Tewkesbury | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Tewkesbury in South West England | |
County | Gloucestershire |
Electorate | 72,426 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Tewkesbury and Winchcombe |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Cameron Thomas (Liberal Democrats) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Cirencester & Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and West Gloucestershire |
1610–1918 | |
Seats | 1610–1868: 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]
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, before it was abolished in 1918.
The Fourth periodic review of Westminster constituencies in 1997 saw the seat's recreation when the number of constituencies in Gloucestershire was increased from five to six. It was primarily formed from a minority of the larger county division Cirencester and Tewkesbury, together with parts of West Gloucestershire and Cheltenham.
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.
2024–present: Further to the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is 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, was included in the newly created constituency of North Cotswolds. To partly compensate, the Springbank and Elmbridge wards were transferred in from the Cheltenham and Gloucester seats respectively.
As its name suggests, the main town in the constituency is Tewkesbury, but other settlements include Twyning, Ashchurch, Bishop's Cleeve, Winchcombe, Prestbury, Swindon, Innsworth, Longlevens and Elmbridge. [3]
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]
The constituency was enfranchised on 23 March 1610 – the first record of its members sworn is 16 April 1610. [5]
Parliament | First member | Second member |
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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 | |
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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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 |
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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1997 | Laurence Robertson | Conservative | |
2024 | Cameron Thomas | Liberal Democrats | |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Cameron Thomas | 20,730 | 42.7 | +20.7 | |
Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 14,468 | 29.8 | –28.3 | |
Reform UK | Byron Davis | 6,000 | 12.4 | N/A | |
Labour | Damola Animashaun | 4,298 | 8.9 | –6.8 | |
Green | Cate Cody | 2,873 | 5.9 | +1.7 | |
CPA | David Edgar | 170 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,262 | 12.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 48,539 | 66.1 | –8.3 | ||
Registered electors | 73,458 | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | +24.5 |
2019 notional result [17] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 31,291 | 58.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | 11,848 | 22.0 | |
Labour | 8,448 | 15.7 | |
Green | 2,271 | 4.2 | |
Turnout | 53,858 | 74.4 | |
Electorate | 72,426 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 35,728 | 58.4 | –1.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alex Hegenbarth | 13,318 | 21.8 | +8.3 | |
Labour | Lara Chaplin | 9,310 | 15.2 | −6.6 | |
Green | Cate Cody | 2,784 | 4.6 | +1.9 | |
Majority | 22,410 | 36.6 | −1.6 | ||
Turnout | 61,140 | 72.8 | +0.3 | ||
Registered electors | 83,958 | +3.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 35,448 | 60.0 | +5.5 | |
Labour | Manjinder Singh Kang | 12,874 | 21.8 | +7.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Cait Clucas | 7,981 | 13.5 | −0.3 | |
Green | Cate Cody | 1,576 | 2.7 | −1.3 | |
UKIP | Simon Collins | 1,205 | 2.0 | −10.9 | |
Majority | 22,574 | 38.2 | −1.5 | ||
Turnout | 59,084 | 72.5 | +2.4 | ||
Registered electors | 81,440 | +3.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 30,176 | 54.5 | +7.3 | |
Labour | Ed Buxton | 8,204 | 14.8 | +3.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alistair Cameron | 7,629 | 13.8 | −21.7 | |
UKIP | Stuart Adair [22] | 7,128 | 12.9 | +8.8 | |
Green | Jemma Clarke [23] | 2,207 | 4.0 | +3.0 | |
Majority | 21,972 | 39.7 | +28.0 | ||
Turnout | 55,344 | 70.1 | −0.3 | ||
Registered electors | 78,910 | +2.9 | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 25,472 | 47.2 | −1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alistair Cameron | 19,162 | 35.5 | +7.1 | |
Labour | Stuart Emmerson | 6,253 | 11.6 | −8.7 | |
UKIP | Brian Jones | 2,230 | 4.1 | N/A | |
