Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency)
Template:UK constituency infobox Wycombe is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has continuously returned MPs since 1295 - two members until 1832 (when the constituency was often referred to as High Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe), and one thereafter.
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 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 and Slough were contained in the Wycombe constituency until 1945, when the new seat of Eton and Slough was created at the redistribution of that year.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1295-1640
- Constituency created (1295)
| Year | First member | Second 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 |
| 1550 | Henry Peckham | John Cheyne |
| 1553 | Robert Drury | |
| 1554 | Thomas Pymme | |
| 1555 | John ? | Robert Drury |
| 1556 | Henry Peckham | |
| 1557 | Thomas Pymme | Robert Woodleafe |
| 1558 | No other? | |
| 1562 | Thomas Fermore | Thomas Neale |
| 1570 | John Russell | Robert Christmas |
| 1571 | Thomas Nale | Rowland Goules |
| 1584 | John Morley | George Cawfield |
| 1585 | Thomas Ridley | George Fleetwood |
| 1588 | Owen Oglethorp | Francis Goodwin |
| 1592 | Thomas Tasburgh | Thomas Fortescue |
| 1596 | William Fortescue | John Tasburgh |
| 1600 | Richard Blunt | Henry Fleetwood |
| 1603 | Sir John Townsend | |
| 1610 | William Borlase | No other? |
| 1618 | Richard Lovelace | Arthur Goodwin |
| 1623 | Henry Cooke | |
| 1625 | Thomas Lane | |
| 1626 | Edmund Waller | |
| 1628 | Sir William Borlase | Thomas Lane |
| No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 | ||
MPs 1640-1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Cavalier/meta/color" | | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | | April 1640 | Sir Edmund Verney | Royalist | Thomas Lane | Parliamentarian |
| November 1640 | ||||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | October 1642 | Verney killed in battle - seat left vacant | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1645 | Richard Browne | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | December 1648 | Browne and Lane excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | |||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1653 | Wycombe was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1654 | Thomas Scot | Wycombe had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1656 | Tobias Bridge | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | January 1659 | Thomas Scot | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color"| | April 1660 | Edmund Petty | Richard Browne | ||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color"| | 1661 | Sir Edmund Pye, Bt | Sir John Borlase, Bt | ||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"| | February 1673 | Sir John Borlase, Bt | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | November 1673 | Robert Sawyer | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1679 | Thomas Lewes | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1685 | Sir Dennis Hampson, Bt | Edward Baldwin | ||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color"| | 1689 | Thomas Lewes | William Jephson | ||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="6"| | 1691 | Charles Godfrey | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1696 | Fleetwood Dormer | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1698 | John Archdale[1] | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1699 | Thomas Archdale | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1701 | Fleetwood Dormer | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"| | 1710 | Sir Thomas Lee, Bt | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1713 | Sir John Wittewrong, Bt | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | February 1722 | John Neale | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"| | March 1722 | Charles Egerton | The Earl of Shelburne | ||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | February 1726 | Charles Colyear [2] | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="6"| | March 1726 | Harry Waller | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1727 | William Lee | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1730 | Sir Charles Vernon | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color"| | 1734 | Edmund Waller [3] | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color"| | 1734 | Sir Charles Vernon | ||||
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color"| | 1741 | Edmund Waller | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1747 | Edmund Waller, junior | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color"| | 1754 | The Earl of Shelburne | John Waller | Opposition Whig | |
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | 1757 | Edmund Waller, junior | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | 1760 | Viscount Fitzmaurice | Whig | |||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="5"| | March 1761 | Robert Waller | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | | December 1761 | Isaac Barré | Whig | |||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1774 | Hon. Thomas Fitzmaurice | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | | 1780 | Viscount Mahon | Whig | |||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="4"| | 1786 | Earl Wycombe | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | | 1790 | Rear-Admiral Sir John Jervis [4] | Whig | |||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1794 | Sir Francis Baring, Bt | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" rowspan="3"| | 1796 | Sir John Dashwood-King, Bt | Tory | |||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1802 | Sir Francis Baring, Bt | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | 1806 | Sir Thomas Baring, Bt | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" rowspan="3"| | 1831 | Hon. Robert Smith | Whig | |||
| style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | | 1832 | Hon. Charles Grey | Whig | |||
| style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" rowspan="4"| | 1837 | Sir George Dashwood, Bt | Whig | |||
| style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | | 1838 | George Robert Smith | Whig | |||
| style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | | 1841 | Ralph Bernal | Whig | |||
| style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color"| | 1847 | Martin Tucker Smith | Whig | |||
| style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"| | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"| | 1859 | Liberal | Liberal | ||
| style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | 1862 | John Remington Mills | Liberal | |||
| style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1865 | Hon. Charles Carington | Liberal | |||
MPs 1868-present
- Reduced to one member (1868)
Notes
- ^ Archdale, a Quaker, never took his seat as he was not prepared to take the prescribed oath
- ^ On petition, Colyear's election was declared void and a by-election was called. He was re-elected at the by-election but once more voted by the committee not to have been duly returned, and his opponent, Waller, was seated instead.
- ^ Waller was also elected for Marlow, which he chose to represent, and did not for Wycombe in this Parliament
- ^ Vice Admiral from 1793
Elections
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Steve Baker | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Steve Guy | ||||
| Labour | Andrew Lomas | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Paul Goodman | 20,331 | 45.8 | +3.4 | |
| Labour | Julia Wassell | 13,280 | 29.9 | −5.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | James Oates | 8,780 | 19.8 | +2.8 | |
| UKIP | Robert Davis | 1,735 | 3.9 | +1.5 | |
| Independent | David Fitton | 301 | 0.7 | +0.2 | |
| Majority | 7,051 | 15.9 | |||
| Turnout | 44,427 | 62.2 | +1.7 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +4.4 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Paul Goodman | 19,064 | 42.4 | +2.5 | |
| Labour | Chauhdry Shafique | 15,896 | 35.3 | −0.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Dee Tomlin | 7,658 | 17.0 | −1.5 | |
| UKIP | Christopher Cooke | 1,059 | 2.4 | N/A | |
| Green | John Laker | 1,057 | 2.4 | +1.0 | |
| Independent | David Fitton | 240 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,168 | 7.1 | |||
| Turnout | 44,974 | 60.5 | −10.6 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- GENUKI
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)