Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Tewkesbury | |
|---|---|
| County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. |
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 Location of Gloucestershire within England. |
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| County | Gloucestershire |
| Electorate | 77,206 (December 2010)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1997 |
| Member of Parliament | Laurence Robertson (Conservative) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Cirencester & Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and West Gloucestershire |
| 1610–1918 | |
| Number of members | 1614–1868: Two 1868–1918: One |
| Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | South West England |
Tewkesbury 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.
A parliamentary borough of the same name existed from 1610 to 1918. It returned two MPs until 1868, then one until it was abolished in 1918.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the seats of Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Cheltenham & West Gloucestershire.
As its name suggests, the main town in the constituency is Tewkesbury, but other settlements include Twyning, Ashchurch, Bishop's Cleeve, Winchcombe, Prestbury, Brockworth, Churchdown, Innsworth, and Longlevens.
[edit] Members of Parliament
Laurence Robertson of the Conservative Party has been the seat's MP since 1997.
[edit] MPs 1610–1629
- Constituency created (1610)
The constituency was enfranchised on 23 March 1610 and the first record of members sworn was on 16 Apr 1610.[2]
| Parliament | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| Parliament of 1604-1611 (1610} | Sir Dudley Digges | Edward Ferrers |
| Addled Parliament (1614) | Sir John Ratcliffe | |
| Parliament of 1621-1622 | Giles Brydges | |
| Happy Parliament (1624-1625) | Sir Baptist Hicks | |
| Useless Parliament (1625) | ||
| Parliament of 1625-1626 | ||
| Parliament of 1628-1629 | Sir Thomas Colepeper | |
| May 1628 | Sir William Hicks |
[edit] MPs 1640–1868
[edit] MPs 1868–1918
| Election | Member[3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | William Edwin Price | Liberal | |
| 1880 by-election | Richard Martin | Liberal | |
| 1885 | John Yorke | Conservative | |
| 1886 | Sir John Dorington, Bt | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Hon. Michael Hicks Beach (Viscount Quenington from 1915) | Conservative | |
| 1916 by-election | William Frederick Hicks-Beach | Conservative | |
| 1918 | Constituency abolished | ||
[edit] MPs since 1997
| Election | Member[3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Laurence Robertson | Conservative | |
[edit] Elections
[edit] Elections in the 2010s
| General Election 2010: Tewkesbury | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 25,472 | 47.2 | -1.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Alistair Cameron | 19,162 | 35.5 | +7.1 | |
| Labour | Stuart Emmerson | 6,253 | 11.6 | -8.7 | |
| UKIP | Brian Jones | 2,230 | 4.1 | N/A | |
| Green | Matthew Sidford | 525 | 1.0 | -2.2 | |
| Monster Raving Loony | George Ridgeon | 319 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 6,310 | 11.7 | |||
| Turnout | 53,961 | 70.4 | +8.2 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -4.0 | |||
[edit] Elections in the 2000s
| General Election 2005: Tewkesbury | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 22,339 | 49.1 | +3.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Alistair Cameron | 12,447 | 27.4 | +1.2 | |
| Labour | Charles Mannan | 9,179 | 20.2 | −6.7 | |
| Green | Robert Rendell | 1,488 | 3.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,892 | 21.8 | |||
| Turnout | 45,453 | 63.0 | −0.7 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +0.9 | |||
| General Election 2001: Tewkesbury | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 20,830 | 46.1 | +0.3 | |
| Labour | Keir Dhillon | 12,167 | 26.9 | +0.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Steve Martin | 11,863 | 26.2 | -1.8 | |
| Independent | Charles Vernall | 335 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 8,663 | 19.2 | |||
| Turnout | 45,195 | 63.7 | -12.5 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ W R Williams Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester
- ^ a b c d Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
- ^ At the election of November 1640 a double return was made: Sir Robert Cooke, Sir Edward Alford, John Craven and Edward Stephens were all returned. The election was declared void on 6 August 1641.
- ^ Alford's election was declared void and his opponent, Stephens, was declared duly elected. However, Alford had also been elected for Arundel, and continued to sit for that borough
[edit] Sources
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig — Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
