Windsor (UK Parliament constituency) (original) (raw)

Parliament constituency in the United Kingdom 1801–1974 and 1997 onwards

Windsor
County constituencyfor the House of Commons
MapBoundaries since 2024
Map of constituencyBoundary of Windsor in South East England
County Berkshire
Electorate 74,338 (2023) [1]
Major settlements Ascot, Datchet, Eton, Sunningdale, Windsor, Wraysbury
Current constituency
Created 1997
Member of Parliament Jack Rankin (Conservative)
Seats One
Created from Windsor & Maidenhead
1918–1974 (1974)
Seats One
Type of constituency County constituency
Replaced by Windsor & Maidenhead
1424–1918
Seats Two until 1868, then one
Type of constituency Borough constituency

Windsor (/ˈwɪnzə/) is a constituency[n 1] of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament represented since 2024 by Jack Rankin of the Conservative Party.[n 2] It was re-created for the 1997 general election after it was abolished following the 1970 general election and replaced by the Windsor and Maidenhead constituency.

Constituency profile

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The constituency covers the town of Windsor and various portions of the surrounding area, in Berkshire.[n 3]

The re-created constituency, from 1997, has continued a trend of large Conservative Party majorities. In local elections the major opposition party has been the Liberal Democrats, who have had councillors particularly in the town of Windsor itself. Affluent villages and small towns along the River Thames and around the Great Park have continued to contribute to large Conservative majorities, from Wraysbury to Ascot. The only ward with any substantial Labour support is in Colnbrook with Poyle, based in Slough.

Containing one of the least social welfare-dependent demographics and among the highest property prices, the seat has the third highest Conservative share of the vote in the country. At the 2010 election, only two areas voted more strongly towards the Conservative Party: Richmond (Yorks) foremost followed by Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire.[2]

Windsor has had parliamentary representation for centuries, formally known as the Parliamentary Borough of New Windsor, first sending a member in 1301, and continuously from 1424. It elected two members of parliament until 1868, when its representation was reduced to one MP. In 1918, the Parliamentary Borough was abolished and absorbed into the new county seat of Windsor, which also included large parts of the abolished Wokingham constituency.

In 1974, the constituency was abolished and replaced by Windsor and Maidenhead, although there were no changes to the boundaries. In 1997, the constituency was recreated when Windsor and Maidenhead was split into two separate seats.

The early political history of the area was strongly influenced by the monarch and members of his or her family. Windsor Castle has been an important royal residence throughout the history of the constituency.

The pre-1832 franchise of the borough was held by inhabitants paying scot and lot (a local tax). On 2 May 1689 the House of Commons had decided that the electorate should be limited to the members of Windsor Corporation. This was disputed after the next election, in 1690, when the Mayor submitted two returns of different members. The House of Commons reversed the decision of the previous Parliament and confirmed the scot and lot franchise.

There were 278 electors in 1712. Namier and Brooke estimated that, in 1754–1790, there were about 300 electors.

During part of the 18th century the Duke of Cumberland (son of King George II) and the Beauclerk family (descended from King Charles II) had political interests in the borough.

King George III became personally involved in the hotly contested 1780 general election. George encouraged local landowner Peniston Portlock Powney to stand by paying him £2,500 from the King's personal account. The King wished to defeat Admiral Keppel (later Viscount Keppel), an incumbent. The monarch went so far as to canvass tradesmen who dealt with the royal household. After this royal interference in the election, Keppel lost by a narrow 16 votes. Namier and Brooke suggest the Windsor electorate had an independent streak and were difficult to manage.

In 1832 a new property based franchise replaced the scot and lot qualification. Under the new system, there were 507 registered electors in 1832. The borough representatives before the Reform Act 1832 included soldiers and people connected with the Royal Household, such as Sir Richard Hussey Vivian (MP 1826–1831) and Sir Herbert Taylor (MP 1820–1823). The constituency also returned politicians prominent in national politics, like the Duke of Wellington's elder brother the Earl of Mornington in the 1780s and 1790s or the future Prime Minister Edward Stanley (subsequently the Earl of Derby) in the early 1830s).

