Slough (UK Parliament constituency)

Slough
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Slough in Berkshire.
Location of Berkshire within England.
County	Berkshire
Electorate	81,327 (December 2010)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Fiona Mactaggart (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Eton & Slough, and Beaconsfield
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Slough is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Fiona Mactaggart, a member of the Labour Party.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

1983-1997: The Borough of Slough.

1997-2010: The Borough of Slough wards of Baylis, Britwell, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham, Farnham, Haymill, Kederminster, Langley St Mary's, Stoke, Upton, and Wexham Lea.

2010-present: The Borough of Slough wards of Baylis and Stoke, Britwell, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham Green, Cippenham Meadows, Farnham, Foxborough, Haymill, Kedermister, Langley St Mary’s, Upton, and Wexham Lea.

The constituency was created in 1983 and covers the Borough of Slough, a unitary authority, in Berkshire, with the exception of one ward.

The former Eton and Slough constituency, which contributed 88.2% of the Slough constituency, was a safe seat for the Labour Party. The remaining northern slice came from the safe Conservative constituency of Beaconsfield.

Constituency profile

The Conservatives gained the new Slough seat in 1983, and held it until 1997, when Labour gained the constituency.

Workless claimants stood at 3.9% in November 2012, just 0.1% above the national average, and while lower than all of eastern Kent and the Isle of Wight, statistically significantly greater than the regional average of 2.5%.^[2] The borough has one of the largest mixed commercial (company headquarters and manufacturing) estates in Europe and fast rail links to London on the Great Western Main Line, to be bolstered by direct city centre services with Crossrail. The area is also the part of the M4 corridor that is the closest to the capital and London Heathrow Airport.

History

From 1945 to 1983 most of the area presently covered by this seat was in the Eton and Slough constituency, whose Labour MP from 1950 to 1964 was Fenner Brockway, a radical progressive social democrat, who led in writing on pacifism, prison reform, anti-colonialism and anti-discrimination, and was editor of the Labour Leader, attended talks by the Fabian Society and joined the fledgling Independent Labour Party in 1907.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[3]	Party
	1983	John Watts	Conservative
	1997	Fiona Mactaggart	Labour

Elections

1980s – 1990s – 2000s

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Slough^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Fiona Mactaggart	23,421	48.5	+2.7
	Conservative	Gurcharan Singh^[6]	16,085	33.3	−1.0
	UKIP	Diana Coad^[7]	6,274	13.0	+9.8
	Liberal Democrat	Tom McCann	1,275	2.6	−11.9
	Green	Julian Edmonds^[8]	1,220	2.5	+1.4
Majority			7,336	15.2	+3.6
Turnout			48,275	55.9	−6.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.8

UKIP originally selected Ken Wight, who was replaced by former Conservative member, Diana Coad.^[7]

General Election 2010: Slough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Fiona Mactaggart	21,884	45.8	−0.4
	Conservative	Diana Coad	16,361	34.3	+7.9
	Liberal Democrat	Chris Tucker	6,943	14.5	−2.2
	UKIP	Peter Mason-Apps	1,517	3.2	−0.5
	Green	Miriam Kennet	542	1.1	−0.9
	Christian	Sunil Chaudhary	495	1.0	N/A
Majority			5,523	11.6
Turnout			47,742	61.9	+8.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Slough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Fiona Mactaggart	17,517	47.2	−11.1
	Conservative	Sheila Gunn	9,666	26.1	−0.1
	Liberal Democrat	Thomas McCann	5,739	15.5	+5.0
	Respect	Ajaz Khan	1,632	4.4	N/A
	UKIP	Geoff Howard	1,415	3.8	+1.9
	Green	David Wood	759	2.0	N/A
	Independent	Paul Janik	367	1.0	N/A
Majority			7,851	21.2
Turnout			37,095	50.5	−2.9
	Labour hold		Swing	−5.5

