South Gloucestershire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Gloucestershire
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
South Gloucestershire, showing boundaries used from 1974-1983
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Created fromStroud and Thornbury
Replaced byNorthavon, Bristol North West, Stroud[1]

South Gloucestershire,[2][3] also known as Gloucestershire South,[4] was a parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. It had three different sets of boundaries during its existence, and elected a new MP on each one of those occasions.

  1. ^ "'Gloucestershire South', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  2. ^ "House of Commons debates: Members Sworn". Hansard. 870. 7 March 1974. Retrieved 10 May 2016. John Cope sworn in for "South Gloucestershire"
  3. ^ "List of Members Returned to Serve in Parliament at the General Election, 1959" (PDF). The London Gazette. 13 October 1959. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Gloucestershire South 1950-1983". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 9 May 2016.