Английская Википедия:Blaydon (UK Parliament constituency)

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Шаблон:Infobox UK constituency main Blaydon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons since 2017 by Liz Twist of the Labour Party.

The seat is due to be abolished for the next general election.

Constituency profile

The seat has been a safe seat for the Labour Party since 1935.

Historically, the area's economy relied on coal mining from the Victorian period until the decline of mining in the latter half of the 20th century.

Today, the economy is supported by engineering and service industries on Tyneside, and agriculture.Шаблон:Citation needed It also includes the Metrocentre, the second-largest shopping centre in the UK.

The constituency is on the western upland outskirts of Gateshead and its communities are separated by green buffers. It currently comprises the towns of Blaydon, Whickham, Ryton, Birtley and surrounding villages in the south and west of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.

Boundaries

1918–1950

• The Urban Districts of Blaydon, Ryton, Tanfield, and Whickham.

Blaydon was created under the Representation of the People Act 1918 for the 1918 general election when Blaydon, Ryton and Whickham were split off from the existing Chester-le-Street seat. Tanfield was added from the abolished constituency of North West Durham.

1950–1983

• The Urban Districts of Blaydon, Ryton, and Whickham.

Tanfield transferred to Consett.

1983–2010

• The Borough of Gateshead wards of Birtley, Blaydon, Chopwell and Rowlands Gill, Crawcrook and Greenside, Lamesley, Ryton, Whickham North, Whickham South, and Winlaton.

The communities of Birtley and Lamesley were transferred in from the abolished constituency of Chester-le-Street. Lost small area in the east of the seat to the new constituency of Tyne Bridge.

2010–present

• The Borough of Gateshead wards of Birtley, Blaydon, Chopwell and Rowlands Gill, Crawcrook and Greenside, Dunston Hill and Whickham East, Lamesley, Ryton, Crookhill and Stella, Whickham North, Whickham South and Sunniside, and Winlaton and High Spen.

Minor changes resulting from the redrawing of ward boundaries in Gateshead Borough and abolition of Tyne Bridge.

Proposed abolition

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be abolished for the next general election, with its contents distributed to three new constituencies:

• The three wards incorporating the town of Whickham included in an expanded Gateshead constituency named Gateshead Central and Whickham
• Birtley and Lamesley combined with Washington to form Washington and Gateshead South
• Remaining wards (comprising about half the electorate), including the communities of Blaydon, Rowlands Gill and Ryton, to form a cross-county constituency with Consett in County Durham - named Blaydon and Consett

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Whip
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1918	Walter Waring	Coalition Liberal
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1922	William Whiteley	Labour
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1931	Thomas Martin	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1935	William Whiteley	Labour
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1956 by-election	Robert Woof	Labour
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1979	John McWilliam	Labour
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	2005	David Anderson	Labour
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	2017	Liz Twist	Labour

Elections

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Elections in the 1910s

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Waring

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear
• History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Tyne and Wear
• History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Durham

External links

• nomis Constituency Profile for Blaydon, presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics