Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency)
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Wycombe is a parliamentary constituency
United Kingdom constituencies
In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

 represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

. It currently elects one Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 (MP) by the first-past-the-post
First-past-the-post
First-past-the-post voting refers to an election won by the candidate with the most votes. The winning potato candidate does not necessarily receive an absolute majority of all votes cast.-Overview:...

 system of elections.

Wycombe has continuously returned MPs since 1295. As a parliamentary borough
Parliamentary borough
Parliamentary boroughs are a type of administrative division, usually covering urban areas, that are entitled to representation in a Parliament...

 (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".

Boundaries

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
High Wycombe
High Wycombe , commonly known as Wycombe and formally called Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe until 1946,is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England. It is west-north-west of Charing Cross in London; this figure is engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town...

 contains many working and middle class voters and a sizeable ethnic minority population that totals around one quarter of the town's population, with some areas of town housing 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.

The towns of Eton
Eton, Berkshire
Eton is a town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, lying on the opposite bank of the River Thames to Windsor and connected to it by Windsor Bridge. The parish also includes the large village of Eton Wick, 2 miles west of the town, and has a population of 4,980. Eton was in Buckinghamshire until...

 and Slough
Slough
Slough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England. The town straddles the A4 Bath Road and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London...

 were part of the Wycombe constituency until 1945, when the new seat of Eton and Slough
Eton and Slough (UK Parliament constituency)
Eton and Slough was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post voting system....

 was created at the redistribution of that year.

MPs 1295-1640

  • Constituency created (1295)
    YearFirst memberSecond member
    1295 Stephen Ayott Thomas le Tayleur
    1298 Adam de Guldeford Roger Allitarius
    1300 John le Pistor
    1306 Peter le Cotiler John le Bake
    1307 Andrew Batyn
    1307 Roger de Sandwell
    1308 Edmond de Haveringdoun
    1312 Thomas Gerveys Matthew le Fuller
    1312 Robert Paer William le Cassiere
    1318 Robert Smith William le Fote
    1322 Richard le Haslere Bennet le Cassiere
    1325 John le Taylor John de Sandwell
    1326 Roger Sandwell Matthew le Fuller
    1327 Richard atte Walle John atte Donne
    1328 John atte Donne Henry de Mussenden
    1330 John le Harriere Richard Perre
    1332 Matthew Fuller Richard Tottering
    1333 Jordan de Wycombe Richard Bennet
    1335 John Ayot Richard Perkyn
    1336 John le Harriere Thomas Gerveys
    1336 John Ayot Richard Abyndon
    1337 John le Clerk John Pool
    1338 Stephen Ayot John le Taverner
    1338 Thomas Gerveys Jordan de Preston
    1341 Robert Stenstoole Robert Harleyford
    1346 Ralph Barber
    1347 John Martyn Robert Cattingham
    1348 Walter atte Leech William Cassiere
    1355 Thomas Gerveys Ralph Harleyford
    1357 Robert Harleyford
    1357 John Mepertshale
    1360 Robert le Weeler
    1360 Richard Spigurnell
    1362 William Frere
    1365 Thomas Cornwaile Richard Barbour
    1368 William atte Dene
    1369 Thomas Gerveys
    1371 No other?
    1372 John Bledlowe
    1373 Thomas Ballard
    1377 Richard Sandwell
    1378 Richard Jordaine
    1379 Richard Sandwell
    1381 Thomas Ravell Walter Frere
    1382 William Kele William atte Dene
    1383 Stephen Watford John Petymin
    1384 William atte Dene Richard Kele
    1385 Stephen Watford
    1386 Walter Frere Richard Holyman
    1388 Stephen Watford William atte Dene
    1391 William Depham
    1392 Walter Waltham
    1394 Walter atte Dene Nicholas Depham
    1396 Richard Sandwell Walter Waltham
    1399 John Cottingham William Clerke
    1401 Nicholas Sperling John Sandwell
    1413 Henry Sperling Roger More
    1414 William Hall John Coventry
    1415 William Clerke Andrew Sperling
    1417 Roger More
    1419 William Merchant John Cottingham
    1420 Roger More Thomas Merston
    1421 John Harewood Thomas Pusey
    1421 Roger More Richard Merston
    1422 Nicholas Stepton John Coventry
    1423 Roger More
    1424 William Whapelade John Cottingham
    1425 Thomas Muston William Stocton
    1427 John Coventry John Justice
    1429 John Wellesbourn John Bishop
    1430 Roger More William Fowler
    1432 John Martyn John Blackpoll
    1434 John Durein John Cottingham
    1436 John Hill Bartholomew Halling
    1441 John Radeshill John Martyn
    1446 John Wellesbourn
    1448 John Haynes
    1449 William Stocton Nicholas Fayrewell
    1450 Thomas More
    1452 William Collard David Thomasyn
    1461 Thomas Mansell Thomas Catsbury
    1469 Thomas Fowler Thomas Fayrewell
    1478 Thomas Gate Thomas Wellesbourn
    1542 John Gates William Dormer
    1547 Thomas Fisher Armigyll Wade
    Armagil Waad
    Armagil Waad was a chief clerk of the Privy Council, servant of government and an English parliamentarian.-Early life:...

