Wallsend (UK Parliament constituency)

Wallsend
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County	1918–1974: Northumberland 1974–1997: Tyne and Wear
1918 (1918)–1997 (1997)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend and North Tyneside
Created from	Tyneside

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

It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.

It was then partly replaced by the new Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Matthew Turnbull 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 1990s

General Election 1992: Wallsend
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Byers	33,439	57.9	+1.0
	Conservative	Miss M Gibbon	13,969	24.2	+1.0
	Liberal Democrat	MJ Huscroft	10,369	17.9	−2.1
Majority			19,470	33.7	+0.0
Turnout			57,777	74.1	−0.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.0