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 county 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 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Boundaries

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

[edit] Members of Parliament

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Election		Member	Party
	1875	Samuel Stephens Marling
	1880	Walter John Stanton Henry Robert Brand, later Viscount Hampden (to 1886)

1885 REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER

Election		Member	Party
	1886	George Holloway
	1892	David Brynmor Jones	Liberal
	1895	Charles Alfred Cripps	Conservative
	1900	Charles Peter Allen	Conservative
	1918	Sir Robert Ashton Lister	Liberal
	1922	Stanley William Tubbs	Conservative
	1923	Frederick Edward Guest	Liberal
	1924	Sir Frank Nelson	Unionist
	1931	Walter Robert Dempster Perkins	Conservative
	1945	Flt. Lt. Ben Parkin	Labour
1950		constituency renamed as "Stroud and Thornbury"
	1950	Sir Walter Robert Dempster Perkins	Conservative
1955		constituency name reverted to "Stroud"
	1955	Anthony Kershaw	Conservative
	1987	Roger Knapman	Conservative
	1997	David Drew	Labour Co-operative

[edit] Election results

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Neil Carmichael
	Labour	David Drew
	Green	Martin Whiteside

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 Democrat	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 Democrat	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 Democrat	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

v • d • e 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 England European constituency	Conservative (3) • UKIP (2) • Liberal Democrats (1) • Labour (1)