South West Wiltshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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South West Wiltshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of South West Wiltshire in Wiltshire for the 2010 general election.
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Location of Wiltshire within England.
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County | Wiltshire |
Electorate | 72,820 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of parliament | Andrew Murrison (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Westbury, Salisbury |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South West England |
South West Wiltshire is a constituency[note 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Andrew Murrison, a Conservative, since its creation in 2010.[note 2]
Contents
History
The constituency was created for the 2010 general election, following the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies tasked to the Boundary Commission, by which Parliament increased the number of seats in the county from six to seven.[2]
The previous Westbury constituency was abolished: the northern part (including the town of Bradford-on-Avon) was transferred to the reinstated Chippenham seat, and the southern part (including the towns of Trowbridge, Warminster and Westbury) formed the bulk of this constituency, which to complete it, received a minority of wards from the Salisbury seat.
Boundaries
The seat has electoral wards:[3]
- Dilton Marsh, Donhead, Ethandune,[note 3] Fonthill and Nadder, Knoyle, Mid Wylye Valley, Shearwater,[note 4] Southwick and Wingfield, Summerham,[note 5] Tisbury and Fovant; Trowbridge: Adcroft, College, Drynham, John of Gaunt and Park wards; Warminster East, Warminster West, Westbury Ham, Westbury Laverton and Western & Mere.
All wards are in the (unitary) County of Wiltshire.[4]
Constituency profile
Workless claimants (registered jobseekers) were in November 2012 lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.6% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[5]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[6] | Party | Notes | |
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2010 | Dr Andrew Murrison | Conservative | Surgeon Commander (RN) and Minister for International Security Strategy |
Elections
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- For the approximate comparator before 2010, as the main predecessor seat, see Westbury.
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Murrison | 27,198 | 52.7 | +1.0 | |
UKIP | Matthew Brown[8] | 9,030 | 17.5 | +12.0 | |
Labour | George Aylett | 6,948 | 13.5 | +2.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Trevor Carbin | 5,482 | 10.6 | -19.9 | |
Green | Phil Randle | 2,985 | 5.8 | +5.8 | |
Majority | 18,168 | 35.2 | |||
Turnout | 51,643 | 70.7 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Murrison | 25,321 | 51.7 | +2.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Trevor Carbin | 14,954 | 30.5 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Rebecca Rennison | 5,613 | 11.5 | -5.7 | |
UKIP | Michael Cuthbert-Murray | 2,684 | 5.5 | +2.0 | |
Independent | Crispin Black | 446 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 10,367 | 21.1 | |||
Turnout | 49,018 | 68.4 | +3.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.1 |
See also
Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer).
- ↑ As with all constituencies, South West Wiltshire elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- ↑ Named from the Battle of Ethandune near Edington.
- ↑ Named from Shear Water near Crockerton
- ↑ Named from the Summerham Brook near Seend.
References
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- ↑ 2010 post-revision map non-metropolitan areas and unitary authorities of England
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/wiltshiresouthwest/
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