Wallsend (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wallsend
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County 1918–1974: Northumberland
1974–1997: Tyne and Wear
1918–1997
SeatsOne
Created from Tyneside
Replaced by Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend and North Tyneside

Wallsend was a parliamentary constituency centred on Wallsend, a town on the north bank of the River Tyne in North Tyneside.

Contents

It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997.

History

Wallsend was created as a parliamentary borough constituency under the Representation of the People Act 1918 and was formed from the majority of the abolished Northumberland county division of Tyneside.

It was abolished for the 1997 general election when the majority of the constituency formed the new seat of North Tyneside, but the town of Wallsend itself (the Wallsend and Northumberland wards) was added to Newcastle upon Tyne East to form Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend. Although this was reversed at the next periodic review of constituencies for the 2010 general election, the former constituency name was not re-established, so Wallsend is now included in the North Tyneside constituency.

After middle-class Gosforth was moved out of the seat in the 1983 boundary changes, the constituency had the country's highest percentage of working-class voters at 84% of the electorate. [1]

Boundaries

1918–1950

1950–1983

Weetslade UD had been absorbed by Longbenton UD in 1935, but the constituency boundaries remained largely unchanged.

1983–1997

As a result of the reorganisation of local authorities resulting from the Local Government Act 1972, the area comprising the former Urban District of Gosforth was now part of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne and consequently included in the constituencies of Newcastle upon Tyne Central and Newcastle upon Tyne North. The constituency gained the communities of Backworth and Earsdon which had previously been part of the seat of Blyth. Other minor boundary changes in line with changes to local authority and ward boundaries.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [5] Party
1918 Matt 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

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

Robertson 1920 John Mackinnon Robertson.jpg
Robertson
General election 1918: Wallsend [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C National Democratic Matt Simm 10,24650.9
Labour John Chapman6,83534.0
Liberal J. M. Robertson 3,04715.1
Majority 3,41116.9
Turnout 20,12854.8
Registered electors 36,739
National Democratic win (new seat)
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Wallsend [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Patrick Hastings 14,248 46.8 +12.8
Unionist Christopher Lowther 11,42537.6New
Liberal Thomas George Graham2,9089.6−5.5
National Liberal Matt Simm 1,8406.0New
Majority 2,8239.2N/A
Turnout 30,42182.2+27.4
Registered electors 37,001
Labour gain from National Democratic Swing +28.9
General election 1923: Wallsend [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Patrick Hastings 16,126 55.5 +8.7
Unionist Christopher Lowther 12,95044.5+6.9
Majority 3,17611.0+1.8
Turnout 29,07682.20.0
Registered electors 38,435
Labour hold Swing +0.9
General election 1924: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Patrick Hastings 17,274 52.4 −3.1
Unionist Sam Howard15,67247.6+3.1
Majority 1,6024.8−6.2
Turnout 32,94685.4+9.8
Registered electors 38,598
Labour hold Swing −3.1
Margaret Bondfield Margaret Bondfield 1919.jpg
Margaret Bondfield
1926 Wallsend by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Bondfield 18,866 57.7 +5.3
Unionist Sam Howard9,83930.1−17.5
Liberal Aaron Curry 4,00012.2New
Majority 9,02727.6+22.8
Turnout 32,70582.9−2.5
Registered electors 39,460
Labour hold Swing +11.4
General election 1929: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Bondfield 20,057 49.5 −2.9
Unionist Walter Waring 12,95231.9−15.7
Liberal Samuel Phillips6,79016.7N/A
Communist Wal Hannington 7441.8New
Majority 7,10517.6+12.8
Turnout 40,54380.2−5.2
Registered electors 50,578
Labour hold Swing +6.5

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Irene Ward 25,999 58.57
Labour Margaret Bondfield 18,39341.43
Majority 7,60617.14N/A
Turnout 44,39284.92
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
General election 1935: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Irene Ward 23,842 52.62
Labour Margaret Bondfield 21,46347.37
Majority 2,3795.25
Turnout 45,30481.26
Conservative hold Swing

