Stratford-on-Avon (UK Parliament constituency)

This article is about the UK Parliamentary constituency. For the town in south Warwickshire, see Stratford-upon-Avon. For other uses of the name, see Stratford. For the former Parliamentary constituency in East London, see Stratford West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)

Stratford-on-Avon
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire.
Location of Warwickshire within England.
County	Warwickshire
Electorate	69,108 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1950 (1950)
Member of Parliament	Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative)
Number of members	One
1885 (1885)–1918 (1918)
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

Stratford-on-Avon is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The constituency currently covers a predominantly rural area, with boundaries almost identical to the Stratford-on-Avon local government district.

At the next general election however, it will be much reduced in size: a new constituency of Kenilworth and Southam will be created, taking in much of the eastern half of the present constituency, along with parts of the present Rugby and Kenilworth constituency.

For more information on the boundary changes see List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1885–1918

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Lord William Compton	Liberal
	1886	Frederick Townsend	Conservative
	1892	Algernon Freeman-Mitford	Conservative
	1895	Victor Milward	Conservative
	1901 by-election	Philip Staveley Foster	Conservative
	1906	Thomas Malcolm Harvey Kincaid-Smith	Liberal
	1909 by-election	Philip Staveley Foster	Conservative
	1918	Constituency abolished

MPs since 1950

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1950	John Profumo	Conservative	Secretary of State for War 1960–63; resigned
	1963 by-election	Angus Maude	Conservative
	1983	Alan Howarth	Conservative
	1995		Labour
	1997	John Maples	Conservative	Previously MP for Lewisham West 1983–92
	2010	Nadhim Zahawi	Conservative

Elections

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
General Election 2010  Turnout: 50,542 (72.7%) +3.5		Conservative hold Majority: 11,346 (22.4%) +1.5 Swing: 0.7% from Con to Lib Dem		Nadhim Zahawi	Conservative	26,052	51.5	+0.3
				Martin Turner	Liberal Democrat	14,706	29.1	+1.7
				Robert Johnston	Labour	4,809	9.5	-6.0
				Brett Parsons	UKIP	1,846	3.7	+1.0
				George Jones	BNP	1,097	2.2	N/A
				Neil Basnett	Independent	1,032	2.0	N/A
				Karen Varga	Green	527	1.0	-2.2
				Frederick Bishop	English Democrats	473	0.9	N/A
General Election 2005  Turnout: 58,240 (68.8%) +4.4		Conservative hold Majority: 12,184 (20.9%) -0.6 Swing: 0.3% from Con to Lib Dem		John Maples	Conservative	28,652	49.2	-1.1
				Susan Juned	Liberal Democrat	16,468	28.3	-0.5
				Rachel Blackmore	Labour	10,145	17.4	+0.7
				Harry Cottam	UKIP	1,621	2.8	+0.6
				Mick Davies	Green	1,354	2.3	+0.2
General Election 2001  Turnout: 54,914 (64.4%) -11.0		Conservative hold Majority: 11,802 (21.5%) +12.9		John Maples	Conservative	27,606	50.3	+2.0
				Susan Juned	Liberal Democrat	15,804	28.8	+3.2
				Mushtaq Hussain	Labour	9,164	16.7	-3.9
				Ron Mole	UKIP	1,184	2.2	+1.3
				Mick Davies	Green	1,156	2.1	N/A
General Election 1997  Turnout: 62,099 (76.3%) -5.8		Conservative hold Majority: 14,106 (22.8%) -10.9		John Maples	Conservative	29,967	48.3	-10.9
				Susan Juned	Liberal Democrat	15,861	25.5	±0
				Stewart Stacey	Labour	12,754	20.5	+7.4
				A. Hilton	Referendum Party	2,064	3.3	N/A
				J. Spilsbury	UKIP	556	0.9	N/A
				J. Brewster	Natural Law	307	0.5	+0.3
				S. Marcus	Stratford First Democratic Conservative	306	0.5	N/A
				S. Miller	ProLife Alliance	284	0.5	N/A
General Election 1992  Turnout: 67,974 (82.1%) +5.6		Conservative hold Majority: 22,892 (33.7%) −0.4 Swing: 0.2% from Con to Lib Dem		Alan Howarth	Conservative	40,251	59.2	−2.7
				JN Fogg	Liberal Democrat	17,359	25.5	−2.3
				Ms. SM Brookes	Labour	8,932	13.1	+2.9
				RG Roughan	Green	729	1.1	N/A
				AJ Saunders	Independent Conservative	573	0.8	+0.8
				MR Twite	Natural Law	130	0.2	N/A

By-elections

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
Stratford By-election 1963 Turnout: 36,334		Conservative hold Majority: 3,470 (9.55%) −27.47		Angus Maude	Conservative	15,846	43.6	-24.9
				Andrew Faulds	Labour	12,376	34.1	+2.57
				Derick Mirfin	Liberal	7,622	21.0	N/A
				M.S. Blair	Independent	281	0.8	N/A
				David Sutch	Teenage Party	209	0.6	N/A

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire