Swindon | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Wiltshire |
1918–1997 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Cricklade |
Replaced by | Swindon South, Swindon North |
Swindon was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Swindon in Wiltshire, England.
It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from the 1918 general election until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.
It was then replaced by the two new constituencies of North Swindon and South Swindon.
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7 Illegal Things To Do In A British Election
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We are six weeks away from the UK General Election, which means we are in purdah. Unless it's absolutely critical, the folks in charge, national or local, aren't allowed to announce any new policies, sign any big new contracts, or do anything official that could be seen as trying to use their power to unduly influence the election. Not that most of them will: Parliament has just been dissolved, so they can all go off and campaign. On that note... The rules are complicated and depend on the size of the area you're campaigning in, but from now until election day, each individual candidate can spend no more than about £15,000 on all their campaigning. That's not just an advertising budget: that's on everything. Every penny has to be counted, tracked and invoiced, and if you go over, you can be disqualified even after the election. And all the scams and tricky you're currently thinking of to get around that? The law covers most of them with a catch-all clause saying you must make an "honest assessment". The political parties also have a limit on their national campaigning budget, which is about twenty million pounds over the whole country. Sounds like a lot, but as a comparison: the last US election cost six billion dollars. But keeping to that isn't as difficult as you might think, because... The UK has never allowed political adverts on television. The parties are given a small amount of free airtime on major channels, but pretty much everyone switches off as soon as they hear the phrase "Now, a Party Election Broadcast by..." This year, though, the parties have realised that they can put attack ads on the internet instead, and then use their limited budget to target those ads only at people who live in marginal constituencies -- swing states, for the Americans out there. In you live in one of those, you might even have seen one of those ads before this video. So, okay, the parties can't advertise on TV, but surely they've got the pundits on the news arguing for them, right? TV news must be -- well, actually fair and balanced. By law. Generally, the BBC gets an equal amount of complaints from all sides, and then they reckon they've done their job about right. Newspapers have no restriction like that, though, and the tabloids have been quite happy to use that influence in the past. I swear that's what it's called. Here's how the scam works: go into a retirement home, and by confidence, collusion, or coercion, get access to either the residents' postal votes, or get nominated as their proxy voter, so you can vote on their behalf. Amazingly, this has only been illegal since 2006. How do you spoil a result? Well, postal votes are sometimes opened for verification days before the polls have closed. There's no reason why not, it won't change the result as long as they're still kept secret. And no-one does anything ridiculous like, oh I don't know, tweet what they've seen. Well done there, actual member of Parliament. She deleted it quickly, admitted it, and was given an official police caution. And finally: Everyone who's stuck posters up, or put some temporary sign up in their garden: they have to make sure they're taken down within two weeks. If it's anything like last time, we may not even have a government in there by then, but at least those of us who live away from Westminster won't be constantly reminded of it.
History
Boundaries
1918–1950: The Borough of Swindon, and the part of the Rural District of Highworth which was not included in the Devizes constituency.
1950–1983: The Borough of Swindon.
1983–1997: The Borough of Thamesdown wards of Central, Dorcan, Eastcott, Gorse Hill, Lawns, Moredon, Park, Toothill, Walcot, Western, and Whitworth.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Election in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | Frederick William Young | 10,180 | 48.4 | |
Labour | Joseph Compton | 8,393 | 39.9 | ||
Liberal | Harry Walker | 2,460 | 11.7 | ||
Majority | 1,787 | 8.5 | |||
Turnout | 21,033 | 67.0 | |||
Registered electors | 31,406 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Reginald Mitchell Banks | 14,886 | 56.4 | +8.0 | |
Labour | Joseph Compton | 11,502 | 43.6 | +3.7 | |
Majority | 3,384 | 12.8 | +4.3 | ||
Turnout | 26,388 | 80.0 | +13.0 | ||
Registered electors | 33,000 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Reginald Mitchell Banks | 12,625 | 45.1 | −11.3 | |
Labour | Holford Knight | 9,121 | 32.6 | −11.0 | |
Liberal | Walter Leslie Rocke [5] | 6,231 | 22.3 | New | |
Majority | 3,504 | 12.5 | −0.3 | ||
Turnout | 27,977 | 82.8 | +0.8 | ||
Registered electors | 33,787 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Reginald Mitchell Banks | 15,602 | 55.1 | +10.0 | |
Labour | R. H. Tawney | 12,698 | 44.9 | +12.3 | |
Majority | 2,904 | 10.2 | −2.3 | ||
Turnout | 28,300 | 81.0 | −1.8 | ||
Registered electors | 34,938 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −1.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Christopher Addison | 16,885 | 43.6 | −1.3 | |
