Stratford-on-Avon (UK Parliament constituency)

Stratford-on-Avon
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire.
Location of Warwickshire within England.
County	Warwickshire
Electorate	69,108 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of parliament	Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative)
Number of members	One
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Created from	South Warwickshire
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

Stratford-on-Avon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Nadhim Zahawi, a Conservative.

1885-1918: The Municipal Boroughs of Leamington, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Warwick, the Sessional Divisions of Alcester, Brailes, Henley, Stratford, Snitterfield, and Warwick, and the part of the Sessional Division of Kenilworth in the Parliamentary Borough of Warwick and Leamington.

1950-1983: The Municipal Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, and the Rural Districts of Alcester, Shipston-on-Stour, Southam, and Stratford-on-Avon.

1983-1997: The District of Stratford-on-Avon.

1997-2010: All the wards of the District of Stratford-on-Avon except the wards of Henley, Tanworth, and Tanworth Earlswood.

2010-present: The District of Stratford-on-Avon wards of Alcester, Aston Cantlow, Bardon, Bidford and Salford, Brailes, Claverdon, Ettington, Henley, Kinwarton, Long Compton, Quinton, Sambourne, Shipston, Snitterfield, Stratford Alveston, Stratford Avenue and New Town, Stratford Guild and Hathaway, Stratford Mount Pleasant, Studley, Tanworth, Tredington, Vale of the Red Horse, and Welford.

The constituency consists of relatively widely spaced rural villages, inhabited largely by commuters, with its boundaries taking in almost all of the Stratford-on-Avon local government district.

At the 2010 general election, following the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, this seat was reduced in size: a new constituency of Kenilworth and Southam was created, taking in much of the eastern half of the previous version of this constituency, along with parts of the abolished seat of Rugby and Kenilworth.