Green | Matthew Sidford | 525 | 1.0 | −2.2 | |
Monster Raving Loony | George Ridgeon | 319 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,310 | 11.7 | −8.1 | ||
Turnout | 53,961 | 70.4 | +8.2 | ||
Registered electors | 76,655 | +3.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 22,339 | 49.1 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alistair Cameron | 12,447 | 27.4 | +1.2 | |
Labour | Charles Mannan | 9,179 | 20.2 | −6.7 | |
Green | Robert Rendell | 1,488 | 3.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,892 | 21.7 | +2.5 | ||
Turnout | 45,453 | 63.2 | −1.1 | ||
Registered electors | 71,945 | +2.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 20,830 | 46.1 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Keir Dhillon | 12,167 | 26.9 | +0.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Steve Martin | 11,863 | 26.2 | −1.8 | |
Independent | Charles Vernall | 335 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,663 | 19.2 | +1.4 | ||
Turnout | 45,195 | 64.3 | −12.2 | ||
Registered electors | 70,276 | +3.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Laurence Robertson | 23,859 | 45.8 | −8.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Sewell | 14,625 | 28.0 | −7.1 | |
Labour | Kelvin Tustin | 13,665 | 26.2 | +16.1 | |
Majority | 9,234 | 17.8 | −0.8 | ||
Turnout | 52,147 | 76.5 | −5.5 | ||
Registered electors | 68,208 | +6.3 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | William Hicks-Beach | 7,127 | 83.2 | +31.2 | |
Independent | William J. Boosey | 1,438 | 16.8 | New | |
Majority | 5,689 | 66.4 | +62.4 | ||
Turnout | 8,565 | 62.0 | −21.4 | ||
Registered electors | 13,818 | ||||
Unionist hold |
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 | Michael Hicks Beach | 5,699 | 52.0 | −1.2 | |
Liberal | Robert Ashton Lister | 5,267 | 48.0 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 432 | 4.0 | −4.5 | ||
Turnout | 10,966 | 83.4 | −3.1 | ||
Registered electors | 13,155 | 0.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Michael Hicks Beach | 6,050 | 53.2 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Robert Ashton Lister | 5,088 | 44.7 | −4.7 | |
Labour | Charles Fox | 238 | 2.1 | New | |
Majority | 962 | 8.5 | +7.3 | ||
Turnout | 962 | 86.5 | +7.0 | ||
Registered electors | 13,155 | −0.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Hicks Beach | 5,321 | 50.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Robert Ashton Lister | 5,194 | 49.4 | New | |
Majority | 127 | 1.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 10,515 | 79.5 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 13,226 | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Dorington | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Dorington | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Dorington | 5,028 | 54.9 | N/A | |
Liberal | Godfrey Samuelson | 4,125 | 45.1 | New | |
Majority | 903 | 9.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,153 | 79.5 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 11,519 | N/A | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Dorington | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Yorke | 4,666 | 51.0 | +1.7 | |
Liberal | Godfrey Samuelson | 4,484 | 49.0 | −1.7 | |
Majority | 182 | 2.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,150 | 78.4 | −15.9 | ||
Registered electors | 11,665 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +1.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Richard Martin | 380 | 56.0 | +5.3 | |
Conservative | John Arthur Fowler [37] | 298 | 44.0 | −5.3 | |
Majority | 82 | 12.0 | +10.7 | ||
Turnout | 678 | 92.5 | −1.8 | ||
Registered electors | 733 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +5.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Edwin Price | 350 | 50.7 | −1.3 | |
Conservative | John Arthur Fowler [37] | 341 | 49.3 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 9 | 1.4 | −2.6 | ||
Turnout | 691 | 94.3 | +2.1 | ||
Registered electors | 733 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Edwin Price | 350 | 52.0 | −4.0 | |
Conservative | Edmund Lechmere | 323 | 48.0 | +4.0 | |
Majority | 27 | 4.0 | −8.0 | ||
Turnout | 673 | 92.2 | +7.1 | ||
Registered electors | 730 | −2.0 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | −4.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Edwin Price | 355 | 56.0 | +27.5 | |
Conservative | Edmund Lechmere | 279 | 44.0 | −27.5 | |
Majority | 76 | 12.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 634 | 85.1 | +4.0 | ||
