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Westbury County constituency
Westbury shown within Wiltshire, and Wiltshire shown within England
Created:	1449
MP:	Andrew Murrison
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Wiltshire
EP constituency:	South West England

Westbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since 1885, it has been a county constituency, electing one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election; it has returned a Conservative MP at every election since 1924. Previously it was a parliamentary borough, returning two MPs from 1449 to 1832 and one from 1832 to 1885.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 Westbury borough (before 1885) 2.1.1 1449-1640 2.1.2 1640-1832 2.1.3 1832-1885 2.2 Westbury County Constituency (since 1885) 3 Election results 3.1 General Election 2005 3.2 General Election 2001 3.3 General Election 1997 4 References 5 See also

Westbury is a rural parliamentary constituency in the English county of Wiltshire. It contains the towns of Westbury, Warminster, Trowbridge and Bradford on Avon and the surrounding rural areas.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Wiltshire, the Boundary Commission for England have created two new constituencies in the county. Chippenham is carved mostly from the adjoining North Wiltshire constituency, plus the town of Bradford on Avon at the northern end of the Westbury constituency, while the rest of Westbury will see minor changes to its composition and be renamed South West Wiltshire.

• 1491: Sir Thomas Long of Draycot
• 1588: Henry Fanshawe
• 1593: Henry Fanshawe
• 1625: Gifford Long

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
April 1640		Sir Thomas Penyston			?
November 1640		John Ashe	Parliamentarian		William Wheler	Parliamentarian
December 1648				Wheler excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653	Westbury was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		Robert Villiers, alias Danvers			William Eyre
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump, Ashe having died in the interim
April 1660		Richard Lewis			William Brouncker
1661					Thomas Wancklyn [1]
1678					Henry Bertie
February 1679					William Trenchard
August 1679					Henry Bertie
1680		Edward Norton			William Trenchard
1681		John Ashe
1685		Richard Lewis			James Herbert
1689					Peregrine Bertie
1695					Robert Bertie
1701		Henry Bertie
July 1702		William Trenchard			Thomas Phipps
December 1702		Henry Bertie			Robert Bertie
1708					Francis Annesley
January 1715		Willoughby Bertie
June 1715		The Lord Carbery			Charles Allanson
1722		James Bertie [2]			Francis Annesley
1724		The Lord Carbery
1727		John Hoskins Gifford
1734		Hon. George Evans			John Bance
1741					Joseph Townsend
1747		John Bance			Paul Methuen
1748		Chauncy Townsend	Pro-Government		Matthew Michell
1753					Peregrine Bertie
1768		William Blackstone
1770		Hon. Charles Dillon
1774		Hon. Thomas Wenman			Nathaniel Bayly
1779					Samuel Estwick
1780		(Sir) John Whalley-Gardiner [3]
1784		Chaloner Arcedeckne
1786		John Madocks
1790		Ewan Law
January 1795		Samuel Estwick
November 1795					Edward Wilbraham-Bootle
May 1796		Sir Henry Paulet St John-Mildmay			George Ellis [4]
October 1796					Lieutenant Colonel George Harcourt
1800					John Simon Harcourt
1802		William Baldwin			Charles Smith
1806		William Jacob			John Woolmore
May 1807		Edward Lascelles			Glynn Wynn
July 1807		Henry Lascelles
1809					Francis Whittle
1810					John de Ponthieu
1812		Benjamin Hall			Benjamin Shaw
1814		Ralph Franco	Tory
1818					Lord Francis Conyngham
1819		William Leader Maberly
March 1820		Jonathan Elford			Nathaniel Barton
November 1820		Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes	Tory		Philip John Miles	Tory
1826					Sir George Warrender	Canningite Tory
1829		Robert Peel	Tory
1830		Sir Alexander Cray Grant	Tory		Michael George Prendergast	Tory
May 1831		Sir Ralph Lopes	Whig		Henry Hanmer	Whig
July 1831					Henry Frederick Stephenson
1832	Representation reduced to one MP

Year		Member	Party
1832		Sir Ralph Lopes	Whig
1837		John Ivatt Briscoe	Whig
1841		Sir Ralph Lopes	Conservative
1847		James Wilson	Whig
1857		Sir Massey Lopes	Conservative
1868		John Lewis Phipps [5]	Conservative
1869		Charles Paul Phipps	Conservative
1874		Abraham Laverton	Liberal
1880		Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps	Conservative
1885	Borough abolished - named transferred to county division

Year		Member	Party
1885		George Fuller	Liberal
1895		Richard Chaloner	Conservative
1900		John Fuller	Liberal
1911		Hon. Geoffrey Howard	Liberal
1918		George Llewellen Palmer	Coalition Conservative
1922		Charles Darbishire	Liberal
1924		Captain W. W. Shaw	Conservative
1927		Richard Long	Conservative
1931		(Sir) Robert Grimston [6]	Conservative
1964		(Sir) Dennis Walters	Conservative
1992		David Faber	Conservative
2001		Andrew Murrison	Conservative

Notes

1. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons for corrupt misuse of Parliamentary Privilege
2. ^ Bertie was also elected for Middlesex, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Westbury
3. ^ Created a baronet, December 1782
4. ^ Ellis was also elected for Seaford, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Westbury
5. ^ The election of 1868 was held void on petition, and a by-election held
6. ^ Created a baronet, 1952

General Election 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Murrison	24,749	44.5	-2.4
	Liberal Democrat	Duncan Hames	19,400	34.9	+3.3
	Labour	Phil Gibby	9,640	17.3	-4.1
	UK Independence	Lincoln Williams	1,815	3.3	+0.8
Majority			5,346	9.6	-0.9
Turnout			55,604	67.0	+0.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.4%

General Election 2001
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Murrison	21,299	42.1	+1.5
	Liberal Democrat	David Vigar	16,005	31.6	+1.7
	Labour	Sarah Cardy	10,847	21.4	+0.3
	UK Independence	Charles Booth-Jones	1,261	2.5	+1.1
	Green	Bob Gledhill	1,216	2.4	N/A
Majority			5,294	10.5
Turnout			50,628	66.6	-9.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Faber	23,037	40.6%
	Liberal Democrat	John Miller	16,969	29.9%
	Labour	Kevin Small	11,969
	Liberal	G Hawkings	1,956	21.1%
	Referendum Party	N Hawkings-Byass	1,909	3.4%
	UK Independence	R Westbury	771	1.6%
	Natural Law	C Haysom	140	0.3%
Turnout			56,751
	Conservative hold		Swing

(Source: Guardian Unlimited, 2004)

• Guardian Unlimited (2004). Ask Aristotle - Westbury. Retrieved November 16, 2004.
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• "Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803" (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [1]

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire

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Liberal Democrat	Bath • Bristol West • Cheltenham • Falmouth and Camborne • Mid Dorset and North Poole • North Cornwall • North Devon • Northavon • Somerton and Frome • South East Cornwall • St Ives • Taunton • Teignbridge • Torbay • Truro and St Austell • Yeovil
Labour	Bristol East • Bristol North West • Bristol South • Exeter • Gloucester • Kingswood • North Swindon • Plymouth Devonport • Plymouth Sutton • South Dorset • South Swindon • Stroud • Wansdyke
South West England European constituency	Conservative (3) • UKIP (2) • Liberal Democrats (1) • Labour (1)