The Ramsbottom family filled one seat from 1806 until 1845. The borough had been loyal to the King's Pittite/Tory ministers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but became more favourable to the Whig interest after John Ramsbottom (MP 1810–1845) was elected.

By the 1860s the monarch had ceased to interfere in local affairs. The borough fell under the patronage of Colonel R. Richardson-Gardner. Richardson-Gardner was a local landowner, who caused some animosity when following the 1868 general election he evicted tenants who did not support him at the polls. This was the last Parliamentary election the Conservatives lost in Windsor.

Despite (or perhaps because of) his methods, Richardson-Gardner was elected to Parliament in 1874.

Successive Conservative MPs, before the First World War, had considerable influence in the constituency; especially when they subscribed generously to local institutions such as a hospital.

The county division created in 1918 combined the town of Windsor, with territory to its west, south and east which had formerly been in the Wokingham division. The incumbent MP for Wokingham up to 1918, Ernest Gardner, was the first representative of the expanded Windsor constituency. The Conservative Party retained the seat continuously until its temporary abolition in 1974, as it has since its recreation in 1997.

Boundaries and boundary changes

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Map

Map of 2010–2024 boundaries

The parliamentary borough of New Windsor[n 4] was based upon the easternmost town in Berkshire in South East England, which grew up around Windsor Castle and the narrowly defined electorate could also vote for the county representatives. The north boundary of the constituency was on the River Thames, which was then the border between Buckinghamshire which had a seat of the same name and Berkshire, likewise the rest of the borough adjoined the Berkshire county constituency.

The boundaries of the parliamentary borough were extended by the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict., c. 46)[3] to include the villages of Clewer and Eton (the latter then being in Buckinghamshire, north of the Thames).[4]

Between 1885 and 1918 the seat to the north of the Thames was the Wycombe division of Buckinghamshire and the other neighbouring constituency was the Wokingham division of Berkshire.

The parliamentary borough was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1918 and replaced by a county division named Windsor. The constituency comprised the local government areas (as they existed in 1918):

The new constituency comprised the bulk of the abolished Wokingham division, including Maidenhead and rural areas surrounding Windsor and Maidenhead, but excluding the Municipal Borough of Wokingham itself, and incorporating the abolished Borough, with the exception of Eton, which was added to the Wycombe division of Buckinghamshire.

The constituency was reduced in size by the Representation of the People Act 1948, comprising:

The Rural District of Easthampstead (which incorporated Bracknell) and the part of the Rural District of Wokingham were transferred to the re-established constituency of Wokingham.

For the February 1974 general election, the constituency was abolished and renamed Windsor and Maidenhead, with no changes to its boundaries; this area plus Eton, which was transferred from Buckinghamshire, became the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead established under the Local Government Act 1972.

For the 1997 general election, in order to effect an increase in Berkshire's representation from 7 to 8 MPs in accordance with the Fourth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies, the Windsor and Maidenhead constituency was abolished and two separate constituencies of Maidenhead and Windsor were created. The composition of the new constituency was:-

The majority of the electorate in the abolished constituency was included in Maidenhead, whilst Windsor was joined by Eton and Bray. It also included a ward of Slough Borough Council north of the Thames, which was transferred from the Borough Constituency of Slough, and was extended southwards to include a part of the abolished constituency of East Berkshire, including Ascot and Sunningdale.

In 1998 there was a small re-alignment of county boundaries in the north east corner of Berkshire. This transferred to the Borough of Slough a small polling district from Surrey and another from Buckinghamshire to form Colnbrook and Poyle. This new ward (since renamed Colnbrook with Poyle) was added to the Windsor constituency and was effective from the 2001 general election.[7]

Further to the Fifth Periodic Review, the composition of the constituency is:-

The constituency gained the northern part of the constituency of Bracknell, including Binfield. Bray was transferred to Maidenhead and the Foxborough ward of the Borough of Slough returned to the Borough Constituency thereof.

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which became effective for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

The seat was expanded by adding two Borough of Slough wards from the Slough constituency and the communities of Englefield Green and Virginia Water from the Surrey constituency of Runnymede and Weybridge, thus creating a cross-county boundary seat. To compensate, the Bracknell Forest wards were transferred to Maidenhead, except the Warfield Harvest Ride ward, which went to Bracknell.

1 Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023,[10][11] the parts in the Borough of Slough will now comprise the following wards from the 2024 general election:

Members of Parliament

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Burgesses in the English Parliament, 1510–1707

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As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments held in this period, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given. Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained or (in the 16th century) is not recorded in a surviving document, the entry unknown is entered in the table.

The Roman numerals after some names are those used in The House of Commons 1509–1558 and The House of Commons 1558–1603 to distinguish a member from another politician of the same name.

Elected Assembled Dissolved First member Second member
1510 21 January 1510 23 February 1510 John Welles William Pury
1512 4 February 1512 4 March 1514 John Welles Thomas Rider
1515 5 February 1515 22 December 1515 John Welles Thomas Rider
1523 15 April 1523 13 August 1523 unknown unknown[13]
1529 3 November 1529 14 April 1536 Thomas Warde William Simonds
1536 8 June 1536 18 July 1536 unknown unknown
1539 28 April 1539 24 July 1540 unknown unknown
1542 16 January 1542 28 March 1544 Richard Warde William Simonds
1545 23 November 1545 31 January 1547 Thomas Legh[14] unknown
1547 4 November 1547 15 April 1552 Richard Warde Edward Weldon[15]
By January 1552 Thomas Little
1553 1 March 1553 31 March 1553 Richard Warde Richard Amyce
1553 5 October 1553 5 December 1553 Richard Warde Thomas Good
1554 2 April 1554 3 May 1554 Richard Warde Thomas Butler II
1554 12 November 1554 16 January 1555 Richard Warde William Norreys
1555 21 October 1555 9 December 1555 Richard Warde William Norreys
14 January 1558 20 January 1558 17 November 1558 William Hanley William Norreys
5 January 1559 23 January 1559 8 May 1559 Thomas Weldon Roger Amyce
1562 or 1563 11 January 1563 2 January 1567 Richard Gallys John Gresham
1571 2 April 1571 29 May 1571 John Thomson Humphrey Michell
12 April 1572 8 May 1572 19 April 1583 Edmund Docwra Richard Gallys[15]
1576 Humphrey Michell
16 November 1584 23 November 1584 14 September 1585 Henry Neville John Croke III
28 September 1586 13 October 1586 23 March 1587 Henry Neville George Woodward
10 October 1588 4 February 1589 29 March 1589 Henry Neville[16] Edward Hake
26 October 1588 Edward Neville I
1593 18 February 1593 10 April 1593 Henry Neville Edward Neville II
16 October 1597 24 October 1597 9 February 1598 Julius Caesar John Norreys
1 October 1601 27 October 1601 19 December 1601 Julius Caesar (Sir) John Norreys
1604 19 March 1604 9 February 1611 Samuel Backhouse Thomas Durdent died and replaced by Sir Francis Howard
1614 5 April 1614 7 June 1614 Sir Richard Lovelace Thomas Woodward
1621 16 January 1621 8 February 1622 Sir Charles Howard Sir Robert Bennet
1624 12 February 1624 27 March 1625 Edmund Sawyer Thomas Woodward died and replaced by Sir William Hewitt
1625 17 May 1625 12 August 1625 William Russell Humphrey Newbury
1626 6 February 1626 15 June 1626 William Russell Humphrey Newbury
1628 17 March 1628 10 March 1629 William Beecher Thomas Hewett
No parliament held
1640 13 April 1640 5 May 1640 Sir Arthur Ingram Sir Richard Harrison
1640 3 November 1640 5 December 1648 Cornelius Holland William Taylor Richard Winwood (1641)
6 December 1648[n 5] 20 April 1653 [n 6]
1653 [n 7] 4 July 1653 12 December 1653 unrepresented unrepresented
1654 [n 8] 3 September 1654 22 January 1655 unrepresented unrepresented
1656 [n 9] 17 September 1656 4 February 1658 unrepresented unrepresented
1659 27 January 1659 22 April 1659 George Starkey Christopher Whichcote
