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Tyneside (UK Parliament constituency)

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Number of members
  
One

Created from
  
South Northumberland

Tyneside (UK Parliament constituency)

County
  
Northumberland (now Tyne and Wear)

Replaced by
  
South Northumberland, Wallsend

Tyneside was a parliamentary constituency in the Tyneside area of north-east England, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

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;

  • Liberal: John Mackinnon Robertson
  • Unionist:
  • References

    Tyneside (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia