Newcastle upon Tyne East (UK Parliament constituency)
Newcastle upon Tyne East | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Newcastle upon Tyne East in Tyne and Wear for the 2010 general election.
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![]() Location of Tyne and Wear within England.
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County | Tyne and Wear |
Electorate | 65,203 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of parliament | Nick Brown (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend; Tyne Bridge |
1918–1997 | |
Replaced by | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend |
Created from | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | North East England |
Newcastle upon Tyne East is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 recreation by Nick Brown of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Contents
History
Parliament created this constituency in the Representation of the People Act 1918 however its first creation was eventually absorbed in 1997 by the new Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend seat. Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which recommended the recreation of the seat for the 2010 general election. Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which slightly altered this constituency for the 2010 general election since which it has electoral wards:
Apart from a quite widespread party defection in 1981 to the SDP, successive members of the Labour Party have represented this constituency in Westminster since 1964 (including its interim successors). Since 1970, the double-digit majorities won suggest in all three previous forms of the constituency and today's constituency have been safe seats.
- Latest political results in the local context
For the Labour Party was likely to be more marginal since 2006 when a Liberal Democrat local popularity strengthened, winning council seats across the constituency with large majorities. This indicated a possibility of Labour losing the seat to the Liberal Democrats at the 2010 general election. In the event, Labour's Nick Brown held the seat with the smallest majority in 44 years, and in the simultaneous local elections Labour benefitted from the associated increased turnout to take the Walkergate Council Ward from the Liberal Democrats.
Boundaries
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Tyne and Wear in 2005, the Boundary Commission for England re-created the constituency of Newcastle upon Tyne East, which took effect at the 2010 general election. The new seat largely replaced the former Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend seat, with the Wallsend element being transferred to the adjacent North Tyneside constituency.
The electoral wards used in the new constituency are all within the boundaries of the city of Newcastle:
- Byker (The Byker Wall Estate, St. Peter's and part of Walker)
- Dene (Part of Gosforth, Benton and Cochrane Park)
- North Heaton (High Heaton around Coast Road)
- North Jesmond
- Ouseburn (All of Shieldfield, Ouseburn, part of Quayside and part of Byker)
- South Heaton (most of Heaton around Chillingham Road)
- South Jesmond (Jesmond, Jesmond Vale and part of the City Centre)
- Walker (Walker Riverside and St. Anthony's Estate)
- Walkergate (Walkergate, Walkerville and part of Walker)
Members of Parliament
MPs 1918–1997
Election | Member[2] | Party | Notes | |
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1918 | Harry Barnes | Coalition Liberal | ||
1922 | Joseph Nicholas Bell | Labour | ||
1923 by-election | Arthur Henderson | Labour | ||
1923 | Sir Robert Aske | Liberal | ||
1924 | Martin Henry Connolly | Labour | ||
1929 | Sir Robert Aske | Liberal | ||
1931 | National Liberal | |||
1945 | Arthur Blenkinsop | Labour | ||
1959 | Fergus Montgomery | Conservative | ||
1964 | Geoffrey Rhodes | Labour Co-operative | ||
Oct 1974 | Mike Thomas | Labour | ||
1981 | SDP | |||
1983 | Nick Brown | Labour | Former Councillor for the Walker Ward until his election in 1983 | |
1997 | None | None | Constituency abolished: see Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend |
MPs since 2010
Election | Member[2] | Party | Notes | |
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2010 | Nick Brown | Labour | Former Councillor for the Walker Ward until his election in 1983. |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nick Brown | 19,378 | 49.4 | +4.4 | |
Conservative | Duncan Carlyle Crute[4] | 6,884 | 17.6 | +1.5 | |
UKIP | David Tilley Robinson-Young[5] | 4,910 | 12.5 | +12.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Wendy Barbara Taylor | 4,332 | 11.0 | -22.2 | |
Green | Andrew John Plevins Gray[6] | 3,426 | 8.7 | +7.1 | |
TUSC | Paul Phillips [7] | 170 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Communist | Susan Mollie Stevenson[8] | 122 | 0.3 | -0.2 | |
Majority | 12,494 | 31.9 | |||
Turnout | 52.9 | −5.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nick Brown* | 17,043 | 45.0 | −7.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Wendy Barbara Taylor | 12,590 | 33.3 | +1.5 | |
Conservative | Dominic Robin Crofts Llewellyn | 6,068 | 16.0 | +3.0 | |
BNP | Alan Spence | 1,342 | 3.5 | +3.5 | |
Green | Andrew John Plevins Gray | 620 | 1.6 | +1.6 | |
Communist | Martin Levy | 177 | 0.5 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 4,453 | 11.8 | |||
Turnout | 37,840 | 58.7 | +3.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.6 |
- * Served as MP for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend, 1997–2010
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nick Brown | 24,342 | 60.2 | +3.8 | |
