The county of Gloucestershire is divided into 7 parliamentary constituencies: 2 borough constituencies and 5 county constituencies. [nb 1]
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheltenham BC | 75,292 | 7,210 | Max Wilkinson ¤ | Alex Chalk † | 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, Up Hatherley, Warden Hill. |  | ||
| Forest of Dean CC | 71,510 | 278 | Matt Bishop ‡ | Mark Harper † | Forest of Dean District Council: Berry Hill, Bream, Cinderford East, Cinderford West, Coleford, Dymock, Hartpury & Redmarley, Longhope & Huntley, Lydbrook, Lyndey East, Lyndey North, Lydney West & Aylburton, Mitcheldean, Ruardean & Drybrook, Newent & Taynton, Newland & Sling, Newnham, Pillowell, Ruspidge, St. Briavels, Tidenham, Westbury-on-Severn. Tewkesbury Borough Council: Highnam with Haw Bridge. |  | ||
| Gloucester BC | 76,695 | 3,431 | Alex McIntyre ‡ | Richard Graham † | Gloucester City Council: Abbeydale, Abbeymead, Barnwood, Barton & Tredworth, Coney Hill, Grange, Hucclecote, Kingsholm & Wotton, Kingsway, Matson & Robinswood, Moreland, Podsmead, Quedgeley Fieldcourt, Quedgeley Severn Vale, Tuffley, Westgate. |  | ||
| North Cotswolds CC | 70,915 | 3,357 | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown † | Paul Hodgkinson ¤ | Cotswold District Council: Blockley, Bourton Vale, Bourton Village, Campden & Vale, Chedworth & Churn Valley, Coln Valley, Ermin, Fosseridge, Moreton East, Moreton West, Northleach, Sandywell, Stow, The Rissingtons. Stroud District Council: Bisley, Hardwicke, Minchinhampton, Painswick & Upton. Tewkesbury District Council: Badgeworth, Brockworth East, Brockworth West, Churchdown Brookfield with Hucclecote, Churchdown St. Johns, Shurdington. |  | ||
| South Cotswolds CC | 72,865 | 4,973 | Roz Savage ¤ | James Gray † | Cotswold District Council: Abbey, Chesterton, Fairford North, Four Acres, Grumbolds Ash with Avening, Kemble, Lechlade, Kempsford & Fairford South, New Mills, Siddington & Cerney Rural, South Cerney Village, St. Michael's, Stratton, Tetbury East & Rural, Tetbury Town, Tetbury with Upton, The Ampneys and Hampton, The Beeches, Watermoor. Stroud District Council: Kingswood. Wiltshire Council: Brinkworth, By Brook, Cricklade & Latton, Kington, Malmesbury, Minety, Purton, Sherston. |  | ||
| Stroud CC | 76,249 | 11,411 | Simon Opher ‡ | Siobhan Baillie † | Stroud District Council: Amberley and Woodchester, Berkeley Vale, Cainscross, Cam East, Cam West, Chalford, Coaley & Uley, Dursley, Nailsworth, Randwick, Whiteshill & Ruscombe, Rodborough, Severn, Stonehouse, Stroud Central, Stroud Farmhill & Paganhill, Stroud Slade, Stroud Trinity, Stroud Uplands, Stroud Valley, The Stanleys, Thrupp, Wotton-under-Edge. |  | ||
| Tewkesbury CC | 72,426 | 6,262 | Cameron Thomas ¤ | Laurence Robertson † | Cheltenham Borough Council: Prestbury, Springbank, Swindon Village. Gloucester City Council: Elmbridge, Longstevens. Tewkesbury Borough Council: Cleeve Grange, Cleeve Hill, Cleeve St. Michael's, Cleeve West, Innsworth, Isbourne, Northway, Severn Vale North, Severn Vale South, Tewkesbury East, Tewkesbury North & Twyning, Tewkesbury South, Winchcombe. |  | ||
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Gloucestershire with Wiltshire as a sub-region of the South West Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of South Cotswolds, resulting in a major reconfiguration of the former The Cotswolds constituency, which would be renamed North Cotswolds. [5] [6] [7] [8] These changes came into effect for the 2024 general election.
