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Swindon North is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Will Stone, a Labour politician. [n 2]Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was formally renamed from North Swindon to Swindon North, and first contested at the 2024 general election.
Devizes and North Wiltshire were abolished and new constituencies, named East Wiltshire, and Melksham and Devizes, created. [3] [4] The following seats were proposed: Containing electoral wards in the Borough of Swindon. East Wiltshire (part) Swindon North; Swindon South; Containing electoral wards in the Wiltshire unitary authority district ...
St Augustine's Church, Even Swindon – a Church of England parish church consecrated in 1908. [8] The Oasis Leisure Centre – a domed structure in operation from 1976 to 2020, expected to reopen in 2026. [9] The North Star campus of Swindon College; The headquarters of the UK Space Agency; Swindon railway station and Swindon loco yard
Stone was elected as a councillor on Swindon Borough Council for the ward of Rodbourne Cheney in 2022. [ 4 ] He won the Swindon North seat for Labour at the 2024 general election, defeating the Conservative incumbent Justin Tomlinson by a margin of 4,103 votes (9.3%).
For Westminster elections, the parish is part of the Swindon North constituency. [ 4 ] The parish was formed on 1 April 2017, when the parish of Blunsdon St Andrew was divided in two along the line of the A419 road: the west half became the new parish of St Andrews, and the east half was renamed Blunsdon .
Swindon South, Swindon North Swindon was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Swindon in Wiltshire , England . It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from the 1918 general election until it was abolished for the 1997 general election .
The SN postcode area, also known as the Swindon postcode area, [2] is a group of eighteen postcode districts in England, within ten post towns.These cover north Wiltshire (including Swindon, Chippenham, Calne, Corsham, Devizes, Malmesbury, Marlborough, Melksham and Pewsey), plus a small part of south-west Oxfordshire (including Faringdon) and a very small part of Gloucestershire.
North Wiltshire was a constituency [n 1] in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.It was represented since its 1983 recreation by the Conservative Party. [n 2] In the period 1832–1983, North Wiltshire was an alternative name for Chippenham or the Northern Division of Wiltshire and as Chippenham dates to the original countrywide Parliament, the Model Parliament, this period is covered in ...