Tynemouth
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Tynemouth in Tyne and Wear
Outline map
Location of Tyne and Wear within England
CountyTyne and Wear
Electorate76,618 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlementsNorth Shields, Whitley Bay, Monkseaton, Tynemouth and Cullercoats
Current constituency
Created1832
Member of ParliamentSir Alan Campbell (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created fromNorthumberland

Tynemouth is a constituency[n 1] in Tyne and Wear represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Sir Alan Campbell, a member of the Labour Party.[n 2]

Creation

Tynemouth was one of 20 new single-member parliamentary boroughs created by the Reform Act 1832.[2] However, under the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832, it is referred to as Tynemouth and North Shields.[3] The constituency is referred to in various sources (e.g. Leigh Rayment[4] and F.W.S.Craig) by the latter name between 1832 and 1885 and then treated as abolished and replaced by Tynemouth from 1885 onwards. However, there is no mention of this in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and the boundaries were unchanged at that time. The current name of Tynemouth has officially been in use since the Representation of the People Act 1918.[5] It therefore appears that both names were used for the same constituency at different times from 1832 to 1918.

Boundaries

1832-1918

1918–1950

No change to the boundaries.

1950–1983

Whitley Bay, which became a municipal borough in 1954, was transferred from the abolished constituency of Wansbeck.

1983–1997

Minor changes to take account of changes to local authority and ward boundaries following the reorganisation under the Local Government Act 1972.

1997–2010

Riverside ward transferred to the new constituency of North Tyneside.

Map
Map of current boundaries

2010–present

Valley ward transferred from North Tyneside.

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following wards of the Borough of North Tyneside (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

Chirton; Collingwood; Cullercoats; Monkseaton North; Monkseaton South; Preston; Riverside (polling districts FC, FD, FE, FF, FG and FH); St. Mary’s; Tynemouth; Whitley Bay.[11]

The Valley ward will be moved back out to the new constituency of Cramlington and Killingworth, partly offset by the reinstatement of most of Riverside ward from North Tyneside (to be abolished).

Constituency profile

Tynemouth is a coastal seat on the northern bank of the River Tyne. The seat covers Tynemouth, North Shields, Whitley Bay, Cullercoats, Monkseaton and, since 2010, Shiremoor and Backworth.

North Shields and the communities along the Tyne itself tend to be more industrial and working-class, once dominated by coal mining and shipbuilding. The coastal towns to the north, such as Whitley Bay, tend to be more middle-class dormitory towns for Newcastle commuters.

Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 close to the national average of 3.8%, at 3.9% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian, lower than the regional average by 0.5%.[12]

Political history

The seat has tended to be one of the more Conservative-leaning seats in the North East of England, where the party has traditionally struggled against the Labour Party. As a relatively middle-class area, it returned Conservative MPs from 1950 to 1997, albeit often on narrow majorities. It has been represented by Labour since 1997, though the Conservatives remain strong at a local level. Similar to Sefton Central on Merseyside, despite being a traditionally strong Conservative area in a Labour-dominated county, the area has swung significantly to Labour during the twenty-first century, and has been won by semi-marginal to safe margins by Labour candidates at every general election since 1997, with significant swings to Labour seen in both 2015 and 2017.

Since the 1997 general election, it has been represented by Alan Campbell of the Labour Party, who reached the level of government below a Minister of State in 2008, as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office. He is currently Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons.

Members of Parliament

Election Member[4] Party
1885 Richard Donkin Conservative
1900 Frederick Leverton Harris Conservative
1906 Herbert James Craig Liberal
1918 Charles Percy Conservative
1922 Alexander Russell Conservative
1945 Grace Colman Labour
1950 Irene Ward Conservative
Feb 1974 Neville Trotter Conservative
1997 Alan Campbell Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Reform UK Michael Harrigan[13]
Majority
Turnout

