Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

UK constituency infobox
Name = Tewkesbury
Map1 = Tewkesbury
Map2 = Gloucestershire
Entity = Gloucestershire
Type = County
County = Gloucestershire
Year = 1614, 1997
MP = Laurence Robertson
Party = Conservative
EP = South West England

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.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

1614-1629

* "Constituency created" (1614)

1997-present

Notes

Election results

Election box begin
title=General Election 2005: TewkesburyElection box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Laurence Robertson
votes = 22,339
percentage = 49.1
change = +3.0Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Alistair Cameron
votes = 12,447
percentage = 27.4
change = +1.2Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Charles Mannan
votes = 9,179
percentage = 20.2
change = −6.7Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Robert Rendell
votes = 1,488
percentage = 3.3
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 9,892
percentage = 21.8
change = Election box turnout
votes = 45,453
percentage = 63.0
change = −0.7Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = +0.9

Election box begin
title=General Election 2001: TewkesburyElection box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Laurence Robertson
votes = 20,830
percentage = 46.1
change = +0.3Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Keir Dhillon
votes = 12,167
percentage = 26.9
change = +0.7Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Steve Martin
votes = 11,863
percentage = 26.2
change = -1.8Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Charles Vernall
votes = 335
percentage = 0.7
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 8,663
percentage = 19.2
change = Election box turnout
votes = 45,195
percentage = 63.7
change = -12.5Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

See also

* List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire

References

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*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) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
* "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)
*Rayment