Tyneside (UK Parliament constituency)

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK constituency main 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
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1885	Albert Grey	Liberal	Elected as a Liberal, but joined the Liberal Unionists when the party split in 1886
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1886	Wentworth Beaumont	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1892	Jack Pease	Liberal	One of the Pease family of Darlington
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1900	Hugh Crawford Smith	Liberal Unionist
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1906	J. M. Robertson	Liberal	Journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism
	1918	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

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Albert Grey

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General election 1885: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Gainsford Bruce	3,440	37.3
Majority			2,342	25.4
Turnout			9,222	77.8
Registered electors			11,852
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General election 1886: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Albert Grey	3,990	49.2
Majority			122	1.6
Turnout			8,102	68.4
Registered electors			11,852
	hold		Swing	−11.9

Elections in the 1890s

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Joseph Pease

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General election 1892: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Arnold White	5,018	47.9
Majority			450	4.2
Turnout			10,486	76.4
Registered electors			13,727
	hold		Swing	+1.3

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General election 1895: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Arnold White	5,631	48.1
Majority			435	3.8
Turnout			11,697	78.3
Registered electors			14,932
	hold		Swing	-0.2

Elections in the 1900s

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General election 1900: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Jack Pease	6,730	48.7
Majority			363	2.6
Turnout			13,823	74.9
Registered electors			18,460
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+3.2

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J. M. Robertson

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General election 1906: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		James Knott	6,885	37.5
Majority			4,611	25.0
Turnout			18,381	79.3
Registered electors			23,167
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+13.8

Elections in the 1910s

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General election January 1910: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Alfred Cochrane	7,807	37.2
Majority			5,351	25.6
Turnout			20,965	81.5
Registered electors			25,711
	hold		Swing	+0.3

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General election December 1910: Tyneside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Helenus Macaulay Robertson	6,857	37.0
Majority			4,836	26.0
Turnout			18,550	72.1
Registered electors			25,711
	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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Liberal: J. M. Robertson
• Unionist:

See also

• History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Northumberland