The county of Oxfordshire is divided into 6 parliamentary constituencies — 1 borough constituency and 5 county constituencies.
Constituencies
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Electoral wards[3][4] | Map | ||
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Banbury CC | 90,116 | 16,813 | Victoria Prentis† | Suzette Watson‡ | Cherwell District Council: Adderbury, Ambrosden and Chesterton, Banbury Calthorpe, Banbury Easington, Banbury Grimsbury and Castle, Banbury Hardwick, Banbury Neithrop, Banbury Ruscote, Bicester East, Bicester North, Bicester South, Bicester Town, Bicester West, Bloxham and Bodicote, Caversfield, Cropredy, Deddington, Fringford, Hook Norton, Launton, Sibford, The Astons and Heyfords, Wroxton. | |||
Henley CC | 76,646 | 14,053 | John Howell† | Laura Coyle¤ | Cherwell District Council: Kirtlington, Otmoor. South Oxfordshire District Council: Aston Rowant, Benson, Berinsfield, Chalgrove, Chiltern Woods, Chinnor, Crowmarsh, Forest Hill and Holton, Garsington, Goring, Great Milton, Henley North, Henley South, Sandford, Shiplake, Sonning Common, Thame North, Thame South, Watlington, Wheatley, Woodcote. | |||
Oxford East BC | 78,303 | 17,832 | Anneliese Dodds‡ | Louise Staite† | Oxford City Council: Barton and Sandhills, Blackbird Leys, Carfax, Churchill, Cowley, Cowley Marsh, Headington, Headington Hill and Northway, Hinksey Park, Holywell, Iffley Fields, Littlemore, Lye Valley, Marston, Northfield Brook, Quarry and Risinghurst, Rose Hill and Iffley, St Clement's, St Mary's. | |||
Oxford West and Abingdon CC | 76,951 | 8,943 | Layla Moran¤ | James Fredrickson† | Cherwell District Council: Kidlington North, Kidlington South, Yarnton, Gosford and Water Eaton. Oxford City Council: Jericho and Osney, North, St Margaret's, Summertown, Wolvercote. Vale of White Horse District Council: Abingdon Abbey and Barton, Abingdon Caldecott, Abingdon Dunmore, Abingdon Fitzharris, Abingdon Northcourt, Abingdon Ock Meadow, Abingdon Peachcroft, Appleton and Cumnor, Kennington and South Hinksey, North Hinksey and Wytham, Radley, Sunningwell and Wootton. | |||
Wantage CC | 90,867 | 12,653 | David Johnston† | Richard Benwell¤ | South Oxfordshire District Council: Brightwell, Cholsey and Wallingford South, Didcot All Saints, Didcot Ladygrove, Didcot Northbourne, Didcot Park, Hagbourne, Wallingford North. Vale of White Horse District Council: Blewbury and Upton, Craven, Drayton, Faringdon and The Coxwells, Greendown, Grove, Hanneys, Harwell, Hendreds, Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor, Longworth, Marcham and Shippon, Shrivenham, Stanford, Sutton Courtenay and Appleford, Wantage Charlton, Wantage Segsbury. | |||
Witney CC | 83,845 | 15,177 | Robert Courts† | Charlotte Hoagland¤ | West Oxfordshire District Council: Alvescot and Filkins, Ascott and Shipton, Bampton and Clanfield, Brize Norton and Shilton, Burford, Carterton North East, Carterton North West, Carterton South, Chadlington and Churchill, Charlbury and Finstock, Chipping Norton, Ducklington, Eynsham and Cassington, Freeland and Hanborough, Hailey, Minster Lovell and Leafield, Kingham, Rollright and Enstone, Milton-under-Wychwood, North Leigh, Standlake, Aston and Stanton Harcourt, Stonesfield and Tackley, The Bartons, Witney Central, Witney East, Witney North, Witney South, Witney West, Woodstock and Bladon. | |||
2010 boundary changes
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England[5] decided to retain Oxfordshire's 6 constituencies for the 2010 election, making minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies, including the transfer of Oxford city centre from Oxford West and Abingdon to Oxford East.
