South Shields (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 54°58′23″N 1°24′50″W / 54.973°N 1.414°W / 54.973; -1.414

South Shields
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons

Outline map

Boundary of South Shields in Tyne and Wear.

Outline map

Location of Tyne and Wear within England.
County Tyne and Wear
Electorate 82,294(2011)[1]
Current constituency
Created 1832
Member of parliament Emma Lewell-Buck
Number of members One
Created from County Durham
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency North East England

South Shields is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It has been represented by Emma Lewell-Buck of the Labour Party since 2013.

Boundaries

1918-1983: The County Borough of South Shields.

1983-1997: The Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside wards of All Saints, Beacon and Bents, Cleadon Park, Harton, Horsley Hill, Rekendyke, Tyne Dock and Simonside, Westoe, West Park, and Whiteleas.

1997-2010: The Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside wards of All Saints, Beacon and Bents, Biddick Hall, Cleadon Park, Harton, Horsley Hill, Rekendyke, Tyne Dock and Simonside, Westoe, West Park, and Whiteleas.

2010-present: The Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside wards of Beacon and Bents, Biddick and All Saints, Cleadon Park, Harton, Horsley Hill, Simonside and Rekendyke, Westoe, West Park, Whitburn and Marsden, and Whiteleas.

The current constituency covers the area of South Shields in the South Tyneside district of Tyne and Wear. Boundary changes at the 2010 general election transferred the community of Whitburn into the South Shields constituency from the neighbouring Jarrow seat.

Members of Parliament

The seat was held from 2001 to 2013 by David Miliband, who served as Foreign Secretary from 2007 until Labour's general election defeat of 2010. On 26 March 2013 Miliband announced his resignation from Parliament in order to take up a post as the head of the International Rescue Committee in New York City.[2]

William Robson
ElectionMember[3]Party
1832 Robert Ingham Whig
1841 John Twizell Wawn Whig
1852 Robert Ingham Whig
1868 James Cochran Stevenson Liberal
1895 William Robson Liberal
1910 Russell Rea Liberal
1916 Cecil Algernon Cochrane Liberal
1918 Joseph Havelock Wilson Liberal
1922 Edward Harney Liberal
1929 James Chuter Ede Labour
1931 Harcourt Johnstone Liberal
1935 James Chuter Ede Labour
1964 Arthur Blenkinsop Labour
1979 David Clark Labour
2001 David Miliband Labour
2013 Emma Lewell-Buck Labour

With two exceptions (Arthur Blenkinsop and Emma Lewell-Buck) every South Shields MP since 1929 has been a cabinet member at some point in their career. Two of them, Chuter Ede (Home Secretary) and Miliband (Foreign Secretary), have held one of the great offices of state while MP for South Shields. It is the only constituency in existence since the Great Reform Act of 1832 never to have elected a Conservative MP.[4]

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: South Shields[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Emma Lewell-Buck 18,589 51.3 −0.8
UKIP Norman Dennis 7,975 22.0 N/A
Conservative Robert Oliver 6,021 16.6 −5.0
Green Shirley Ford 1,614 4.5 +2.4
Independent Lisa Nightingale 1,427 3.9 N/A
Liberal Democrat Gitanjali (Gita) Gordon 639 1.8 −12.4
Majority 10,614 29.3 −1.1
Turnout 36,265 57.8 +0.1
Labour hold Swing −11.4
By-election, May 2013: South Shields[7][8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Emma Lewell-Buck 12,493 50.4 −1.6
UKIP Richard Elvin 5,988 24.2 N/A
Conservative Karen Allen 2,857 11.5 −10.1
Independent Ahmed Khan 1,331 5.4 N/A
Independent Socialist Party Phil Brown 750 3.0 N/A
BNP Lady Dorothy MacBeth Brookes 711 2.9 −3.6
Liberal Democrat Hugh Annand 352 1.4 −12.8
Monster Raving Loony Alan "Howling Laud" Hope 197 0.8 N/A
Independent Thomas Darwood 57 0.2 N/A
Majority 6,505 26.3 -4.1
Turnout 24,780 39.3 −18.4
Labour hold Swing −12.9
General Election 2010: South Shields[10][11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour David Miliband 18,995 52.0 −8.8
Conservative Karen Allen 7,886 21.6 +4.0
Liberal Democrat Stephen Psallidas 5,189 14.2 −5.0
BNP Donna Watson 2,382 6.5 N/A
Green Shirley Ford 762 2.1 N/A
Independent Siamak Kaikavoosi 729 2.0 N/A
Independent Victor Thomson 316 0.9 N/A
Independent Sam Navabi 168 0.5 N/A
Fight for an Anti-War Government Roger Nettleship 91 0.2 N/A
Majority 11,109 30.4 -10.4
Turnout 36,518 57.7 +7.0
Labour hold Swing -6.4

