County County Durham Created 1950 European Parliament constituency North East England | Electorate 65,618 (December 2010) Number of members One | |
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Member of parliament Grahame Morris (Labour) | ||
Easington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Grahame Morris of the Labour Party.
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Constituency profile
Constituents' occupations include to a significant degree agriculture and the service sector, however the area was formerly heavily economically supported by the mining of coal, iron ore and businesses in the county still extract gangue minerals in present mining, such as fluorspar for the smelting of aluminium, to the south in the county is Darlington, which has particular strengths in international transport construction, including bridges. To the north is the large city of Sunderland which has a large service sector. The seat currently ranks as the 8th-safest Labour seat in Britain by majority, and the third-safest Labour seat in England, behind Knowsley and Liverpool Walton, in Merseyside.
Boundaries
1950-1974: The Rural District of Easington.
1974-1983: The Rural District of Stockton, and in the Rural District of Easington the civil parishes of Castle Eden, Easington, Haswell, Hawthorn, Horden, Hutton Henry, Monk Hesleden, Nesbitt, Peterlee, Sheraton with Hulam, Shotton, Thornley, and Wingate.
1983-2010: The District of Easington wards of Acre Rigg, Blackhalls, Dawdon, Dene House, Deneside, Easington Colliery, Easington Village, Eden Hill, Haswell, High Colliery, Horden North, Horden South, Howletch, Murton East, Murton West, Park, Passfield, Seaham, Shotton, South, and South Hetton.
2010-present: The District of Easington wards of Acre Rigg, Blackhalls, Dawdon, Dene House, Deneside, Easington Colliery, Easington Village and South Hetton, Eden Hill, Haswell and Shotton, Horden North, Horden South, Howletch, Hutton Henry, Murton East, Murton West, Passfield, Seaham Harbour, and Seaham North.
The constituency comprises the majority of the district of the same name, which takes in the coastal portion of the administrative county of Durham. The principal towns are Peterlee and Seaham. A seat of former mining traditions, it is one of Labour's safest in Britain; former party firebrand Manny Shinwell was MP here for many years.
Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in County Durham, the Boundary Commission for England has made only minor changes to the boundaries of Easington constituency (on the southern part of the boundary with Sedgefield constituency). It was first fought at the 2010 UK general election.
The electoral wards used to create the seat are: