Summary
Slough is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Tan Dhesi, a member of the Labour Party, since the 2017 UK general election.[n 2]
| Slough | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Slough in Berkshire | |
 Location of Berkshire within England | |
| County | Berkshire |
| Electorate | 80,679 (2018)[1] |
| Major settlements | Langley, Slough |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1983 |
| Member of Parliament | Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Eton & Slough, and Beaconsfield |
The seat is one of two Labour seats from a total of eight seats in Berkshire.
Constituency profile edit
The seat currently covers the Borough of Slough, with the exception of the Colnbrook with Poyle ward, which is included in the Windsor 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.
The seat has a large Asian population with Hindu, Muslim and Sikh communities, and less than half of the seat's population is White. It has one of the highest proportions of Sikh residents of any seat outside of London and the metropolitan West Midlands at 10%,[3] with its current MP, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, becoming Britain's first turbaned Sikh MP in the 2017 general election.[4]
History edit
From 1945 to 1983 most of the area presently covered by this seat was in the Eton and Slough constituency, which was a marginal seat usually held by the Labour Party. The Labour MP from 1950 to 1964 was the veteran politician Fenner Brockway, a radical progressive social democrat, who led in writing on pacifism, prison reform, anti-colonialism and anti-discrimination, was editor of the Labour Leader, attended talks by the Fabian Society and had joined the fledgling Independent Labour Party in 1907. It was also held by Labour government minister Joan Lester from 1966 until its abolition in 1983.
The Slough constituency was created from the bulk of the Eton and Slough seat for the 1983 election, when it was won by the Conservatives. Fiona Mactaggart captured it for Labour at the landslide election of 1997 and have retained since then, with Tan Dhesi succeeding Mactaggart in 2017. It is now considered to be a safe Labour seat.
Boundaries and boundary changes edit
1983–1997 edit
The Borough of Slough.[5]
Created from the bulk of the abolished constituency of Eton and Slough, which contributed 88.2% of the constituency. The remaining northern slice came from the safe Conservative constituency of Beaconsfield.
1997–2010 edit
The Borough of Slough wards of Baylis, Britwell, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham, Farnham, Haymill, Kedermister, Langley St Mary's, Stoke, Upton, and Wexham Lea.[6]
The Foxborough ward was transferred to Windsor.
The Borough of Slough wards of Baylis and Stoke, Britwell, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham Green, Cippenham Meadows, Farnham, Foxborough, Haymill, Langley Kedermister, Langley St Mary's, Upton, and Wexham Lea.[7]
The Foxborough ward was transferred back in, but the Colnbrook with Poyle ward, which had been created in 1998 within the Borough of Slough as a result of minor boundary changes involving the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey, was retained in Windsor.
Proposed edit
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be reduced to bring its electorate within the permitted range by transferring back the Foxborough ward to Windsor, along with the Langley Kedermister ward (as they existed at 1 December 2010).[8]
Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023,[9][10] the constituency will now comprise the following wards of the Borough of Slough from the next general election:
- Baylis & Salt Hill; Britwell; Chalvey; Cippenham Green; Cippenham Manor; Cippenham Village; Elliman; Farnham; Haymill; Herschel Park; Langley Marish (small part); Langley Meads; Langley St Mary’s (most); Manor Park & Stoke; Northborough & Lynch Hill Valley; Slough Central; Upton; Upton Lea; Wexham Court.[11]
Members of Parliament edit
| Election | Member[12] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | John Watts | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Fiona Mactaggart | Labour | |
| 2017 | Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | Labour | |
Elections edit
Elections in the 2010s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | 29,421 | 57.6 | ―5.3 | |
| Conservative | Kanwal Toor Gill | 15,781 | 30.9 | ―0.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Aaron Chahal | 3,357 | 6.6 | +4.2 | |
| Brexit Party | Delphine Grey-Fisk | 1,432 | 2.8 | New | |
| Green | Julian Edmonds | 1,047 | 2.1 | New | |
| Majority | 13,640 | 26.7 | ―4.6 | ||
| Turnout | 51,038 | 58.2 | ―7.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ―2.3 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | 34,170 | 62.9 | +14.4 | |
| Conservative | Mark Vivis | 17,172 | 31.6 | ―1.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Tom McCann | 1,308 | 2.4 | ―0.2 | |
| UKIP | Karen Perez | 1,228 | 2.3 | ―10.7 | |
| Independent | Paul Janik | 417 | 0.8 | New | |
| Majority | 16,998 | 31.3 | +16.1 | ||
