The county of Gloucestershire is divided into 6 parliamentary constituencies: 2 borough constituencies and 4 county constituencies.

Constituencies

Further information: 2019 United Kingdom general election

  Conservative †   Labour ‡   Liberal Democrat ¤

Constituency[note 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][note 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest opposition[2] Electoral wards[3][4] Map
Cheltenham BC 81,044 981   Alex Chalk † Max Wilkinson ¤ Cheltenham Borough Council: All Saints, Battledown, Benhall and The Reddings, Charlton Kings, Charlton Park, College, Hesters Way, Lansdown, Leckhampton, Oakley, Park, Pittville, St Mark's, St Paul's, St Peter's, Springbank, Up Hatherley, Warden Hill.
Forest of Dean CC 71,438 15,869   Mark Harper †   Di Martin ‡ Forest of Dean District Council: Alvington, Aylburton and West Lydney, Awre, Berry Hill, Blaisdon and Longhope, Bream, Bromesberrow and Dymock, Christchurch and English Bicknor, Churcham and Huntley, Cinderford East, Cinderford West, Coleford Central, Coleford East, Hartpury, Hewelsfield and Woolaston, Littledean and Ruspidge, Lydbrook and Ruardean, Lydney East, Lydney North, Mitcheldean and Drybrook, Newent Central, Newland and St Briavels, Newnham and Westbury, Oxenhall and Newent North East, Pillowell, Redmarley, Tibberton, Tidenham. Tewkesbury Borough Council: Highnam with Haw Bridge.
Gloucester BC 81,319 10,277   Richard Graham †   Fran Boait ‡ Gloucester City Council: Abbey, Barnwood, Barton and Tredworth, Elmbridge, Grange, Hucclecote, Kingsholm and Wotton, Matson and Robinswood, Moreland, Podsmead, Quedgeley Fieldcourt, Quedgeley Severn Vale, Tuffley, Westgate.
Stroud CC 84,537 3,840   Siobhan Baillie †   David Drew ‡ Stroud District Council: Amberley and Woodchester, Berkeley, Bisley, Cainscross, Cam East, Cam West, Central, Chalford, Coaley and Uley, Dursley, Eastington and Standish, Farmhill and Paganhill, Hardwicke, Nailsworth, Over Stroud, Painswick, Rodborough, Severn, Slade, Stonehouse, The Stanleys, Thrupp, Trinity, Uplands, Upton St Leonards, Vale, Valley.
Tewkesbury CC 83,958 22,410   Laurence Robertson † Alex Hegenbarth ¤ Cheltenham Borough Council: Prestbury, Swindon Village. Gloucester City Council: Longlevens. Tewkesbury Borough Council: 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, Winchcombe.

The Cotswolds CC 81,939 20,214   Geoffrey Clifton-Brown † Liz Webster ¤ Cotswold District Council: Ampney-Coln, Avening, Beacon-Stow, Blockley, Bourton-on-the-Water, Campden-Vale, Chedworth, Churn Valley, Cirencester Beeches, Cirencester Chesterton, Cirencester Park, Cirencester Stratton-Whiteway, Cirencester Watermoor, Ermin, Fairford, Fosseridge, Grumbolds Ash, Hampton, Kempsford-Lechlade, Moreton-in-Marsh, Northleach, Rissingtons, Riversmeet, Sandywell, Tetbury, Thames Head, Three Rivers, Water Park. Stroud District Council: Kingswood, Minchinhampton, Wotton-under-Edge.

2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain Gloucestershire's constituencies for the 2010 election, making minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. Although the changes were minor, the Cotswold constituency was renamed The Cotswolds.

Name Boundaries 1997-2010 Boundaries 2010–present
  1. Cheltenham BC
  2. Cotswold CC / The Cotswolds CC
  3. Forest of Dean CC
  4. Gloucester BC
  5. Stroud CC
  6. Tewkesbury CC
Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire
Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire
Proposed Revision
Proposed Revision

Proposed boundary changes

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[5] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission had proposed that Gloucestershire be combined with Wiltshire as a sub-region of the South West Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of South Cotswolds, resulting in a major reconfiguration of existing constituency of The Cotswolds, which would be renamed North Cotswolds.[6][7][8][9]

The following seats are proposed:

Containing electoral wards from Cheltenham

Containing electoral wards in Cotswold

Containing electoral wards in Forest of Dean

Containing wards in Gloucester

Containing wards in Stroud

Containing wards in Tewkesbury

Current Name Boundaries 2010-present Proposed Name Proposed boundaries
  1. Cheltenham BC
  2. Cotswold CC / The Cotswolds CC
  3. Forest of Dean CC
  4. Gloucester BC
  5. Stroud CC
  6. Tewkesbury CC
Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire
Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire
  1. Cheltenham BC
  2. North Cotswolds CC
  3. Forest of Dean CC
  4. Gloucester BC
  5. Stroud CC
  6. Tewkesbury CC
Proposed Revision
Proposed Revision

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[10]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Gloucestershire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 191,119 54.2% Increase1.3% 6 Increase1
Labour 80,776 22.9% Decrease5.8% 0 Decrease1
Liberal Democrats 60,431 17.1% Increase3.0% 0 0
Greens 17,116 4.9% Increase2.7% 0 0
Brexit 1,085 0.3% new 0 0
Others 2,315 0.7% Decrease1.5% 0 0
Total 352,842 100.0 6

Percentage votes

Note that before 1983 Gloucestershire covered a wider and much more populous area than it does today, including the north of what became Avon and the city of Bristol.