    Mar 1553 Henry Peckham John Cheyne
    Oct 1553 Robert Drury
    Apr 1554 Thomas Pymme alias Fryer
    Nov 1554 John Cheyne William Drury
    William Drury
    Sir William Drury, Knt., was an English statesman and soldier,He was a son of Sir Robert Drury of Hedgerley in Buckinghamshire, and grandson of another Sir Robert Drury , who was speaker of the House of Commons in 1495. He was a brother of Dru Drury.He was born at Hawstead in Suffolk, and was...

    1555 Henry Peckham Robert Drury
    1558 Thomas Pymme Robert Woodleafe
    1558 Paul Wentworth Roland Bracebridge
    1562 Thomas Fermore alias Draper Thomas Keele
    1570 John Russell Robert Christmas
    1571 Thomas Nale Rowland Goules
    1584 John Morley George Cawfield
    1585 Thomas Ridley George Fleetwood
    George Fleetwood (MP)
    Sir George Fleetwood was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1611....

    1589 Owen Oglethorp Francis Goodwin
    Francis Goodwin (MP)
    Sir Francis Goodwin was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1626.Goodwin was the son of Sir John Goodwin and his second wife Anne Spencer, daughter of Sir William Spencer. In 1586, he was elected Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire. He was...

    1592 Thomas Tasburgh Thomas Fortescue
    1596 William Fortescue John Tasburgh
    1601 Richard Blunt Henry Fleetwood
    Henry Fleetwood
    Henry Fleetwood was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1611.Fleetwood was the youngest son of Thomas Fleetwood of The Vache, Buckinghamshire and his second wife. He was educated at Grey's Inn in 1580 and was called to the bar in 1586. In 1589,...

    1604 Sir John Townsend
    1614 William Borlase
    William Borlase (died 1630)
    William Borlase was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and from 1628 to 1629..Borlase was the son of William Borlase of Marlow and Bockmore Buckinghamshire. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 22 June 1604, aged 15. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament...

     
    Sir Henry Neville,jnr
    1621 Richard Lovelace Arthur Goodwin
    Arthur Goodwin
    Arthur Goodwin was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1643...

    1624 Henry Coke
    Henry Coke
    Henry Coke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1624 and 1642.Coke was the son of Sir Edward Coke Lord Chief Justice, of Thorington, Suffolk. He was admitted at Queens' College, Cambridge on 18 August 1607....

    1625 Thomas Lane
    Thomas Lane (MP)
    Thomas Lane was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1625 and 1648.-Career:Lane was a bencher of the Temple and lord of the manor of Greenford Parva....

    1626 Edmund Waller
    Edmund Waller
    Edmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.- Early life :...

    1628 Sir William Borlase
    William Borlase (died 1630)
    William Borlase was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and from 1628 to 1629..Borlase was the son of William Borlase of Marlow and Bockmore Buckinghamshire. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 22 June 1604, aged 15. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament...

     
    Thomas Lane
    Thomas Lane (MP)
    Thomas Lane was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1625 and 1648.-Career:Lane was a bencher of the Temple and lord of the manor of Greenford Parva....

    1629-1640 No Parliament summoned

MPs 1640-1868

YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
April 1640
Short Parliament
The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640 during the reign of King Charles I of England, so called because it lasted only three weeks....

Sir Edmund Verney Royalist Thomas Lane
Thomas Lane (MP)
Thomas Lane was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1625 and 1648.-Career:Lane was a bencher of the Temple and lord of the manor of Greenford Parva....

Parliamentarian
November 1640
Long Parliament
The Long Parliament was made on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members, and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and...

October 1642 Verney killed in battle - seat left vacant
1645 Richard Browne
December 1648 Browne and Lane excluded in Pride's Purge
Pride's Purge
Pride’s Purge is an event in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents...

 - seat vacant
1653 Wycombe was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
Barebones Parliament
Barebone's Parliament, also known as the Little Parliament, the Nominated Assembly and the Parliament of Saints, came into being on 4 July 1653, and was the last attempt of the English Commonwealth to find a stable political form before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector...

