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Tyneside (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1918

Summary

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1918

Field	Value
name	Tyneside
parliament	uk
image
caption	Tyneside in Northumberland
year	1885
abolished	1918
type	County
elects_howmany	One
previous	South Northumberland
next	Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne East, Newcastle upon Tyne West, Wansbeck
region	England
county	Northumberland

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 as one of four single-member Divisions of the county of Northumberland, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

The contents of the county division, as defined by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, were:The Sessional Division of Castle West (part), the Municipal Boroughs of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Tynemouth, and the Parish of Wallsend.NB included non-resident freeholders in the parliamentary boroughs of Newcastle upon Tyne and Tynemouth.

Abolition

On abolition in 1918, the contents of the seat were distributed as follows:

the majority of the electorate, comprising the municipal borough of Wallsend and the urban districts of Gosforth, Longbenton and Weetslade formed the new Parliamentary Borough of Wallsend;
the former urban districts of Walker, and Benwell and Fenham which had been abolished in 1904 and absorbed into the County Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne were included in Newcastle upon Tyne East and West respectively; and
the urban district of Newburn and surrounding rural areas were transferred to Wansbeck.

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party	Notes
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1885	Albert Grey	Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1886	Wentworth Beaumont	Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1892	Jack Pease	Liberal
Liberal Unionist Party}}"		1900	Hugh Crawford Smith	Liberal Unionist
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1906	J. M. Robertson	Liberal
	1918	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 11,852 |reg. electors = 11,852

Elections in the 1890s

|reg. electors = 13,727 |reg. electors = 14,932

Elections in the 1900s

|reg. electors = 18,460

|reg. electors = 23,167

Elections in the 1910s

|reg. electors = 25,711 |reg. electors = 25,711 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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Liberal: J. M. Robertson
Unionist:

References

Great Britain, Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. "The public general acts". Proprietors of the Law Journal Reports, 1884.
"HMSO Boundary Commission Report 1885 Northumberland".
Fraser, Hugh. (1918). "The Representation of the people act, 1918 : with explanatory notes". London : Sweet and Maxwell.
Fraser, Hugh. (1918). "The Representation of the people act, 1918 : with explanatory notes". London : Sweet and Maxwell.
(1974). "British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918". Macmillan Press.

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