List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland

Constituencies

  † Conservative  ‡ Labour

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest opposition[2] Electoral wards[3][4] Map
Berwick-upon-Tweed CC 59,939 14,835   Anne-Marie Trevelyan   Trish Williams‡ Alnwick District Council: Alnmouth and Lesbury, Alnwick Castle, Alnwick Clayport, Alnwick Hotspur, Amble Central, Amble East, Amble West, Embleton, Harbottle and Elsdon, Hedgeley, Longframlington, Longhoughton with Craster and Rennington, Rothbury and South Rural, Shilbottle, Warkworth, Whittingham. Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council: Bamburgh, Beadnell, Belford, Cheviot, Edward, Elizabeth, Flodden, Ford, Islandshire, Lowick, Norhamshire, North Sunderland, Prior, Seton, Shielfield, Spittal, Wooler. Castle Morpeth Borough Council: Chevington, Ellington, Hartburn, Longhorsley, Lynemouth, Ulgham.
Blyth Valley BC 64,429 712   Ian Levy   Susan Dungworth‡ Northumberland County Council: Cowpen, Cramlington East, Cramlington Eastfield with East Hartford, Cramlington North, Cramlington Parkside, Cramlington South East, Cramlington Village, Cramlington West, Croft, Hartley, Holywell, Isabella, Kitty Brewster, Newsham and New Delaval, Plessey, Seaton Delaval, Seghill, South Beach, South Newsham, Wensleydale.
Hexham CC 61,324 10,549   Guy Opperman Penny Grennan‡ Castle Morpeth Borough Council: Heddon-on-the-Wall, Ponteland East, Ponteland North, Ponteland South, Ponteland West, Stamfordham, Stannington. Northumberland County Council: Acomb, Allendale, Bellingham, Broomhaugh and Riding, Chollerton with Whittington, Corbridge, East Tynedale, Hadrian, Haltwhistle, Haydon, Hexham Gilesgate, Hexham Hencotes,

Hexham Leazes, Hexham Priestpopple, Humshaugh and Wall, Ovingham, Prudhoe Castle, Prudhoe North, Prudhoe South, Prudhoe West, Redesdale, Sandhoe with Dilston, Slaley and Hexhamshire, South Tynedale, Stocksfield with Mickley, Upper North Tyne, Wanney, Warden and Newbrough, Wark, West Tynedale, Wylam.

Wansbeck CC 63,339 814   Ian Lavery Jack Gebhard† Castle Morpeth Borough Council: Hebron, Hepscott and Mitford, Morpeth Central, Morpeth Kirkhill, Morpeth North, Morpeth South, Morpeth Stobhill, Pegswood. Northumberland County Council: Bedlington Central, Bedlington East, Bedlington West, Bothal, Ashington, Central, Choppington, College, Guide Post, Haydon, Hirst, Newbiggin East, Newbiggin West, Park, Seaton, Sleekburn, Stakeford.

Boundary changes in 2010

NamePre-2010 BoundariesPost-2010 Boundaries
  1. Berwick-upon-Tweed CC
  2. Blyth Valley BC
  3. Hexham CC
  4. Wansbeck CC
Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland
Proposed Revision

Proposed boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.

Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.

On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries.[5] Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020[6] was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.

The Act specified that the next review should be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[7] See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[8]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Northumberland in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 82,849 48.8% 4.4% 3 1
Labour 57,567 33.9% 8.9% 1 1
Liberal Democrats 17,018 10.0% 0.7% 0 0
Brexit 6,535 3.9% new 0 0
Greens 5,480 3.2% 1.1% 0 0
Others 178 0.2% 1.2% 0 0
Total 169,627 100.0 4

Percentage votes

Election year 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 33.5 28.6 30.8 22.7 26.1 25.6 29.0 34.9 44.4 48.8
Labour 30.0 34.7 39.9 48.7 43.2 39.4 30.2 33.5 42.8 33.9
Liberal Democrat1 36.3 36.4 28.2 25.0 27.9 33.7 32.0 12.0 9.3 10.0
Green Party - * * * * * 0.4 4.3 2.1 3.2
UKIP - - - * * * 2.4 15.2 1.4 *
Brexit Party - - - - - - - - - 3.9
Other 0.2 0.4 1.0 3.7 2.8 1.3 5.9 0.1 - 0.2

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3
Labour 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1
Liberal Democrat1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
Total 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal   Liberal-Labour   Liberal Unionist

Constituency 1885 1886 1892 93 1895 1900 1906 07 08 Jan 1910 Dec 1910 16 18
Berwick-upon-Tweed E. Grey Blake
Hexham MacInnes Clayton MacInnes Beaumont Holt
Morpeth Burt
Newcastle upon Tyne (two MPs) Morley Cruddas Plummer Hudson
Cowen J. Craig Hamond Renwick Cairns Renwick Shortt
Tynemouth Donkin Harris H. Craig
Tyneside A. Grey Beaumont Pease Smith Robertson
Wansbeck Fenwick Mason

1918 to 1950

  Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23)   Coalition National Democratic & Labour   Conservative   Independent Conservative   Labour   Liberal   National Liberal (1931-68)   Speaker

Constituency 1918 19 1922 23 1923 1924 26 29 1929 31 1931 1935 40 40 41 43 44 1945
Berwick-upon-Tweed Blake Philipson1 Todd Seely Grey Beveridge Thorp
Hexham Brown Finney Brown
Newcastle upon Tyne North Grattan-Doyle Headlam
Tynemouth Percy Russell Colman
Newcastle upon Tyne Central Renwick Trevelyan Denville Wilkes
Newcastle upon Tyne East Barnes Bell Henderson Aske Connolly Aske Blenkinsop
Newcastle upon Tyne West Shortt Adams Ramage Palin Leech Nunn Popplewell
Wallsend Simm Hastings Bondfield Ward McKay
Wansbeck Mason Warne Shield Cruddas Scott Robens
Morpeth Cairns Smillie Edwards Nicholson Taylor

1 original 1922 victor Hilton Philipson (National Liberal) declared void due to electoral fraud. Mabel Philipson won the subsequent by-election for the Conservatives.

1950 to 1983

  Conservative   Independent Labour   Labour   Liberal   National Liberal (1931-68)   Social Democratic   Speaker

Constituency 1950 1951 54 1955 57 1959 60 1964 1966 1970 73 Feb 1974 Oct 1974 76 1979 81
Berwick-upon-Tweed Thorp Lambton Beith
Hexham Brown Speir Rippon
Newcastle upon Tyne North Headlam Lloyd George Elliott
Tynemouth Ward Trotter
Newcastle upon Tyne East Blenkinsop Montgomery Rhodes Thomas
Blyth Robens Milne Ryman
Morpeth Taylor Owen Grant
Newcastle upon Tyne Central Wilkes Short Cowans
Newcastle upon Tyne West Popplewell Brown
Wallsend McKay Garrett

1983 to present

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal   Liberal Democrats

Constituency 1983 1987 88 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Berwick-upon-Tweed Beith Trevelyan
Hexham Rippon Amos Atkinson Opperman
Blyth Valley Ryman Campbell Levy
Wansbeck Thompson Murphy Lavery

See also

Notes

  1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

  1. Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  3. "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4". Office of Public Sector Information. Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  4. Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
  5. "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  6. "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".
  7. "2023 Review launched | Boundary Commission for England". Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  8. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".
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