Cheltenham (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cheltenham Borough constituency

Cheltenham shown within Gloucestershire, and Gloucestershire shown within England
Created:	1832
MP:	Martin Horwood
Party:	Liberal Democrat
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Gloucestershire
EP constituency:	South West England

Cheltenham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

1 Boundaries
2 History
3 Members of Parliament
4 Election results
5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, although with slightly different boundaries to those of Cheltenham borough. It borders the constituency of Tewkesbury on three sides and Cotswold on the other.

[edit] History

The Conservative Party held the constituency from 1950 until 1992. The Conservatives' campaign in the 1992 general election was marred by a local party member's racist remarks about their candidate, John Taylor, who is of West Indian descent. Taylor subsequently lost the election to Nigel Jones of the Liberal Democrats.

In 2000, Jones was nearly murdered in a horrific incident at one of his MP's surgeries; a man attacked him and an assistant with a samurai sword. His colleague, Andrew Pennington, was killed in the attack. Jones was made a life peer in 2005. The Liberal Democrats held Cheltenham in the 2005 election, with Martin Horwood taking the seat.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Constituency created (1832)
1900 — 1906: James Tynte Agg-Gardner, Conservative
1906 — 1910: John Edward Sears, Liberal
17 January 1910 — December 1910: Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, Conservative
1910 — 1911: Richard Mathias, Conservative
1911 — 1928: Sir James Tynte Agg-Gardner, Conservative
1928 — 1937: Sir Walter Reuben Preston, Conservative
1937 — 1950: Daniel Lipson, Independent Conservative
1950 — 1964: Hicks Beach, Conservative
1964 — 1974: Douglas Dodds-Parker, Conservative
1974 — 1992: Charles Irving, Conservative
1992 — 2005: Nigel Jones, Liberal Democrat
2005 — present: Martin Horwood, Liberal Democrat

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[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Cheltenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Horwood	18,122	41.5	−6.2
	Conservative	Vanessa Gearson	15,819	36.3	+1.1
	Labour	Christopher Evans	4,988	11.4	−0.6
	Independent	Robert Hodges	2,651	6.1	N/A
	Green	Keith Bessant	908	2.1	+0.3
	UK Independence	Niall Warry	608	1.4	+0.2
	Monster Raving Loony	Dancing Ken Hanks	525	1.2	0.0
Majority			2,303	5.3
Turnout			43,621	61.0	−0.9
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	−3.6

General Election 2001: Cheltenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Jones	19,970	47.7	-1.7
	Conservative	Rob Garnham	14,715	35.2	-1.1
	Labour	Andy Erlam	5,041	12.0	+1.9
	Green	Keith Bessant	735	1.8	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	Ken Hanks	513	1.2	+0.5
	UK Independence	James Carver	482	1.2	+0.6
	ProLife Alliance	Anthony Gates	272	0.7	+0.2
	Independent	Roger Everest	107	0.3	N/A
Majority			5,255	12.5
Turnout			41,835	61.9	-12.1
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire

Constituencies in South West England
Conservative	Bournemouth East \| Bournemouth West \| Bridgwater \| Christchurch \| Cotswold \| Devizes \| East Devon \| Forest of Dean \| North Dorset \| North Wiltshire \| Poole \| Salisbury \| South West Devon \| Tewkesbury \| Tiverton and Honiton \| Torridge and West Devon \| Totnes \| Wells \| West Dorset \| Westbury \| Weston-super-Mare \| Woodspring
Liberal Democrat	Bath \| Bristol West \| Cheltenham \| Falmouth and Camborne \| Mid Dorset and North Poole \| North Cornwall \| North Devon \| Northavon \| Somerton and Frome \| South East Cornwall \| St Ives \| Taunton \| Teignbridge \| Torbay \| Truro and St Austell \| Yeovil
Labour	Bristol East \| Bristol North West \| Bristol South \| Exeter \| Gloucester \| Kingswood \| North Swindon \| Plymouth Devonport \| Plymouth Sutton \| South Dorset \| South Swindon \| Stroud \| Wansdyke
South West European constituency: Conservative (3) \| UKIP (2) \| Liberal Democrats (1) \| Labour (1)