Tynemouth and North Shields (UK Parliament constituency)

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.

Tynemouth and North Shields
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Northumberland (now Tyne and Wear)
1832–1885
Seats	One
Created from	Northumberland
Replaced by	Tynemouth

Boundaries

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.^[2][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.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1832	George Frederick Young	Whig[5][6]	1837: Unseated on petition
	1837	Charles Edward Grey	Whig[5]	1837: Declared duly elected on petition
	1841	Henry Mitcalfe	Whig[5]
	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:-

• ¹ F. W. S. Craig, in his compilations of election results for Great Britain, classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 general election.

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1832: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	George Frederick Young	326	55.3
	Whig	Sanderson Ilderton	264	44.7
Majority			62	10.6
Turnout			590	77.6
Registered electors			760
	Whig win (new seat)

General election 1835: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	George Frederick Young	Unopposed
Registered electors			660
	Whig hold

General election 1837: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	George Frederick Young	269	51.5
	Whig	Charles Edward Grey	253	48.5
Majority			16	3.0
Turnout			522	74.1
Registered electors			704
	Whig hold

• On petition, Young was unseated and Grey was declared elected

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Henry Mitcalfe	295	58.1	+6.6
	Conservative	William Chapman[14]	213	41.9	New
Majority			82	16.2	+13.2
Turnout			508	71.7	−2.4
Registered electors			709
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1847: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Ralph Grey	Unopposed
Registered electors			789
	Whig hold

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hugh Taylor	340	50.9	New
	Whig	Ralph Grey	328	49.1	N/A
Majority			12	1.8	N/A
Turnout			668	75.7	N/A
Registered electors			883
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	N/A

Taylor's election was declared void on petition due to bribery and treating, causing a by-election.^[15]

By-election, 30 March 1854: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Schaw Lindsay	357	51.2	+2.1
	Conservative	Peter Dickson[16]	340	48.8	−2.1
Majority			17	2.4	N/A
Turnout			697	76.8	+1.1
Registered electors			908
	Whig gain from Conservative		Swing	+2.1

General election 1857: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Schaw Lindsay	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,048
	Whig gain from Conservative

General election 1859: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hugh Taylor	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,049
	Conservative gain from Liberal

Elections in the 1860s

Taylor's resignation caused a by-election.

By-election, 23 April 1861: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Hodgson	421	53.0	N/A
	Liberal	Arthur Otway[17]	374	47.0	New
Majority			47	6.0	N/A
Turnout			795	74.7	N/A
Registered electors			1,064
	Conservative hold

General election 1865: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Trevelyan	494	53.0	N/A
	Conservative	Richard Hodgson	438	47.0	N/A
Majority			56	6.0	N/A
Turnout			932	73.3	N/A
Registered electors			1,271
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

General election 1868: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Eustace Smith	1,098	60.7	+7.7
	Conservative	Henry John Trotter[18]	710	39.3	−7.7
Majority			388	21.4	+15.4
Turnout			1,808	69.5	−3.8
Registered electors			2,601
	Liberal hold		Swing	+7.7

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Eustace Smith	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,898
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Tynemouth and North Shields^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Eustace Smith	2,844	67.1	N/A
	Conservative	Henry John Trotter[19]	1,397	32.9	New
Majority			1,447	34.2	N/A
Turnout			4,241	73.9	N/A
Registered electors			5,736
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
• History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Northumberland