Westbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Westbury (UK Parliament constituency)

UK constituency infobox
Name = Westbury
Map1 = Westbury
Map2 = Wiltshire
Entity = Wiltshire
Type = County
County = Wiltshire
Year = 1449
MP = Andrew Murrison
Party = Conservative
EP = 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.

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.

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.

Members of Parliament

Westbury borough (before 1885)

1449-1640

* 1491: Sir Thomas Long of Draycot
* 1588: Henry Fanshawe
* 1593: Henry Fanshawe
* 1625: Gifford Long

1640-1832

Notes

Election results

General Election 2005

Election box begin
title=General Election 2005
Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Andrew Murrison
votes = 24,749
percentage = 44.5
change = +2.4
Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Duncan Hames
votes = 19,400
percentage = 34.9
change = +3.3
Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Phil Gibby
votes = 9,640
percentage = 17.3
change = -4.1
Election box candidate with party link
party = United Kingdom Independence Party
candidate = Lincoln Williams
votes = 1,815
percentage = 3.3
change = +0.8
Election box majority
votes = 5,346
percentage = 9.6
change = -0.9
Election box turnout
votes = 55,604
percentage = 67.0
change = +0.4

Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = 0.4%

General Election 2001

Election box begin
title=General Election 2001
Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Andrew Murrison
votes = 21,299
percentage = 42.1
change = +1.5
Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = David Vigar
votes = 16,005
percentage = 31.6
change = +1.7
Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Sarah Cardy
votes = 10,847
percentage = 21.4
change = +0.3
Election box candidate with party link
party = United Kingdom Independence Party
candidate = Charles Booth-Jones
votes = 1,261
percentage = 2.5
change = +1.1
Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Bob Gledhill
votes = 1,216
percentage = 2.4
change = "N/A"
Election box majority
votes = 5,294
percentage = 10.5
change =
Election box turnout
votes = 50,628
percentage = 66.6
change = -9.6
Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

General Election 1997

Election box begin
title=General Election 1997
Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = David Faber
votes = 23,037
percentage = 40.6%
change =
Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = John Miller
votes = 16,969
percentage = 29.9%
change =
Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Kevin Small
votes = 11,969
percentage =
change =
Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK, 1989)
candidate = G Hawkings
votes = 1,956
percentage = 21.1%
change =
Election box candidate with party link
party = Referendum Party
candidate = N Hawkings-Byass
votes = 1,909
percentage = 3.4%
change =
Election box candidate with party link
party = United Kingdom Independence Party
candidate = R Westbury
votes = 771
percentage = 1.6%
change =
Election box candidate with party link
party = Natural Law Party
candidate = C Haysom
votes = 140
percentage = 0.3%
change =
Election box turnout
votes = 56,751
percentage =
change =
Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

(Source: Guardian Unlimited, 2004)

References

*Guardian Unlimited (2004). [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/hoc/constituency/0,9338,-1432,00.html 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) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
*Rayment

ee also

*List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire


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