BBC Profile:
Before 1997, what is now The Cotswolds was part of the much larger Cirencester and Tewkesbury constituency, which had always been a Conservative seat. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has held the seat (under the name Cotswold after 1997) since then, winning by 9,892 votes in 2005.

Boundary changes at this election will move Minchinhampton and part-ward Wotton-under-Edge here from Stroud. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.

This seat is nestled in the heart of the gentle Cotswold hills on the edge of Gloucestershire. It is a largely rural seat, and is popular with tourists. Significant towns within the seat include Cirencester, the district seat and largest town, as well as Lechdale, Chipping Campden, Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-Wold, Northleach and Tetbury.

Within this large constituency is the biggest of Britain's 41 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a distinction that reflects the imagery most commonly associated with the Cotswolds.

The area is enormously popular with tourists, who flock to the dozens of market towns constructed of beautiful Cotswold stone. In fact the constituency has the highest number of listed buildings of any in the UK. Tourism has replaced agriculture as the principal economic activity in the region, and a very large proportion of the millions spent by visitors to Gloucestershire is spent in the Cotwolds. Eight of the 20 m

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BBC Profile:
Before 1997, what is now The Cotswolds was part of the much larger Cirencester and Tewkesbury constituency, which had always been a Conservative seat. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has held the seat (under the name Cotswold after 1997) since then, winning by 9,892 votes in 2005.

Boundary changes at this election will move Minchinhampton and part-ward Wotton-under-Edge here from Stroud. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.

This seat is nestled in the heart of the gentle Cotswold hills on the edge of Gloucestershire. It is a largely rural seat, and is popular with tourists. Significant towns within the seat include Cirencester, the district seat and largest town, as well as Lechdale, Chipping Campden, Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-Wold, Northleach and Tetbury.

Within this large constituency is the biggest of Britain's 41 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a distinction that reflects the imagery most commonly associated with the Cotswolds.

The area is enormously popular with tourists, who flock to the dozens of market towns constructed of beautiful Cotswold stone. In fact the constituency has the highest number of listed buildings of any in the UK. Tourism has replaced agriculture as the principal economic activity in the region, and a very large proportion of the millions spent by visitors to Gloucestershire is spent in the Cotwolds. Eight of the 20 most popular attractions within Gloucestershire are within the Cotswolds.

Agriculture remains an important industry in the Cotswolds, and Cirencester is the site of one of the best agricultural colleges in the country, the Royal Agricultural College, the first college in the English-speaking world to be devoted wholly to farming. As in other parts of Gloucestershire, many residents of the Cotswolds area work in the financial services, hi-tech and defence industries.

Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
C 24,907 (49.37%)
LD 14,165 (28.08%)
Lab 9,392 (18.62%)
UKIP 1,595 (3.16%)
Others 392 (0.78%)

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