Forest of Dean (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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![]() Boundary of Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire for the 2010 general election.
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![]() Location of Gloucestershire within England.
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County | Gloucestershire |
Electorate | 68,703 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of parliament | Mark Harper (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | West Gloucestershire |
1885–1950 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | West Gloucestershire |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South West England |
Forest of Dean is a parliamentary constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Mark Harper, a Conservative.[n 2]
Contents
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Sessional Divisions of Coleford, Lydney, Newent, and Newnham.
1918-1950: The Urban Districts of Awre, Coleford, Newnham, and Westbury-on-Severn, the Rural Districts of East Dean and United Parishes (the civil parishes of Abenhall, Blaisdon, Bulley, Churcham, East Dean, Flaxley, Huntley, Littledean, Longhope, Mitcheldean, Minsterworth, and Ruardean), Lydney (the civil parishes of Alvington, Aylburton, Hewelsfield, Lancaut, Lydney, St Briavels, Tidenham, and Woolaston), Newent, and West Dean (the civil parishes of English Bicknor, Newland, Staunton, and West Dean), and in the Rural District of Gloucester the civil parishes of Ashleworth, Highnam, Over and Linton, Lassington, and Maisemore.
History
This seat was created for the 1885 general election, replacing the two-seat constituency of West Gloucestershire under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and abolished for the 1950 general election. It was re-created, with different boundaries, for the 1997 general election.
Constituency profile
The Forest of Dean constituency covers Gloucestershire west of the river Severn, and lies in the south west of England, near the Welsh border.
The core of the constituency consists of the Royal Forest of Dean itself, which was established by William the Conqueror nearly a thousand years ago and is one of the last surviving Royal Forests in England. The seat has a rich industrial and mining history, evidenced by the market towns of Coleford and Cinderford, and the old port of Lydney from where coal mined in the Forest of Dean Coalfield would start its journey to all parts of the world. The Dean’s rich industrial heritage and spectacular natural beauty unsurprisingly means tourism is an increasingly important aspect of Forest life.
The Wye Valley forms the western border of the Forest and is an area of outstanding natural beauty, whilst the Leadon Valley forms the northern portion of the constituency. The Vale consists of quintessentially unspoilt English countryside with rolling farmland centred on the picturesque Tudor town of Newent, and also produces fine English wine.
The constituency also includes parishes from Tewkesbury district, including Forthampton, Chaceley Hole, Hasfield, Ashleworth and Highnam.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1885–1950
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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1885 | Thomas Blake | Liberal | |
1887 by-election | Godfrey Blundell Samuelson | Liberal | |
1892 | Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke | Liberal | |
1911 by-election | Henry Webb | Liberal | |
1918 | James Wignall | Labour | |
1925 by-election | Albert Arthur Purcell | Labour | |
1929 | David John Vaughan | Labour | |
1931 | Sir John Vigers Worthington | National Labour | |
1935 | Morgan Philips Price | Labour | |
1950 | constituemcy abolished |
MPs since 1997
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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1997 | Diana Organ | Labour | |
2005 | Mark Harper | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Mark Harper[6] | 23,191 | 46.8 | -0.1 | |
Labour | Steve Parry-Hearn[7] | 12,204 | 24.6 | +0.5 | |
UKIP | Steve Stanbury | 8,792 | 17.8 | +12.6 | |
Green | James Greenwood | 2,703 | 5.5 | +3.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Christopher Coleman | 2,630 | 5.3 | -16.6 | |
Majority | 10,987 | 22.2 | -0.5 | ||
Turnout | 49,520 | 70.9 | -0.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Mark Harper | 22,853 | 46.9 | +6.0 | |
Labour | Bruce Hogan | 11,789 | 24.2 | -12.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Christopher Coleman | 10,676 | 21.9 | +4.7 | |
UKIP | Tim Congdon | 2,522 | 5.2 | +2.8 | |
Green | James Greenwood | 923 | 1.9 | -0.2 | |
Majority | 11,064 | 22.7 | |||
