Comments on: Tynemouth

By: john

john — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:10:28 +0000

Why do you think that, Joe?

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:19:09 +0000

I feel this seat may be veering back into the Labour column after what seemed to be Tory breakthrough in 2008/9. I guess it depends on the national swing, and the local campaigns.

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:41:09 +0000

Indeed Whitley Bay was in the Wansbeck seat until 1950. Tynemouth on the pre-1950 boundaries would be a very safe Labour seat now.

By: Harry Porter

Harry Porter — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:31:00 +0000

Has Whitley Bay always been in this constituency?

The pre-1885 seat to this one went by the name of ‘Tynemouth and North Shields’, but Wikipedia says it covered the area south of Whitley Bay.

By: john

john — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:40:16 +0000

Are UKIP putting up candidates in all seats?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:33:43 +0000

Peter – the answer is no, there are 5 candidates as per above

By: peterelectionfollower

peterelectionfollower — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:20:31 +0000

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.

By: AndrewGray

AndrewGray — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:28:35 +0000

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.

By: Charles Alex

Charles Alex — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:24:05 +0000

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.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:24:16 +0000

Share was down I think from 70 to 56%
but I think more candidates standing.