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For proposed constituency that was briefly known as Reading, see <a href="/wiki/Reading_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading Central (UK Parliament constituency)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf;">1295–<a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">Two until 1885, then one until 1950</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Replaced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Reading_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading North (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reading_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading South (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading South</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf;"><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">1955</a>–<a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">1974 (1974)</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">One</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Type of constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Borough_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough constituency">Borough constituency</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created from</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Reading_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading North (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reading_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading South (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading South</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Replaced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Reading_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading North (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reading_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading South (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading South</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Reading was a <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary borough">parliamentary borough</a>, and later a <a href="/wiki/Borough_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough constituency">borough constituency</a> in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, represented in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliament of England</a> until 1707, the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Great_Britain" title="Parliament of Great Britain">Parliament of Great Britain</a> from 1707 to 1800, and of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a> from 1801 to 1950 and 1955 to 1974. Until 1885, the constituency comprised the town of <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a> in the county of <a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a>; after 1885, it was centred on the town but the exact boundaries differed. From 1295, as a parliamentary borough, Reading elected two members of parliament (MPs). Under the <a href="/wiki/Redistribution_of_Seats_Act_1885" title="Redistribution of Seats Act 1885">Redistribution of Seats Act 1885</a>, this representation was reduced to a single MP. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> Reading was one of the boroughs summoned to send members to the <a href="/wiki/Model_Parliament" title="Model Parliament">Model Parliament</a>. The boundaries (encompassing the whole of one parish and parts of two others) were effectively unchanged from 1295 to 1918. In 1831, the population of the borough was 15,935, and contained 3,307 houses. The right to vote was exercised by all inhabitants paying <a href="/wiki/Scot_and_lot" title="Scot and lot">scot and lot</a>, a relatively wide franchise for the period, and almost 2,000 votes were cast at the <a href="/wiki/1826_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1826 United Kingdom general election">general election of 1826</a>. Despite this high electorate, the corporation of the town was generally considered in practice to control elections to a large extent. In the second half of the 18th century, Reading was notoriously one of the most corrupt constituencies in England, bribery being both routine and expensive: Namier quotes the accounts kept for <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pelham-Holles,_1st_Duke_of_Newcastle-upon-Tyne" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne">Prime Minister Newcastle</a> of the 1754 election, which note that <a href="/wiki/John_Dodd_(Reading_MP)" title="John Dodd (Reading MP)">John Dodd</a>, the government's candidate there, had already received £1000 and was promised £500 or £600 more to help him win the seat.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> (Dodd lost by one vote, but had the result overturned on petition by a partisan vote in the House of Commons, and Newcastle's accounts show a continuing trickle of funds to him to nurse the constituency over the next few years.) A few years later, the nomination to one of Reading's seats was advertised for sale in a London newspaper, though Reading was not mentioned by name and no price was specified; the newspaper's printers were charged by the Commons with a breach of <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Privilege" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Privilege">privilege</a>, but the sale of seats remained legal if frowned-upon until 1809. The <a href="/wiki/Great_Reform_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Reform Act">Great Reform Act</a> left Reading's representation and boundaries unchanged, and the reformed franchise far from increasing its electorate seems to have reduced it: it was estimated that there were 1,250 voters in 1831, but only 1,001 were registered for the first post-Reform election, that of <a href="/wiki/1832_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1832 United Kingdom general election">1832</a>.<div class="noresize thumb tright" style=";"> <div class="thumbinner" style="overflow:hidden;width:152px;"> <div class="thumbimage" style="height:102px; overflow:hidden; position:relative; background-color:white;"> <div style=";left:-660px; top:-1190px; width:1000px; position:absolute;"> <a href="/wiki/File:1923_UK_general_election_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Context of 1923. Larger as town had grown, one of Labour's 191 of 615 seats: a supply and confidence government lasted for 10 months with Liberal support. 1929 was similar but better for Labour."><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/1923_UK_general_election_map.svg/1000px-1923_UK_general_election_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="1000" height="1485" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/1923_UK_general_election_map.svg/1500px-1923_UK_general_election_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/1923_UK_general_election_map.svg/2000px-1923_UK_general_election_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="829" data-file-height="1231" /></a></div> <div style="text-align:left; background-color:transparent; line-height:110%;"> </div> <div style="visibility:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:1923_UK_general_election_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/1923_UK_general_election_map.svg/1000px-1923_UK_general_election_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="1000" height="1485" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/1923_UK_general_election_map.svg/1500px-1923_UK_general_election_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/1923_UK_general_election_map.svg/2000px-1923_UK_general_election_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="829" data-file-height="1231" /></a></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:1923_UK_general_election_map.svg" title="File:1923 UK general election map.svg"> </a></div>Context of 1923. Larger as town had grown, one of Labour's 191 of 615 seats: a supply and confidence government lasted for 10 months with Liberal support. 1929 was similar but better for Labour.</div> </div></div> <div class="noresize thumb tleft" style=";"> <div class="thumbinner" style="overflow:hidden;width:152px;"> <div class="thumbimage" style="height:102px; overflow:hidden; position:relative; background-color:white;"> <div style=";left:-940px; top:-1550px; width:1800px; position:absolute;"> <a href="/wiki/File:United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Context of 1906. The Liberal Landslide victory."><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg/1800px-United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg.png" decoding="async" width="1800" height="1869" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg/2700px-United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg/3600px-United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1166" data-file-height="1211" /></a></div> <div style="text-align:left; background-color:transparent; line-height:110%;"> </div> <div style="visibility:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg/1800px-United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg.png" decoding="async" width="1800" height="1869" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg/2700px-United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg/3600px-United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1166" data-file-height="1211" /></a></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:United_Kingdom_general_election_1906.svg" title="File:United Kingdom general election 1906.svg"> </a></div>Context of 1906. The Liberal Landslide victory.</div> </div></div>The <a href="/wiki/Redistribution_of_Seats_Act_1885" title="Redistribution of Seats Act 1885">Redistribution of Seats Act 1885</a>, coming into effect at <a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">the 1885 general election</a>, reduced the representation of the parliamentary borough to a single MP. The single-member Reading constituency continued to exist until it was split in 1950 into the separate constituencies of <a href="/wiki/Reading_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading North (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reading_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading South (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading South</a>. These two constituencies were merged back into a single Reading constituency in 1955, but again split apart in 1974; despite its name, the 1955 constituency did not contain the whole of the County Borough of Reading, with one ward being included in both of the Newbury and Wokingham seats. After 1885, the constituency was marginal, regularly changing hands between the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a> up to 1918, then between the Conservatives and <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a>. Today the area formerly covered by the Reading constituency is within the constituencies of <a href="/wiki/Reading_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading East (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading East</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reading_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading West (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading West</a>, which will be replaced by the constituencies of <a href="/wiki/Reading_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reading_West_and_Mid_Berkshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading West and Mid Berkshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading West and Mid Berkshire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Earley_and_Woodley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Earley and Woodley (UK Parliament constituency)">Earley and Woodley</a> at the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 general election</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundaries_and_boundary_changes">Boundaries and boundary changes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Boundaries and boundary changes">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1885–1918">1885–1918</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1885–1918">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>The existing Parliamentary borough; and</li> <li>The area between the boundary of the Parliamentary borough and a boundary line drawn from the point at which the <a href="/wiki/North_Downs_Line" title="North Downs Line">Reading and Reigate Railway</a> crossed the boundary of the Parliamentary borough at the River Kennet, eastward along the Railway until it crossed Culver Lane, then westward along the centre of Culver Lane as far as the centre of Wokingham Road, then southward along the centre of Wokingham Road as far as the centre of Crescent Road, then westward along the centre of Crescent Road as far as the centre of Eastern Avenue, then southward along the centre of Eastern Avenue as far as the centre of Upper Redlands Road, then westward along the centre of Upper Redlands Road as far as the centre of Alexandra Road, then south and west along the centre of Junction Road to the centre of Christchurch Road, then along the centre of Christchurch Road until the line reached the boundary of the existing Parliamentary borough.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></li></ul> Minor expansion - see map on Vision of Britain website.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1918–1950">1918–1950</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1918–1950">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>The County Borough of Reading.<a href="#cite_note-:02-4">[4]</a></li></ul> Boundaries extended to the south and west (gained from the <a href="/wiki/Newbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Newbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Newbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wokingham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wokingham (UK Parliament constituency)">Wokingham</a> Divisions), and to the north of the River Thames with the annexation of the Urban District of <a href="/wiki/Caversham,_Reading" title="Caversham, Reading">Caversham</a> (part of the <a href="/wiki/Henley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Henley (UK Parliament constituency)">Henley</a> Division of Oxfordshire) by Reading County Borough. For the <a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950 general election</a>, Reading was abolished as a single-member Parliamentary borough and split between the two new borough constituencies of <a href="/wiki/Reading_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading North (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reading_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading South (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading South</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1955–1974">1955–1974</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1955–1974">edit</a>]</div> For the <a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">1955 general</a> election, Reading was re-established, replacing Reading North and Reading South and comprising: <ul><li>The County Borough of Reading wards of Abbey, Battle, Castle, Caversham East, Caversham West, Church, Katesgrove, Minster, Redlands, Victoria, West.