David Cameron after the death of Alan Clark, but did not make the shortlist. He was in the final two but narrowly lost at Wealden in March 2000, a loss ascribed by Samantha Cameron to his lack of spontaneity when speaking. On 4 April 2000 Cameron was selected as prospective candidate (PPC) for Witney in Oxfordshire. This had been a safe Conservative seat but its sitting MP Shaun Woodward (who had worked with Cameron on the 1992 election campaign) had "crossed the floor" to join the Labour Party and was selected instead for the safe Labour seat of St Helens South. Cameron's
Oxford (UK Parliament constituency) Oxford (UK Parliament constituency) Oxford was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. It comprised the city of Oxford in the county of Oxfordshire, and elected two members of parliament from its creation in 1295 until 1885 when its representation was reduced to one member. During the 1960s and 1970s, Oxford was a marginal seat. 1918-1950: The County Borough of Oxford. 1950-1983: As prior but with redrawn boundaries. "This version of the constituency took in territory from the pre-1950 Henley seat, where parts of the revised county borough had been." In the 1983 redistribution, this constituency disappeared and was split