Stroud (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stroud County constituency
Stroud shown within Gloucestershire, and Gloucestershire shown within England
Created:	1832, 1955
MP:	David Drew
Party:	Labour Co-operative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Gloucestershire
EP constituency:	South West England

Stroud 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.

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

[edit] Boundaries

The geographical extent of the constituency coincides approximately with Stroud District.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1955 — 1987: Anthony Kershaw, Conservative
• 1987 — 1997: Roger Knapman, Conservative
• 1997 — present: David Drew, Labour Co-operative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Stroud
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	David Drew	22,527	39.6	- 7.0
	Conservative	Neil Carmichael	22,177	39.0	+ 1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Hirst	8,026	14.1	+ 3.2
	Green	Martin Whiteside	3,056	5.4	+ 1.9
	UK Independence	Edward Noble	1,089	1.9	+ 0.3
Majority			350	0.6	-8.8
Turnout			56875	71.3	+1.3
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

General Election 2001: Stroud
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	David Drew	25,685	46.6	+3.9
	Conservative	Neil Carmichael	20,646	37.4	-0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Janice Beasley	6,036	10.9	-4.5
	Green	Kevin Cranston	1,913	3.5	-0.5
	UK Independence	Adrian Blake	895	1.6	N/A
Majority			5,039	9.2
Turnout			55,175	70.0	-8.8
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Stroud
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	David Drew	26,170	42.7
	Conservative	Roger Knapman	23,260	37.9
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Hodgkinson	9,502	15.5
	Green	J Marjoram	2,415	3.9
Majority			2,910	9.2	4.7
Turnout			61,347	79.2
	Labour Co-op gain from Conservative		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)