The following seats resulted from the boundary review:
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
| Current Name | Boundaries 2010-2024 | Proposed Name | Boundaries 2024-present |
|---|---|---|---|
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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 2010–2024 |
|---|---|---|
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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 2024 general election were as follows: [nb 2] [2]
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 111,103 | 31.8% |  22.4% | 1 | 5 |
| Liberal Democrat | 93,112 | 26.6 |  9.5% | 3 | 3 |
| Labour | 77,973 | 22.3% | 0.6% | 3 | 3 |
| Reform | 39,478 | 11.3% | 11.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Green | 23,559 | 6.7% | 1.8 | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 4,399 | 1.3% | 0.6% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 349,624 | 100.0 | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 31.8 |
| 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 | 26.6 |
| 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 | 22.3 |
| Reform 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.3 | 11.3 | |
| Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 1.4 | 4.4 | 2.2 | 4.9 | 6.7 | |
| UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 3.6 | 11.6 | 1.8 | * | * | |
| 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 | 1.3 |
1including National Liberal
21950-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
3 As the Brexit Party in 2019
* 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 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Liberal Democrat 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Conservative 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| Speaker | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol East | Cossham | Weston | Wills | Hobhouse | ||||||
| Bristol North | Fry | → | Townsend | Fry | Wills | |||||
| Bristol South | Weston | Hill | Long | |||||||
| Bristol West | M. E. Hicks-Beach | |||||||||
| Cheltenham | Agg-Gardner | Russell | Agg-Gardner | |||||||
| Cirencester | Winterbotham | → | → | Chester-Master | Lawson | Bathurst | ||||
| Forest of Dean | Blake | Samuelson | Dilke | |||||||
| Gloucester | Robinson | Monk | Rea | |||||||
| Stroud | Brand | Holloway | Jones | Cripps | Allen | |||||
| Tewkesbury | Yorke | Dorington | ||||||||
| Thornbury | Howard | Plunkett | Colston | |||||||
| Constituency | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol East | Hobhouse | ||||
| Bristol North | Birrell | ||||
| Bristol South | Davies | ||||
| Bristol West | Gibbs | ||||
| Cheltenham | Sears | Ponsonby | Mathias | Agg-Gardner | |
| Cirencester | Essex | Bathurst | |||
| Forest of Dean | Dilke | Webb | |||
| Gloucester | Rea | Terrell | |||
| Stroud | Allen | ||||
| Tewkesbury | M. H. Hicks Beach | W. F. Hicks-Beach | |||
| Thornbury | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 & 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
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheltenham | Irving | Jones | Horwood | |||
| Cirencester & Tewkesbury / Tewkesbury (1997) | Ridley | Clifton-Brown | Robertson | |||
| Gloucester | Oppenheim | French | Kingham | Dhanda | ||
| Stroud | Kershaw | Knapman | Drew | |||
| West Gloucestershire / Forest of Dean (1997) | Marland | Organ | Harper | |||
| Cotswold | Clifton-Brown | |||||
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
| Constituency | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheltenham | Horwood | Chalk | Wilkinson | ||
| The Cotswolds / North Cotswolds (2024) | Clifton-Brown | ||||
| Forest of Dean | Harper | Bishop | |||
| Gloucester | Graham | McIntyre | |||
| Stroud | Carmichael | Drew | Baillie | Opher | |
| Tewkesbury | Robertson | Thomas | |||
| South Cotswolds 1 | Savage | ||||
1Just under half this seat's electorate lies in Wiltshire. [10]
The region of South West England is divided into 58 parliamentary constituencies, which are made up of 16 borough constituencies and 42 county constituencies. Since the general election of July 2024, 24 are represented by Labour MPs, 22 by Liberal Democrat MPs, 11 by Conservative MPs, and 1 by a Green MP.