Unionist | Reginald Mitchell Banks | 14,724 | 38.1 | −17.0 | |
Liberal | Frank Crane Thornborough | 7,060 | 18.3 | New | |
Majority | 2,161 | 5.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 38,669 | 85.5 | +4.5 | ||
Registered electors | 45,250 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +7.9 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Reginald Mitchell Banks | 22,756 | 55.89 | ||
Labour | Christopher Addison | 17,962 | 44.11 | ||
Majority | 4,794 | 11.78 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 40,718 | 85.53 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Christopher Addison | 20,902 | 53.4 | +8.3 | |
Conservative | Wavell Wakefield | 18,253 | 46.6 | -8.3 | |
Majority | 2,649 | 6.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 39,155 | 81.8 | -3.7 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Wavell Wakefield | 20,732 | 51.20 | ||
Labour | Christopher Addison | 19,757 | 48.80 | ||
Majority | 975 | 2.40 | |||
Turnout | 40,489 | 84.26 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Reid | 27,545 | 62.34 | ||
Conservative | AM Gibb | 16,641 | 37.66 | ||
Majority | 10,904 | 24.68 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 44,186 | 73.90 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Reid | 21,976 | 51.47 | ||
Conservative | Geoffrey Tritton | 13,697 | 32.08 | ||
Liberal | Doreen Gorsky | 6,726 | 15.75 | New | |
Communist | Irving Gradwell | 295 | 0.69 | New | |
Majority | 8,279 | 19.39 | |||
Turnout | 42,694 | 87.19 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Reid | 23,980 | 57.02 | ||
Conservative | Geoffrey Tritton | 18,072 | 42.98 | ||
Majority | 5,908 | 14.04 | |||
Turnout | 42,052 | 89.00 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Francis Noel-Baker | 21,926 | 54.93 | ||
Conservative | Patrick William Medd [9] | 17,987 | 45.07 | ||
Majority | 3,939 | 9.86 | |||
Turnout | 39,913 | 80.02 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Francis Noel-Baker | 24,087 | 54.42 | ||
Conservative | Gordon L Pears | 20,178 | 45.58 | ||
Majority | 3,909 | 8.84 | |||
Turnout | 44.265 | 79.99 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Francis Noel-Baker | 26,464 | 60.06 | ||
Conservative | Norman George Reece | 16,651 | 37.79 | ||
Communist | Irving Gradwell | 944 | 2.14 | New | |
Majority | 9,813 | 22.27 | |||
Turnout | 44,059 | 74.77 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Francis Noel-Baker | 25,966 | 61.35 | ||
Conservative | Norman George Reece | 15,523 | 36.67 | ||
Communist | Irving Gradwell | 838 | 1.98 | ||
Majority | 10,443 | 24.68 | |||
Turnout | 42,327 | 73.51 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Christopher Ward | 16,843 | 41.73 | +5.06 | |
Labour | David Stoddart | 16,365 | 40.54 | -20.81 | |
Liberal | Christopher Layton | 6,193 | 15.34 | New | |
Communist | Judith Gradwell | 518 | 1.28 | -0.70 | |
Young Socialist | Frank Willis | 446 | 1.10 | New | |
Majority | 478 | 1.19 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 40,365 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +12.9 |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Stoddart | 25,731 | 55.52 | -5.83 | |
Conservative | Christopher Ward | 20,155 | 43.49 | +6.82 | |
Communist | Judith Gradwell | 456 | 0.98 | -1.00 | |
Majority | 5,576 | 12.03 | -12.64 | ||
Turnout | 46,342 | 75.49 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Stoddart | 24,093 | 47.92 | ||
Conservative | GCM Young | 15,384 | 30.60 | ||
Liberal | R Hubbard | 10,564 | 21.01 | New | |
Workers Revolutionary | K Blakeney | 240 | 0.48 | New | |
Majority | 8,709 | 17.32 | |||
Turnout | 50,281 | 80.89 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Stoddart | 24,124 | 51.84 | ||
Conservative | JN Gripper | 13,854 | 29.77 | ||
Liberal | R Hubbard | 8,349 | 17.94 | ||
Workers Revolutionary | K Blakeney | 206 | 0.44 | ||
Majority | 10,270 | 22.07 | |||
Turnout | 46,533 | 73.98 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Stoddart | 25,218 | 50.19 | ||
Conservative | N Hammond | 19,319 | 38.45 | ||
Liberal | Gudrun Claire Ziegler Collis | 5,709 | 11.36 | ||
Majority | 5,899 | 11.74 | |||
Turnout | 50,346 | 76.41 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Simon Coombs | 22,310 | 39.16 | ||
Labour | David Stoddart | 20,915 | 36.71 | ||
Alliance | Derek J Scott | 13,743 | 24.12 | ||
Majority | 1,395 | 2.45 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 56,968 | 74.15 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Simon Coombs | 29,385 | 43.84 | ||
Labour | Jean Gabrielle Johnston | 24,528 | 36.59 | ||
Alliance | Derek John Scott | 13,114 | 19.57 | ||
Majority | 4,857 | 7.25 | |||
Turnout | 67,027 | 77.80 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Simon Coombs | 31,749 | 43.3 | −0.5 | |
Labour | JP D’Avila | 28,923 | 39.4 | +2.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | SR Cordon | 11,737 | 16.0 | −3.6 | |
Green | JV Hughes | 647 | 0.9 | New | |
Raving Loony Green Giant | CR Gillard | 236 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | VF Farrar | 78 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 2,826 | 3.9 | −3.3 | ||
Turnout | 73,370 | 81.5 | +3.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.7 |
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ^ 'ROCKE, Col Walter Leslie', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 22 Sept 2017
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ^ F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, p.498
- ^ 'MEDD, His Honour Patrick William', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 22 Sept 2017
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.