Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland

The county of Northumberland is divided into 4 parliamentary constituencies, all of which are county constituencies.

Constituencies

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|-

! rowspan="1" |Constituency

! rowspan="1" |Electorate

! rowspan="1" |Majority

! class="unsortable" colspan="2" |Member of Parliament

! class="unsortable" colspan="2" |Nearest opposition

! class="unsortable" rowspan="1" |Electoral wards

! class="unsortable" rowspan="1" |Map

|-

|Blyth and Ashington CC

|76,263

|9,173

| style="color:inherit;background:" | 

|Ian Lavery‡

| style="color:inherit;background:" | 

|Mark Peart¤

|Northumberland County Council: Ashington Central, Bedlington Central, Bedlington East, Bedlington West, Bothal, Choppington, college, Cowpen, Croft, Haydon, Hirst, Isabella, Kitty Brewster, Newbiggin Central and East, Newsham, Plessey, Seaton with Newbiggin West, Sleekburn, South Blyth, Stakeford, Wensleydale.

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|-

|Cramlington and Killingworth CC

|76,228

|12,820

| style="color:inherit;background:" | 

|Emma Foody‡

| style="color:inherit;background:" | 

|Gordon Fletcher¤

|Newcastle City Council: Castle (polling districts F01, F02 and F03). North Tyneside Council: Camperdown, Killingworth, Valley, Weetslade. Northumberland County Council: Cramlington East, Cramlington Eastfield, Cramlington North, Cramlington South East, Cramlington Village, Cramlington West, Hartley, Holywell, Seghill with Seaton Delaval.

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|Hexham CC

|76,431

|3,713

| style="color:inherit;background:" |

|Joe Morris‡

| style="color:inherit;background:" | 

|Guy Opperman†

|Newcastle City Council: Callerton and Throckley. Northumberland County Council: Bellingham, Bywell, Corbridge, Haltwhistle, Haydon and Hadrian, Hexham Central with Acomb, Hexham East, Hexham West, Humshaugh, Longhorsley, Ponteland East and Stannington, Ponteland North, Ponteland South with Heddon, Ponteland West, Prudhoe North, Prudhoe South, South Tyneside, Stocksfield and Broomhaugh.

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|-

|North Northumberland CC

|74,132

|5,067

| style="color:inherit;background:" | 

|David Smith‡

| style="color:inherit;background:" | 

|Anne-Marie Trevelyan†

|Northumberland County Council: Alnwick, Amble, Amble West with Warkworth, Bamburgh, Berwick East, Berwick North, Berwick West with Ord, Druridge Bay, Longhoughton, Lynemouth, Morpeth Kirkhill, Morpeth North, Morpeth Stobhill, Norham and Islandshires, Pegswood, Rothbury, Shilbottle, Wooler.

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Boundary changes

2024

See 2023 review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

{| class="wikitable"

!style="background-color:#ff9999"|Former name!! style="background-color:#ff9999" |Boundaries 2010–2024!! style="background-color:#ff9999" |Current name!! style="background-color:#ff9999" |Boundaries 2024–present

|-

|

1. Berwick-upon-Tweed CC
2. Blyth Valley BC
3. Hexham CC
4. Wansbeck CC

|left|300px|2010–2024 constituencies in Northumberland

|

1. Blyth and Ashington BC
2. Cramlington and Killingworth CC
3. Hexham CC
4. North Northumberland CC

|left|300px|Current constituencies in Northumberland

|}

For the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Northumberland with the Tyne and Wear boroughs of Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside as a sub-region of the North East Region, with the creation of two cross-county boundary constituencies, resulting in the abolition of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Blyth Valley and Wansbeck.

The following seats resulted from the boundary review in Northumberland:

• Blyth and Ashington
• Cramlington and Killingworth (parts also in Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside)
• Hexham (part in Newcastle upon Tyne)
• North Northumberland

2010

Under the fifth periodic review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain Northumberland's constituencies for the 2010 election, making a very small change between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Hexham to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards.

{| class="wikitable"

! style="background-color:#ff9999" |Name!! style="background-color:#ff9999" |Boundaries 1997–2010!! style="background-color:#ff9999" |Boundaries 2010–2024

|-

|

1. Berwick-upon-Tweed CC
2. Blyth Valley BC
3. Hexham CC
4. Wansbeck CC

|left|Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland (1997–2010)

|left|Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland (2010–2024)

|-

|}

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Northumberland in the 2024 general election were as follows:

{| class="wikitable"

!Party

!Votes

!%

!Change from 2019

!Seats

!Change from 2019

|-

|Labour

|84,147

|45.1%

|11.2%

|4

|3

|-

|Conservative

|47,776

|25.6%

|23.2%

|0

|3

|-

|Reform UK

|27,999

|15.0%

|11.1%

|0

|0

|-

|Liberal Democrats

|10,876

|5.8%

|4.2%

|0

|0

|-

|Greens

|8,314

|4.5%

|1.3%

|0

|0

|-

|Others

|7,354

|3.9%

|3.7%

|0

|0

|-

|Total

|186,466

|100.0

|

|4

|

|}

Percentage votes

{| class="wikitable"

!Election year

!1983

!1987

!1992

!1997

!2001

!2005

!2010

!2015

!2017

!2019

!2024

|-

|Labour

|30.0

|style="background:#e2a499"|34.7

|style="background:#e2a499"|39.9

|style="background:#e2a499"|48.7

|style="background:#e2a499"|43.2

|style="background:#e2a499"|39.4

|style="background:#e2a499"|30.2

|33.5

|42.8

|33.9

|style="background:#e2a499"|45.1

|-

|Conservative

|style="background:#B3E0FF"|33.5

|28.6

|30.8

|22.7

|26.1

|25.6

|29.0

|style="background:#B3E0FF"|34.9

|style="background:#B3E0FF"|44.4

|style="background:#B3E0FF"|48.8

|25.6

|-

|Reform UK²

| –

| –

| –

| –

| –

| –

| –

| –

| –

|3.9

|15.0

|-

|Liberal Democrat¹

|36.3

|36.4

|28.2

|25.0

|27.9

|33.7

|32.0

|12.0

|9.3

|10.0

|5.8

|-

|Green Party

| –

|*

|*

|*

|*

|*

|0.4

|4.3

|2.1

|3.2

|4.5

|-

|UKIP

| –

| –

| –

|*

|*

|*

|2.4

|15.2

|1.4

|*

| –

|-

|Other

|0.2

|0.4

|1.0

|3.7

|2.8

|1.3

|5.9

|0.1

| –

|0.2

|}

¹1983 & 1987 – SDP–Liberal Alliance

²2019 – Brexit Party

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Included in Other

Seats

{| class="wikitable"

