Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire

The county of Gloucestershire is divided into 6 parliamentary constituencies: 2 borough constituencies and 4 county constituencies.

Constituencies

Further information: 2019 United Kingdom general election

  Conservative †   Labour ‡   Liberal Democrat ¤

Constituency	Electorate	Majority	Member of Parliament		Nearest opposition		Electoral wards	Map
Cheltenham BC	81,044	981		Alex Chalk †		Max Wilkinson ¤	Cheltenham Borough Council: All Saints, Battledown, Benhall and The Reddings, Charlton Kings, Charlton Park, College, Hesters Way, Lansdown, Leckhampton, Oakley, Park, Pittville, St Mark's, St Paul's, St Peter's, Springbank, Up Hatherley, Warden Hill.
Forest of Dean CC	71,438	15,869		Mark Harper †		Di Martin ‡	Forest of Dean District Council: Alvington, Aylburton and West Lydney, Awre, Berry Hill, Blaisdon and Longhope, Bream, Bromesberrow and Dymock, Christchurch and English Bicknor, Churcham and Huntley, Cinderford East, Cinderford West, Coleford Central, Coleford East, Hartpury, Hewelsfield and Woolaston, Littledean and Ruspidge, Lydbrook and Ruardean, Lydney East, Lydney North, Mitcheldean and Drybrook, Newent Central, Newland and St Briavels, Newnham and Westbury, Oxenhall and Newent North East, Pillowell, Redmarley, Tibberton, Tidenham. Tewkesbury Borough Council: Highnam with Haw Bridge.
Gloucester BC	81,319	10,277		Richard Graham †		Fran Boait ‡	Gloucester City Council: Abbey, Barnwood, Barton and Tredworth, Elmbridge, Grange, Hucclecote, Kingsholm and Wotton, Matson and Robinswood, Moreland, Podsmead, Quedgeley Fieldcourt, Quedgeley Severn Vale, Tuffley, Westgate.
Stroud CC	84,537	3,840		Siobhan Baillie †		David Drew ‡	Stroud District Council: Amberley and Woodchester, Berkeley, Bisley, Cainscross, Cam East, Cam West, Central, Chalford, Coaley and Uley, Dursley, Eastington and Standish, Farmhill and Paganhill, Hardwicke, Nailsworth, Over Stroud, Painswick, Rodborough, Severn, Slade, Stonehouse, The Stanleys, Thrupp, Trinity, Uplands, Upton St Leonards, Vale, Valley.
Tewkesbury CC	83,958	22,410		Laurence Robertson †		Alex Hegenbarth ¤	Cheltenham Borough Council: Prestbury, Swindon Village. Gloucester City Council: Longlevens. Tewkesbury Borough Council: 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, Winchcombe.
The Cotswolds CC	81,939	20,214		Geoffrey Clifton-Brown †		Liz Webster ¤	Cotswold District Council: Ampney-Coln, Avening, Beacon-Stow, Blockley, Bourton-on-the-Water, Campden-Vale, Chedworth, Churn Valley, Cirencester Beeches, Cirencester Chesterton, Cirencester Park, Cirencester Stratton-Whiteway, Cirencester Watermoor, Ermin, Fairford, Fosseridge, Grumbolds Ash, Hampton, Kempsford-Lechlade, Moreton-in-Marsh, Northleach, Rissingtons, Riversmeet, Sandywell, Tetbury, Thames Head, Three Rivers, Water Park. Stroud District Council: Kingswood, Minchinhampton, Wotton-under-Edge.

2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain Gloucestershire's constituencies for the 2010 election, making minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. Although the changes were minor, the Cotswold constituency was renamed The Cotswolds.

Name	Boundaries 1997-2010	Boundaries 2010–present
Cheltenham BC Cotswold CC / The Cotswolds CC Forest of Dean CC Gloucester BC Stroud CC Tewkesbury CC	Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire	Proposed Revision

Proposed boundary changes

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021. Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission had proposed that Gloucestershire be combined with Wiltshire as a sub-region of the South West Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of South Cotswolds, resulting in a major reconfiguration of existing constituency of The Cotswolds, which would be renamed North Cotswolds.

