Witney (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom since 1983 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Witney is a county constituency in Oxfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2016 by Robert Courts of the Conservative Party. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election, and was created for the 1983 general election.
Witney | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Oxfordshire |
Electorate | 78,220 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Witney, Carterton, Chipping Norton and Charlbury |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Robert Courts (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Mid Oxfordshire and Banbury[2] |
It has been a safe Conservative Party seat throughout its existence and was represented from 2001 to 2016 by David Cameron, Leader of the Conservative Party (2005–2016), and prime minister (2010–2016).[3]
Its boundaries are currently coterminous with the district of West Oxfordshire, which includes the towns of Carterton, Chipping Norton, and Woodstock.