County North Yorkshire Created 1997 European Parliament constituency North East England Number of members 1 | Electorate 72,876 (December 2010) Created from Langbaurgh Member of parliament Tom Blenkinsop Replaced by Langbaurgh | |
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Major settlements Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Guisborough, Marton | ||
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Tom Blenkinsop of the Labour Party.
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Boundaries
1997-2010: The Borough of Langbaurgh-on-Tees wards of Belmont, Brotton, Guisborough, Hutton, Lockwood and Skinningrove, Loftus, Saltburn, and Skelton, and the Borough of Middlesbrough wards of Easterside, Hemlington, Marton, Newham, Nunthorpe, Park End, and Stainton and Thornton.
2010-present: The Borough of Redcar and Cleveland wards of Brotton, Guisborough, Hutton, Lockwood, Loftus, Saltburn, Skelton, and Westworth, and the Borough of Middlesbrough wards of Coulby Newham, Hemlington, Ladgate, Marton, Marton West, Nunthorpe, Park End, and Stainton and Thornton.
The constituency was created in 1997, mostly replacing the former seat of Langbaurgh and consists of the southern outskirts of Middlesbrough (such as Acklam, Hemlington, Nunthorpe, Coulby Newham, Marton, Easterside and Park End) and those parts of the Redcar and Cleveland district not in the Redcar constituency. These include Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Guisborough, Loftus, Skelton and Brotton.
History
This seat was created in 1997 and has been held since then by a representative of the Labour Party.
Constituency profile
Only 13.8% of people in Middlesbrough are retired, 0.3 lower than in 2001 whereas 19.4% of people are retired in the eastern Cleveland authority, Redcar and Cleveland, 3% higher than in 2001 (2011 figures). The constituency is at the forefront of Britain's return to growth in output, however the western authority still in 2011 had the highest unemployment claimant count in the North East, having witnessed a decline in its world leading production of industrial and heavy duty steel.
Election results have to date been considerably more close than in the overwhelmingly urban, city seat of Middlesbrough, this instead being a marginal seat, particularly the 2010 and 2015 results which saw no absolute majority unlike the previous three absolute majorities gained by the Labour MP Ashok Kumar. In the five elections to date, the second candidate has been a Conservative.
Elections in the 2010s
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is number 21 on the Conservatives target list for the 2020 election, a swing of 2.48% would be needed. However, the boundaries may change.