List of parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland

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The county of Northumberland is divided into 4 Parliamentary constituencies – 1 Borough constituencies and 3 County constituencies.

Constituencies

  † Conservative

  ‡ Labour

  ¤ Liberal Democrat

  UKIP

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate Majority[nb 2] Member of Parliament Nearest opposition Electoral wards[1][2] Map
Berwick-upon-Tweed CC 56,969 4,914 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Anne-Marie Trevelyan† bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color| Julie Pörksen¤ Alnwick District Council: Alnmouth and Lesbury, Alnwick Castle, Alnwick Clayport, Alnwick Hotspur, Amble Central, Amble East, Amble West, Embleton, Harbottle and Elsdon, Hedgeley, Longframlington, Longhoughton with Craster and Rennington, Rothbury and South Rural, Shilbottle, Warkworth, Whittingham. Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council: Bamburgh, Beadnell, Belford, Cheviot, Edward, Elizabeth, Flodden, Ford, Islandshire, Lowick, Norhamshire, North Sunderland, Prior, Seton, Shielfield, Spittal, Wooler. Castle Morpeth Borough Council: Chevington, Ellington, Hartburn, Longhorsley, Lynemouth, Ulgham.
Blyth Valley BC 61,247 9,229 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color|  Ronnie Campbell‡ bgcolor=Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color| Barry Elliott Northumberland County Council: Cowpen, Cramlington East, Cramlington Eastfield with East Hartford, Cramlington North, Cramlington Parkside, Cramlington South East, Cramlington Village, Cramlington West, Croft, Hartley, Holywell, Isabella, Kitty Brewster, Newsham and New Delaval, Plessey, Seaton Delaval, Seghill, South Beach, South Newsham, Wensleydale.
Hexham CC 59,708 12,031 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Guy Opperman† bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color| Liam Carr Castle Morpeth Borough Council: Heddon-on-the-Wall, Ponteland East, Ponteland North, Ponteland South, Ponteland West, Stamfordham, Stannington. Northumberland County Council: Acomb, Allendale, Bellingham, Broomhaugh and Riding, Chollerton with Whittington, Corbridge, East Tynedale, Hadrian, Haltwhistle, Haydon, Hexham Gilesgate, Hexham Hencotes,

Hexham Leazes, Hexham Priestpopple, Humshaugh and Wall, Ovingham, Prudhoe Castle, Prudhoe North, Prudhoe South, Prudhoe West, Redesdale, Sandhoe with Dilston, Slaley and Hexhamshire, South Tynedale, Stocksfield with Mickley, Upper North Tyne, Wanney, Warden and Newbrough, Wark, West Tynedale, Wylam.

Wansbeck CC 60,705 10,881 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color|  Ian Lavery‡ bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color| Chris Walley Castle Morpeth Borough Council: Hebron, Hepscott and Mitford, Morpeth Central, Morpeth Kirkhill, Morpeth North, Morpeth South, Morpeth Stobhill, Pegswood. Northumberland County Council: Bedlington Central, Bedlington East, Bedlington West, Bothal, Central, Choppington, College, Guide Post, Haydon, Hirst, Newbiggin East, Newbiggin West, Park, Seaton, Sleekburn, Stakeford.

Boundary changes in 2010

Name Pre-2010 Boundaries Post-2010 Boundaries
  1. Berwick-upon-Tweed CC
  2. Blyth Valley BC
  3. Hexham CC
  4. Wansbeck CC
Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland
Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland
Proposed Revision
Proposed Revision


Changes proposed in 2016

As part of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies the Boundary Commission for England published in 2016 proposed parliamentary constituencies covering the entire North East of England incorporating Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.