N/A [n 10] 7 May 1659 20 February 1660 unknown unknown
21 February 1660 16 March 1660
3 April 1660 25 April 1660 29 December 1660 Alexander Baker Roger Palmer
9 April 1661 8 May 1661 24 January 1679 Sir Richard Braham[17] Thomas Higgons
19 February 1677 Sir Francis Winnington
27 February 1679 6 March 1679 12 July 1679 Sir John Ernle John Powney
5 April 1679 Richard Winwood Samuel Starkey
29 August 1679 21 October 1680 18 January 1681 John Powney John Carey
4 November 1680 Samuel Starkey Richard Winwood
1681 21 March 1681 28 March 1681 Samuel Starkey Richard Winwood
28 March 1685 19 May 1685 2 June 1687 William Chiffinch Richard Graham
11 January 1689 22 January 1689 6 February 1690 Henry Powle Sir Christopher Wren
23 May 1689 Sir Algernon May
6 March 1690 20 March 1690 11 October 1695 Sir Christopher Wren Baptist May
17 May 1690 Sir Charles Porter William Adderley[18]
20 November 1693 Sir William Scawen
23 October 1695 22 November 1695 6 July 1698 Sir William Scawen The 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge
21 August 1698 24 August 1698 19 December 1700 The 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge Richard Topham
3 January 1701 6 February 1701 11 November 1701 The 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge Richard Topham
21 November 1701 30 December 1701 2 July 1702 The 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge Richard Topham
16 August 1702 20 August 1702 5 April 1705 The 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge Richard Topham
8 May 1705 14 June 1705 1707 [n 11] The 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge Richard Topham
Year First member[19] First party Second member[19] Second party
1707 John, Viscount Fitzhardinge Richard Topham
1710 William Paul[n 12]
1711 Samuel Masham[n 13]
1712 Charles Aldworth
1713 Christopher Wren[n 14]
Jan. 1715 Robert Gayer[n 14]
Apr. 1715 Sir Henry Ashurst, Bt Samuel Travers
1722 Charles, Earl of Burford[n 15] William, Earl of Inchiquin
1726 Lord Vere Beauclerk
1727 George, Viscount Malpas[n 16]
1733 Lord Sidney Beauclerk[n 17]
1741 Henry Fox
1744 Lord George Beauclerk
1754 Hon. John Fitzwilliam
1761 Hon. Augustus Keppel
Mar. 1768 Lord George Beauclerk[n 18]
May. 1768 Richard Tonson[n 19]
1772 Hon. John Hussey-Montagu Tory[20]
1780 Peniston Portlock Powney[n 20] Tory[20]
1787 The Earl of Mornington[n 21]
1794 William Grant Tory[20]
1796 Henry Isherwood[n 22] Tory[20] Hon. Robert Fulke Greville Tory[20]
1797 Sir William Johnston, Bt Tory[20]
1802 John Williams[n 23] Tory[20]
1804 Arthur Vansittart Tory[20]
1806 Edward Disbrowe[n 24] Tory[20] Richard Ramsbottom[n 25] Tory[20]
1810 John Ramsbottom, junior Non Partisan
1812 Whig[20]
1819 The Lord Graves[n 21] Tory[20]
1820 Sir Herbert Taylor[n 26] Tory[20]
1823 Edward Cromwell Disbrowe Non Partisan
1826 Sir Hussey Vivian[n 27] Non Partisan
1830 Whig[20]
1831 Rt Hon. Edward Stanley Whig[20]
1832 Sir Samuel Pechell, Bt Whig[20] Radical[20]
1835 Sir John Edmund de Beauvoir[n 28] Radical[20]
1835 Sir John Elley[n 29] Conservative[20]
1837 Robert Gordon Whig[20][21]
1841 Ralph Neville Conservative[20]
1845 George Alexander Reid[n 30] Conservative
1847 Lord John Hay[n 31] Whig[22][23]
1850 John Hatchell Whig[24]
1852 Charles Grenfell Whig[25][26][27]
1852 Lord Charles Wellesley[n 32] Conservative
1855 Samson Ricardo Whig[28]
1857 William Vansittart[n 33] Conservative
1859 George William Hope[n 34] Conservative
1863 Richard Howard-Vyse Conservative
1865 Sir Henry Hoare, Bt[n 35] Liberal Henry Labouchere[n 35] Liberal
1866 Charles Edwards Liberal Roger Eykyn Liberal
Election Member[19] Party
1868 reduced to one member
Roger Eykyn Liberal
1874 Robert Richardson-Gardner Conservative
1890 by-election Sir Francis Barry, Bt Conservative
1906 James Mason Conservative
1918 Ernest Gardner Coalition Conservative
1922 Sir Annesley Somerville Conservative
1942 by-election Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe Conservative
1970 Alan Glyn Conservative
Feb 1974 constituency abolished: see Windsor & Maidenhead
Election Member[19] Party
1997 constituency created from Windsor and Maidenhead & East Berkshire
Michael Trend Conservative
2005 Adam Afriyie Conservative
2024 Jack Rankin Conservative

