Cirencester and Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Gloucestershire
Major settlements	Cirencester, Tewkesbury
1918 (1918)–1997 (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.

History

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

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

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Cirencester and Tewkesbury[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	40,258	55.6	+0.2
	Liberal Democrat	EJ Weston	24,200	33.4	−2.6
	Labour	TA 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

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire

Notes and references

1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
2. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. 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