Results

2005 2010 2015

Historical representation by party

1885 to 1918

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal   Liberal-Labour   Liberal Unionist

Constituency 1885 1886 1892 93 1895 1900 1906 07 08 Jan 1910 Dec 1910 16 18
Berwick-upon-Tweed colspan="11" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |E. Grey colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Blake
Hexham colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |MacInnes bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Clayton bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"|MacInnes colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Beaumont colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Holt
Morpeth colspan="13" bgcolor="Template:Liberal-Labour (UK)/meta/color" |Burt
Newcastle upon Tyne (two MPs) colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Morley bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Cruddas bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Plummer colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hudson
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Cowen bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"|J. Craig colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hamond bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Renwick colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Cairns bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|Renwick colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Shortt
Tynemouth colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Donkin bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Harris colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |H. Craig
Tyneside bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |A. Grey bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Beaumont colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Pease bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |Smith colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Robertson
Wansbeck colspan="12" bgcolor="Template:Liberal-Labour (UK)/meta/color" |Fenwick bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"|Mason

1918 to 1950

  Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23)   Coalition National Democratic & Labour   Conservative   Independent Conservative   Labour   Liberal   National Liberal (1931-68)   Speaker

Constituency 1918 19 1922 23 1923 1924 26 29 1929 31 1931 1935 40 40 41 43 44 1945
Berwick-upon-Tweed colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Blake colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Philipson1 colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Todd colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Seely colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"|Grey bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"|Beveridge bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Thorp
Hexham colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Brown bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Finney colspan="10" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Brown -->
Morpeth colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Cairns colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Smillie colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Edwards bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Nicholson colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Taylor
Newcastle upon Tyne Central colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Renwick colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Trevelyan colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Denville bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Wilkes
Newcastle upon Tyne East colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" |Barnes bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Bell bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|Henderson bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color|Aske colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Connolly bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color|Aske colspan="8" bgcolor=Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color|--> bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Blenkinsop
Newcastle upon Tyne North colspan="12" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Grattan-Doyle bgcolor="Template:Independent Conservative/meta/color"|Headlam colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|-->
Newcastle upon Tyne West colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" |Shortt colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Adams bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Ramage colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Palin colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Leech colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|Nunn bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Popplewell
Tynemouth colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Percy colspan="15" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Russell bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Colman
Wallsend colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Coalition National Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color" |Simm colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hastings colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Bondfield colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Ward bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |McKay
Wansbeck bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mason bgcolor="Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" |--> colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Warne colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|Shield colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Cruddas colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|Scott bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Robens

1 original 1922 victor Hilton Philipson (National Liberal) declared void due to electoral fraud. Mabel Philipson won the subsequent by-election for the Conservatives.

1950 to 1983

  Conservative   Independent Labour   Labour   Liberal   National Liberal (1931-68)   Social Democratic   Speaker

Constituency 1950 1951 54 1955 57 1959 60 1964 1966 1970 73 Feb 1974 Oct 1974 76 1979 81
Berwick-upon-Tweed bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Thorp colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Lambton colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"|Beith
Blyth colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Robens colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|Milne bgcolor="Template:Independent Labour/meta/color" |--> colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Ryman
Hexham Brown colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Speir colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Rippon
Morpeth colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Taylor colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|Owen colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Grant
Newcastle upon Tyne Central bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Wilkes colspan="12" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Short colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|Cowans
Newcastle upon Tyne East colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Blenkinsop colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Montgomery colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Rhodes colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Thomas bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic Party (UK)/meta/color"|-->
Newcastle upon Tyne North bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Headlam colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |Lloyd George colspan="12" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|Elliott
Newcastle upon Tyne West colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Popplewell colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Brown
Tynemouth colspan="11" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Ward colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Trotter
Wallsend colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |McKay colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Garrett

1983 to present

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal   Liberal Democrats

Constituency 1983 1987 88 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015
Berwick-upon-Tweed colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Beith colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color"|--> bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Trevelyan
Blyth Valley bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color|Ryman colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Campbell
Hexham bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|Rippon colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Amos colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Atkinson colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Opperman
Wansbeck colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Thompson colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Murphy colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Lavery

Historical vote by party

Party 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015
Labour 85,289 65,067 59,177 48,018 53,925
Conservative 39,722 39,368 38,522 46,037 56,169
Liberal Democrat 43,708 41,986 50,591 50,818 19,322
UKIP 24,413
Green 6,840


Notes

  1. ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

  1. ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4". Office of Public Sector Information. Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  2. ^ Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
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