European Parliament constituency North East England Major settlement Darlington | Electorate 67,476 (December 2010) Created 1868 Number of members 1 | |
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Darlington is a market town in County Durham in the North East of England and regarded as a semi-marginal Labour seat currently represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Jenny Chapman of the Labour Party.
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History
The constituency was created for the 1868 election and covers the market town of Darlington in County Durham. The seat has been held by all three major parties in its long existence, but has been a marginal constituency between the Labour and Conservative parties in the years since the Second World War. Labour have held the seat since 1992 with their candidate Jenny Chapman winning the seat in 2010 with a 3,388 majority down from 10,404 in the previous election. In 2015, her majority over the Conservatives fell to 3,158.
Boundaries
The seat has electoral wards:
These boundaries show only a minor change from those used from 1983 to 2010.
Elections in the 2010s
In the 2015 election, 89 ballot papers were issued omitting the UKIP candidate before the error was corrected.
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;