Theceremonial county ofBerkshire (which is entirely made up ofunitary authorities –Bracknell Forest,Reading,Slough,West Berkshire,Windsor and Maidenhead andWokingham) is divided into nineparliamentary constituencies: threeborough constituencies and sixcounty constituencies.
Conservative † Labour ‡ Liberal Democrat ¤
| Constituency | Electorate | Majority | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bracknell CC | 71,660 | 784 | Peter Swallow ‡ | James Sunderland † |  | ||
| Earley and Woodley BC | 73,548 | 848 | Yuan Yang ‡ | Pauline Jorgensen † |  | ||
| Maidenhead CC | 75,687 | 2,963 | Joshua Reynolds ¤ | Tania Mathias † |  | ||
| Newbury CC | 71,982 | 2,377 | Lee Dillon ¤ | Laura Farris † |  | ||
| Reading Central BC | 73,600 | 12,637 | Matt Rodda ‡ | Raj Singh † |  | ||
| Reading West and Mid Berkshire CC | 68,781 | 1,361 | Olivia Bailey ‡ | Ross Mackinnon † |  | ||
| Slough BC | 81,295 | 3,647 | Tan Dhesi ‡ | Azhar Chohan (Independent Network) |  | ||
| Windsor CC | 73,334 | 6,457 | Jack Rankin † | Pavitar Mann ‡ |  | ||
| Wokingham CC | 75,082 | 8,345 | Clive Jones ¤ | Lucy Demery † |  | ||
See2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
| Former name | Current name |
|---|---|
| Boundaries 2010–2024 | Boundaries 2024–present |
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For the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the2024 United Kingdom general election, theBoundary Commission for England opted to combine Berkshire with Hampshire and Surrey as a sub-region of the South East Region. As a result,Windsor now includesEnglefield Green and Virginia Water in the Surrey borough ofRunnymede. The two Reading constituencies (East andWest) would be abolished and revert to a single constituency (Reading Central), with two new constituencies created, namedEarley and Woodley, andReading West and Mid Berkshire.[1][2]
The following constituencies were proposed:
Containing electoral wards fromBracknell Forest
Containing electoral wards fromReading
Containing electoral wards fromSlough
Containing electoral wards fromWest Berkshire
Containing electoral wards fromWindsor and Maidenhead
Containing electoral wards fromWokingham
1also includes part of the Surrey borough ofRunnymede
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[3]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Berkshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 132,771 | 31.4% |  18.7% | 1 | 5 |
| Labour | 108,614 | 25.7% | 0.4% | 5 |  3 |
| Liberal Democrats | 98,858 | 23.3% | 3.6% | 3 | 3 |
| Reform | 36,252 | 8.6% | 8.1% | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 25,994 | 6.1% | 3.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 20,886 | 4.9% | 4.5% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 423,375 | 100.0 | 9 |
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Berkshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 222,532 | 50.1% | 3.8% | 6 | 0 |
| Labour | 115,747 | 26.1% | 6.7% | 2 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrats | 87,532 | 19.7% | 9.4% | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 13,796 | 3.1% | 1.5% | 0 | 0 |
| Brexit | 2,284 | 0.5% | new | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 2,044 | 0.5% | 0.9% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 443,935 | 100.0 | 8 |
Note that before 1983 Berkshire additionally covered the southern part of what is now Oxfordshire, and the Eton and Slough areas which now form part of Berkshire were part of Buckinghamshire.
