Witney (constituency)

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Witney constituency with 2007 borders

Witney is a constituency of the British House of Commons in the western county of Oxfordshire . The constituency was created in its current form in 1983, is congruent with the district of West Oxfordshire and covers much of Witney , Chipping Norton and Charlbury . He sends a representative to parliament.

history

Witney is considered a wealthy, conservative constituency, which in its current form has so far been represented by four politicians. From the British general election in 1983 to the 1997 election , Douglas Hurd , a member of the Conservative Party , represented the constituency. From 1997 to 2001 was Shaun Woodward served as its representative. During his tenure, he moved from the Conservatives to the ranks of the Labor Party . In 2001 David Cameron, the future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , won back the seat for the Conservative Party. He defended the constituency in the general election of 2005 , 2010 and 2015 with a stronger majority. Cameron represented the constituency for two months after resigning as prime minister. The necessary by-election after Cameron's resignation, as well as the British general election in 2017 in the constituency, was won by Robert Courts , also a member of the Conservative Party, with a reduced majority compared to 2015.

In April 2013, the constituency had an unemployment rate of just 1.4%.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC News | UK POLITICS | Anger as Tory defects to Labor. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ David Cameron stands down as an MP . September 12, 2016 ( bbc.com [accessed October 18, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Peter Dominiczak, Christopher Hope, Ben Riley-Smith, Michael Wilkinson: David Cameron resigns as MP, triggering by-election in his Witney constituency . In: The Telegraph . September 12, 2016, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed October 18, 2019]).
  4. ^ Tory majority slashed in Cameron's seat . October 21, 2016 ( bbc.com [accessed October 18, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Simon Rogers, Lisa Evans: Unemployment: the key UK data and benefit claimants for every constituency. November 17, 2010, accessed October 18, 2019 .