Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK Parliament constituency)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Northumberland
Major settlements	Newcastle upon Tyne
1295–1918
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central, Newcastle-upon-Tyne East, Newcastle-upon-Tyne North and Newcastle-upon-Tyne West

Newcastle-upon-Tyne was a borough constituency in the county of Northumberland of the House of Commons of England to 1706 then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs), elected by the bloc vote system.

The constituency was abolished in 1918, being split into four divisions; Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central, Newcastle-upon-Tyne East, Newcastle-upon-Tyne North and Newcastle-upon-Tyne West.

Boundaries

The constituency was based upon the town, later city, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; in the historic county of Northumberland in North East England. In 1848, the constituency boundaries were described in A Topographical Dictionary of England ^[1]

The borough first exercised the elective franchise in the 23rd of Edward the First, since which time it has returned two members to parliament: the present electoral limits are co-extensive with those of the county of the town, comprising 5730 acres; the old boundaries, which were abrogated in 1832, included 2700 acres only.

When the House of Commons debated the boundaries to be used from 1832, the Tory Party suggested including Gateshead (to the south) and South Shields (to the east) within the Newcastle-upon-Tyne constituency. The Whigs resisted this idea, so these two neighbouring settlements were not incorporated into this seat.^[2]

The boundaries of the parliamentary borough, as defined by the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 (2 and 3 Wm. 4, c. 64), remained unchanged from 1832 until the area was divided into single member constituencies in 1918.^[3] These were not necessarily identical to the boundaries used for local government purposes.

In the period after 1885, the constituency was surrounded by Wansbeck to the west and north, Tyneside to the north ease and east, Jarrow to the south east, Gateshead to the south, and Chester-le-Street to the south west.^[4]

Members of Parliament

Party affiliations are derived from Stook Smith and Craig (see reference section below). Tory is used prior to the 1835 general election and Conservative from that time. Liberal candidates (as listed by Craig) before the formal creation of the party, shortly after the 1859 general election, are listed as Whig or Radical if the information is available in the work by Stooks Smith.

MPs, who were known by the same name, are distinguished in the table below and the election results by a number in brackets after the name. It is not suggested that such numbers were used by contemporaries of the individuals so numbered.