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: South Shields[12][13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour David Miliband 18,269 60.5 −2.7
Liberal Democrat Stephen Psallidas 5,957 19.7 +2.9
Conservative Richard Lewis 5,207 17.2 +0.3
Independent Nader Afshari-Naderi 773 2.6 N/A
Majority 12,312 40.8 −5.5
Turnout 30,206 42.2 −7.5
Labour hold Swing −2.8
General Election 2001: South Shields[14][15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour David Miliband 19,230 63.2 −8.3
Conservative Joanna Gardner 5,140 16.9 +2.3
Liberal Democrat Marshall Grainger 5,127 16.8 +8.0
UKIP Alan Hardy 689 2.3 N/A
Independent Roger Nettleship 262 0.9 N/A
Majority 14,090 46.3 −10.5
Turnout 30,448 49.7 −12.9
Labour hold Swing −5.3

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: South Shields[16][15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour David George Clark 27,834 71.4 +11.6
Conservative Mark Hoban 5,681 14.6 −12.8
Liberal Democrat David Ord 3,429 8.8 −4.0
Referendum Alan Lorriane 1,660 4.3 N/A
Independent Ian Wilburn 374 1.0 N/A
Majority 22,153 56.8 +24.5
Turnout 38,978 62.5 −4.8
Labour hold Swing +12.2
General Election 1992: South Shields[17][18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour David George Clark 24,876 59.8 +1.9
Conservative Jonathan L Howard 11,399 27.4 +1.7
Liberal Democrat Arthur Preece 5,344 12.8 N/A
Majority 13,477 32.4 +0.15
Turnout 41,619 70.1 −0.7
Labour hold Swing +0.1

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: South Shields[19][20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour David George Clark 24,882 57.9 +11.2
Conservative Michael Fabricant 11,031 25.7 −5.2
Social Democratic Margaret Mary Melling 6,654 15.5 −7.2
Democrat Edward Grieves Dunn 408 1.0 N/A
Majority 13,851 32.2 +16.6
Turnout 42,975 70.7 +4.5
Labour hold Swing +8.2
General Election 1983: South Shields[21][22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour David George Clark 19,055 46.5 -10.6
Conservative PJ Groves 15,551 30.1 -0.1
Social Democratic PJ Angus 9,288 22.7 +10.7
Majority 6,402 15.6 -10.5
Turnout 40,996 66.2 -5.0
Labour hold Swing -52.5

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: South Shields[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour David George Clark 28,675 57.0 +0.7
Conservative R Booth 15,551 31.0 +6.1
Liberal L Monger 6,003 12.0 -5.3
Majority 13,124 26.1 -5.4
Turnout 50,229 71.2 +6.5
Labour hold Swing -2.7
General Election, October 1974: South Shields[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Arthur Blenkinsop 26,492 56.4 -3.4
Conservative NS Smith 11,667 24.8 -11.6
Liberal L Garbutt 8,106 17.3 N/A
National Front W Owen 711 1.5 -2.5
Majority 14,825 31.6 +8.2
Turnout 46,976 64.7 -6.9
Labour hold Swing +4.1
General Election, February 1974: South Shields[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Arthur Blenkinsop 30,740 58.8 +0.4
Conservative S Smith 18,754 36.4 -3.4
National Front W Owen 1,958 3.8 N/A
Majority 11,986 23.3 +3.0
Turnout 51,452 71.6 +4.8
Labour hold Swing +1.9
General Election 1970: South Shields[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Arthur Blenkinsop 30,191 60.2 -4.5
Conservative John McKee 19,960 39.8 +4.5
Majority 10,231 20.4 -9.0
Turnout 50,151 66.8 -1.7
Labour hold Swing -4.5

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: South Shields[27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Arthur Blenkinsop 31,829 64.7 +9.6
Conservative Charles MacKenzie Dallas 17,340 35.3 +4.9
Majority 14,489 29.5 +4.7
Turnout 49,169 68.7 -5.4
Labour hold Swing +2.35
General Election 1964: South Shields[28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Arthur Blenkinsop 29,694 55.1 -2.8
Conservative John Chalmers 16,344 30.3 -11.7
Liberal Thomas Henry Campbell Wardlaw 7,837 14.6 N/A
Majority 13,350 24.8 +8.9
Turnout 53,875 74.1 -0.3
Labour hold Swing +4.45

