| Tynemouth and North Shields | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | Borough |
| Elects Howmany: | One |
| Region: | England |
| County: | Northumberland (now Tyne and Wear) |
Tynemouth and North Shields was a parliamentary borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1832 and 1885. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
The seat was created by the Reform Act 1832 under the name of Tynemouth.[1] However, in the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832, it is referred to as Tynemouth and North Shields.[2]
The constituency was based upon the communities of Tynemouth and North Shields, in the part of the historic county of Northumberland which has, since 1974, been part of the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear. Under the Boundaries Act, its contents were defined as:
The several Townships of Tynemouth, North Shields, Chirton, Preston and Cullercoats.[3]Tynemouth was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1849 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. The borough covered the whole area east of Wallsend and south of Whitley Bay, including the less historic but more economically significant town of North Shields as well as smaller villages such as New York and Cullercoats.
Although there is no formal reference to Tynemouth and North Shields in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it became known as Tynemouth from that time.[4] There was no change to the boundaries.
| Election | Member | Party | Note | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | George Frederick Young | Whig[5] [6] | 1837: Unseated on petition | ||
| 1837 | Charles Edward Grey | Whig | 1837: Declared duly elected on petition | ||
| 1841 | Henry Mitcalfe | Whig | |||
| 1847 | Ralph Grey | Whig[7] [8] [9] | |||
| 1852 | Hugh Taylor | Conservative | Unseated and election declared void on petition | ||
| April 1853 | Writ suspended[10] | ||||
| 1854 by-election | William Schaw Lindsay | Whig[11] [12] | 30 March 1854 by-election | ||
| 1859 | Hugh Taylor | Conservative | April 1861: Resigned | ||
| 1861 by-election | Richard Hodgson | Conservative | 23 April 1861 by-election | ||
| 1865 | George Trevelyan | Liberal | |||
| 1868 | Thomas Eustace Smith | Liberal | Last MP for the constituency | ||
| Constituency abolished (1885) | |||||
Supplemental Note:-
Taylor's election was declared void on petition due to bribery and treating, causing a by-election.[13]
Taylor's resignation caused a by-election.