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Tynemouth[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Campbell 26,928 48.0 Decrease 9.0
Conservative Lewis Bartoli 22,071 39.4 Increase 2.9
Liberal Democrats John Appleby 3,791 6.8 Increase 3.0
Brexit Party Ed Punchard 1,963 3.5 New
Green Julia Erskine 1,281 2.3 Increase 1.2
Majority 4,857 8.6 Decrease 12.9
Turnout 56,034 72.5 Decrease 2.0
Labour hold Swing Decrease 5.9
General election 2017: Tynemouth[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Campbell 32,395 57.0 Increase 8.8
Conservative Nick Varley 20,729 36.5 Increase 3.7
Liberal Democrats John Appleby 1,724 3.0 Steady
UKIP Stuart Haughton 1,257 2.2 Decrease 10.0
Green Julia Erskine[16] 629 1.1 Decrease 2.7
Independent Anthony "The Durham Cobbler" Jull 124 0.2 New
Majority 11,666 20.5 Increase 4.1
Turnout 56,858 74.5 Increase 5.5
Labour hold Swing Increase 2.6
General election 2015: Tynemouth[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Campbell 25,791 48.2 Increase 2.9
Conservative Glenn Hall[18] 17,551 32.8 Decrease 1.6
UKIP Gary Legg[19] 6,541 12.2 Increase 10.5
Green Julia Erskine[20] 2,017 3.8 Increase 2.8
Liberal Democrats John Paton-Day[21] 1,595 3.0 Decrease 11.9
Majority 8,240 15.4 Increase 4.5
Turnout 53,495 69.0 Decrease 0.6
Labour hold Swing Increase 2.3
General election 2010: Tynemouth[22][23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Campbell 23,860 45.3 Decrease 3.0
Conservative Wendy Morton 18,121 34.4 Decrease 2.2
Liberal Democrats John Appleby 7,845 14.9 Decrease 0.2
BNP Dorothy Brooke 1,404 2.7 New
UKIP Natasha Payne 900 1.7 New
Green Julia Erskine 538 1.0 New
Majority 5,739 10.9 Increase 1.2
Turnout 52,668 69.6 Increase 3.6
Labour hold Swing Decrease 0.4

Elections in the 2000s

Michael McIntyre was councillor for the Whitley Bay Ward at the time of polling. The Conservatives hoped to snatch the seat, but could only diminish Alan Campbell's majority. In the Mayoral election held on the same day, Mayor Linda Arkley (Conservative) narrowly lost re-election.

General election 2005: Tynemouth[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Campbell 20,143 47.0 Decrease 6.2
Conservative Michael McIntyre 16,000 37.3 Increase 3.8
Liberal Democrats Colin Finlay 6,716 15.7 Increase 4.1
Majority 4,143 9.7 Decrease10.0
Turnout 42,859 66.9 Decrease 0.5
Labour hold Swing Decrease 5.0

Labour MP Alan Campbell was returned in 2001 with a smaller majority during Tony Blair's second landslide.

General election 2001: Tynemouth[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Campbell 23,364 53.2 Decrease 2.2
Conservative Karl Poulsen 14,686 33.5 Increase 0.2
Liberal Democrats Penny Reid 5,108 11.6 Increase 2.8
UKIP Michael Rollings 745 1.7 Increase 0.8
Majority 8,678 19.7 Decrease2.4
Turnout 43,903 67.4 Decrease 9.7
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

In 1997 Labour won the seat for the first time since 1945. The Conservatives chose Gateshead Councillor Martin Callanan as their candidate to replace the retiring Neville Trotter. He would subsequently become a North East MEP and later a peer and government minister.

General election 1997: Tynemouth[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Campbell 28,318 55.4 +10.4
Conservative Martin Callanan 17,045 33.3 -12.7
Liberal Democrats Andrew Duffield 4,509 8.8 +0.7
Referendum Clive Rook 819 1.6 New
UKIP Frank Rogers 462 0.9 New
Majority 11,273 22.1 N/A
Turnout 51,153 77.11 −3.3
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +11.5

In 1992 Neville Trotter narrowly won his final term as the Labour candidate's fourth attempt failed. Many council seats were also unexpectedly won on the back of John Major's victory such as Whitley Bay and Monkseaton.

General election 1992: Tynemouth[27][28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Neville Trotter 27,731 46.0 +2.8
Labour Patrick Cosgrove 27,134 45.0 +6.2
Liberal Democrats Philip J.S. Selby 4,855 8.1 −9.9
Green Andrew Buchanan-Smith 543 0.9 New
Majority 597 1.0 −3.4
Turnout 60,263 80.4 +2.3
Conservative hold Swing −1.7

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Tynemouth[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Neville Trotter 25,113 43.2 -4.9
Labour Patrick Cosgrove 22,530 38.8 +7.5
Liberal David F. Mayhew 10,446 18.0 -2.1
Majority 2,583 4.4 -12.8
Turnout 58,089 78.1 +3.5
Conservative hold Swing -6.42

The 1983 election saw Neville Trotter's biggest majority after a landslide victory won by Margaret Thatcher.

General election 1983: Tynemouth[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Neville Trotter 27,029 48.1 -3.5
Labour Patrick Cosgrove 17,420 31.3 -7.2
Liberal David F. Mayhew 11,153 20.1 +10.3
Majority 9,609 17.2 +4.2
Turnout 55.602 74.6 -3.1
Conservative hold Swing +2.0

Elections in the 1970s

1979: Patrick 'Paddy' Cosgrove's first of four attempts to win the seat. Cosgrove was the Labour councillor for Whitley Bay Ward.

General election 1979: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Neville Trotter 29,941 51.57
Labour Patrick Joseph Cosgrove[n 3] 22,377 38.55
Liberal R. Pinkney 5,736 9.88
Majority 7,564 13.02
Turnout 58,054 77.69
Conservative hold Swing
General election October 1974: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Neville Trotter 24,510 43.16
Labour J.E. Miller 21,389 37.66
Liberal Rodney S. Turner 10,895 19.18
Majority 3,121 5.50
Turnout 56,794 74.29
Conservative hold Swing

February 1974: Neville Trotter, a Newcastle City Councillor and Chartered Accountant, became MP.

General election February 1974: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Neville Trotter 26,824 44.22
Labour D. Carlton 20,437 33.69
Liberal Rodney S. Turner 13,393 22.08
Majority 6,387 10.53
Turnout 60,654 80.02
Conservative hold Swing

Jeremy Beecham would later become leader of Newcastle City Council and a Peer.

General election 1970: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irene Ward 30,773 51.36
Labour Jeremy Beecham 23,927 39.93
Liberal Rodney S. Turner 5,221 8.71 New
Majority 6,846 11.43
Turnout 59,921 75.85
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

1966: Gordon Adam would latterly become a North East MEP and make a failed bid to become Mayor of North Tyneside in 2001.

General election 1966: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irene Ward 29,210 49.62
Labour Gordon Adam 25,814 43.85
Independent James C. Edwards 3,846 6.53 New
Majority 3,396 5.77
Turnout 58,870 78.45
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1964: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irene Ward 33,342 56.29
Labour Albert Booth 25,894 43.71
Majority 7,448 12.58
Turnout 59,236 78.96
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irene Ward 32,810 56.37
Labour William H. Hutchinson 18,866 32.42
Liberal David N. Thompson 6,525 11.21
Majority 13,994 23.95
Turnout 58,201 80.53
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1955: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irene Ward 30,949 55.12
Labour James Finegan 20,113 35.82
Liberal Roy Cairncross 5,082 9.05 New
Majority 10,836 19.30
Turnout 56,144 79.35
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1951: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irene Ward 33,800 56.39
Labour Grace Colman 26,144 43.61
Majority 7,656 12.78
Turnout 59,944 84.54
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1950: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irene Ward 28,785 49.30
Labour Grace Colman 23,148 39.65
Liberal E.B. Slack 6,452 11.05
Majority 5,637 9.65
Turnout 58,385 84.01
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Grace Colman 13,963 46.07
Conservative Alexander Russell 10,884 35.91
Liberal Kenneth Paterson Chitty 5,460 18.02
Majority 3,079 10.16 N/A
Turnout 30,307 76.85
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1935: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Alexander Russell 16,003 47.1 -4.7
Labour Samuel Segal 10,145 29.8 +6.0
Liberal John Stanley Holmes 7,868 23.1 -1.3
Majority 5,858 17.3 -10.1
Turnout 34,016 79.22 -4.9
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1931: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Alexander Russell 17,607 51.8 +14.8
Liberal John Stanley Holmes 8,295 24.4 -8.7
Labour T.H. Knight 8,110 23.8 -6.1
Majority 9,312 27.38 +23.5
Turnout 34,012 84.15 +0.8
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1929: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Alexander Russell 11,785 37.0 -8.2
Liberal Richard Irvin 10,545 33.1 +5.7
Labour John Stuart Barr 9,503 29.9 +2.5
Majority 1,240 3.9 -13.9
Turnout 31,833 83.3 -1.3
Unionist hold Swing -7.0
General election 1924: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Alexander Russell 11,210 45.2 +4.2
Liberal Harry Barnes 6,820 27.4 -10.9
Labour John Stuart Barr 6,818 27.4 +6.7
Majority 4,390 17.8 +15.1
Turnout 24,848 84.6 +3.5
Unionist hold Swing +7.5
Harry Barnes
General election 1923: Tynemouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Alexander Russell 9,612 41.0 -7.1
Liberal Harry Barnes 9,008 38.3 +9.3
Labour W. Pitt 4,875 20.7 -2.2
Majority 604 2.7 -16.4
Turnout 23,495 81.1 -2.4
Unionist hold Swing -8.2
General election 1922: Tynemouth [31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Alexander Russell 11,244 48.1 +13.4
Liberal Herbert Craig 6,787 29.0 -3.2
Labour George Harold Humphrey 5,362 22.9 +7.7
Majority 4,457 19.1 +16.6
Turnout 23,393 83.5 +19.7
Unionist hold Swing +8.4

