Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Template:UK constituency infobox Tewkesbury is a 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.
The present constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the seats of Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Cheltenham & West Gloucestershire. Laurence Robertson of the Conservative Party has been the seat's MP since then.
Boundaries
As its name suggests, the constituency includes Tewkesbury, but other settlements include Twyning, Ashchurch, Bishop’s Cleeve, Winchcombe, Prestbury, Brockworth, Churchdown, Innsworth, Leckhampton, Up Hatherley and Warden Hill.
Leckhampton, Up Hatherley and Warden Hill leave the Tewkesbury constituency at the next General Election and go into Cheltenham, with Longlevens coming into the Tewkesbury constituency from Gloucester.
Members of Parliament
1614-1629
- Constituency created (1614)
| Parliament | First member | Second member | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addled Parliament (1614) | Sir Dudley Digges | 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 William Hicks | ||
| No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 | |||
1640-1868
1868-1918
| Election | Member | 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 Biddulph Martin | Liberal |
| 1885 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Reginald 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 (Viscount Quenington from 1915) | Conservative |
| 1916 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Frederick Hicks-Beach | Conservative |
| 1918 | Constituency abolished | ||
1997-present
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Constituency re-established | ||
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1997 | Laurence Robertson | Conservative |
| 2001 | |||
| 2005 | |||
Notes
- ^ 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
Election results
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||||
See also
References
- 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 Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
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