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The county of Gloucestershire is divided into 6 Parliamentary constituencies - 2 Borough constituencies and 4 County constituencies.
Conservative † Labour ‡ Liberal Democrat ¤
Constituency [note 1] | Electorate [1] | Majority [2] [note 2] | Member of Parliament [2] | Nearest opposition [2] | Electoral wards [3] [4] | Map | ||
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Cheltenham BC | 81,044 | 981 | Alex Chalk † | Max Wilkinson ¤ | Cheltenham Borough Council: All Saints, Battledown, Benhall and The Reddings, Charlton Kings, Charlton Park, College, Hesters Way, Lansdown, Leckhampton, Oakley, Park, Pittville, St Mark's, St Paul's, St Peter's, Springbank, Up Hatherley, Warden Hill. | |||
Forest of Dean CC | 71,438 | 15,869 | Mark Harper † | Di Martin ‡ | Forest of Dean District Council: Alvington, Aylburton and West Lydney, Awre, Berry Hill, Blaisdon and Longhope, Bream, Bromesberrow and Dymock, Christchurch and English Bicknor, Churcham and Huntley, Cinderford East, Cinderford West, Coleford Central, Coleford East, Hartpury, Hewelsfield and Woolaston, Littledean and Ruspidge, Lydbrook and Ruardean, Lydney East, Lydney North, Mitcheldean and Drybrook, Newent Central, Newland and St Briavels, Newnham and Westbury, Oxenhall and Newent North East, Pillowell, Redmarley, Tibberton, Tidenham. Tewkesbury Borough Council: Highnam with Haw Bridge. | |||
Gloucester BC | 81,319 | 10,277 | Richard Graham † | Fran Boait ‡ | Gloucester City Council: Abbey, Barnwood, Barton and Tredworth, Elmbridge, Grange, Hucclecote, Kingsholm and Wotton, Matson and Robinswood, Moreland, Podsmead, Quedgeley Fieldcourt, Quedgeley Severn Vale, Tuffley, Westgate. | |||
Stroud CC | 84,537 | 3,840 | Siobhan Baillie † | David Drew ‡ | Stroud District Council: Amberley and Woodchester, Berkeley, Bisley, Cainscross, Cam East, Cam West, Central, Chalford, Coaley and Uley, Dursley, Eastington and Standish, Farmhill and Paganhill, Hardwicke, Nailsworth, Over Stroud, Painswick, Rodborough, Severn, Slade, Stonehouse, The Stanleys, Thrupp, Trinity, Uplands, Upton St Leonards, Vale, Valley. | |||
Tewkesbury CC | 83,958 | 22,410 | Laurence Robertson † | Alex Hegenbarth ¤ | Cheltenham Borough Council: Prestbury, Swindon Village. Gloucester City Council: Longlevens. Tewkesbury Borough Council: 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, Winchcombe. | |||
The Cotswolds CC | 81,939 | 20,214 | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown † | Liz Webster ¤ | Cotswold District Council: Ampney-Coln, Avening, Beacon-Stow, Blockley, Bourton-on-the-Water, Campden-Vale, Chedworth, Churn Valley, Cirencester Beeches, Cirencester Chesterton, Cirencester Park, Cirencester Stratton-Whiteway, Cirencester Watermoor, Ermin, Fairford, Fosseridge, Grumbolds Ash, Hampton, Kempsford-Lechlade, Moreton-in-Marsh, Northleach, Rissingtons, Riversmeet, Sandywell, Tetbury, Thames Head, Three Rivers, Water Park. Stroud District Council: Kingswood, Minchinhampton, Wotton-under-Edge. | |||
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain Gloucestershire's constituencies for the 2010 election, making minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. Although the changes were minor, the Cotswold constituency was renamed The Cotswolds.
Name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Boundaries 2010–present |
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See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021 and published their initial proposals on 8 June 2021. [5]
The commission has proposed that Gloucestershire be combined with Wiltshire as a sub-region of the South West Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of Cirencester and North Wiltshire, resulting in a major reconfiguration of The Cotswolds. [6] [7] [8] The following seats are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Cheltenham
Containing electoral wards in Cotswold
Containing electoral wards in Forest of Dean
Containing wards in Gloucester
Containing wards in Stroud
Containing wards in Tewkesbury
Revised proposals will be published in late 2022 and the final report will be submitted in June 2023.
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019 [9]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Gloucestershire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
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Conservative | 191,119 | 54.2% | 1.3% | 6 | 1 |
Labour | 80,776 | 22.9% | 5.8% | 0 | 1 |
Liberal Democrats | 60,431 | 17.1% | 3.0% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 17,116 | 4.9% | 2.7% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 1,085 | 0.3% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 2,315 | 0.7% | 1.5% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 352,842 | 100.0 | 6 |
Note that before 1983 Gloucestershire covered a wider and much more populous area than it does today, including the north of what became Avon and the city of Bristol.
