Stratford-on-Avon | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Warwickshire |
Electorate | 69,108 (December 2010) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1950 |
Member of Parliament | Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Warwick and Leamington and Rugby |
1885–1918 | |
Seats | One |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Created from | South Warwickshire |
Replaced by | Tamworth, Rugby and Warwick & Leamington |
Stratford-on-Avon is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Nadhim Zahawi, a member of the Conservative Party, [n 2] who briefly served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in mid-2022. The constituency is in Warwickshire; as its name suggests, it is centred on the town of Stratford-on-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, but also takes in the surrounding areas around the town, including the towns of Alcester and Henley-in-Arden.
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
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1885 | Lord William Compton | Liberal | |
1886 | Frederick Townsend | Conservative | |
1892 | Algernon Freeman-Mitford | Conservative | |
1895 | Victor Milward | Conservative | |
1901 by-election | Philip Foster | Conservative | |
1906 | Thomas Kincaid-Smith | Liberal | |
1909 by-election | Philip Foster | Conservative | |
1918 | Constituency abolished |
Election | Member [2] | Party | Notes | |
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1950 | John Profumo | Conservative | Secretary of State for War 1960–63; resigned | |
1963 by-election | Angus Maude | Conservative | ||
1983 | Alan Howarth | Conservative | ||
1995 | Labour | |||
1997 | John Maples | Conservative | Previously MP for Lewisham West 1983–92 | |
2010 | Nadhim Zahawi | Conservative | Chancellor of the Exchequer July–September 2022 |
The constituency consists primarily of agricultural land with relatively widely spaced rural villages which are now predominantly inhabited by commuters, [3] with its boundaries taking in the historic town of Stratford-on-Avon itself and the south and west of the Stratford-on-Avon local government district.
After Stratford itself the next largest settlements in the constituency are Studley and Alcester each with just under 5,000 electors.
Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 1.4% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . [4]
2010–present: The District of Stratford-on-Avon wards of Alcester, Aston Cantlow, Bardon, Bidford and Salford, Brailes, Claverdon, Ettington, Henley, Kinwarton, Long Compton, Quinton, Sambourne, Shipston, Snitterfield, Stratford Alveston, Stratford Avenue and New Town, Stratford Guild and Hathaway, Stratford Mount Pleasant, Studley, Tanworth, Tredington, Vale of the Red Horse, and Welford.
1997–2010: All the wards of the District of Stratford-on-Avon except the wards of Henley, Tanworth, and Tanworth Earlswood.
1983–1997: The District of Stratford-on-Avon.
1974–1983: As 1950 but with redrawn boundaries.
1950–1974: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, and the Rural Districts of Stratford-on-Avon, Alcester, Shipston-on-Stour, and Southam.
1885–1918: The Boroughs of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Leamington, the Sessional Divisions of Alcester, Brailes, Henley, Stratford, Snitterfield, and Warwick, and the part of the Sessional Division of Kenilworth in the Parliamentary Borough of Warwick and Leamington.
At the 2010 general election, following the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, this seat was reduced in size: a new constituency of Kenilworth and Southam was created, taking in much of the eastern half of the previous version of this constituency, along with parts of the abolished seat of Rugby and Kenilworth.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
Minor changes to align boundaries with those of wards in the District of Stratford-on-Avon.
Following a further local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023, [6] [7] the constituency will now comprise the following wards of the District of Stratford-on-Avon from the next general election:
Since its recreation in 1950, the seat has elected only Conservatives. The earliest member, John Profumo, was noted for his personal life scandal; another MP, Alan Howarth, served on the benches of the Labour Party for two years after crossing the floor in 1995.
