South Gloucestershire (UK Parliament constituency)

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South Gloucestershire
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
SouthGloucestershire1974Constituency.svg
South Gloucestershire, showing boundaries used from 1974-1983
1950–1983
Seatsone
Created from Stroud and Thornbury
Replaced by Northavon, Bristol North West, Stroud [1]

South Gloucestershire, [2] [3] also known as Gloucestershire South, [4] was a parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. It had three different sets of boundaries during its existence, and elected a new MP on each one of those occasions.

Boundaries

1950–1955: The Urban Districts of Kingswood and Mangotsfield, and the Rural Districts of Sodbury and Warmley.

1955–1974: The Rural Districts of Sodbury, Thornbury, and Warmley. Thornbury Rural District was added to the seat from the abolished Stroud and Thornbury constituency. [5]

1974–1983: The Rural Districts of Sodbury and Thornbury. [6] Warmley Rural District was transferred to the new Kingswood constituency.

Predecessor and successor constituencies

From 1885 to 1950 much of the area of the constituency was represented by the Thornbury constituency, [7] and from 1950 to 1955 by Stroud and Thornbury. [8]

When the constituency was abolished in 1983, 80.54% of it was transferred to the new constituency of Northavon, 14.75% to the redrawn Bristol North West and 4.70% to the redrawn Stroud. [1]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1950 Anthony Crosland Labour
1955 Sir Frederick Corfield Conservative
Feb 1974 John Cope Conservative
1983 constituency abolished: see Northavon

Elections

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: South Gloucestershire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Cope 35,627 51.2 +9.2
Labour MK Mullins20,46529.4−5.8
Liberal George Conrad12,85018.5−4.3
Ecology David Kerridge6951.0New
Majority15,16221.8+15.0
Turnout 69,63782.1+2.5
Registered electors 84,867+6.9
Conservative hold Swing +7.4
General election October 1974: South Gloucestershire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Cope 26,581 42.0 +0.2
Labour Oonagh McDonald 22,23535.2+3.2
Liberal DC Short14,41222.8−3.4
Majority4,3466.8−3.0
Turnout 63,22879.6−4.2
Registered electors 79,419+0.8
Conservative hold Swing -1.5
General election February 1974: South Gloucestershire [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Cope 27,602 41.8 −10.5
Labour Oonagh McDonald 21,14332.0−4.5
Liberal DC Short17,27626.2+15.0
Majority6,4599.8−6.1
Turnout 66,02183.8+5.6
Registered electors 78,766+9.6
Conservative hold Swing -3.0
General election 1970: South Gloucestershire [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick Corfield 35,045 50.9 +5.7
Labour Michael George Dalling26,06737.9−5.0
Liberal Anthony Lambert7,68011.2−0.7
Majority8,97813.0+10.7
Turnout 68,79278.6−5.8
Registered electors 87,503+18.2
Conservative hold Swing +5.4

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: South Gloucestershire [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick Corfield 28,224 45.2 −0.6
Labour Michael Cocks 26,80042.9+3.5
Liberal Eric Cleaton Hart7,42111.9−3.0
Majority1,4242.3−4.1
Turnout 62,44584.4+0.2
Registered electors 74,023+7.6
Conservative hold Swing -2.1
General election 1964: South Gloucestershire [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick Corfield 26,504 45.8 −9.0
Labour Michael Cocks 22,79039.4−5.8
Liberal Brian S Sherriff8,61114.9New
Majority3,7146.4−3.2
Turnout 57,90584.2+0.5
Registered electors 68,781+20.6
Conservative hold Swing -1.6

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: South Gloucestershire [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick Corfield 26,168 54.8 +2.7
Labour Joseph Holland21,56745.2−2.8
Majority4,6019.6+4.9
Turnout 47,73583.7+2.0
Registered electors 57,026+11.5
Conservative hold Swing +2.8
General election 1955: South Gloucestershire [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick Corfield 21,760 52.1 +7.4
Labour Edward Bishop 20,03447.4−7.4
Majority1,7264.7N/A
Turnout 41,79481.7−4.6
Registered electors 51,166−12.2
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +7.4
General election 1951: South Gloucestershire [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Anthony Crosland 27,808 55.3 +6.5
Conservative Marjorie Hickling22,47044.7+8.1
Majority5,33810.6−1.6
Turnout 50,27886.2−0.7
Registered electors 58,296+1.1
Labour hold Swing -0.8
General election 1950: South Gloucestershire [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Anthony Crosland 24,458 48.8
Conservative B. Davidson18,32036.6
Liberal Stafford Vaughan Stepney Howard7,34214.6
Majority6,13812.2
Turnout 50,12086.9
Registered electors 57,689
Labour win (new seat)

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  2. ↑ "House of Commons debates: Members Sworn". Hansard. 870. 7 March 1974. Retrieved 10 May 2016.John Cope sworn in for "South Gloucestershire"
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  5. ↑ REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES), Hansard, 16 December 1954
  6. ↑ Hansard, 14 July 1969
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  9. ↑ Percentage change and swing for February 1974 is calculated relative to the BBC notional 1970 constituency result, not actual 1970 result. Notional 1970 results were rounded to the nearest hundred. Constituency data for 1974-83 including 1970 notionals , retrieved 18 July 2017
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