Newcastle upon Tyne West | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1983 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Newcastle upon Tyne |
Replaced by | Newcastle-upon-Tyne North, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central and Tyne Bridge[1] |
Newcastle upon Tyne West was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1918 to 1983 which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
History
Parliament created this constituency in the Representation of the People Act 1918 as one of four divisions of the parliamentary borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which had previously been represented by one two-member seat.[2] It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when the closest successor constituency was Newcastle-upon-Tyne North.
Boundaries
1918–1950
- The County Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne wards of Armstrong, Arthur's Hill, Benwell, Elswick, and Fenham.[2]
Included the former Urban District of Benwell and Fenham which had been absorbed into the County Borough in 1904 and had previously been part of the abolished Tyneside constituency.
1950–1955
- the County Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne wards of Benwell, Fenham, Kenton, and Scotswood; and
- the Urban District of Newburn.[3]
Boundaries redrawn to take account of expansion of the County Borough and redistribution of wards. Armstrong transferred to Newcastle upon Tyne Central and Arthur's Hill and Elswick to Newcastle upon Tyne North. Gained Newburn from the abolished constituency of Wansbeck.
1955–1983
- the County Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne wards of Fenham, Kenton, and Scotswood; and
- the Urban District of Newburn.[4]
Benham ward transferred to Newcastle upon Tyne Central.
Abolition
Following the reorganisation of local authorities as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, the constituencies within the City of Newcastle upon Tyne were completely redrawn and the constituency was abolished. About half the electorate, comprising the former Urban District of Newburn was included in a newly constituted Newcastle upon Tyne North. Fenham and Kenton were transferred to Newcastle upon Tyne Central and Scotswood to the new constituency of Tyne Bridge.[5]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1918 | Edward Shortt | Coalition Liberal | |
1922 | David Adams | Labour | |
1923 | Cecil Beresford Ramage | Liberal | |
1924 | John Palin | Labour | |
1931 | Sir Joseph 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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Liberal | Edward Shortt | 12,812 | 66.6 | |
Labour | David Adams | 6,411 | 33.4 | ||
Majority | 6,401 | 33.2 | |||
Turnout | 19,223 | 57.3 | |||
Registered electors | 33,527 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Adams | 11,654 | 43.9 | +10.5 | |
National Liberal | Cecil Beresford Ramage | 11,499 | 43.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Richard Denman | 3,367 | 12.7 | −53.9 | |
Majority | 156 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,520 | 80.5 | +23.2 | ||
Registered electors | 32,964 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +32.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Cecil Beresford Ramage | 15,141 | 56.8 | +13.4 | |
Labour | David Adams | 11,527 | 43.2 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 3,614 | 13.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,668 | 79.3 | −1.2 | ||
Registered electors | 33,621 | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | +7.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Palin | 13,089 | 45.5 | +2.3 | |
Unionist | Clifford Vernon | 8,459 | 29.4 | New | |
Liberal | Cecil Beresford Ramage | 7,208 | 25.1 | −31.7 | |
Majority | 4,630 | 16.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,756 | 83.8 | +4.5 | ||
Registered electors | 34,304 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +17.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Palin | 16,856 | 46.6 | +1.1 | |
Unionist | Joseph Leech | 14,088 | 38.9 | +9.5 | |
Liberal | John Dodd | 5,267 | 14.5 | −10.6 | |
Majority | 2,768 | 7.7 | −8.4 | ||
Turnout | 36,211 | 76.8 | −7.0 | ||
Registered electors | 47,121 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.2 | |||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joseph Leech | 28,560 | 67.88 | +19.0 | |
Labour | John Palin | 13,514 | 32.12 | -14.5 | |
Majority | 15,046 | 35.76 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,074 | 83.28 | +6.5 | ||
Registered electors | 50,521 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +16.75 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joseph Leech | 25,526 | 59.95 | -7.93 | |
Labour | William Taylor | 17,052 | 40.05 | +7.93 | |
Majority | 8,474 | 19.90 | -15.86 | ||
Turnout | 42,578 | 75.05 | -8.23 | ||
Registered electors | 56,732 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -7.93 | |||
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 Leech
- Labour: Henry Hird
