South Shields (UK Parliament constituency)

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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1832 onwards

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

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.

The seat was created by the Reform Act 1832 as a single-member parliamentary borough.[2]

The current constituency covers the area of South Shields in the South Tyneside district of Tyne and Wear.

Boundaries[edit]

1832-1918[edit]

Under the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832, the contents of the borough were defined as the Respective Townships of South Shields and Westoe.[3]

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See map on Vision of Britain website.[4]

1918–1950[edit]

The County Borough of South Shields.[5]

Expanded to be coterminous with County Borough.

1950–1951[edit]

As prior but with redrawn boundaries.[6]

Expanded southwards, including the communities of Harton, transferred from Houghton-le-Spring.

1951–1983[edit]

As prior but with redrawn boundaries.[6]

1983–1997[edit]

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.[7]

Minor changes to take account of ward boundaries of the newly formed metropolitan borough, including the transfer of Biddick Hall to Jarrow.

1997–2010[edit]

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.[8]

Biddick Hall gained back from Jarrow.

2010–present[edit]

Map

Map of current boundaries

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.[9]

Boundary changes for the 2010 general election transferred the community of Whitburn into the South Shields constituency from the neighbouring Jarrow seat.

Members of Parliament[edit]

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.[10]

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. However, Blenkinsop was a junior minister, and Lewell-Buck has been a shadow minister. 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.

The Open Spaces Society in 2013 observed that there has been a tradition of South Shields MPs, from Chuter Ede onwards, promoting the cause of public access and common land.[20]

Elections[edit]

Elections in the 2010s[edit]

Elections in the 2000s[edit]

Elections in the 1990s[edit]

Elections in the 1980s[edit]

Elections in the 1970s[edit]

Elections in the 1960s[edit]

Elections in the 1950s[edit]

Elections in the 1940s[edit]

Elections in the 1930s[edit]

Elections in the 1920s[edit]

Elections in the 1910s[edit]

Elections in the 1900s[edit]

Elections in the 1890s[edit]

Elections in the 1880s[edit]

Elections in the 1870s[edit]

Elections in the 1860s[edit]

Elections in the 1850s[edit]

Elections in the 1840s[edit]

Elections in the 1830s[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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General

Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.


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