!Election year

!1983

!1987

!1992

!1997

!2001

!2005

!2010

!2015

!2017

!2019

!2024

|-

|Labour

|style="background:#e2a499"|2

|style="background:#e2a499"|2

|style="background:#e2a499"|2

|style="background:#e2a499"|2

|style="background:#e2a499"|2

|style="background:#e2a499"|2

|style="background:#e2a499"|2

|style="background:#e2a499"|2

|style="background:#e2a499"|2

|1

|style="background:#e2a499"|4

|-

|Conservative

|1

|1

|1

|1

|1

|1

|1

|style="background:#B3E0FF"|2

|style="background:#B3E0FF"|2

|style="background:#B3E0FF"|3

|0

|-

|Liberal Democrat¹

|1

|1

|1

|1

|1

|1

|1

|0

|0

|0

|0

|-

|Total

|4

|4

|4

|4

|4

|4

|4

|4

|4

|4

|4

|}

¹1983 & 1987 – SDP–Liberal Alliance

Maps

1885–1910

<gallery mode="packed" heights="202">

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1885Results.svg|1885

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1885Results.svg|1886

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1892Results.svg|1892

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1895Results.svg|1895

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1900Results.svg|1900

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1906Results.svg|1906

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1906Results.svg|Jan 1910

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1906Results.svg|Dec 1910

</gallery>

1918–1945

<gallery mode="packed" heights="202">

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1918Results.svg|1918

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1922Results.svg|1922

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1923Results.svg|1923

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1922Results.svg|1924

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1929Results.svg|1929

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1931Results.svg|1931

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1935Results.svg|1935

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1945Results.svg|1945

</gallery>

1950–1979

<gallery mode="packed" heights="202">

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1950Results.svg|1950

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1951Results.svg|1951

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1951Results.svg|1955

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1959Results.svg|1959

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1964Results.svg|1964

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1964Results.svg|1966

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1964Results.svg|1970

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1974FResults.svg|Feb 1974

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1979Results.svg|Oct 1974

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1979Results.svg|1979

</gallery>

1983–present

<gallery mode="packed" heights="302">

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1992Results.svg|1983

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1992Results.svg|1987

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency1992Results.svg|1992

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg|1997

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg|2001

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg|2005

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency2010Results.svg|2010

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency2015Results.svg|2015

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency2015Results.svg|2017

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency2019Results.svg|2019

File:NorthumberlandParliamentaryConstituency2024Results.svg|2024

</gallery>

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918

{| class="wikitable"

!Constituency

!1885

!1886

!1892

!93

!1895

!1900

!1906

!07

!08

!Jan 1910

!Dec 1910

!16

!18

|-

|Berwick-upon-Tweed

| colspan="11" bgcolor="" |E. Grey

| colspan="2" bgcolor="" |Blake

|-

|Hexham

| colspan="2" bgcolor="" |MacInnes

| bgcolor="" |Clayton

|bgcolor=""|MacInnes

| colspan="3" bgcolor="" |Beaumont

| colspan="6" bgcolor="" |Holt

|-

|Morpeth

| colspan="13" bgcolor="" |Burt

|-

| rowspan="2" |Newcastle upon Tyne (two MPs)

| colspan="4" bgcolor="" |Morley

| bgcolor="" |Cruddas

| bgcolor="" |Plummer

| bgcolor="" colspan="7" |Hudson

|-

| bgcolor="" |Cowen

|bgcolor=""|J. Craig

| bgcolor="" colspan="3" |Hamond

| bgcolor="" |Renwick

| colspan="2" bgcolor="" |Cairns

| bgcolor="" |Renwick

| colspan="4" bgcolor="" |Shortt

|-

|Tynemouth

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Donkin

| bgcolor="" |Harris

| colspan="7" bgcolor="" |H. Craig

|-

|Tyneside

| bgcolor="" |A. Grey

| bgcolor="" |Beaumont

| colspan="3" bgcolor="" |Pease

| bgcolor="" |Smith

| colspan="7" bgcolor="" |Robertson

|-

|Wansbeck

| colspan="12" bgcolor="" |Fenwick

|bgcolor=""|Mason

|}

1918 to 1950

{| class="wikitable"