<a href="#cite_note-:02-4">[4]</a></li></ul> The East and Tilehurst wards were included in the <a href="/wiki/Wokingham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wokingham (UK Parliament constituency)">Wokingham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Newbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Newbury</a> constituencies respectively. From the <a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">1964 general election</a>, a revision to the County Borough wards resulted in minor changes. The constituency now comprised: <ul><li>The County Borough of Reading wards of Abbey, Battle, Castle, Caversham, Christchurch, Katesgrove, Minster, Redlands, Thames, and Whitley.<a href="#cite_note-:02-4">[4]</a></li></ul> The constituency was abolished once again for the 1974 general election. The Christchurch, Redlands and Whitley wards were included in the re-established constituency of Reading South, with remaining wards being included in Reading North. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1295–1660">1295–1660</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1295–1660">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Constituency created 1295</li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. (August 2008)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Parliament</th> <th>First member</th> <th>Second member </th></tr> <tr> <td>1369</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Catour&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Catour (page does not exist)">William Catour</a><a href="#cite_note-historyofparliamentonline.org-5">[5]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1371</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Catour&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Catour (page does not exist)">William Catour</a><a href="#cite_note-historyofparliamentonline.org-5">[5]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1378</td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_atte_Hacche" title="David atte Hacche">David atte Hacche</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1385</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Doublet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Doublet (page does not exist)">John Doublet</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1386</td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Stapper" title="William Stapper">William Stapper</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_atte_Lee" title="Robert atte Lee">Robert atte Lee</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1388 (Feb)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_atte_Hacche" title="David atte Hacche">David atte Hacche</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bedull" title="Richard Bedull">Richard Bedull</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1388 (Sep)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Balet" title="John Balet">John Balet</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_Vachell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicholas Vachell (page does not exist)">Nicholas Vachell</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1390 (Jan)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Kent_(died_1413)" title="John Kent (died 1413)">John Kent</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Capellade&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Capellade (page does not exist)">Robert Capellade</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1390 (Nov)</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1391</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Barbour_(MP_for_Reading)" title="Henry Barbour (MP for Reading)">Henry Barbour</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Doublet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Doublet (page does not exist)">John Doublet</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1393</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Catour&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Catour (page does not exist)">William Catour</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_atte_Hacche" title="David atte Hacche">David atte Hacche</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1394</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Saville_(MP)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Saville (MP) (page does not exist)">William Saville</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Tho..." title="William Tho...">William Tho...</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1395</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Shortwade&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Shortwade (page does not exist)">William Shortwade</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Ede" title="John Ede">John Ede</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1397 (Jan)</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_White_(fl.1397%E2%80%931410)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John White (fl.1397–1410) (page does not exist)">John White</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Pernecote&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Pernecote (page does not exist)">Richard Pernecote</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1397 (Sep)</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Selham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Selham (page does not exist)">Thomas Selham</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Godewyn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Godewyn (page does not exist)">Robert Godewyn</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1399</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roger_Hay_(MP)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger Hay (MP) (page does not exist)">Roger Hay</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Hunt_(MP_for_Reading)" title="John Hunt (MP for Reading)">John Hunt</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1401</td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1402</td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1404 (Jan)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Kent_(died_1413)" title="John Kent (died 1413)">John Kent</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Derby_(fl.1404)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Derby (fl.1404)">William Derby</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1404 (Oct)</td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1406</td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Hunt_(MP_for_Reading)" title="John Hunt (MP for Reading)">John Hunt</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Richard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Richard (page does not exist)">Philip Richard</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1407</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Merehan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Merehan (page does not exist)">John Merehan</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kenelme&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Kenelme (page does not exist)">William Kenelme</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1410</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_White_(fl.1397%E2%80%931410)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John White (fl.1397–1410) (page does not exist)">John White</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Colshull&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Colshull (page does not exist)">Alexander Colshull</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1411</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1413 (Feb)</td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1413 (May)</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Wilton_(MP)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Wilton (MP) (page does not exist)">William Wilton</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Farle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Farle (page does not exist)">Richard Farle</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1414 (Apr)</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hastyng&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Hastyng (page does not exist)">John Hastyng</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Clerk_(fl.1414)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Clerk (fl.1414) (page does not exist)">John Clerk</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1414 (Nov)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Stapper" title="Stephen Stapper">Stephen Stapper</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Pernecote&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Pernecote (page does not exist)">John Pernecote</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1415</td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1416 (Mar)</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Mustard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Walter Mustard (page does not exist)">Walter Mustard</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Lavyngton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Lavyngton (page does not exist)">Thomas Lavyngton 1</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1416 (Oct)</td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1417</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Colshull&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Colshull (page does not exist)">Alexander Colshull</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Lavyngton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Lavyngton (page does not exist)">Thomas Lavyngton</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1419</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Morys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Morys (page does not exist)">Robert Morys</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Cross_(died_c._1438)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Cross (died c. 1438) (page does not exist)">Richard Cross</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1420</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Lavyngton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Lavyngton (page does not exist)">Thomas Lavyngton</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Veyr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Veyr (page does not exist)">John Veyr</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1421 (May)</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Lavyngton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Lavyngton (page does not exist)">Thomas Lavyngton</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Porter_(MP)" title="Simon Porter (MP)">Simon Porter alias Kent</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1421 (Dec)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Hunt_(MP_for_Reading)" title="John Hunt (MP for Reading)">John Hunt</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kyng&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Kyng (page does not exist)">William Kyng</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP1-8">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1422</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Porter_(MP)" title="Simon Porter (MP)">Simon Porter alias Kent</a><a href="#cite_note-HoPSP-9">[9]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1425</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Porter_(MP)" title="Simon Porter (MP)">Simon Porter alias Kent</a><a href="#cite_note-HoPSP-9">[9]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1432</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Porter_(MP)" title="Simon Porter (MP)">Simon Porter alias Kent</a><a href="#cite_note-HoPSP-9">[9]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1433</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Porter_(MP)" title="Simon Porter (MP)">Simon Porter alias Kent</a><a href="#cite_note-HoPSP-9">[9]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1435</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Porter_(MP)" title="Simon Porter (MP)">Simon Porter alias Kent</a><a href="#cite_note-HoPSP-9">[9]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1437</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Porter_(MP)" title="Simon Porter (MP)">Simon Porter alias Kent</a><a href="#cite_note-HoPSP-9">[9]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1447</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Porter_(MP)" title="Simon Porter (MP)">Simon Porter alias Kent</a><a href="#cite_note-HoPSP-9">[9]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1449 (Feb)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Porter_(MP)" title="Simon Porter (MP)">Simon Porter alias Kent</a><a href="#cite_note-HoPSP-9">[9]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1449 (Nov)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Porter_(MP)" title="Simon Porter (MP)">Simon Porter alias Kent</a><a href="#cite_note-HoPSP-9">[9]</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1510</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Cleche" title="Richard Cleche">Richard Cleche</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Justice_(MP)" title="William Justice (MP)">William Justice</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1512</td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Gifford_(MP_for_Reading)" title="William Gifford (MP for Reading)">William Gifford</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Smith_(died_1516)" title="Richard Smith (died 1516)">Richard Smith</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1515</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Knightley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edmund Knightley (page does not exist)">Edmund Knightley</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Pownsar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Pownsar (page does not exist)">John Pownsar</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1523</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Hyde_(died_1528)" title="Nicholas Hyde (died 