List of Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire

The ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, which includes the unitary authorities of Buckinghamshire and the Borough of Milton Keynes, is divided into 7 Parliamentary constituencies – 1 Borough constituency and 6 County constituencies.

Constituencies

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal Democrat ¤   Independent

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest opposition[2] Map
Aylesbury CC 86,665 17,373   Rob Butler   Liz Hind ‡
Beaconsfield CC 77,720 15,712   Joy Morrissey   Dominic Grieve
Buckingham CC 83,146 20,411   Greg Smith   Stephen Dorrell ¤
Chesham and Amersham CC 72,542 16,223   Cheryl Gillan   Dan Gallagher ¤
Milton Keynes North CC 91,545 6,255   Ben Everitt   Charlynne Pullen ‡
Milton Keynes South BC 96,363 6,944   Iain Stewart   Hannah O'Neill ‡
Wycombe CC 78,093 4,214   Steve Baker   Khalil Ahmed ‡

2010 Boundary Review

In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England[3] proposed changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. The changes included the return of Great Missenden to Chesham and Amersham, Hazlemere to Wycombe and Aston Clinton to Buckingham. In addition, Marlow was transferred from Wycombe to Beaconsfield and Princes Risborough from Aylesbury to Buckingham. The boundary between the two Milton Keynes constituencies was realigned and they were renamed as Milton Keynes North and Milton Keynes South.

NamePre-2010 boundaries Revised namePost-2010 boundaries
  1. Aylesbury CC
  2. Beaconsfield CC
  3. Buckingham CC
  4. Chesham and Amersham CC
  5. Milton Keynes South West BC
  6. Milton Keynes North East CC
  7. Wycombe CC
Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire
  1. Aylesbury CC
  2. Beaconsfield CC
  3. Buckingham CC
  4. Chesham and Amersham CC
  5. Milton Keynes North CC
  6. Milton Keynes South BC
  7. Wycombe CC
Proposed Revised constituencies in Buckinghamshire

Proposed boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.

Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.

On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries.[4] Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020[5] was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.

The Act specified that the next review should be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[6] See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[7]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Buckinghamshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 220,814 52.7% 5.7% 7 1
Labour 106,226 25.4% 3.9% 0 0
Liberal Democrats 57,554 13.7% 7.3% 0 0
Greens 12,349 2.9% 1.1% 0 0
Brexit 1,286 0.3% new 0 0
Others 20,664 5.0% 8.3% 0 1
Total 418,893 100.0 7

Percentage votes

Note that before 1983 Buckinghamshire included the Eton and Slough areas of what is now Berkshire.

Election year 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (F) 1974 (O) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 50.2 47.0 54.3 47.1 72.3 60.6 43.4 45.2 54.3 53.9 52.5 48.8 47.1 52.5 44.3 44.4 55.0 56.8 57.0 57.0 43.7 45.1 47.8 44.3 45.5 47.0 52.7
Labour 13.8 19.6 16.3 19.7 20.9 29.1 43.8 39.7 45.7 40.4 35.4 36.0 39.7 35.9 29.7 32.0 27.4 14.4 15.5 19.2 30.6 30.9 25.9 15.5 18.1 29.3 25.4
Liberal Democrat1 36.1 33.4 29.4 33.1 6.8 10.3 12.7 14.7 - 5.7 12.1 15.2 13.2 11.7 25.4 22.5 15.9 28.5 27.0 22.1 21.2 19.9 21.2 20.9 6.5 6.4 13.7
Green Party - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * * * * 0.8 5.7 4.0 2.9
UKIP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * * 6.2 14.9 3.2 *
Brexit Party - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0.3
The Speaker2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6.3 9.0 8.5 -
Other - - - - - - - 0.4 - - - - - - 0.6 1.1 1.7 0.4 0.5 1.8 4.5 4.0 5.0 5.9 0.3 1.6 5.0

1pre-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

2Standing in Buckingham, unopposed by the 3 main parties.

* Included in Other

Accurate vote percentages for the 1918 election cannot be obtained because some candidates stood unopposed.

Seats

Election year 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 6 6 7 5 5 6 6 6 6 7
Labour 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0
The Speaker1 - - - - - - 1 1 1 -
Total 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

1John Bercow

Maps

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1945

  Conservative   Liberal   Liberal Unionist

Constituency 1885 1886 89 91 1892 1895 99 1900 1906 10 Jan 10 Dec 12 14 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 37 38 43
Aylesbury F. de Rothschild W. de Rothschild L. de Rothschild Keens Burgoyne Beaumont Reed
Buckingham E. Verney Hubbard E. Verney Leon Carlile F. Verney H. Verney Bowyer Whiteley Berry
Wycombe Curzon Grenfell Herbert Cripps du Pré Woodhouse Knox

1945 to 1983

  Conservative   Labour

Constituency 1945 1950 1951 52 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 Feb 1974 Oct 1974 78 1979 82
Eton and Slough Levy Brockway Meyer Lestor
Aylesbury Reed Summers Raison
Buckingham Crawley Markham Maxwell Benyon
Wycombe Haire Astor Hall Whitney
Buckinghamshire South / Beaconsfield (1974) Bell Smith
Chesham and Amersham Gilmour

1983 to present

  Conservative   Independent   Labour   Speaker

Constituency 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 09 2010 2015 2017 19 2019
Aylesbury Raison Lidington Butler
Buckingham Walden Bercow G. Smith
Wycombe Whitney Goodman Baker
Beaconsfield T. Smith Grieve Morrissey
Chesham and Amersham Gilmour Gillan
Milton Keynes / NE Milton Keynes (1992) / MK North (2010) Benyon Butler White Lancaster Everitt
Milton Keynes SW / Milton Keynes S (2010) Legg Starkey Stewart

See also

Notes

  1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

  1. Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  3. "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  4. "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  5. "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".
  6. "2023 Review launched | Boundary Commission for England". Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  7. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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