Coordinates: 54°58′23″N 1°24′50″W / 54.973°N 1.414°W
| South Shields Borough constituency |
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| South Shields shown within Tyne and Wear, and Tyne and Wear shown within England | |
| Created: | 1832 |
| MP: | David Miliband |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Tyne and Wear |
| EP constituency: | North East England |
South Shields is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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Boundaries
The current constituency covers the area of South Shields in South Tyneside in Tyne and Wear. Boundary changes in place for the next general election bring Whitburn into the South Shields constituency from neighbouring Jarrow.
Members of Parliament
The seat is currently represented by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband.
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1832 | Constituency created | ||
| 1832 | Robert Ingham | Whig | |
| 1841 | John Twizell Wawn | Whig | |
| 1852 | Robert Ingham | Whig | |
| 1868 | James Cochran Stevenson | Liberal | |
| 1895 | William Snowdon Robson, later Baron Robson | Liberal | |
| 1910 by-election | Russell Rea | Liberal | |
| 1916 by-election | Cecil Algernon Cochrane | Liberal | |
| 1918 by-election | Joseph Havelock Wilson CBE | Coalition Liberal and Trade Unionist | |
| 1922 | Edward Harney KC | Liberal | |
| 1929 | James Chuter Ede | Labour | |
| 1931 | Harcourt Johnstone | Liberal | |
| 1935 | James Chuter Ede | Labour | |
| 1964 | Arthur Blenkinsop | Labour | |
| 1979 | David G. Clark | Labour | |
| 2001 | David Miliband | Labour | |
Elections
| Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Karen Allen | ||||
| Green | Shirley Ford | ||||
| Labour | David Miliband | ||||
| General Election 2005: South Shields | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | David Miliband | 18,269 | 60.5 | -2.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Stephen Psallidas | 5,957 | 19.7 | +2.9 | |
| Conservative | Richard Lewis | 5,207 | 17.2 | +0.3 | |
| Independent | Nader Afshari-Naderi | 773 | 2.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 12,312 | 40.8 | |||
| Turnout | 30,206 | 42.2 | -7.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -2.8 | |||
| General Election 2001: South Shields | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | David Miliband | 19,230 | 63.2 | -8.3 | |
| Conservative | Joanna Gardner | 5,140 | 16.9 | +2.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Marshall Grainger | 5,127 | 16.8 | +8.0 | |
| UKIP | Alan Hardy | 689 | 2.3 | N/A | |
| Independent | Roger Nettleship | 262 | 0.9 | -0.1 | |
| Majority | 14,090 | 46.3 | |||
| Turnout | 30,448 | 49.7 | -12.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: South Shields | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | David Clark | 27,834 | 71.4 | +11.6 | |
| Conservative | Mark Hoban | 5,681 | 14.6 | -12.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | David Ord | 3,429 | 4.0 | -8.5 | |
| Referendum Party | A. Lorriane | 1,660 | 4.3 | N/A | |
| Independent | I. Wilburn | 374 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 22,153 | 56.8 | +24.4 | ||
| Turnout | 38,978 | 62.6 | -7.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Trivia
- With one exception (Arthur Blenkinsop), every South Shields MP since 1929 has been a cabinet member at some point in their career. Two of them, Chuter Ede (Home Secretary) and Miliband (Foreign Secretary), have held one of the great offices of state while MP for South Shields.
See also
References
- ^ South Shields, UKPollingReport
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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