1528)">Nicholas Hyde</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Edmonds_(MP)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Edmonds (MP) (page does not exist)">William Edmonds</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr id="tvachell"> <td>1529</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Vachell_(died_1553)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Vachell (died 1553) (page does not exist)">Thomas Vachell I</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Raymond_(MP_for_Reading)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Raymond (MP for Reading) (page does not exist)">John Raymond</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1536</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Vachell_(died_1553)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Vachell (died 1553) (page does not exist)">Thomas Vachell I</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Raymond_(MP_for_Reading)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Raymond (MP for Reading) (page does not exist)">John Raymond</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1539</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Vachell_(died_1553)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Vachell (died 1553) (page does not exist)">?Thomas Vachell I</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Raymond_(MP_for_Reading)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Raymond (MP for Reading) (page does not exist)">?John Raymond</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1542</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Vachell_(died_1553)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Vachell (died 1553) (page does not exist)">Thomas Vachell I</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Justice_(MP)" title="Richard Justice (MP)">Richard Justice</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1545</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Vachell_(died_1553)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Vachell (died 1553) (page does not exist)">Thomas Vachell I</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roger_Amyce&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger Amyce (page does not exist)">Roger Amyce</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1547</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Grey_(died_1551)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Grey (died 1551) (page does not exist)">William Grey</a>, died May 1551 repl. 1552 by <a href="/wiki/John_Mason_(diplomat)" title="John Mason (diplomat)">Sir John Mason</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Marshe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Marshe (page does not exist)">John Marshe</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1553 (Mar)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Bourne_(by_1508-58)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Bourne (by 1508-58)">John Bourne</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Winchcombe_(died_1574)" title="John Winchcombe (died 1574)">John Winchcombe</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1553 (Oct)</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Vachell_(died_1553)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Vachell (died 1553) (page does not exist)">Thomas Vachell I</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Bell_(by_1508-59_or_later)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Bell (by 1508-59 or later) (page does not exist)">John Bell</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1554 (Apr)</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Bowyer_(died_1576)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Bowyer (died 1576) (page does not exist)">Robert Bowyer III</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lovelace_(died_1558)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Lovelace (died 1558) (page does not exist)">John Lovelace</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1554 (Nov)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Bourne_(by_1508-58)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Bourne (by 1508-58)">John Bourne</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Plowden" title="Edmund Plowden">Edmund Plowden</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1555</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Vachell_(1537%E2%80%931610)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Vachell (1537–1610) (page does not exist)">Thomas Vachell II</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Bell_(by_1508-59_or_later)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Bell (by 1508-59 or later) (page does not exist)">John Bell</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1558</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aldworth_(Reading_MP)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Aldworth (Reading MP)">Thomas Aldworth</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Bell_(by_1508-59_or_later)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Bell (by 1508-59 or later) (page does not exist)">John Bell</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP2-10">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1558–9</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aldworth_(Reading_MP)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Aldworth (Reading MP)">Thomas Aldworth</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Turner_(fl.1559)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Turner (fl.1559) (page does not exist)">Thomas Turner</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP3-11">[11]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1562–3</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Knollys_(privateer)" title="Henry Knollys (privateer)">Henry Knollys</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Rowbotham" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Rowbotham">Robert Rowbotham</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP3-11">[11]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1571</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Knollys_(privateer)" title="Henry Knollys (privateer)">Henry Knollys</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Hastings_(MP)" title="John Hastings (MP)">John Hastings</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP3-11">[11]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1572</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Knollys_(died_1619)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Knollys (died 1619)">Robert Knollys</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Alford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Francis Alford (page does not exist)">Francis Alford</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP3-11">[11]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1584</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Knollys_(died_1619)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Knollys (died 1619)">Robert Knollys</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Harris_(died_1605)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Harris (died 1605) (page does not exist)">Robert Harris</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP3-11">[11]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1586</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Knollys_(died_1619)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Knollys (died 1619)">Robert Knollys</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Harris_(died_1605)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Harris (died 1605) (page does not exist)">Robert Harris</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP3-11">[11]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1588</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Knollys_(died_1619)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Knollys (died 1619)">Robert Knollys</a>, sat for Breconshire, repl. Feb 1589 by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Egerton,_1st_Viscount_Brackley" title="Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley">Thomas Egerton</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Harris_(died_1605)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Harris (died 1605) (page does not exist)">Robert Harris</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP3-11">[11]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1593</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Humphrey_Donatt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Humphrey Donatt (page does not exist)">Humphrey Donatt</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Wednester&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Wednester (page does not exist)">Charles Wednester</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP3-11">[11]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1597</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Forster_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Humphrey Forster (politician)">Sir Humphrey Forster</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Moore_(barrister)" title="Francis Moore (barrister)">Francis Moore</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP3-11">[11]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1601</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Moore_(barrister)" title="Francis Moore (barrister)">Francis Moore</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blagrave_(died_1628)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony Blagrave (died 1628) (page does not exist)">Anthony Blagrave</a><a href="#cite_note-HoP3-11">[11]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1604</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Moore_(barrister)" title="Francis Moore (barrister)">Francis Moore</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Bowes" title="Jerome Bowes">Jerome Bowes</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1614</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Moore_(barrister)" title="Francis Moore (barrister)">Francis Moore</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Knollys_(politician_died_1626)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Knollys (politician died 1626) (page does not exist)">Robert Knollys</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1621–1622</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Barker_(MP)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony Barker (MP) (page does not exist)">Anthony Barker</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Saunders_(MP)" title="John Saunders (MP)">John Saunders</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1624</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Knollys_(died_1643)" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Knollys (died 1643)">Francis Knollys III</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Saunders_(MP)" title="John Saunders (MP)">John Saunders</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1625</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Knollys_(died_1643)" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Knollys (died 1643)">Francis Knollys III</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Saunders_(MP)" title="John Saunders (MP)">John Saunders</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1626</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Knollys_(died_1643)" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Knollys (died 1643)">Francis Knollys III</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Saunders_(MP)" title="John Saunders (MP)">John Saunders</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1628</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Knollys_(died_1643)" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Knollys (died 1643)">Francis Knollys III</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Saunders_(MP)" title="John Saunders (MP)">John Saunders</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1629–1640</td> <td colspan="2">No Parliaments summoned </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1640–1885">1640–1885</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1640–1885">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th></th> <th>First member</th> <th>First party</th> <th></th> <th>Second member</th> <th>Second party </th></tr> <tr> <td>April 1640 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Knollys_(died_1643)" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Knollys (died 1643)">Francis Knollys III</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Knollys_(admiral)" title="Francis Knollys (admiral)">Adm. Francis Knollys</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>November 1640 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Knollys_(died_1643)" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Knollys (died 1643)">Francis Knollys III</a> (died 1643) </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Knollys_(admiral)" title="Francis Knollys (admiral)">Adm. Francis Knollys</a> (died 1648) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1645 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Blagrave" title="Daniel Blagrave">Daniel Blagrave</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1648 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tanfield_Vachell" title="Tanfield Vachell">Tanfield Vachell</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1653</td> <td colspan="6">Not represented in Barebones Parliament </td></tr> <tr> <td>1654 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hammond_(English_army_officer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Hammond (English army officer)">Robert Hammond</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1656 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Blagrave" title="Daniel Blagrave">Daniel Blagrave</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1659 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Neville_(writer)" title="Henry Neville (writer)">Henry Neville</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Blagrave" title="Daniel Blagrave">Daniel Blagrave</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1660 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Rich,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Thomas Rich, 1st Baronet">Thomas Rich</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Blagrave_(died_1704)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Blagrave (died 1704)">John Blagrave</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1661 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Dolman" title="Thomas Dolman">Sir Thomas Dolman</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Aldworth_(MP_for_Reading_1661%E2%80%931679)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Aldworth (MP for Reading 1661–1679)">Richard Aldworth</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1679 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Knight" title="Nathan Knight">Nathan Knight</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Blagrave_(died_1704)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Blagrave (died 1704)">John Blagrave</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>March 1685 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Coates_(MP)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Coates (MP) (page does not exist)">Thomas Coates</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Breedon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Breedon (page does not exist)">John Breedon</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>November 1685 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Aldworth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Aldworth (page does not exist)">William Aldworth</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1689 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Fane_(died_1706)" title="Henry Fane (died 1706)">Sir Henry Fane</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Rich,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir William Rich, 2nd Baronet">Sir William Rich</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1698 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Owen_Buckingham_(died_1713)" title="Owen Buckingham (died 1713)">Sir Owen Buckingham</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Dalby_(MP)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Dalby (MP) (page does not exist)">John Dalby</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>January 1701 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Francis_Knollys_(1673%E2%80%931701)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Francis Knollys (1673–1701) (page does not exist)">Francis Knollys</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>November 1701 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blagrave_(died_1744)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony Blagrave (died 1744) (page does not exist)">Anthony Blagrave</a> </td> <td> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tanfield_Vachell_(1668%E2%80%931705)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tanfield Vachell (1668–1705) (page does not exist)">Tanfield Vachell</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1702 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Owen_Buckingham_(died_1713)" title="Owen Buckingham (died 1713)">Sir Owen Buckingham</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1705 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Rich,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir William Rich, 2nd Baronet">Sir William Rich</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1708 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Owen_Buckingham_(1674%E2%80%931720)" title="Owen Buckingham (1674–1720)">Owen Buckingham</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blagrave_(died_1744)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony Blagrave (died 1744) (page does not exist)">Anthony Blagrave</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1710 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Dalby_(MP)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Dalby (MP) (page does not exist)">John Dalby</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1713 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Clarges" title="Robert Clarges">Robert Clarges</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Felix_Calvert" title="Felix Calvert">Felix Calvert</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1716 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Cadogan,_2nd_Baron_Cadogan" title="Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan">Charles Cadogan</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Owen_Buckingham_(1674%E2%80%931720)" title="Owen Buckingham (1674–1720)">Owen Buckingham</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1720 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Thompson_(MP_for_Reading)" title="Richard Thompson (MP for Reading)">Richard Thompson</a> </td> <td>Whig </td></tr> <tr> <td>1722 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blagrave_(died_1744)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony Blagrave (died 1744) (page does not exist)">Anthony Blagrave</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clement_Kent&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clement Kent (page does not exist)">Clement Kent</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1727 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Potenger" title="Richard Potenger">Richard Potenger</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Thompson_(MP_for_Reading)" title="Richard Thompson (MP for Reading)">Richard Thompson</a> </td> <td>Whig </td></tr> <tr> <td>1734 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Grey_(MP)" title="Henry Grey (MP)">Henry Grey</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">Whig </td></tr> <tr> <td>1739 </td> <td rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Blagrave_(1713%E2%80%931787)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Blagrave (1713–1787) (page does not exist)">John Blagrave</a> </td> <td rowspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1740 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Strode_(died_1755)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Strode (died 1755) (page does not exist)">William Strode</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>February 1741 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Dodd_(Reading_MP)" title="John Dodd (Reading MP)">John Dodd</a> </td> <td>Whig </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 1741 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Strode_(died_1755)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Strode (died 1755) (page does not exist)">William Strode</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1747 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Conyers_(1717%E2%80%931775)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Conyers (1717–1775)">John Conyers</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Neville_Aldworth_Neville" title="Richard Neville Aldworth Neville">Richard Neville Aldworth Neville</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1754 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Strode_(died_1755)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Strode (died 1755) (page does not exist)">William Strode</a> </td> <td> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Fane,_2nd_Viscount_Fane" title="Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane">Charles Fane</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/British_Whig_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="British Whig Party">Opposition Whig</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1755 </td> <td rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/John_Dodd_(Reading_MP)" title="John Dodd (Reading MP)">John Dodd</a> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1761 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Francis_Knollys,_1st_Baronet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sir Francis Knollys, 1st Baronet (page does not exist)">Sir Francis Knollys</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1768 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Vansittart" title="Henry Vansittart">Henry Vansittart</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1774 </td> <td rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333CC"> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Annesley_(1734%E2%80%931812)" title="Francis Annesley (1734–1812)">Francis Annesley</a> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1782 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Griffin,_2nd_Baron_Braybrooke" title="Richard Griffin, 2nd Baron Braybrooke">Richard Aldworth-Neville</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1797 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333CC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Simeon,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Simeon, 1st Baronet">John Simeon</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1802 </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Shaw-Lefevre_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Shaw-Lefevre (politician)">Charles Shaw-Lefevre</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1806 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333CC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Simeon,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Simeon, 1st Baronet">John Simeon</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1818 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Fyshe_Palmer" title="Charles Fyshe Palmer">Charles Fyshe Palmer</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-churton-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-mosse-15">[15]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1820 </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Monck_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Monck (politician) (page does not exist)">John Monck</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1826 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333CC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Spence_(MP)" title="George Spence (MP)">George Spence</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1827 </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Fyshe_Palmer" title="Charles Fyshe Palmer">Charles Fyshe Palmer</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-churton-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-mosse-15">[15]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1830 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333CC"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Russell_(1786%E2%80%931856)" title="Charles Russell (1786–1856)">Charles Russell</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/British_Tory_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="British Tory Party">Tory</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1834 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1835 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF3333"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Talfourd" title="Thomas Talfourd">Thomas Talfourd</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a><a href="#cite_note-talfour-hall-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-talfourd-richards-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-talfourd-gregory-18">[18]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1837 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charles_Fyshe_Palmer" title="Charles Fyshe Palmer">Charles Fyshe Palmer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-churton-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-mosse-15">[15]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1841 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charles_Russell_(1786%E2%80%931856)" title="Charles Russell (1786–1856)">Charles Russell</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Cadogan,_4th_Earl_Cadogan" title="Henry Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan">Henry Cadogan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1847 </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Pigott_Stainsby_Conant" title="Francis Pigott Stainsby Conant">Francis Pigott</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a><a href="#cite_note-berkshire1852-19">[19]</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF3333"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Talfourd" title="Thomas Talfourd">Thomas Talfourd</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a><a href="#cite_note-talfour-hall-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-talfourd-richards-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-talfourd-gregory-18">[18]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1849 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Frederick_Stanford" title="John Frederick Stanford">John Frederick Stanford</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1852 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Singer_Keating" title="Henry Singer Keating">Sir Henry Singer Keating</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a><a href="#cite_note-berkshire1852-19">[19]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1859 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>January 1860 </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Sir_Francis_Goldsmid,_2nd_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Francis Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet">Sir Francis Goldsmid</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>November 1860 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gillery_Pigott" title="Gillery Pigott">Gillery Pigott</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1863 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/George_Shaw-Lefevre,_1st_Baron_Eversley" class="mw-redirect" title="George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley">George Shaw-Lefevre</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1878 </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Palmer_(businessman)" title="George Palmer (businessman)">George Palmer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885</a> </td> <td colspan="6">Representation reduced to one member </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1885–1950">1885–1950</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1885–1950">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Election</th> <th></th> <th>Member</th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charles_Townshend_Murdoch" title="Charles Townshend Murdoch">Charles Townshend Murdoch</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1892 United Kingdom general election">1892</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_William_Palmer_(British_politician)" title="George William Palmer (British politician)">George William Palmer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1895_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1895 United Kingdom general election">1895</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charles_Townshend_Murdoch" title="Charles Townshend Murdoch">Charles Townshend Murdoch</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=1898_Reading_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1898 Reading by-election (page does not exist)">1898 by-election</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_William_Palmer_(British_politician)" title="George William Palmer (British politician)">George William Palmer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1904_Reading_by-election" title="1904 Reading by-election">1904 by-election</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Isaacs,_1st_Marquess_of_Reading" title="Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading">Rufus Isaacs</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1913_Reading_by-election" title="1913 Reading by-election">1913 by-election</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Orme_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie Orme Wilson">Leslie Orme Wilson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1922</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edward_Cadogan_(politician)" title="Edward Cadogan (politician)">Edward Cadogan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1923 United Kingdom general election">1923</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Somerville_Hastings" title="Somerville Hastings">Somerville Hastings</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">1924</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sir_Herbert_Williams,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Herbert Williams, 1st Baronet">Herbert Williams</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Somerville_Hastings" title="Somerville Hastings">Somerville Hastings</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Howitt_(politician)" title="Alfred Howitt (politician)">Alfred Howitt</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">1945</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ian_Mikardo" title="Ian Mikardo">Ian Mikardo</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a> </td> <td colspan="3">Constituency divided into <a href="/wiki/Reading_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading North (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reading_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading South (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading South</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1955–1974_2">1955–1974</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1955–1974">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Election</th> <th></th> <th>Member</th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">1955</a> </td> <td colspan="3">Constituency recreated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">1955</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ian_Mikardo" title="Ian Mikardo">Ian Mikardo</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">1959</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Emery" title="Peter Emery">Peter Emery</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">1966</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_(Labour_politician)" title="John Lee (Labour politician)">John Lee</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">1970</a> </td> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gerard_Vaughan_(British_politician)" title="Gerard Vaughan (British politician)">Gerard Vaughan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">Feb 1974</a> </td> <td colspan="3">Constituency redivided into <a href="/wiki/Reading_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading North (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reading_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading South (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading South</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elections">Elections</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Elections">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1830s">Elections in the 1830s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1830s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1830_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1830 United Kingdom general election">General election 1830</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-hop1820-1832-20">[20]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style>±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF7F00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn">Charles Fyshe Palmer </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">522 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">36.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333CC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Russell_(1786%E2%80%931856)" title="Charles Russell (1786–1856)">Charles Russell</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">471 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">32.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF7F00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Lushington_(judge)" title="Stephen Lushington (judge)">Stephen Lushington</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">452 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.3 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">907 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 72.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1,250 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">51 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333CC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1831_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1831 United Kingdom general election">General election 1831</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-hop1820-1832-20">[20]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn">Charles Fyshe Palmer </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333CC; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Russell_(1786%E2%80%931856)" title="Charles Russell (1786–1856)">Charles Russell</a> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1,250 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> hold </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333CC;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1832_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1832 United Kingdom general election">General election 1832</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn">Charles Fyshe Palmer </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333CC; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Russell_(1786%E2%80%931856)" title="Charles Russell (1786–1856)">Charles Russell</a> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,001 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> hold </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333CC;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)" title="Tories (British political party)">Tory</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1835_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1835 United Kingdom general election">General election 1835</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF3333;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Talfourd" title="Thomas Talfourd">Thomas Talfourd</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em">643 </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em">43.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Russell_(1786%E2%80%931856)" title="Charles Russell (1786–1856)">Charles Russell</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em">441 </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em">30.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF7F00;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Oliveira" title="Benjamin Oliveira">Benjamin Oliveira</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">384 </td> <td style="text-align:right">26.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">960 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">95.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,002 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">202 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF3333;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1837_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1837 United Kingdom general election">General election 1837</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF3333; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Talfourd" title="Thomas Talfourd">Thomas Talfourd</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">468 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">34.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−9.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF7F00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn">Charles Fyshe Palmer </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">457 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">33.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+7.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Russell_(1786%E2%80%931856)" title="Charles Russell (1786–1856)">Charles Russell</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">448 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">875 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,035 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−13.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF3333"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−5.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.9 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1840s">Elections in the 1840s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1840s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1841_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1841 United Kingdom general election">General election 1841</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-stooks-smith-13">[13]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Russell_(1786%E2%80%931856)" title="Charles Russell (1786–1856)">Charles Russell</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">570 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">29.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+13.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Cadogan,_4th_Earl_Cadogan" title="Henry Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan">Henry Cadogan</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">564 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">29.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+12.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF7F00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mills_(MP)" title="Thomas Mills (MP)">Thomas Mills</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">410 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF7F00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Tooke_(1777%E2%80%931863)" title="William Tooke (1777–1863)">William Tooke</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">397 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">154 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">984 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,194 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1847_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1847 United Kingdom general election">General election 1847</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF7F00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Pigott_Stainsby_Conant" title="Francis Pigott Stainsby Conant">Francis Pigott</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">614 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">29.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+8.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF3333; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Talfourd" title="Thomas Talfourd">Thomas Talfourd</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">596 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">28.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+7.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Russell_(1786%E2%80%931856)" title="Charles Russell (1786–1856)">Charles Russell</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">521 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Cadogan,_4th_Earl_Cadogan" title="Henry Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan">Henry Cadogan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">376 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,054 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.2 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,251 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">238 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+8.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">75 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF3333"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+7.9 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Talfourd resigned after being appointed a judge of the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Common_Pleas_(England)" title="Court of Common Pleas (England)">Court of Common Pleas</a>, causing a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/w/index.php?title=1849_Reading_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1849 Reading by-election (page does not exist)">By-election, 8 August 1849</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Frederick_Stanford" title="John Frederick Stanford">John Frederick Stanford</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">507 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">51.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+9.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF7F00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Bowyer,_7th_Baronet" title="Sir George Bowyer, 7th Baronet">George Bowyer</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">364 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF3333; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a> </td> <td class="fn">Thomas Norton<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">107 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−17.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">143 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">978 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,309 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+13.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1850s">Elections in the 1850s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1850s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1852_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1852 United Kingdom general election">General election 1852</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF7F00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Pigott_Stainsby_Conant" title="Francis Pigott Stainsby Conant">Francis Pigott</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">753 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">39.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+10.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF7F00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Singer_Keating" title="Henry Singer Keating">Henry Singer Keating</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">631 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">33.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+4.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Auchmuty_Dickson" title="Samuel Auchmuty Dickson">Samuel Auchmuty Dickson</a><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">518 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−15.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">113 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">951 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68.0 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−16.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,399 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+9.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Radicals_(UK)" title="Radicals (UK)">Radical</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1857_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1857 United Kingdom general election">General election 1857</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Pigott_Stainsby_Conant" title="Francis Pigott Stainsby Conant">Francis Pigott</a> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Singer_Keating" title="Henry Singer Keating">Henry Singer Keating</a> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,431 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> hold </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> Keating was appointed <a href="/wiki/Solicitor_General_for_England_and_Wales" title="Solicitor General for England and Wales">Solicitor General for England and Wales</a>, requiring a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/w/index.php?title=1857_Reading_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1857 Reading by-election (page does not exist)">By-election, 2 June 1857</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Singer_Keating" title="Henry Singer Keating">Henry Singer Keating</a> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF7F00;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1859_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1859 United Kingdom general election">General election 1859</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Pigott_Stainsby_Conant" title="Francis Pigott Stainsby Conant">Francis Pigott</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em">761 </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em">38.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Singer_Keating" title="Henry Singer Keating">Henry Singer Keating</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em">666 </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em">33.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ralph Augustus Benson </td> <td style="text-align:right">544 </td> <td style="text-align:right">27.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">122 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">986 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67.9 (est) </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,451 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <td style="background-color:#FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <td style="background-color:#FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> Keating was appointed <a href="/wiki/Solicitor_General_for_England_and_Wales" title="Solicitor General for England and Wales">Solicitor General for England and Wales</a>, requiring a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/w/index.php?title=1859_Reading_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1859 Reading by-election (page does not exist)">By-election, 27 June 1859</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Singer_Keating" title="Henry Singer Keating">Henry Singer Keating</a> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1860s">Elections in the 1860s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1860s">edit</a>]</div> Keating resigned after being appointed a Judge of the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Common_Pleas_(England)" title="Court of Common Pleas (England)">Court of Common Pleas</a>, causing a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/w/index.php?title=January_1860_Reading_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="January 1860 Reading by-election (page does not exist)">By-election, 11 January 1860</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Goldsmid" title="Francis Goldsmid">Francis Goldsmid</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">661 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">54.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−17.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ralph Augustus Benson<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">551 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+17.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">110 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,212 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,506 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−17.9 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Pigott resigned after being appointed <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_the_Isle_of_Man" title="Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man">Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man</a>, causing a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/w/index.php?title=November_1860_Reading_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="November 1860 Reading by-election (page does not exist)">By-election, 21 November 1860</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Gillery_Pigott" title="Gillery Pigott">Gillery Pigott</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">586 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">57.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−15.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Edward Walter<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">435 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+15.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">151 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,021 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,506 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−15.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Pigott resigned after being appointed a Judge of the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_the_Exchequer" class="mw-redirect" title="Court of the Exchequer">Court of the Exchequer</a>, causing a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/w/index.php?title=1863_Reading_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1863 Reading by-election (page does not exist)">By-election, 17 October 1863</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Shaw-Lefevre,_1st_Baron_Eversley" class="mw-redirect" title="George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley">George Shaw-Lefevre</a> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1865_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1865 United Kingdom general election">General election 1865</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Goldsmid" title="Francis Goldsmid">Francis Goldsmid</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">727 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">38.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Shaw-Lefevre,_1st_Baron_Eversley" class="mw-redirect" title="George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley">George Shaw-Lefevre</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">714 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">37.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+4.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Stephen Tucker<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">444 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">270 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,165 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">65.8 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,769 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Shaw-Lefevre was appointed a <a href="/wiki/Civil_Lord_of_the_Admiralty" title="Civil Lord of the Admiralty">Civil Lord of the Admiralty</a>, requiring a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/w/index.php?title=1866_Reading_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1866 Reading by-election (page does not exist)">By-election, 5 May 1866</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Shaw-Lefevre,_1st_Baron_Eversley" class="mw-redirect" title="George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley">George Shaw-Lefevre</a> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1868_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1868 United Kingdom general election">General election 1868</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Goldsmid" title="Francis Goldsmid">Francis Goldsmid</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,629 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">38.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Shaw-Lefevre,_1st_Baron_Eversley" class="mw-redirect" title="George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley">George Shaw-Lefevre</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,618 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">38.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Carden" title="Robert Carden">Robert Carden</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">979 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">639 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,603 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.6 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+14.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">3,228 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1870s">Elections in the 1870s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1870s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1874_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1874 United Kingdom general election">General election 1874</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Shaw-Lefevre,_1st_Baron_Eversley" class="mw-redirect" title="George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley">George Shaw-Lefevre</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,794 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">26.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−12.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Goldsmid" title="Francis Goldsmid">Francis Goldsmid</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,791 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">26.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−12.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Richard Attenborough<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,652 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">William Dalziel Mackenzie<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,631 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">139 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−13.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,434 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.4 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4,118 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−12.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−12.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Goldsmid's death caused a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1878_Reading_by-election" title="1878 Reading by-election">By-election, 18 May 1878</a>: Reading (1 seat)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Palmer_(businessman)" title="George Palmer (businessman)">George Palmer</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2,223 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">58.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+6.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Richard Attenborough </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,565 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">658 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+15.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,788 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4,721 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1880s">Elections in the 1880s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1880s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1880_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1880 United Kingdom general election">General election 1880</a>: Reading (2 seats)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Palmer_(businessman)" title="George Palmer (businessman)">George Palmer</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2,513 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">36.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+10.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Shaw-Lefevre,_1st_Baron_Eversley" class="mw-redirect" title="George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley">George Shaw-Lefevre</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2,286 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">33.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+7.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Albert_George_Sandeman" title="Albert George Sandeman">Albert George Sandeman</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,067 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−17.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">219 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,580 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">89.7 (est) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5,107 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+9.7 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+8.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Lefevre was appointed <a href="/wiki/First_Commissioner_of_Works" title="First Commissioner of Works">First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings</a>, requiring a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1880_Reading_by-election" class="mw-redirect" title="1880 Reading by-election">By-election, 15 Dec 1880</a>: Reading (1 seat)<a href="#cite_note-craig1832-21">[21]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Shaw-Lefevre,_1st_Baron_Eversley" class="mw-redirect" title="George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley">George Shaw-Lefevre</a> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">General election 1885</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Townshend_Murdoch" title="Charles Townshend Murdoch">Charles Townshend Murdoch</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">3,518 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">50.