The following seats are proposed:

Containing electoral wards from Cheltenham

• Cheltenham
• Tewkesbury (part)

Containing electoral wards in Cotswold

• North Cotswolds (part)
• South Cotswolds (part also in Witshire)

Containing electoral wards in Forest of Dean

• Forest of Dean (part)

Containing wards in Gloucester

• Gloucester
• Tewkesbury (part)

Containing wards in Stroud

• North Cotswolds (part)
• South Cotswolds (part)
• Stroud

Containing wards in Tewkesbury

• Forest of Dean (part)
• North Cotswolds (part)
• Tewkesbury (part)

Current Name	Boundaries 2010-present	Proposed Name	Proposed boundaries
Cheltenham BC Cotswold CC / The Cotswolds CC Forest of Dean CC Gloucester BC Stroud CC Tewkesbury CC	Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire	Cheltenham BC North Cotswolds CC Forest of Dean CC Gloucester BC Stroud CC Tewkesbury CC	Proposed Revision

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Gloucestershire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	191,119	54.2%	1.3%	6	1
Labour	80,776	22.9%	5.8%	0	1
Liberal Democrats	60,431	17.1%	3.0%	0	0
Greens	17,116	4.9%	2.7%	0	0
Brexit	1,085	0.3%	new	0	0
Others	2,315	0.7%	1.5%	0	0
Total	352,842	100.0		6

Percentage votes

Note that before 1983 Gloucestershire covered a wider and much more populous area than it does today, including the north of what became Avon and the city of Bristol.

Election year	1922	1924	1929	1931	1945	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	1966	1970	1974 (F)	1974 (O)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative1	35.5	39.8	31.6	59.9	36.9	40.2	47.8	45.46	49.0	43.72	44.4	48.6	39.8	40.2	47.8	50.7	50.4	47.4	39.4	40.9	41.7	44.8	49.2	52.9	54.2
Labour	30.6	35.0	39.7	31.6	51.6	46.9	51.0	45.42	43.6	43.64	48.7	42.4	35.4	38.2	34.9	16.7	20.8	23.1	33.9	33.7	29.3	21.0	21.0	28.7	22.9
Liberal Democrat2	15.8	25.2	25.5	8.5	11.5	10.8	1.2	1.7	7.3	11.3	6.6	8.9	24.2	21.1	16.4	32.1	28.7	28.3	22.5	21.9	23.3	28.7	13.4	14.1	17.1
Green Party		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	*	*	1.4	4.4	2.2	4.9
UKIP		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	3.6	11.6	1.8	*
Brexit Party		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3
Other	18.1	-	3.2	-	6.2	2.1	-	7.4	-	1.4	0.4	0.04	0.6	0.4	0.9	0.4	.01	1.2	4.2	3.5	5.7	0.6	0.3	0.3	0.6

¹including National Liberal

²1950-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Accurate vote percentages cannot be obtained for the elections of 1918, 1923 and 1935 because at least one candidate stood unopposed.

Seats

Election year	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	1966	1970	1974 (F)	1974 (O)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative1	5	5	4	7	7	5	8	7	6	9	5	5	4	2	2	3	5	6	5	6
Labour	7	7	7	5	5	7	4	5	6	3	0	0	0	3	3	2	0	0	1	0
Liberal Democrat2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0
Speaker			1
Total	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

¹including National Liberal

²1950-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

1885-1910

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1918-1945

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  1918
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  1924
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  1929
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  1935
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  1945

1950-1979

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1983-present

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Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1906 (11 seats)

  Conservative   Liberal   Liberal Unionist

Constituency	1885	1886	87	90	1892	92	93	95	1895	1900
Bristol East	Cossham			Weston				Wills		Hobhouse
Bristol North	Fry	→			Townsend				Fry	Wills
Bristol South	Weston	Hill								Long
Bristol West	M. E. Hicks-Beach
Cheltenham	Agg-Gardner								Russell	Agg-Gardner
Cirencester	Winterbotham	→			→	Chester-Master	Lawson		Bathurst
Forest of Dean	Blake		Samuelson		Dilke
Gloucester	Robinson								Monk	Rea
Stroud	Brand	Holloway			Jones				Cripps	Allen
Tewkesbury	Yorke	Dorington
Thornbury	Howard	Plunkett			Colston

