Stroud and Thornbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Stroud and Thornbury
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Gloucestershire
Major settlements	Stroud and Thornbury
1950–1955
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Stroud
Created from	Stroud and Thornbury

Stroud and Thornbury was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election and abolished for the 1955 general election.

Boundaries

The Urban Districts of Nailsworth and Stroud, the Rural Districts of Dursley, Stroud, and Thornbury, and part of the Rural District of Gloucester.

Election		Member ^[1]	Party
	1950	Sir Walter Perkins	Conservative
	1955	constituency abolished: see Stroud

General Election 1950: Stroud and Thornbury^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Walter Robert Dempster Perkins	24,874	43.5	n/a
	Labour	Benjamin Theaker Parkin	24,846	43.4	n/a
	Liberal	Margaret MacAlpine	7,518	13.1	n/a
Majority			28	0.1	n/a
Turnout			57,238	85.4	n/a
	Conservative win

General Election 1951: Stroud and Thornbury^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Walter Robert Dempster Perkins	30,140	51.3	+7.9
	Labour	Benjamin Theaker Parkin	28,558	48.7	+5.2
Majority			1,582	2.6	+2.6
Turnout			58,698	86.0	+0.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.3

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig

Constituencies in South West England (55)

Conservative (51)	Bath Bournemouth East Bournemouth West Bridgwater and West Somerset Bristol North West Camborne and Redruth Central Devon Cheltenham Chippenham Christchurch Devizes East Devon Filton and Bradley Stoke Forest of Dean Gloucester Kingswood Mid Dorset and North Poole Newton Abbot North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Somerset North Somerset North Swindon North Wiltshire Plymouth Moor View Plymouth Sutton and Devonport Poole Salisbury Somerton and Frome South Dorset South East Cornwall South Swindon South West Devon South West Wiltshire St Austell and Newquay St Ives Stroud Taunton Deane Tewkesbury The Cotswolds Thornbury and Yate Tiverton and Honiton Torbay Torridge and West Devon Totnes Truro and Falmouth Wells West Dorset Weston-super-Mare Yeovil

Labour (4)	Bristol East Bristol South Bristol West Exeter

South West England European constituency: Conservative (2) Green (1) Labour (1) UKIP (2)

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