Newcastle upon Tyne North (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Newcastle upon Tyne North 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 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1940s 3.2 Elections in the 2000s 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1918)

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Nicholas Grattan-Doyle	Conservative
	1940 by-election	Sir Cuthbert Headlam	Independent Conservative then Conservative
	1951	Gwilym Lloyd George	Liberal and Conservative
	1957 by-election	Sir William Elliott	Conservative
	1983	Robert Brown	Labour
	1987	Doug Henderson	Labour

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

Newcastle upon Tyne North by-election, 7th June 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Conservative	Sir Cuthbert Headlam, Bt	7,380	71.2	N/A
	Conservative	H. Grattan-Doyle	2,982	28.8	−48.2
Majority			4,398	42.4
Turnout			10,362	22.0	−48.3
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Newcastle upon Tyne North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Doug Henderson	21,874	60.1	-2.0
	Conservative	Philip Smith	7,424	20.4	+1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Soult	7,070	19.4	+4.9
Majority			14,450	39.7
Turnout			36,368	57.5	-11.6
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2005: Newcastle upon Tyne North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Doug Henderson	19,224	50.0	-10.1
	Liberal Democrats	Ron Beadle	12,201	31.7	+12.3
	Conservative	Neil Hudson	6,022	15.7	-4.7
	National Front	Roland Wood	997	2.6	+2.6
Majority			7,023	18.3
Turnout			38,444	67.6	+10.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-11.2

[edit] See also

• Newcastle upon Tyne North by-election, 1940
• Newcastle upon Tyne North by-election, 1957
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear

[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

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)