1654
First Protectorate Parliament
The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House....

Thomas Scot
Thomas Scot
Thomas Scot was an English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.- Early life :In 1626 Thomas Scot married Alice Allinson of Chesterford in Essex. He was a lawyer in Buckinghamshire and grew to prominence as the treasurer of the region’s County Committee between 1644 to...

Wycombe had only one seat in the First
First Protectorate Parliament
The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House....

  and
Second
Second Protectorate Parliament
The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons...

 Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656
Second Protectorate Parliament
The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons...

Tobias Bridge
Tobias Bridge
Sir Tobias Bridge was fought for Parliament in the English Civil War, served the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell during the Interregnum and after the restoration he served King Charles II.Pape...

January 1659
Third Protectorate Parliament
The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers of the House of Commons...

Thomas Scot
Thomas Scot
Thomas Scot was an English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.- Early life :In 1626 Thomas Scot married Alice Allinson of Chesterford in Essex. He was a lawyer in Buckinghamshire and grew to prominence as the treasurer of the region’s County Committee between 1644 to...

May 1659
Rump Parliament
The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason....

Not represented in the restored Rump
Rump Parliament
The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason....

April 1660 Edmund Petty
Edmund Petty
Edmund Petty was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.Petty was the son of Maximilian Petty of Thame, Oxfordshire, and his first wife Elizabeth Waller, daughter of Robert Waller of Beaconsfield. He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford aged 15 on 22 January...

 
Richard Browne 
1661 Sir Edmund Pye, Bt
Pye Baronets
There have been two Baronetcies created for persons with the surname of Pye. Both are extinct.The Baronetcy Pye of Leckhampstead was created on 27 April 1641 in the Baronetage of England, for Edmund Pye, who had purchased the Manor of Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire in 1628. He was Member of...

 
Sir John Borlase, Bt
Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet
Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1644. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.-Background:...

 
February 1673 Sir John Borlase, Bt
Sir John Borlase, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Borlase, 2nd Baronet was an English politician.Born in Bockmer in Buckinghamshire, he was the son of Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet and Alice Bancks, daughter of Sir John Bancks, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. His nephew was Borlase Warren. Borlase was educated at Oriel...

 
November 1673 Robert Sawyer
Robert Sawyer (Attorney General)
Sir Robert Sawyer, of Highclere was the Attorney General for England and Wales and, briefly, Speaker of the English House of Commons....

 
1679 Thomas Lewes 
1685 Sir Dennis Hampson, Bt  Edward Baldwin
Edward Baldwin
Edward Baldwin may refer to:*Edward Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley , British educator and Crossbench elected hereditary peer in the House of Lords...

 
1689 Thomas Lewes  William Jephson 
1691 Charles Godfrey 
1696 Fleetwood Dormer 
1698 John Archdale
John Archdale
John Archdale served as British colonial Governor of North Carolina and Governor of South Carolina in 1695 and 1696. He may have also been appointed to serve circa 1683-1686. Archdale was appointed to the position by the Lords Proprietors of Carolina.He first travelled from England to North...

 
1699 Thomas Archdale 
1701 Fleetwood Dormer 
1710 Sir Thomas Lee, Bt 
1713 Sir John Wittewrong, Bt 
February 1722 John Neale 
March 1722 Charles Egerton  The Earl of Shelburne
Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne
Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne PC was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.-Background:Petty was a younger son of Sir William Petty and Elizabeth, Baroness Shelburne, daughter of Sir Hardress Waller...

 
February 1726 Charles Colyear
Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore
Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore KT was a Scottish nobleman, known as Beau Colyear for his conspicuous dress....

 
March 1726 Harry Waller
Harry Waller
Henry "Harry" Waller was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half.-Career:Waller began his career in non-league football with Ashington, signing for Arsenal in 1937. He made eight appearances in the Football League for Arsenal during the 1946-47 season. Waller also made 17...

 
1727 William Lee 
1730 Sir Charles Vernon 
1734 Edmund Waller 
1734 Sir Charles Vernon 
1741 Edmund Waller
1747 Edmund Waller, junior 
1754 The Earl of Shelburne
John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne
John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne PC , known as John FitzMaurice until 1751 and as The Viscount FitzMaurice between 1751 and 1753, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician...

 
John Waller  Opposition Whig
1757 Edmund Waller, junior 
1760 Viscount FitzMaurice  Whig
March 1761 Robert Waller 
December 1761 Isaac Barré
Isaac Barré
Isaac Barré was an Irish soldier and politician. He earned distinction serving with the British army during the Seven Years' War, and later became a prominent Member of Parliament where he became a vocal supporter of William Pitt. He is known for coining the term "Sons of Liberty" in reference to...

