Slough
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Slough in Berkshire
Outline map
Location of Berkshire within England
CountyBerkshire
Electorate80,679 (2018)[1]
Major settlementsLangley, Slough
Current constituency
Created1983
Member of ParliamentTanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created fromEton & Slough, and Beaconsfield

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]

The seat is one of two Labour seats from a total of eight seats in Berkshire.

Constituency profile

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

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

1983–1997

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

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.

2010–present

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

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.[8]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[9] Party
1983 John WattsConservative
1997 Fiona MactaggartLabour
2017 Tanmanjeet Singh DhesiLabour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Slough[10]
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
General election 2017: Slough[11][12]
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
General election 2015: Slough[13][14]
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
General election 2010: Slough
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

General election 2005: Slough
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
General election 2001: Slough
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

General election 1997: Slough
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
General election 1992: Slough[15]
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

General election 1987: Slough
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
General election 1983: Slough
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

Notes

  1. ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ 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

  1. ↑ "England Parliamentary electorates 2010-2018". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  2. ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
  3. ↑ UK Polling Report, Slough
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1983". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1995". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  8. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 6 South East region.
  9. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
  10. ↑ "Slough Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  11. ↑ "General election 2017: Slough candidates formally announced as deadline passes". Slough Observer.
  12. ↑ "Slough parliamentary constituency – Election 2017" – via bbc.co.uk.
  13. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  14. ↑ https://www.slough.gov.uk/council/voting-and-elections/2015-general-election-results.aspx 8 July 2015
  15. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

Sources

  • 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
  • The Boundary Committee for England page about Slough Unitary Authority, with links to pre and post 2004 ward maps

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