Registered electors | 745 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +27.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edmund Lechmere | 151 | 50.7 | −20.8 | |
Liberal | James Martin | 147 | 49.3 | +20.8 | |
Majority | 4 | 1.4 | −4.6 | ||
Turnout | 298 | 91.7 | +10.6 | ||
Registered electors | 325 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −20.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Edward Dowdeswell | 195 | 37.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | John Yorke | 182 | 34.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | James Martin | 150 | 28.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 32 | 6.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 264 (est) | 81.1 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 325 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Yorke | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Lygon | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | James Martin | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 341 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Lygon | 171 | 100.0 | +56.8 | |
Whig | Humphrey Brown | 0 | 0.0 | −56.8 | |
Majority | 171 | 100.0 | +94.0 | ||
Turnout | 171 | 50.1 | −20.1 | ||
Registered electors | 341 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +56.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Lygon | 200 | 38.4 | +24.8 | |
Whig | John Martin | 169 | 32.4 | −2.5 | |
Whig | Humphrey Brown | 127 | 24.4 | −13.5 | |
Conservative | Edward William Cox | 25 | 4.8 | −8.8 | |
Turnout | 261 (est) | 70.2 (est) | −3.0 | ||
Registered electors | 371 | ||||
Majority | 31 | 6.0 | N/A | ||
Conservative gain from Whig | Swing | +16.4 | |||
Majority | 42 | 8.0 | +0.2 | ||
Whig hold | Swing | −5.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Humphrey Brown | 205 | 37.9 | −12.1 | |
Whig | John Martin | 189 | 34.9 | −15.1 | |
Conservative | Edward William Cox [38] | 147 | 27.2 | +27.2 | |
Majority | 42 | 7.8 | −42.2 | ||
Turnout | 271 (est) | 73.2 (est) | +62.7 | ||
Registered electors | 370 | ||||
Whig hold | Swing | −12.9 | |||
Whig hold | Swing | −14.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Humphrey Brown | 43 | 50.0 | N/A | |
Whig | John Martin | 43 | 50.0 | +16.4 | |
Conservative | Henry Lascelles | 0 | 0.0 | −34.3 | |
Majority | 43 | 50.0 | +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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Dowdeswell | 193 | 34.3 | −32.6 | |
Whig | John Martin | 189 | 33.6 | +0.5 | |
Radical | John Easthope | 181 | 32.1 | N/A | |
Turnout | 375 | 74.0 | −17.6 | ||
Registered electors | 507 | ||||
Majority | 4 | 0.7 | −4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −16.6 | |||
Majority | 8 | 1.4 | −2.6 | ||
Whig hold | Swing | +16.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Dowdeswell | 219 | 37.8 | +21.0 | |
Whig | John Martin | 192 | 33.1 | −33.5 | |
Conservative | Joseph Peel | 169 | 29.1 | +12.3 | |
Turnout | 370 | 91.6 | −4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 404 | ||||
Majority | 27 | 4.7 | +4.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +18.9 | |||
Majority | 23 | 4.0 | +3.4 | ||
Whig hold | Swing | −33.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Dowdeswell | 195 | 33.6 | +2.4 | |
Whig | Charles Hanbury-Tracy | 195 | 33.6 | −2.1 | |
Whig | John Martin | 192 | 33.0 | −0.1 | |
Turnout | 379 | 95.7 | +1.4 | ||
Registered electors | 396 | ||||
Majority | 0 | 0.0 | N/A | ||
Conservative gain from Whig | Swing | +2.3 | |||
Majority | 3 | 0.6 | −1.3 | ||
Whig hold | Swing | −1.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Charles Hanbury-Tracy | 210 | 35.7 | −2.1 | |
Whig | John Martin | 195 | 33.1 | +6.1 | |
Tory | William Dowdeswell | 184 | 31.2 | −4.0 | |
Majority | 11 | 1.9 | −0.7 | ||
Turnout | 364 | 94.3 | c. +20.6 | ||
Registered electors | 386 | ||||
Whig hold | Swing | −0.1 | |||
Whig gain from Tory | Swing | +4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Charles Hanbury-Tracy | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | c. 525 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | John Martin (1774–1832) | 238 | 37.8 | ||
Tory | John Edmund Dowdeswell | 222 | 35.2 | ||
Whig | Charles Hanbury-Tracy | 170 | 27.0 | ||
Turnout | 387 | c. 73.7 | |||
Registered electors | c. 525 | ||||
Majority | 16 | 2.6 | |||
Whig hold | |||||
Majority | 52 | 8.2 | |||
Tory hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | John Martin (1774–1832) | Unopposed | |||
Tory | John Edmund Dowdeswell | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | c. 525 | ||||
Whig hold | |||||
Tory hold |