Wycombe is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Steve Baker, a Conservative.[n 2]
History
Wycombe has continuously returned MPs since the Model Parliament of 1295. As a parliamentary borough (often referred to as High Wycombe or Chepping Wycombe), it returned two MPs until 1868 and then one until its abolition in 1885. The name was then transferred to a new county division, formally known as the "Wycombe division of Buckinghamshire".
Constituency profile
The constituency shares similar borders with Wycombe local government district, although it covers a slightly smaller area. The main town within the constituency, High Wycombe contains many working/middle class voters and a sizeable ethnic minority population that totals around one quarter of the town's population, with some census output areas of town home to over 50% ethnic minorities. The surrounding villages which account for just under half of the electorate are some of the most wealthy areas in the country with extremely low unemployment, and high incomes. Workless claimants totalled 3.0% of the population in November 2012, lower than the national average of 3.8%.[2]
Boundaries
In the earliest centuries the boundaries were narrow and electorate limited to certain rate-paying men (see parliamentary borough).
The village of Eton and town of Slough (including its village outskirts) were part of the Wycombe constituency from 1885 until 1945, when the new seat of Eton and Slough was created at the redistribution of that year.
The seat has electoral wards:
- Abbey, Booker and Cressex, Bowerdean, Chiltern Rise, Disraeli, Downley and Plomer Hill, Greater Marlow, Hambleden Valley, Hazlemere North, Hazlemere South, Micklefield, Oakridge and Castlefield, Ryemead, Sands, Terriers and Amersham Hill, Totteridge, Tylers Green and Loudwater.[3]
Members of Parliament
MPs 1295–1640
- Constituency created (1295)
MPs 1640–1868
Year |
First member[4] |
First party |
Second member[4] |
Second party |
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April 1640 |
Sir Edmund Verney |
Royalist |
Thomas Lane |
Parliamentarian |
November 1640 |
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October 1642 |
Verney killed in battle – seat left vacant |
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1645 |
Richard Browne |
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December 1648 |
Browne and Lane excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant |
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1653 |
Wycombe was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament |
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1654 |
Thomas Scot |
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Wycombe had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
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1656 |
Tobias Bridge |
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January 1659 |
Thomas Scot |
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May 1659 |
Not represented in the restored Rump |
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April 1660 |
Edmund Petty |
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Richard Browne |
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1661 |
Sir Edmund Pye, Bt |
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Sir John Borlase, Bt |
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February 1673 |
Sir John Borlase, Bt |
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November 1673 |
Robert Sawyer |
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1679 |
Thomas Lewes |
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1685 |
Sir Dennis Hampson, Bt |
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Edward Baldwin |
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1689 |
Thomas Lewes |
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William Jephson |
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1691 |
Charles Godfrey |
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1696 |
Fleetwood Dormer |
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1698 |
John Archdale[5] |
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1699 |
Thomas Archdale |
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1701 |
Fleetwood Dormer |
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1710 |
Sir Thomas Lee, Bt |
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1713 |
Sir John Wittewrong, Bt |
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February 1722 |
John Neale |
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March 1722 |
Charles Egerton |
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The Earl of Shelburne |
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February 1726 |
Charles Colyear [6] |
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March 1726 |
Harry Waller |
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1727 |
William Lee |
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1730 |
Sir Charles Vernon |
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1734 |
Edmund Waller [7] |
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1734 |
Sir Charles Vernon |
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1741 |
Edmund Waller |
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1747 |
Edmund Waller, junior |
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1754 |
The Earl of Shelburne |
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John Waller |
Opposition Whig |
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1757 |
Edmund Waller, junior |
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1760 |
Viscount FitzMaurice |
Whig |
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March 1761 |
Robert Waller |
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December 1761 |
Isaac Barré |
Whig |
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1774 |
Hon. Thomas FitzMaurice |
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1780 |
Viscount Mahon |
Whig |
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1786 |
Earl Wycombe |
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1790 |
Rear-Admiral Sir John Jervis [8] |
Whig |
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1794 |
Sir Francis Baring, Bt |
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1796 |
Sir John Dashwood-King, Bt |
Tory |
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1802 |
Sir Francis Baring, Bt |
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1806 |
Sir Thomas Baring, Bt |
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1831 |
Hon. Robert Smith |
Whig |
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1832 |
Hon. Charles Grey |
Whig |
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1837 |
Sir George Dashwood, Bt |
Whig |
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1838 |
George Robert Smith |
Whig |
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1841 |
Ralph Bernal |
Whig |
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1847 |
Martin Tucker Smith |
Whig |
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1859 |
Liberal |
Liberal |
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1862 |
John Remington Mills |
Liberal |
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1865 |
Hon. Robert Carington[n 3] |
Liberal |
MPs 1868–present
- Reduced to one member (1868)
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1950s
Election in the 1940s
A general election was expected 1939/40 and by 1939 the following had been adopted as candidates;
- Conservative: Sir Alfred Knox
- Labour: Dr Ernest Whitfield
- Liberal: Vaughan Watkins
In 1938, the local Labour and Liberal parties had set up a formal organisation, 'The South Bucks Unity Committee' in support of a Popular Front and may well have agreed to support a joint candidate against the sitting Conservative.[21]
Election in the 1930s
Election in the 1920s
Election in the 1910s
Election in the 1900s
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
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Further reading
- GENUKI
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Archdale, a Quaker, never took his seat as he was not prepared to take the prescribed oath
- ↑ On petition, Colyear's election was declared void and a by-election was called. He was re-elected at the by-election but once more voted by the committee not to have been duly returned, and his opponent, Waller, was seated instead.
- ↑ Waller was also elected for Marlow, which he chose to represent, and did not for Wycombe in this Parliament
- ↑ Vice Admiral from 1793
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