General Election 2001: Slough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Fiona Mactaggart	22,718	58.3	+1.6
	Conservative	Diana Coad	10,210	26.2	−3.1
	Liberal Democrat	Keith Kerr	4,109	10.5	+3.2
	Independent	Tony Haines	859	2.2	+1.6
	UKIP	John Lane	738	1.9	N/A
	Independent	Choudry Nazir	364	0.9	N/A
Majority			12,508	32.1
Turnout			38,998	53.4	−14.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Slough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Fiona Mactaggart	27,029	56.6	+12.9
	Conservative	Peta Buscombe	13,958	29.2	−15.4
	Liberal Democrat	Chris Bushill	3,509	7.4	+0.4
	Liberal	Anne Bradshaw	1,835	3.8	+1.3
	Referendum	Terence J. Sharkey	1,124	2.4	N/A
	Independent	Paul P. Whitmore	277	0.6	N/A
Majority			13,071	27.4
Turnout			47,732	67.9	−10.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1992: Slough^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Arthur Watts	25,793	44.6	−2.3
	Labour	Eddie Lopez	25,279	43.7	+4.1
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Mapp	4,041	7.0	−6.4
	Liberal	John Clark	1,426	2.5	N/A
	Independent Labour	Declan Alford	699	1.2	N/A
	National Front	Andy Carmichael	290	0.5	N/A
	Natural Law	Martin Raymond Creese	153	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Ms Elizabeth Anne Smith	134	0.2	N/A
Majority			514	0.9	−6.5
Turnout			57,815	78.0	+2.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.3

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Slough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Arthur Watts	26,166	47.0	+4.1
	Labour	Eddie Lopez	22,076	39.6	+2.7
	Social Democratic	Michael Goldstone	7,490	13.4	−5.1
Majority			4,090	7.4	+1.4
Turnout			55,732	75.9	+4.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Slough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Arthur Watts	22,064	42.9	+4.3
	Labour	Joan Lestor	18,958	36.9	−6.7
	Social Democratic	Nicholas Bosanquet	9,519	18.5	+7.2
	National Front	Graham John	528	1.0	N/A
	Ecology	Ian Flindall	325	0.6	N/A
Majority			3,106	6.0	N/A
Turnout			51,394	71.5	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

Notes and references

Notes

↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
↑ 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.

References

↑ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ https://www.slough.gov.uk/council/voting-and-elections/2015-general-election-results.aspx 8July 2015
↑ http://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2014/12/19/106235-new-slough-conservative-parliamentary-candidate-we-can-overturn-labour-stronghold/
1 2 Miles, Paul (11 March 2015). "Diana Coad announced as new UKIP parliamentary candidate for Slough". Slough Express. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
↑ "Facebook post". Eastberks Green Party. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

Sources

British Parliamentary Constituencies, A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984).
Official list of candidates nominated 2010 Slough Borough Council website accessed 21 April 2010

External links

The Boundary Committee for England page about Slough Unitary Authority, with links to pre and post 2004 ward maps

Constituencies in South East England (84)

Conservative (78)	Aldershot Arundel and South Downs Ashford Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Beaconsfield Bexhill and Battle Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Bracknell Brighton Kemptown Canterbury Chatham and Aylesford Chesham and Amersham Chichester Crawley Dartford Dover Eastbourne East Hampshire Eastleigh East Surrey East Worthing and Shoreham Epsom and Ewell Esher and Walton Fareham Faversham and Mid Kent Folkestone and Hythe Gillingham and Rainham Gosport Gravesham Guildford Hastings and Rye Havant Henley Horsham Isle of Wight Lewes Maidenhead Maidstone and The Weald Meon Valley Mid Sussex Milton Keynes North Milton Keynes South Mole Valley Newbury New Forest East New Forest West North East Hampshire North Thanet North West Hampshire Oxford West and Abingdon Portsmouth North Portsmouth South Reading East Reading West Reigate Rochester and Strood Romsey and Southampton North Runnymede and Weybridge Sevenoaks Sittingbourne and Sheppey Southampton Itchen South Thanet South West Surrey Spelthorne Surrey Heath Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells Wantage Wealden Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worthing West Wycombe

Labour (4)	Hove Oxford East Slough Southampton Test

Green (1)	Brighton Pavilion

Speaker (1)	Buckingham

South East England European constituency: UKIP (4) Conservative (3) Green (1) Labour (1) Liberal Democrats (1)

Coordinates: 51°30′43″N 0°35′31″W / 51.512°N 0.592°W / 51.512; -0.592

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