Gateshead Central and Whickham | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundaries since 2024 | |
![]() Boundary of Gateshead Central and Whickham in the North East England | |
County | Tyne and Wear |
Electorate | 69,827 (2024) |
Major settlements | Gateshead and Whickham |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Mark Ferguson (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from |
Gateshead Central and Whickham is a constituency in Tyne and Wear represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Mark Ferguson of the Labour Party. The constituency was created by the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, and was first contested at the 2024 general election. [1] [2]
The seat was formed from the majority of the abolished Gateshead constituency, with the addition of the three wards which incorporate the community of Whickham from the abolished constituency of Blaydon. [3]
The constituency is composed of the following wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
Gateshead prior to 2024
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Mark Ferguson | Labour Party |
Changes in vote share based on notional 2019 result
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mark Ferguson | 18,245 | 45.4 | −1.7 | |
Reform UK | Damian Heslop | 8,601 | 21.4 | +17.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ron Beadle | 4,987 | 12.4 | +0.2 | |
Conservative | Nick Oliver | 4,628 | 11.5 | −21.5 | |
Green | Rachel Cabral | 3,217 | 8.0 | +4.2 | |
TUSC | Norman Hall | 369 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Save Us Now | Graham Steele | 170 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,644 | 24.0 | +9.9 | ||
Turnout | 40,217 | 57.6 | −1.6 | ||
Registered electors | 69,827 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |