Slough (UK Parliament constituency)

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Slough
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Slough in Berkshire
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Location of Berkshire within England
County Berkshire
Electorate 80,679 (2018) [1]
Major settlements Langley, Slough
Current constituency
Created 1983
Member of Parliament Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created from Eton & 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]

Contents

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.

Slough (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

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 (as they existed at 1 December 2010). [8]

Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023, [9] [10] the constituency will now comprise the following wards of the Borough of Slough from the next general election:

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [12] Party
1983 John Watts Conservative
1997 Fiona Mactaggart Labour
2017 Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Slough [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi 29,421 57.6 ―5.3
Conservative Kanwal Toor Gill15,78130.9―0.7
Liberal Democrats Aaron Chahal3,3576.6+4.2
Brexit Party Delphine Grey-Fisk1,4322.8New
Green Julian Edmonds1,0472.1New
Majority13,64026.7―4.6
Turnout 51,03858.2―7.2
Labour hold Swing ―2.3
General election 2017: Slough [14] [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi 34,170 62.9 +14.4
Conservative Mark Vivis17,17231.6―1.7
Liberal Democrats Tom McCann1,3082.4―0.2
UKIP Karen Perez1,2282.3―10.7
Independent Paul Janik4170.8New
Majority16,99831.3+16.1
Turnout 54,29565.4+9.5
Labour hold Swing +8.0
General election 2015: Slough [16] [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Fiona Mactaggart 23,421 48.5 +2.7
Conservative Gurcharan Singh16,08533.3―1.0
UKIP Diana Coad6,27413.0+9.8
Liberal Democrats Tom McCann1,2752.6―11.9
Green Julian Edmonds1,2202.5+1.4
Majority7,33615.2+3.6
Turnout 48,27555.9―6.0
Labour hold Swing +1.8
General election 2010: Slough
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Fiona Mactaggart 21,884 45.8 ―0.4
Conservative Diana Coad16,36134.3+7.9
Liberal Democrats Chris Tucker6,94314.5―2.2
UKIP Peter Mason-Apps1,5173.2―0.5
Green Miriam Kennet5421.1―0.9
Christian Sunil Chaudhary4951.0New
Majority5,52311.5―8.3
Turnout 47,74261.9+8.1
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Slough
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Fiona Mactaggart 17,517 47.2 ―11.1
Conservative Sheila Gunn9,66626.1―0.1
Liberal Democrats Thomas McCann5,73915.5+5.0
Respect Ajaz Khan1,6324.4New
UKIP Geoff Howard1,4153.8+1.9
Green David Wood7592.0New
Independent Paul Janik3671.0New
Majority7,85121.1―11.0
Turnout 37,09550.5―2.9
Labour hold Swing ―5.5
General election 2001: Slough
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Fiona Mactaggart 22,718 58.3 +1.7
Conservative Diana Coad10,21026.2―3.0
Liberal Democrats Keith Kerr4,10910.5+3.1
Independent Tony Haines8592.2New
UKIP John Lane7381.9New
Independent Choudry Nazir3640.9New
Majority12,50832.1+4.7
Turnout 38,99853.4―14.5
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Slough
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Fiona Mactaggart 27,029 56.6 +12.9
Conservative Peta Buscombe 13,95829.2−15.4
Liberal Democrats Chris Bushill3,5097.4+0.4
Liberal Anne Bradshaw1,8353.8+1.3
Referendum Terence J. Sharkey1,1242.4New
Independent Paul P. Whitmore2770.6New
Majority13,07127.4N/A
Turnout 47,73267.9−10.3
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General election 1992: Slough [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Watts 25,793 44.6 −2.4
Labour Eddie Lopez25,27943.7+4.1
Liberal Democrats Peter Mapp4,0417.0−6.4
Liberal John Clark1,4262.5New
Independent Labour Declan Alford6991.2New
National Front Andy Carmichael2900.5New
Natural Law Martin Creese1530.3New
Independent Elizabeth Smith1340.2New
Majority5140.9−6.5
Turnout 57,81578.0+2.1
Conservative hold Swing −3.3

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Slough
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Watts 26,166 47.0 +4.1
Labour Eddie Lopez22,07639.6+2.7
SDP Michael Goldstone7,49013.4−5.1
Majority4,0907.4+1.4
Turnout 55,73275.9+4.4
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1983: Slough
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Watts 22,064 42.9 +4.3
Labour Joan Lestor 18,95836.9−6.7
SDP Nicholas Bosanquet 9,51918.5+7.2
National Front Graham John5281.0
Ecology Ian Flindall3250.6
Majority3,1066.0
Turnout 51,39471.5
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.

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  8. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 6 South East region.
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