Westbury (UK Parliament constituency)

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Westbury County constituency
Westbury shown within Wiltshire, and Wiltshire shown within England
Created:	1449
MP:	Andrew Murrison
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Wiltshire
EP constituency:	South West England

Westbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like all such constituencies, it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 General Election 2005 3.2 General Election 2001 3.3 General Election 1997 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

Westbury is a rural parliamentary constituency in the English county of Wiltshire. It contains the towns of Westbury, Warminster, Trowbridge and Bradford on Avon and the surrounding rural areas.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Wiltshire, the Boundary Commission for England have created two new constituencies in the county. Chippenham is carved mostly from the adjoining North Wiltshire constituency, plus the town of Bradford on Avon at the northern end of the Westbury constituency, while the rest of Westbury will see minor changes to its composition and be renamed South West Wiltshire.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1812 – 1814: Benjamin Hall

• 1847 – 1857: James Wilson

• 1945 – 1964: Robert Grimston, Conservative
• 1964 – 1992: Dennis Walters, Conservative
• 1992 – 2001: David Faber, Conservative
• 2001 – present: Andrew Murrison, Conservative

[edit] Election results

[edit] General Election 2005

General Election 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Murrison	24,749	44.5	-2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Duncan Hames	19,400	34.9	+3.3
	Labour	Phil Gibby	9,640	17.3	-4.1
	UK Independence	Lincoln Williams	1,815	3.3	+0.8
Majority			5,346	9.6	-0.9
Turnout			55,604	67.0	+0.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.4%

[edit] General Election 2001

General Election 2001
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Murrison	21,299	42.1	+1.5
	Liberal Democrats	David Vigar	16,005	31.6	+1.7
	Labour	Sarah Cardy	10,847	21.4	+0.3
	UK Independence	Charles Booth-Jones	1,261	2.5	+1.1
	Green	Bob Gledhill	1,216	2.4	N/A
Majority			5,294	10.5
Turnout			50,628	66.6	-9.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] General Election 1997

General Election 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Faber	23,037	40.6%
	Liberal Democrats	John Miller	16,969	29.9%
	Labour	Kevin Small	11,969
	Liberal	G Hawkings	1,956	21.1%
	Referendum Party	N Hawkings-Byass	1,909	3.4%
	UK Independence	R Westbury	771	1.6%
	Natural Law	C Haysom	140	0.3%
Turnout			56,751
	Conservative hold		Swing

(Source: Guardian Unlimited, 2004)

[edit] References

• Guardian Unlimited (2004). Ask Aristotle - Westbury. Retrieved November 16, 2004.

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire

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)