Cheltenham (UK Parliament constituency)

Cheltenham 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.

Boundaries

The constituency covers the town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, although with slightly different boundaries to those of Cheltenham borough. It borders the constituency of Tewkesbury on three sides and Cotswold on the other.

History

Cheltenham borough constituency was created in the Great Reform Act of 1832 and has returned nine Liberals (or Liberal Democrats) and nine Conservatives to Parliament since that time, along with one independent.

The Conservative Party held the constituency from 1950 until 1992. The Conservatives' campaign in the 1992 general election was marred by a local party member's racist remarks about their candidate, John Taylor, who is of West Indian descent. Taylor subsequently lost the election to Nigel Jones of the Liberal Democrats.

In 2000, Jones was nearly murdered in a horrific incident at one of his MP's surgeries; a man attacked him and an assistant with a samurai sword. His colleague, Andrew Pennington, was killed in the attack. Jones was made a life peer in 2005. The Liberal Democrats held Cheltenham in the 2005 election, with Martin Horwood taking the seat.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1832	Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley	Liberal
	1847	Sir Willoughby Jones	Conservative	unseated on petition
	1848, June by-election	Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley	Liberal	unseated on petition
	1848, September by-election	Charles Lennox Granville Berkeley	Liberal
	1852	Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley	Liberal	died 1855
	1855 by-election	Charles Lennox Granville Berkeley	Liberal
	1856 by-election	Francis William Fitzhardinge Berkeley	Liberal
	1865	Charles Schreiber	Conservative
	1868	Henry Bernhard Samuelson	Liberal
	1874	James Tynte Agg-Gardner	Conservative
	1880	Charles Conrad Adolphus du Bois de Ferrieres	Liberal
	1885	James Tynte Agg-Gardner	Conservative
	1895	Francis Shirley Russell	Conservative
	1900	James Tynte Agg-Gardner	Conservative
	1906	John Edward Sears	Liberal
	1910, January	Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon	Conservative
	1910, December	Richard Mathias	Liberal	unseated on petition
	1911 by-election	Sir James Tynte Agg-Gardner	Conservative	Knighted in 1916
	1928 by-election	Sir Walter Reuben Preston	Conservative
	1937 by-election	Daniel Leopold Lipson	Independent Conservative
	1950	William Whitehead Hicks-Beach	Conservative
	1964	Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker	Conservative
	1974, October	Sir Charles Graham Irving	Conservative
	1992	Nigel Jones	Liberal Democrat
	2005	Martin Horwood	Liberal Democrat

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 2000s

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire