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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885-2024 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jarrow was a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2019 until its abolition for the 2024 general election by Kate Osborne of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Jarrow | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Tyne and Wear |
Electorate | 83,260 (2011)[1] |
Major settlements | Jarrow and Boldon |
1885–2024 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | South Durham |
Replaced by |
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The seat was created in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.[2] and abolished in the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies. With moderate boundary changes the constituency was replaced by the new Jarrow and Gateshead East, to be first contested in the 2024 general election.[3]
NB included only non-resident freeholders in the parliamentary borough of South Shields.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 as one of eight new single-member divisions of the county of Durham, replacing the two 2-member seats of North Durham and South Durham. See map on Vision of Britain website.[4]
Areas to the south and east transferred to the expanded constituencies of South Shields and Houghton-le-Spring (the Boldons).
Regained the Boldons from Houghton-le-Spring.
Felling transferred to Gateshead East. Redesignated as a borough constituency.[7]
Minor changes to take account of ward boundaries of the newly formed metropolitan borough, including the transfer of Biddick Hall from South Shields.
Biddick Hall returned to South Shields; Wrekendyke transferred from the abolished constituency of Gateshead East.
Boundary changes for the 2010 general election transferred the community of Whitburn into the neighbouring South Shields seat. Pelaw and Heworth transferred from the abolished constituency of Gateshead East and Washington West. (The Wrekendyke ward had been renamed Wardley and Leam Lane).
As a result of 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies the consistency was abolished with new constituencies being contested in the 2024 general election. Jarrow constituency was split between modified South Shields and newly created Jarrow and Gateshead East the following way:
Wards | New constituency | Part of Jarrow, % |
---|---|---|
|
Jarrow and Gateshead East | 90.5 |
Cleadon and East Boldon (South Tyneside) | South Shields | 9.5 |
The constituency consisted of part of the metropolitan district of South Tyneside, including the settlements of Jarrow, Boldon, Cleadon and Hebburn, as well as two wards from the adjacent Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, covering Pelaw and Wardley.[11]
In 2005 The Guardian described Jarrow as:
'[A] former shipbuilding town south of Newcastle famous for its march against unemployment in the 1930s.'
The last Liberal to serve the seat lost his seat at the 1922 general election and the last Conservative to serve the seat held it from 1931 to 1935, since which it has been served by MPs from the Labour Party.
Since 1935, just five people have served as MP for Jarrow; the first, Ellen Wilkinson, served as Labour's first Minister of Education during the first Attlee government. While the seat has been loyally Labour by comfortable margins since 1935, it has seen unusual swings a number of times; in the 1983 Conservative landslide, incumbent MP Don Dixon actually increased his majority; in the close 1992 election his majority fell somewhat despite the general swing to Labour; and in 2001 his successor Stephen Hepburn managed to increase his majority to 51.1% (incidentally the biggest any candidate has ever held in the seat).
