1832 to 1885 1832–1885: The Hundreds of Berkeley, Thornbury, Langley and Swineshead, Grumbald's Ash, Pucklechurch, Lancaster Duchy, Botloe, St Briavel's, Westbury, and Bledisloe, and the parts of the Hundreds of Henbury and Barton Regis that are not included in the limits of the City of Bristol. The place of election was the small town of
Dursley. This was where the
hustings were put up and electors voted (by spoken declaration in public, before the
secret ballot was introduced in 1872). The qualification to vote in county elections, in the period, was to be a
forty-shilling freeholder. The county's five parliamentary boroughs were all in
East Gloucestershire. Qualified freeholders from those boroughs could vote in the eastern county division.
Bristol was a "county of itself", so its freeholders qualified to vote in the borough, not in a county division. There were no electors qualified to vote in the western division, because they were freehold owners of land in a parliamentary borough.
1950 to 1997 1950–1983: The Rural Districts of East Dean, Lydney, Newent, and West Dean, and part of the Rural District of Gloucester.
1983–1997: The District of Forest of Dean, and the Borough of Tewkesbury wards of Brockworth Glebe, Brockworth Moorfield, Brockworth Westfield, Churchdown Brookfield, Churchdown Parton, Churchdown Pirton, De Winton, Haw Bridge, Highnam, Horsbere, and Innsworth. The constituency in this period was a smaller part of the county of Gloucestershire than its nineteenth century namesake. It was centred on the
Forest of Dean, and indeed the majority of the constituency at abolition formed the new
Forest of Dean constituency. About a fifth of the constituency moved to
Tewkesbury, with 735 constituents moving to
Gloucester. == Members of Parliament ==