Tynemouth
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 22675 (48.1%)
Conservative: 17143 (36.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 7328 (15.5%)
Other: 0 (0%)
Majority: 5532 (11.7%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 16000 (37.3%)
Labour: 20143 (47%)
Liberal Democrat: 6716 (15.7%)
Majority: 4143 (9.7%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 14686 (33.5%)
Labour: 23364 (53.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 5108 (11.6%)
UKIP: 745 (1.7%)
Majority: 8678 (19.8%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 17045 (33.3%)
Labour: 28318 (55.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 4509 (8.8%)
Referendum: 819 (1.6%)
Other: 462 (0.9%)
Majority: 11273 (22%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Alan Campbell(Labour) (more information at They work for you)
Candidates: Wendy Morton (Conservative) Former Richmondshire councillor. Contested Newcastle Central in 2005.John Appleby (Liberal Democrat)
2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 94421
Male: 47.6%
Female: 52.4%
Under 18: 21.5%
Over 60: 24.2%
Born outside UK: 2.8%
White: 98%
Black: 0.2%
Asian: 0.9%
Mixed: 0.5%
Other: 0.4%
Christian: 78%
Muslim: 0.6%
Full time students: 2.9%
Graduates 16-74: 20.8%
No Qualifications 16-74: 28%
Owner-Occupied: 72.7%
Social Housing: 18.7% (Council: 15.5%, Housing Ass.: 3.2%)
Privately Rented: 6.4%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 5.6%
Where did the word Labour come in dear boy? Only making observations and I think you should check other blogs here including your own. I haven’t told you who I support but I agree you have become tiresomely obsessive.
Toodle pip and watch the complacency.
The Tories have won the mayoral election in North Tyneside
Fantastic result – 4,500 majority or thereabouts, a real mandate for the new Conservative Mayor, especially backed up by having 31 councillors. The Labour campaign was most peculiar whereas the Tory campaign had the real traction – I’m sure Charles Alex is delighted!
This is wonderful. Congrats to Linda Arkley and the Conservatives in North Tyneside.
They now have a chance to put policies into effect and show people what they could do.
Tynemouth is likely to be fairly close I guess in a General Election nevertheless.
I can’t find any ward based data for the 2009 Mayoral election – but with a majority of around 5,000 on both the first and combined votes, across the whole area, it would probably be at least as decisive as the 2008 council elections in the Tynemouth constituency.
The Tories have held the Preston ward (vacated by Linda Arkley when she was elected Mayor) by 1141 votes to Labour’s 503.
Share was down I think from 70 to 56%
but I think more candidates standing.
Swing of 4.4% from Con to Lab – not very convincing I must say for a safe Con seat that was represented by the new Mayor. 1000 con votes went walkabout and you wish to consider the the third largest share of the vote was for Keep the Metro public and pushed the Lib Dems into 4 place. The Mayor’s spin doctor and scrapping free breakfasts was certainly not popular.
North Tyneside Green Party has selected Julia Erskine to contest this seat – will get some basic biog details and try to find a thumbnail to point to over xmas.
We need some news of the campaign here. I wonder if there will only be 3 candidates standing again?
On the one hand, Conservatives won the recent mayoral race and on the other, they are not polling well in the NE.
I shall reserve my judgement for the present on this seat.