Henley
Notional 2005 Results:
Conservative: 26326 (53.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 12667 (25.6%)
Labour: 7536 (15.3%)
Other: 2878 (5.8%)
Majority: 13659 (27.6%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 24894 (53.5%)
Labour: 6862 (14.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 12101 (26%)
Green: 1518 (3.3%)
UKIP: 1162 (2.5%)
Majority: 12793 (27.5%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 20466 (46.1%)
Labour: 9367 (21.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 12008 (27%)
UKIP: 1413 (3.2%)
Green: 1147 (2.6%)
Majority: 8458 (19%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 23908 (46.4%)
Labour: 11700 (22.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 12741 (24.7%)
Referendum: 2299 (4.5%)
Other: 895 (1.7%)
Majority: 11167 (21.7%)
Boundary changes: minor. Gains the ward of Kirtlington which was previously split between Witney, Banbury and Oxford West.
Profile: A largely rural seat in south-east Oxfordshire, stretching from the hinterland of Reading in the south, to skirt around the eastern outskirts of Oxford. Henley-on-Thames itself is best known for the Henley Royal Regatta, the prestigious annual rowing event. The constituency also covers Thame, Goring, Sonning, Wheatley, Watlington and many other small villages dotted through the Oxfordshire countryside. Like the other rural seats in Oxfordshire, such as Wantage and Witney, it is a wealthy, affluent middle class area and strongly Conservative, although at a local level the Liberal Democrats have some support, particularly as you move away from the solidly Tory south of the seat and closer to Oxford itself.
Since 2001 the seat has been represented by Boris Johnson, the somewhat eccentric and gaffe-prone journalist and television presenter. He suceeded the similarly high profile Michael Heseltine, the former Deputy Prime Minister and 1990 leadership challenger.
Current MP: Boris Johnson (Con) born 1964, New York, USA. Son of Stanley Johnson, former MEP and Conservative candidate in Teignbridge in 2005. Educated at Eton and Oxford, a contemporary of David Cameron. Author, television presenter and journalist. Worked as a columnist on the Daily Telegraph and as editor of The Spectator. Instantly recognisable by his dishevelled appearance, blond thatch of hair and bumbling public-schoolboy mannerisms, he has become a media celebrity through appearances on Have I Got News For You and tendency to make gaffes. As shadow minister for arts under Michael Howard he survived being made to publically apologise to Liverpool over an editoral in the Spectator that accused them of wallowing in victimhood, but not the revelation (that he had previously described as “an inverted pyramid of piffle”) that he had been conduction an affair with Petronella Wyatt. He was appointed shadow minister for higher education in 2005, and has so far survived scandal or disgrace, despite again being forced to apologise for referring to Papua New Guineans as indulging in cannibalism and chief killing. Contested Clywd South in 1997. First elected as MP for Henley in 2001. London mayor since 2008, he is expected to shortly stand down as an MP (more information at They work for you)
Candidates: 
Sue Cooper (Liberal Democrat) South Oxfordshire district councillor.
Richard McKenzie (Labour) Former Reading councillor.
2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 94369
Male: 49.4%
Female: 50.6%
Under 18: 22.2%
Over 60: 21.6%
Born outside UK: 7.8%
White: 98%
Black: 0.4%
Asian: 0.6%
Mixed: 0.7%
Other: 0.4%
Christian: 75.9%
Full time students: 2.7%
Graduates 16-74: 30.1%
No Qualifications 16-74: 19.7%
Owner-Occupied: 76.4%
Social Housing: 10.4% (Council: 1.6%, Housing Ass.: 8.8%)
Privately Rented: 8.2%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 4.9%
2008 By-election
Boris Johnson has announced his intention to resign having been elected mayor of London and a by-election will be held.
By-election Candidates:
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Ruislip Northwood
I remember in 1995 Labour actually won hte wards in thame, whih was fairly extaroniarly but that was an exceptional year, The LDs have somne strength in the north of the seat but this is really so safe a Tory seat ior can withstand a bgylelectin. Ofcourwse wAllingford id not actually in this constiuencty
May 11th, 2008 at 11:46 pmWhich was the byelection where a LITERAL Democrat is said to have split the vote, allowing the Tories to hold the seat in the 1990s?
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This was the Euro Election in the old seat in Devon in 1994, when Adrian Sanders was defeated by 12 votes (IIRC)
I think you are collectively misconfuzzling two different things.
The 1994 election to the European Parliament in Devon constituency was won by the Conservative candidate by a margin of 700 votes, with c.10,000 votes for the Literal Democrat candidate; the same Lit Dem candidate stood in the Winchester by-election in 1997 and got 59 votes.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:11 amCroydon Central
Peter Owen a.k.a. Top Cat a.k.a. TC a.k.a. Bananaman has been selected as the prospective OMRLP candidate for the Henley by-election (if it happens). He is the deputy leader of the party, and got the largest Loony vote in the UK in the 1997 and 2001 general elections in Wokingham.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:15 amhttp://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news01.php
May 12th, 2008 at 1:27 pmCan anyone tell me how I go about standing as an independent at this forthcoming by election?
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