BISHOP AUCKLAND (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Bishop Auckland' is a county constituency 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. Since 1935 it has elected Labour MPs.

Contents

Boundaries

Boundary review

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 2000s

See also

References

Boundaries

The constituency is located in the southern part of County Durham in the North East of England. It includes the whole of the Teesdale district and parts of Wear Valley district and Sedgefield borough. The constituency includes Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Bishop Auckland, Shildon, Spennymoor, Tudhoe and surrounding areas.

Boundary review

Following their review into parliamentary representation in County Durham, the Boundary Commission for England has made very minor alterations to the Bishop Auckland seat.
The electoral wards used in the creation of the modified seat, to be fought at the UK general election in 2009 or 2010, are;

★ Byerley, Low Spennymoor and Tudhoe Grange, Middlestone, Spennymoor, Sunnydale, Thickley and Tudhoe from Sedgefield

★ The district of Teesdale

★ Bishop Auckland Town, Cockton Hill, Coundon, Dene Valley, Escomb, Henknowle, West Auckland, and Woodhouse Close from Wear Valley

Members of Parliament

★ ''Constituency created'' (1885)

Election		Member	Party
	1885	James Mellor Paulton	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, Bt.	Liberal
	1918	Ben Spoor	Labour
	1929 by-election	Florence Ruth Dalton	Labour
	1929	Hugh Dalton	Labour
	1931	Aaron Charlton Curry	Liberal National
	1935	Hugh Dalton	Labour
	1959	James Boyden	Labour
	1979	Derek Foster	Labour
	2005	Helen Goodman	Labour

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 2000s

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in County Durham

★ Bishop Auckland by-election, 1929

★ The town of Bishop Auckland

References

★ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, , F. W. S., Craig, Parliamentary Research Services, 1983, ISBN 0-900178-06-X

★ Historical list of MPs: B, part 3 at Leigh Rayment's peerage pages