Witney (UK Parliament constituency)

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	Shaun Woodward	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

1. David Cameron's "Big Society"
2. How to tell your election was rigged!?
3. The 1950 United Kingdom general election
4. Some typical UK Parliament constituencies

Sources

1. http://www.witney.net/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witney
3. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q874194
4. http://www.cotswolds.info/places/witney.shtml,
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witney_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29
6. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Tourism-g504093-Witney_Oxfordshire_England-Vacations.html