Constituency Profile
Famous for its racecourse, Ladies' College and location on the edge of the Cotswold Hills, Cheltenham has a large tourism sector. GE Aviation is a big employer and GCHQ, the government communications centre, is here, so numbers of professionals are well above the national average. One of the West of England's most upmarket towns, the few deprived areas are in the social housing area of Hesters Way. About 10 per cent of constituents are students at the University of Gloucestershire. The Liberal Democrats overturned decades of Tory representation in 1992.
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