Didcot and Wantage (UK Parliament constituency)

Didcot and Wantage
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundaries since 2024
Boundary of Didcot and Wantage in South East England
County	Oxfordshire
Electorate	74,356 (2023)[1]
Major settlements	Didcot and Wantage
Current constituency
Created	2024
Member of Parliament	Olly Glover (Liberal Democrats)
Seats	One
Created from	Wantage

Didcot and Wantage is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.^[2][3] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election. The seat was won by Olly Glover representing the Liberal Democrats.

The constituency is named for the towns of Didcot and Wantage in Oxfordshire.^[4]

A campaign to change the constituency name dates back to at least 2016.^[5]

The constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

• The District of South Oxfordshire wards of: Cholsey; Didcot North East; Didcot South; Didcot West; Sandford & the Wittenhams; Wallingford.
• The District of Vale of White Horse wards of: Blewbury & Harwell; Drayton; Grove North; Hendreds; Ridgeway; Stanford; Steventon & the Hanneys; Sutton Courtenay; Wantage & Grove Brook; Wantage Charlton.^[6]

It comprises the majority of the former Wantage constituency plus a small part of the former Henley electorate (Sandford-on-Thames):^[7]

Wantage prior to 2024

General election 2024: Didcot and Wantage^[8][9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Olly Glover	21,793	39.8	+8.5
	Conservative	David Johnston	15,560	28.4	−21.4
	Labour	Mocky Khan	8,045	14.7	−1.3
	Reform UK	Steve Beatty	6,400	11.7	N/A
	Green	Sam Casey-Rerhaye	2,693	4.9	+4.2
	SDP	Kyn Pomlett	242	0.4	N/A
Majority			6,233	11.4	N/A
Turnout			54,733	67.8	–5.3
Registered electors			80,689
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	15.0

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire
• List of parliamentary constituencies in the South East England (region)

• Didcot and Wantage UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK

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South Oxfordshire

• Oxfordshire
• County Council elections
• District Council elections
• Didcot and Wantage County Constituency
• Henley and Thame County Constituency

Towns

• Didcot
• Henley-on-Thames
• Thame (Moreton)
• Wallingford
• Watlington (Christmas Common, Northend)

Large villages

• Benson (Preston Crowmarsh)
• Berinsfield
• Brightwell-cum-Sotwell (Brightwell, Mackney, Sotwell)
• Chalgrove
• Chinnor (Emmington, Henton, Oakley)
• Cholsey (Winterbrook)
• Crowmarsh (Crowmarsh Gifford, North Stoke, Mongewell, Newnham Murren)
• Ewelme
• Garsington
• Goring-on-Thames
• Great Milton
• Horspath (Bullingdon Green)
• Sandford-on-Thames
• Shiplake (Lower Shiplake)
• Sonning Common
• Wheatley (Littleworth)
• Woodcote

Other civil parishes
(component villages
and hamlets)

• Adwell
• Aston Rowant
• Aston Tirrold
• Aston Upthorpe
• Beckley and Stowood (Beckley, Stowood)
• Berrick Salome (Berrick Prior, Roke, Rokemarsh)
• Binfield Heath
• Bix and Assendon (Bix, Bix Bottom, Lower Assendon, Middle Assendon)
• Brightwell Baldwin
• Britwell Salome
• Checkendon
• Clifton Hampden (Burcot)
• Crowell
• Cuddesdon and Denton (Cuddesdon, Denton)
• Culham
• Cuxham with Easington (Cuxham, Easington)
• Dorchester
• Drayton St. Leonard
• East Hagbourne (Coscote)
• Elsfield
• Eye and Dunsden (Sonning Eye, Dunsden Green, Playhatch)
• Forest Hill with Shotover (Forest Hill, Shotover)
• Goring Heath (Whitchurch Hill, Cray's Pond)
• Great Haseley (Latchford, Little Haseley, North Weston, Rycote)
• Harpsden
• Highmoor (Satwell)
• Holton
• Ipsden
• Kidmore End (Gallowstree Common)
• Lewknor (Postcombe, South Weston)
• Little Milton
• Little Wittenham
• Long Wittenham
• Mapledurham (Trench Green, Chazey Heath)
• Marsh Baldon (Little Baldon)
• Moulsford
• Nettlebed
• Newington (Great Holcombe)
• North Moreton
• Nuffield
• Nuneham Courtenay
• Pishill with Stonor (Pishill, Stonor, Maidensgrove, Russell's Water)
• Pyrton (Clare, Standhill)
• Rotherfield Greys
• Rotherfield Peppard
• Shirburn
• South Moreton (Fulscot)
• South Stoke (Littlestoke)
• Stadhampton (Chiselhampton, Ascott, Brookhampton)
• Stanton St. John (Woodperry)
• Stoke Row
• Stoke Talmage
• Swyncombe
• Sydenham (Kingston Stert)
• Tetsworth
• Tiddington-with-Albury (Tiddington, Albury)
• Toot Baldon (Baldon Row)
• Towersey
• Warborough (Shillingford)
• Waterperry with Thomley (Waterperry, Thomley)
• Waterstock
• West Hagbourne
• Wheatfield
• Whitchurch-on-Thames
• Wilcote
• Woodeaton

Former districts
and boroughs

• Bullingdon Rural District
• Municipal Borough of Henley-on-Thames
• Henley Rural District
• Thame Urban District
• Municipal Borough of Wallingford
• Wallingford Rural District
• Crowmarsh Rural District
• Culham Rural District
• Goring Rural District
• Headington Rural District
• Thame Rural District

Former
constituencies

• Oxfordshire County Constituency
• Wallingford Borough Constituency
• Abingdon Borough Constituency
• Berkshire North or Abingdon County Constituency
• Abingdon County Constituency
• Henley County Constituency
• Wantage County Constituency

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire
• List of places in Oxfordshire
• List of civil parishes in Oxfordshire

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