Darlington (UK Parliament constituency)

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Darlington Borough constituency
Darlington shown within County Durham, and County Durham shown within England
Created:	1868
MP:	Alan Milburn
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	County Durham
EP constituency:	North East England

Darlington is a parliamentary 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 Notes 5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers Darlington in County Durham, which is in the North East of England. The largest town in County Durham, and an administrative centre for the rural areas surrounding it, Darlington is somewhat more middle-class than other seats in Durham. It is the 'Home and Birthplace' of the Railway, Darlington also had a thriving heavy industry background with the 'Rolling Mills' and 'Tubemans' it was also home to the 'Cleveland Bridge Building and Engineering Company, situated in the centre of town was the Steel Works and 'Forge' with its massive cooling towers (now dismantled). The Conservatives have held the seat in good years for them, although it is still, despite the above factors, reasonably favourable to Labour on most occasions.

[edit] Boundary review

Following a review of parliamentary representation in County Durham, the Boundary Commission for England has created a slightly modified Darlington constituency to be fought at the 2009 or 2010 UK general election.

The electoral wards used in the slightly altered constituency are:

• Bank Top, Central, Cockerton East, Cockerton West, College, Eastbourne, Faverdale, Harrowgate Hill, Haughton East, Haughton North, Haughton West, Hummersknott, Lascelles, Lingfield, Mowden, Northgate, North Road, Park East, Park West and Pierremont.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
1868		constituency created
	1868	Edmund Backhouse (1824-1906)	Liberal
	1880	Theodore Fry	Liberal
	1895	Arthur Pease
	1898	Herbert Pike Pease	Liberal Unionist, then Unionist
	1910	Ignatius Timothy Tribich Lincoln[1]	Liberal
	1910	Herbert Pike Pease	Conservative
	1923	William Edwin Pease	Conservative
	1926	Arthur Lewis Shepherd	Labour
	1931	Charles Urie Peat	Conservative
	1945	David Hardman	Labour
	1951	Fergus Graham	Conservative
	1959	Anthony Bourne-Arton	Conservative
	1964	Edward Fletcher	Labour
	1983	Oswald O'Brien	Labour
	1983	Michael Fallon	Conservative
	1992	Alan Milburn	Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Darlington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Milburn	20,643	52.4	-3.9
	Conservative	Anthony Frieze	10,239	26.0	-4.3
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Adamson	7,269	18.5	+7.6
	UK Independence	John Hoodless	730	1.9	+1.9
	Veritas	David Davies	507	1.3	+1.3
Majority			10,404	26.4
Turnout			39,388	60.3	-1.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.2

General Election 2001: Darlington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Milburn	22,479	56.3	-5.2
	Conservative	Tony Richmond	12,095	30.3	+2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Adamson	4,358	10.9	+3.7
	Socialist Alliance	Alan Docherty	469	1.2	N/A
	Independent	Craig Platt	269	0.7	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Amanda Rose	229	0.6	N/A
Majority			10,384	26.0
Turnout			39,899	62.0	-11.9
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Notes

1. ^ also known as Trebitsch Lincoln, later a spy

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in County Durham

Constituencies in North East England
Labour	Bishop Auckland | Blaydon | Blyth Valley | City of Durham | Darlington | Easington | Gateshead East and Washington West | Hartlepool | Houghton and Washington East | Jarrow | Middlesbrough | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | Newcastle upon Tyne North | North Durham | North Tyneside | North West Durham | Redcar | Sedgefield | South Shields | Stockton North | Stockton South | Sunderland North | Sunderland South | Tyne Bridge | Tynemouth | Wansbeck
Liberal Democrat	Berwick-upon-Tweed
Conservative	Hexham
North East European constituency: Labour (1) | Conservative (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)