Gloucester (UK Parliament constituency)

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Gloucester Borough constituency
Gloucester shown within Gloucestershire, and Gloucestershire shown within England
Created:	1295
MP:	Parmjit Dhanda
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Gloucestershire
EP constituency:	South West England

Gloucester is a borough 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 2.1 1295-1640 2.2 1640-1832 2.3 Since 1885 3 Election results 4 References 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the area of the city of Gloucester.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1295-1640

Parliament of 1555	Arthur Porter
Parliament of 1558	Richard Pates
Parliament of 1559		Sir Nicholas Arnold
Parliament of 1563-1567
Parliament of 1571	Thomas Atkins
Parliament of 1572-1583
Parliament of 1584-1585		Luke Garnons
Parliament of 1586-1587		Richard Pates
Parliament of 1588-1589		Luke Garnons
Parliament of 1593		Richard Birde
Parliament of 1597-1598	William Oldsworth	Luke Garnons
Parliament of 1601
Parliament of 1604-1611	Nicholas Overbury	John Jones
Addled Parliament (1614)	Thomas Machen	John Browne
Parliament of 1621-1622	Anthony Robinson
Happy Parliament (1624-1625)
Useless Parliament (1625)
Parliament of 1625-1626
Parliament of 1628-1629
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640

[edit] 1640-1832

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
November 1640		Thomas Pury, senior	Parliamentarian		Henry Brett	Royalist
February 1644				Brett disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645					John Lenthall
1653	Gloucester was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654		Thomas Pury, senior			William Lenthall [1]
1656					Major-General John Desborough [2]
January 1659		Laurence Singleton			James Stephens
May 1659		Thomas Pury, senior			John Lenthall
April 1660		Sir Edward Massey			James Stephens
1661					Evan Seys
1675		Henry Norwood
February 1679		William Cooke
September 1679		Sir Charles Berkeley
1681					Lord Herbert
1685		John Wagstaffe			John Powell
1689		Sir Duncombe Colchester			William Cooke
1690		William Trye
1695					Robert Payne
1698		Sir William Rich			William Selwyn
January 1701		John Bridgeman
December 1701		Viscount Dursley			John Hanbury
July 1702		John Grobham Howe			William Trye
December 1702		John Hanbury
1705					William Cooke
1708		Thomas Webb
1709					Francis Wyndham
1710					John Blanch
1713		John Snell			Charles Coxe
1722					Charles Hyett
February 1727		John Howe
September 1727 [3]		Benjamin Bathurst			Charles Selwyn
1734					John Selwyn
1751					(Sir) Charles Barrow [4]	Tory
1754		George Augustus Selwyn	Whig
1761						Whig
1780		John Webb	Whig
1789					John Pitt	Tory
1795		Henry Thomas Howard	Whig
1805					Robert Morris	Whig
1816					Edward Webb	Whig
1818		Robert Bransby Cooper	Tory
1830		John Philpotts	Whig
1831		Maurice Berkeley	Whig
1832					John Philpotts	Whig
1833		Henry Hope	Conservative
1835					Maurice Berkeley	Whig
1837					John Philpotts	Whig
1841		Maurice Berkeley	Whig
1847					Henry Hope	Conservative
1852					William Philip Price	Whig
1857		Sir Robert Carden	Conservative
1859 [5]		Charles James Monk	Liberal			Liberal
1862		Hon. Charles Berkeley	Liberal		John Joseph Powell	Liberal
1865		Charles James Monk	Liberal		William Philip Price	Liberal
1873					William Killigrew Wait	Conservative
1880					Thomas Robinson [6]	Liberal
1881				Writ suspended: seat vacant
1885	Representation reduced to one Member

[edit] Since 1885

Election		Member	Party
	1885	(Sir) Thomas Robinson	Liberal
	1895	Charles James Monk	Liberal Unionist
	1900	Russell Rea	Liberal
	January 1910	Henry Terrell	Conservative
	1918	Sir James Bruton	Conservative
	1923	James Horlick	Conservative
	1929	Leslie Boyce	Conservative
	1945	Moss Turner-Samuels	Labour
	1957 by-election	Jack Diamond	Labour
	1970	Sally Oppenheim	Conservative
	1987	Douglas French	Conservative
	1997	Tess Kingham	Labour
	2001	Parmjit Dhanda	Labour

Notes

1. ^ Lenthall was also elected for Oxfordshire. Cobbett's recording of William Lenthall as elected for Gloucester may be an error, as his son John sat for the city both before and after this Parliament.
2. ^ Desborough was also elected for Somerset
3. ^ At the election of 1727 there was a double return, but two of the candidates returned, Matthew Ducie Moreton and Thomas Chester waived their rights and Bathurst and Selwyn were declared duly elected.
4. ^ Created a baronet, 1784
5. ^ On petition, the 1859 election was declared void, the writ was suspended, and a Royal Commission appointed to investigate. After the Commission reported, the writ was restorted and a by-election held to fill the vacant seats.
6. ^ On petition, Robinson's election was declared void, the writ was suspended and a Royal Commission appointed to investigate

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Gloucester
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Parmjit Dhanda	23,138	44.7	−1.1
	Conservative	Paul James	18,867	36.4	−1.3
	Liberal Democrat	Jeremy Hilton	7,825	15.1	+0.8
	UK Independence	Gary Phipps	1,116	2.2	+0.5
	Green	Bryan Meloy	857	1.7	N/A
Majority			4,271	8.2
Turnout			51,803	62.8	+3.4
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.1

General Election 2001: Gloucester
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Parmjit Dhanda	22,067	45.8	-4.2
	Conservative	Paul James	18,187	37.7	+2.0
	Liberal Democrat	Tim Bullamore	6,875	14.3	+3.8
	UK Independence	Terry Lines	822	1.7	+0.9
	Socialist Alliance	Stewart Smyth	272	0.6	N/A
Majority			3,880	8.1
Turnout			48,223	59.4	-14.1
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] References

• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
• The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)
• Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [3]
• Lewis Namier & John Brooke, The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790 (London: HMSO, 1964)
• J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire

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[edit] External links

• Gloucester CLP website