Newcastle upon Tyne Central (UK Parliament constituency)

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Newcastle upon Tyne Central Borough constituency
Newcastle upon Tyne Central shown within Tyne and Wear, and Tyne and Wear shown within England
Created:	1918
MP:	Jim Cousins
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Tyne and Wear
EP constituency:	North East England

Newcastle upon Tyne Central is a 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 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

Confusingly Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central does not include Newcastle's commercial city centre (which is in the Tyne Bridge constituency). Instead it consists a number of fairly prosperous communities surrounding Newcastle's Town Moor and houses a large student population,a reason for a substantial swing towards the Liberal Democrats here in 2005,due to student hostility to Labour's policy of top-up fees. The seat includes Gosforth, Jesmond, Fenham, Kenton and much of the universities of Newcastle and Northumbria.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Sir George Renwick
	1922	Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan	Labour
	1931	Arthur Denville	Conservative
	1945	Lyall Wilkes	Labour
	1951	Ted Short	Labour
	1976	Harry Cowans	Labour
	1983	Piers Merchant	Conservative
	1987	Jim Cousins	Labour

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Cousins	16,211	45.1	-9.9
	Liberal Democrats	Greg Stone	12,229	34.0	+12.3
	Conservative	Wendy Morton	5,749	16.0	-5.3
	Green	Joe Hulm	1,254	3.5	+3.5
	Newcastle Academy with Christian Values Party	Clive Harding	477	1.3	+1.3
Majority			3,982	11.1
Turnout			35,920	52.5	+1.2
	Labour hold		Swing	-11.1

General Election 2001: Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Cousins	19,169	55.0	-4.2
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Psallidas	7,564	21.7	+6.7
	Conservative	Aidan Ruff	7,414	21.3	-2.2
	Socialist Labour	Gordon Potts	723	2.1	N/A
Majority			11,605	33.3
Turnout			34,870	51.3	-14.6
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Cousins	27,272	59.2	+7.5
	Conservative	Brooks Newmark	10,792	23.4	-12.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ruth Berry	6,911	15.0	+2.3
	Referendum Party	C.A. Coxon	1,113	2.4	N/A
Majority			16,480	35.8
Turnout			46,088	65.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Cousins	21,123	49.4	+5.2
	Conservative	Mike Summersby	15,835	37.0	-1.8
	Liberal Democrats	Lembit Opik	5,816	13.6	-2.2
Majority			5,288	12.4
Turnout			42,774	71.3
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear

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)