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+20.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Shaw-Lefevre,_1st_Baron_Eversley" class="mw-redirect" title="George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley">George Shaw-Lefevre</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,389 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−20.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">129 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,907 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.2 (est) </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7,515 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+20.8 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1886 United Kingdom general election">General election 1886</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Townshend_Murdoch" title="Charles Townshend Murdoch">Charles Townshend Murdoch</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">3,378 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">50.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">William Berkeley Monck<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,262 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">116 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,640 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">88.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7,515 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1890s">Elections in the 1890s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1890s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1892 United Kingdom general election">General election 1892</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_William_Palmer_(British_politician)" title="George William Palmer (British politician)">George Palmer</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">3,990 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">51.9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+2.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Townshend_Murdoch" title="Charles Townshend Murdoch">Charles Townshend Murdoch</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,700 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">290 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,690 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8,438 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.8 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1895_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1895 United Kingdom general election">General election 1895</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Townshend_Murdoch" title="Charles Townshend Murdoch">Charles Townshend Murdoch</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4,278 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">52.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+4.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_William_Palmer_(British_politician)" title="George William Palmer (British politician)">George Palmer</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,927 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">351 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,205 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">90.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">9,104 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Murdoch's death caused a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/w/index.php?title=1898_Reading_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1898 Reading by-election (page does not exist)">By-election, 25 Jul 1898</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_William_Palmer_(British_politician)" title="George William Palmer (British politician)">George Palmer</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4,600 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">52.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+4.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Edward_Keyser" title="Charles Edward Keyser">Charles Edward Keyser</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,906 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: red; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Federation" title="Social Democratic Federation">Social Democratic Federation</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Quelch" title="Harry Quelch">Harry Quelch</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">270 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">New </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">694 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,776 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">9,573 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1900s">Elections in the 1900s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1900s">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cekeyser2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Cekeyser2.jpg/120px-Cekeyser2.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Cekeyser2.jpg/180px-Cekeyser2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Cekeyser2.jpg/240px-Cekeyser2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="368" data-file-height="466" /></a><figcaption>Keyser</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1900 United Kingdom general election">General election 1900</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_William_Palmer_(British_politician)" title="George William Palmer (British politician)">George Palmer</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4,592 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">51.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+3.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Edward_Keyser" title="Charles Edward Keyser">Charles Edward Keyser</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,353 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">239 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,945 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">88.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">10,152 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+3.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rufus_Isaacs_-_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Rufus_Isaacs_-_portrait.jpg/120px-Rufus_Isaacs_-_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Rufus_Isaacs_-_portrait.jpg/180px-Rufus_Isaacs_-_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Rufus_Isaacs_-_portrait.jpg/240px-Rufus_Isaacs_-_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="362" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Isaacs</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1904_Reading_by-election" title="1904 Reading by-election">1904 Reading by-election</a><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Isaacs,_1st_Marquess_of_Reading" title="Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading">Rufus Isaacs</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4,770 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">51.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Edward_Keyser" title="Charles Edward Keyser">Charles Edward Keyser</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,540 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">230 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,310 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11,151 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-0.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1906 United Kingdom general election">General election 1906</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Isaacs,_1st_Marquess_of_Reading" title="Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading">Rufus Isaacs</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5,407 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">53.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+2.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">George Horace Johnstone </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,710 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">697 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+ +4.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,117 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11,041 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1910s">Elections in the 1910s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1910s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="January 1910 United Kingdom general election">General election January 1910</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Isaacs,_1st_Marquess_of_Reading" title="Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading">Rufus Isaacs</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5,264 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">51.0 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−2.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #2061A2; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Renton" title="Leslie Renton">Leslie Renton</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,057 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">207 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,321 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">93.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11,016 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−2.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Isaacs is appointed <a href="/wiki/Solicitor_General_of_England_and_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Solicitor General of England and Wales">Solicitor General of England and Wales</a>, requiring a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1910_Reading_by-election" title="1910 Reading by-election">By-election, March 1910</a><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Isaacs,_1st_Marquess_of_Reading" title="Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading">Rufus Isaacs</a> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3">Unopposed </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/December_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="December 1910 United Kingdom general election">General election December 1910</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Isaacs,_1st_Marquess_of_Reading" title="Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading">Rufus Isaacs</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5,094 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">50.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Orme_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie Orme Wilson">Leslie Orme Wilson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,995 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">99 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,089 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11,016 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Issacs is appointed <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales" title="Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales">Lord Chief Justice of England</a> and is elevated to the peerage as Lord Reading, requiring a by-election. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1913_Reading_by-election" title="1913 Reading by-election">1913 Reading by-election</a><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-32">[32]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Orme_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie Orme Wilson">Leslie Orme Wilson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5,144 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">50.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Peabody_Gooch" title="George Peabody Gooch">George Peabody Gooch</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,013 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: red; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/British_Socialist_Party" title="British Socialist Party">British Socialist Party</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_George_Butler" title="Joseph George Butler">Joseph George Butler</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,063 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">New </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,131 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,220 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">92.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11,088 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the summer of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place. <ul><li>Unionist Party: <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Orme_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie Orme Wilson">Leslie Orme Wilson</a></li> <li>Liberal Party: Henry Norman Spalding<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></li> <li>British Socialist Party: <a href="/wiki/Joseph_George_Butler" title="Joseph George Butler">Joseph George Butler</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">General election 14 December 1918</a>: Reading </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px"><a href="/wiki/Coalition_Coupon" title="Coalition Coupon">C</a> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Orme_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Leslie Orme Wilson">Leslie Orme Wilson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,204 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Charles_Morris" title="Thomas Charles Morris">Thomas Charles Morris</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,410 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">New </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Frederick Thoresby </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,143 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−39.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #B20000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_(UK)" title="National Socialist Party (UK)">National Socialist Party</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Lorenzo_Quelch" title="Lorenzo Quelch">Lorenzo Quelch</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,462 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">New </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,794 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28,219 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−29.