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Oxford East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Anneliese Dodds of the Labour Party, who also serves as party chair.
Created in 1983, the constituency covers the eastern and southern parts of Oxford in Oxfordshire. It borders Oxford West and Abingdon to the west and Henley to the north, east and south.
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History
Until 1983, the whole of Oxford, including most of this seat, was part of the Oxford constituency. For the first four years, the constituency was served by Steven Norris, a Conservative; since his defeat at the hands of the current MP the seat has seen the Conservative share of the vote plummet to 18.8% in 2010. The seat has been since 2001 a Labour–Lib Dem marginal in terms of the majorities received by Labour's Andrew Smith.
- Historic changes to boundaries
The 1997 boundary changes moved two semi-rural Conservative-leaning wards out of the seat, and incorporated the urban Oxford South ward that was strong for the Liberal Democrats and Labour.
Constituency profile
The constituency covers the eastern and southern parts of Oxford in Oxfordshire. It borders Oxford West and Abingdon to the West and Henley to the North, East and South.
The constituency includes Oxford city centre and the majority of the Oxford Colleges, Cowley (famous for its car factory) and the Blackbird Leys council estate, but there is a large percentage of student voters from both Oxford and Oxford Brookes Universities (the latter being based in the seat, in leafy suburban Headington).
Due to the high student and university-related vote, Smith came within a thousand votes of losing the seat to a Liberal Democrats at the 2005 election with such issues as the Iraq War and top-up fees losing many votes for the former Work and Pensions Secretary. At the end of 2010 unemployment claimant count was 2.3%, 45th of the 84 South East constituencies and close to the mean of 2.45%.
Boundaries
1983-1997: The City of Oxford wards of Blackbird Leys, East, Headington, Iffley, Marston, Quarry, St Clement's, Temple Cowley, and Wood Farm, and the District of South Oxfordshire wards of Littlemore, Marston, and Risinghurst.
1997-2010: The City of Oxford wards of Blackbird Leys, East, Headington, Iffley, Littlemore, Marston, Old Marston and Risinghurst, Quarry, St Clement's, South, Temple Cowley, and Wood Farm.
2010-present: The City of Oxford wards of Barton and Sandhills, Blackbird Leys, Carfax, Churchill, Cowley, Cowley Marsh, Headington, Headington Hill and Northway, Hinksey Park, Holywell, Iffley Fields, Littlemore, Lye Valley, Marston, Northfield Brook, Quarry and Risinghurst, Rose Hill and Iffley, St Clement's, and St Mary's.
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which slightly altered this constituency for the General Election 2010. These changes added Carfax and Holywell wards from Oxford West and Abingdon. This means that Oxford city centre and the majority of Oxford Colleges now sit in Oxford East, whereas they had previously sat in Oxford West and Abingdon for the most part. It was expected that this would benefit the Liberal Democrats in this marginal constituency. However, in a shock result, when the seat was first contested on its new boundaries in 2010, the Labour incumbent Andrew Smith managed to quadruple his majority on various pro-Labour two-party swings defying the vast majority of those nationally. In 2008 on the constituency's previous boundaries Labour "won" 11 of the wards, Lib Dems 4, the Greens 3 and the Independent Working Class Association 1.
