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Stroud
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Map of constituency

Boundary of Stroud in South West England

CountyGloucestershire
Electorate76,249 (2023) [1]
Major settlementsStroud, Dursley, Nailsworth and Stonehouse
Current constituency
Created1955
Member of ParliamentSimon Opher (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created fromStroud & Thornbury
1885–1950
SeatsOne
Type of constituencyCounty constituency
Replaced byStroud & Thornbury
1832–1885
SeatsTwo
Type of constituencyBorough constituency
Created fromGloucestershire

Stroud is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It is held by Simon Opher of the Labour Party, who won the seat from Siobhan Baillie of the Conservatives in 2024.[2]

The seat's parliamentary borough forerunner was created by the First Reform Act for the 1832 general election. It elected two MPs using the bloc vote until transformed in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for that year's general election, the name being transferred to a single-seat county division which covered a wider zone.

This was abolished at the 1950 general election, chiefly replaced with a new seat, Stroud and Thornbury. That was in turn abolished at the 1955 general election, when the present entity was created. Since this recreation the seat has had boundary changes.[3]

Formerly a safe Conservative seat, Stroud has been a marginal seat since 1997, changing hands five times in eight elections (in 1997, 2010, 2017, 2019 and 2024).

Map

Map of 2010-2024 boundaries

1955–1974: The Urban Districts of Nailsworth and Stroud, the Rural Districts of Dursley, Stroud, and Tetbury, and part of the Rural District of Gloucester.

1974–1983: The Urban Districts of Nailsworth and Stroud, the Rural Districts of Dursley, Stroud, and Tetbury, and in the Rural District of Gloucester the parishes of Arlingham, Brookthorpe with Whaddon, Eastington, Elmore, Frampton on Severn, Fretherne with Saul, Frocester, Hardwicke, Harescombe, Haresfield, Longney, Moreton Valence, Quedgeley, Standish, Upton St Leonards, and Whitminster.

1983–1997: The District of Stroud wards of Berkeley, Bisley, Cainscross, Cam, Cambridge, Central, Chalford, Dursley, Eastington, Hinton, King's Stanley, Leonard Stanley, Minchinhampton, Nailsworth, Nibley, Painswick, Parklands, Randwick, Rodborough, Severn, Stonehouse, Thrupp, Trinity, Uley, Uplands, Vale, Whiteshill, Woodfield, and Wotton and Kingswood, and the District of Cotswold wards of Avening, Grumbold's Ash, and Tetbury.

1997–2010: All the wards of the District of Stroud except the Wotton and Kingswood ward.

2010–2024: The District of Stroud wards of Amberley and Woodchester, Berkeley, Bisley, Cainscross, Cam East, Cam West, Central, Chalford, Coaley and Uley, Dursley, Eastington and Standish, Farmhill and Paganhill, Hardwicke, Nailsworth, Over Stroud, Painswick, Rodborough, Severn, Slade, Stonehouse, The Stanleys, Thrupp, Trinity, Uplands, Upton St Leonards, Vale, and Valley.

The seat had 24 of the 27 wards of Stroud district (the rest were in The Cotswolds seat). The north-west limit is the Severn, which meanders from Gloucester as the upper estuary.

2024–present: Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election the constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

  • The District of Stroud wards of: Amberley and Woodchester; Berkeley Vale; Cainscross; Cam East; Cam West; Chalford; Coaley & Uley; Dursley; Nailsworth; Randwick, Whiteshill & Ruscombe; Rodborough; Severn; Stonehouse; Stroud Central; Stroud Farmhill & Paganhill; Stroud Slade; Stroud Trinity; Stroud Uplands; Stroud Valley; The Stanleys; Thrupp; Wotton-under-Edge.[4]

In order to bring the electorate within the permitted range, northern areas, including the communities of Bisley, Hardwicke and Painswick, were transferred to the newly created constituency of North Cotswolds. Wotton-under-Edge was added from The Cotswolds (abolished 2024).

Constituency profile

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Stroud lies south of Gloucester, between the two larger Gloucestershire constituencies of The Cotswolds and Forest of Dean. Its east climbs the Cotswold Hills but Stroud is both smaller and more industrialised than east and west neighbours.

