Tyneside (UK Parliament constituency)

Tyneside
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
CountyNorthumberland
18851918
SeatsOne
Created fromSouth Northumberland
Replaced byWallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne East, Newcastle upon Tyne West, Wansbeck

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 as one of four single-member Divisions of the county of Northumberland,[1] and abolished for the 1918 general election.

  1. ^ Great Britain, Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. The public general acts. unknown library. Proprietors of the Law Journal Reports, 1884. p. 167.