Tynemouth and North Shields (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Tynemouth and North Shields
Type = Borough
Year = 1832
Abolition = 1885
members = one

Tynemouth and North Shields was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1832 and 1885. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The constituency was based upon the communities of Tynemouth and North Shields, in the part of the historic county of Northumberland which has (since 1974) been in Tyne and Wear.

Tynemouth was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1849 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. The borough covered the whole area east of Wallsend and south of Whitley Bay, including the less historic but more economically significant town of North Shields as well as smaller villages such as New York and Cullercoats.

From 1885 approximately the same area as the Tynemouth and North Shields constituency comprised a seat named Tynemouth.

Members of Parliament

Supplemental Note:-
* ¹ F. W. S. Craig, in his compilations of election results for Great Britain, classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 general election.

Elections

ee also

*List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies

References

* "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
* "Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885", edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)