!Constituency

!1918

!19

!1922

!23

!1923

!1924

!26

!29

!1929

!31

!1931

!1935

!40

!40

!41

!43

!44

!1945

|-

|Berwick-upon-Tweed

| colspan="2" bgcolor="" |Blake

| bgcolor="" colspan="6" |Philipson¹

| bgcolor="" colspan="3" |Todd

| colspan="3" bgcolor="" |Seely

| colspan="2" bgcolor=""|Grey

|bgcolor=""|Beveridge

| bgcolor="" |Thorp

|-

|Hexham

| bgcolor="" colspan="4" |Brown

| bgcolor="" |Finney

| bgcolor="" colspan="10" |Brown

| colspan="3" |→

|-

|Newcastle upon Tyne North

| bgcolor="" colspan="12" |Grattan-Doyle

| bgcolor="" |Headlam

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |→

|-

|Tynemouth

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Percy

| bgcolor="" colspan="15" |Russell

| bgcolor="" |Colman

|-

|Newcastle upon Tyne Central

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Renwick

| bgcolor="" colspan="8" |Trevelyan

| bgcolor="" colspan="7" |Denville

| bgcolor="" |Wilkes

|-

|Newcastle upon Tyne East

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Barnes

| bgcolor="" |Bell

| bgcolor="" |Henderson

| bgcolor="" |Aske

| bgcolor="" colspan="3" |Connolly

| bgcolor="" |Aske

| bgcolor="" colspan="8" |→

| bgcolor="" |Blenkinsop

|-

|Newcastle upon Tyne West

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Shortt

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Adams

| bgcolor="" |Ramage

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Palin

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Leech

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Nunn

| bgcolor="" |Popplewell

|-

|Wallsend

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Simm

| bgcolor="" colspan="4" |Hastings

| bgcolor="" colspan="4" |Bondfield

| bgcolor="" colspan="7" |Ward

| bgcolor="" |McKay

|-

|Wansbeck

| bgcolor="" |Mason

| bgcolor="" |→

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Warne

| bgcolor="" colspan="3" |Shield

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Cruddas

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Scott

| bgcolor="" |Robens

|-

|Morpeth

| bgcolor="" colspan="3" |Cairns

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Smillie

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Edwards

| bgcolor="" |Nicholson

| bgcolor="" colspan="7" |Taylor

|}

¹ original 1922 victor Hilton Philipson (National Liberal) declared void due to electoral fraud. Mabel Philipson won the subsequent by-election for the Conservatives.

1950 to 1983

{| class="wikitable"

!Constituency

!1950

!1951

!54

!1955

!57

!1959

!60

!1964

!1966

!1970

!73

!Feb 1974

!Oct 1974

!76

!1979

!81

|-

|Berwick-upon-Tweed

| bgcolor="" |Thorp

| bgcolor="" colspan="9" |Lambton

| colspan="6" bgcolor=""|Beith

|-

|Hexham

|Brown

| bgcolor="" colspan="7" |Speir

| bgcolor="" colspan="8" |Rippon

|-

|Newcastle upon Tyne North

| bgcolor="" |Headlam

| bgcolor="" colspan="3" |Lloyd George

| bgcolor="" colspan="12" |Elliott

|-

|Tynemouth

| bgcolor="" colspan="11" |Ward

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Trotter

|-

|Newcastle upon Tyne East

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Blenkinsop

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Montgomery

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Rhodes

| bgcolor="" colspan="3" |Thomas

| bgcolor="" |→

|-

|Blyth

| bgcolor="" colspan="6" |Robens

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Milne

| bgcolor="" |→

| bgcolor="" colspan="4" |Ryman

|-

|Morpeth

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Taylor

| bgcolor="" colspan="7" |Owen

| bgcolor="" colspan="7" |Grant

|-

|Newcastle upon Tyne Central

| bgcolor="" |Wilkes

| bgcolor="" colspan="12" |Short

| bgcolor="" colspan="3" |Cowans

|-

|Newcastle upon Tyne West

| bgcolor="" colspan="8" |Popplewell

| bgcolor="" colspan="8" |Brown

|-

|Wallsend

| bgcolor="" colspan="7" |McKay

| bgcolor="" colspan="9" |Garrett

|}

1983 to present

{| class="wikitable"

!Constituency

!1983

!1987

!88

!1992

!1997

!2001

!2005

!2010

!2015

!2017

!2019

!2024

|-

|Berwick-upon-Tweed / North Northumberland (2024)

| colspan="2" bgcolor="" |Beith

| bgcolor="" colspan="6" |→

| bgcolor="" colspan="3" |Trevelyan

| bgcolor="" | Smith

|-

|Blyth Valley / Cramlington and Killingworth¹ (2024)

| bgcolor="" |Ryman

| bgcolor="" colspan="9" |Campbell

| bgcolor="" |Levy

| bgcolor="" | Foody

|-

|Hexham¹

| bgcolor="" |Rippon

| bgcolor="" colspan="2" |Amos

| bgcolor="" colspan="4" |Atkinson

| bgcolor="" colspan="4" |Opperman

| bgcolor="" | Morris

|-

|Wansbeck / Blyth and Ashington (2024)

| bgcolor="" colspan="4" |Thompson

| bgcolor="" colspan="3" |Murphy

| bgcolor="" colspan="5" |Lavery

|}

¹contains areas of Tyne and Wear since 2024

See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in North East England
• History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Northumberland

Notes

References