North West Durham (UK Parliament constituency)

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North West Durham County constituency
North West Durham shown within County Durham, and County Durham shown within England
Created:	1885, 1950
MP:	Hilary Armstrong
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	County Durham
EP constituency:	North East England

North West Durham is a county 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 2.1 MPs 1885-1918 2.2 MPs 1950-present 3 Elections 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency is located in the north west of County Durham, in the North East England region. It consists of the western part of the Derwentside district (including Consett and Lanchester) and the northern part of the Wear Valley district (including Weardale, Crook and Willington).

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in County Durham, the Boundary Commission for England has made minor changes to the existing North West Durham seat. It will be fought at the UK general election in 2009 or 2010

The electoral wards used in the creation of the modified seat are;

• Crook North, Crook South, Howden, Hunwick, St John’s Chapel, Stanhope, Tow Law and Stanley, Wheatbottom and Helmington Row, Willington Central, Willington West End, and Wolsingham and Witton-le-Wear from Wear Valley
• Benfieldside, Blackhill, Burnhope, Burnopfield, Castleside, Consett East, Consett North, Consett South, Cornsay, Delves Lane, Dipton, Ebchester and Medomsley, Esh, Lanchester and Leadgate from Derwentside

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1885-1918

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Llewellyn Archer Atherley-Jones
	1914 by-election	Aneurin Williams	Liberal
1918		Constituency abolished

[edit] MPs 1950-present

Election		Member	Party
1950		Constituency recreated
	1950	James Murray	Labour
	1955	William Ainsley	Labour
	1964	Ernest Armstrong	Labour
	1987	Hilary Armstrong	Labour

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: North West Durham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hilary Armstrong	21,312	53.9	-8.6
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Ord	7,869	19.9	+5.0
	Conservative	Jamie Devlin	6,463	16.4	-4.5
	Independent (politician)	Watts Stelling	3,865	9.8	+9.8
Majority			13,443	34.0
Turnout			39,509	58.0	-0.5
	Labour hold		Swing	-6.8

Watts Stelling was the leader of the Derwentside Independents political party.

General Election 2001: North West Durham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hilary Armstrong	24,526	62.5	-6.2
	Conservative	William Clouston	8,193	20.9	+5.6
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Ord	5,846	14.9	+4.1
	Socialist Labour	Joan Hartnell	661	1.7	N/A
Majority			16,333	41.6
Turnout			39,226	58.5	-10.2
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.9

General Election 1997: North West Durham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hilary Armstrong	31,855	68.8	+10.7
	Conservative	Louise St John-Howe	7,101	15.3	-12.0
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Gillings	4,991	10.8	-3.9
	Referendum Party	Rodney Atkinson	2,372	5.1	+5.1
Majority			24,754	53.5
Turnout			46,319	68.7	-6.8
	Labour hold		Swing	11.4

General Election 1992: North West Durham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hilary Armstrong	26,734	57.8	+6.9
	Conservative	Theresa May	12,747	27.6	-0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Tim Farron	6,728	14.6	-6.1
Majority			13,987	30.2
Turnout			46,209	75.5	+2.0
	Labour hold		Swing	3.4

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in County Durham

[edit] References

• 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)