Tyneside (UK Parliament constituency)

Tyneside
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
County	Northumberland
1885–1918
Seats	One
Created from	South Northumberland
Replaced by	Wallsend

Tyneside was a parliamentary constituency in the Tyneside area of north-east England, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1885	Albert Grey	Liberal	Elected as a Liberal, but joined the Liberal Unionists when the party split in 1886
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1886	Wentworth Beaumont	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1892	Jack Pease	Liberal	One of the Pease family of Darlington
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |	1900	Hugh Crawford Smith	Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1906	J. M. Robertson	Liberal	Journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism
	1918	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Albert Grey

General election 1885: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Albert Grey	5,782	62.7	N/A
	Conservative	Gainsford Bruce	3,440	37.3	N/A
Majority			2,342	25.4	N/A
Turnout			9,222	77.8	N/A
Registered electors			11,852
	Liberal win (new seat)

General election 1886: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wentworth Beaumont	4,112	50.8	−11.9
	Liberal Unionist	Albert Grey	3,990	49.2	+11.9
Majority			122	1.6	−23.8
Turnout			8,102	68.4	−9.4
Registered electors			11,852
	Liberal hold		Swing	−11.9

Elections in the 1890s

Joseph Pease

General election 1892: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jack Pease	5,468	52.1	+1.3
	Liberal Unionist	Arnold White	5,018	47.9	−1.3
Majority			450	4.2	+2.6
Turnout			10,486	76.4	+8.0
Registered electors			13,727
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.3

General election 1895: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jack Pease	6,066	51.9	−0.2
	Liberal Unionist	Arnold White	5,631	48.1	+0.2
Majority			435	3.8	−0.4
Turnout			11,697	78.3	+1.9
Registered electors			14,932
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.2

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Hugh Crawford Smith	7,093	51.3	+3.2
	Liberal	Jack Pease	6,730	48.7	−3.2
Majority			363	2.6	N/A
Turnout			13,823	74.9	−3.4
Registered electors			18,460
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.2

J. M. Robertson

General election 1906: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J. M. Robertson	11,496	62.5	+13.8
	Conservative	James Knott	6,885	37.5	−13.8
Majority			4,611	25.0	N/A
Turnout			18,381	79.3	+4.4
Registered electors			23,167
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+13.8

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J. M. Robertson	13,158	62.8	+0.3
	Conservative	Alfred Cochrane	7,807	37.2	−0.3
Majority			5,351	25.6	+0.6
Turnout			20,965	81.5	+2.2
Registered electors			25,711
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.3

General election December 1910: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	J. M. Robertson	11,693	63.0	+0.2
	Conservative	Helenus Macaulay Robertson	6,857	37.0	−0.2
Majority			4,836	26.0	+0.4
Turnout			18,550	72.1	−9.4
Registered electors			25,711
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.2

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Liberal: J. M. Robertson
• Unionist:

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)