Tyneside | |
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Former County constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
County | Northumberland (now Tyne and Wear) |
1885–1918 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Wallsend |
Created from | South Northumberland |
Tyneside was a parliamentary constituency in the Tyneside area of north-east England, which 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 voting system.
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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1885 | Albert Henry George Grey | Liberal | Elected as a Liberal, but joined the Liberal Unionists when the party split in 1886 | |
1886 | Wentworth Blackett Beaumont | Liberal | ||
1892 | Joseph Albert Pease | Liberal | One of the Pease family of Darlington | |
1900 | Hugh Crawford Smith | Liberal Unionist | ||
1906 | J. M. Robertson | Liberal | Journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism | |
1918 | constituency abolished |