Election year 1922 1924 1929 1931 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (F) 1974 (O) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative1 35.5 39.8 31.6 59.9 36.9 40.2 47.8 45.46 49.0 43.72 44.4 48.6 39.8 40.2 47.8 50.7 50.4 47.4 39.4 40.9 41.7 44.8 49.2 52.9 54.2
Labour 30.6 35.0 39.7 31.6 51.6 46.9 51.0 45.42 43.6 43.64 48.7 42.4 35.4 38.2 34.9 16.7 20.8 23.1 33.9 33.7 29.3 21.0 21.0 28.7 22.9
Liberal Democrat2 15.8 25.2 25.5 8.5 11.5 10.8 1.2 1.7 7.3 11.3 6.6 8.9 24.2 21.1 16.4 32.1 28.7 28.3 22.5 21.9 23.3 28.7 13.4 14.1 17.1
Green Party - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * * * * 1.4 4.4 2.2 4.9
UKIP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * * 3.6 11.6 1.8 *
Brexit Party - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0.3
Other 18.1 - 3.2 - 6.2 2.1 - 7.4 - 1.4 0.4 0.04 0.6 0.4 0.9 0.4 .01 1.2 4.2 3.5 5.7 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.6

1including National Liberal

21950-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Accurate vote percentages cannot be obtained for the elections of 1918, 1923 and 1935 because at least one candidate stood unopposed.

Seats

Election year 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (F) 1974 (O) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative1 5 5 4 7 7 5 8 7 6 9 5 5 4 2 2 3 5 6 5 6
Labour 7 7 7 5 5 7 4 5 6 3 0 0 0 3 3 2 0 0 1 0
Liberal Democrat2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
Speaker 1
Total 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

1including National Liberal

21950-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

1885-1910

1918-1945

1950-1979

1983-present

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918

  Conservative   Liberal   Liberal Unionist

Constituency 1885 1886 87 90 1892 92 93 95 1895 1900 1906 Jan 1910 Dec 1910 11 16
Bristol East Cossham Weston Wills Hobhouse
Bristol North Fry → Townsend Fry Wills Birrell
Bristol South Weston Hill Long Davies
Bristol West M. E. Hicks-Beach Gibbs
Cheltenham Agg-Gardner Russell Agg-Gardner Sears Ponsonby Mathias Agg-Gardner
Cirencester Winterbotham → → Chester-Master Lawson Bathurst Essex Bathurst
Forest of Dean Blake Samuelson Dilke Webb
Gloucester Robinson Monk Rea Terrell
Stroud Brand Holloway Jones Cripps Allen
Tewkesbury Yorke Dorington M. H. Hicks Beach W. F. Hicks-Beach
Thornbury Howard Plunkett Colston Rendall

1918 to 1950

  Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23)   Conservative   Independent Conservative   Independent Labour   Independent National   Labour   Liberal   National Labour   National Liberal (1931-68)

Constituency 1918 1922 1923 1924 25 28 1929 31 1931 1935 36 37 39 43 1945
Bristol Central Inskip Alpass A. Apsley V. Apsley Awbery
Bristol East Britton Morris Baker Cripps → →
Bristol North Gange C. Guest Ayles F. Guest Ayles Bernays → Coldrick
Bristol South Davies Rees → Walkden Lindsay Walkden Wilkins
Bristol West Gibbs Culverwell Stanley
Cheltenham Agg-Gardner Preston Lipson →
Cirencester and Tewkesbury Davies Morrison
Forest of Dean Wignall Purcell Vaughan Worthington Price
Gloucester Bruton Horlick Boyce Turner-Samuels
Stroud Lister Tubbs F. Guest Nelson Perkins Parkin
Thornbury Rendall Woodcock Rendall Gunston Alpass

1950 to 1983

  Conservative   Labour   National Liberal (1931-68)   Speaker

Constituency 1950 50 51 1951 51 1955 57 1959 61 63 1964 1966 1970 Feb 1974 Oct 1974 1979
Bristol Central Awbery Palmer
Bristol North East Coldrick Hopkins Dobson Adley Palmer
Bristol North West Braithwaite Boyd McLaren Ellis McLaren Thomas Colvin
Bristol South Wilkins Cocks
Bristol South East Cripps Benn St Clair Benn
Bristol West Stanley Monckton Cooke Waldegrave
Cheltenham W. W. Hicks-Beach Dodds-Parker Irving
Cirencester and Tewkesbury Morrison → Ridley
Gloucester Turner-Samuels Diamond Oppenheim
Gloucestershire South Crosland Corfield Cope
Gloucestershire West Price Loughlin Watkinson Marland
Kingswood Walker Aspinwall
Stroud & Thornbury / Stroud (1955) Perkins Kershaw

1983 to present

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal Democrats

Constituency 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Cheltenham Irving Jones Horwood Chalk
Cotswold / The Cotswolds (2010) Clifton-Brown
West Gloucestershire / Forest of Dean (1997) Marland Organ Harper
Gloucester Oppenheim French Kingham Dhanda Graham
Stroud Kershaw Knapman Drew Carmichael Drew Baillie
Cirencester and Tewkesbury / Tewkesbury (1997) Ridley Clifton-Brown Robertson

See also

Notes

  1. ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

  1. ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
  2. ^ a b c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  3. ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4". Office of Public Sector Information. Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  4. ^ Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
  5. ^ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  6. ^ Garcia, Carmelo (4 December 2022). "Neighbours could have three different MPs representing them". GloucestershireLive. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  7. ^ "Gloucestershire electoral boundary changes 'a dog's dinner'". BBC News. 9 June 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Big reshuffle of Gloucestershire Parliamentary constituences is proposed". Gloucestershire News Service. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  9. ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. paras 1084-1126. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  10. ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".
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