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+21.9 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6">C indicates <a href="/wiki/Coalition_Coupon" title="Coalition Coupon">candidate endorsed by the coalition government</a>. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1920s">Elections in the 1920s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1920s">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Henry_Delacombe_Roome.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/Henry_Delacombe_Roome.jpg/120px-Henry_Delacombe_Roome.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Henry_Delacombe_Roome.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="139" data-file-height="144" /></a><figcaption>H.D. Roome</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">General election 1922</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-36">[36]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Cadogan_(politician)" title="Edward Cadogan (politician)">Edward Cadogan</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">16,082 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">42.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−11.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Derwent_Hall_Caine" title="Derwent Hall Caine">Derwent Hall Caine</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,322 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Henry Delacombe Roome </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,212 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,760 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−19.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,616 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1923 United Kingdom general election">General election 1923</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-36">[36]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Somerville_Hastings" title="Somerville Hastings">Somerville Hastings</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">16,657 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">44.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+6.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Cadogan_(politician)" title="Edward Cadogan (politician)">Edward Cadogan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,115 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Maddison" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Maddison">Frederick Maddison</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,406 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,542 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,178 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">General election 1924</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-36">[36]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sir_Herbert_Williams,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Herbert Williams, 1st Baronet">Herbert Williams</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">21,338 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">53.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+13.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Somerville_Hastings" title="Somerville Hastings">Somerville Hastings</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,337 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,001 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39,675 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">General election 1929</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-36">[36]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Somerville_Hastings" title="Somerville Hastings">Somerville Hastings</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23,281 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">43.5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−2.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sir_Herbert_Williams,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Herbert Williams, 1st Baronet">Herbert Williams</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,429 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Dugald_Macfadyen" title="Dugald Macfadyen">Dugald Macfadyen</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,733 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">New </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">852 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53,443 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionist Party (UK)">Unionist</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1930s">Elections in the 1930s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1930s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">General election 1931</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-36">[36]</a> Electorate 65,009 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Howitt_(politician)" title="Alfred Howitt (politician)">Alfred Howitt</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">34,439 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">63.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+21.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Somerville_Hastings" title="Somerville Hastings">Somerville Hastings</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,277 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: black; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Party_(UK)" title="New Party (UK)">New Party</a> </td> <td class="fn">ER Troward </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">861 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">New </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,162 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">54,577 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <ul><li>The Liberal Party candidate, <a href="/wiki/Rosalie_Glynn_Grylls" title="Rosalie Glynn Grylls">Rosalie Glynn Grylls</a> withdrew at close of nominations</li></ul> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1935 United Kingdom general election">General election 1935</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-36">[36]</a> Electorate 67,181 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Howitt_(politician)" title="Alfred Howitt (politician)">Alfred Howitt</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">27,540 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">51.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−9.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Somerville_Hastings" title="Somerville Hastings">Somerville Hastings</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,949 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">John William Todd </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,685 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">New </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,591 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−19.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53,174 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> General Election 1939–40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; <ul><li>Conservative: <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Howitt_(politician)" title="Alfred Howitt (politician)">Alfred Howitt</a></li> <li>Labour: <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Bondfield" title="Margaret Bondfield">Margaret Bondfield</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1940s">Elections in the 1940s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1940s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">General election 1945</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-36">[36]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Mikardo" title="Ian Mikardo">Ian Mikardo</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">30,465 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">48.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+5.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">William Ewart Clarke McIlroy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24,075 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−13.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Robert Nevill Tronchin James </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,834 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,390 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62,374 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1950s">Elections in the 1950s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1950s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">General election 1955</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-kimber1955-38">[38]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Mikardo" title="Ian Mikardo">Ian Mikardo</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">25,228 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">50.24 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Frederic_Bennett" title="Frederic Bennett">Frederic Bennett</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24,990 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.76 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">238 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">50,218 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">59,678 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> win (new seat) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">General election 1959</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-kimber1959-39">[39]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Emery" title="Peter Emery">Peter Emery</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">26,314 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">54.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+4.29 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Mikardo" title="Ian Mikardo">Ian Mikardo</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,372 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.29 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,942 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48,686 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.84 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.31 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">58,772 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.29 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1960s">Elections in the 1960s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1960s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">General election 1964</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-kimber1964-40">[40]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Emery" title="Peter Emery">Peter Emery</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">20,815 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">43.93 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−10.12 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_(Labour_politician)" title="John Lee (Labour politician)">John Lee</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,805 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.04 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael F Burns </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,759 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">New </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.08 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47,379 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.04 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">59,371 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> hold </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-4.04 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">General election 1966</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-kimber1966-41">[41]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_(Labour_politician)" title="John Lee (Labour politician)">John Lee</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">25,338 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">51.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+7.10 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Emery" title="Peter Emery">Peter Emery</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,205 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.24 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ernest H Palfrey </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,127 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.30 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.86 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,133 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.32 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49,670 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.00 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.20 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">59,132 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.17 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1970s">Elections in the 1970s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1970s">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">General election 1970</a>: Reading<a href="#cite_note-kimber1970-42">[42]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Gerard_Vaughan_(British_politician)" title="Gerard Vaughan (British politician)">Gerard Vaughan</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23,598 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">50.31 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+7.62 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_(Labour_politician)" title="John Lee (Labour politician)">John Lee</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,444 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.16 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #ffffff; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(UK,_1969)" title="Democratic Party (UK, 1969)">Democratic Party</a> </td> <td class="fn">Alec Boothroyd </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">867 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">New </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,154 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46,909 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.96 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">63,359 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> gain from <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+5.39 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General">General</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reading_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: General">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)</li> <li>Edward 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