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Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency)

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County
  
Berkshire

Created
  
1997

Electorate
  
74,028 (December 2010)

Number of members
  
One

Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency)

Major settlements
  
Maidenhead, Bray, Wargrave, Sonning, Twyford

Member of parliament
  
Theresa May (Conservative)

Maidenhead is a constituency in Berkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It has been represented since its 1997 creation by Theresa May, who became Prime Minister on 13 July 2016.

Contents

It is considered a safe seat for the Conservative Party, as it has never been held by a party other than the Conservatives, and nor were any of its predecessor constituencies.

History

The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the seats of Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham. Theresa May, the Prime Minister, has represented it since its creation. In the 2010 general election May achieved the 9th highest share of the vote of the 307 seats held by a Conservative.

Constituency profile

Housing is, in the Wokingham district part, at the northern end of a belt in which still more than 40% is detached and fewer than 10.8% is purpose-built flats or tenements (maisonettes) (2011 figures, by district) Reflecting a national trend in this period, the latter band was in 2001 a band of fewer than 8% of housing stock as flats. The other borough is the most expensive house price district of the country outside of Greater London Homes are in the technology-rich M4 corridor including the largest company headquarters estate in Europe at Slough and though most the communities have slower links to London than Maidenhead town centre, they instead have close links to Reading and Bracknell. A minority commute to the City of London which is just under one hour's commute from the two mainline stations. Fortunate geographical features are illustrated colourfully by the internationally leading restaurants, the Fat Duck at Bray and Waterside Inn; by the low hills in the north of the seat and by the Chiltern Hills to the north. Taking the constituent electoral ward results since the decline of the Liberal Party in the 1910s, the area has to date been a safe seat for Conservative candidates. One broadsheet political column encapsulated the constituency as a "seat of Thamesside towns", these house a majority of its residents other than Twyford which spans the multi-stream river in the town over which it has two fords.

Boundaries

The constituency borders the constituencies of Reading East, Henley, Wycombe, Beaconsfield, Windsor, Bracknell and Wokingham, and includes the following wards:

1997-2010: The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead wards of Belmont, Bisham and Cookham, Boyn Hill, Cox Green, Furze Platt, Hurley, Oldfield, Pinkney's Green, and St Mary's, and the District of Wokingham wards of Charvil, Coronation, Hurst, Remenham and Wargrave, Sonning, and Twyford and Ruscombe.

2010-present: The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead wards of Belmont, Bisham and Cookham, Boyn Hill, Bray, Cox Green, Furze Platt, Hurley and Walthams, Maidenhead Riverside, Oldfield, and Pinkney's Green, and the District of Wokingham wards of Charvil, Coronation, Hurst, Remenham, Wargrave and Ruscombe, Sonning, and Twyford.

The seat's largest settlement is the town of Maidenhead in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire.

References

Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia