| Wallsend | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| County | 1918–1974: Northumberland 1974–1997: Tyne and Wear |
| 1918–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend and North Tyneside |
| Created from | Tyneside |
Wallsend was a parliamentary constituency centred on Wallsend, a town on the north bank of the River Tyne in North Tyneside.
It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.
It was then partly replaced by the new Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend constituency.
Contents |
| Election | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Matthew Turnbull Simm | National Democratic | |
| 1922 | Sir Patrick Hastings | Labour | |
| 1926 by-election | Margaret Bondfield | Labour | |
| 1931 | Irene Ward | Conservative | |
| 1945 | John McKay | Labour | |
| 1964 | Ted Garrett | Labour | |
| 1992 | Stephen Byers | Labour | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished | ||
| General Election 1992: Wallsend[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Stephen Byers | 33,439 | 57.9 | +1.0 | |
| Conservative | Miss M Gibbon | 13,969 | 24.2 | +1.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | MJ Huscroft | 10,369 | 17.9 | −2.1 | |
| Majority | 19,470 | 33.7 | +0.0 | ||
| Turnout | 57,777 | 74.1 | −0.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +0.0 | |||