Elections in the 1910s

Craig
General election 1918: Tynemouth [31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
C Unionist Charles Percy 5,883 34.7 −14.2
Liberal Herbert Craig 5,434 32.2 −18.9
Independent Labour George Harold Humphrey 2,566 15.2 New
Independent Henry Gregg (British politician) 2,495 14.8 New
National Dixon Scott 517 3.1 New
Majority 449 2.5 N/A
Turnout 16,895 63.8 −15.6
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +2.4
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

1918: Dixon Scott was the founder of Newcastle's 'News Cinema', the modern 'Tyneside Cinema'.

General election December 1910: Tynemouth[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Herbert Craig 4,106 51.1 −1.8
Conservative Charles Percy 3,939 48.9 +1.8
Majority 177 2.2 −3.6
Turnout 8,045 79.4 -3.9
Registered electors 10,122
Liberal hold Swing −1.8
General election January 1910: Tynemouth[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Herbert Craig 4,487 52.9 −2.0
Conservative Edward George Spencer-Churchill[33] 3,993 47.1 +2.0
Majority 494 5.8 −4.0
Turnout 8,480 83.3 -3.3
Registered electors 10,122
Liberal hold Swing −2.0

Elections in the 1900s

Herbert Craig
General election January 1906: Tynemouth[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Herbert Craig 4,286 54.9 +8.0
Conservative Frederick Leverton Harris 3,522 45.1 −8.0
Majority 764 9.8 N/A
Turnout 7,808 86.6 +4.6
Registered electors 9,019
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +8.0
General election 1900: Tynemouth[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Frederick Leverton Harris[34] 3,501 53.1 +1.4
Liberal F.D. Blake 3,094 46.9 −1.4
Majority 407 6.2 +2.8
Turnout 6,595 82.0 +2.0
Registered electors 8,041
Conservative hold Swing +1.4

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1895: Tynemouth[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard Donkin 3,168 51.7 −1.2
Liberal Francis Blake[35] 2,959 48.3 +1.2
Majority 209 3.4 −2.4
Turnout 6,127 80.0 −0.9
Registered electors 7,659
Conservative hold Swing −1.2
James Annand
General election 1892: Tynemouth[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard Donkin 3,121 52.9 −2.2
Liberal James Annand 2,783 47.1 +2.2
Majority 338 5.8 −4.4
Turnout 5,904 80.9 +4.8
Registered electors 7,300
Conservative hold Swing −2.2

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1886: Tynemouth[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard Donkin 2,795 55.1 −2.1
Liberal William Thomas Raymond[36] 2,277 44.9 +2.1
Majority 518 10.2 −4.2
Turnout 5,072 76.1 −3.3
Registered electors 6,669
Conservative hold Swing −2.1
General election 1885: Tynemouth[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard Donkin 3,027 57.2
Liberal Joseph Spence[37] 2,269 42.8
Majority 758 14.4
Turnout 5,296 79.4
Registered electors 6,669
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
  3. ^ Cosgrove was a Whitley Bay councillor and leading North East barrister

References

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  4. ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
  5. ^ a b Fraser, Hugh (1918). The Representation of the people act, 1918 : with explanatory notes. University of California Libraries. London : Sweet and Maxwell. p. 459.
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  9. ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1995". In the County of Northumberland.
  10. ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007". In Northumberland.
  11. ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 4 North East region.
  12. ^ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
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  31. ^ a b British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
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  33. ^ Gwynne, Howell Arthur. "Captain Edward George Spencer-Churchill". Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  34. ^ Frederick Leverton-Harris (1864-1926) Obituary in The Times, Tuesday, 16 November 1926; pg. 16; Issue 44430; col B
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  37. ^ "Mr Joseph Spence for Tynemouth". Shields Daily Gazette. 9 October 1885. p. 3. Retrieved 14 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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