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'Banbury' is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a strongly Conservative seat.

Contents

Boundaries

Boundary Review

Members of Parliament

Elections

See also

References

Boundaries

The constituency covers the north-east of Oxfordshire, around Banbury and largely corresponds to the Cherwell local government district, with the principal exception of the large village of Kidlington on the outskirts of Oxford which lies in the Oxford West and Abingdon constituency, and some smaller villages to the north-east of Oxford that lie in the Henley constituency.

Boundary Review

Following its review of parliamentary representation in Oxfordshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made minor alterations (transfer of the Cherwell district wards of Otmoor and Kirtlington to Henley) to the existing arrangement as a result of a population increase within previous boundaries. The electoral wards used in this modified constituency are:

★ Twenty-three wards from the district of Cherwell - Adderbury, Ambrosden and Chesterton, Banbury Calthorpe, Banbury Easington, Banbury Grimsbury and Castle, Banbury Hardwick, Banbury Neithrop, Banbury Ruscote, Bicester East, Bicester North, Bicester South, Bicester Town, Bicester West, Bloxham and Bodicote, Caversfield, Cropredy, Deddington, Fringford, Hook Norton, Launton, Sibford, The Astons and Heyfords, and Wroxton.

Members of Parliament

★ ''Constituency created'' (1553)

★ even before the Reform Act 1832, Banbury only returned one member to Parliament [1]

Year		Member	Party
	1754	Frederick North, Lord North
	1790	George Augustus North
	1792	Frederick North
	1794	William Holbech
	1796	Dudley North
	1806	William Praed
	1808	Dudley North
	1812	Frederick Sylvester North Douglas
	1819	Heneage Legge
	1826	Arthur Charles Legge
	1830	Henry Villiers-Stuart
	1831	John Easthope
	1832	Henry William Tancred
	1859	Bernhard Samuelson
	1859	Sir Charles Eurwicke Douglas
	1865	Sir Bernhard Samuelson
	1895	Albert Brassey
	1906	Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	Robert Bingham Brassey
	Dec. 1910	Sir Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes	Liberal
	1918	Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams	Liberal
	1922	James Edmondson	Conservative
	1945	Douglas Dodds-Parker	Conservative
	1959	Neil Marten	Conservative
	1983	Tony Baldry	Conservative

Elections

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire

References

★ The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935, , , , Politico's (reprint), 2003, ISBN 1-84275-033-X

★ The Times House of Commons 1945, , , , ''The Times'', 1945,

★ The Times House of Commons 1950, , , , ''The Times'', 1950,

★ The Times House of Commons 1955, , , , ''The Times'', 1955,