Wansbeck (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wansbeck County constituency
Wansbeck shown within Northumberland, and Northumberland shown within England
Created:	1885, 1983
MP:	Denis Murphy
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Northumberland
EP constituency:	North East England

Wansbeck 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 2.1 MPs 1885-1950 2.2 MPs 1950-present 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1920s 3.2 Elections in the 1930s 3.3 Elections in the 1940s 3.4 Elections in the 2000s 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

A seat containing former mining towns and villages like Bedlington and Ashington, this is safely Labour with the Liberal Democrats and not the Tories being the main challengers. Ashington is famous for being the home town of the legendary footballing brothers, Bobby Charlton and Jack Charlton^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Northumberland, the Boundary Commission for England has made only minor changes to the existing Wansbeck constituency. The electoral wards used in its formation are:

• The entire district of Wansbeck; and
• The wards of Hebron, Hepscott and Mitford, Morpeth Central, Morpeth Kirkhill, Morpeth North, Morpeth South, Morpeth Stobhill and Pegswood from Castle Morpeth.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1885-1950

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Charles Fenwick	Lib-Lab
	1918	Robert Mason	Liberal
	1918		Coalition Liberal
	1922	George Henry Warne	Labour
	1929	George William Shield	Labour
	1931	Bernard Cruddas	Conservative
	1940	Robert Scott	Conservative
	1945	Alfred Robens	Labour
1950		Constituency ablished

[edit] MPs 1950-present

• Constituency recreated (1983)

Election		Member	Party
	1983	John Thompson	Labour
	1997	Denis Murphy	Labour

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

Wansbeck by-election, 1929
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Warne	20,398	58.0	+5.1
	Conservative	I.M Moffat-Pender	9,612	27.3	−19.8
	Liberal	H.A. Briggs	5,183	14.7	N/A
Majority			10,786	30.7	+24.9
Turnout			35,193	65.3	−14.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+14.5

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Wansbeck
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Denis Murphy	21,617	57.8	-7.7
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Thompson	8,516	22.8	+6.8
	Conservative	Rachael Lake	4,774	12.8	-1.2
	Independent (politician)	Michael Kirkup	1,076	2.9	N/A
	Green	Nic Best	954	2.5	+0.4
	UK Independence	Gavin Attwell	482	1.3	N/A
Majority			13,101	35.0
Turnout			37,419	59.3	-12.3
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2005: Wansbeck
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Denis Murphy	20,315	55.2	−2.6
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Reed	9,734	26.4	+3.6
	Conservative	Ginny Scrope	5,540	15.0	+2.2
	Green	Nic Best	1,245	3.4	+0.9
Majority			10,581	28.7
Turnout			36,834	58.4	−0.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-3.1

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland
• Wansbeck by-election, 1929
• Wansbeck by-election, 1940

[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)