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. Since 1885, it has been a county constituency, electing one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election; it has returned a Conservative MP at every election since 1924. Previously it was a parliamentary borough, returning two MPs from 1449 to 1832 and one from 1832 to 1885.

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[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

[edit] Westbury borough (before 1885)

[edit] 1449-1640

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[edit] 1640-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1640 Sir Thomas Penyston  ?
November 1640 John Ashe Parliamentarian William Wheler Parliamentarian
December 1648 Wheler excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Westbury was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 Robert Villiers, alias Danvers William Eyre
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump, Ashe having died in the interim
April 1660 Richard Lewis William Brouncker
1661 Thomas Wancklyn [1]
1678 Henry Bertie
February 1679 William Trenchard
August 1679 Henry Bertie
1680 Edward Norton William Trenchard
1681 John Ashe
1685 Richard Lewis James Herbert
1689 Peregrine Bertie
1695 Robert Bertie
1701 Henry Bertie
July 1702 William Trenchard Thomas Phipps
December 1702 Henry Bertie Robert Bertie
1708 Francis Annesley
January 1715 Willoughby Bertie
June 1715 The Lord Carbery Charles Allanson
1722 James Bertie [2] Francis Annesley
1724 The Lord Carbery
1727 John Hoskins Gifford
1734 Hon. George Evans John Bance
1741 Joseph Townsend
1747 John Bance Paul Methuen
1748 Chauncy Townsend Pro-Government Matthew Michell
1753 Peregrine Bertie
1768 William Blackstone
1770 Hon. Charles Dillon
1774 Hon. Thomas Wenman[3] Nathaniel Bayly
1779 Samuel Estwick
1780 (Sir) John Whalley-Gardiner [4]
1784 Chaloner Arcedeckne
1786 John Madocks
1790 Ewan Law
January 1795 Samuel Estwick
November 1795 Edward Wilbraham-Bootle
May 1796 Sir Henry Paulet St John-Mildmay George Ellis [5]
October 1796 Lieutenant Colonel George Harcourt
1800 John Simon Harcourt
1802 William Baldwin Charles Smith
1806 William Jacob John Woolmore
May 1807 Edward Lascelles Glynn Wynn
July 1807 Henry Lascelles
1809 Francis Whittle
1810 John de Ponthieu
1812 Benjamin Hall Benjamin Shaw
1814 Ralph Franco Tory
1818 Lord Francis Conyngham
1819 William Leader Maberly
March 1820 Jonathan Elford Nathaniel Barton
November 1820 Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes Tory Philip John Miles Tory
1826 Sir George Warrender Canningite Tory
1829 Robert Peel Tory
1830 Sir Alexander Cray Grant Tory Michael George Prendergast Tory
May 1831 Sir Ralph Lopes Whig Henry Hanmer Whig
July 1831 Henry Frederick Stephenson
1832 Representation reduced to one MP

[edit] 1832-1885

Year Member Party
1832 Sir Ralph Lopes Whig
1837 John Ivatt Briscoe Whig
1841 Sir Ralph Lopes Conservative
1847 James Wilson Whig
1857 Sir Massey Lopes Conservative
1868 John Lewis Phipps [6] Conservative
1869 Charles Paul Phipps Conservative
1874 Abraham Laverton Liberal
1880 Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps Conservative
1885 Borough abolished - named transferred to county division

[edit] Westbury County Constituency (since 1885)

Year Member Party
1885 George Fuller Liberal
1895 Richard Chaloner Conservative
1900 John Fuller Liberal
1911 Hon. Geoffrey Howard Liberal
1918 George Llewellen Palmer Coalition Conservative
1922 Charles Darbishire Liberal
1924 Captain W. W. Shaw Conservative
1927 Richard Long Conservative
1931 (Sir) Robert Grimston [7] Conservative
1964 (Sir) Dennis Walters Conservative
1992 David Faber Conservative
2001 Andrew Murrison Conservative

Notes

  1. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons for corrupt misuse of Parliamentary Privilege
  2. ^ Bertie was also elected for Middlesex, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Westbury
  3. ^ later Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford
  4. ^ Created a baronet, December 1782
  5. ^ Ellis was also elected for Seaford, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Westbury
  6. ^ The election of 1868 was held void on petition, and a by-election held
  7. ^ Created a baronet, 1952

[edit] Election results

[edit] General Election 2005

General Election 2005
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Andrew Murrison 24,749 44.5 +2.4
Liberal Democrat 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 Democrat 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 Democrat 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.
  • 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) [1]
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

[edit] See also

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