Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

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Tewkesbury
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire
EnglandGloucestershire.svg
Location of Gloucestershire within England
County Gloucestershire
Electorate 72,426 (2023) [1]
Major settlements Tewkesbury and Winchcombe
Current constituency
Created 1997
Member of Parliament Cameron Thomas (Liberal Democrats)
SeatsOne
Created from Cirencester & Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and West Gloucestershire
1610–1918
Seats1610–1868: Two
1868–1918: One
Type of constituency Borough constituency
Replaced by Stroud, Forest of Dean and Cirencester & Tewkesbury

Tewkesbury is a constituency [n 1] in Gloucestershire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Cameron Thomas, a Liberal Democrat. [n 2]

Contents

History

1610 to 1918

Tewkesbury existed in this period, first in the parliamentary borough form. It returned two MPs until this was reduced to one in 1868, then saw itself become instead a larger county division under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and it was abolished in 1918.

Prominent politicians

1997 to date

The fourth periodic review of Westminster constituencies in 1997 saw the seat's recreation, from the similar, but slightly larger county division Tewkesbury and Cirencester, compared to the present seat.

Boundaries

Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of 2010-2024 boundaries

1885–1918: The Municipal Boroughs of Gloucester and Tewkesbury, the Sessional Divisions of Berkeley, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, and Winchcombe, part of the Sessional Division of Whitminster, and the parish of Slimbridge.

1997–2010: The Borough of Tewkesbury wards of Ashchurch, Bishop's Cleeve East, Bishop's Cleeve North, Bishop's Cleeve South, Brockworth Glebe, Brockworth Moorfield, Brockworth Westfield, Churchdown Brookfield, Churchdown Parton, Churchdown Pirton, Cleeve Hill, Coombe Hill, Crickley, De Winton, Dumbleton, Gotherington, Horsbere, Innsworth, Shurdington, Tewkesbury Mitton, Tewkesbury Newtown, Tewkesbury Prior's Park, Tewkesbury Town, Twyning, and Winchcombe, and the Borough of Cheltenham wards of Leckhampton with Up Hatherley, Prestbury, and Swindon.

2010–2024: The Borough of Tewkesbury wards of 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, and Winchcombe, the Borough of Cheltenham wards of Prestbury and Swindon Village, and the City of Gloucester ward of Longlevens.

The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the seats of Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and West Gloucestershire.

As its name suggests, the main town in the constituency is Tewkesbury, but other settlements include Twyning, Ashchurch, Bishop's Cleeve, Winchcombe, Prestbury, Brockworth, Churchdown, Innsworth and Longlevens. [2]

2024–present: Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the constituency has been composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

In order to bring the electorate within the permitted range, the area between the city of Gloucester and the town of Cheltenham, including the communities of Badgeworth, Brockworth, Churchdown and Shurdington, has been included in the newly created constituency of North Cotswolds. The Springbank and Elmbridge wards have been transferred in from the Cheltenham and Gloucester seats respectively.

Constituency profile

The town has a raised centre with the second largest parish church in the country that is the church of a former Benedictine monastery, named Tewkesbury Abbey, the town also has its own mustard and July medieval battle festival. Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.2% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . [4]

Members of Parliament

MPs 1610–1629

The constituency was enfranchised on 23 March 1610 – the first record of its members sworn is 16 April 1610. [5]

ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
Parliament of 1604–1611 (1610) Sir Dudley Digges Edward Ferrers
Addled Parliament (1614) Sir John Ratcliffe
Parliament of 1621–1622 Giles Brydges
Happy Parliament (1624–1625) Sir Baptist Hicks
Useless Parliament (1625)
Parliament of 1625–1626
Parliament of 1628–1629 Sir Thomas Colepeper
May 1628 Sir William Hicks

