Stroud and Thornbury | |
Parliament: | uk |
Year: | 1950 |
Abolished: | 1955 |
Type: | County |
Elects Howmany: | One |
Next: | Stroud and South Gloucestershire[1] |
Region: | England |
Towns: | 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.
The Urban Districts of Nailsworth and Stroud, the Rural Districts of Dursley, Stroud, and Thornbury, and in the Rural District of Gloucester the civil parishes of Arlingham, Brookthorpe, Eastington, Elmore, Frampton-on-Severn, Fretherne with Saul, Frocester, Hardwicke, Harescombe, Haresfield, Longney, Moreton Valence, Quedgeley, Standish, Upton St Leonards, and Whitminster.
Election | Member | Party | ||
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1950 | Sir Walter Perkins | Conservative | ||
1955 | constituency abolished: see Stroud |