1906 to 1918 (11 seats)

  Conservative   Liberal

Constituency	1906	Jan 1910	Dec 1910	11	16
Bristol East	Hobhouse
Bristol North	Birrell
Bristol South	Davies
Bristol West	Gibbs
Cheltenham	Sears	Ponsonby	Mathias	Agg-Gardner
Cirencester	Essex	Bathurst
Forest of Dean	Dilke			Webb
Gloucester	Rea	Terrell
Stroud	Allen
Tewkesbury	M. H. Hicks Beach				W. F. Hicks-Beach
Thornbury	Rendall

1918 to 1950 (11 seats)

  Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23)   Conservative   Independent Conservative   Independent Labour   Independent National   Labour   Liberal   National Labour   National Liberal (1931-68)

Constituency	1918	1922	1923	1924	25	28	1929	31	1931	1935	36	37	39	43	1945
Bristol Central	Inskip						Alpass		A. Apsley					V. Apsley	Awbery
Bristol East	Britton	Morris	Baker					Cripps					→		→
Bristol North	Gange	C. Guest	Ayles	F. Guest			Ayles		Bernays		→				Coldrick
Bristol South	Davies	Rees	→				Walkden		Lindsay	Walkden					Wilkins
Bristol West	Gibbs					Culverwell									Stanley
Cheltenham	Agg-Gardner					Preston						Lipson			→
Cirencester & Tewkesbury	Davies						Morrison
Forest of Dean	Wignall				Purcell		Vaughan		Worthington	Price
Gloucester	Bruton		Horlick				Boyce								Turner-Samuels
Stroud	Lister	Tubbs	F. Guest	Nelson				Perkins							Parkin
Thornbury	Rendall	Woodcock	Rendall	Gunston											Alpass

1950 to 1983 (12 seats)

  Conservative   Labour   National Liberal (1931-68)   Speaker

Constituency	1950	50	51	51	51	55	57	1959	61	63	1964	1966	1970	Feb 74	Oct 74	1979
Bristol Central	Awbery										Palmer
Bristol North East	Coldrick							Hopkins				Dobson	Adley	Palmer
Bristol North West	Braithwaite					Boyd		McLaren				Ellis	McLaren		Thomas	Colvin
Bristol South	Wilkins												Cocks
Bristol South East	Cripps	Benn							St Clair	Benn
Bristol West	Stanley		Monckton				Cooke									Waldegrave
Cheltenham	W. W. Hicks-Beach										Dodds-Parker				Irving
Cirencester and Tewkesbury	Morrison				→			Ridley
Gloucester	Turner-Samuels						Diamond						Oppenheim
Gloucestershire South	Crosland					Corfield								Cope
Gloucestershire West	Price							Loughlin							Watkinson	Marland
Stroud & Thornbury / Stroud ('55)	Perkins					Kershaw
Kingswood														Walker		Aspinwall

1983 to 2010 (5, then 6 seats)

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal Democrats

Constituency	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005
Cheltenham	Irving		Jones			Horwood
Cirencester & Tewkesbury / Tewkesbury (1997)	Ridley		Clifton-Brown	Robertson
Gloucester	Oppenheim	French		Kingham	Dhanda
Stroud	Kershaw	Knapman		Drew
West Gloucestershire / Forest of Dean (1997)	Marland			Organ		Harper
Cotswold				Clifton-Brown

2010 to present (6, then 6.5 seats)

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal Democrats

Constituency	2010	2015	2017	2019	2024
Cheltenham	Horwood	Chalk			Wilkinson
The Cotswolds* / North Cotswolds (2024)	Clifton-Brown
Forest of Dean	Harper				Bishop
Gloucester	Graham				McIntyre
Stroud	Carmichael		Drew	Baillie	Opher
Tewkesbury	Robertson				Thomas

*in 2024 half of this seat was transferred to the new seat of South Cotswolds, slightly more than half of which is in Wiltshire

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Avon for divisions in South Gloucestershire and Bristol.
• List of constituencies in South West England