Election year | 1922 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (F) | 1974 (O) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Conservative 1 | 35.5 | 39.8 | 31.6 | 59.9 | 36.9 | 40.2 | 47.8 | 45.46 | 49.0 | 43.72 | 44.4 | 48.6 | 39.8 | 40.2 | 47.8 | 50.7 | 50.4 | 47.4 | 39.4 | 40.9 | 41.7 | 44.8 | 49.2 | 52.9 | 54.2 |
Labour | 30.6 | 35.0 | 39.7 | 31.6 | 51.6 | 46.9 | 51.0 | 45.42 | 43.6 | 43.64 | 48.7 | 42.4 | 35.4 | 38.2 | 34.9 | 16.7 | 20.8 | 23.1 | 33.9 | 33.7 | 29.3 | 21.0 | 21.0 | 28.7 | 22.9 |
Liberal Democrat 2 | 15.8 | 25.2 | 25.5 | 8.5 | 11.5 | 10.8 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 7.3 | 11.3 | 6.6 | 8.9 | 24.2 | 21.1 | 16.4 | 32.1 | 28.7 | 28.3 | 22.5 | 21.9 | 23.3 | 28.7 | 13.4 | 14.1 | 17.1 |
Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 1.4 | 4.4 | 2.2 | 4.9 | |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 3.6 | 11.6 | 1.8 | * | |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.3 | |
Other | 18.1 | - | 3.2 | - | 6.2 | 2.1 | - | 7.4 | - | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.04 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | .01 | 1.2 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 5.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
1including National Liberal
21950-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Accurate vote percentages cannot be obtained for the elections of 1918, 1923 and 1935 because at least one candidate stood unopposed.
Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (F) | 1974 (O) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Conservative 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
Labour | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Liberal Democrat 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Speaker | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
Total | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
1including National Liberal
21950-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 87 | 90 | 1892 | 92 | 93 | 95 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 16 |
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Bristol East | Cossham | Weston | Wills | Hobhouse | |||||||||||
Bristol North | Fry | → | Townsend | Fry | Wills | Birrell | |||||||||
Bristol South | Weston | Hill | Long | Davies | |||||||||||
Bristol West | M. E. Hicks-Beach | Gibbs | |||||||||||||
Cheltenham | Agg-Gardner | Russell | Agg-Gardner | Sears | Ponsonby | Mathias | Agg-Gardner | ||||||||
Cirencester | Winterbotham | → | → | Chester-Master | Lawson | Bathurst | Essex | Bathurst | |||||||
Forest of Dean | Blake | Samuelson | Dilke | Webb | |||||||||||
Gloucester | Robinson | Monk | Rea | Terrell | |||||||||||
Stroud | Brand | Holloway | Jones | Cripps | Allen | ||||||||||
Tewkesbury | Yorke | Dorington | M. H. Hicks Beach | W. F. Hicks-Beach | |||||||||||
Thornbury | Howard | Plunkett | Colston | Rendall |
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Independent Conservative Independent Labour Independent National Labour Liberal National Labour National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 25 | 28 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 1935 | 36 | 37 | 39 | 43 | 1945 |
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Bristol Central | Inskip | Alpass | A. Apsley | V. Apsley | Awbery | ||||||||||
Bristol East | Britton | Morris | Baker | Cripps | → | → | |||||||||
Bristol North | Gange | C. Guest | Ayles | F. Guest | Ayles | Bernays | → | Coldrick | |||||||
Bristol South | Davies | Rees | → | Walkden | Lindsay | Walkden | Wilkins | ||||||||
Bristol West | Gibbs | Culverwell | Stanley | ||||||||||||
Cheltenham | Agg-Gardner | Preston | Lipson | → | |||||||||||
Cirencester and Tewkesbury | Davies | Morrison | |||||||||||||
Forest of Dean | Wignall | Purcell | Vaughan | Worthington | Price | ||||||||||
Gloucester | Bruton | Horlick | Boyce | Turner-Samuels | |||||||||||
Stroud | Lister | Tubbs | F. Guest | Nelson | Perkins | Parkin | |||||||||
Thornbury | Rendall | Woodcock | Rendall | Gunston | Alpass |
Conservative Labour National Liberal (1931-68) Speaker
Constituency | 1950 | 50 | 51 | 1951 | 51 | 1955 | 57 | 1959 | 61 | 63 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
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Bristol Central | Awbery | Palmer | ||||||||||||||
Bristol North East | Coldrick | Hopkins | Dobson | Adley | Palmer | |||||||||||
Bristol North West | Braithwaite | Boyd | McLaren | Ellis | McLaren | Thomas | Colvin | |||||||||
Bristol South | Wilkins | Cocks | ||||||||||||||
Bristol South East | Cripps | Benn | St Clair | Benn | ||||||||||||
Bristol West | Stanley | Monckton | Cooke | Waldegrave | ||||||||||||
Cheltenham | W. W. Hicks-Beach | Dodds-Parker | Irving | |||||||||||||
Cirencester and Tewkesbury | Morrison | → | Ridley | |||||||||||||
Gloucester | Turner-Samuels | Diamond | Oppenheim | |||||||||||||
Gloucestershire South | Crosland | Corfield | Cope | |||||||||||||
Gloucestershire West | Price | Loughlin | Watkinson | Marland | ||||||||||||
Kingswood | Walker | Aspinwall | ||||||||||||||
Stroud & Thornbury / Stroud (1955) | Perkins | Kershaw |
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Cheltenham | Irving | Jones | Horwood | Chalk | ||||||
Cotswold / The Cotswolds (2010) | Clifton-Brown | |||||||||
West Gloucestershire / Forest of Dean (1997) | Marland | Organ | Harper | |||||||
Gloucester | Oppenheim | French | Kingham | Dhanda | Graham | |||||
Stroud | Kershaw | Knapman | Drew | Carmichael | Drew | Baillie | ||||
Cirencester and Tewkesbury / Tewkesbury (1997) | Ridley | Clifton-Brown | Robertson |
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