MPs 1386–1660

Parliament	First member	Second member
1378	William Bishopdale ^[5]
1381	William Bishopdale ^[5]
1386	John Howell	Laurence Acton ^[5]
1388 (February)	William Bishopdale	Sampson Hardyng ^[5]
1388 (September)	Henry Carlisle	Stephen Whitgray ^[5]
1390 (January)	William Bishopdale	Stephen Whitgray ^[5]
1390 (November)
1391	William Bishopdale	Laurence Acton ^[5]
1393	John Morton	Richard/William Langton ^[5]
1394	Henry Carlisle	Thomas Diringdon ^[5]
1395	John Morton	William Langton ^[5]
1397 (January)	William Redmarshall	Sampson Hardyng ^[5]
1397 (September)	William Redmarshall	Laurence Acton ^[5]
1399	Roger Thornton	Laurence Acton ^[5]
1401
1402	Robert Darcy	Richard Beverley ^[5]
1404 (January)
1404 (October)
1406	John Paulyn	Robert Hebburn ^[5]
1407	William Johnson	William Langton ^[5]
1410
1411	Roger Thornton	Roger Booth ^[5]
1413 (February)
1413 (May)	Richard Dalton	Robert Whelpington ^[5]
1414 (April)	William Middleton	Robert Swinburne ^[5]
1414 (November)	William Johnson	Robert Whelpington ^[5]
1415	Roger Booth	Robert Whelpington ^[5]
1416 (March)	Roger Booth	Thomas Hebburn ^[5]
1416 (October)
1417	Roger Thornton	John Strother ^[5]
1419	Roger Thornton	John Strother ^[5]
1420	Roger Booth	John Wall ^[5]
1421 (May)	Emericus Hering	John Strother ^[5]
1421 (December)	Roger Booth	William Ellerby ^[5]
1510-1523	No names known ^[6]
1529	Sir Thomas Tempest	Henry Anderson ^[6]
1536	?Sir Thomas Tempest	? ^[6]
1539	?
1542	?
1545	Sir Robert Bowes	Robert Brandling ^[6]
1547	Sir Francis Leke	Sir Robert Brandling ^[6]
1553 (March)	Robert Lewen	Bertram Anderson ^[6]
1553 (October)	Sir Robert Brandling	Edward Hall ^[6]
1554 (April)	Bertram Anderson	Cuthbert Horsley ^[6]
1554 (November)	Bertram Anderson	John Watson ^[6]
1555	Sir Robert Brandling	Cuthbert Blount ^[6]
1558	Bertram Anderson	Robert Lewen ^[6]
1559 (January)	Robert Lewen	Cuthbert Blount ^[7]
1562 (December)	Sir Robert Brandling	Bertram Anderson ^[7]
1571	William Carr	William Jenison I ^[7]
1572 (April)	William Jenison I	William Selby ^[7]
1584	William Jenison I	Henry Anderson ^[7]
1586	Henry Anderson	Edward Lewen ^[7]
1588 (October)	Henry Anderson	Henry Mitford ^[7]
1593	Henry Anderson	Henry Mitford ^[7]
1597 (October)	Henry Chapman	Henry Lindley ^[7]
1601 (October)	William Jenison II	George Selby ^[7]
1604	George Selby	Henry Chapman
1614	Henry Anderson	William Jenison II
1621	Henry Anderson	Sir Thomas Ridell
1624	Sir Peter Riddel	Sir Henry Anderson
1625	Sir Thomas Ridell	Sir Henry Anderson
1626	Sir Peter Riddel	Sir Henry Anderson
1628	Sir Peter Riddel	Sir Thomas Ridell
1629–1640	No Parliaments convened
1640 (April)	Sir Peter Riddel	Thomas Liddel
1640 (November)	Sir Henry Anderson, disabled 1643	John Blakiston
1645	Sir Henry Anderson	John Blakiston, replaced 1647 by Robert Ellison)
1648	Robert Ellison)	John Blakiston, died 1649
1654	Sir Arthur Hesilrige	(One seat only)
1656	Walter Strickland	(One seat only)
1659	Mark Shaftoe (of Newcastle)	Thomas Lilburne

MPs 1660–1918

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1660		Robert Ellison		Sir Francis Anderson
1661		Sir John Marlay
1673		Sir William Blackett, Bt (1)
1679		Sir William Blackett, Bt (1)		Sir Ralph Carr
1680		Sir Nathaniel Johnson		Sir Ralph Carr
1685		Sir Nathaniel Johnson		Sir William Blackett, Bt (2)
1689		Sir Ralph Carr	Tory	Sir William Blackett, Bt (2)
1690		Sir Ralph Carr	Tory	William Carr (1)	Tory
1695		Sir William Blackett, Bt (2)	Whig
1700		Sir Henry Liddell, Bt	Whig
1705		Sir William Blackett, Bt (2)	Whig
1706		Sir Henry Liddell, Bt	Whig
1710		Sir William Blackett, Bt (3) died 1728; declared not duly elected in 1727, in 1729		William Wrightson
1722				William Carr (2)
1727 ^[8]				Nicholas Fenwick
1729 on petition		William Carr (2)
1734		Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, Bt
1747				Matthew Ridley
1774				Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (1)
1777		Sir John Trevelyan, Bt
1780		Andrew Robinson Stoney-Bowes
1784		Charles Brandling	Tory		Whig
1798 by-election		Charles John Brandling	Tory		Whig
1812		Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (2)	Whig	Cuthbert Ellison	Whig
1830				John Hodgson	Tory
1835				William Ord	Whig
1836 by-election		John Hodgson Hinde John Hodgson until August 1836	Conservative
1847		Thomas Emerson Headlam	Whig
1852				John Fenwick Burgoyne Blackett	Liberal
1856 by-election				George Ridley	Liberal
1859 change			Liberal	George Ridley	Liberal
1860				Somerset Archibald Beaumont	Liberal
1865				Sir Joseph Cowen (1)	Liberal
1874 by-election				Joseph Cowen (2)	Liberal
1874		Charles Frederic Hamond	Conservative
1880		Ashton Wentworth Dilke	Liberal
1883 by-election		John Morley	Liberal
1885					Independent Liberal
1886				James Craig	Liberal
1892				Sir Charles Frederic Hamond	Conservative
1895		William Donaldson Cruddas	Conservative	Sir Charles Frederic Hamond	Conservative
1900		Sir Walter Richard Plummer	Conservative	George Renwick	Conservative
1906		Walter Hudson	Labour	Thomas Cairns	Liberal
1908 by-election				George Renwick	Conservative
1910 (January)				Edward Shortt	Liberal
1918	Constituency abolished