Election | Member[12] | Party | |
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1885 | Charles Palmer | Liberal | |
1907 by-election | Pete Curran | Labour | |
Jan 1910 | Godfrey Mark Palmer | Liberal | |
1922 | Robert John Wilson | Labour | |
1931 | William Pearson | Conservative | |
1935 | Ellen Wilkinson | Labour | |
1947 by-election | Ernest Fernyhough | Labour | |
1979 | Don Dixon | Labour | |
1997 | Stephen Hepburn | Labour | |
2019 | Independent | ||
2019 | Kate Osborne | Labour | |
2024 | Constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Palmer | 5,702 | 76.6 | ||
Jarrow Radical and Labour Representation League | James Johnston | 1,731 | 23.3 | ||
Majority | 3,971 | 53.3 | |||
Turnout | 7,433 | 57.6 | |||
Registered electors | 12,897 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
= N/A
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Palmer | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Palmer | 7,343 | 75.2 | N/A | |
Independent Labour | Edward Dillon Lewis[14][15] | 2,416 | 24.8 | New | |
Majority | 4,927 | 50.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,759 | 68.6 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 14,231 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Palmer | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Palmer | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Palmer | 8,047 | 61.2 | N/A | |
Labour Repr. Cmte. | Pete Curran | 5,093 | 38.8 | New | |
Majority | 2,954 | 22.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 13,140 | 77.2 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 17,023 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Pete Curran | 4,698 | 33.1 | −5.7 | |
Conservative | Patrick Rose-Innes | 3,930 | 27.6 | New | |
Liberal | Spencer Leigh Hughes | 3,474 | 24.4 | −36.8 | |
Irish Parliamentary | John O'Hanlon | 2,122 | 14.9 | New | |
Majority | 768 | 5.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 14,224 | 82.7 | +5.5 | ||
Registered electors | 17,195 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +15.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Godfrey Palmer | 4,885 | 34.0 | −27.2 | |
Labour | Peter Francis Curran | 4,818 | 33.5 | −5.3 | |
Conservative | James Kirkley | 4,668 | 32.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 67 | 0.5 | −21.9 | ||
Turnout | 14,371 | 78.6 | +1.4 | ||
Registered electors | 18,292 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −11.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Godfrey Palmer | 5,097 | 34.0 | 0.0 | |
Conservative | James Kirkley | 4,986 | 33.3 | +0.8 | |
Labour | Alexander Gordon Cameron | 4,892 | 32.7 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 111 | 0.7 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 14,975 | 81.9 | +3.3 | ||
Registered electors | 18,292 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Liberal | Godfrey Palmer | 12,544 | 61.0 | +27.0 |
Labour | John Hill | 8,034 | 39.0 | +5.7 | |
Majority | 4,510 | 22.0 | +21.3 | ||
Turnout | 20,578 | 55.0 | −26.9 | ||
Registered electors | 37,389 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +10.7 | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Wilson | 17,208 | 53.9 | +14.9 | |
Unionist | Charles Harrie Innes-Hopkins | 10,166 | 31.9 | New | |
Liberal | Ernest Young | 4,522 | 14.2 | −46.8 | |
Majority | 7,042 | 22.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 31,896 | 82.2 | +27.2 | ||
Registered electors | 38,808 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +30.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert John Wilson | 16,570 | 63.9 | +10.0 | |
Unionist | John Lindsley | 9,348 | 36.1 | +4.2 | |
Majority | 7,222 | 27.8 | +5.8 | ||
Turnout | 25,918 | 67.2 | −15.0 | ||
Registered electors | 38,548 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Wilson | 18,203 | 57.4 | −6.5 | |
Unionist | Albert Baucher | 13,527 | 42.6 | +6.5 | |
Majority | 4,676 | 14.8 | −13.0 | ||
Turnout | 31,730 | 80.9 | +13.7 | ||
Registered electors | 39,237 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Wilson | 22,751 | 62.5 | +5.1 | |