At the outbreak of the Second World War the planned election was postponed and the major parties agreed to an electoral truce, where they would not contest by-elections against each other for the duration of the war.[9] This meant that following Joseph Leech's death in May 1940 neither Labour nor the Liberal Party stood candidates, and the Conservative candidate was unopposed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Nunn | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Popplewell | 28,149 | 58.50 | +18.45 | |
Conservative | William Nunn | 19,966 | 41.50 | -18.45 | |
Majority | 8,183 | 17.00 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 48,115 | 72.94 | -2.11 | ||
Registered electors | 65,964 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +18.45 | |||
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Popplewell | 31,230 | 58.19 | -0.31 | |
Conservative | AE Pain | 21,949 | 40.90 | -0.60 | |
Communist | R McNair | 492 | 0.92 | New | |
Majority | 9,281 | 17.29 | +0.28 | ||
Turnout | 53,671 | 87.19 | +14.25 | ||
Registered electors | 61,556 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.15 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Popplewell | 31,765 | 57.92 | -0.27 | |
Conservative | James Michael Bazin | 23,081 | 42.08 | +1.18 | |
Majority | 8,684 | 15.84 | -1.45 | ||
Turnout | 54,846 | 87.17 | -0.02 | ||
Registered electors | 62,916 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.73 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Popplewell | 25,401 | 55.68 | -2.24 | |
Conservative | Arthur Grey | 20,217 | 44.32 | +2.24 | |
Majority | 5,184 | 11.36 | -4.47 | ||
Turnout | 45,618 | 79.83 | -7.34 | ||
Registered electors | 57,142 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.24 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Popplewell | 28,956 | 54.75 | -0.93 | |
Conservative | C Dennis Larrow | 23,933 | 45.25 | +0.93 | |
Majority | 5,023 | 9.50 | -1.86 | ||
Turnout | 52,889 | 81.99 | +2.16 | ||
Registered electors | 64,509 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.93 | |||
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Popplewell | 29,603 | 58.33 | +3.58 | |
Conservative | H Ian Bransom | 21,149 | 41.67 | -3.58 | |
Majority | 8,454 | 16.66 | +7.16 | ||
Turnout | 50,752 | 79.37 | -2.62 | ||
Registered electors | 63,943 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.58 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Brown | 30,219 | 62.67 | +4.34 | |
Conservative | Denis Alan Orde | 18,002 | 37.33 | -4.34 | |
Majority | 12,217 | 25.34 | +8.68 | ||
Turnout | 48,221 | 75.79 | -3.58 | ||
Registered electors | 63,628 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.34 | |||
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Brown | 30,805 | 58.73 | ||
Conservative | C Lipman | 21,644 | 41.27 | ||
Majority | 9,161 | 17.46 | |||
Turnout | 52,449 | 70.62 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Brown | 33,829 | 60.13 | +1.4 | |
Conservative | Robin Milton Stewart | 22,433 | 39.87 | −1.4 | |
Majority | 11,396 | 20.3 | +2.8 | ||
Turnout | 56,262 | 73.8 | +3.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Brown | 30,057 | 56.73 | −3.4 | |
Conservative | Robin Milton Stewart | 14,983 | 28.28 | −11.6 | |
Liberal | Robert Humphrey Bourchier Devereux | 7,945 | 15.0 | New | |
Majority | 15,074 | 28.5 | +8.2 | ||
Turnout | 52,985 | 68.9 | −4.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Brown | 32,827 | 54.51 | −2.2 | |
Conservative | Donald David Gilbert | 21,591 | 35.85 | +7.5 | |
Liberal | Jane Dryden Dickinson | 5,801 | 9.63 | −5.4 | |
Majority | 11,236 | 18.66 | −9.8 | ||
Turnout | 60,219 | 72.4 | +3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.9 | |||
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 "'Newcastle upon Tyne West', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- 1 2 Fraser, Hugh (1918). The Representation of the people act, 1918 : with explanatory notes. University of California Libraries. London : Sweet and Maxwell. p. 447.
- ↑ "Representation of the People Act 1948" (PDF). p. 115.
- ↑ Craig, Fred W. S. (1972). Boundaries of parliamentary constituencies 1885-1972;. Chichester: Political Reference Publications. pp. 82, 140. ISBN 0-900178-09-4. OCLC 539011.
- ↑ "Newcastle upon Tyne West". 3 April 2016. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1931". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1935". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ↑ Pelling, Henry (1980). "The 1945 general election Reconsidered". The Historical Journal. 23 (2): 399. doi:10.1017/S0018246X0002433X. S2CID 154658298.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1945". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1950". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1951". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1955". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1959". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1964". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1966". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1970". Political Science Resources. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results February 1974". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results October 1974". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1979". Political Science Resources. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
Sources
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)