Langbaurgh (UK Parliament constituency)

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Langbaurgh
County constituency
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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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


[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
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
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)