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Tewkesbury
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire
Outline map
Location of Gloucestershire within England
CountyGloucestershire
Electorate77,206 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created1997
Member of ParliamentLaurence Robertson (Conservative)
SeatsOne
Created fromCirencester & Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and West Gloucestershire
1610–1918
Seats1610–1868: Two
1868–1918: One
Type of constituencyBorough constituency

Tewkesbury is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 recreation by Laurence Robertson, a Conservative.[n 2]

History

1610 to 1918

Tewkesbury existed in this period, first in the parliamentary borough form. It returned two MPs until this was reduced to one in 1868, then saw itself become instead a larger county division under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and it was abolished in 1918.

Prominent politicians

1997 to date

The fourth periodic review of Westminster constituencies in 1997 saw the seat's recreation, from the similar, but slightly larger county division Tewkesbury and Cirencester, compared to the present seat.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Municipal Boroughs of Gloucester and Tewkesbury, the Sessional Divisions of Berkeley, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, and Winchcombe, part of the Sessional Division of Whitminster, and the civil parish of Slimbridge.

1997-2010: The Borough of Tewkesbury wards of Ashchurch, Bishop's Cleeve East, Bishop's Cleeve North, Bishop's Cleeve South, Brockworth Glebe, Brockworth Moorfield, Brockworth Westfield, Churchdown Brookfield, Churchdown Parton, Churchdown Pirton, Cleeve Hill, Coombe Hill, Crickley, De Winton, Dumbleton, Gotherington, Horsbere, Innsworth, Shurdington, Tewkesbury Mitton, Tewkesbury Newtown, Tewkesbury Prior's Park, Tewkesbury Town, Twyning, and Winchcombe, and the Borough of Cheltenham wards of Leckhampton with Up Hatherley, Prestbury, and Swindon.

2010–present: The Borough of Tewkesbury wards of Ashchurch with Walton Cardiff, Badgeworth, Brockworth, Churchdown Brookfield, Churchdown St John’s, Cleeve Grange, Cleeve Hill, Cleeve St Michael’s, Cleeve West, Coombe Hill, Hucclecote, Innsworth with Down Hatherley, Isbourne, Northway, Oxenton Hill, Shurdington, Tewkesbury Newtown, Tewkesbury Prior's Park, Tewkesbury Town with Mitton, Twyning, and Winchcombe, the Borough of Cheltenham wards of Prestbury and Swindon Village, and the City of Gloucester ward of Longlevens.

The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the seats of Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and 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.[2]

Constituency profile

The town has a raised centre with the second largest parish church in the country that is the church of a former Benedictine monastery, named Tewkesbury Abbey, the town also has its own mustard and July medieval battle festival. Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.2% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[3]

Members of Parliament

MPs 1610–1629

  • Constituency created (1610)

The constituency was enfranchised on 23 March 1610 - the first record of its members sworn is 16 April 1610.[4]

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

MPs 1640–1868

Year First member[5] First party Second member[5] Second party
April 1640 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Edward Alford
November 1640 Double return — election declared void[6]
August 1641 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | Sir Robert Cooke Parliamentarian style="background-color: Template:Cavalier/meta/color" | Sir Edward Alford[7] Royalist
1641 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | Edward Stephens Parliamentarian
August 1643 Cooke died — seat left vacant
1645 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Stephens
December 1648 Edward Stephens excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Tewkesbury was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper - chosen for Wiltshire - replaced by Francis St John Tewkesbury had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis White
January 1659 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Cooke style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Robert Long[n 3]
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | (Sir) Henry Capell style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Dowdeswell
1673 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Francis Russell
1685 rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Dowdeswell
1690 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Henry Capell
1692 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Francis Winnington
1698 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles Hancock
1701 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edmund Bray
1708 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Ireton
1710 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Bromley
1712 rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Dowdeswell
1713 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles Dowdeswell
1714 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Anthony Lechmere
1717 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Nicholas Lechmere
1721 rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | The Viscount Gage[n 4]
1722 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Brigadier George Reade
1734 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Robert Tracy
1741 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Martin
1747 style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | William Dowdeswell Whig
1754 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | Nicolson Calvert Whig style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Martin, junior
1761 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | Sir William Codrington Tory
1774 style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | Joseph Martin Whig
1776 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | James Martin Whig
1792 style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | Lieutenant-Colonel William Dowdeswell Tory
1797 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | Christopher Bethell Codrington Tory
1807 style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | Charles Hanbury Tracy Whig
1812 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | John Edmund Dowdeswell Tory style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | John Martin Whig
January 1832 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | Charles Hanbury Tracy Whig
December 1832 style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | John Martin Whig
1835 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Dowdeswell Conservative
1837 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | John Martin Whig
1847 style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | Humphrey Brown Whig
1857 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hon. Frederick Lygon Conservative
1859 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Martin Liberal
1864 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Yorke Conservative
1865 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Edward Dowdeswell Conservative
1866 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Edmund Lechmere, Bt Conservative
1868 Representation reduced to one Member

