Newcastle upon Tyne West (UK Parliament constituency)

Newcastle upon Tyne West
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central and Newcastle-upon-Tyne North
Created from	Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne West was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1983 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Edward Shortt	Coalition Liberal
	1922	David Adams	Labour
	1923	Cecil Beresford Ramage	Liberal
	1924	John Henry Palin	Labour
	1931	Sir Joseph William Leech	Conservative
	1940 by-election	William Nunn	Conservative
	1945	Ernest Popplewell	Labour
	1966	Robert Brown	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Edward Shortt

General Election 1918: Newcastle upon Tyne West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Edward Shortt	12,812
	Labour	David Adams	6,411
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

• denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

Richard Denman

General Election 1922: Newcastle upon Tyne West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Adams	11,654
	National Liberal	Cecil Beresford Ramage	11,499
	Liberal	Richard Douglas Denman	3,367
Majority			156
Turnout
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1923: Newcastle upon Tyne West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cecil Beresford Ramage	15,141
	Labour	David Adams	11,527
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1924: Newcastle upon Tyne West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Henry Palin	13,089	45.5
	Unionist	Clifford Vernon	8,459	29.4
	Liberal	Cecil Beresford Ramage	7,208	25.1
Majority			4,630	16.1
Turnout				83.8
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1929: Newcastle upon Tyne West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Henry Palin	16,856	46.6	+1.1
	Unionist	Joseph William Leech	14,088	38.9	+9.5
	Liberal	John Dodd	5,267	14.5	-10.6
Majority			2,768	7.7	-8.4
Turnout				76.8	-7.0
	Labour hold		Swing	-4.2

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Newcastle upon Tyne West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph William Leech	28,560
	Labour	John Henry Palin	13,514
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Newcastle upon Tyne West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph William Leech	25,526
	Labour	W Taylor	17,052
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected; Conservative: Joseph William Leech, Labour: Henry Hird.

Newcastle upon Tyne West by-election, 1940

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Nunn	unopposed
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1945: Newcastle upon Tyne West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ernest Popplewell	28,149
	Conservative	William Nunn	19,966
Majority
Turnout
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)