With the exception of a relatively close 1963 by-election, the constituency has always returned majorities of over 20% for the Conservatives. Up until 1970, Labour always came second and the Liberals (when they stood) third; and the Liberal/Liberal Democratic parties came second and Labour third in every subsequent general election until 2010. The only occasion on which any other party has been in the top three (or managed to save their deposit) was in 2015, when UKIP came second with just over 13% of the vote. Since then, Labour has come second in 2017, and the Liberal Democrats in 2019.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform UK | James Crocker [9] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Manuela Perteghella [10] | ||||
Conservative | Nadhim Zahawi [11] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nadhim Zahawi | 33,343 | 60.6 | -1.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Dominic Skinner | 13,371 | 24.3 | +12.2 | |
Labour | Felix Ling | 6,222 | 11.3 | -11.0 | |
Green | David Passingham | 2,112 | 3.8 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 19,972 | 36.3 | -3.6 | ||
Turnout | 55,048 | 74.4 | +2.1 | ||
Registered electors | 74,038 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -6.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nadhim Zahawi | 32,657 | 62.2 | +4.5 | |
Labour | Jeff Kenner | 11,699 | 22.3 | +9.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Adams | 6,357 | 12.1 | +0.1 | |
Green | Dominic Giles | 1,345 | 2.6 | -1.5 | |
Independent | Jandy Spurway | 255 | 0.5 | New | |
Independent | Tom Darwood | 219 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 20,958 | 39.9 | -4.6 | ||
Turnout | 52,532 | 72.3 | -0.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nadhim Zahawi | 29,674 | 57.7 | +6.2 | |
UKIP | Edward Fila | 6,798 | 13.2 | +9.5 | |
Labour | Jeff Kenner | 6,677 | 13.0 | +3.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Adams | 6,182 | 12.0 | -17.1 | |
Green | Dominic Giles | 2,128 | 4.1 | +3.1 | |
Majority | 22,876 | 44.5 | +22.1 | ||
Turnout | 51,459 | 72.6 | -0.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -1.75 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nadhim Zahawi | 26,052 | 51.5 | +2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin Turner | 14,706 | 29.1 | +0.8 | |
Labour | Robert Johnston | 4,809 | 9.5 | -5.9 | |
UKIP | Brett Parsons | 1,846 | 3.7 | +0.9 | |
BNP | George Jones | 1,097 | 2.2 | New | |
Independent | Neil Basnett | 1,032 | 2.0 | New | |
Green | Karen Varga | 527 | 1.0 | -1.3 | |
English Democrat | Frederick Bishop | 473 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 11,346 | 22.4 | +1.5 | ||
Turnout | 50,542 | 72.7 | +3.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Maples | 28,652 | 49.2 | -1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Susan Juned | 16,468 | 28.3 | -0.5 | |
Labour Co-op | Rachel Blackmore | 10,145 | 17.4 | +0.7 | |
UKIP | Harry Cottam | 1,621 | 2.8 | +0.6 | |
Green | Mick Davies | 1,354 | 2.3 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 12,184 | 20.9 | -0.6 | ||
Turnout | 58,240 | 68.8 | +4.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Maples | 27,606 | 50.3 | +2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Susan Juned | 15,804 | 28.8 | +3.3 | |
Labour | Mushtaq Hussain | 9,164 | 16.7 | -3.8 | |
UKIP | Ron A Mole | 1,184 | 2.2 | +1.3 | |
Green | Mick Davies | 1,156 | 2.1 | New | |
Majority | 11,802 | 21.5 | -1.3 | ||
Turnout | 54,914 | 64.4 | -11.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Maples | 29,967 | 48.3 | -10.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Susan Juned | 15,861 | 25.5 | ±0.0 | |
Labour | Stewart Stacey | 12,754 | 20.5 | +7.4 | |
Referendum | Adrian K Hilton | 2,064 | 3.3 | New | |
UKIP | JEM Spilsbury | 556 | 0.9 | New | |
Natural Law | James Brewster | 307 | 0.5 | +0.3 | |
Stratford First Democratic Conservative | Simon G Marcus | 306 | 0.5 | New | |
ProLife Alliance | Sarah A Miller | 284 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 14,106 | 22.8 | -10.9 | ||
Turnout | 62,099 | 76.3 | -5.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -5.45 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alan Howarth | 40,251 | 59.2 | -2.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | JN Fogg | 17,359 | 25.5 | -2.4 | |
Labour | SM Brookes | 8,932 | 13.1 | +2.9 | |
Green | RG Roughan | 729 | 1.1 | New | |
Ind. Conservative | AJ Saunders | 573 | 0.8 | New | |
Natural Law | MR Twite | 130 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 22,892 | 33.7 | -0.4 | ||
Turnout | 67,974 | 82.1 | +5.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alan Howarth | 38,483 | 61.9 | +1.0 | |
Liberal | David Cowcher | 17,318 | 27.9 | -1.0 | |
Labour | Robert Rhodes | 6,335 | 10.2 | -0.1 | |
Majority | 21,165 | 34.1 | +2.1 | ||
Turnout | 62,136 | 76.5 | +3.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alan Howarth | 34,041 | 60.9 | +0.5 | |
Liberal | James Taylor | 16,124 | 28.9 | +8.9 | |
Labour | Frank Hooley | 5,731 | 10.3 | -7.4 | |
Majority | 17,917 | 32.0 | -6.4 | ||
Turnout | 55,896 | 72.9 | -3.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angus Maude | 35,470 | 60.41 | +9.4 | |
Liberal | James Taylor | 12,916 | 22.00 | -5.3 | |
Labour | CA Purnell | 10,334 | 17.60 | -4.1 | |
Majority | 22,554 | 38.41 | +14.8 | ||
Turnout | 58,720 | 76.67 | +2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +7.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angus Maude | 27,123 | 50.96 | -0.8 | |
Liberal | MJW Wright | 14,555 | 27.34 | -1.7 | |
Labour | DV Hunt | 11,551 | 21.70 | +2.5 | |