MPs 1868–1918

Election Member[5] Party
1868 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Edwin Price Liberal
1880 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Richard Martin Liberal
1885 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Yorke Conservative
1886 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir John Dorington Conservative
1906 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hon. Michael Hicks Beach Conservative
1916 style="background-color: Template:Unionist Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Frederick Hicks-Beach Unionist
1918 Constituency abolished

MPs since 1997

Election Member[5] Party
rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1997 Laurence Robertson Conservative
2001
2005
2010
2015
2017 Election pending

Elections 1997-2015

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2017: Tewkesbury[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Cait Clucas
Green Cate Cody
UKIP Simon Collins
Labour Manjinder Singh Kang
Conservative Laurence Robertson
General Election 2015: Tewkesbury[9][10][11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 30,176 54.5 +7.3
Labour Ed Buxton 8,204 14.6 +3.2
Liberal Democrats Alistair Cameron 7,629 13.8 −21.7
UKIP Stuart Adair[11] 7,128 12.9 +8.7
Green Jemma Clarke[12] 2,207 4.0 +3.0
Majority 21,972 39.7 +28.0
Turnout 55,344 70.1 −0.3
Conservative hold Swing [13]
General Election 2010: Tewkesbury[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 25,472 47.2 −1.9
Liberal Democrats 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 −4.5

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Tewkesbury[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 22,339 49.1 +3.0
Liberal Democrats 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[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 20,830 46.1 +0.3
Labour Keir Dhillon 12,167 26.9 +0.7
Liberal Democrats 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

Election in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Tewkesbury[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 23,859 45.8
Liberal Democrats John Sewell 14,625 28.1
Labour Kelvin Tustin 13,665 26.2
Majority 9,234 17.7
Turnout 76.2
Conservative win (new seat)

Election results 1885-1918

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Tewkesbury [18][19][20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Yorke 4,666 51.0
Liberal Godfrey Samuelson 4,484 49.0
Majority 182 2.0
Turnout 78.4
Conservative hold Swing
Dorington
General Election 1886: Tewkesbury [18][19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Dorington unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Tewkesbury [18][19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Dorington 5,028 54.9 n/a
Liberal Godfrey Samuelson 4,125 45.1 n/a
Majority 903 9.8 n/a
Turnout 79.5 n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
General Election 1895: Tewkesbury [18][19][21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Dorington unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Tewkesbury [18][19][22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Dorington unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
Hicks Beach
General Election 1906: Tewkesbury [18][19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Hicks Beach 5,321 50.6 n/a
Liberal Robert Lister 5,194 49.4 n/a
Majority 127 1.2 n/a
Turnout 79.5 n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Tewkesbury [18][23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Hicks Beach 6,050 53.2
Liberal Robert Lister 5,088 44.7
Labour Charles Fox 238 2.1 n/a
Majority 962 8.5 +7.3
Turnout 86.5
Conservative hold Swing
General Election December 1910: Tewkesbury [18][24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Hicks Beach 5,699 52.0 −1.2
Liberal Robert Lister 5,267 48.0 +3.3
Majority 432 4.0 −4.5
Turnout 10,966 83.4 −3.1
Conservative hold Swing -2.3
Mathias

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Tewkesbury by-election, 1916 [18][26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist William Hicks-Beach 7,127 83.2 +31.2
Labour William J Boosey 1,438 16.8 n/a
Majority 5,689 66.4 +62.4
Turnout 62.0
Unionist hold Swing n/a

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ^ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
  3. ^ Cannot have been Sir Robert Long Bt as stated by Williams as he was a Royalist
  4. ^ of Castle Island, Ireland
References
  1. ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  2. ^ 2010 post-revision map non-metropolitan areas and unitary authorities of England
  3. ^ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
  4. ^ W R Williams Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester
  5. ^ a b c d Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ "Known candidates for Tewkesbury in the 2017 General Election". Democracy Club. 12 May 2017. Archived from the original on 14 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  10. ^ "Statement of Results". Tewkesbury Borough Council. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ a b "Tewkesbury". UK Polling Report 2015. YouGov. 2015. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "Full Green Slate for Gloucestershire". South West Green Party. 23 October 2014. Archived from the original on 14 May 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ Swing in 2015 is not useful as there was a change of party order from previous election
  14. ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 26 July 2013 suggested (help)
  15. ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  16. ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  17. ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
  19. ^ a b c d e f The Liberal Year Book, 1907
  20. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
  21. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  22. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  23. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
  24. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
  25. ^ Gloucester Journal 16 May 1914
  26. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

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)