Stroud (UK Parliament constituency)

Template:UK constituency infobox Stroud 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

Stroud lies south of Gloucester, between the two larger Gloucestershire rural constituencies of Cotswold and Forest of Dean. Though partially situated in the Cotswold hills, Stroud is both smaller in area and more industrialised than the neighbouring constituency of Cotswold.

Much of the constituency is rural in character. It is only through the sparsely populated belt across the middle of the constituency that one will see a scattered handful of urbanised villages including Caincross, Cam and Rodborough. The major market towns include Stroud itself, Dursley in the south of the constituency, and the smaller towns of Berkeley, Stonehouse and Nailsworth.

The geographical extent of the constituency coincides approximately with Stroud District.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1832–1885

Election	Member		Party	Member		Party
1832	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	David Ricardo (the younger)	Liberal	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	William Henry Hyett	Liberal
1833 by-election	rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	George Poulett Scrope	Liberal		William Henry Hyett	Liberal
1835	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|			Charles Richard Fox	Liberal
May 1835 by-election	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|			John Russell	Liberal
1841	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|			William Henry Stanton	Liberal
1852	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|			Lord Moreton	Liberal
1853 by-election	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|			Edward Horsman	Liberal
1867 by-election	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham	Liberal	Edward Horsman	Liberal
1868	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham	Liberal	Sebastian Stewart Dickinson	Liberal
Jan. 1874 by-election	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Edward Dorington	Conservative
1874^[1]	rowspan="1" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Walter John Stanton	Liberal
May 1874 by-election^[2]	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Edward Dorington	Conservative	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Alfred John Stanton	Liberal
July 1874 by-election^[3]	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Henry Robert Brand	Liberal
1875 by-election^[4]	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Samuel Stephens Marling	Liberal
1880	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Walter John Stanton	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Henry Robert Brand, later Viscount Hampden	Liberal

MPs since 1885

1885: Representation reduced to one member

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1885	Henry Robert Brand, later Viscount Hampden	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1886	George Holloway	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1892	David Brynmor Jones	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1895	Charles Alfred Cripps	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1900	Charles Peter Allen	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1918	Sir Robert Ashton Lister	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1922	Stanley William Tubbs	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1923	Frederick Edward Guest	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1924	Sir Frank Nelson	Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1931 by-election	Walter Perkins	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1945	Flt. Lt. Ben Parkin	Labour
1950		constituency renamed as "Stroud and Thornbury"
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1950	Sir Walter Perkins	Conservative
1955		constituency name reverted to "Stroud"
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1955	Sir Anthony Kershaw	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1987	Roger Knapman	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color" \|	1997	David Drew	Labour Co-operative

Election results

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Neil Carmichael
	Labour Co-op	David Drew
	Green	Martin Whiteside

General Election 2005: Stroud
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	David Drew	22,527	39.6	− 7.0
	Conservative	Neil Carmichael	22,177	39.0	+ 1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Hirst	8,026	14.1	+ 3.2
	Green	Martin Whiteside	3,056	5.4	+ 1.9
	UKIP	Edward Noble	1,089	1.9	+ 0.3
Majority			350	0.6	−8.8
Turnout			56875	71.3	+1.3
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

General Election 2001: Stroud
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	David Drew	25,685	46.6	+3.9
	Conservative	Neil Carmichael	20,646	37.4	−0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Janice Beasley	6,036	10.9	−4.5
	Green	Kevin Cranston	1,913	3.5	−0.5
	UKIP	Adrian Blake	895	1.6	N/A
Majority			5,039	9.2
Turnout			55,175	70.0	−8.8
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Stroud
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	David Drew	26,170	42.7
	Conservative	Roger Knapman	23,260	37.9
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Hodgkinson	9,502	15.5
	Green	J Marjoram	2,415	3.9
Majority			2,910	9.2	4.7
Turnout			61,347	79.2
	Labour Co-op gain from Conservative		Swing

References

^ The February 1874 general election in Stroud was declared void after a petition
^ The May 1874 by-election was held two elect two members, after results of the general election had been declared void. Two MPs were elected, but the election of Dorington was overturned on petition
^ The July 1874 by-election was held to elect a replacement for Dorington, whose victory at the May 1874 by-election had been declared void on petition
^ The February 1875 by-election was held to elect a replacement for Brand, whose victory at the July 1874 by-election had been declared void on petition.
^ Stroud, UKPollingReport

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

[1] The February 1874 general election in Stroud was declared void after a petition

[2] The May 1874 by-election was held two elect two members, after results of the general election had been declared void. Two MPs were elected, but the election of Dorington was overturned on petition

[3] The July 1874 by-election was held to elect a replacement for Dorington, whose victory at the May 1874 by-election had been declared void on petition

[4] The February 1875 by-election was held to elect a replacement for Brand, whose victory at the July 1874 by-election had been declared void on petition.

[5] Stroud, UKPollingReport

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