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Stats[]
- County- Oxfordshire. UK.
- Electorate- 78,220 (December 2010).
- Major settlements- Witney, Carterton, Chipping Norton and Charlbury.
- Current constituency created- 1983.
- Member of parliament- Robert Courts (Conservative).
- Number of members- One.
- Created from- Mid Oxfordshire and Banbury.
- Ethnic majority- Overwhelming White English overall majority.
- Urban\rural split- Rural.
MPs[]
Election. | Member. | Party. | Notes. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1983 | Douglas Hurd | Conservative | Later Baron Hurd of Westwell; Cabinet minister 1984–95 | |
1997 | Conservative | MP for St Helens South from 2001; later Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | ||
1999 political defection | Labour | |||
2001 | David Cameron | Conservative | Leader of the Conservative Party 2005–2016; Prime Minister 2010–2016 | |
2016 | Robert Courts | Conservative | Incumbent. |
- Total political rule by each party- Conservative 32 and Labour 2.
Map[]
The 2017 general election result.
Also see[]
- David Cameron's "Big Society"
- How to tell your election was rigged!?
- The 1950 United Kingdom general election
- Some typical UK Parliament constituencies
Sources[]
- http://www.witney.net/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witney
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q874194
- http://www.cotswolds.info/places/witney.shtml,
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witney_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29
- https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Tourism-g504093-Witney_Oxfordshire_England-Vacations.html