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Uxbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–2010

Summary

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–2010

Field	Value
name	Uxbridge
parliament	uk
map1	Uxbridge
map_size	200px
map_entity	Greater London
map_year	2005
year	1885
abolished	2010
type	Borough
previous	Middlesex
next5	Spelthorne (1918)
Southall (1945)
Ruislip-Northwood
and Hayes and Harlington (1950)
next	Uxbridge and South Ruislip and Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
region	England
county	Greater London
towns	Uxbridge
elects_howmany	One

Southall (1945)

Ruislip-Northwood and Hayes and Harlington (1950)

Uxbridge was a seat returning one Member of Parliament (MP) of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1885 to 2010. Its MPs elected were: Conservative Party candidates for 107 years and Labour Party candidates for 18 years. The closing 40 years of the seat's history saw Conservative victory — in 1997 on a very marginal majority in relative terms.

The seat began with the market towns Uxbridge and Staines shedding the latter and its southern half in 1918; by 1945 more new seats were needed. Its eastern area merited Southall and the loss of Northolt to Ealing West (all new seats) and in 1950 of Ruislip, Northwood and Harefield to become Ruislip-Northwood and of Hayes and Harlington, taking up eastern territory and some of that lost in 1918. In each possible boundary reform the seat was reduced reflecting population expansion of areas outlying its core area of Uxbridge and interwoven Hillingdon, Cowley and Ickenham.

Boundaries

Original UK House of Commons seat Uxbridge created in 1885, before major reduction in 1918 and later reductions.

1885–1918: The constituency was created as the westernmost county division of the county of Middlesex. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 defined the seat as comprising the parishes of Ashford*, Bedfont, Cowley, Cranford, Feltham, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Harefield, Harlington, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Laleham*, Littleton*, Northolt, Ruislip, Shepperton*, Staines*, Stanwell*, Sunbury*, Teddington, Uxbridge, West Drayton, and Yiewsley. The shape of the seat was irregular and it stretched more than three times the maximum length than its final form and twice its breadth.

The parishes (as various successor urban districts) marked * were absorbed into Surrey and the others absorbed into Greater London, in 1965.

Uxbridge in the county of Middlesex, boundaries 1918-45

Uxbridge in the county of Middlesex, boundaries 1945-50

Map that gives each named seat and any constant electoral success for national (Westminster) elections for Middlesex, 1955 to 1974.

1918–1945: Uxbridge was cut down to a north-western division of Middlesex. Large areas to the south were removed to form Spelthorne (UK Parliament constituency).

The local government areas in the new Uxbridge seat were defined, by the Representation of the People Act 1918, as the urban districts of Hayes, Ruislip-Northwood, Southall-Norwood, Uxbridge, and Yiewsley as well as the Uxbridge Rural District.

1945–1950: included in 1945's interim redistribution of seats with more than 100,000 registered electors. Reduced to the urban districts of Ruislip-Northwood and Uxbridge. This saw contributions to two new seats: Southall, almost its whole; Ealing West, (as to Northolt); a cast-off for five years to Spelthorne of southerly Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District.

1950–1974: Under 1950 redistribution, Ruislip-Northwood became a new seat in the north and north-east. Uxbridge with immediate neighbours north south and east (together forming the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge in 1955) was re-united with Yiewsley and West Drayton, to form the last incarnation of the county division.

1965 saw the last major Local Government reform. The area covered became part of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

1974–1983: The seat was reclassified as a borough constituency. Its wards were Colham-Cowley, Harefield, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Uxbridge, and Yiewsley.

1983–1997: ward names were changed to: Colham, Cowley, Harefield, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon North, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Uxbridge North, Uxbridge South, West Drayton, and Yiewsley. Their coverage remained unchanged.

1997–2010: Harefield ward was transferred to Ruislip-Northwood.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England created a new constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

A number of electoral wards in Hillingdon were moved into the new constituency of Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner

Members of Parliament

Election	date=March 2012}}	Party	Notes
Conservative Party (UK)}}"	1885	Sir Frederick Dixon-Hartland, Bt	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"	Jan 1910	Hon. Charles Mills	Conservative
Unionist Party (UK)}}"	1915 by-election	Hon. Arthur Mills	Unionist
Unionist Party (UK)}}"	1918	Col. Sidney Peel	Unionist
Unionist Party (UK)}}"	1922	Dennistoun Burney	Unionist
Conservative Party (UK)}}"	1929	Col. John Llewellin	Conservative
Labour Party (UK)}}"	1945	Frank Beswick	Labour
Conservative Party (UK)}}"	1959	Charles Curran	Conservative
Labour Party (UK)}}"	1966	John Ryan	Labour
Conservative Party (UK)}}"	1970	Charles Curran	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"	1972 by-election	Michael Shersby	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"	1997 by-election	John Randall	Conservative

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 9,902

Elections in the 1890s

|reg. electors = 11,739

Elections in the 1900s

|reg. electors = 15,936

Elections in the 1910s

endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Election in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 2000s

References

The seat span approximately 18.5 miles from the north of Harefield on the Hertfordshire border to the Surrey border at Hampton Court Park and 9 miles from the west of Staines to the east of Teddington. Its final form had a greatest ambit of approximately 5.0 miles from north Ickenham to south West Drayton and 3.0 miles east-to-west.
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