Majority 5,586 12.3 +1.2
Turnout 45,384 63.5 −0.1
Conservative hold Swing −1.4
2015 general election: Aldershot[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gerald Howarth 23,369 50.6 +3.9
Labour Gary Puffett 8,468 18.3 +6.2
UKIP Bill Walker 8,253 17.9 +13.4
Liberal Democrats Alan Hilliar 4,076 8.8 −25.6
Green Carl Hewitt 2,025 4.4 N/A
Majority 14,901 32.3 +20.0
Turnout 46,191 63.8 +0.3
Conservative hold Swing −1.2
2017 general election: Aldershot[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Leo Docherty[33] 26,950 55.1 +4.5
Labour Gary Puffett[34] 15,477 31.6 +13.3
Liberal Democrats Alan Hilliar[35] 3,637 7.4 −1.4
UKIP Roy Swales[36] 1,796 3.7 −14.2
Green Donna Wallace 1,090 2.2 −2.2
Majority 11,518 23.5 −8.8
Turnout 48,995 64.2 +0.4
Conservative hold Swing 4.4
2019 general election: Aldershot[37]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Leo Docherty 27,980 58.4 +3.3
Labour Howard Kaye 11,282 23.5 −8.1
Liberal Democrats Alan Hilliar 6,920 14.4 +7.0
Green Donna Wallace 1,750 3.7 +1.4
Majority 16,698 34.9 +11.4
Turnout 47,932 66.0 +1.8
Registered electors 72,617
Conservative hold Swing +5.7

See also

Notes and references
Notes
  1. A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
  3. Wards were in the interim period reformed as their primary purpose is that of local government, see wards of the United Kingdom
  4. See Alton Line and South West Main Line, railways.
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