Tyneside (UK Parliament constituency)

Tyneside
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Northumberland (now Tyne and Wear)
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Wallsend
Created from	South Northumberland

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.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1885	Albert Henry George Grey	Liberal	Elected as a Liberal, but joined the Liberal Unionists when the party split in 1886
	1886	Wentworth Blackett Beaumont	Liberal
	1892	Joseph Albert Pease	Liberal	One of the Pease family of Darlington
	1900	Hugh Crawford Smith	Liberal Unionist
	1906	J. M. Robertson	Liberal	Journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism
	1918	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Albert Grey

General Election 1885: Tyneside[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Albert Henry George Grey	5,782	62.7	n/a
	Conservative	G Bruce	3,440	37.3	n/a
Majority			2,342	25.4	n/a
Turnout				77.8	n/a
	Liberal win (new seat)

General Election 1886: Tyneside[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wentworth Blackett Beaumont	4,112	50.8
	Liberal Unionist	Albert Henry George Grey	3,990	49.2
Majority			122	1.6
Turnout				68.4	-9.4
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

Joseph Pease

General Election 1892: Tyneside[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Albert Pease	5,468	52.1
	Liberal Unionist	Arnold Henry White	5,018	47.9
Majority			450	4.2
Turnout				76.4
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1895: Tyneside[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Albert Pease	6,066	51.9	-0.2
	Liberal Unionist	Arnold Henry White	5,631	48.1	+0.2
Majority			435	3.8	-0.4
Turnout				78.3	+1.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.2

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Tyneside[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Hugh Crawford Smith	7,093	51.3
	Liberal	Joseph Albert Pease	6,730	48.7
Majority			363	2.6
Turnout				74.9
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

J. M. Robertson

General Election 1906: Tyneside[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Mackinnon Robertson	11,496	62.5	+11.2
	Conservative	James Knott	6,885	37.5	-11.2
Majority			4,611	25.0	+22.4
Turnout				79.3	+4.4
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+11.2

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Tyneside[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Mackinnon Robertson	13,158	62.8
	Conservative	Alfred Henry John Cochrane	7,807	37.2
Majority			5,351	25.6
Turnout				81.5
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Tyneside[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Mackinnon Robertson	11,693	63.0	+0.2
	Conservative	Helenus Macaulay Robertson	6,857	37.0	-0.2
Majority
Turnout				72.1	-9.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.2

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

1. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
2. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
3. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
4. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
5. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
6. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
7. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
8. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)