MPs 1640–1868

YearFirst member [6] First partySecond member [6] Second party
April 1640 Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Sir Edward Alford
November 1640 Double return — election declared void [7]
August 1641 Sir Robert Cooke Parliamentarian Sir Edward Alford [8] Royalist
1641 Edward Stephens Parliamentarian
August 1643Cooke died — seat left vacant
1645 John Stephens
December 1648Edward Stephens excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
1653Tewkesbury was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper – chosen for Wiltshire – replaced by Francis St John Tewkesbury had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 Francis White
January 1659 Edward Cooke Robert Long [n 3]
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 (Sir) Henry Capell Richard Dowdeswell
1673 Sir Francis Russell
1685 Richard Dowdeswell
1690 Sir Henry Capell
1692 Sir Francis Winnington
1698 Charles Hancock
1701 Edmund Bray
1708 Henry Ireton
1710 William Bromley
1712 William Dowdeswell
1713 Charles Dowdeswell
1714 Anthony Lechmere
1717 Nicholas Lechmere
1721 The Viscount Gage [n 4]
1722 Brigadier George Reade
1734 Robert Tracy
1741 John Martin
1747 William Dowdeswell Whig
1754 Nicolson Calvert John Martin, junior
1761 Whig [9] Sir William Codrington Tory [9]
1774 Joseph Martin Whig [9]
1776 James Martin Whig [9]
1792 Lieutenant-Colonel William Dowdeswell Tory [9]
1797 Christopher Bethell-Codrington Tory [9]
1807 Charles Hanbury-Tracy Whig [10] [11] [9]
1812 John Edmund Dowdeswell Tory [9] John Martin Whig [9]
January 1832 Charles Hanbury-Tracy Whig [10] [11] [9]
December 1832 John Martin Whig [12] [9] [13] [14] [15]
1835 William Dowdeswell Conservative [9]
1837 John Martin Whig [12] [9] [13] [14] [15]
1847 Humphrey Brown Whig [13] [15]
1857 Hon. Frederick Lygon Conservative
1859 James Martin Liberal
1864 John Yorke Conservative
1865 William Edward Dowdeswell Conservative
1866 Sir Edmund Lechmere, Bt Conservative
1868 Representation reduced to one Member

MPs 1868–1918

ElectionMember [6] Party
1868 William Edwin Price Liberal
1880 Richard Martin Liberal
1885 John Yorke Conservative
1886 Sir John Dorington Conservative
1906 Hon. Michael Hicks Beach Conservative
1916 William Frederick Hicks-Beach Unionist
1918 Constituency abolished

MPs since 1997

ElectionMember [6] Party
1997 Laurence Robertson Conservative
2024 Cameron Thomas Liberal Democrats

Elections since 1997

Results over time

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Tewkesbury [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Cameron Thomas 20,730 42.7 +20.7
Conservative Laurence Robertson 14,46829.8–28.3
Reform UK Byron Davis6,00012.4N/A
Labour Damola Animashaun4,2988.9–6.8
Green Cate Cody2,8735.9+1.7
CPA David Edgar1700.4N/A
Majority6,26212.9N/A
Turnout 48,53966.1–8.3
Registered electors 73,458
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing Increase2.svg24.5

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result [17]
PartyVote %
Conservative 31,29158.1
Liberal Democrats 11,84822.0
Labour 8,44815.7
Green 2,2714.2
Turnout53,85874.4
Electorate72,426
General election 2019: Tewkesbury [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 35,728 58.4 –1.6
Liberal Democrats Alex Hegenbarth13,31821.8+8.3
Labour Lara Chaplin9,31015.2−6.6
Green Cate Cody2,7844.6+1.9
Majority22,41036.6−1.6
Turnout 61,14072.8+0.3
Registered electors 83,958+3.1
Conservative hold Swing −5.0
General election 2017: Tewkesbury [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 35,448 60.0 +5.5
Labour Manjinder Singh Kang12,87421.8+7.0
Liberal Democrats Cait Clucas7,98113.5−0.3
Green Cate Cody1,5762.7−1.3
UKIP Simon Collins1,2052.0−10.9
Majority22,57438.2−1.5
Turnout 59,08472.5+2.4
Registered electors 81,440+3.2
Conservative hold Swing −0.7
General election 2015: Tewkesbury [20] [21] [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 30,176 54.5 +7.3
Labour Ed Buxton8,20414.8+3.2
Liberal Democrats Alistair Cameron7,62913.8−21.7
UKIP Stuart Adair [22] 7,12812.9+8.8
Green Jemma Clarke [23] 2,2074.0+3.0
Majority21,97239.7+28.0
Turnout 55,34470.1−0.3
Registered electors 78,910+2.9
Conservative hold
General election 2010: Tewkesbury [24] [25]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 25,472 47.2 −1.0
Liberal Democrats Alistair Cameron19,16235.5+7.1
Labour Stuart Emmerson6,25311.6−8.7
UKIP Brian Jones2,2304.1N/A
Green Matthew Sidford5251.0−2.2
Monster Raving Loony George Ridgeon3190.6N/A
Majority6,31011.7−8.1
Turnout 53,96170.4+8.2
Registered electors 76,655+3.4
Conservative hold Swing −4.0

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Tewkesbury [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 22,339 49.1 +3.0
Liberal Democrats Alistair Cameron12,44727.4+1.2
Labour Charles Mannan9,17920.2−6.7
Green Robert Rendell1,4883.3N/A
Majority9,89221.7+2.5
Turnout 45,45363.2−1.1
Registered electors 71,945+2.4
Conservative hold Swing +1.0
General election 2001: Tewkesbury [27]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 20,830 46.1 +0.3
Labour Keir Dhillon12,16726.9+0.7
Liberal Democrats Steve Martin11,86326.2−1.8
Independent Charles Vernall3350.7N/A
Majority8,66319.2+1.4
Turnout 45,19564.3−12.2
Registered electors 70,276+3.0
Conservative hold Swing +1.1

Election in the 1990s

General election 1997: Tewkesbury [28] [29]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Laurence Robertson 23,859 45.8 −8.1
Liberal Democrats John Sewell14,62528.0−7.1
Labour Kelvin Tustin13,66526.2+16.1
Majority9,23417.8−0.8
Turnout 52,14776.5−5.5
Registered electors 68,208+6.3
Conservative win (new seat)

Election results 1868–1918

Elections in the 1910s

1916 Tewkesbury by-election [30] [31]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist William Hicks-Beach 7,127 83.2 +31.2
Independent William J. Boosey1,43816.8New
Majority5,68966.4+62.4
Turnout 8,56562.0−21.4
Registered electors 13,818
Unionist hold
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Mathias

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;

General election December 1910: Tewkesbury [30] [31]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Hicks Beach 5,699 52.0 −1.2
Liberal Robert Ashton Lister 5,26748.0+3.3
Majority4324.0−4.5
Turnout 10,96683.4−3.1
Registered electors 13,1550.0
Conservative hold Swing −2.3
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General election January 1910: Tewkesbury [30] [31]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Hicks Beach 6,050 53.2 +2.6
Liberal Robert Ashton Lister 5,08844.7−4.7
Labour Charles Fox 2382.1New
Majority9628.5+7.3
Turnout 96286.5+7.0
Registered electors 13,155−0.5
Conservative hold Swing +3.6

Elections in the 1900s

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Hicks Beach
General election 1906: Tewkesbury [30] [33]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Hicks Beach 5,321 50.6 N/A
Liberal Robert Ashton Lister 5,19449.4New
Majority1271.2N/A
Turnout 10,51579.5N/A
Registered electors 13,226N/A
Conservative hold Swing N/A
General election 1900: Tewkesbury [30] [33] [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Dorington Unopposed
Conservative hold

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1895: Tewkesbury [30] [33] [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Dorington Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election 1892: Tewkesbury [30] [33]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Dorington 5,028 54.9 N/A
Liberal Godfrey Samuelson 4,12545.1New
Majority9039.8N/A
Turnout 9,15379.5N/A
Registered electors 11,519N/A
Conservative hold

Elections in the 1880s

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Dorington
General election 1886: Tewkesbury [30] [33]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Dorington Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election 1885: Tewkesbury [30] [33] [35]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Yorke 4,666 51.0 +1.7
Liberal Godfrey Samuelson 4,48449.0−1.7
Majority1822.0N/A
Turnout 9,15078.4−15.9
Registered electors 11,665
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +1.7
By-election, 12 Jul 1880: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Richard Martin 380 56.0 +5.3
Conservative John Arthur Fowler [37] 29844.0−5.3
Majority8212.0+10.7
Turnout 67892.5−1.8
Registered electors 733
Liberal hold Swing +5.4
General election 1880: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Edwin Price 350 50.7 −1.3
Conservative John Arthur Fowler [37] 34149.3+1.3
Majority91.4−2.6
Turnout 69194.3+2.1
Registered electors 733
Liberal hold Swing −1.4

Election in the 1870s

General election 1874: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Edwin Price 350 52.0 −4.0
Conservative Edmund Lechmere 32348.0+4.0
Majority274.0−8.0
Turnout 67392.2+7.1
Registered electors 730−2.0
Liberal hold Swing −4.0

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1868: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Edwin Price 355 56.0 +27.5
Conservative Edmund Lechmere 27944.0−27.5
Majority7612.0N/A
Turnout 63485.1+4.0
Registered electors 745
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +27.5

