Witney (UK Parliament constituency) Witney (UK Parliament constituency) Witney is a county constituency in Oxfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election, and was created for the 1983 general election. It is a safe Conservative Party seat. The constituency was represented from 2001-2016 by David Cameron, who was Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005-2016 and Prime Minister from 2010-2016. On 12 September 2016, Cameron resigned as the MP with immediate effect, triggering the 2016 Witney by-election, at which the seat was retained for the
David Cameron (rower) selected as Australia's single sculler to contest the 1995 U23 World Rowing Championships in Groningen. He finished in twelfth place. For the 1996 Athens Olympics Cameron was Australia's selected single scull and coached by Harald Jahrling he competed and finished in thirteenth place. In 1997 at the World Championships in Aiguebelette he raced the Australian coxed pair with Nick McDonald-Crowley and steered by David Colvin to second place and Cameron's sole senior World Championship medal - a silver. At the 1998 World Rowing Championships in Cologne, Cameron made his final Australian representative appearance when he rowed in the seven seat