The county of Northumberland is divided into 4 parliamentary constituencies, all of which are county constituencies.
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Reform UK
Constituency [nb 1] | Electorate | Majority [nb 2] | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition | Electoral wards [1] | Map | ||
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Blyth and Ashington CC | 76,263 | 9,173 | Ian Lavery‡ | Mark Peart¤ | Northumberland County Council: Ashington Central, Bedlington Central, Bedlington East, Bedlington West, Bothal, Choppington, College, Cowpen, Croft, Haydon, Hirst, Isabella, Kitty Brewster, Newbiggin Central and East, Newsham, Plessey, Seaton with Newbiggin West, Sleekburn, South Blyth, Stakeford, Wensleydale. | |||
Cramlington and Killingworth CC | 76,228 | 12,820 | Emma Foody‡ | Gordon Fletcher¤ | Newcastle City Council: Castle (polling districts F01, F02 and F03). North Tyneside Council: Camperdown, Killingworth, Valley, Weetslade. Northumberland County Council: Cramlington East, Cramlington Eastfield, Cramlington North, Cramlington South East, Cramlington Village, Cramlington West, Hartley, Holywell, Seghill with Seaton Delaval. | |||
Hexham CC | 76,431 | 3,713 | Joe Morris‡ | Guy Opperman† | Newcastle City Council: Callerton and Throckley. Northumberland County Council: Bellingham, Bywell, Corbridge, Haltwhistle, Haydon and Hadrian, Hexham Central with Acomb, Hexham East, Hexham West, Humshaugh, Longhorsley, Ponteland East and Stannington, Ponteland North, Ponteland South with Heddon, Ponteland West, Prudhoe North, Prudhoe South, South Tyneside, Stocksfield and Broomhaugh. | |||
North Northumberland CC | 74,132 | 5,067 | David Smith‡ | Anne-Marie Trevelyan† | Northumberland County Council: Alnwick, Amble, Amble West with Warkworth, Bamburgh, Berwick East, Berwick North, Berwick West with Ord, Druridge Bay, Longhoughton, Lynemouth, Morpeth Kirkhill, Morpeth North, Morpeth Stobhill, Norham and Islandshires, Pegswood, Rothbury, Shilbottle, Wooler. |
See 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Former name | Boundaries 2010–2024 | Current name | Boundaries 2024–present |
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For the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Northumberland with the Tyne and Wear boroughs of Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside as a sub-region of the North East Region, with the creation of two cross-county boundary constituencies, resulting in the abolition of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Blyth Valley and Wansbeck. [2] [3]
The following seats resulted from the boundary review in Northumberland:
Under the Fifth periodic review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain Northumberland's constituencies for the 2010 election, making a very small change between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Hexham to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards.
Name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Boundaries 2010–2024 |
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Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019 [4]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Northumberland in the 2024 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
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Labour | 84,147 | 45.1% | 11.2% | 4 | 3 |
Conservative | 47,776 | 25.6% | 23.2% | 0 | 3 |
Reform UK | 27,999 | 15.0% | 11.1% | 0 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 10,876 | 5.8% | 4.2% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 8,314 | 4.5% | 1.3% | 0 | 0 |
Others | 7,354 | 3.9% | 3.7% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 186,466 | 100.0 | 4 |
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Labour | 30.0 | 34.7 | 39.9 | 48.7 | 43.2 | 39.4 | 30.2 | 33.5 | 42.8 | 33.9 | 45.1 |
Conservative | 33.5 | 28.6 | 30.8 | 22.7 | 26.1 | 25.6 | 29.0 | 34.9 | 44.4 | 48.8 | 25.6 |
Reform UK 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3.9 | 15.0 |
Liberal Democrat 1 | 36.3 | 36.4 | 28.2 | 25.0 | 27.9 | 33.7 | 32.0 | 12.0 | 9.3 | 10.0 | 5.8 |
Green Party | – | * | * | * | * | * | 0.4 | 4.3 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 4.5 |
UKIP | – | – | – | * | * | * | 2.4 | 15.2 | 1.4 | * | – |
Other | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 5.9 | 0.1 | – | 0.2 |
11983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
22019 – Brexit Party
* Included in Other
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Labour | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Conservative | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Liberal Democrat 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
11983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
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.
Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal-Labour Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 1892 | 93 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | 07 | 08 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 16 | 18 |
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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 |
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 |
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Berwick-upon-Tweed | Blake | Philipson 1 | 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.
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 |
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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 |
Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Berwick-upon-Tweed / North Northumberland (2024) | Beith | → | Trevelyan | Smith | ||||||||
Blyth Valley / Cramlington and Killingworth 1 (2024) | Ryman | Campbell | Levy | Foody | ||||||||
Hexham 1 | Rippon | Amos | Atkinson | Opperman | Morris | |||||||
Wansbeck / Blyth and Ashington (2024) | Thompson | Murphy | Lavery |
1contains areas of Tyne and Wear since 2024
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