Langbaurgh (UK Parliament constituency)

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Langbaurgh County constituency
Created:	1983
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Langbaurgh was a parliamentary constituency in the Langbaurgh area of North East England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

It was held by Michael Bates for the Conservative Party until the 1997 general election. In 1997, the constituency was abolished, and the similar seat of Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland was created.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 History 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election Results 4.1 1990s 5 See also 6 Reference

[edit] Boundaries

At the time of its creation the constituency was part of the then Shire county of Cleveland and the Borough of Langbaurgh, for local government purposes. Before the reforms of local government in the 1960s and 1970s the area that became Cleveland had been partly located in the north of the North Riding of Yorkshire and partialy in the south of the historic county of Durham. The constituency itself was located in the North Riding part of Cleveland.

The redistribution of constituencies, which took effect in 1983, was the first which used the reformed local authorities as the building blocks for Parliamentary constituencies. Langbaurgh was a new constituency; 65.1% of it had formerly been part of Cleveland and Whitby constituency, 34.6% came from Middlesbrough and 0.3% from Richmond (Yorks).

The wards of the Borough of Langbaurgh which were included in the constituency were Belmont, Brotton, Guisborough, Hutton, Lockwood, Loftus, Longbeck, Saltburn, Skelton, Skinningrove and St. Germain's. The Borough of Middlesbrough contributed the wards of Easterside, Hemlington, Marton, Newham, Nunthorpe, Park End and Stainton and Thornton.

The constituency was a mixture of heavy manufacturing areas (41.7% of the workforce), with seaside resort and rural agricultural parts. The political effect was to make the constituency marginal between the Labour and Conservative candidates.

In 1996 the county of Cleveland and its associated districts like the Borough of Langbaurgh were abolished. The area was divided into Unitary council areas, one of which was Middlesbrough and another was Redcar and Cleveland (the former Borough of Langbaurgh). In the circumstances it was inevitable that the successor constituency to Langbaurgh from 1997 was re-named.

[edit] History

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	James Richard Holt	Conservative
	1991	Ashok Kumar	Labour
	1992	Michael Walton Bates	Conservative
1997		constituency abolished: see Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland

[edit] Election Results

[edit] 1990s

Langbaurgh by-election, 1991
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ashok Kumar	22,442	42.9	+4.5
	Conservative	Michael Bates	20,467	39.1	−2.6
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Allen	8,421	16.1	−3.7
	Green	Gerald Parr	456	0.9
	Yorkshire Party	Roland Holt	216	0.4
	Corrective Party	Lindi St Clair	198	0.4
	Football Supporters	Nigel Downing	163	0.3
Majority			1,975	3.8
Turnout			52,363
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	9.1

[edit] See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies

[edit] Reference

• British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber & Faber 1984)