Stroud (UK Parliament constituency)

Stroud
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Stroud in Gloucestershire.
Location of Gloucestershire within England.
County	Gloucestershire
Electorate	79,135 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Stroud, Dursley and Stonehouse
Current constituency
Created	1955
Member of parliament	Neil Carmichael (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Stroud & Thornbury
1885–1950
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Replaced by	Stroud & Thornbury
1832–1885
Number of members	Two
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Created from	Gloucestershire
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South West England

Stroud is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Neil Carmichael, a Conservative.

A previous parliamentary borough form of constituency of the same name was created by the First Reform Act for the 1832 general election. It elected two MPs using the bloc vote system until it was transformed in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for that year's general election, the name being transferred to a single-seat county division which covered a wider geographical area.

This was abolished at the 1950 general election, partially replaced with a new Stroud and Thornbury county constituency. That was in turn abolished at the 1955 general election, when the present entity was created. Since this recreation the seat has had boundary changes.

The seat has electoral wards:

The extent of the constituency is almost all of the Stroud district (it also provides three wards to The Cotswolds seat). As such, the north-west boundary of the constituency is the River Severn, which meanders from Gloucester towards the River's estuary.