Election in the 1940s

General election 1945: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John McKay 32,065 60.06
Conservative Irene Ward 21,31939.94
Majority 10,74620.12N/A
Turnout 53,38478.86
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John McKay 33,790 56.35
Conservative Dudley Fitz Mowbray Appleby21,64336.09
Liberal John William Craggs4,5327.56New
Majority 12,14720.26
Turnout 59,96587.55
Labour hold Swing
General election 1951: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John McKay 35,678 58.70
Conservative Gerald C. Crangle25,09941.30
Majority 10,57917.40
Turnout 60,77787.18
Labour hold Swing
General election 1955: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John McKay 34,625 57.80
Conservative Brian Baird25,27542.20
Majority 9,35015.60
Turnout 59,90081.02
Labour hold Swing
General election 1959: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John McKay 37,862 56.55
Conservative Brian Baird29,09643.45
Majority 8,76613.10
Turnout 66,95883.45
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ted Garrett 39,841 60.42
Conservative Brian Baird26,09639.58
Majority 13,74520.84
Turnout 65,93781.54
Labour hold Swing
General election 1966: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ted Garrett 39,744 65.21
Conservative Peter Coles Price21,20534.79
Majority 18,53930.42
Turnout 60,94977.48
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ted Garrett 39,065 61.31
Conservative Earl M. White24,65038.69
Majority 14,41522.62
Turnout 63,71574.18
Labour hold Swing
General election February 1974: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ted Garrett 41,811 61.96
Conservative J. Chambers24,56436.40
Workers Revolutionary D. Temple1,1081.64New
Majority 17,24725.56
Turnout 67,48375.49
Labour hold Swing
General election October 1974: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ted Garrett 37,180 58.11
Conservative J. Chambers15,91124.87
Liberal P. Hampton10,45316.34New
Workers Revolutionary K. Flynn4350.68
Majority 21,26933.24
Turnout 63,97970.85
Labour hold Swing
General election 1979: Wallsend
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ted Garrett 38,214 55.14
Conservative Liddell Johnston21,69531.30
Liberal P. Ryan8,51412.28
National Front Ian Hunter4720.68New
Workers Revolutionary K. Flynn4120.59
Majority 16,51923.84
Turnout 69,30775.90
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1980s

Joan Phylactou, twice SDP candidate, was a senior lecturer at Newcastle Polytechnic. 1983 Conservative candidate Mary Leigh was a solicitor and councillor for St Leonard's ward in Lambeth. 1987 Conservative candidate David Milburn was a salesman and trade unionist who had previously been a Labour member before joining the Conservatives in 1974; at the party's 1980 conference he had called for Keith Joseph to be sacked and Edward Heath brought into the cabinet, accusing the Thatcher government of murder over unemployment-linked suicides.

General election 1983: Wallsend [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ted Garrett 26,615 50.07
Conservative Mary Leigh14,10126.00
SDP Joan Phylactou13,52224.93
Majority 12,51423.07
Turnout 54,23871.12
Labour hold Swing
General election 1987: Wallsend [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ted Garrett 32,709 56.84
Conservative David Milburn13,32523.16
SDP Joan Phylactou11,50820.00
Majority 19,38433.68
Turnout 57,54275.0
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Wallsend [9] [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stephen Byers 33,439 57.9 +1.1
Conservative M Gibbon13,96924.2+1.0
Liberal Democrats Michael J. Huscroft10,36917.9−2.1
Majority 19,47033.70.0
Turnout 57,77774.1−0.9
Labour hold Swing 0.0

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Butler, David; Kavanagh, Dennis (1987). The British General Election of 1987. Macmillan. p. 302.
  2. ↑ Craig, Fred W. S. (1972). Boundaries of parliamentary constituencies 1885-1972;. Chichester: Political Reference Publications. p. 25. ISBN   0-900178-09-4. OCLC   539011.
  3. ↑ Craig, Fred W. S. (1972). Boundaries of parliamentary constituencies 1885-1972;. Chichester: Political Reference Publications. pp. 82, 140. ISBN   0-900178-09-4. OCLC   539011.
  4. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1983" (PDF). p. 75.
  5. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
  6. 1 2 3 Craig, F.W.S., ed. (1969). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 . Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p.  263. ISBN   0-900178-01-9.
  7. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  8. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  9. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

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