Conservative | Jeremy R. Lucas | 10,465 | 25.9 | −0.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Alan Thompson | 4,883 | 12.1 | −4.0 | |
Green | Gareth L.N. Edwards | 744 | 1.8 | +1.8 | |
Majority | 13,877 | 34.3 | +4.5 | ||
Turnout | 40,434 | 70.7 | +1.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.3 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nick Brown | 23,677 | 56.5 | +11.0 | |
Conservative | Miss Jenefer Gwendolen Anne Riley | 11,177 | 26.6 | −1.2 | |
Liberal | Peter John Arnold | 6,728 | 16.0 | −10.7 | |
Communist | Joseph Keith | 362 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,500 | 29.8 | |||
Turnout | 41,944 | 70.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nick Brown | 19,247 | 45.5 | ||
Conservative | Arthur T. Barnes | 11,755 | 27.8 | ||
Social Democratic | Mike Thomas | 11,293 | 26.7 | ||
Majority | 7,492 | 17.7 | |||
Turnout | 42,295 | 71.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mike Thomas | 18,257 | 55.05 | ||
Conservative | Derek Conway | 12,087 | 36.45 | ||
Liberal | J. Nelson | 2,818 | 8.50 | ||
Majority | 6,170 | 18.61 | |||
Turnout | 67.96 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mike Thomas | 17,312 | 52.84 | ||
Conservative | M. Hill | 11,063 | 33.76 | ||
Liberal | T. Symonds | 4,391 | 13.40 | ||
Majority | 6,249 | 19.07 | |||
Turnout | 71.77 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Geoffrey Rhodes | 20,439 | 58.76 | ||
Conservative | M. Hill | 14,347 | 41.24 | ||
Majority | 6,092 | 17.51 | |||
Turnout | 76.87 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Geoffrey Rhodes | 20,780 | 58.35 | ||
Conservative | Philip E. Heseltine | 14,832 | 41.65 | ||
Majority | 5,948 | 16.70 | |||
Turnout | 75.59 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Geoffrey Rhodes | 22,408 | 59.77 | ||
Conservative | Thomas T. Hubble | 15,082 | 40.23 | ||
Majority | 7,326 | 19.54 | |||
Turnout | 80.51 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Geoffrey Rhodes | 21,200 | 52.02 | ||
Conservative | Fergus Montgomery | 19,556 | 47.98 | ||
Majority | 1,644 | 4.03 | |||
Turnout | 83.37 | ||||
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Fergus Montgomery | 21,457 | 50.11 | ||
Labour | Arthur Blenkinsop | 21,359 | 49.89 | ||
Majority | 98 | 0.22 | |||
Turnout | 84.59 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arthur Blenkinsop | 22,816 | 52.08 | ||
Conservative | George F.H. Walker | 20,994 | 47.92 | ||
Majority | 1,822 | 4.16 | |||
Turnout | 77.60 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arthur Blenkinsop | 25,621 | 52.86 | ||
Conservative | Alfred Edwards | 22,850 | 47.14 | ||
Majority | 2,771 | 5.72 | |||
Turnout | 84.59 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arthur Blenkinsop | 24,694 | 51.45 | ||
Conservative | P.G. Williams | 18,866 | 39.30 | ||
Liberal | William McKeag | 4,440 | 9.25 | ||
Majority | 5,828 | 5.72 | |||
Turnout | 83.67 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arthur Blenkinsop | 26,116 | 68.93 | ||
Liberal National | R. O'Sullivan | 11,774 | 31.07 | ||
Majority | 14,342 | 37.85 | |||
Turnout | 73.13 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal National | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal National | Sir Robert Aske | 23,146 | 58.60 | ||
Labour | Bernard Benjamin Gillis | 16,322 | 41.4 | ||
Majority | 6,824 | 17.2 | |||
Turnout | 81.3 | ||||
Liberal National hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal National | Sir Robert Aske | 24,552 | 63.4 | ||
Labour | Maurice Alexander | 14,176 | 36.6 | ||
Majority | 10,346 | 26.8 | |||
Turnout | 86.5 | ||||
Liberal National gain from Liberal | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Sir Robert William Aske | 17,856 | 51.3 | +6.2 | |
Labour | Martin Henry Connolly | 16,921 | 48.7 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 935 | 2.6 | 3.9 | ||
Turnout | 79.4 | -4.5 | |||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Martin Henry Connolly | 13,120 | 46.4 | ||
Liberal | Sir Robert Aske | 12,776 | 45.1 | ||
Conservative | William Temple | 2,420 | 8.5 | ||
Majority | 344 | 1.3 | |||
Turnout | 83.9 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Sir Robert Aske | 12,656 | 52.3 | ||
Labour | Arthur Henderson | 11,532 | 47.7 | ||
Majority | 1,124 | ||||
Turnout | 73.2 | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arthur Henderson | 11,066 | 45.7 | ||
Liberal | Harry Barnes | 6,682 | 27.6 | ||
Conservative | Robert Gee | 6,480 | 26.7 | ||
Majority | 4,384 | 18.1 | |||
Turnout | 76.4 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
- Death of Joseph Nicholas Bell
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Joseph Nicholas Bell | 10,084 | 43.1 | ||
Liberal | Harry Barnes | 6,999 | 30.0 | ||
National Liberal | Gilbert Stone | 6,273 | 26.9 | ||
Majority | 3,085 | 13.1 | |||
Turnout | 73.7 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Harry Barnes | 8,682 | 58.1 | ||
Labour | Walter Hudson | 5,195 | 34.7 | ||
Independent | John Thompson | 1,079 | 7.2 | ||
Majority | 3,487 | 23.4 | |||
Turnout | 48.7 |
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/newcastleupontyneeast/
- ↑ http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11728362.Greens_name_election_candidates/
- ↑ http://www.tusc.org.uk/txt/320.pdf
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- ↑ http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/wwwfileroot/cxo/electoral/SPNEast2010.pdf
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Sources
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
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- Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1997
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 2010
- Politics of Newcastle upon Tyne