Langbaurgh (UK Parliament constituency)
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Langbaurgh County constituency |
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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.
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[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 partially 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
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[edit] Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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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 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ashok Kumar | 22,442 | 42.9 | +4.5 | |
Conservative | Michael Bates | 20,467 | 39.1 | −2.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | 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
[edit] References
- British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber & Faber 1984)