Henley Parliamentary Constituency

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The Liberal Democrats are the clear challengers to the Conservatives in Henley Parliamentary Constituency. With 26% of the vote in 2005, Liberal Democrat David Turner was over 5,000 votes ahead of the Labour candidate who slumped to 14.6% of the vote.

• Henley Parliamentary Constituency Election Result 2005.

• Henley Parliamentary Constituency Election Result 2001.

Henley constituency covers south-eastern Oxfordshire, and is named after Henley-on-Thames. It contains most of the South Oxfordshire local government district, with the exception of an area west of the River Thames including Didcot and Wallingford, and and also includes a few villages to the north of Oxford. [Credit: Wikipedia]

The Henley Constituency covers the towns of Henley-on-Thames, Thame and Watlington and the villages of Benson, Beckley, Berinsfield, Chalgrove, Chinnor, Crowmarsh, Dorchester, Goring, Nettlebed, Sonning Common, Watlington, Woodcote and Wheatley amongst others.

The constituency borders Reading at its southernmost point, and has Didcot and Oxford to the west, and Princes Risborough and High Wycombe to the east. The M40 cuts through the north-east of the constituency with junctions 6, 7, 8 and 8a and the Oxford Services of the motorway all in the constituency.