Most of the seat is rural or semi-rural with a middle belt that has a group of urbanised villages, including Caincross, Cam and Rodborough, with the main towns part of the West Country textile manufacturing heritage. The major market towns include Stroud itself, Dursley in the south, and the smaller towns of Berkeley (which has a smaller electorate than Chalford, but more facilities), Stonehouse and Nailsworth.

In November 2012, unemployment was 2.1%, compared to the national average of 3.8%.[5]

Members of Parliament

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Stroud parliamentary borough

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Election Member[6] Party Member[6] Party
1832 David Ricardo Whig[7] William Henry Hyett Whig[7]
1833 by-election George Poulett Scrope Whig[8][9][10][7]
1835 Charles Richard Fox Whig[7][11][12]
May 1835 by-election Lord John Russell Whig[7]
1841 William Henry Stanton Whig[13][14][15][9][10][7]
1852 Lord Moreton Whig[16]
1853 by-election Edward Horsman Whig[8][17][18][19]
1859 Liberal Liberal
1867 by-election Henry Winterbotham Liberal
1868 Sebastian Dickinson Liberal
Jan. 1874 by-election John Dorington Conservative
1874[20] Walter John Stanton Liberal
May 1874 by-election[21] John Dorington Conservative Alfred John Stanton Liberal
July 1874 by-election[22] Henry Brand Liberal
1875 by-election[23] Samuel Marling Liberal
1880 Walter John Stanton Liberal Henry Brand Liberal
1880 Parliamentary borough abolished. Name transferred to a new county division

Stroud division of Gloucestershire

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Election Member[6] Party
1885 Henry Brand Liberal
1886 George Holloway Conservative
1892 David Brynmor Jones Liberal
1895 Charles Cripps Conservative
1900 Charles Allen Liberal
1918 Sir Ashton Lister Liberal
1922 Stanley Tubbs Conservative
1923 Frederick Guest Liberal
1924 Sir Frank Nelson Unionist
1931 by-election Walter Perkins Conservative
1945 Ben Parkin Labour
1950 constituency abolished. See Stroud & Thornbury

Stroud County Constituency

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Election Member[6] Party
1955 Sir Anthony Kershaw Conservative
1987 Roger Knapman Conservative
1997 David Drew Labour Co-op
2010 Neil Carmichael Conservative
2017 David Drew Labour Co-op
2019 Siobhan Baillie Conservative
2024 Simon Opher Labour

Elections in the 2020s

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Elections in the 2010s

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2019 notional result[25]
Party Vote %
Conservative 27,733 45.7
Labour 25,266 41.6
Green 4,857 8.0
Liberal Democrats 1,356 2.2
Brexit Party 909 1.5
Others 567 0.9
Turnout 60,688 79.6
Electorate 76,249

Elections in the 2000s

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Elections in the 1990s

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Elections in the 1980s

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Elections in the 1970s

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Elections in the 1960s

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Elections in the 1950s

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Election in the 1940s

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General Election 1939–40:

Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

Elections in the 1930s

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Elections in the 1920s

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Elections 1832 to 1918

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Elections in the 1910s

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Lister
George Hardy

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected:

Elections in the 1900s

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C.P. Allen

Elections in the 1890s

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Brynmor Jones

Elections in the 1880s

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Henry Brand

Elections in the 1870s

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  • Caused by the previous by-election being declared void on petition.
  • Caused by Dorington's election being declared void on petition, due to "bribery, treating, and undue influence".[44]
  • Caused by the election being declared void on petition on "account of treating, but the treating was not with knowledge of the candidates".[45]
  • Caused by Winterbotham's death.

Elections in the 1860s

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  • Caused by Scrope's resignation.

Elections in the 1850s

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  • Caused by Reynolds-Moreton's elevation to the peerage, becoming 3rd Earl Ducie

Elections in the 1840s

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  • J Symons, formerly Editor of the Stroud Free Press, was a candidate but withdrew before the election took place.[54]
  • The Gloucester Journal described him as "A Chartist of Nailsworth by name Chapman who has issued his address couched in flaming terms worthy of the Northern Star (goes on to comment that he was a small publican and tailor".[55]

Elections in the 1830s

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  • Resignation of Fox
  • Resignation of Ricardo
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