Name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Boundaries 2010–present |
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Proposed boundary changes
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[6] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
The commission has proposed that an additional seat is created in Oxfordshire, with the formation of the new constituency of Bicester and Woodstock. Wantage would be renamed Didcot and Wantage, and Henley renamed Henley and Thame.[7][8]
The following constituencies are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Cherwell
- Banbury (part)
- Bicester and Woodstock (part)
Containing electoral wards from Oxford
Containing electoral wards from South Oxfordshire
Containing electoral wards from Vale of White Horse
- Didcot and Wantage (part)
- Oxford West and Abingdon (part)
- Witney (part)
Containing electoral wards from West Oxfordshire
- Banbury (part)
- Bicester and Woodstock (part)
- Witney (part)
Results history
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[9]
2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Oxfordshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 166,978 | 46.6% | 1.8% | 4 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 105,302 | 29.4% | 11.3% | 1 | 0 |
Labour | 74,377 | 20.8% | 8.6% | 1 | 0 |
Greens | 7,735 | 2.2% | 0.1% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 1,975 | 0.5% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 1,974 | 0.5% | 1.5% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 358,341 | 100.0 | 6 |
Percentage votes
Note that before 1983 Oxfordshire covered a smaller area than it does today, since the Vale of White Horse area was counted as part of Berkshire.
Election year | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 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 | 46.9 | 47.1 | 57.8 | 49.6 | 66.5 | 46.5 | 46.4 | 53.5 | 54.8 | 51.6 | 46.4 | 48.2 | 51.6 | 44.5 | 45.6 | 53.5 | 51.5 | 52.7 | 51.3 | 38.0 | 37.9 | 40.9 | 47.2 | 49.0 | 48.4 | 46.6 |
Labour | 9.3 | 3.4 | 9.6 | 17.1 | 23.3 | 40.7 | 38.9 | 42.0 | 41.4 | 35.2 | 37.2 | 43.6 | 36.6 | 30.8 | 33.5 | 29.7 | 18.4 | 20.3 | 23.7 | 31.7 | 29.5 | 23.4 | 18.0 | 21.1 | 29.4 | 20.8 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 43.8 | 49.4 | 32.6 | 33.3 | 10.2 | 12.8 | 14.4 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 13.2 | 16.1 | 8.2 | 11.3 | 24.5 | 20.3 | 16.0 | 29.3 | 26.6 | 23.5 | 24.7 | 27.3 | 29.0 | 28.0 | 12.8 | 18.1 | 29.4 |
Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 2.5 | 6.2 | 2.1 | 2.2 |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 3.5 | 10.1 | 1.6 | * |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.6 |
Other | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.3 | - | - | - | 0.3 | - | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 6.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
1pre-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Accurate vote percentages are not possible for the elections of 1918 and 1931 since at least one candidate stood unopposed.
Seats
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
Labour | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
1885-1910
- 1885
- 1886
- 1892
- 1895
- 1900
- 1906
- Jan 1910
- Dec 1910
1918-1945
- 1918
- 1922
- 1923
- 1924
- 1929
- 1931
- 1935
- 1945
1950-1979
- 1950
- 1951
- 1955
- 1959
- 1964
- 1966
- 1970
- Feb 1974
- Oct 1974
- 1979
1983-present
- 1983
- 1987
- 1992
- 1997
- 2001
- 2005
- 2010
- 2015
- 2017
- 2019
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 1918
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 91 | 1892 | 95 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 17 | 18 |
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Banbury | Samuelson | A. Brassey | Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes | R. Brassey | Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes | Rhys-Williams | ||||||
Henley | Harcourt | Parker | Hodge | P. Morrell | Fleming | Hermon-Hodge | ||||||
Oxford | Hall | Chesney | Annesley | Marriott | ||||||||
Woodstock | Maclean | → | G. Morrell | Benson | G. Morrell | Bennett | Hamersley |
1918 to 1983
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Labour Liberal
Constituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 24 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 32 | 1935 | 38 | 1945 | 1950 | 50 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Banbury | Rhys-Williams | Edmondson | Dodds-Parker | Marten | ||||||||||||||||||
Henley | Terrell | Henderson | Fox | Hay | Heseltine | |||||||||||||||||
Oxford | Marriott | Gray | Bourne | Hogg | Turner | Woodhouse | Luard | Woodhouse | Luard | Patten | ||||||||||||
Oxfordshire Mid | Hurd |
Since 1983
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 99 | 2001 | 05 | 2005 | 08 | 2010 | 2015 | 16 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Banbury | Baldry | Prentis | ||||||||||||
Henley | Heseltine | Johnson | Howell | |||||||||||
Oxford East | Norris | Smith | Dodds | |||||||||||
Oxford West and Abingdon | Patten | Harris | Blackwood | Moran | ||||||||||
Wantage | Jackson | → | Vaizey | Johnston | ||||||||||
Witney | Hurd | Woodward | → | Cameron | Courts |
See also
Notes
References
- ↑ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
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(help) - 1 2 3 "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
- ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4". Office of Public Sector Information. Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- ↑ Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
- ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ↑ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ↑ "Big changes for Bicester as constituency boundary proposals revealed". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ↑ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. paras 1054-1071. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ↑ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".