Unionist | Longinus Vivian Rogers | 13,638 | 37.5 | −5.1 | |
Majority | 9,113 | 25.0 | +10.2 | ||
Turnout | 36,389 | 75.3 | −5.6 | ||
Registered electors | 48,313 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Pearson | 21,263 | 54.1 | +16.6 | |
Labour | Robert Wilson | 18,071 | 45.9 | −16.6 | |
Majority | 3,192 | 8.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 39,334 | 80.5 | +5.2 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ellen Wilkinson | 20,324 | 53.1 | +7.2 | |
Conservative | William Pearson | 17,974 | 46.9 | −7.2 | |
Majority | 2,350 | 6.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 38,298 | 80.8 | +0.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ellen Wilkinson | 22,656 | 66.0 | +12.9 | |
National Liberal | Stanley Holmes | 11,649 | 34.0 | −12.9 | |
Majority | 11,007 | 32.1 | +25.9 | ||
Turnout | 34,305 | 82.4 | +1.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Fernyhough | 20,694 | 59.3 | −6.7 | |
Conservative | William Scott | 13,078 | 37.5 | +3.5 | |
Ind. Labour Party | W. Moody | 1,114 | 3.2 | New | |
Majority | 7,616 | 21.8 | −10.3 | ||
Turnout | 34,886 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Fernyhough | 33,751 | 63.0 | −3.0 | |
Conservative | John L. Cox | 16,895 | 31.5 | −2.5 | |
Liberal | Edward Glover Stephen Chalkley | 2,940 | 5.5 | New | |
Majority | 16,856 | 31.5 | −0.6 | ||
Turnout | 53,586 | 82.8 | +0.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Fernyhough | 35,963 | 66.2 | +3.2 | |
Conservative | John Cox | 19,217 | 34.8 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 16,746 | 30.4 | −1.1 | ||
Turnout | 55,180 | 84.6 | +1.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Fernyhough | 24,706 | 63.3 | −2.9 | |
Conservative | Marjorie Dickinson | 14,304 | 36.4 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 10,402 | 26.9 | −3.5 | ||
Turnout | 39,010 | 79.1 | −5.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Fernyhough | 25,638 | 62.7 | −0.6 | |
Conservative | Tommy T Hubble | 15,286 | 37.4 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 10,352 | 25.3 | −1.6 | ||
Turnout | 40,924 | 80.3 | +1.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Fernyhough | 26,053 | 64.2 | +1.5 | |
Conservative | Tommy T Hubble | 14,503 | 35.8 | −1.6 | |
Majority | 11,550 | 28.4 | +3.1 | ||
Turnout | 40,556 | 80.0 | −0.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Fernyhough | 26,006 | 67.6 | +3.4 | |
Conservative | Derrick Robson | 12,449 | 32.4 | −3.4 | |
Majority | 13,557 | 35.2 | +6.8 | ||
Turnout | 38,455 | 76.7 | −3.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Fernyhough | 25,861 | 63.5 | −4.1 | |
Conservative | Derrick Robson | 14,847 | 36.5 | +4.1 | |
Majority | 11,014 | 27.0 | −8.2 | ||
Turnout | 40,708 | 74.4 | −2.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Fernyhough | 27,740 | 66.7 | +3.2 | |
Conservative | B. Bolam | 13,848 | 33.3 | −3.2 | |
Majority | 13,892 | 33.4 | +6.4 | ||
Turnout | 41,588 | 86.8 | +12.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Fernyhough | 24,558 | 62.8 | −3.9 | |
Conservative | B. Bolam | 8,707 | 22.3 | −10.0 | |
Liberal | L. Ormston | 5,818 | 14.9 | New | |
Majority | 15,851 | 40.5 | +7.1 | ||
Turnout | 39,083 | 71.4 | −15.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Don Dixon | 24,057 | 55.8 | −7.0 | |
Conservative | D. Auld | 12,529 | 29.1 | +6.8 | |
Liberal | A. McDonnell | 3,907 | 9.1 | −5.8 | |
Independent Labour | H. Downey | 2,247 | 5.2 | New | |
Independent | N. Brown | 374 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 11,528 | 26.7 | −13.8 | ||
Turnout | 43,114 | 77.5 | +6.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Don Dixon | 25,151 | 55.3 | −0.5 | |
Conservative | Sonia Copland | 11,274 | 24.8 | −4.3 | |
Liberal | John A. Lennox | 9,094 | 20.0 | +10.9 | |
Majority | 13,877 | 30.5 | +3.8 | ||
Turnout | 45,519 | 71.4 | −6.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Don Dixon | 29,651 | 63.4 | +7.9 | |
