The county of Oxfordshire is divided into 7 parliamentary constituencies — 1 borough constituency and 6 county constituencies.
Constituencies
[edit]† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat ♣ Green
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition | Electoral wards[1] | Map | ||
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Banbury CC | 69,943 | 3,256 | Sean Woodcock‡ | Victoria Prentis† | Cherwell District Council: Adderbury, Bloxham & Bodicote; Banbury Calthorpe & Easington; Banbury Grimsbury & Hightown; Banbury Cross & Neithrop; Banbury Hardwick; Banbury Ruscote; Cropredy, Sibfords & Wroxton; Deddington. West Oxfordshire District Council: Chadlington and Churchill; Charlbury and Finstock; Chipping Norton; Kingham, Rollright and Enstone; The Bartons. | |||
Bicester and Woodstock CC | 70,389 | 4,958 | Calum Miller¤ | Rupert Harrison† | Cherwell District Council: Bicester East; Bicester North & Caversfield; Bicester South & Ambrosden; Bicester West; Fringford & Heyfords; Kidlington East; Kidlington West; Launton & Otmoor. West Oxfordshire District Council: Eynsham and Cassington; Freeland and Hanborough; North Leigh; Stonesfield and Tackley; Woodstock and Bladon. | |||
Didcot and Wantage CC | 74,356 | 6,233 | Olly Glover¤ | David Johnston | South Oxfordshire District Council: Cholsey; Didcot North East; Didcot South; Didcot West; Sandford & the Wittenhams; Wallingford. Vale of White Horse District Council: Blewbury & Harwell; Drayton; Grove North; Hendreds; Ridgeway; Stanford; Steventon & the Hanneys; Sutton Courtenay; Wantage & Grove Brook; Wantage Charlton. | |||
Henley and Thame CC | 70,626 | 6,267 | Freddie Van Mierlo¤ | Caroline Newton | South Oxfordshire District Council: Benson & Crowmarsh; Berinsfield; Chalgrove; Chinnor; Forest Hill & Holton; Garsington & Horspath; Goring; Haseley Brook; Henley-on-Thames; Kidmore End & Whitchurch; Sonning Common; Thame; Watlington; Wheatley; Woodcote & Rotherfield. | |||
Oxford East BC | 72,371 | 14,465 | Anneliese Dodds‡ | Sushila Dhall♣ | Oxford City Council: Barton & Sandhills; Blackbird Leys; Churchill; Cowley; Donnington; Headington; Headington Hill & Northway; Hinksey Park; Littlemore; Lye Valley; Marston; Northfield Brook; Quarry & Risinghurst; Rose Hill & Iffley; St. Clement's; St. Mary's; Temple Cowley. | |||
Oxford West and Abingdon CC | 72,004 | 14,894 | Layla Moran¤ | Vinay Raniga | Oxford City Council: Carfax & Jericho; Cutteslowe & Sunnymead; Holywell; Osney & St Thomas; Summertown; Walton Manor; Wolvercote. Vale of White Horse District Council: Abingdon Abbey Northcourt; Abingdon Caldecott; Abingdon Dunmore; Abingdon Fitzharris; Abingdon Peachcroft; Botley & Sunningwell; Cumnor; Kennington & Radley; Marcham; Wootton. | |||
Witney CC | 70,042 | 4,339 | Charlie Maynard¤ | Robert Courts | Vale of White Horse District Council: Faringdon; Kingston Bagpuize; Thames; Watchfield & Shrivenham. 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; Ducklington; Hailey, Minster Lovell and Leafield; Milton-under-Wychwood; Standlake, Aston and Stanton Harcourt; Witney Central; Witney East; Witney North; Witney South; Witney West. |
Proposed boundary changes
[edit]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.[2] 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.[3][4]
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
[edit]Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[5]
2019
[edit]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 |
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Conservative | 166,978 | 46.6% | ![]() |
4 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 105,302 | 29.4% | ![]() |
1 | 0 |
Labour | 74,377 | 20.8% | ![]() |
1 | 0 |
Greens | 7,735 | 2.2% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Brexit | 1,975 | 0.5% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 1,974 | 0.5% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Total | 358,341 | 100.0 | 6 |
Percentage votes
[edit]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 |
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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
[edit]Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Conservative | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Labour | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
11983 & 1987– SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
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Historical representation by party
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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 |
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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
[edit]Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 99 | 2001 | 05 | 2005 | 08 | 2010 | 2015 | 16 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Banbury | Baldry | Prentis | Woodcock | ||||||||||||
Henley / Henley & Thame (2024) | Heseltine | Johnson | Howell | Van Mierlo | |||||||||||
Oxford East | Norris | Smith | Dodds | ||||||||||||
Oxford West and Abingdon | Patten | Harris | Blackwood | Moran | |||||||||||
Wantage / Didcot & Wantage ('24) | Jackson | → | Vaizey | Johnston | Glover | ||||||||||
Witney | Hurd | Woodward | → | Cameron | Courts | Maynard | |||||||||
Bicester and Woodstock | Miller |
See also
[edit]- List of parliamentary constituencies in the South East (region)
- History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Oxfordshire
Notes
[edit]- ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – South East". Boundary Commission for England. 2023.
- ^ "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".