South Worcestershire (UK Parliament constituency)
South Worcestershire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Worcestershire |
1950–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | West Worcestershire, Mid Worcestershire |
South Worcestershire was a parliamentary constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.
Contents
History
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Boundaries
1950-1983: The Municipal Borough of Evesham, the Urban District of Malvern, and the Rural Districts of Evesham, Pershore, and Upton-upon-Severn.
1983-1997: The District of Malvern Hills wards of Chase, Kempsey, Langland, Link, Longdon, Morton, Powyke, Priory, Ripple, The Hanleys, Trinity, Upton-upon-Severn, Wells, and West, and the District of Wychavon wards of Badsey, Bredon, Bretforton and Offenham, Broadway, Eckington, Elmley Castle, Evesham East, Evesham Hampton, Evesham North, Evesham South, Evesham West, Fladbury, Harvington and Norton, Honeybourne and Pebworth, Pershore Holy Cross, Pershore St Andrew's, Somerville, South Bredon Hill, The Littletons, and Wickhamford.
The main settlements in the seat were Great Malvern, Pershore, and the market town of Evesham. At the 1997 general election, Great Malvern and Pershore were transferred to the new seat of West Worcestershire and Evesham was transferred to the redrawn seat of Mid Worcestershire.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | Notes | |
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1950 | Rupert de la Bère | Conservative | Previously MP for Evesham from 1935 | |
1955 | Peter Agnew | Conservative | ||
1966 | Gerald Nabarro | Conservative | Died in office November 1973; no by-election held | |
Feb 1974 | Michael Spicer | Conservative | ||
1997 | constituency abolished: see Mid Worcestershire & West Worcestershire |
Elections
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rupert de la Bère | 26948 | |||
Labour | John Patrick Tennyson Hopwood | 15668 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rupert de la Bère | 27229 | |||
Labour | John Patrick Tennyson Hopwood | 14434 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Garnett Agnew | 26811 | |||
Labour | Eric L J Thorne | 13831 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Peter Garnett Agnew | 25824 | |||
Labour | David W Young | 10884 | |||
Liberal | Dr. Emrys Hilary L Harries | 6890 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Peter Garnett Agnew | 23740 | |||
Liberal | Stephen Patrick William Drewer | 11503 | |||
Labour | Anthony J Batchelor | 11137 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kenneth A Gulleford | 13114 | |||
Conservative | Sir Gerald David Nunes Nabarro | 24198 | |||
Liberal | Robin G Otter | 9476 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Gerald David Nunes Nabarro | 30,648 | 60.39 | ||
Labour | Adrian Edward Bailey | 12,839 | 25.30 | ||
Liberal | John C Hall | 7,262 | 14.31 | ||
Majority | 17,809 | 35.09 | |||
Turnout | 70,395 | 72.09 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Spicer | 34,792 | 54.1 | -1.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | PJ Chandler | 18,641 | 29.0 | -2.9 | |
Labour | N Knowles | 9,727 | 15.1 | +4.2 | |
Green | GHM Woodford | 1,178 | 1.8 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 16,151 | 25.1 | +1.7 | ||
Turnout | 64,338 | 80.3 | +4.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.9 |
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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