- Cirencester and Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)
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Cirencester and Tewkesbury Former County constituency for the House of Commons County Gloucestershire Major settlements Cirencester, Tewkesbury 1918–1997 Number of members One Replaced by Cotswold
TewkesburyCirencester and Tewkesbury was a parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1997 general election when it was partly replaced by the new constituencies of Cotswold and Tewkesbury.
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History
Boundaries
Members of Parliament
Election Member[1] Party 1918 Sir Thomas Davies Conservative 1929 William Morrison Conservative then Speaker 1959 Nicholas Ridley Conservative 1992 Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Conservative 1997 constituency abolished Elections
Elections in the 1990s
General Election 1992: Cirencester and Tewkesbury[2] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Geoffrey Clifton-Brown 40,258 55.6 +0.2 Liberal Democrat EJ Weston 24,200 33.4 −2.6 Labour TA Page 7,262 10.0 +1.9 Natural Law R Clayton 449 0.6 +0.6 Independent PA Trice-Rolph 287 0.4 +0.4 Majority 16,058 22.2 +2.8 Turnout 72,456 82.0 +4.0 Conservative hold Swing +1.4 See also
Notes and references
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.
Sources
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)
Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded by
HexhamConstituency represented by the Speaker
1951–1959Succeeded by
Cities of London and WestminsterCategories:- Parliamentary constituencies in South West England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1997
- Politics of Gloucestershire
- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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