Majority | 12,568 | 23.62 | + 0.9 | ||
Turnout | 53,229 | 74.04 | -7.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angus Maude | 30,106 | 51.77 | -6.3 | |
Liberal | MJW Wright | 16,885 | 29.03 | +10.7 | |
Labour | M Burton | 11,165 | 19.20 | -4.3 | |
Majority | 13,221 | 22.74 | -11.8 | ||
Turnout | 58,156 | 81.06 | +7.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -8.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angus Maude | 28,106 | 58.08 | +6.8 | |
Labour | Peter Eric Tombs | 11,393 | 23.54 | -6.2 | |
Liberal | David R Bruce | 8,895 | 18.38 | +3.4 | |
Majority | 16,713 | 34.54 | +12.9 | ||
Turnout | 48,394 | 74.08 | -4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angus Maude | 22,381 | 51.30 | -2.5 | |
Labour | Vernon G Hale | 12,954 | 29.69 | +0.4 | |
Liberal | Gordon H Herringshaw | 6,556 | 15.03 | -1.9 | |
Ind. Conservative | Christopher G Clayton-Wright | 1,733 | 3.97 | New | |
Majority | 9,427 | 21.61 | -2.9 | ||
Turnout | 43,624 | 78.03 | -5.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -1.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angus Maude | 23,236 | 53.80 | -14.7 | |
Labour | Andrew Faulds | 12,646 | 29.28 | -2.2 | |
Liberal | Derick Mirfin | 7,307 | 16.92 | New | |
Majority | 10,590 | 24.52 | -12.5 | ||
Turnout | 43,189 | 83.07 | + 6.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -6.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angus Maude | 15,846 | 43.61 | -24.9 | |
Labour | Andrew Faulds | 12,376 | 34.06 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Derick Mirfin | 7,622 | 20.98 | New | |
Independent | MS Blair | 281 | 0.77 | New | |
Teenage Party | David Sutch | 209 | 0.58 | New | |
Majority | 3,470 | 9.55 | -27.5 | ||
Turnout | 36,334 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -13.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Profumo | 26,146 | 68.5 | -0.1 | |
Labour | Joseph Stretton | 12,017 | 31.5 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 14,129 | 37.0 | -0.2 | ||
Turnout | 38,163 | 76.9 | +1.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Profumo | 24,587 | 68.6 | +4.1 | |
Labour | Thomas LK Locksley | 11,275 | 31.4 | -4.1 | |
Majority | 13,312 | 37.2 | +8.2 | ||
Turnout | 35,862 | 75.6 | -4.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Profumo | 24,041 | 64.5 | +7.2 | |
Labour | Henry Hilditch | 13,246 | 35.5 | -3.5 | |
Majority | 10,795 | 29.0 | +4.4 | ||
Turnout | 37,287 | 79.9 | -3.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.36 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Profumo | 21,492 | 57.3 | ||
Labour | RGM Brown | 12,143 | 32.0 | ||
Liberal | Hadleigh Sydney Seaborne | 4,318 | 11.4 | ||
Majority | 9,349 | 24.6 | |||
Turnout | 37,953 | 83.1 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Philip Foster | 5,147 | 59.8 | 0.9 | |
Liberal | Walter King | 3,462 | 40.2 | 0.9 | |
Majority | 1,685 | 19.6 | 1.8 | ||
Turnout | 8,609 | 79.5 | 6.7 | ||
Registered electors | 10,835 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | 0.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Philip Foster | 5,505 | 58.9 | 9.8 | |
Liberal | Oscar William Bowen | 3,838 | 41.1 | 9.8 | |
Majority | 1,667 | 17.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,343 | 86.2 | 2.7 | ||
Registered electors | 10,835 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | 9.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Philip Foster | 5,374 | 62.5 | 13.4 | |
Liberal | Joseph Martin | 2,747 | 31.9 | 19.0 | |
Independent | Thomas Kincaid-Smith | 479 | 5.6 | New | |
Majority | 2,627 | 30.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,600 | 80.9 | 2.6 | ||
Registered electors | 10,628 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | 16.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Thomas Kincaid-Smith | 4,321 | 50.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Philip Foster | 4,173 | 49.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 148 | 1.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,494 | 83.5 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,173 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Philip Foster | 4,755 | 61.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | Bolton King | 2,977 | 38.5 | New | |
Majority | 1,778 | 23.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,732 | 76.8 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,063 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Victor Milward | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Victor Milward | 4,598 | 61.9 | +6.1 | |
Liberal | Isaac Thomas Sadler | 2,827 | 38.1 | −6.1 | |
Majority | 1,771 | 23.8 | +12.2 | ||
Turnout | 7,425 | 76.2 | −2.2 | ||
Registered electors | 9,745 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Algernon Freeman-Mitford | 4,157 | 55.8 | +2.4 | |
Liberal | George Septimus Warmington [30] | 3,293 | 44.2 | −2.4 | |
Majority | 864 | 11.6 | +4.8 | ||
Turnout | 7,450 | 78.4 | +3.9 | ||
Registered electors | 9,505 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Townsend | 3,833 | 53.4 | 8.8 | |
Liberal | William Compton | 3,344 | 46.6 | 8.8 | |
Majority | 489 | 6.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,177 | 74.5 | 12.5 | ||
Registered electors | 9,631 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | 8.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Compton | 4,639 | 55.4 | ||
Conservative | Sampson Lloyd | 3,738 | 44.6 | ||
Majority | 901 | 10.8 | |||
Turnout | 8,377 | 87.0 | |||
Registered electors | 9,631 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
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