Back ويتني (دائرة انتخابية في المملكة المتحدة) Arabic Witney (circumscripció electoral del Regne Unit) Catalan Witney (etholaeth seneddol) Welsh Wahlkreis Witney German Ουίτνεϋ (εκλογική περιφέρεια Κοινοβουλίου του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου) Greek Circunscripcion electoral de Witney (Reino Unido) Spanish Witney (circonscription du Parlement britannique) French Witney (Toghcheantar na Ríochta Aontaithe) Irish Collegio di Witney Italian 위트니 (영국 의회 선거구) Korean
| Witney | |
|---|---|
| County constituency for the House of Commons | |
&sq=Liz Truss&lang=en&file=File:Witney2007Constituency.svg) Boundary of Witney in Oxfordshire | |
&sq=Liz Truss&lang=en&file=File:EnglandOxfordshire.svg) Location of Oxfordshire within England | |
| 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] |
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.
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.
- ^ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ "'Witney', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
- ^ "David Cameron". Witney Conservatives. 6 May 2010. Archived from the original on 24 December 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
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