Gateshead East (UK Parliament constituency)
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Gateshead East was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Gateshead in what is now Tyne and Wear. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Gateshead East and Washington West.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Arthur Seymour Moody | Labour | |
| 1964 | Bernard Conlan | Labour | |
| 1987 | Joyce Quin | Labour | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Gateshead East & Washington West | ||
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
