Washington and Sunderland West | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Tyne and Wear |
Electorate | 70,177 (December 2010) |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Sharon Hodgson (Labour Party (UK)) |
Created from | Houghton and Washington East, Gateshead East and Washington West, Sunderland North, Sunderland South |
Washington and Sunderland West is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Sharon Hodgson, a member of the Labour Party. [n 2]
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to moderate boundary changes, losing the St Anne's ward to Houghton and Sunderland South, and gaining the Borough of Gateshead wards of Birtley and Lamesley from the (to be abolished) constituency of Blaydon. Consequently, it will be renamed Washington and Gateshead South , to be first contested at the next general election. [1]
The town of Washington has a well-preserved historic centre with a museum dedicated to the first US president, on its outskirts, the family home of George Washington. Residents have lower levels of wealth and education than UK averages. [2]
The City of Sunderland wards of Castle, Redhill, St Anne's, Washington Central, Washington East, Washington North, Washington South, Washington West. [3]
Washington and Sunderland West was created for the 2010 general election when the Boundary Commission reduced the number of seats in Tyne and Wear from 13 to 12, with the constituencies in the City of Sunderland, in particular, being reorganised. The constituency was formed from parts of four abolished constituencies:
All of the predecessor seats were held with majorities exceeding 5,000 votes and 5% of the vote before the 2010 election. Electoral calculus, an academic website, gave a provisional ranking as the 28th-safest Labour seat in the United Kingdom, and the 11th-safest Labour seat in England based on the results of 2005. [4]
Election | Member [5] | Party | |
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2010 | Sharon Hodgson | Labour |
Following a ballot of members on 8 September 2007 Sharon Hodgson MP was selected as the Labour candidate, she represented 38% of the new seat which came from her previous seat of Gateshead East and Washington West which was abolished.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Sharon Hodgson | 15,941 | 42.5 | –18.2 | |
Conservative | Valerie Allen | 12,218 | 32.6 | +3.8 | |
Brexit Party | Howard Brown | 5,439 | 14.5 | +14.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Carlton West | 2,071 | 5.5 | +3.1 | |
Green | Michal Chantkowski | 1,005 | 2.7 | +1.4 | |
UKIP | Keith Jenkins | 839 | 2.2 | –4.6 | |
Majority | 3,723 | 9.9 | –22.0 | ||
Turnout | 37,513 | 56.6 | –3.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –11.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Sharon Hodgson | 24,639 | 60.7 | +5.7 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Gullis | 11,699 | 28.8 | +9.9 | |
UKIP | Bryan Foster | 2,761 | 6.8 | –12.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Thomas Appleby | 961 | 2.4 | –0.3 | |
Green | Michal Chantkowski | 514 | 1.3 | –1.6 | |
Majority | 12,940 | 31.9 | –3.5 | ||
Turnout | 40,574 | 60.3 | +5.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –2.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Sharon Hodgson | 20,478 | 55.0 | +2.5 | |
UKIP | Aileen Casey | 7,321 | 19.6 | +16.3 | |
Conservative | Bob Dhillon | 7,033 | 18.9 | –2.9 | |
Green | Anthony Murphy | 1,091 | 2.9 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Dominic Haney | 993 | 2.7 | –14.4 | |
TUSC | Gary Duncan | 341 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 13,157 | 35.4 | +4.7 | ||
Turnout | 37,257 | 54.6 | +1.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
For 2015, the British National Party announced Pauline Renwick as a candidate, [8] but she failed to stand. [9]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Sharon Hodgson* | 19,615 | 52.5 | –16.2 | |
Conservative | Ian Cuthbert | 8,157 | 21.8 | +6.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Andras | 6,382 | 17.1 | +0.9 | |
BNP | Ian McDonald | 1,913 | 5.1 | New | |
UKIP | Linda Hudson | 1,267 | 3.3 | New | |
Majority | 11,458 | 30.7 | |||
Turnout | 37,334 | 53.2 | +6.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –11.6 | |||
2010 vote share changes and swing are based on notional results (a calculation of how the seat would have voted if it had existed at the previous election).
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