| Turnout | 54,295 | 65.4 | +9.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +8.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Fiona Mactaggart | 23,421 | 48.5 | +2.7 | |
| Conservative | Gurcharan Singh | 16,085 | 33.3 | ―1.0 | |
| UKIP | Diana Coad | 6,274 | 13.0 | +9.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Tom McCann | 1,275 | 2.6 | ―11.9 | |
| Green | Julian Edmonds | 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 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Fiona Mactaggart | 21,884 | 45.8 | ―0.4 | |
| Conservative | Diana Coad | 16,361 | 34.3 | +7.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 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 | New | |
| Majority | 5,523 | 11.5 | ―8.3 | ||
| Turnout | 47,742 | 61.9 | +8.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 2000s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Fiona Mactaggart | 17,517 | 47.2 | ―11.1 | |
| Conservative | Sheila Gunn | 9,666 | 26.1 | ―0.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Thomas McCann | 5,739 | 15.5 | +5.0 | |
| Respect | Ajaz Khan | 1,632 | 4.4 | New | |
| UKIP | Geoff Howard | 1,415 | 3.8 | +1.9 | |
| Green | David Wood | 759 | 2.0 | New | |
| Independent | Paul Janik | 367 | 1.0 | New | |
| Majority | 7,851 | 21.1 | ―11.0 | ||
| Turnout | 37,095 | 50.5 | ―2.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ―5.5 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Fiona Mactaggart | 22,718 | 58.3 | +1.7 | |
| Conservative | Diana Coad | 10,210 | 26.2 | ―3.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Keith Kerr | 4,109 | 10.5 | +3.1 | |
| Independent | Tony Haines | 859 | 2.2 | New | |
| UKIP | John Lane | 738 | 1.9 | New | |
| Independent | Choudry Nazir | 364 | 0.9 | New | |
| Majority | 12,508 | 32.1 | +4.7 | ||
| Turnout | 38,998 | 53.4 | ―14.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Fiona Mactaggart | 27,029 | 56.6 | +12.9 | |
| Conservative | Peta Buscombe | 13,958 | 29.2 | −15.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 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 | New | |
| Independent | Paul P. Whitmore | 277 | 0.6 | New | |
| Majority | 13,071 | 27.4 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 47,732 | 67.9 | −10.3 | ||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Watts | 25,793 | 44.6 | −2.4 | |
| Labour | Eddie Lopez | 25,279 | 43.7 | +4.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Mapp | 4,041 | 7.0 | −6.4 | |
| Liberal | John Clark | 1,426 | 2.5 | New | |
| Independent Labour | Declan Alford | 699 | 1.2 | New | |
| National Front | Andy Carmichael | 290 | 0.5 | New | |
| Natural Law | Martin Creese | 153 | 0.3 | New | |
| Independent | Elizabeth Smith | 134 | 0.2 | New | |
| Majority | 514 | 0.9 | −6.5 | ||
| Turnout | 57,815 | 78.0 | +2.1 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −3.3 | |||
Elections in the 1980s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Watts | 26,166 | 47.0 | +4.1 | |
| Labour | Eddie Lopez | 22,076 | 39.6 | +2.7 | |
| SDP | 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 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Watts | 22,064 | 42.9 | +4.3 | |
| Labour | Joan Lestor | 18,958 | 36.9 | −6.7 | |
| SDP | Nicholas Bosanquet | 9,519 | 18.5 | +7.2 | |
| National Front | Graham John | 528 | 1.0 | ||
| Ecology | Ian Flindall | 325 | 0.6 | ||
| Majority | 3,106 | 6.0 | |||
| Turnout | 51,394 | 71.5 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
See also edit
- List of parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire
- Slough Borough Council includes historical information about wards and local elections
Notes edit
- ^ 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 edit
- ^ "England Parliamentary electorates 2010-2018". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
- ^ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ^ UK Polling Report, Slough
- ^ Basu, Indrani (9 June 2017). "How Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Became UK's First Turbaned Sikh Member of Parliament". Huffington Post India. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1983". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1995". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 6 South East region.
- ^ LGBCE. "Slough | LGBCE". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "The Slough (Electoral Changes) Order 2023".
- ^ "New Seat Details - Slough". www.electoralcalculus.co.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
- ^ "Slough Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ "General election 2017: Slough candidates formally announced as deadline passes". Slough Observer.
- ^ "Slough parliamentary constituency – Election 2017" – via bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "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 8 July 2015
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
Sources edit
- 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 edit
- [1] The Boundary Committee for England page about Slough Unitary Authority, with links to pre and post 2004 ward maps[dead link]
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