Turnout | 48,763 | 71.3 | +0.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +9.2 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Mark Harper | 19,474 | 40.9 | +2.1 | |
Labour | Isabel Owen | 17,425 | 36.6 | −6.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Christopher Coleman | 8,185 | 17.2 | +4.3 | |
UKIP | Patricia Hill | 1,140 | 2.4 | +0.9 | |
Green | Stephen Tweedie | 991 | 2.1 | −0.7 | |
Independent | Anthony Reeve | 300 | 0.6 | N/A | |
English Democrats | Gerald Morgan | 125 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,049 | 4.3 | |||
Turnout | 47,640 | 70.9 | +3.6 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +4.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Diana Organ | 19,350 | 43.4 | -4.8 | |
Conservative | Mark Harper | 17,301 | 38.8 | +3.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | David Gayler | 5,762 | 12.9 | +0.6 | |
Green | Simon Pickering | 1,254 | 2.8 | N/A | |
UKIP | Allen Prout | 661 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Independent | Gerald Morgan | 279 | 0.6 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 2,049 | 4.6 | |||
Turnout | 44,607 | 67.3 | -11.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Election in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Diana Organ | 24,203 | 48.23 | ||
Conservative | Paul Marland | 17,860 | 35.59 | ||
Liberal Democrat | A Lynch | 6,165 | 12.29 | ||
Referendum | J Hopkins | 1,624 | 3.24 | ||
Independent | G Morgan | 218 | 0.43 | ||
Independent | C Palmer | 80 | 0.16 | ||
Independent | S Porter | 34 | 0.07 | ||
Majority | 6,343 | 12.64 | |||
Turnout | 78.74 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Morgan Philips Price | 19,721 | 65.19 | ||
Independent | J Brown | 10,529 | 34.81 | ||
Majority | 9,192 | 30.39 | |||
Turnout | 70.90 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Morgan Philips Price | 16,768 | 57.61 | ||
National Labour | John Vigers Worthington | 12,337 | 42.39 | ||
Majority | 4,431 | 15.22 | |||
Turnout | 77.32 | ||||
Labour gain from National Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Labour | John Vigers Worthington | 14,815 | 52.71 | ||
Labour | David John Vaughan | 13,291 | 47.29 | ||
Majority | 5,181 | 22.88 | |||
Turnout | 76.90 | ||||
National Labour gain from Labour | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David John Vaughan | 13,976 | 52.1 | ||
Unionist | William Campbell Mitchell Cotts | 7,092 | 26.5 | ||
Liberal | J.W. Westwood | 5,738 | 21.4 | ||
Majority | 6,884 | 25.6 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | James Wignall | 11,486 | 60.9 | +8.5 | |
Unionist | Augustus George Cuthbert Dinnick | 7,383 | 39.1 | +10.2 | |
Majority | 4,103 | 21.8 | -1.7 | ||
Turnout | 64.7 | -7.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | James Wignall | 10,820 | 52.4 | -10.4 | |
Unionist | Augustus George Cuthbert Dinnick | 5,966 | 28.9 | n/a | |
National Liberal | Winifred Margaret Coombe Tennant | 3,861 | 18.7 | n/a | |
Majority | 4,844 | 23.5 | |||
Turnout | 72.0 | +15.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | James Wignall | 9,731 | |||
Liberal | Lt-Col. Sir Henry Webb | 5,765 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
- Webb received the coupon of endorsement from the Coalition government.
A general election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the autumn of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted [*approved but not actually adopted] to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Henry Webb | ||||
Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Henry Webb | 6,174 | |||
Conservative | David Hope Kyd | 3,106 | |||
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Rt Hon. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke | 5,544 | |||
Conservative | David Hope Kyd | 2,820 | |||
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "F" [self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ election result http://www.fdean.gov.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=8672 19 June 2015
- ↑ electorate 69865 provided by Forest of Dean Council by email
- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/forestofdean/
- ↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/forest-of-dean-2015.html
- ↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/forest-of-dean-2015.html
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ FWS Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ FWS Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
See also
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with one unnamed parameter
- Pages with broken file links
- Forest of Dean
- Politics of Gloucestershire
- Parliamentary constituencies in South West England
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1885
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1997