Didcot and Wantage | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Oxfordshire |
Electorate | 74,356 [1] |
Major settlements | Didcot and Wantage |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Wantage |
Didcot and Wantage is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the 2024 general election.
The constituency is named for the towns of Didcot and Wantage in Oxfordshire. [3]
A campaign to change the constituency name dates back to at least 2016. [4]
The constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1st December 2020):
It will comprise the majority of the current Wantage constituency plus a small part of the Henley electorate (Sandford-on-Thames): [6]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Olly Glover [7] | ||||
Green | Sam Casey-Rerhaye [8] | ||||
SDP | Kynaston Pomlett [9] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
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Didcot is a railway town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, located 15 miles (24 km) south of Oxford, 10 miles (16 km) east of Wantage and 15 miles (24 km) north west of Reading. Historically part of Berkshire, the town is noted for its railway heritage, Didcot station opening as a junction station on the Great Western Main Line in 1844. Today the town is known for the railway museum and power stations, and is the gateway town to the Science Vale: three large science and technology centres in the surrounding villages of Milton, Culham and Harwell.
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