Cirencester and Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Gloucestershire
Major settlements	Cirencester, Tewkesbury
1918–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Cotswold Tewkesbury

Cirencester and Tewkesbury was a parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1997 general election when it was partly replaced by the new constituencies of Cotswold and Tewkesbury.

Boundaries

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Tewkesbury, the Urban Districts of Cirencester, Stow-on-the-Wold, and Tetbury, the Rural Districts of Campden, Cirencester, Marston Sicca, Northleach, and Pebworth, and parts of the Rural Districts of Cheltenham, Faringdon, Stow-on-the-Wold, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, and Winchcombe.

1950-1955: The Municipal Borough of Tewkesbury, the Urban District of Cirencester, and the Rural Districts of Cheltenham, Cirencester, North Cotswold, Northleach, and Tetbury.

1955-1983: The Municipal Borough of Tewkesbury, the Urban District of Cirencester, and the Rural Districts of Cheltenham, Cirencester, North Cotswold, and Northleach.

1983-1997: The District of Cotswold wards of Ampneys, Beacon, Blockley, Bourton-on-the-Water, Campden, Churn Valley, Cirencester Abbey, Cirencester Beeches, Cirencester Chesterton, Cirencester Stratton, Cirencester Watermoor, Coln, Ermin, Evenlode Vale, Fairford, Fossehill, Fosseridge, Hampton, Kempsford, Lechlade, Mickleton, Moreton-in-Marsh, Northleach, Sandywell, Sherborne Brook, Stow-on-the-Wold, Thames Head, Three Rivers, Vale, and Water Park, and the Borough of Tewkesbury wards of Ashchurch, Bishop's Cleeve East, Bishop's Cleeve North, Bishop's Cleeve South, Cleeve Hill, Coombe Hill, Crickley, Dumbleton, Gotherington, Shurdington, Swindon, Tewkesbury Mitton, Tewkesbury Newtown, Tewkesbury Prior's Park, Tewkesbury Town, Twyning, and Winchcombe.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[1]	Party
1918	Sir Thomas Davies	Conservative
1929	William Morrison	Conservative
1951	William Morrison	Speaker
1959	Nicholas Ridley	Conservative
1992	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	Conservative
1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Cirencester and Tewkesbury ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Thomas Davies	11,171	56.7	n/a
	Independent Labour	Joseph Herbert Alpass	8,546	43.3	n/a
Majority			2,625	13.4	n/a
Turnout				56.3	n/a
	Unionist win

endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Cirencester and Tewkesbury^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Thomas Davies	16,463	64.2	+7.5
	Labour	William Robert Robins	9,195	35.8	-7.5
Majority			7,268	28.4	+15.0
Turnout				71.3	+15.0
	Unionist hold		Swing	+7.5

General Election 1923: Cirencester and Tewkesbury^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Thomas Davies	15,406	66.2	+2.0
	Labour	William Robert Robins	7,849	33.8	-2.0
Majority			7,557	32.4	+4.0
Turnout				63.6
	Unionist hold		Swing	+2.0

General Election 1924: Cirencester and Tewkesbury^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Sir Thomas Davies	18,201	72.0
	Labour	Joseph Herbert Alpass	7,078	28.0
Majority			11,123	44.0
Turnout				68.4
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Cirencester and Tewkesbury^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	William Shepherd Morrison	19,584	55.7	-16.3
	Liberal	Christopher a'Beckett Williams	8,629	24.5	n/a
	Labour	E.W. Fredman	6,987	19.8	-8.2
Majority			10,955	31.2	-12.8
Turnout				76.3	+7.9
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Cirencester and Tewkesbury^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	William Shepherd Morrison	28,170	82.8	+17.2
	Labour	John Griffin	5,868	17.2	-17.2
Majority			22,302	65.6	+34.4
Turnout			34,038	71.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+17.2

General Election 1935: Cirencester and Tewkesbury^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	William Shepherd Morrison	n/a	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

Conservative: Rt Hon. William Shepherd Morrison
Popular Front: William Robert Robins

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Cirencester and Tewkesbury^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Rt Hon. William Shepherd Morrison	19,490	48.1	n/a
	Labour	Alan Ernest Gwynn Hawkins	12,380	30.5	n/a
	Liberal	Christopher H Harris	8,681	21.4	n/a
Majority			7,110	17.5	n/a
Turnout				67.7	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. William Shepherd Morrison	23,942	51.90
	Labour	RM Bennett	15,660	33.95
	Liberal	Norman Wilburn Gillett	6,102	13.23
	Communist	Wogan Philipps	423	0.92
Majority			8,282	17.95
Turnout				81.26
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. William Shepherd Morrison	26,978	59.51
	Labour	Albert E Sumbler	18,353	40.49
Majority			8,625	19.03
Turnout				78.02
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Speaker	Rt Hon. William Shepherd Morrison	25,372	67.18
	Independent Labour	Douglas C Cox	12,394	32.82
Majority			12,978	34.36
Turnout				68.29
	Speaker gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1959: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nicholas Ridley	28,169	63.33
	Labour	John M Bowyer	16,314	36.67
Majority			11,855	26.65
Turnout				76.56
	Conservative gain from Speaker		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Nicholas Ridley	24,786	51.54
	Labour	John M Bowyer	15,518	32.27
	Liberal	Arnold Geoffroy de Montmorency	7,790	16.20	n/a
Majority			9,268	19.27
Turnout				78.04
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nicholas Ridley	27,690	58.16
	Labour	Michael George Dalling	19,919	41.84
Majority			7,771	16.32
Turnout				74.89
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nicholas Ridley	30,217	56.02
	Labour	Howard G Lovell	16,131	29.90
	Liberal	Denys Robinson	7,593	14.08
Majority			14,086	26.11
Turnout				73.77
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nicholas Ridley	31,163	47.29
	Liberal	RG Otter	20,962	31.81
	Labour	RG Fox	13,775	20.90
Majority			10,201	15.48
Turnout				82.68
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nicholas Ridley	28,930	46.91
	Liberal	RG Otter	18,770	30.43
	Labour	JR Booth	13,973	22.66
Majority			10,160	16.47
Turnout				76.70
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nicholas Ridley	37,651	55.96
	Liberal	Philip T Beckerlegge	18,057	26.84
	Labour	RS Trafford	11,575	17.20
Majority			19,594	29.12
Turnout				78.75
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Nicholas Ridley	34,282	57.16
	Liberal	Philip T Beckerlegge	20,455	34.10
	Labour	TJR Penny	5,243	8.74
Majority			13,827	23.05
Turnout				74.91
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Nicholas Ridley	36,272	55.37
	Liberal	Philip T Beckerlegge	23,610	36.04
	Labour	Doug Naysmith	5,342	8.15
	Male OAP	MA Curtis	283	0.43
Majority			12,662	19.33
Turnout				77.92
	Conservative hold		Swing

Election in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Cirencester and Tewkesbury^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown	40,258	55.6	+0.2
	Liberal Democrat	Edward J. Weston	24,200	33.4	−2.6
	Labour	Trevor A. Page	7,262	10.0	+1.9
	Natural Law	R Clayton	449	0.6	+0.6
	Independent	PA Trice-Rolph	287	0.4	+0.4
Majority			16,058	22.2	+2.8
Turnout			72,456	82.0	+4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.4

Notes and references

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.

Sources

F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Hexham	Constituency represented by the Speaker 1951–1959	Succeeded by Cities of London and Westminster

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.