The ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear is divided into 11 parliamentary constituencies; 9 borough constituencies and 2 county constituencies. As of the 2024 general election, all 11 are represented by the Labour Party.
See also: 2024 United Kingdom general election.
| Constituency[1] | Electorate | Majority[2] | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition< | --!rowspan=1 class=unsortable | Electoral wards[3] [4] --> | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaydon and Consett CC | 70,487 | 11,153 | Liz Twist | David Ayre | |||||
| Gateshead Central and Whickham BC | 69,827 | 9,644 | Mark Ferguson | Damian Heslop | |||||
| Houghton and Sunderland South CC | 78,448 | 7,168 | Bridget Phillipson | Sam Woods-Brass | |||||
| Jarrow and Gateshead East BC | 70,272 | 8,946 | Kate Osborne | Lynda Alexandra | |||||
| Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West BC | 76,969 | 11,060 | Chi Onwurah | Ashton Muncaster | |||||
| Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend BC | 76,425 | 12,817 | Mary Glindon | Robin Gwynn | |||||
| Newcastle upon Tyne North BC | 75,146 | 17,762 | Catherine McKinnell | Guy Renner-Thompson | |||||
| South Shields BC | 68,366 | 6,653 | Emma Lewell-Buck | Steve Holt | |||||
| Sunderland Central BC | 76,145 | 6,073 | Lewis Atkinson | Chris Eynon | |||||
| Tynemouth | 76,145 | 15,455 | Alan Campbell | Lewis Bartoli | |||||
| Washington and Gateshead South BC | 70,972 | 6,913 | Sharon Hodgson | Paul Donaghy | |||||
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to reduce the number of seats in Tyne and Wear from 13 to 12, leading to significant changes. The constituencies of Gateshead East and Washington West, Houghton and Washington East, Sunderland North, Sunderland South, and Tyne Bridge were abolished and replaced with Gateshead, Houghton and Sunderland South, Sunderland Central, and Washington and Sunderland West. Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend became Newcastle upon Tyne East.
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[5] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
The commission has proposed that Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside be combined with Northumberland as a sub-region of the North East Region, with the creation of two cross-county boundary constituencies comprising an expanded Hexham seat and a new seat named Cramlington and Killingworth. Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland would be combined with County Durham, resulting in another cross-county boundary constituency, named Blaydon and Consett. The constituencies of Blaydon, Gateshead, Jarrow, North Tyneside, Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Newcastle upon Tyne East, and Washington and Sunderland West would be abolished, and new or re-established constituencies of Gateshead Central and Whickham, Jarrow and Gateshead East, Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West, Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend, and Washington and Gateshead South created.[6] [7]
The following seats are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Gateshead
Containing electoral wards from Newcastle upon Tyne
Containing electoral wards from North Tyneside
Containing electoral wards from South Tyneside
Containing electoral wards from Sunderland
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[8]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Tyne and Wear in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 247,317 | 47.8% | 13.0% | 12 | 0 | |
| Conservative | 160,155 | 30.9% | 2.4% | 0 | 0 | |
| Brexit | 47,142 | 9.1% | new | 0 | 0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 36,417 | 7.0% | 3.0% | 0 | 0 | |
| Greens | 16,010 | 3.1% | 1.5% | 0 | 0 | |
| Others | 10,504 | 2.0% | 3.0% | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 517,545 | 100.0 | 12 |
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 31.3 | 27.6 | 28.8 | 17.3 | 17.7 | 17.4 | 21.4 | 20.3 | 28.5 | 30.9 | |
| Labour | 45.4 | 53.6 | 57.1 | 67.1 | 62.9 | 55.8 | 48.7 | 52.1 | 60.8 | 47.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat1 | 23.3 | 18.6 | 13.7 | 11.8 | 16.6 | 23.2 | 21.7 | 5.5 | 4.0 | 7.0 | |
| Green Party | - | 0.6 | 4.1 | 1.6 | 3.1 | ||||||
| UKIP | - | - | - | 1.8 | 17.3 | 4.7 | |||||
| Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9.1 | |
| Other | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 3.8 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 5.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.0 |
* Included in Other
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Labour | 11 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | |
| Total | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
2parts transferred in 2024 to the seat of Cramlington & Killingworth which is mostly in Northumberland