History
The Reading West parliamentary constituency was first contested in 1983, when it was won for the Conservative Party by Tony Durant, the sitting MP for the previous Reading North constituency. He held the seat through all subsequent general elections until he retired before the 1997 election.
The constituency was then won for the Labour Party by Martin Salter, as part of the landslide that brought Labour back to power under Tony Blair. Salter held the seat through two subsequent general elections until Parliament was dissolved in April 2010, but did not stand in the 2010 general election, when Alok Sharma won the seat for the Conservatives.
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