Conservative | Paul Yeoman | 10,856 | 23.2 | −1.6 | |
Liberal | Peter Freitag | 6,230 | 13.3 | −6.7 | |
Majority | 18,795 | 40.2 | +9.7 | ||
Turnout | 46,737 | 74.4 | +3.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Don Dixon | 28,956 | 62.1 | −1.3 | |
Conservative | Terence F. Ward | 11,049 | 23.7 | +0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Keith Orrell | 6,608 | 14.2 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 17,907 | 38.4 | −1.8 | ||
Turnout | 46,613 | 74.4 | 0.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −0.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Stephen Hepburn | 28,497 | 64.9 | +2.8 | |
Conservative | Mark C. Allatt | 6,564 | 14.9 | −8.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tim N. Stone | 4,865 | 11.1 | −3.1 | |
Independent Labour | Alan J. Le Blond | 2,538 | 5.8 | New | |
Referendum | Peter W. Mailer | 1,034 | 2.4 | New | |
Socialist (GB) | John Bissett | 444 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 21,933 | 50.0 | +11.6 | ||
Turnout | 43,942 | 68.7 | −5.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Stephen Hepburn | 22,777 | 66.1 | +1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Selby | 5,182 | 15.0 | +3.9 | |
Conservative | Donald Wood | 5,056 | 14.7 | −0.2 | |
UKIP | Alan Badger | 716 | 2.1 | New | |
Independent | Alan J. Le Blond | 391 | 1.1 | New | |
Socialist (GB) | John Bissett | 357 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 17,595 | 51.1 | +1.1 | ||
Turnout | 34,479 | 55.1 | −13.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Stephen Hepburn | 20,554 | 60.5 | −5.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bill Schardt | 6,650 | 19.6 | +4.6 | |
Conservative | Linkson A.S. Jack | 4,807 | 14.1 | −0.6 | |
UKIP | Alan Badger | 1,567 | 4.6 | +2.5 | |
Safeguard the National Health Service | Roger Nettleship | 400 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 13,904 | 40.9 | −10.2 | ||
Turnout | 33,978 | 55.0 | −0.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Stephen Hepburn | 20,910 | 53.9 | −4.9 | |
Conservative | Jeff Milburn | 8,002 | 20.6 | +7.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Appleby | 7,163 | 18.5 | −4.0 | |
BNP | Andy Swaddle | 2,709 | 7.0 | New | |
Majority | 12,908 | 33.3 | |||
Turnout | 38,784 | 60.3 | +5.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Stephen Hepburn | 21,464 | 55.7 | +1.8 | |
UKIP | Steve Harrison[34] | 7,583 | 19.7 | New | |
Conservative | Nick Mason | 6,584 | 17.1 | –3.5 | |
Green | David Herbert | 1,310 | 3.4 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Stan Collins | 1,238 | 3.2 | –15.3 | |
TUSC | Norman Hall[35] | 385 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 13,881 | 36.0 | +2.7 | ||
Turnout | 38,564 | 60.4 | +0.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –9.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Stephen Hepburn | 28,020 | 65.1 | +9.4 | |
Conservative | Robin Gwynn | 10,757 | 25.0 | +7.9 | |
UKIP | James Askwith | 2,338 | 5.4 | −14.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Maughan | 1,163 | 2.7 | −0.5 | |
Green | David Herbert | 745 | 1.7 | –1.7 | |
Majority | 17,263 | 40.1 | +4.1 | ||
Turnout | 43,023 | 66.4 | +6.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Kate Osborne | 18,363 | 45.1 | –20.0 | |
Conservative | Nick Oliver | 11,243 | 27.6 | +2.6 | |
Brexit Party | Richard Monaghan | 4,122 | 10.1 | +10.1 | |
Independent | John Robertson | 2,991 | 7.3 | +7.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Wilkinson | 2,360 | 5.8 | +3.1 | |
Green | James Milne | 831 | 2.0 | +0.3 | |
Independent | Shaun Sadler | 614 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
SDP | Mark Conway | 212 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 7,120 | 17.5 | −22.6 | ||
Turnout | 40,736 | 62.6 | –3.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –11.3 |
This was the only seat in England at the 2019 general election where five candidates saved their deposit by securing over 5% of the vote.
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