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Coordinates: 51°53′24″N 2°04′41″W / 51.890°N 2.078°W / 51.890; -2.078

Cheltenham Borough constituency

Cheltenham shown within Gloucestershire, and Gloucestershire shown within England
Created:	1832
MP:	Martin Horwood
Party:	Liberal Democrat
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Gloucestershire
EP constituency:	South West England

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.

1 Boundaries
2 History
3 Members of Parliament
4 Election results
5 See also

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.

The village of Prestbury was contained in the seat from 1983 to 1997, when it was transferred to the new constituency of Tewkesbury.

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

	Member	Party	Notes
1832	Hon. Craven Berkeley	Liberal
1847	Sir Willoughby Jones	Conservative	unseated on petition
1848, June by-election	Hon. Craven Berkeley	Liberal	unseated on petition
1848, September by-election	Charles Lennox Granville Berkeley	Liberal
1852	Hon. Craven Berkeley	Liberal	died 1855
1855 by-election	Charles Lennox Granville Berkeley	Liberal
1856 by-election	Francis Berkeley	Liberal
1865	Charles Schreiber	Conservative
1868	Henry Bernhard Samuelson	Liberal
1874	James Tynte Agg-Gardner	Conservative
1880	Charles 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 Preston	Conservative
1937 by-election	Daniel Lipson	Independent Conservative
1950	William Hicks-Beach	Conservative
1964	Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker	Conservative
Oct 1974	Charles Irving	Conservative
1992	Nigel Jones	Liberal Democrat
2005	Martin Horwood	Liberal Democrat

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

Cheltenham by-election, 26th September 1928
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Walter Preston	10,438	49.5	−7.1
	Liberal	Sir John Brunner	6,678	31.7	−11.7
	Labour	Florence Widdowson	3,962	18.8	N/A
Majority			3,760	17.8	+4.6
Turnout				80.3	−2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

Cheltenham by-election, 22nd June 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Conservative	Daniel Lipson	10,533	40.0	N/A
	Conservative	R. T. Harper	10,194	38.8	−31.7
	Labour	Cecil Charles Poole	5,570	21.2	−8.3
Majority			339	1.2
Turnout				69.3	−1.1
	Independent Conservative gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Cheltenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Nigel Jones	30,351	47.34
	Conservative	John Taylor	28,683	44.74
	Labour	P Tatlow	4,077	6.36
	Anti-Federal Europe	M Rendall	665	1.04
	Natural Law	H Brighouse	169	0.26
	Independent	M Bruce-Smith	162	0.25

General Election 1997: Cheltenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Nigel Jones	24,877	49.45	+2.11
	Conservative	W Todman	18,232	36.24	-8.50
	Labour	B Leach	5,100	10.14	+3.78
	Referendum Party	A Powell	1,065	2.12
	Monster Raving Loony	K Hanks	375	0.75
	UKIP	G Cook	302	0.60
	ProLife Alliance	A Harriss	245	0.49
	Natural Law	S Brighouse	107	0.21	-0.05

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Cheltenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Nigel Jones	19,970	47.7	-1.7
	Conservative	Rob Garnham	14,715	35.2	-1.1
	Labour	Andy Erlam	5,041	12.0	+1.9
	Green	Keith Bessant	735	1.8	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	Ken Hanks	513	1.2	+0.5
	UKIP	James Carver	482	1.2	+0.6
	ProLife Alliance	Anthony Gates	272	0.7	+0.2
	Independent	Roger Everest	107	0.3	N/A
Majority			5,255	12.5
Turnout			41,835	61.9	-12.1
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

General Election 2005: Cheltenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Martin Horwood	18,122	41.5	−6.2
	Conservative	Vanessa Gearson	15,819	36.3	+1.1
	Labour	Christopher Evans	4,988	11.4	−0.6
	Independent	Robert Hodges	2,651	6.1	N/A
	Green	Keith Bessant	908	2.1	+0.3
	UKIP	Niall Warry	608	1.4	+0.2
	Monster Raving Loony	Dancing Ken Hanks	525	1.2	0.0
Majority			2,303	5.3
Turnout			43,621	61.0	−0.9
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	−3.6

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