| Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Type: | County |
| Elects Howmany: | One |
| Electorate: | 71,299 (2023)[1] |
| Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Region: | England |
Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.[2] Following the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election.[3] The seat was won by Alan Strickland MP of Labour, with a majority of 8,839 and a vote share of 46.2%.
The constituency is composed of the following electoral divisions of County Durham (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The seat is made up of the bulk of the abolished constituency of Sedgefield, expanded to include Spennymoor and Tudhoe from Bishop Auckland, and Coxhoe from City of Durham.[5]
The seat is the successor to Sedgefield, most famously represented by former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1983 to 2007; he led a successful campaign for his party to win the 1997 general election in a landslide and thereafter served for ten years as Prime Minister, resigning as the MP for Sedgefield on the same day as he resigned as prime minister.[6] This triggered a by-election, which was won by Labour's Phil Wilson. In 2019, Sedgefield was gained by the Conservatives for the first time since 1935, a result which would have been replicated if the new seat of Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor had existed then.
The incumbent MP for Sedgefield, Paul Howell, stood for re-election in the new seat in 2024, but was beaten into third place by Reform UK, with Labour's Alan Strickland effectively regaining the seat with a 22.2% majority.
Sedgefield prior to 2024
Changes in vote share based on notional 2019 result
| Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20,014 | 46.1 | ||
| 16,606 | 38.3 | ||
| 3,374 | 7.8 | ||
| 2,340 | 5.4 | ||
| 644 | 1.5 | ||
| 394 | 0.9 | ||