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
General Election 2015: Oxford East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Smith | 25,356 | 50.0 | +7.5 | |
Conservative | Melanie Magee | 10,076 | 19.9 | +1.0 | |
Green | Ann Duncan | 5,890 | 11.6 | +9.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alasdair Murray | 5,453 | 10.8 | -22.8 | |
UKIP | Ian Macdonald | 3,451 | 6.8 | +4.5 | |
Independent | Chaka Artwell | 160 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Mad Hatter | 145 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
TUSC | James Morbin | 108 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Socialist (GB) | Kevin Parkin | 50 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 15,280 | 30.1 | |||
Turnout | 64.2 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 2010: Oxford East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Smith | 21,938 | 42.47 | +6.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Steve Goddard | 17,357 | 33.6 | −1.6 | |
Conservative | Ed Argar | 9,727 | 18.8 | +1.5 | |
Green | Sushila Dhall | 1,238 | 2.4 | −2.1 | |
UKIP | Julia Gasper | 1,202 | 2.3 | +0.6 | |
Socialist Equality | David O'Sullivan | 116 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Equal Parenting Alliance | Roger Crawford | 73 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,581 | 8.9 | |||
Turnout | 51,651 | 63.1 | +5.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.45 |
Elections in the 2000s
General Election 2005: Oxford East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Smith | 15,405 | 36.9 | −12.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Steve Goddard | 14,442 | 34.6 | +11.2 | |
Conservative | Virginia Morris | 6,992 | 16.7 | −2.0 | |
Green | Jacob Sanders | 1,813 | 4.3 | +0.5 | |
Independent ('New Loony') | Honest Blair | 1,485 | 3.6 | N/A | |
Ind. Working Class | Maurice Leen | 892 | 2.1 | N/A | |
UKIP | Peter Gardner | 715 | 1.7 | +0.3 | |
Independent | Pathmanathan Mylvaganam | 46 | 0.1 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 963 | 2.3 | |||
Turnout | 41,790 | 57.9 | +2.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −11.8 |
General Election 2001: Oxford East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Smith | 19,681 | 49.4 | −7.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Steve Goddard | 9,337 | 23.4 | +8.7 | |
Conservative | Cheryl Potter | 7,446 | 18.7 | −3.3 | |
Green | Pritam Singh | 1,501 | 3.8 | +1.7 | |
Socialist Alliance | John Lister | 708 | 1.8 | N/A | |
UKIP | Peter Gardner | 570 | 1.4 | +0.9 | |
Socialist Labour | Fahim Ahmed | 274 | 0.7 | N/A | |
ProLife Alliance | Linda Hodge | 254 | 0.6 | −0.1 | |
Independent | Pathmanathan Mylvaganam | 77 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 10,344 | 26.0 | |||
Turnout | 39,848 | 55.8 | −12.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
General Election 1997: Oxford East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Smith | 27,205 | 56.8 | +6.6 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 10,540 | 22.0 | −11.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | George Kershaw | 7,038 | 14.7 | +0.7 | |
Referendum | John Young | 1,391 | 2.9 | N/A | |
Green | Craig Simmons | 975 | 2.0 | +0.0 | |
ProLife Alliance | William Harper-Jones | 318 | 0.7 | N/A | |
UKIP | Peter Gardner | 234 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Natural Law | John Thompson | 108 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Independent Anti-majority Democracy | Pathmanathan Mylvaganam | 68 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,665 | 34.8 | +18.1 | ||
Turnout | 47,877 | 68.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +9.1 |
General Election 1992: Oxford East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Smith | 23,702 | 50.4 | +7.4 | |
Conservative | Mark Mayall | 16,164 | 34.3 | −6.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin Horwood | 6,105 | 13.0 | −2.6 | |
Green | Caroline Lucas | 933 | 2.0 | +1.1 | |
Natural Law | Ann Wilson | 101 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Revolutionary Communist | Keith Thompson | 48 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,538 | 16.1 | +13.5 | ||
Turnout | 47,053 | 74.6 | −4.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.8 |
Elections in the 1980s
General Election 1987: Oxford East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Smith | 21,103 | 43.0 | +5.7 | |
Conservative | Steven Norris | 19,815 | 40.4 | +0.4 | |
Liberal | Margaret Godden | 7,648 | 15.6 | −7.1 | |
Green | Dave Dalton | 441 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Pathmanathan Mylvaganam | 60 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,288 | 2.6 | −0.1 | ||
Turnout | 49,067 | 78.9 | +5.0 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +2.7 |
General Election 1983: Oxford East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Steven Norris | 18,808 | 40.0 | N/A | |
Labour | Andrew Smith | 17,541 | 37.3 | N/A | |
Liberal | Margaret Godden | 10,690 | 22.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,267 | 2.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,039 | 73.9 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Neighbouring constituencies
Henley | ||||
Oxford West and Abingdon | Henley | |||
Oxford East | ||||
Henley |