Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.
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Location of Gloucestershire within England.
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County | Gloucestershire |
Electorate | 77,206 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of parliament | Laurence Robertson (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Cirencester & Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and West Gloucestershire |
1610–1918 | |
Number of members | 1610–1868: Two 1868–1918: One |
Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South West England |
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]
Contents
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
- William Dowdeswell was Chancellor of the Exchequer for two years under Rockingham, and his short tenure of this position appears to have been a successful one, he being in Lecky's words a good financier, but nothing more. To general astonishment, he refused to abandon his friends and to take an office under The 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder"), who succeeded Rockingham in August 1766. Dowdeswell then led the Rockingham party in the House of Commons, taking an active part in debate until his death. In 1774 he warned MPs against passing the Boston Port Act, related to the later Boston Tea Party.
- Charles Hanbury-Tracy was heir to much of the Pontypool part the growing iron industry and served as the chairman of the commission of 1835 that commissioned the new Houses of Parliament and judged designs.
- After service for Tewkesbury Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp entered the Lords and then served in Cabinet positions under the earlier governments headed by Lord Salisbury, before the turn-of-the century third government.
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 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 |
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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
MPs 1868–1918
Election | Member[5] | Party | |
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1868 | William Edwin Price | Liberal | |
1880 by-election | Richard Martin | Liberal | |
1885 | John Yorke | Conservative | |
1886 | Sir John Dorington, Bt | Conservative | |
1906 | Hon. Michael Hicks Beach (Viscount Quenington from 1915) | Conservative | |
1916 by-election | William Frederick Hicks-Beach | Conservative | |
1918 | Constituency abolished |
MPs since 1997
Election | Member[5] | Party | |
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1997 | Laurence Robertson | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 30,176 | 54.5 | +7.3 | |
Labour | Ed Buxton | 8,204 | 14.6 | +3.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | 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] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 25,472 | 47.2 | -1.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | 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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 22,339 | 49.1 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | 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 | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 20,830 | 46.1 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Keir Dhillon | 12,167 | 26.9 | +0.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | 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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 23,859 | 45.8 | ||
Liberal Democrat | John Sewell | 14,625 | 28.1 | ||
Labour | Kelvin Tustin | 13,665 | 26.2 | ||
Majority | 9,234 | 17.7 | |||
Turnout | 76.2 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks Beach | 5,699 | 52.0 | -1.2 | |
Liberal | Robert Ashton Lister | 5,267 | 48.0 | +3.3 | |
Turnout | 10,966 | 83.4 | -3.1 | ||
Majority | 432 | 4.0 | -4.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.3 |
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See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Cannot have been Sir Robert Long Bt as stated by Williams as he was a Royalist
- ↑ of Castle Island, Ireland
- References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2010 post-revision map non-metropolitan areas and unitary authorities of England
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ W R Williams Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.tewkesbury.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=3537&p=0 19Jun2015
- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/tewkesbury/
- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/tewkesbury/
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- ↑ swing not useful as change of party order from previous election
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- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1885-1918
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)[self-published source][better source needed]
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Pages with broken file links
- Parliamentary constituencies in South West England
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1918
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1997
- Politics of Gloucestershire
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1610