| Tewkesbury County constituency |
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| Tewkesbury shown within Gloucestershire, and Gloucestershire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1614, 1997 |
| MP: | Laurence Robertson |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Gloucestershire |
| EP constituency: | 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.
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Boundaries
The present constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the seats of Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Cheltenham & West Gloucestershire.
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
Laurence Robertson of the Conservative Party has been the seat's MP since 1997.
1614-1629
- Constituency created (1614)
| Parliament | First member | Second member | |
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| 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
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper | ? | ||||
| November 1640 | Double return - election declared void [1] | |||||
| August 1641 | Sir Robert Cooke | Parliamentarian | Sir Edward Alford [2] | Royalist | ||
| 1641 | Edward Stephens | Parliamentarian | ||||
| August 1643 | Cooke died - seat left vacant | |||||
| 1645 | John Stephens | |||||
| December 1648 | Edward Stephens excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | |||||
| 1653 | Tewkesbury was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
| 1654 | Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper | Tewkesbury had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
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| 1656 | Francis White | |||||
| January 1659 | Edward Cooke | Robert Long | ||||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | (Sir) Henry Capell | Richard Dowdeswell | ||||
| 1673 | Sir Francis Russell | |||||
| 1685 | Richard Dowdeswell | |||||
| 1690 | Sir Henry Capell | |||||
| 1692 | Sir Francis Winnington | |||||
| 1698 | Charles Hancock | |||||
| 1701 | Edmund Bray | |||||
| 1708 | Henry Ireton | |||||
| 1710 | William Bromley | |||||
| 1712 | William Dowdeswell | |||||
| 1713 | Charles Dowdeswell | |||||
| 1714 | Anthony Lechmere | |||||
| 1717 | Nicholas Lechmere | |||||
| 1721 | The Viscount Gage | |||||
| 1722 | Brigadier George Reade | |||||
| 1734 | Robert Tracy | |||||
| 1741 | John Martin | |||||
| 1747 | William Dowdeswell | Whig | ||||
| 1754 | Nicolson Calvert | Whig | John Martin, junior | |||
| 1761 | Sir William Codrington | Tory | ||||
| 1774 | Joseph Martin | Whig | ||||
| 1776 | James Martin | Whig | ||||
| 1792 | Lieutenant-Colonel William Dowdeswell | Tory | ||||
| 1797 | Christopher Bethell Codrington | Tory | ||||
| 1807 | Charles Hanbury Tracy | Whig | ||||
| 1812 | John Edmund Dowdeswell | Tory | John Martin | Whig | ||
| January 1832 | Charles Hanbury Tracy | Whig | ||||
| December 1832 | John Martin | Whig | ||||
| 1835 | William Dowdeswell | Conservative | ||||
| 1837 | John Martin | Whig | ||||
| 1847 | Humphrey Brown | Whig | ||||
| 1857 | Hon. Frederick Lygon | Conservative | ||||
| 1859 | James Martin | Liberal | ||||
| 1864 | John Reginald Yorke | Conservative | ||||
| 1865 | William Edward Dowdeswell | Conservative | ||||
| 1866 | Sir Edmund Lechmere | Conservative | ||||
| 1868 | Representation reduced to one Member | |||||
1868-1918
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1868 | William Edwin Price | Liberal | |
| 1880 | Richard Biddulph Martin | Liberal | |
| 1885 | John Reginald Yorke | Conservative | |
| 1886 | Sir John Dorington | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Hon. Michael Hicks Beach (Viscount Quenington from 1915) | Conservative | |
| 1916 | William Frederick Hicks-Beach | Conservative | |
| 1918 | Constituency abolished | ||
1997-present
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1997 | Constituency re-established | ||
| 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
| General Election 2005: Tewkesbury | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| 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 | |||
| General Election 2001: Tewkesbury | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| 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 | ||||
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 Historical List of MPs
See also
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