Mid Oxfordshire (UK Parliament constituency) Mid Oxfordshire (UK Parliament constituency) Mid Oxfordshire was a parliamentary constituency in Oxfordshire. Unusually, its official name - Mid-Oxon - incorporated an abbreviation (Oxon, for Oxonia) but the full form of the county name was and is normally used in referring to the constituency. During its existence Mid Oxfordshire returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election from parts of the seats of Banbury and Henley, and abolished for the 1983 general election. The Urban District of Witney, the Rural District
Colin Cameron (Malawian politician) against Michael Hill Blackwood, Cameron requested that he be given a seat with a realistic change of winning, and was instead nominated in the Soche constituency, where he ran as a pro-Malawi Congress Party independent. Cameron succeeded in winning one of the eight seats on the higher roll (largely reserved for European and Asian voters), and was appointed Minister of Works and Transport, later becoming Minister of Transport and Communications. In the 1964 elections Cameron was re-elected, the only European to be elected as an MCP candidate. Following the elections, he was appointed Minister of Works, and was the only