Elections in the 2020s

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Elections in the 2010s

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2019 notional result[35]
Party Vote %
Conservative 28,036
Labour 9,780
Liberal Democrats 9,441
Green 1,729
Others 884
Brexit Party 152
Turnout 50,031 67.3
Electorate 74,338

Elections in the 2000s

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Elections in the 1990s

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Elections in the 1970s

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Elections in the 1960s

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Elections in the 1950s

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Elections in the 1940s

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Elections in the 1930s

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General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

Elections in the 1920s

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Elections in the 1910s

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General Election 1914/15

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Elections in the 1900s

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Elections in the 1890s

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Barry

Elections in the 1880s

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Elections 1868–1880

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The bloc vote electoral system was used in two seat elections and first past the post for single member by-elections and general elections from 1868. Each voter had up to as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings (until the secret ballot was introduced in 1872).

Elections 1690–1866

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Note on percentage change calculations: Where there was only one candidate of a party in successive elections, for the same number of seats, change is calculated on the party percentage vote. Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote.

Note on sources: The information for the election results given below is taken from Cruickshanks et al. 1690–1715, Sedgwick 1715–1754, Namier and Brooke 1754–1790, Stooks Smith 1790–1832 and from Craig thereafter. Where Stooks Smith gives additional information or differs from the other sources this is indicated in a note after the result. When a candidate is described as Non Partisan for an election this means that the sources used do not give a party label. This does not necessarily mean that the candidate did not regard himself as a member of a party or acted as such in Parliament. Craig's party labels have been varied to take account of the development of parties. Tory candidates are classified as Conservative from the 1835 United Kingdom general election. Whig and Radical candidates are classified separately until the formal establishment of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 United Kingdom general election.

1690s – 1700s – 1710s – 1720s – 1730s – 1740s – 1750s – 1760s – 1770s – 1780s –1790s – 1800s – 1810s – 1820s – 1830s – 1840s – 1850s – 1860s

Elections in the 1860s

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Elections in the 1850s

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Elections in the 1840s

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Elections in the 1830s

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Note (1832): Stooks Smith classified Ramsbottom as a Radical candidate from this election. However as Stenton, editing a book composed of Parliamentary biographies published by a contemporary after the Reform Act 1832, described Ramsbottom as being 'of Whig principles' he continues to be classified as a Whig in this article.

