North Tyneside (UK Parliament constituency)

North Tyneside
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear for the 2010 general election.
Location of Tyne and Wear within England.
County	Tyne and Wear
Electorate	78,617 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997 (1997)
Member of Parliament	Mary Glindon (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Tynemouth and Wallsend
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North East England

North Tyneside is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Tyne and Wear, the Boundary Commission for England has created a modified North Tyneside constituency to be fought for the first time at the 2010 UK general election.

The seat contains Wallsend, which has been moved from Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend. As a consequence of the changes, Newcastle East becomes a constituency in its own right.

The electoral wards used to form the modified North Tyneside constituency are;

• Battle Hill, Benton, Camperdown, Howdon, Killingworth, Longbenton, Northumberland, Riverside, Wallsend and Weetslade

The electoral ward of Northumberland should not be confused with the county of that name.

Members of Parliament

The seat was represented after its creation in 1997 by Stephen Byers of the Labour Party, who previously represented the former seat of Wallsend from 1992. Byers stood down at the 2010 general election, and his party selected local councillor Mary Glindon as their new candidate for the general election, which she won with a majority of 12,884.

Election		Member	Party
	1997	Stephen Byers	Labour
	2010	Mary Glindon	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: North Tyneside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Glindon	23,505	50.7	-8.7
	Liberal Democrat	David Ord	10,621	22.9	+0.9
	Conservative	Gagan Mohindra	8,514	18.3	-0.3
	BNP	John Burrows	1,860	4.0	N/A
	UKIP	Claudia Blake	1,306	2.8	N/A
	National Front	Bob Batten	599	1.3	N/A
Majority			12,884	27.8
Turnout			46,405	59.7	+4.3
	Labour hold		Swing	-4.8

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: North Tyneside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Byers	22,882	61.9	-7.6
	Conservative	Duncan McLellan	7,845	21.2	+6.6
	Liberal Democrat	Gillian Ferguson	6,212	16.8	+4.4
Majority			15,037	40.7
Turnout			36,939	57.2	-0.5
	Labour hold		Swing	-7.1

General Election 2001: North Tyneside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Byers	26,027	69.5	-3.3
	Conservative	Mark Ruffell	5,459	14.6	+0.9
	Liberal Democrat	Simon Reed	4,649	12.4	+1.9
	UKIP	Alan Taylor	770	2.1	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	Pete Burnett	324	0.9	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Kenneth Capstick	240	0.6	N/A
Majority			20,568	54.9
Turnout			37,469	57.7	-10.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: North Tyneside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Byers	32,810	72.7
	Conservative	Michael McIntyre	6,167	13.7
	Liberal Democrat	Tommy Mulvenna	4,762	10.6
	Referendum Party	Michael Rollings	1,382	3.1
Majority			26,643
Turnout				67.9

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear