Beaconsfield (UK Parliament Constituency)
Coordinates: 51°36′36″N 0°38′42″W / 51.610°N 0.645°W / 51.610; -0.645
| Beaconsfield | |
|---|---|
| County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Beaconsfield in . |
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| County | Buckinghamshire |
| Electorate | 75,320 (December 2010) |
| Major settlements | Beaconsfield, Marlow |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1974 (1974) |
| Member of Parliament | Dominic Grieve (Conservative) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | South Buckinghamshire |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | South East England |
Beaconsfield is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is among the safest of Conservative seats.
In the Beaconsfield by-election, 1982 caused by the death of Sir Ronald Bell, the losing (third-placed) Labour candidate was Tony Blair. Tim Smith thus remains the last person to date to have beaten Blair in an election. Paul Tyler was in second place; he later became an MP for North Cornwall, meaning that, most unusually, the three main-party candidates subsequently served in the House of Commons at the same time.
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