Elections in the 1820s

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Elections in the 1810s

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Elections in the 1800s

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Elections in the 1790s

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Elections in the 1780s

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Elections in the 1760s

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Elections in the 1750s

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Elections in the 1740s

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Elections in the 1730s

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Elections in the 1700s

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Elections in the 1690s

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  1. ^ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)

  2. ^ As with all constituencies in their modern form, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years, until 1868 the constituency as a parliamentary borough had the right to send two to most Parliaments.

  3. ^ From 1974 the local government county boundary changed to add to Berkshire part of the territory north of the Thames. Eton, Horton and Wraysbury were put into Windsor's borough. Currently Colnbrook in Slough Borough Council is in the seat but the Commission intend to add this to Spelthorne and exchange it for another Slough ward

  4. ^ Sometimes known as New Windsor to distinguish it from the adjoining settlement of Old Windsor which was at the time still in Surrey

  5. ^ Date of Pride's Purge, which converted the Long Parliament into the Rump Parliament

  6. ^ Date when Oliver Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament by force.

  7. ^ Date when the members of the nominated or Barebones Parliament were selected. The parliamentary borough of Windsor was not represented in this body.

  8. ^ Date when the members of the First Protectorate Parliament were elected. The parliamentary borough of Windsor was not represented in this body. Windsor formed part of the county constituency of Berkshire for this Parliament.

  9. ^ Date when the members of the Second Protectorate Parliament were elected. The parliamentary borough of Windsor was not represented in this body. Windsor formed part of the county constituency of Berkshire for this Parliament.

  10. ^ The Rump Parliament was recalled and subsequently Pride's Purge was reversed, allowing the full Long Parliament to meet until it agreed to dissolve itself.

  11. ^ The MPs of the last Parliament of England and 45 members co-opted from the former Parliament of Scotland, became the House of Commons of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain which assembled on 23 October 1707 (see below for the members in that Parliament).

  12. ^ Died in office, May 1711

  13. ^ To the House of Lords as Lord Masham, January 1712

  14. ^ a b Not duly elected at 1715 general election

  15. ^ To the House of Lords, having succeeded to a dukedom, May 1726

  16. ^ To the House of Lords, having succeeded to an earldom, May 1730

  17. ^ Died November 1744

  18. ^ Died May 1768

  19. ^ Died 1772

  20. ^ Died in office, January 1794

  21. ^ a b A peer of Ireland

  22. ^ Died in office, February 1796

  23. ^ Declared not duly elected

  24. ^ Died in office, February 1819

  25. ^ Resigned, March 1810

  26. ^ Resigned, February 1823

  27. ^ Resigned on appointment as Commander of Forces in Ireland, February 1831

  28. ^ Unseated on petition

  29. ^ Seated after a scrutiny

  30. ^ Died 1852

  31. ^ Resigned 1850

  32. ^ Resigned 1855

  33. ^ Contested the 1865 general election as a Liberal candidate.

  34. ^ Died 1863

  35. ^ a b Election declared void on petition

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  50. ^ a b Died.

  51. ^ Chose to sit for Sussex

  52. ^ Died, April 1676.

  53. ^ Died, June 1693.

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  84. ^ a b c d e f g The Times House of Commons, 1950–70

  85. ^ a b c d e f g h British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig

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  87. ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

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  90. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886

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  93. ^ "The General Election". Leicester Journal. 13 February 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 23 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

  94. ^ Constituency reduced to one seat and electorate expanded by the Reform Act 1867, with the constituency boundaries changed by the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1868, to take effect from the next general election.

  95. ^ "This Evening's News". Pall Mall Gazette. 26 April 1866. pp. 6–7 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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  97. ^ "Reading Mercury". 19 June 1841. p. 2. Retrieved 6 January 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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