County Tyne and Wear Major settlements Jarrow Number of members One | Electorate 83,260 (2011) Created 1885 | |
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Member of parliament Stephen Hepburn (Labour) | ||
Jarrow is a constituency ESE of and adjoining Newcastle upon Tyne represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Stephen Hepburn of the Labour Party.
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History
The seat was created in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. The last Liberal to serve the seat lost the 1922 election and the last Conservative to serve the seat held it from 1931 until 1935, since which it has been served by politicians in the Labour Party.
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Municipal Boroughs of Jarrow and South Shields, the Sessional Division of South Shields, and part of the civil parish of Heworth.
1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Jarrow, and the Urban Districts of Felling and Hebburn.
1950-1955: The Municipal Borough of Jarrow, and the Urban Districts of Boldon, Felling, and Hebburn.
1955-1983: The Municipal Borough of Jarrow, and the Urban Districts of Boldon and Hebburn.
1983-1997: The Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside wards of Bede, Biddick Hall, Boldon Colliery, Cleadon and East Boldon, Fellgate and Hedworth, Hebburn Quay, Hebburn South, Monkton, Primrose, and Whitburn and Marsden.
1997-2010: The Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside wards of Bede, Boldon Colliery, Cleadon and East Boldon, Fellgate and Hedworth, Hebburn Quay, Hebburn South, Monkton, Primrose, and Whitburn and Marsden, and the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead ward of Wrekendyke.
2010-present: The Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside wards of Bede, Boldon Colliery, Cleadon and East Boldon, Fellgate and Hedworth, Hebburn North, Hebburn South, Monkton, and Primrose, and the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead wards of Pelaw and Heworth, and Wardley and Leam Lane.
Following boundary changes taking effect at the 2010 general election, the constituency consists 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.
Constituency profile
In 2005 The Guardian described the constiuency as:
'[A] former shipbuilding town south of Newcastle famous for its march against unemployment in the 1930s.'