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The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. If these proposals are approved by Parliament they will come into effect at the next UK general election which is due to take place in May 2022 under the terms of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011.

Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota. The review was carried out using the official UK electorate figures for 2015 and the electoral quota was set at 74,769, thus establishing a range of 71,031 to 78,507.

In order to meet these requirements, the Commission recommended combining Berkshire with Surrey as a sub-region of the South East Region. However, this involved only one ward (Windlesham in the Borough of Surrey Heath in Surrey) being transferred from the constituency of Surrey Heath to the constituency of Windsor. After adjusting for this, the Commission recommended that Berkshire retained eight seats with no name changes, of which four (Bracknell, Maidenhead, Slough and Wokingham) were unchanged. Elsewhere, Reading West would gain a further two District of West Berkshire wards (Basildon and Bucklebury) from Newbury and the Borough of Reading ward of Battle would be transferred from Reading West to Reading East. 1Per the official UK electorate figures for 2015

2Includes part of Surrey (3,256)