Elections

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The bloc vote electoral system was used in elections to fill two seats and first past the post for single member by-elections. Each voter had up to as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings (until the secret ballot was introduced in 1872).

Note on percentage change calculations: Where there was only one candidate of a party in successive elections, for the same number of seats, change is calculated on the party percentage vote. Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote (if applicable).

The reference to some candidates as Non Partisan does not, necessarily, mean that they did not have a party allegiance. It means that the sources consulted did not specify a party allegiance.

Before the Representation of the People Act 1832, the borough had an electorate limited to its freemen. There were about 2,500 voters in the second half of the 18th century.^[9]

1710s – 1720s – 1730s – 1740s – 1750s – 1760s – 1770s – 1780s – 1790s – 1800s – 1810s – 1820s – 1830s

Elections of the 1710s

General Election 1710: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Sir William Blackett, Bt (3)	1,177	44.0	N/A
	Non Partisan	William Wrightson	886	33.2	N/A
	Non Partisan	William Carr (2)	609	22.8	N/A
Turnout			2,672	N/A	N/A

General Election 1715: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Sir William Blackett, Bt (3)	639	44.0	...
	Non Partisan	William Wrightson	550	37.9	+4.7
	Non Partisan	James Clavering	263	18.1	N/A
Turnout			1,452	N/A	N/A

Elections of the 1720s

General Election 1722: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	William Carr (2)	1,264	38.3	N/A
	Non Partisan	Sir William Blackett, Bt (3)	1,158	35.9	-8.1
	Non Partisan	William Wrightson	831	25.8	-12.1
Turnout			3,223	N/A	N/A

General Election 1727: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Sir William Blackett, Bt (3)	1,202	39.9	+4.0
	Non Partisan	Nicholas Fenwick	1,189	39.5	N/A
	Non Partisan	William Carr (2)	620	20.6	-17.7
Turnout			3,011	N/A	N/A

Death of Blackett, in 1728
On petition Carr vice Blackett

Elections of the 1730s

General Election 1734: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Walter Calverley Blackett	1,354	42.9	N/A
	Non Partisan	Nicholas Fenwick	1,083	34.3	-5.2
	Non Partisan	William Carr (2)	716	22.7	-2.1
Turnout			3,153 (1,795 electors)	N/A	N/A

Elections of the 1740s

General Election 1741: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Walter Calverley Blackett	1,453	32.3	-10.6
	Non Partisan	Nicholas Fenwick	1,231	27.4	-6.9
	Non Partisan	Matthew Ridley	1,131	25.1	N/A
	Non Partisan	William Carr (2)	683	15.2	-7.5
Turnout			4,498 (2,391 electors)	N/A	N/A

General Election 1747: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Walter Calverley Blackett	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Non Partisan	Matthew Ridley	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Elections of the 1750s

General Election 17 April 1754: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, Bt	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Non Partisan	Matthew Ridley	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Elections of the 1760s

General Election 27 March 1761: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, Bt	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Non Partisan	Matthew Ridley	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

General Election 21 March 1768: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, Bt	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Non Partisan	Matthew Ridley	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Elections of the 1770s

General Election 11 October 1774: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, Bt	1,432	33.2	N/A
	Non Partisan	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (1)	1,411	32.7	N/A
	Non Partisan	Constantine John Phipps	795	18.4	N/A
	Non Partisan	Thomas Delaval	677	15.7	N/A
Turnout			4,315 (2,162 electors)	N/A	N/A

Death of Blackett

By-Election 27 February 1777: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Sir John Trevelyan, Bt	1,163	52.1	N/A
	Non Partisan	Andrew Robinson Stoney-Bowes	1,068	47.9	N/A
Majority			95	4.3	N/A
Turnout			2,231	N/A	N/A
	Non Partisan hold		Swing	N/A

