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The Cotswolds - History
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| Established | May 01, 1997 |
| Disbanded | July 04, 2024 |
| Last Modified | IndyGeorgia May 26, 2024 12:54pm |
| Description | As the name suggests, this constituency covers a large part of the Cotswold Hills - a large Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. River valleys cut through the hills and provide the setting for many villages and small towns, built in honey-coloured stone and with wealth generated by the medieval wool trade. The Cotswolds has a huge number of listed buildings and villages such as Upper and Lower Slaughter and Bourton-on-the-Water are famous for their many appearances on calendars and book covers. The largest settlement is Cirencester in the south - it is a lively market town and known as the "Capital of the Cotswolds". It is home to one of Britain's best agricultural colleges. Cotswold council has its headquarters in Cirencester. Smaller towns in the constituency include the attractive Chipping Campden in the north and Moreton-in-Marsh. Tourism has overtaken agriculture as the biggest single employer. Other businesses include defence and a host of electronic and financial services as well as a range of small manufacturing companies. This has been rock-solid Conservative territory. Tory Geoffrey Clifton-Brown's majority went up in 1997 from the notional 1992 result - though that was largely due to a drop in the Lib Dem vote and corresponding rise in the Labour vote. |
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Type |
Results
[Don't Show Primaries]
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| Dec 12, 2019 |
General Election |
| | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown(I)
35,484
58.00%
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| Liz Webster
15,270
24.96%
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| Alan MacKenzie
7,110
11.62%
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| Sabrina Poole
3,312
5.41%
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| Jun 08, 2017 |
General Election |
| | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown(I)
36,201
60.64%
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| Mark Huband
10,702
17.93%
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| Andrew Gant
9,748
16.33%
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| Sabrina Poole
1,747
2.93%
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| Chris Harlow
1,197
2.00%
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| Sandy Steel
107
0.18%
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| May 07, 2015 |
General Election |
| | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown(I)
32,045
56.55%
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| Paul Richard Hodgkinson
10,568
18.65%
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| Chris Harlow
6,188
10.92%
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| Manjinder Singh Kang
5,240
9.25%
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| Penny Burgess
2,626
4.63%
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| May 06, 2010 |
General Election |
| | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown(I)
29,075
53.03%
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| Mike Collins
16,211
29.56%
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| Mark Dempsey
5,886
10.73%
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| Adrian Blake
2,292
4.18%
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| Kevin Lister
940
1.71%
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| Alex Steel
428
0.78%
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| May 05, 2005 |
General Election |
| | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown(I)
23,326
49.26%
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| Philip Beckerlegge
13,638
28.80%
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| Mark Dempsey
8,457
17.86%
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| Richard Buckley
1,538
3.25%
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| James Derieg
392
0.83%
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| Jun 07, 2001 |
General Election |
| | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown(I)
23,133
50.31%
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| Angela Lawrence
11,150
24.25%
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| Richard Wilkins
10,383
22.58%
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| Jill Stopps
1,315
2.86%
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| May 01, 1997 |
General Election |
| | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
23,698
46.36%
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| David Gayler
11,733
22.95%
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| David Elwell
11,608
22.71%
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| Rupert Lowe
3,393
6.64%
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| Valerie Michael
560
1.10%
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| Henry Brighouse
129
0.25%
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