South Gloucestershire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1950–1983 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | 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.
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.
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.
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]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1950 | Anthony Crosland | Labour | |
1955 | Sir Frederick Corfield | Conservative | |
Feb 1974 | John Cope | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Northavon |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Cope | 35,627 | 51.2 | +9.2 | |
Labour | MK Mullins | 20,465 | 29.4 | -5.8 | |
Liberal | George Conrad | 12,850 | 18.5 | -4.3 | |
Ecology | David Kerridge | 695 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 15,162 | 21.8 | +15.0 | ||
Turnout | 69,637 | 82.1 | +2.5 | ||
Registered electors | 84,867 | +6.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +7.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Cope | 26,581 | 42.0 | +0.2 | |
Labour | Oonagh McDonald | 22,235 | 35.2 | +3.2 | |
Liberal | DC Short | 14,412 | 22.8 | -3.4 | |
Majority | 4,346 | 6.8 | -3.0 | ||
Turnout | 63,228 | 79.6 | -4.2 | ||
Registered electors | 79,419 | +0.8 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -1.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Cope | 27,602 | 41.8 | -10.5 | |
Labour | Oonagh McDonald | 21,143 | 32.0 | -4.5 | |
Liberal | DC Short | 17,276 | 26.2 | +15.0 | |
Majority | 6,459 | 9.8 | -6.1 | ||
Turnout | 66,021 | 83.8 | +5.6 | ||
Registered electors | 78,766 | +9.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -3.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Frederick Corfield | 35,045 | 50.9 | +5.7 | |
Labour | Michael George Dalling | 26,067 | 37.9 | -5.0 | |
Liberal | Anthony Lambert | 7,680 | 11.2 | -0.7 | |
Majority | 8,978 | 13.0 | +10.7 | ||
Turnout | 68,792 | 78.6 | -5.8 | ||
Registered electors | 87,503 | +18.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Corfield | 28,224 | 45.2 | -0.6 | |
Labour | Michael Cocks | 26,800 | 42.9 | +3.5 | |
Liberal | Eric Cleaton Hart | 7,421 | 11.9 | -3.0 | |
Majority | 1,424 | 2.3 | -4.1 | ||
Turnout | 62,445 | 84.4 | +0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 74,023 | +7.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Corfield | 26,504 | 45.8 | -9.0 | |
Labour | Michael Cocks | 22,790 | 39.4 | -5.8 | |
Liberal | Brian S Sherriff | 8,611 | 14.9 | New | |
Majority | 3,714 | 6.4 | -3.2 | ||
Turnout | 57,905 | 84.2 | +0.5 | ||
Registered electors | 68,781 | +20.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -1.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Corfield | 26,168 | 54.8 | +2.7 | |
Labour | Joseph Holland | 21,567 | 45.2 | -2.8 | |
Majority | 4,601 | 9.6 | +4.9 | ||
Turnout | 47,735 | 83.7 | +2.0 | ||
Registered electors | 57,026 | +11.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Corfield | 21,760 | 52.1 | +7.4 | |
Labour | Edward Bishop | 20,034 | 47.4 | -7.4 | |
Majority | 1,726 | 4.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 41,794 | 81.7 | -4.6 | ||
Registered electors | 51,166 | -12.2 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +7.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Anthony Crosland | 27,808 | 55.3 | +6.5 | |
Conservative | Marjorie Hickling | 22,470 | 44.7 | +8.1 | |
Majority | 5,338 | 10.6 | -4.0 | ||
Turnout | 50,278 | 86.2 | -0.6 | ||
Registered electors | 58,296 | +1.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Anthony Crosland | 24,458 | 48.8 | ||
Conservative | B. Davidson | 18,320 | 36.6 | ||
Liberal | Stafford Vaughan Stepney Howard | 7,342 | 14.6 | ||
Majority | 6,138 | 12.2 | |||
Turnout | 50,120 | 86.9 | |||
Registered electors | 57,689 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
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