List_of_Parliamentary_constituencies_in_Berkshire
The ceremonial county of Berkshire (which is entirely made up of unitary authorities – Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham) is divided into eight parliamentary constituencies: two borough constituencies and six county constituencies.
Conservative † Labour ‡ Liberal Democrat ¤
| Name[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bracknell CC | 78,978 | 19,829 | James Sunderland † | Paul Bidwell ‡ |  | ||
| Maidenhead CC | 76,668 | 18,846 | Theresa May † | Joshua Reynolds ¤ |  | ||
| Newbury CC | 83,414 | 16,047 | Laura Farris † | Lee Dillon ¤ |  | ||
| Reading East BC | 77,152 | 5,924 | Matt Rodda ‡ | Craig Morley † |  | ||
| Reading West CC | 74,137 | 4,117 | Alok Sharma † | Rachel Eden ‡ |  | ||
| Slough BC | 86,818 | 13,640 | Tan Dhesi ‡ | Kanwal Toor Gill † |  | ||
| Windsor CC | 75,038 | 20,079 | Adam Afriyie † | Julian Tisi ¤ |  | ||
| Wokingham CC | 83,953 | 7,383 | John Redwood † | Dr Phillip Lee ¤ |  | ||
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England[3] decided to retain Berkshire's 8 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 Bray from Windsor to Maidenhead, Binfield from Bracknell to Windsor and the return of Foxborough ward from Windsor to Slough.
| Name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Boundaries 2010–present |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bracknell CC | ||
| 2. Maidenhead CC | ||
| 3. Newbury CC | ||
| 4. Reading East BC | ||
| 5. Reading West CC | ||
| 6. Slough BC | ||
| 7. Windsor CC | ||
| 8. Wokingham CC |
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.[4] 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 Berkshire be combined with Hampshire and Surrey as a sub-region of the South East Region. As a result, Windsor now includes Englefield Green in the Surrey borough of Runnymede. The two Reading constituencies (East and West) would be abolished and revert to a single constituency (Reading Central), with two new constituencies created, named Earley and Woodley, and Reading West and Mid Berkshire.[5][6]
The following constituencies are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Bracknell Forest
- Bracknell
- Maidenhead (part)
Containing electoral wards from Reading
- Earley and Woodley (part)
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire (part)
- Reading Central
Containing electoral wards from Slough
Containing electoral wards from West Berkshire
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire (part)
- Newbury
Containing electoral wards from Windsor and Maidenhead
- Maidenhead (part)
- Windsor (part)1
Containing electoral wards from Wokingham
- Earley and Woodley (part)
- Wokingham
1also includes part in the Surrey borough of Runnymede
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[7]
2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Berkshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 222,532 | 50.1% |  3.8% |
6 | 0 |
| Labour | 115,747 | 26.1% | 6.7% |
2 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrats | 87,532 | 19.7% |  9.4% |
0 | 0 |
| Greens | 13,796 | 3.1% | 1.5% |
0 | 0 |
| Brexit | 2,284 | 0.5% | new | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 2,044 | 0.5% | 0.9% |
0 | 0 |
| Total | 443,935 | 100.0 | 8 |
Percentage votes
Note that before 1983 Berkshire additionally covered the southern part of what is now Oxfordshire, and the Eton and Slough areas which now form part of Berkshire were part of Buckinghamshire.
| Election year | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (F) | 1974 (O) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 54.2 | 48.2 | 60.4 | 48.6 | 47.0 | 50.0 | 56.2 | 58.5 | 59.7 | 47.7 | 46.5 | 53.6 | 44.4 | 44.2 | 54.3 | 54.7 | 57.2 | 55.3 | 42.2 | 40.2 | 43.5 | 50.6 | 54.3 | 53.9 | 50.1 |
| Labour | 13.8 | 16.2 | 22.9 | 22.4 | 37.9 | 38.1 | 42.3 | 39.4 | 37.1 | 33.5 | 39.1 | 33.3 | 26.0 | 28.3 | 23.5 | 16.0 | 16.5 | 19.8 | 28.5 | 30.7 | 24.0 | 18.0 | 21.9 | 32.8 | 26.1 |
| Liberal Democrat1 | 32.1 | 35.6 | 16.7 | 28.9 | 13.8 | 11.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 18.5 | 14.4 | 12.8 | 29.2 | 27.3 | 21.2 | 28.1 | 25.2 | 23.5 | 24.6 | 26.0 | 27.4 | 25.2 | 8.9 | 10.3 | 19.7 |
| Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 1.3 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 3.1 |
| UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 3.0 | 10.6 | 0.8 | * |
| Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.5 |
| Other | - | - | - | - | 1.3 | 0.2 | - | - | - | 0.2 | - | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 4.7 | 3.1 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
1pre-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Accurate vote percentages for the 1918, 1931 and 1935 elections are unavailable because some candidates were elected unopposed.
Seats
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Liberal Democrat1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
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
1885 to 1918
| Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 90 | 1892 | 1895 | 98 | 1900 | 01 | 04 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 13 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abingdon | Wroughton | A. K. Loyd | Strauss | Henderson | A. K. Loyd | |||||||||
| Newbury | W. G. Mount | W. A. Mount | Mackarness | W. A. Mount | ||||||||||
| Reading | Murdoch | Palmer | Murdoch | Palmer | Isaacs | Wilson | ||||||||
| Windsor | Richardson-Gardner | Barry | Mason | |||||||||||
| Wokingham | Russell | Young | Gardner | |||||||||||
1918 to 1950
1950 to 1983
| Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 53 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abingdon | Glyn | Neave | T. Benyon | ||||||||
| Newbury | Hurd | Astor | McNair-Wilson | ||||||||
| Reading North | K. Mackay | Bennett | Durant | ||||||||
| Reading South (1950–55, 74–83) / Reading (1955–74) | Mikardo | Emery | Lee | Vaughan | |||||||
| Windsor / Windsor and Maidenhead (1974) | Mott-Radclyffe | Glyn | |||||||||
| Wokingham | Remnant | van Straubenzee | |||||||||
1983 to present
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 93 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 19 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newbury | McNair-Wilson | Chaplin | Rendel | R. Benyon | Farris | |||||||
| Reading West | Durant | Salter | Sharma | |||||||||
| Reading East | Vaughan | Griffiths | Wilson | Rodda | ||||||||
| Windsor and Maidenhead / Windsor (1997) | Glyn | Trend | Afriyie | |||||||||
| Wokingham | van Straubenzee | Redwood | ||||||||||
| Slough | Watts | Mactaggart | Dhesi | |||||||||
| East Berkshire / Bracknell (1997) | A. MacKay | Lee | → | Sunderland | ||||||||
| Maidenhead | May | |||||||||||
- General
- "Boundary Commission for England: Fifth Periodical Report" (PDF). Boundary Commission for England. Crown Copyright. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
- Craig, Frederick Walter Scott (1972). Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972. Chichester, Sussex: Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
- Specific
- Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
- "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.
- "Constituency boundary review 2021: what the changes mean for Berkshire". Reading Chronicle. 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 876-889. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".
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