GATESHEAD (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Gateshead' will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
A previous Gateshead constituency existed from 1832 to 1950.

Contents

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1930s

Sources

See also

Boundaries

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Tyne and Wear, the Boundary Commission for England has created a new constituency of Gateshead, abolishing the current Gateshead East and Washington West.
The electoral wards used in forming this constituency are entirely within the Gateshead city boundaries;

★ Bridges, Chowdene, Deckham, Dunston and Teams, Felling, High Fell, Lobley Hill and Bensham, Low Fell, Saltwell and Windy Nook and Whitehills.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1832	Cuthbert Rippon
	1841	Sir William Hutt
	1874	Walter Henry James	Liberal
	1893	Sir William Allan	Liberal
	1904	John Johnson	Lib-Lab
	1910	Sir Harold Elverston	Liberal
	1918	Herbert Conyers Surtees	Coalition Conservative
	1922	John Brotherton	Labour
	1923	John Purcell Dickie	Liberal
	1924	John Warburton Beckett	Labour
	1929	Sir James Benjamin Melville	Labour
	1931 by-election	Herbert Evans	Labour
	1931	Thomas Magnay	National Liberal
	1945	Konni Zilliacus	Labour
1950		''constituency abolished''

Election results

The re-established Gateshead constituency will be fought for the first time at the next United Kingdom general election, due no later than 2010. Current Tyne Bridge MP David Clelland has been chosen as the Labour party candidate for this seat.

Elections in the 1930s

Sources

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

★

See also

★ Gateshead by-election, 1931

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear

★ Constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election