page_title: Newbury (UK Parliament constituency)
section_title: Boundaries and boundary changes
hierarchical_section_title: Newbury (UK Parliament constituency) / Boundaries and boundary changes
context_page_description: Newbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2019 by Laura Farris, a Conservative. It was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and has been in continual existence since then.
context_section_description: 1885–1918: The constituency was created as the Southern or Newbury Division of Berkshire under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the three-member Parliamentary County of Berkshire was divided into the three single-member constituencies of Abingdon, Newbury and Wokingham. It comprised the Boroughs of Newbury and Reading, the Sessional Divisions of Ilsley, Lambourn, Newbury (including Hungerford), and Reading (except the parishes of East Swallowfield and West Swallowfield), and part of the Sessional Division of Wokingham.  Only non-resident freeholders of the municipal borough Reading (which comprised the Parliamentary Borough of Reading) were entitled to vote.
  1918–1950: The Boroughs of Newbury and Wokingham, the Rural Districts of Hungerford and Newbury, and parts of the Rural Districts of Bradfield and Wokingham.
  Extended eastwards, with the addition of Wokingham and surrounding areas from the abolished Wokingham Division of Berkshire.  Small northern part transferred to Abingdon and areas which had been annexed by Reading County Borough transferred to the Parliamentary Borough.
  1950–1955: The Borough of Newbury, and the Rural Districts of Bradfield, Hungerford, and Newbury.
  Wokingham and rural areas to the south and east of Reading transferred to the re-established County Constituency of Wokingham.  Small area transferred from Abingdon.
  1955–1974: The Borough of Newbury, the Rural Districts of Bradfield, Hungerford, and Newbury, and the County Borough of Reading ward of Tilehurst.
  Gained the Tilehurst ward from the abolished Borough Constituency of Reading North.  From the 1964 general election, the Reading wards of Norcot and Tilehurst were included following a revision to the local authority wards.
  1974–1983: As 1950.
  The Norcot and Tilehurst wards transferred back to the re-established Borough Constituency of Reading North.
  1983–1997: The District of Newbury wards of Aldermaston, Basildon, Beenham, Bradfield, Bucklebury, Burghfield, Chieveley, Cold Ash, Compton, Craven, Downlands, Falkland, Greenham, Hungerford, Kintbury, Lambourn Valley, Mortimer, Northcroft, St John's, Shaw-cum-Donnington, Speen, Thatcham North, Thatcham South, Thatcham West, Turnpike, and Winchcombe.
  Gained a small area of the abolished County Constituency of Abingdon (part of the former Rural District of Wantage) which had been retained by Berkshire when the rest of the area comprising Abingdon was transferred to Oxfordshire by the Local Government Act 1972.  Areas to the west of Reading included in the new County Constituency of Reading West.
  1997–2010: The District of Newbury wards of Aldermaston, Basildon, Beenham, Bradfield, Bucklebury, Chieveley, Cold Ash, Compton, Craven, Downlands, Falkland, Greenham, Hungerford, Kintbury, Lambourn Valley, Northcroft, St John's, Shaw-cum-Donnington, Speen, Thatcham North, Thatcham South, Thatcham West, Turnpike, and Winchcombe.
  Small loss to Wokingham in the east of the constituency (Burghfield and Mortimer wards).
  2010–present: The District of West Berkshire wards of Aldermaston, Basildon, Bucklebury, Chieveley, Clay Hill, Cold Ash, Compton, Downlands, Falkland, Greenham, Hungerford, Kintbury, Lambourn Valley, Northcroft, St John's, Speen, Thatcham Central, Thatcham North, Thatcham South and Crookham, Thatcham West, and Victoria.
  Further minor loss to Wokingham.
caption: A graph plotting the election results for Newbury.(larger version and key)
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