Surbiton (UK Parliament constituency)
Surbiton | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Greater London |
1955–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Kingston and Surbiton |
Created from | Kingston-upon-Thames Esher Epsom |
Surbiton was a borough constituency created for the 1955 general election and abolished for the 1997 general election, in Surrey until 1965 and thereafter in outer south-west London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system of election.
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History
This was in the safe/marginal seat spectrum irrefutably a safe Conservative seat during its 32-year lifetime. The party positioned in second position was also unchanged until it changed once in the course of the seat's history. The election when this change took place was the United Kingdom general election, 1983. The narrowest majority was the General Election 1966 at 15.7%.
Boundaries
1974-1983: The London Borough of Kingston upon Thames wards of Berrylands, Chessington, Hook and Southborough, St Mark's and Seething Wells, Surbiton Hill, Tolworth East, Tolworth South, and Tolworth West.
1983-1997: The London Borough of Kingston upon Thames wards of Berrylands, Chessington North, Chessington South, Hook, St Mark's, Surbiton Hill, Tolworth East, Tolworth South, and Tolworth West.
The constituency was made up of the eastern part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in south-west London, centred on the area of Surbiton. In 1997, it was absorbed into the new and larger Kingston and Surbiton constituency after the Boundary Commission for England recommended that a seat be lost in the twinned boroughs of Kingston and Richmond.[1]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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1955 | Sir Nigel Fisher | Conservative | |
1983 | Richard Tracey | Conservative | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Kingston and Surbiton |
Elections
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Tracey | 19,033 | 54.4 | −1.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Barbara Janke | 9,394 | 26.9 | −1.6 | |
Labour | Robin T. Hutchinson | 6,384 | 18.3 | +3.9 | |
Natural Law | W Parker | 161 | 0.5 | ||
Majority | 9,639 | 27.6 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 34,972 | 82.4 | +4.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.1 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Tracey | 19,861 | 55.9 | ||
Social Democratic | DT Burke | 10,120 | 28.5 | ||
Labour | A McGowan | 5,111 | 14.4 | ||
Green | J Vidler | 465 | 1.3 | ||
Majority | 9,741 | 27.4 | |||
Turnout | 9,741 | 27.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Tracey | 18,245 | 54.5 | ||
Social Democratic | C Nowakowski | 9,496 | 28.4 | ||
Labour | ND Waskett | 5,173 | 15.5 | ||
Ecology | J Macellan | 551 | 1.6 | ||
Majority | 8,749 | 11.1 | |||
Turnout | 26.1 |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nigel Fisher | 20,063 | 56.7 | ||
Labour | CP Moore | 9,261 | 26.1 | ||
Liberal | CJ Tilley | 6,093 | 17.2 | ||
Majority | 10,802 | 30.5 | |||
Turnout | 75.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Nigel Fisher | 15,330 | 45.7 | ||
Labour | Andrew MacKinlay | 9,309 | 27.7 | ||
Liberal | D Brooke | 8,931 | 26.6 | ||
Majority | 6,021 | 17.9 | |||
Turnout | 72.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nigel Fisher | 17,176 | 45.60 | ||
Liberal | D Brooke | 10,676 | 28.34 | ||
Labour | Andrew MacKinlay | 9,813 | 26.05 | ||
Majority | 6,500 | 17.26 | |||
Turnout | 82.26 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nigel Fisher | 17,359 | 51.7 | ||
Labour | RD Kerr-Walter | 10,469 | 31.2 | ||
Liberal | CF Green | 4,027 | 12.0 | ||
Independent Powell Conservative | E Scruty | 1,706 | 5.1 | ||
Majority | 6,890 | 20.5 | |||
Turnout | 70.3 |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nigel Fisher | 19,989 | 57.9 | ||
Labour | DE Heather | 14,561 | 42.1 | ||
Majority | 5,428 | 15.7 | |||
Turnout | 77.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nigel Fisher | 20,499 | 60.6 | ||
Labour | DE Heather | 13,337 | 39.4 | ||
Majority | 7,162 | 21.2 | |||
Turnout | 75.4 |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nigel Fisher | 24,058 | 67.4 | ||
Labour | A Imisson | 11,633 | 32.6 | ||
Majority | 12,425 | 34.8 | |||
Turnout | 79.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nigel Fisher | 22,863 | 64.9 | ||
Labour | SG Richards | 12,380 | 35.1 | ||
Majority | 10,483 | 29.7 | |||
Turnout | 79.6 |
See also
References
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- ↑ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, p.12 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995).
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