 
Whig
1774 Hon. Thomas FitzMaurice 
1780 Viscount Mahon
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope aka Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope FRS was a British statesman and scientist. He was the father of the great traveller and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope and brother-in-law of William Pitt the Younger. He is sometimes confused with an exact contemporary of his,...

 
Whig
1786 Earl Wycombe
John Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne
John Henry Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne was the eldest son of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, William Petty-FitzMaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquis of Lansdowne, by his first wife, Lady Sophia Carteret.John Henry Petty-FitzMaurice travelled widely desipte his ill health,...

 
1790 Rear-Admiral Sir John Jervis
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom...

 
Whig
1794 Sir Francis Baring, Bt 
1796 Sir John Dashwood-King, Bt
Sir John Dashwood-King, 4th Baronet
Sir John Dashwood-King, 4th Baronet was a British Tory politician and country gentleman.The son of Sir John Dashwood-King, 3rd Baronet and half-nephew of Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer, he shared little of their cultured and hedonistic ways and was a pious churchgoer.On 29 August 1789,...

 
Tory
Tory
Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...

1802 Sir Francis Baring, Bt 
1806 Sir Thomas Baring, Bt
Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet , was a British banker and MP.He was the eldest son of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, founder of Barings Bank. His grandfather John Baring had emigrated from Germany and established the family in England. Thomas became a partner in Baring Brothers & Co. in 1804,...

 
1831 Hon. Robert Smith
Robert John Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington
Robert John Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington was a baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was the son of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington....

 
Whig
1832 Hon. Charles Grey
Charles Grey (British Army officer)
Sir Charles Grey was a British army officer, member of the British House of Commons and political figure in Lower Canada...

 
Whig
1837 Sir George Dashwood, Bt
Sir George Dashwood, 5th Baronet
Sir George Henry Dashwood, 5th Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1832 and 1865....

 
Whig
1838 George Robert Smith  Whig
1841 Ralph Bernal
Ralph Bernal Osborne
Ralph Bernal Osborne, MP , born and baptised with the name of Ralph Bernal, Jr., was a British Liberal politician.-Life:...

 
Whig
1847 Martin Tucker Smith  Whig
1859 Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

1862 John Remington Mills  Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

1865 Hon. Charles Carington  Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...


MPs 1868-present

  • Reduced to one member (1868)
    YearMemberParty
    1868 Hon. William Carington
    William Carington
    Sir William Henry Peregrine Carington GCVO KCB PC JP was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1883-Biography:...

     
    Liberal
    Liberal Party (UK)
    The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

    1883 Gerard Smith  Liberal
    Liberal Party (UK)
    The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

    1885 Viscount Curzon
    Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe
    Richard George Penn Curzon, 4th Earl Howe GCVO, TD, JP , styled Viscount Curzon between 1876 and 1900, was a British courtier and Conservative politician...

     
    Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

    1900 William Grenfell
    William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough
    William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, KG, GCVO, was an athlete, sportsman, public servant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons firstly for the Liberal Party and then for the Conservatives between 1880 and 1905 when he was raised to the peerage...

     
    Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

    1906 Thomas Arnold Herbert  Liberal
    Liberal Party (UK)
    The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

    January 1910 Sir Charles Alfred Cripps  Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

    1914 William Baring du Pré
    William Baring du Pré
    Colonel William Baring du Pré was a British Conservative Party politician.Du Pré was educated at Winchester and the RMA and was originally commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps but served in the Boer War with 47th Coy., Imperial Yeomanry. He was captured in the "Yeomanry Disaster" at...

     
    Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

    1923 Vera Woodhouse, Lady Terrington
    Vera Woodhouse, Lady Terrington
    Vera Florence Annie Woodhouse, Lady Terrington was a British Liberal Party politician, and one of the first women Members of Parliament ....

     
    Liberal
    Liberal Party (UK)
    The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

    1924 Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox
    Alfred Knox (general)
    Major-General Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox was a career British military officer and later a Conservative Party politician.Born in Ulster, he joined the British Army and was posted to India....

     
    Unionist
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

    1945 John Edwin Haire  Labour
    Labour Party (UK)
    The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

    1951 William Astor
    William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor
    William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician and a member of the prominent Astor family.-Biography:...

     
    Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

    1952 Sir John Hall  Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

    1978 Sir Raymond Whitney  Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

    2001 Paul Goodman
    Paul Alexander Cyril Goodman
    Paul Alexander Cyril Goodman is a British journalist and Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Wycombe from 2001 to 2010, during which time he was a Shadow Minister shadowing the Department for Communities and Local Government...

     
    Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

    2010 Steve Baker
    Steve Baker (UK politician)
    Steven John Baker is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament MP for Wycombe, having been elected in the 2010 general election.-Education:...

     
    Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...


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Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

Sources

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