Elections of the 1780s

General Election 11 September 1780: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (1)	1,408	38.8	+6.1
	Non Partisan	Andrew Robinson Stoney-Bowes	1,135	31.3	N/A
	Non Partisan	Thomas Delaval	1,085	29.9	+14.2
Turnout			3,628 (2,245 electors)	N/A	N/A

General Election 26 April 1784: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (1)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory	Charles Brandling	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Elections of the 1790s

General Election 1790: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (1)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory	Charles Brandling	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

General Election 1796: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (1)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory	Charles Brandling	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Resignation of Brandling in December 1797

By-Election 1798: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Charles John Brandling	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory hold		Swing	N/A

Elections of the 1800s

General Election 1802: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (1)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory	Charles John Brandling	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

General Election 1806: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (1)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory	Charles John Brandling	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

General Election 1807: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (1)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory	Charles John Brandling	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Elections of the 1810s

General Election 1812: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Matthew White Ridley (2)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Whig	Cuthbert Ellison	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Ridley succeeded as the 3rd Baronet, upon the death of his father (and predecessor as MP) in 1813

General Election 1818: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (2)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Whig	Cuthbert Ellison	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

General Election 1818: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (2)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Whig	Cuthbert Ellison	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Elections of the 1820s

General Election 1820: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (2)	616	47.0	N/A
	Whig	Cuthbert Ellison	477	36.4	N/A
	Tory	Hon. W.H. John Scott	217	16.6	N/A
Turnout			1,310 (731 electors)	N/A	N/A

General Election 1826: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (2)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Whig	Cuthbert Ellison	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Elections of the 1830s

General Election 1830: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (2)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory	John Hodgson	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

General Election 1831: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (2)	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory	John Hodgson	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

General Election 1832: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (2)	2,112	43.2	N/A
	Tory	John Hodgson	1,686	34.5	N/A
	Radical	Charles Attwood	1,092	22.3	N/A
Turnout			4,890 (2,850 electors)	73.0	N/A
Registered electors			3,905

General Election 1835: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Ord	1,843	33.0	N/A
	Whig	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (2)	1,499	26.8	-16.4
	Conservative	John Hodgson	1,254	22.5	-12.0
	Radical	James Aytoun	988	17.7	-4.6
Turnout			5,584 (3,107 electors)	76.6	+3.6
Registered electors			4,054

Elections of the 1900s

General Election January 1906^[10] Electorate 36,909
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Walter Hudson	18,869	31.1
	Liberal	Y Thomas Cairns	18,423	30.5
	Conservative	Sir Walter Richard Plummer	11,942	19.8
	Conservative	George Renwick	11,223	18.6
Turnout				84.6
Majority			6,927	11.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
Majority			6,481	10.7
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Newcastle-upon-Tyne by-election, 1908^[10] Electorate 37,389
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Renwick	13,863	48.5
	Liberal	Edward Shortt	11,720	41.1
	Social Democratic Federation	Edward Robertshaw Hartley	2,971	10.4
Turnout				76.4
Majority			2,143
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections of the 1910s

Edward Shortt

General Election January 1910^[10] Electorate 38,534
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Y Edward Shortt	18,779
	Labour	Y Walter Hudson	18,241
	Conservative	Sir Walter Richard Plummer	14,067
	Conservative	George Renwick	13,928
Turnout
Majority			4,174
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing

Notes

↑ 'Newbottle - Newcastle-upon-Tyne', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 379-389. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51171 Date accessed: 15 December 2008.
↑ Seymour Electoral Reform in England and Wales
↑ Craig Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972
↑ Map in Craig Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 "BISHOPDALE, William (d.1398), of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.". History of Parliament. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-10-05.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-10-05.
↑ The 1727 election was disputed. As a result of an election petition, the House of Commons decided to seat Carr vice Blackett (who had died in 1728) in 1729.
↑ Namier and Brooke The House of Commons 1754-1790
1 2 3 British parliamentary election results 1885-1918

References

Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
Electoral Reform in England and Wales, by Charles Seymour (David & Charles Reprints 1970)
The House of Commons 1754-1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)
The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume II 1886-1918, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1978)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)

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