Gateshead East (UK Parliament constituency)
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Gateshead East | |
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Former constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | County Durham until 1974, then Tyne and Wear |
1950–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Gateshead East & Washington West, Tyne Bridge and Jarrow |
Created from | Gateshead |
Gateshead East was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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History
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election. It returned Labour MPs for the entire period of its existence.
Boundaries
1950-1983: The County Borough of Gateshead wards of East, East Central, North East, South, and South Central.
1983-1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead wards of Chowdene, Deckham, Felling, High Fell, Leam, Low Fell, Pelaw and Heworth, Saltwell, and Wrekendyke.
Gateshead East, as could be inferred from the name, formed the eastern part of the Borough of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear. In 1997, it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Gateshead East and Washington West, with smaller areas going to Tyne Bridge and Jarrow.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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1950 | Arthur Moody | Labour | |
1964 | Bernard Conlan | Labour | |
1987 | Joyce Quin | Labour | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Gateshead East & Washington West, Tyne Bridge and Jarrow |
Elections
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Joyce Quin | 30,100 | 63.5 | +4.3 | |
Conservative | Martin Callanan | 11,570 | 24.4 | +0.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Ron W.A.L. Beadle | 5,720 | 12.1 | −4.8 | |
Majority | 18,530 | 39.1 | +3.8 | ||
Turnout | 47,390 | 73.6 | +1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Joyce Quin | 28,895 | 59.22 | ||
Conservative | FW Rogers | 11,667 | 23.91 | ||
Social Democratic | NG Rippeth | 8,231 | 16.87 | ||
Majority | 17,228 | 35.31 | |||
Turnout | 71.80 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bernard Conlan | 22,981 | 48.32 | ||
Conservative | FW Rogers | 12,659 | 26.62 | ||
Social Democratic | P Nunn | 11,920 | 25.06 | ||
Majority | 10,322 | 21.70 | |||
Turnout | 69.57 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bernard Conlan | 28,776 | 51.15 | ||
Conservative | FW Rogers | 14,078 | 29.92 | ||
Liberal | C Batey | 4,201 | 8.93 | ||
Majority | 14,698 | 31.24 | |||
Turnout | 75.32 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bernard Conlan | 27,620 | 51.87 | ||
Conservative | Richard Andrew Ryder | 10,021 | 22.45 | ||
Liberal | KA Buckingham | 6,998 | 15.68 | ||
Majority | 17,599 | 39.43 | |||
Turnout | 70.30 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bernard Conlan | 27,269 | 55.16 | ||
Conservative | Richard Andrew Ryder | 11,970 | 24.21 | ||
Liberal | KA Buckingham | 10,196 | 20.63 | ||
Majority | 15,299 | 30.95 | |||
Turnout | 78.62 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bernard Conlan | 28,524 | 64.81 | ||
Conservative | PR Wood | 15,489 | 35.19 | ||
Majority | 13,035 | 29.62 | |||
Turnout | 70.73 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bernard Conlan | 27,628 | 69.57 | ||
Conservative | JHE Mendl | 12,084 | 30.43 | ||
Majority | 15,544 | 39.14 | |||
Turnout | 75.73 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bernard Conlan | 26,633 | 64.51 | ||
Conservative | O Sinclair | 14,654 | 35.49 | ||
Majority | 11,979 | 29.01 | |||
Turnout | 79.85 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arthur Moody | 25,319 | 58.92 | ||
Conservative | G Glover | 17,654 | 41.08 | ||
Majority | 7,665 | 17.84 | |||
Turnout | 81.60 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arthur Moody | 21,653 | 56.45 | ||
Conservative | G Glover | 16,706 | 43.55 | ||
Majority | 4,947 | 12.90 | |||
Turnout | 78.78 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arthur Moody | 19,525 | 57.65 | ||
Liberal National | D Clift | 14,344 | 42.35 | ||
Majority | 5,181 | 15.30 | |||
Turnout | 85.67 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arthur Moody | 15,249 | 45.14 | ||
Liberal National | D Clift | 13,530 | 40.05 | ||
Ind. Labour Party | Konni Zilliacus | 5,001 | 14.80 | ||
Majority | 1,719 | 5.09 | |||
Turnout | 85.81 |
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1997
- Politics of Gateshead