Houghton & Sunderland South
2015 Result:
Conservative: 7105 (18.5%)
Labour: 21218 (55.1%)
Lib Dem: 791 (2.1%)
Green: 1095 (2.8%)
UKIP: 8280 (21.5%)
MAJORITY: 12938 (33.6%)
Category: Very safe Labour seat
Geography: North East, Tyne and Wear. Part of the Sunderland council area.
Main population centres: Houghton, Hetton-le-Hole, Doxford, Shiney Row, Silksworth.
Profile: The seat contains relatively little of Sunderland itself and it mostly made up of former mining towns to the south-west of the City, most notably Houghton and Hetton-le-Hole.
Politics: The seat underwent substantial changes in the 2010 boundary review, swapping the eastern part of Washington (now united in a single seat) for part of the dismembered Sunderland South seat. Both on old and new boundaries, it is solidly Labour and on various boundaries the Houghton seat has been held by Labour since 1935.
| Con: | 8147 (21%) |
| Lab: | 19137 (50%) |
| LDem: | 5292 (14%) |
| BNP: | 1961 (5%) |
| Oth: | 3484 (9%) |
| MAJ: | 10990 (29%) |
| Con: | 4772 (14%) |
| Lab: | 22310 (64%) |
| LDem: | 6245 (18%) |
| BNP: | 1367 (4%) |
| MAJ: | 16065 (46%) |
| Con: | 4810 (14%) |
| Lab: | 24628 (73%) |
| LDem: | 4203 (12%) |
| MAJ: | 19818 (59%) |
| Con: | 5391 (13%) |
| Lab: | 31946 (76%) |
| LDem: | 3209 (8%) |
| MAJ: | 26555 (63%) |
*There were boundary changes after 2005, name changed from Houghton & Washington East
Just hearing that Tories and UKIP have gained some wards from Labour, including some safe ones.
Apparently also losing wards to the Lib Dems and there’s a knife-edge Lab/Green contest, too.
Yes, early results for Lab are poor in Sunderland. Brexit obviously a factor but also some local screw ups for the Lab council.
UKIP win a seat in Sunderland for first time. Early signs that wc Labour leavers protesting about the Brexit betrayal. But it’s very early.
Equally in parts of Sunderland and also in Newcastle Labour lost remainer votes to Lib Dems/Greens.
Sunderland council has been a bit of mess recently.