| Election year | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (F) | 1974 (O) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 54.2 | 48.2 | 60.4 | 48.6 | 47.0 | 50.0 | 56.2 | 58.5 | 59.7 | 47.7 | 46.5 | 53.6 | 44.4 | 44.2 | 54.3 | 54.7 | 57.2 | 55.3 | 42.2 | 40.2 | 43.5 | 50.6 | 54.3 | 53.9 | 50.1 | 31.4 |
| Labour | 13.8 | 16.2 | 22.9 | 22.4 | 37.9 | 38.1 | 42.3 | 39.4 | 37.1 | 33.5 | 39.1 | 33.3 | 26.0 | 28.3 | 23.5 | 16.0 | 16.5 | 19.8 | 28.5 | 30.7 | 24.0 | 18.0 | 21.9 | 32.8 | 26.1 | 25.7 |
| Liberal Democrat1 | 32.1 | 35.6 | 16.7 | 28.9 | 13.8 | 11.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 18.5 | 14.4 | 12.8 | 29.2 | 27.3 | 21.2 | 28.1 | 25.2 | 23.5 | 24.6 | 26.0 | 27.4 | 25.2 | 8.9 | 10.3 | 19.7 | 23.3 |
| Reform2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.5 | 8.6 |
| Green Party | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | * | * | * | * | * | 1.3 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 6.1 |
| UKIP | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | * | * | * | 3.0 | 10.6 | 0.8 | * | * |
| Other | – | – | – | – | 1.3 | 0.2 | – | – | – | 0.2 | – | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 4.7 | 3.1 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 4.9 |
1pre-1979:Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 –SDP-Liberal Alliance
1As the Brexit Party in 2019
* Included in Other
Accurate vote percentages for the 1918, 1931 and 1935 elections are unavailable because some candidates were elected unopposed.
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Liberal Democrat1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Total | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
11983 & 1987 –SDP-Liberal Alliance
| Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 90 | 1892 | 1895 | 98 | 1900 | 01 | 04 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 13 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abingdon | Wroughton | A. K. Loyd | Strauss | Henderson | A. K. Loyd | |||||||||
| Newbury | W. G. Mount | W. A. Mount | Mackarness | W. A. Mount | ||||||||||
| Reading | Murdoch | Palmer | Murdoch | Palmer | Isaacs | Wilson | ||||||||
| Windsor | Richardson-Gardner | Barry | Mason | |||||||||||
| Wokingham | Russell | Young | Gardner | |||||||||||
| Constituency | 1918 | 21 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 42 | 1945 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abingdon | Wigan | A. T. Loyd | Lessing | Glyn | |||||||
| Newbury | W. A. Mount | Brown | Stranger | Brown | Hurd | ||||||
| Reading | Wilson | Cadogan | Hastings | Williams | Hastings | Howitt | Mikardo | ||||
| Windsor | Gardner | Somerville | Mott-Radclyffe | ||||||||
| Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 53 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abingdon | Glyn | Neave | T. Benyon | ||||||||
| Newbury | Hurd | Astor | McNair-Wilson | ||||||||
| Reading North | K. Mackay | Bennett | Durant | ||||||||
| Reading South (1950–55, 74–83) /Reading (1955–74) | Mikardo | Emery | Lee | Vaughan | |||||||
| Windsor /Windsor and Maidenhead (1974) | Mott-Radclyffe | Glyn | |||||||||
| Wokingham | Remnant | van Straubenzee | |||||||||
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 93 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 19 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Berkshire /Bracknell (1997) | A. MacKay | Lee | → | Sunderland | Swallow | ||||||||
| Newbury | McNair-Wilson | Chaplin | Rendel | R. Benyon | Farris | Dillon | |||||||
| Reading East /R Central (2024) | Vaughan | Griffiths | Wilson | Rodda | |||||||||
| Reading W /RW & Mid Berks ('24) | Durant | Salter | Sharma | Bailey | |||||||||
| Slough | Watts | Mactaggart | Dhesi | ||||||||||
| Wr & Maidenhead /Windsor (1997)1 | Glyn | Trend | Afriyie | Rankin | |||||||||
| Wokingham | van Straubenzee | Redwood | Jones | ||||||||||
| Maidenhead | May | Reynolds | |||||||||||
| Earley and Woodley | Yang | ||||||||||||
1from 2024 this includes areas of Surrey
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