Election results 1832–1868

Elections in the 1860s

By-election, 20 March 1866: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edmund Lechmere 151 50.7 −20.8
Liberal James Martin 14749.3+20.8
Majority41.4−4.6
Turnout 29891.7+10.6
Registered electors 325
Conservative hold Swing −20.8
General election 1865: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Edward Dowdeswell 195 37.0 N/A
Conservative John Yorke 182 34.5 N/A
Liberal James Martin 15028.5N/A
Majority326.0N/A
Turnout 264 (est)81.1 (est)N/A
Registered electors 325
Conservative hold
Conservative gain from Liberal
By-election, 9 February 1864: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Yorke Unopposed
Conservative hold

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1859: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick Lygon Unopposed
Liberal James Martin Unopposed
Registered electors 341
Conservative hold
Liberal hold
By-election, 8 March 1859: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick Lygon 171 100.0 +56.8
Whig Humphrey Brown 00.0−56.8
Majority171100.0+94.0
Turnout 17150.1−20.1
Registered electors 341
Conservative hold Swing +56.8
General election 1857: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick Lygon 200 38.4 +24.8
Whig John Martin 169 32.4 −2.5
Whig Humphrey Brown 12724.4−13.5
Conservative Edward William Cox 254.8−8.8
Turnout 261 (est)70.2 (est)−3.0
Registered electors 371
Majority316.0N/A
Conservative gain from Whig Swing +16.4
Majority428.0+0.2
Whig hold Swing −5.3
General election 1852: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Humphrey Brown 205 37.9 −12.1
Whig John Martin 189 34.9 −15.1
Conservative Edward William Cox [38] 14727.2+27.2
Majority427.8−42.2
Turnout 271 (est)73.2 (est)+62.7
Registered electors 370
Whig hold Swing −12.9
Whig hold Swing −14.4

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1847: Tewkesbury [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Humphrey Brown 43 50.0 N/A
Whig John Martin 43 50.0 +16.4
Conservative Henry Lascelles 00.0−34.3
Majority4350.0+48.6
Turnout 43 (est)10.5 (est)−63.5
Registered electors 409
Whig hold Swing N/A
Whig gain from Conservative Swing +16.8
General election 1841: Tewkesbury [36] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Dowdeswell 193 34.3 −32.6
Whig John Martin 189 33.6 +0.5
Radical John Easthope 18132.1N/A
Turnout 37574.0−17.6
Registered electors 507
Majority40.7−4.0
Conservative hold Swing −16.6
Majority81.4−2.6
Whig hold Swing +16.6

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1837: Tewkesbury [36] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Dowdeswell 219 37.8 +21.0
Whig John Martin 192 33.1 −33.5
Conservative Joseph Peel16929.1+12.3
Turnout 37091.6−4.1
Registered electors 404
Majority274.7+4.7
Conservative hold Swing +18.9
Majority234.0+3.4
Whig hold Swing −33.4
General election 1835: Tewkesbury [36] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Dowdeswell 195 33.6 +2.4
Whig Charles Hanbury-Tracy 195 33.6 −2.1
Whig John Martin 19233.0−0.1
Turnout 37995.7+1.4
Registered electors 396
Majority00.0N/A
Conservative gain from Whig Swing +2.3
Majority30.6−1.3
Whig hold Swing −1.7
General election 1832: Tewkesbury [36] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Charles Hanbury-Tracy 210 35.7 −2.1
Whig John Martin 195 33.1 +6.1
Tory William Dowdeswell 18431.2−4.0
Majority111.9−0.7
Turnout 36494.3c. +20.6
Registered electors 386
Whig hold Swing −0.1
Whig gain from Tory Swing +4.1
By-election, 23 January 1832: Tewkesbury [9] [39]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Whig Charles Hanbury-Tracy Unopposed
Registered electors c. 525
Whig hold
General election 1831: Tewkesbury [9] [39]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Whig John Martin (1774–1832) 238 37.8
Tory John Edmund Dowdeswell 222 35.2
Whig Charles Hanbury-Tracy 17027.0
Turnout 387c. 73.7
Registered electors c. 525
Majority162.6
Whig hold
Majority528.2
Tory hold
General election 1830: Tewkesbury [9] [39]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Whig John Martin (1774–1832)Unopposed
Tory John Edmund DowdeswellUnopposed
Registered electors c. 525
Whig hold
Tory hold

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
  3. ↑ Cannot have been Sir Robert Long Bt as stated by Williams as he was a Royalist.
  4. ↑ of Castle Island, Ireland

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References

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  2. ↑ 2010 post-revision map non-metropolitan areas and unitary authorities of England
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