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: South Shields[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour James Chuter Ede 32,577 58.0 -1.7
Conservative John Chalmers 23,638 42.0 +1.7
Majority 8,939 15.9 -3.4
Turnout 56,215 74.4 +2.8
Labour hold Swing -1.7
General Election 1955: South Shields[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour James Chuter Ede 31,734 59.6 +3.7
Conservative John Chalmers 21,482 40.4 +6.9
Majority 10,252 19.3 -3.0
Turnout 53,216 74.4 -9.3
Labour hold Swing -1.6
General Election 1951: South Shields[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour James Chuter Ede 33,633 56.0 +0.6
Conservative John Chalmers 20,208 33.6 +6.8
Liberal Charles Jonathan Kitchell 6,270 10.4 -5.5
Majority 13,425 22.3 -7.3
Turnout 74,657 80.5 -1.2
Labour hold Swing -3.7
General Election 1950: South Shields[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour James Chuter Ede 33,452 56.5 -2.9
Conservative John Chalmers 15,897 28.9 N/A
Liberal John George 9,446 16.0 N/A
Communist FO Smith 415 0.7 N/A
Majority 17,555 29.7 +10.8
Turnout 59,210 81.7 +8.6
Labour hold Swing +5.4

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: South Shields[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour James Chuter Ede 22,410 59.4 +11.3
Liberal National Donald Maurice Parry 15,296 40.6 N/A
Majority 7,114 18.9 +12.6
Turnout 37,706 73.1 -0.3
Labour hold Swing +12.6

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: South Shields
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour James Chuter Ede 22,031 48.16
Liberal Harcourt Johnstone 12,932 29.27
National Labour Frederick Burden 10,784 23.57
Majority 9,099 19.89
Turnout 72.79
Labour gain from Liberal Swing
General Election 1931: South Shields
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Harcourt Johnstone 30,528 59.81
Labour James Chuter Ede 20,512 40.19
Majority 10,016 19.62
Turnout 80.13
Liberal gain from Labour Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: South Shields [33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour James Chuter Ede 18,938 42.2 +0.1
Liberal Hon. Harold Burge Robson 18,898 42.0 -15.9
Unionist William Nunn 7,110 15.8 n/a
Majority 40 0.2 16.0
Turnout 72.9 -2.4
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +8.0
General Election 1924[33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Edward Augustine St Aubyn Harney 23,171 57.9 -1.4
Labour William Lawther 16,852 42.1 +1.4
Majority 6,319 15.8 -2.8
Turnout 75.3 +1.8
Liberal hold Swing -1.4
General Election 1923[33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Edward Augustine St Aubyn Harney 22,912 59.3 +19.5
Labour William Lawther 15,717 40.7 +1.0
Majority 7,195 18.6 +18.5
Turnout 73.5 -2.7
Liberal hold Swing +9.5
General Election 1922[33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Edward Augustine St Aubyn Harney 15,760 39.8 n/a
Labour William Lawther 15,735 39.7 +14.9
National Liberal Joseph Havelock Wilson 8,121 20.5 -54.7
Majority 25 0.1 50.5
Turnout 76.2 +24.9
Liberal hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1910s

Havelock Wilson
General Election 1918[33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal 19,514 75.2 N/A
Labour George John Rowe 6,425 24.8 N/A
Majority 13,089 50.4 N/A
Turnout 51.3 N/A
Liberal hold Swing N/A
South Shields by-election, 1918
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Joseph Havelock Wilson Unopposed N/A N/A
Liberal hold Swing N/A
South Shields by-election, 1916
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Cecil Cochrane Unopposed N/A N/A
Liberal hold Swing N/A
Russell Rea
General Election December 1910 South Shields[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Rt Hon. Russell Rea unopposed n/a n/a
Liberal hold Swing n/a
South Shields by-election, 1910[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Rt Hon. Russell Rea Unopposed N/A N/A
Liberal hold Swing N/A
General Election January 1910 South Shields[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Rt Hon. Sir William Snowdon Robson 9,090 65.2 -8.7
Liberal Unionist Roland Edmund Lomax Vaughan Williams 4,854 34.8 +8.7
Majority -17.4
Turnout 76.1 +3.5
Liberal hold Swing -8.7

Elections in the 1900s

William Robson
General Election 1906 South Shields[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Rt Hon. Sir William Snowdon Robson 9,717 73.9
Liberal Unionist A R Chamberlayne 3,431 26.1
Majority 6,286 47.8 +19.2
Turnout 72.6
Liberal hold Swing
General Election 1900 South Shields[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal William Snowdon Robson 7,417 64.3
Conservative R Readhead 4,119 35.7
Majority 3,298 28.6
Turnout 72.0
Liberal hold Swing

See also

References

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  32. ↑ "UK General Election results, July 1945 (part 18)". Richard Kimber's political science resources. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
  33. 1 2 3 4 5 British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
  34. 1 2 3 4 5 British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)

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