Parliamentary Election Results 1918

Below are the Parliamentary Election results from 1918 to the current day.

Elections	Electors	Turnout	Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Gloucestershire, Stroud
1918	34,685	61.3	Sir R A Lister	Co L	12,734	59.9
			C W Kendall	Lab	8,522	40.1

1922	36,094	79.9	S W Tubbs	C	14,723	51.1
			Rt Hon C P Allen	L	9,041	31.3
			S E Walters	Lab	5,081	19.8

1923	36,504	78.2	Rt Hon F E Guest	L	15,179	53.2
			S W Tubbs	C	13,355	46.8

1924	37,336	78.9	Sir F Nelson	C	15,973	54.2
			Miss E Picton-Turbervill	Lab	7,418	25.2
			A W Stanton	L	6,057	20.6

1929	48,776	81.6	Sir F Nelson	C	17,700	44.4
			A W Stanton	L	11,728	29.5
			F E White	Lab	10,384	26.1

1931 (21/5) Resignation	49,874	71.4	W R D Perkins	C	17,641	49.6
			Sir H J Maynard	Lab	10,688	30.0
			A W Stanton	L	7,267	20.4

1931	50,534	76.5	W R D Perkins	C	27,612	71.4
			F W Davies	Lab	11,039	28.6

1935	54,140	71.0	W R D Perkins	C	24,282	63.2
			Mrs C E M Borrett	Lab	14,133	36.8

1945	75,987	72.6	B T Parkin	Lab	22,495	40.8
			W R D Perkins	C	21,546	39.0
			P E Cadbury	L	11,141	20.2

Gloucestershire, Stroud and Thornbury (This constituency was divided in 1955)
1950	67,010	85.4	W R D Perkins	C	24,874	43.5
			B T Parkin	Lab	24,846	43.4
			Mrs M MacAlpine	L	7,518	13.1

1951	68,287	86.0	W R D Perkins	C	30,140	51.3
			B T Parkin	Lab	28,558	48.7

Gloucestershire, Stroud
1955	55,962	84.3	J A Kershaw	C	23,318	49.4
			R W Evely	Lab	19,375	41.1
			E B Ayliffe	L	4,489	9.5

1959	57,220	85.2	J A Kershaw	C	23,448	48.1
			A T Evans	Lab	18,336	37.6
			C J McNair	L	6,988	14.3

1964	57,906	85.4	J A Kershaw	C	21,802	44.1
			D V Hunt	Lab	18,889	38.2
			I P Crawford	L	8,747	17.7

1966	58,779	85.8	J A Kershaw	C	21,804	43.3
			T M Cox	Lab	20,259	40.1
			J V Smith	L	8,397	16.6

1970	66,072	80.3	J A Kershaw	C	27,089	51.1
			R D Wheatley	Lab	19,158	36.1
			D M Davies	L	6,799	12.8

1974(F)	68,805	85.4	J A Kershaw	C	25,619	43.6
			W H Maddocks	Lab/Co-op	17,148	29.2
			Mrs S A Ritchie	L	15,521	26.4
			J S Churchill	Ind C	470	0.8
Chuchill sought election as a "Powell Conservative" candidate and was opposed to Britain's membership of the Common Market.
1974(O)	69,381	80.4	J A Kershaw	C	24,406
			W H Maddocks	Lab/Co-op	17,352
			Mrs S A Ritchie	L	13,756
			J S Churchill	UDP	241

1979	76,137	81.3	J A Kershaw	C	32,534
			B J Marshall	Lab	17,037
			J P Heppell	L	12,314

1983	77,528	77.6	J A Kershaw	C	30,896
			G Fallon	L/A	19,182
			D Parsons	Lab	10,141

1987	85,371	76.7	R Knapman	C	32,883
			A Walker-Smith	L/D	20,508
			T Levitt	Lab	12,145

1992	83,655	83.3	R M Knapman	C	32,201
			D E Drew	Lab	18,796
			M P Robinson	Lib Dem	16,751
			S M Atkinson	Green	2,005
1991 Boundry changes resulted in a reduced electorate (ie the loss of Quedgeley)
1997	78,708	78.39	David Elliott Drew	Labour	26170
			Paul Richard Hodgkinson	Lib Dem	9502
			Roger Maurice Knapman	Conservative	23260
			John David Marjoram	Green	2415
The majority for David Drew of 2,910 gave Stroud Labour control for the first time since 1945 ( Parkin). The review of Parliamentary Constituencies with effect from the Parliamentary Election of 1997 gave Stroud a smaller Electorate.
2001	78,818	70.17	Janice Joanna Beasley	Lib Dem	6036
			Adrian George Blake	UKIP	895
			Neil Carmichael	Conservative	20646
			Kevin Cranston	Green	1913
			David Elliot Drew	Lab/Co-op	25685

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